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TUESDAY. SEPT 11. 1M WHAT'S THE ANSWER? C*LOT machine racketeering In Indianapoget for attacks recently, with the effect chiefly being that the machines have been removed temporarily and then returned to their nesting places as soon as the wave of the law has swept beyond. That the machines are permitted this toadstool growth after various cuttings proves that the law enforcement machinery of this city and county has fallen down miserably. Such aftermaths to enforcement campaigns also reveal that somewhere in the high or low ranks of personnel there are some very bad potatoes. Moral lessons of the years past were supposed to show that one bad potato spoiled the entire lot in the barrel. It appears that the spoiling process has gained great headway. Soon we will have the politicians yelling from the stumps that when they, or their party, take office all will be changed—for the better. All that comes under the general classification of ••hooey.'* If there are alterations to be made, there is no reason why they shouldn't be made now, rather than on Jan. 1. To permit errors to continue merely emphasizes the general‘degradation that has found its way into the city and county. Daily, it is reported that dice games and other forms of gambling involving high stakes are taking place within the corporate limits of the city. Os course, you are told that you must have an "in” to get into these games. However, to the ordinary citizen it seems as though any police officer who walks his beat daily and does a conscientious job should know these places no matter how sedret their operations are supposed to be. If these officers do not know where these gambling dens are located, then it is time for the chief of police and the safety board to employ officers who Know the answers. And if these policemen do know the locations and facts about these gambling hideouts, why dont they do their duty? If they are prevented from it bv bribery or orders countermanding such action, then it is high time the entire situation be aired. RELIEF FOR 23,000,000 ALL attempts to forecast the future of the New Deal—or. for that matter, of American business —are complicated by the recent appearance of a surprising and unpleasant tact; to wit. that approximately 23.000.000 Americans will be on relief this winter. Here is a factor that nobody had looked for. Trying to figure out where it came from gets us nowhere. The important thing is to recognize how drastically it conditions everything that we may try to do. A sixth of the entire country no longer is able to support itself. More people than live in New York and Pennsylvania will get through the winter only through the assistance of the government. All the relief problems that we ever had before dwindled almost to insignificance in comparison. Now perhaps the most surprising thing about it all is that Mr. Richberg s disclosure of the staggering size of the relief problem has not created more alarm. The news has sobered us. to be sure, and it has worried us—but it has not created panic. It has not led us to throw up our hards and look to inflation as the sole possible solution. It has not made us feel that all our recovery effort to date is a flat failure. It has not given us that hopeless feeling that the depression is a vast, boa constrictor-like force which will go on tightening its coils until ft crushes us. On the contrary, people generally have taken a copl and sensible view. Here is our problem, and it is a good deal bigger and knottier than we thought it was going to be —but It isn't insoluble, and our confidence in ourselves is such that we believe we can take it in our stride. Yet this confidence should not lead us to underestimate the pressure which a relief problem of this magnitude can exert. Unless we keep ahead of it. it can drive us—in directions we may not foresee. For these 23.000 000 have got to be taken care of. no matter what it costs us; further, to see that they are fed and housed is only parr of the job. Eventually they must be put back to work. And when you try to figure out how this is to be done, you begin to see what a complicating factor this relief situation really is. Forecasting the future is futile unless these 23 000 000 are taken into account. RUSSIA AND THE LEAGUE ONE of the most important international developments m a long while is the vote of the League of Nations council to invite Russia to Join the league with a permanent seat in the council. In the present state of world affairs Russia's j membership probably is even more significant than United States membership would be. It rivets the new peace realignment in Europe and Asia under, which France. Italy. Great Britain and Russia are expected to stand together against any general war threat. Definitely and consciously, it is a reply to German and Japanese withdrawal from the league, as such, it should strengthen the peace group* in Berlin and Tokio who are try- j ing to restrain the German and Japanese militarist* Dr Benes of Czechoslovakia, speaking as {Residing officer of the league assembly, did not exaggerate when he described Russia as "a country without whose co-operation conditions in Europe and the world never will re* turn to normal* Os especial significance to Americans, Ru*-

