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THESDAT JULY 2. 1534 TilK BAKER BOARD REPORT A FTER pointing out many relatively minor defects in the army air corps the Balter committer finds little need for basic reform or change except that larger appropriations are required. That may be true. But it does seem to be an unexpectedly complete come-down from the serious charges made by congressional committees and others and from the general public dissatisfaction over air mail fiasco. Perhaps the favorable findings of this report would carry more weight if the committee had not been loaded so heavily with generals and war department representatives. Despite Chairman Baker's desire to be free from bias, and the apparent effort of some of the five generals on the committee of eleven to be objective, part ot (he report at least is open to the criticism that it reads like a war department investigation of itself. The only minority member of the committee. James H. Doolittle, advocated complete separation of the air corps from the army. Without attempting to judge the merits of the many technical disputes involved in the general air corps controversy, it is possible to take exception to at least one of the committecs recommendations. That is No. 1, which says: ‘ It us the hope of this committee that the present study, which has comprised extensive hearings of representatives of all phases of aviation anti which has considered and reviewed all prior studies, may be accepted as the basis for the development of the army air corps lor the next ten years and thus terminate the continuing agitation and uncertainty which has been so detrimental to harmonious development and improvement.’' The committee refers to the numerous previous inquiries into one phase or another of aviation. It apparently does not concede that without "the continuing agitation” which the Baker report deplores, aviation would be in worse state than it is today. However, this agitation probably will not cease until much better results have been produced. Far from accepting this report as the last word for military aviation for the next decade it is our guess that the public will follow’ with much interest and profit the hearings and report of the civilian Howell committee which is to investigate the entire field of aviation under mandate of congress and President Roosevelt. ARBITRATION BEFORE STRIKES THE average industrial dispute in this country, if it reaches the stage of open warfare, passes through three phases. First, there is the period in which both sides hurl defiance and call on heaven and earth to witness that they arc completely and everlastingly in the right. Next comes the time of outright hostilities. The workers lay down their tools and walk out or they are locked out by the bosses; picket lines form at the gates, strikebreakers come to work with varying mixtures of sheepishness and defiance; heads get laid open, tear gas bombs arc thrown, windows are broken and the usual bloody and tumultuous procedure, costly to every one involved, is followed. Then, last of all. comes the settlement. Unless one side or the other wins a clear-cut victory. the general staffs of the two sides get together, neutrals are called in. and the whole dispute is put up to arbitration. In the end the arbitration committee hands down its decision, the contending parties accept u with cheers or with scowls, work is resumed again—and one more industrial musstip is over. It makes a rather dreary and discouraging routine. It is horribly expensive; the owner loses dividends, sometimes loses fat orders; frequently has property damage to pay for; the workers lose wages, and m many cases get clubbed and punched as well; the general public suffers inconvenience, has to pay for extra police work and in varying ways plays the unhappy role of the innocent bystander. And it all leads one to wonder—why, since the averace dispute winds up in arbitration anvwav, can t arbitration be resorted to in the first place to save all this trouble? The answer, probably, is that to be stubborn and opinionated is a \erv ancient human trait which has not. to date, shown many signs of disappearing. Arbitration hardly ran be forced on the contending parties—not without revising our whole political and economic framework more than most of us are prrpared to do at this time But the stem logic of hard facts points lirectly toward it. Unless victory for one side or the other is -rieedily gained, it usually comes in the end. Cant owners and workers see that everybody concerned would be ahead if it came ncht at the beginning? AIRSHIPS IN THE AIR '"pHE navy has not yet decided what it is -*■ going to do about dirigibles in the future. There are good reasons for suspecting that he Macon will, for a long time, remain the only big lighter-than-air cruiser on the naval roster. Meanwhile, however, it is worth noting that Lieutenant-Commander C. E. Rosendahl. who once commanded the Akron and who knows dirigibles about as well as any man in the navy, still has faith m the utility of that kind of ship Mr Rosendahl recently wrote out his own analysis of the crash that robbed the navy of the Akron. He asserted that the disaster was due to a combination of causes, and he added: I believe that each of the problems thereby demonstrated is capable of practical solution for the sa , e and t fbcieni operation of airship* in the future.” Before a final decision as to the future of naval dirigibles is made, it might be wise to have Mr. Rnsendahl state his findings at considerable length. .