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sis may force modification of Articles 10 and 16 of the covenant which have been the chief obstacles to United States membership In the league. But. regardless of this possible future implication, Russia's entry into the league and council will strengthen immediately the world’s peace machinery. A WELCOME TEST 'T'HE National Labor Relations Board welcomes the legal challenge hurled yesterday by the House Engineering Corporation of Buffalo, when it refused to comply with the board's Sept. 1 order to recognize the majonty union exclusively for collective bargaining. The case now will go to the courts. The Lvue is crystal-clear. The company does not challenge the board's facts; it challenges the law. In its Houde opinion, supported by legal citations including a supreme court decision, the board clarified this question of majority rule. In the more recent Guide Lamp Corporation decision it laid down the identical principle that an employer must recognize for collective bargaining a majority of the proper unit. The proper unit, it must be remembered, can be either a group, a craft, a plant or an industry as determined by similarity of work in each individual case. The Gyide Lamp Corporation of Anderson was instructed to recognize the metal polishers’ union as the exclusive bargaining agency "in certain departments of the company." In the Houde case the proper bargaining unit was found to be the plant. In the coming court battle the .labor board will be op firm ground because its Houde decision did not attempt to impose a -tyranny by majority unions. The Houde case decisions specifically disavowed any attempt by the board to force a closed shop, or to deny the minority right of petition over grievances, or to protect any majority union which abuses its legal privileges, or to force employes to Join a majority union, or to lay down any blanket rule for American industry as to what shall constitute the proper unit of representation for collective bargaining. The probability of the United States supreme court upholding the collective bargaining law, and its clear meaning as laid down in the Houde decision, is very great. The sooner this test can be made and legal controversy ended, the better. THAT PERMANENT WAVE VERY forty-five minutes an American Is murdered. Last year the United States homicide rate was 10.7 for each 100.000, highest in the civilized world. England's was 0.5. The nation's crime bill is estimated at $13,000,000,000. Some 14,000 Americans are in prison, about 400.000 regularly engaged in the business of crime. These figures have been brought together by ttfe magazine Fortune. The crime wave has been a permanent one. For years we have been as effective as Canute in halting it. Now, for the first time, the crime doctors are using intelligence as well as force. Thanks to the auto and the submachine gun. to prohibition, the war and the depression, crime spread over state lines and took on a peculiarly revolting aspect. Bank robberies, racketeering and kidnaping became commonplace. As was inevitable, the federal government had to step in to help the states. The results of federal intervention are beginning to be impressive. Practically every kidnaper has been caught and jailed. What if the racketeer Capone was taken for income tax evasion and the killer Dillinger for auto theft? The federals are getting their men. But this is only a small part of the business. The great bulk of crime still is local and travels afoot. The same will and intelligence that the government is applying to interstate crime the localities must apply to intrastate lawlessness. Recently at Milwaukee the American Bar Association learned some of the things communities can do to help stamp out crime. President Earle Evans of the association said the bar must rid itself of the lawyercriminal. the man who, though sworn to enforce the laws, helps criminals to evade It. Assistant Attorney-General Joseph B. Keenan urged citizens to throw out of office their corrupt officials. America is discovering that crime isn’t simple.- To punish and brutalize a few in the hope of deterring the many has not worked. Even after the legal brains of gangdom are eliminated by action of bar associations and courts, and after politics is divorced from alliance with criminals, society still will have the job of removing the basic economic causes of crime. a Symptom of hate IT is easy enough to be horrified by the revelations now being made before the senate munitions committee. It is not nearly so easy to figure out just what ought to be done about it. What is being learned is only an amplification of previous disclosures. The big munitions firms are true internationalists. . They find ways of co-operating to insure bigger profits. > They divide world markets on a truly grand scale. They get the co-operation of naval authorities, and they have a broadminded way of exchanging patent rights. There is nothing especially new in all this; and yet the force of the disclosures, echoing from the vast sounding board which a senate committee can erect, has shocked the American people very profoundly. For there is something about the munitions business which puts it in a class by itself. The men who market guns, submarines, and bombs are not dealing in ordinary merchandise: they are dealing in sudden death, and they have a proprietary interest in mass slaughter which makes their trade of direct concern to ordinary folk everywhere. And yet, as things stand today, it is hard to see precisely how the business can be reformed. For this great traffic in the machines of destruction is a symptom of trouble, rather than a cause. It is a symptom of a great division among the peoples of the world—of rivalries and suspicions and hatreds and injustices. innumerable and almost insoluble. Granting that the munitions makers have not been above stirring up trouble, on occasions. to boom the market, the fact remains that for the most part, this vast trade in weapons goes on because nations everywhere are expecting war. The world, in fact, is pretty sick, and its intervals of sanity between spells of fever-