WOMEN IN POLITICS V TOW it is reported that Mrs. William la Langer. wife of the ousted governor of North Dakota, mav run for the governorship herself, and one U moved t to hope that the report is incorrect. Not that women aren't needed in politics. Far from it. But the woman who is to make a valuable contribution to our political life must build her own career and stand on her own feet. In too many cases, women have gone into politics as proxies for their husbands. The Fergusons, in Texas, have given the most noticeable example of how that works. Heaven knows, American politics offers women a rich field. Such women as Judge Florence Allen of Ohio and Labor Secretary Fiances Perkins have shown how profitably it can be cultivated But the woman who goes into politics as her husbands "alter ego' does little to convince anyone that women have a valuable contribution to make in American public life. THE TRAIL OF TREES TF, 100 years from now, the New Deal still is remembered as that period when the American people took over control of their own destiny, the greatest physical monument to the era well may be a green belt of trees in strips a mile apart and 1 000 miles long across the western plains. This, latest ambitious undertaking of the Roosevelt administration is one that will capture tlie imagination of all who think in terms of future generations. Our civilizations that inhabited the once-fertile regions of the Gobi and Sahara allowed their lands to be turned into desolate deserts of drifting sands. Through the last few generations, America has thrilled at the westw'ard-moving spectacle of pioneers who turned their plows into the grassy sod, building a bread basket for the nation out of what was once the home of roving Indians and buffalo. Now it falls the lot of this generation to check the ravages of nature which have followed relentlessly in the trail of the pioneers. For years this land, nc longer held down by the matted rooks of grass, has been wasted away by the erosive forces of wunds and floods. It the President's gigantic tree-planting program can be carried out. our western plains will, instead of becoming a desert, be continued as a fertile and more dependable farm region, protected in a small way against the recurring disasters of drought. It is no half-baked theory that the presence or absence of trees has a decided effect upon climate. Other nations long since have learned the lesson of land and forest conservation. On the steppes of Russia, w hich are very similar to our western plains, an even more stupendous tree planting program is under way. To learn thus lesson, America has had to witness several blighting droughts and experience the awfful phenomenon of a windstorm that swept the dust of the Dakotas all the way to the Atlantic seaboard. It has been estimated that this planting of a million and one-half acres of trees to protect 64.000.000 acres of land will require ten years and cost a total of $75,000,000. It sounds like an absurdly low cost estimate. But it would be hard to make an estimate that would seem too high in view ot what is at stake. Soil erosion losses each year in only six of the basins tributary to the Mississippi have been estimated at from $186,000,000 to 5255.000.00 C. Compared to future benefits, the immediate advantages arc ncghble. Yet this program provides a practical plan for giving work and wages to drought-distressed farmers, who otherwise would have to be maintained by doles. THE SPREADING DESERT Al/’HEN we think of a flood, we think of * * bridges and railroads and highways washed out. buildings and crops submerged, livestock and human beings drowned, whole communities left homeless. These things make a flood a spectacular calamity. | We think of what happens where the waters overflow, not of what happens whence it came. rt therefore is startling to read the latest irport of the PWA's Mississippi valley committee. estimating the annual soil erosion losses in the Mississippi basin at twenty to thirty times the annual flood losses. In six basins within the Mississippi valley —Arkansas. Red. White. St, Francis, Yazoo and Mississippi proper—the annual flood losses are computed at $8.879.000. and the erosion lasses at from 5186.000.000 to 5255.000.000. The committee pointedly observes that while flood losses p.re replaceable erasion lasses are not. Although not replaceable, this loss of precious soil is preventable. By spending a fraction of the amount represented by the value of the soil that is blown and washed away each year, man can change the Mississippi valley into a garden as surely as his failure to act is now changing it into a desert. By restoring submarginal land to pasturage, planting trees and building reservoirs, man can reconstruct the watersheds and hold both floods and erosion in check. The alternative is to will to American posterity another Sahara. f MR. PECORA ASSURES US A WHOLE lot of ardent liberals were more •* *• or less disturbed when President Roosevelt put Joseph P. Kennedy on the federal stock market control agency, and when Mr. Kennedy was elected chairman of that body. For here was a Wall Street man given leadership of a group appointed to put a curb on Wall Street; and it hardly is surprising that some people didn't like the looks of it. Now. however. Ferdinand Pecora. hims-eif a member of the commission, expresses himself as follows: "I like him Mr. Kennedyi immensely and think his knowledge along with his experience will be of incalculable assistance to the commission. I think the man is of sound judgment anc he knows how to do things." This recommendation should quiet the fears of the liberals. No living man is more honest and determined in the fight to regulate Wall Street than Mr. Pecora. If he is satisfied with Mr. Kennedy, the rest of us neednt worry much.

PUBLIC SERVICE C COLONEL HENRY M. WAITE has served > his country well. In a national emerI gency he was called to help direct the expenditure of three billion dollars of the taxpayers’ money. Throughout the country are evidences that the money was spent prudently in the big offensive against the depression. Due largely to the colonels vigilance, efforts to convert the public works fund into a pork-barrel fund were defeated. Harassed on all sides by influential favor seekers, the PWA deputy administrator worked untiringly and uncompromisingly for the public interest. After fifteen hectic months in Washington, Colonel Waite is entitled to a rest, but, in- | stead, he is returning to Cincinnati to help : hi.s home community solve its problems of unemployment and rehabilitation. DILLINGER PAYS C'O they got John Diliinger at last. No more thrills there for those of us who still are juvenile enough to think that crime is romantic and the criminal somehow heroic. Perhaps the day may come when our scientists can explain what makes Dillingers. How much of heredity? How much of environment? We don't know. Perhaps some day we can find and isolate these enemies of society before it is too late; perhaps treat and cure such diseased minds. Until then killer at large, when he can not be captured, will be hunted and killed. The Dillingers come at last to the jail they can't break.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DK. HARRY ELMER BARNES THOUGH the monetary problem and the inflation controversy do not make the headlines as frequently as they did six months ago, the recent controversy over silver provides ample evidence that these issues still are potent. Frank A. Vanderlip is one of the few leading American bankers who clearly have seen the distinction between sound banking and antisocial gambling. Moreover, he is one of the minority of eminent financiers w'ho has been able to size up the inflation issue without any high blood pressure. His book gives a clear summary of his views on money which embody the creation of a central federal monetary authority and a complete reconstruction of the gold standard. '"Tomorrow’s Money.” By Frank A. Vanderlip. Rcynal <fc Hitchcock. $2.) A long appendix reprints his splendid articles on the methods and evils of banking before 1933, and he proposes a thoroughgoing and rational development of a specialized banning system for the ! United States which will harmonize with the j complexity of our economy. Mr. Hollis takes as his point of departure the thesis that histories have neglected the importance of money as a factor in the history of mankind and in the growth of governments. (“Tne Breakdown of Money.” By Christopher Hollis. Sheed & Ward. 50 cents.) He applies this to the interpretation of the recent history of Europe and the United States and illustrates the importance of the monetary factor in the bringing about and perpetuating the world wide i economic slump. It is a sane and clear Volume and the general reader will find few more satis- : factory introductions to the monetary factor in ! contemporary civilization. tt tt a THE theme of money in history is also pursued by Mr. Abbott, but he restricts his survey primarily to the United States, t" ‘Sound’ and Unsound’ Money.” By Twyman O. Abbott. The Telegraph Press. 50 cents.) His book is a splen- ! aid popular review of monetary history and controversy in the United States. He is critical of the gold standard, or at least of the manner in which the gold standard has been administered and manipulated in the American past. With the increasing attacks upon the gold standard the notion of the commodity dollar as a substitute has been widely discussed. Professor Reed summarizes very succinctly and clearly what he conceived to be the major financial and economic considerations w'hich render this expedient impracticable. ("The Commodity Dollar.” By Harold L. Reed. Ph. D. Farrar & Rhinehart. 40 cents.) Whatever one thinks of his arguments on this particular point, he certaintly is sound in his criticism of the single track monetary panaceas for the solution of a complex economic phenomenon such as the present depression. tt tt tt PARTISANS of the commodity dollar are wont to turn to Sweden for evidence and support |of the practicability of such a proposal. Mr. ] Kjellstrom has written a very clear and fair review of the experience of Sweden with a modified commodity dollar program since 1931. ("Managed Money: The Experience of Sweden.” By Erik T. H. Kjellstrom. Columbia University Press. $1.75). His general conclusion is that the fears of the alarmists and the hopes of the monetary radicals alike have failed to be realized in the Swedish experiment. Asa stabilizing influence the Swedish experiment has worked admirably. But it has failed to bring about the steady and marked rise in prices hoped for by the inflationists.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL" \BIG scare in the diplomatic corps—a grizzly bear was being shipped to the Chilean Embassy from Y r ellowstone park. At least, that was the way the news started. The excitement began when Laurence Bungardeanu, a Rumanian diplomat who is vaca- ! tiomng in Y'ellowstone. wrote to Miss Edith B\'l, a stepdaughter of Commander Sterling. ; United States navy: • What can I send you as a gift from this j great national park?” Miss Bull wrote back: •'Send me a grizzly bear cub.” After asking for the bear. Miss Bull became worried. Where could she keep such an animal? Admittedly, there is little place for a grizzly bear—even a cub—on Bancroft Place. So she telephoned friends at the Chilean Embassy. They volunteered to keep the bear, if and when it arrived. Two days ago Miss Bull called up excitedly: "The grizzly bear has arrived.” "Good lord!" cried Don Mario Rodriguez, Chilean secretary. “I was only joking. We can’t keep a bear at the embassy.” "Well, I’m sending it right over,” said Miss Bull. And the grizzly arrived in due course. But the laugh was on somebody, because it was only a stuffed grizzly, after all. a a a THERE is one man in Washington who manages to keep cool during the heat wave and he has good reason to be harassed. That is Mr. Emil Hurja. chief patronage dispenser for Post-master-General Farley. JEmil —cool and collected—sits at his desk, ! for all the world as if the temperature were hovering abound 60 degrees instead of 90. Outside the office, a crowd of petitioners, job seekers, patronage seekers, politicians and out-of-town visitors with political axes to grind, mills ceaselessly. Emil never bats an eyebrow. A telephone rings. It is Mr. Farley in New York. He holds a confidential conversation with Emil. Hardly is the receiver replaced before the phone rings again. This umt it's somebody at the White House. Before three minutes have passed. Secretary Morgenthau's private secretary is on the line. So it goes—phone, phone, phone! Ring! Ring! Ring! Interruption after interruption. Yet Emil, cheerful, rubicond and entirely unperturbed by the clamor, takes it all with a grin. • Mind it?” he asks, lifting quizzical eyebrows. "I like it. It doesn't bother me. I haven't sufered a minute from either the noise or the heat.”