ish delirium are not long. The munitions makers are a complicating factor, to be sure; yet the roots of the disease go beyond them. To curb their activities micht relieve the patient's sufferings slightly, but it would not cure him. We live, in other words, by the sword —all of us. in every land. As long as we do, we hardly can be too horrified at the way the people who make and sell us the swords get rich. UP TO THE FARMERS HESTER C. DAVIS, administrator for the AAA, says that future crop control schemes will depend on the wishes of the farmers themselves. Com belt fanners will be asked to take part in a referendum, to say what they want to do about their 1935 com crop. Similar referenda will be taken among other farmers regarding other phases of the AAA program; and if the farmers wish to give up the whole crop control plan, they will be able to say so, and the government will listen to them. It is doubtful if any man is wise enough to predict, at present, just how the farmers will vote; and that is precisely what makes the taking of these refrenda a wise move. In the long run, no agricultural plan can succeed if it does not have the support of a majority of the farmers. To find out exactly how the farmers feel about the present program is a very sensible move, WHEN ROYALTY WEDS WHEN a young man ancj a young woman become engaged to be married, the news is interesting to their friendls—and, if they happen to be famous, to a great many total strangers as well. Ordinarily, however, it can hardly be classed as news of world-wide im-* portance. The engagement between young Archduke Otto and Princess Maria of Italy, though, is something else again. It is a marriage of state, and it may drag in its wake momentuous consequences for a large part of Europe. Otto wants to regain the throne of Austria. Since royal houses do not give the hands of their daughters to obvious losers, it may be taken for granted that his ambition Is going to get a good deal of support from the government of Italy. And since ,there are other governments which are firmly determined that no Hapsburg shall ever return to Vienna, a head-on collision of rival interests seems to be in prospect. This engagement of Otto and Maria may yet rank with the most important European news item of 1934. An investigator with little else to do finds that the blond is on her way out. And that scraping noise is the other guests getting up to follow her. Seventy laundries have given up their Blue Eagles. Probably shrunk them so much they couldn’t find them. A national conference will be held to stabilize liquor prices. Maybe they can find something that will stabilize the drinker after the ninth or tenth dram.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