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to S.iO words or less.) a a a DECRIES HIGH SALARIES OF MOVIE STARS By G. T. B. The news item that in 1933, 110 movie actors and actresses were given larger salaries than President Roosevelt is interesting, and even more interesting is the following statement by Sol A. Rosenblatt, NR A movie division administrator: “No salary is too excessive if the picture produced by the individual receiving the salary meets with unusual public favor as a result of unique direction or artistry.” Mr. Rosenblatt evidently does not know of the theory of "unearned increment” or at least does not believe in its application in the above example. But why shouldn't it apply? Os what value would “unique direction or artistry” be had it not been for the creative genius of the thousands who have developed the motion picture industry; inventors, mechanics, scientists, experts in a hundred fields; had it not been for a government which protected the industry and allowed it to develop in the fields of business, education, religion and recreation; and had it not have been for the growth of cities filled with people with money to spend? What would the artistry of Jean Harlow or the directive genius of John Cromwell have availed them in the Revolutionary war period? Their salaries today are largely “unearned increment” and very little as pay for artistry and unique direction. Why should one girl, fortunate as to face and figure or a man having a unique mental quirk, have an income a thousand times greater than a sister or brother, superior in perhaps every other way, but not having quite the face and figure or the mental quirk?, A salary ten times greater? Perhaps. But a thousand times greater? No. Why does “rugged individualism” keep up its chatter about the expenses of government and the salaries paid to government employes when a relatively small industry as the moving pictures has 110 salaries larger than the President? tt a a BIRTH CONTROL AND MODERN ECONOMICS By a Sucker. Why should an ardent Socialist ask if any man has the moral right to bring children into the world to be on charity? Why did he not ask: “Does society have the right to rob millions of their buying power, thus incarcerating them in chains of poverty, and then after doing so, expect them to exterminate themselves by birth control methods.” America is not suffering from over-population. Hence, seeking to reduce population by birth control, will not relieve, but aggravate our situation. If we exterminated our present army of unemployed by this method, we would soon create another. unless we removed the cause of the first. The world's ailment is “greed it is.” If America discovers its cure there will be plenty of room for a greater population. Hoggish persons advocate birth control because they think a decreased population would give them more room to root. But what benefit would a hog gain by rooting in the Sahara desert? Barnum said, “A sucker is born

WORRIED ABOUT HIS FUTURE

Relief Methods in Greene County Attacked

By William P. Crosby. I would like to give my view's on relief and how it has been distributed, especially in Greene county, Indiana. I have been a citizen, a property holder and taxpayer for nearly twenty-eight years in Greene county, and have been out of work for a number of years. I applied for poor relief and on being qualified, got some work under the civil w'orks administration for a few weeks. Os course, w'hen the CWA stopped, I stopped. After being idle for some time, I applied for poor relief again. You sure have a wonderful feeling and get a big thrill out of being questioned and cross-ques-tioned. and agents coming to your home to snoop around. If you have any pride or self-respect for your family, as any American should have, you certainly lose it. An investigator came to my home and apparently w'as convinced that we were in need of help. The delicatessen was opened the next week, where you get plenty of good milk, fresh fruits apd vegetables for the children, thanks to another investigator, who declared in an open meeting that she w r as the one who brought this relief, and she was the one who could take it away. I was in line for more than an hour to get mine. When it was my turn, i was told to go get

every minute.” If true, those who fish for suckers should advocate birth control for said fishes. Barnum also said. "Americans like to be fooled.” If true, our joy should know no bounds at present. The American pockelbook is rapidly becoming like the old pump; a man got a gallon of rain water full of wiggle tails. He worked for fifteen minutes trying to prime the old pump and got back half a gallon of rain water full of wiggle tails. What America needs is a chance to earn plenty of bread and butter for the babies without having to sacrifice her self-respect. n a a THANKS, BUT IT’S BEYOND OUR CONTROL Bv T. N. M. Indianapolis, it seems, has had its share of hot weather. The Times has been building up a reputation of doing many other things, so why not take a crack at clearing up the weather situation? Best of luck. a a a SUGGESTS CLEANING UP OF VOTE SITUATION By R. E. N. Your paper carried an editorial Saturday suggesting that the vote scandal ’ situation in Indianapolis and Marion county be cleaned up—and cleaned up properly. I agree with that. It is high time that the public officials of this county quit trying to ram down our throats tales of not being able to prove their cases and not being able to find anyone to indict. If a crime has been committed someone did it. Then, why in the name of all that's that, cant the crime be pinned on someone? Surely this vote and bank situation is not going to be like it was in Indianapolis a few years ago when men —including police officers —were murdered at random during the period of a year and no one