a LEXANDER HAMILTON long has been the /V patron saint of both Republican war horses and reactionary forces In the United States. That Hamilton’s sympathies and interests were wholly with the commercial and industrial classes rather than the farmers and workers is most certainly true. He was also an outspoken critic of democracy and the rule of the people. At the same time, it is an insult to his memory to imply even remotely that he would have approved of the corporate thievery of those capitalists who have run America ragged during the last generation. He was no apologist of the ‘’something-for-nothing” psychology. And certainly he would have viewed with disgust such stupidity as has been exemplified by the Republican leaders of the last two decades. Professor McKee of Columbia university has edited a splendid selection of Hamilton economic writings. (.‘‘Papers On Public Credit, Commerce and Finance.” By Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Samuel McKee, Columbia University Press. $3.) If they furnish little inspiration or guidance for the American future, they are historically useful. They can remind us that even the conservatives at the period of the foundation of our country honored honest work and constructive enterprise rather than legalized robbery. If one wishes an excellent technical analysis and description of the formal workings of modern American corporations, Professor Dewing’s book is far the most thorough and competent manual which we have. (“The Financial Policy of Corporations.” By Arthur Stone Ewing. The Ronald Press. $10.) The present largely rewritten editions runs more than 1,300 pages. n an Yet, in spite of the fact that the bool: is dedicated to W. Z. Ripley, there is but the faintest suggestion of those corporate methods so well described by Ripley and by Berle and Means. Therefore, the title is to a considerable extent a misnomer. For those corporate policies which have been of greatest significance in recent American financial and economic history one will have to look elsewhere. Indeed, the preface to the book is an almost insolent defiance of the New Deal and of financial investigators like Untermyer, Pecora and Flynn. The bank holiday provided a colorful stage setting for President Roosevelt's inauguration and the banking legislation of the Roosevelt administration has been one of the most important phases of the New Deal. u IN a large and authorative volume."such eminent authorities on banking as H. Parker Willis. John M. Chapman and their associates analyzed the American banking system since the World war. (“The Banking Situation; American Post-War Problems and Developments.” By H. Parker Willis and John N. Chapman. Columbia University Press. $5.) They reveal clearly the excesses and follies which lead to the bank noliday, and they survey without too much appreciation the banking legislation of the last year and a half. It is the best single volume to consult if one wishes to become up-to-date on the banking situation in the United States. Sir Arthur Salter is one of the most respected of capitalistic writers on world economic problems. He here summarizes the results of a personal investigation of Chinese economics and finance as they operate in connection with a silver standard. (“China ‘'and Silver.” By Sir Arthur Salter. Economic Forum, Inc. sl.) More attention is given to general economics and finance than to the currency problem, but the book affords sufficient answer to those who believe that China would be boosted into Utopia by the recognition of silver in the United States. Professors Yoder and Davies have written an excellent summary of the causes of the depression and of the measures adopted by the Roosevelt administration. (“Depression and Recovery.” By Dale Yoder and George R. Davies. McGraw-Hill. $130.) Special attention is given (P fflODfijy JUQfI oifdit.

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(Timet readert are invited to eaprets their views in these columns. Make your letters short, to aU can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or lest.J ana BELIEVES CONSTITUTION STILL SUFFICIENT By B. B. I wish to take this means to congratulate George W. Curtis on his article in this column on Sept. .7 and I hope to hear more from him. Mr. Curtis states; “If it becomes evident that it is impossible to regulate and control industry and capitalistic enterprises under the Constitution, suitable for the ■ existing state of society, then the usefulness and necessity of the Constitution ends.” Ei'ery right thinking person in this land should agree with Mr. Curtis. However, there is no reason as yet to believe that this can not be done under the present Constitution. The old Hooverites would have us believe that the recovery laws are unconstitutional. Why take notice to this, as the Constitution itself places the authority in the United States supreme court to decide whether a law is unconstitutional. The heads of great industries helped to frame the NRA and now since they have been pulled out of the quick sand, they are moving heaven and earth to keep it from working. Likewise, I am informed that we have a senator representing the people of this state who cast his vote in the senate in favor of the NRA and other recovery laws and now he is discouraging everything which the NRA stands for. How any thinking man or woman can cast a vote for a man of this type is more than I can understand. Labor should not only have the : right to organize but should be encouraged to organize by government. We never will restore the economic balance until labor is organized and organized wages are paid. This is the only way, under our present system, to prohibit industry from overcapitalization. Overcapitalization is the major seat of our economic trouble today. ana PLAN SUBMITTED FOR NEW STATE PRISON. By O. J. Simmon*. Now that prison experts are admitting they need to start over, hearken unto a man who never saw a penitentiary. Lot us build a state prison, to house men and women, perverts and normals, bad men and alimony victims. First, we need land, a few score acres. Around it build a concrete wall twenty feet high, mostly to stop bullets from inside coming out. Let the wall be gateless. Inside, a central tower a hundred feet or so high to house sharpshooting guards. Lay out four prison streets, all radial and pointing directly to the central tower. On the far side of the circular street build huts for prisoners, each hut to have a roof four feet above ground on the tower side* and sloping to street level away from the tower. Between huts have yards eight feet square, each hut having one yard, to be planted in flowers (no food gardens allowed) by the occupant of each hut. Around the first or inner circle of huts build a second street, ten feet wide and touching all firststreet huts in the rear. * Use solid concrete for all huts and streets. Place huts on second street and around these lay out the third street, and so on until finally the base of the wall touches the back of all huts on "Wall street.” Outside of every hut, in the wall or roof, facing the yard, place a microphone, so the tower guards can stamp out eoaverMtmn Iran jprd