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a ticket from an investigator before I could get anything. This had not been done in all cases. When I asked for a ticket, I was refused. The reason was that my house was too nice and my boy could take care of us. He has been doing his best, but he happens to have a home of his own to take care of now-. This rule does not apply to all families. Is this what President Roosevelt means when he talks about building up the American home? Any sane person knows the best way to wreck a home is to force families to live together, and this is just exactly what’s been done. On July 10, a man was here. I don’t know what letters in the alphabet he was representing. He might have been sent from the League of Nations. When I put my case before him, he asked me if I would be willing for an investigator to state why I wasn't getting relief. I said, "sure let them tell it," and the main excuse was that my house was furnished elegantly. It used to be in America that a man having a home well furnished and well taken care of was an asset. Under present rulings, he is a liability. In some cases, relief was not given because the needy would not agree to have their electric lights cut out.

seemed to be able to lay the blame, where it should have been. Those of us who watch the dailytransactions of the law in this county are about fed up with the j whole mess. Although this county doesn't have the reputation of big- j time dirty work, there is plenty to j be done. Let's get it done. \ r ou, Times, get. in there and pitch! a tt tt SEES ONLY GOOD IN NUDISM Bt V. B. Brawn. "Nudism bad as gang menace,” i wrote Earle S. Bailey in The Message Center of July 18. It seems to me a statement like that must come from a man who gave it very little thought or else had nothing to think with. I would ask Mr. Bailey why and how did you find out? Did someone tell you, or are you one of those who knows all, i sees all, tells all, whose superior knowledge enables you to judge and condemn God's greatest creation? If the naked human body is ob-; scene, why don't you go to God and tell him you are ashamed of it; that it should not be seen one by another. It isn’t much wonder many persons can’t see it as you do. I am not a nudist and wao never at a nudist camp. I am rather speaking by theory than practice. I believe it takes a pretty clean sort of mind to be a nudist. It would naturally create a desire and effort to be clean, healthy and beautiful physically. so I can see only good in it. The nude body is not obscene

Daily Thought

And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith has made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.—St. Mark, 5:34. UNLIMITED activity of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy, i —Goethe. *

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just because some obscene-minded person said so. If my neighbor wants to go nude that is none of my business and 1 know enough to make it none of my business. 1 will not attempt to do his thinking for him. He may be far superior to me in wisdom. I suspect, Mr. Bai.ey, it the beaches announced a certain day when all who wanted to could go bathing nude, you would be the first there for a close-up scat. We were born nude and I doubt if God ever intended us to be otherwise. Any way, let’s let each and every one do his own thinking and not go peeking around bathing beaches and nudist camps and then be hypocrite enough to shout for a law' against this and that which is not in line with our little individual way of thinking. HE RESENTS CITY’S rACHING HOLSE SMELL By a Nfwrompr. Indianapolis is, beyond peradventure of a doubt, one of the most attractive cities in the middle west. It has a busy, pleasant downtown district. It has attractive parks and charming residential districts, its people are hospitable and considerate to the stranger within their midst. But—. Indianapolis has one thing of which it can not be proud. It seems difficult to believe that,, even when the wind is blowing the right way, Chicago can have a worse stock yard and meat packing smell than Indianapolis. Old inhabitants assure me that this complaint sounds silly in view of what has been the case in past years. They assure me that the smell this year is that of a rose garden compared with the smell in past years. Whatever past years may have been, the situation is bad enough now. The firm responsible should do something about it in the narr.a of common decency. tt tt tt REPLIES TO CRITICISM OF FOREIGNERS By A Times Header. There appeared in Friday's paper an article which concerns my friends, relatives and neighbors. A 121-year-old Negro, who claims that what's wrong with this country is too many foreigners, apparently is in the wrong. Some friends and I were discussing it and w-e disagree, and perhaps our views will reach him. Was it an American who discovered America? No. Where did Columbus come from? Somewhere along the line, everyone has a foreign ancestor.

TO ASHES

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL You let life turn to ashes in your hands. Chase will-o-wisps that are no good to you: Y’ou waste in futile dreams time's golden sands; You overlook the best life offers you. search the rainbow's end for pots of gold, You're blind to love that too familiar stands, Y'ou reach for fairy bubbles while you hold Life’s glories turned to ashes in your hands.