THE BOOBY PRIZE

School Teachers Accused of Political Bias

By H. R. I read with interest the address Paul Stetson, city school superintendent, to Marion county teachers as well as The Times’ editorial on the subject. Very, very good. May I suggest that Mr. Stetson insist that the teachers he employs steer clear of politics before he again relieves himself statements to the contrary. I have, as I thought, the privilege of having my children in one of the best schools in Indianapolis which has a reputation for good schools. I am a Democrat. , I hope the children shall be, too. We resent the statements of teachers this spring, before the primary election, that “the United States would be much better off had Mr. Hoover been re-elected,” that “Governor McNutt has put taxes on the present generation that you still will be paying when you go into the business world,” and that “President Roosevelt is ruining business every day, and any one who did not vote for Mr.

to yard. Paint the street and number on every hut, so as to be visible from the tower. Place a microphone and loud speaker in the tower so that general orders can be issued. Floodlight, each hut and yard at night, to full visibility with all lamps bullet-proofed and shielded. Place a phone and a radio in each hut. Complete housekeeping equipment must be in the huts also. Bring the prisoner at intervals uncooked groceries. Let each do his cooking in his own way. ana OLD STANDARDS OF MORALITY UPHELD By H. S. Oszood. R. M. Weller, the writer acknowledges the soft impeachment of being born thirty or forty years too soon to fit into modern ideas and practices so tactfully suggested in your letter. When men or women fall below the level of self-respect to the lower levels of fads or so-called customs and free and easy standards of today, invented by a class of irresponsible youth, it is evidence of disregard of the dictates of common sense and is regrettable to the extreme. In this birth control age in which consequences are lightly regarded and every drugstore is an arsenal of defense, emergencies are not feared by the most ignorant, hence everything goes as you inferred. The ethics of decency or correct conduct are limited only by the vigilance of the cops on duty, then not always. Following your line of reasoning in which you recognize no standards, the result must be the entire loss of modesty without which no girl or woman can be trusted for j wifehood and motherhood. That is a dark outlook for any man’s home and anything or any custom that makes a woman an unworthy member of society is a fatal stroke at the structure of civilization. Mr. Weller, old standards that have been tried and proven are the only safe ones. a a a OFFERS BIBLICAL REMEDY FOR NATION* fj ILLS By a R*ad*r and Bost*r. We read so much in the papers of the New Deal trying this and that to get the nation out of the distressed condition. There is an answer in God’s word for every problem. Cbroßiclai 1-14-33 w read; U U

[/ wholly disapprove of what yon say and will J defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

Hoover certainly should be sorry by this time.” Yet, Indiana teachers, thanks to the fine work of Governor McNutt, never have had to worry about their salaries. They never have had their teaching season shortened. I challenge Mr. Stetson to be fair enough and honest enough to instruct his teachers that any one bringing up such statements as the above in the classrooms be subject to peremptory dismissal upon presentation of evidence sustaining such charges. Had it not been for the fact that I felt certain my children would have been ma<"'• to suffer for my action, I certainly would have preferred charges last spring. If Mr, Stetson will grant the children immunity from punishment and mistreatment because their parents are Democrats, I should enjoy nothing better than preferring charges at this time against three teachefs who have been retained to teach again this fall.

the people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and wili forgive their sins and will heal their land." Will the Lord do that for this United States when our government is slaughtering pigs, burning wheat, plowing under cotton and laying waste God's bountiful gifts, where so many are hungry and naked? He will not, for the wisdom of this world os foolishness to God and without His help and wisdom from on high. President Roosevelt and his brain (I should say his alphabetical code) men are helpless. When men go back to God the Giver of all good gifts, then we will have hope. Senator Robinson is the only senator who fought to keep the United States from recognizing Russia. Red Russia, which starved its people, Mr. Farley over the radio tried to put mud all over Senator Robinson by saying the United States already had in its treasury $5,000,000 to its credit from Russia's trade—blood money for the United States from Russia. What a tragedy. ana HERE’S THE STRAIGHT OF STRIKE DEATH TOLL Bt Joe Collere. I beheld an aged news-monger holding in his left hand several copies of the early edition of The Times, bearing a streamer, “Nine killed in Textile Warfare.” In his right hand, he supported ditto of The Indianapolis News, which proclaimed over eight columns, to the effect that not a paltry nine, but ten had paid the supreme penalty in the strikers’ cause. After my mirth had subsided at this journalistic discrepancy, I realized with a shock that the hitherto fearless Times might hot be what it seemed, but only a hollow mockery of journalistic ethics. Having been fortunate enough to

Daily Thought

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?—Lsaiah, 14:27. WOULD the face of nature be *o serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?—Thor-

.SEPT. 11, 1934

hear last week a statement by the editor of The Times that he was a died-in-the-wool, yard-wide, cop-per-bottomed capitalist and a Republican, at that 'so am I), I thought to myself, “Can it be that this is evidence of the work of that arch-fiend, endeavoring to suppress the news of labor's fight, to pass off as a puny nine casualty battle what is really a thriving ten-death war?” Come, Mr. Editor, can you defend yourself against this heinous charge of coloring the news, of propagandizing the bourgeiosie against the seriousness of the class warfare? Ten were killed on the day in question. The early first edition of The Times had nine killed. All later editions carried the death list at ten. nun STRIKE BREAKERS REPORTED WORKING By a Striker. . I am a textile mill striker. Mr. Young said that he would not brin? any strike breakers into the Indianapolis Bleaching Company plant, but he has hired new help in the spinning and weaving rooms. A truck load of meat has- been taken into thP factory. It looks to me like they are getting ready fb feed some strike breakers. The Times’ statement auout wages was correct. The lowest paid person gets $6.75 a week. The highest paid gets a little mere than sl3. I am sp.nning room hand, and my wages are sll.lO for a full week. I think the scales are pretty rotten. An employe does three men's work. POLICE BRANDED “ AS UNFAIR Bv a Thfeta. To E. H. Simmons, I say, did you listen to the broadcast of the traffic court when an officer said to the judge that he knew the one that was arrested and that he was a good fellow and that he didn’t mean to violate any law. Well, he got off easy with no fine to pay. The only friends that the police make are tnose from whom they can get a drink for nothing or throw a party with no restrictions. Why should the police arrest any one w r ith slot machines when they always have a handful of slug.s to play them with. That is just taking away one of their loafing places. The police of Indianapolis only make arrests of persons with more than five numbers on their automobile license plates and the poor suckers.

NEIGHBORS

BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN My neighbors are the nicest folks, They never fail to say “Good morning” to each other In the friendliest sort of way. They never are too busy, A favor small to grant. No matter what the trouble No one ever says ‘ I can't.” No high dividing fences Mark the yards as “yours” or “mine,” But lovely flowers and gardens Grow in rows along each line. The lawns, ilke strips of velvet, green, > Stretch terraced, to the street, Where maples stand, whose branches, In an archway seem to meet. This neighborhood of mine, displays No wealth, or homes so grand, But no finer hospitality Is found in all the land. They call themselves “Just common folks,” But they re rich in things worthwhile. These friendly, kindly neighbors, Ataua JttMf ami* s*