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w ■— - TKUPHOAT, SEPT. IS. 1114. A GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY A RBITRATION ha* born refused by the textile empolver*. Chairman Wmant. reporting for the President's special board, says, ‘ We have been unable to seeure an agreement from the group of manufacturers on any basts for an arbitration or its equivalent." The employers state that "the issues themselves are not. in our opinion, appropriate subjects for arbitration.'’ It seems to us that the employers are making a serious mistake. Everything they say in defense of low wages and hard working conditions being necessitated by low profits may be true—that remains to be determined by impartial government investigation. And it certainly is true that the union's proposal that all mills remain closed during the process of arbitration is an ’impossible" condition. But. regardless of these and any other factors. the disagreeable fact remains that the employers have blocked all of the government's efforts for peaceful settlement. It is one thing to reject the union's partisan proposals; it is quite another thoing to reject the government's impartial proposals. On the eve of the strike the employers refused the plea or the National Labor Relations Board to meditate. Last night they rejected the offer of the President's special board to arbitrate on any basis. In the face of violence on both sides, i mounting in some mill towns toward civil war, | the employers in rejecting government arbitration assume a grave responsibility.

MAINE GOES ROOSEVELT "IT is evident that the people have not yet understood what it all means,” us Republican Chairman Fletchers explanation ol the G. O. P. defeat in Maine. The trouble was that the voters understood only too well* to suit Republican purposes. Senator Hastings’ G. O. P. comment was even funnier: "The New Deal policies are thus being forced on a dustressed people.” It was a Roosevelt test—and in a state which has benefited little from NRA and AAA. The conciusion is Inescapable that Maine feels its recovery hopes lie with Franklin Roosevelt. The three congressional district races were more significant than Democratic Governor Branns re-election and Republican Senator Hale's tremendous loss in votes. The congressional victors: 1. Simon Hamlin, Democrat, New Dealer, new in politics, defeated Tory Republican Carroll Bredy, incumbent—the first Democratic victory there since 1862. 2. E. C. Moran, Democratic New Dealer, who built up his own organization unaided by Pos'master-General Farley, defeated Zelma M Dwinal. one of those on the famous Instill pay roll during Maine s power referendum a few years ago. 3. Ralph O. Brewster, ex-Governor, veteran of many power battles, and a progressive Republican, defeated Representative John G. Utterbach. Democratic conservative. New Deal congressional score: Three runs, three hits, no errors. WH AT GOOD POSTI RE DOES ANY people do not realize what a differA ence it makes how they carry themselves. To throw the shoulders back, the chest up. and the stomach in puts the organs in their proper position. It automatically promotes deeper breathing, increasing the air supply to the lungs and thus increasing energy and promoting health. That there are psychological and moral effects, as well as physical, from the manner in which a person carries himself, is realized by mankind, as shown by the words he uses. The word "inspire" means "to tak* in the breath.” Inspiration and deeper breathing go together. When one is inspired, he breathes deeply; by reverse process, he who breathes deeply is more likely to be inspired. Erect posture is associated with the right kind of pride and moral character. We speak of an ‘'upright'' man; of one who "has slumped" or "stoops to" low methods. Right posture is insisted on by physicians and physical Instructors. There are few habits which make so much difference as the habit of posture. Like all habits, they are hard to form, but once established. require no effort. He who has "slumped” will find it difficult at first to carry' himself properly. But it will grow easier with every effort, and once the habit of standing, sitting and walking with the proper carnage is established. It requires no effort and produces daily dividends of health and efficiency. To correct posture is the easiest and cheapest wav to ennch your life. PRIMARY STRAWS TUESDAYS primaries m eight state provided reverses as well as gains for the Roosevelt administration. Progressive policies for which Senator Ccvtigan fought so long in Colorado received a decided setback when Governor Johnson won tha Democratic gubematonal nomination over Josephine Roche. New Dealer, union labor industrialist. Miss Roche’s defeat, ascribed to the rural vote, may also mdicate that many citizens have not become accustomed to women in high office. Huey Long's triumph in winning control of New Orleans, according to the best reports, represented Intimidation as much as a voters' choice. The Kmgfish conquered another political ring Tha Washington state vote, in which the Democratic ballots far outnumbered the Republican tally, was encouraging to the administration. Progressives were pleased by the apparent victory of the Democratic sen-

atorial candidate indorsed by Sen*tor Bone, Lewis Schwellbach. Arizona s big votes cast in renominating Senptor Ashurst and Representative Greennay also meant an administration gam. Michigan Republicans’ unopposed approval of Senator Vanderberg adds support to his boom as a 1936 G. O P. presidential candidate. The state's relative increase in Republican votes and reduction in Democratic totals may indicate either that the New Deal is waning in popularity there, or that a reduction in breadlines is causing a return to Michigan's traditional Republicanism. In South Carolina the Democratic progressive, Olm D. Johnson, former textile worker, defeated the fire-eating veteran, former Senator Cole Biease, for the governorsnip. Nomination amounts to election there. In rock-ribbed Vermont and New Hampshire the primary returns were not particularly revealing. The unexpectedly largf New Deal sweep m the Maine elections remain.- the most significant November indicator to date. NO MORE SECRECY NYE and his colleagues on the senate munitions committee refused requests of several company witnesses that press and public be excluded when testimony threatened to embarrass some government. If every question by the Nye committee involving diplomatic relations were shunted into a star chamber, the public hearings would be brief and futile indeed. The munitions business bV its very nature—as the hearings have plainly shown involves international relations. Some of the disclosures at the capital may produce a coolness at diplomatic teas in Washington. Constantinople, London. Rio and points east, west, north and south. But the public already has learned enough about the shady secrecy of the arms traffic to know that full publicity us essential. FIREPROOF SHIPS TN this age of steel Americans generally will *hs¥e President Roosevelt's belief that all inflammable materials should be eliminated in building passenger vessels. Whatever is found to be the explanation of the frightful and mysterious Morro Castle Jragcdy. the very fact that a great passenger liner can burn so easily arid quickly at sea should bring the subject of ship construction sharply before congress. The President, who knows ships, sees no reason why any wood need be used in passenger ship construction or any inflammable material in decoration. Ships can and should be fireproofed. Even after all such precautions are taken the hazards of the sea will remain all too great. MERE “HEARSAY” T . E. YORK, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, has asserted publicly that this states public officials were directly associated tvith the liquor industry. The Marion county grand jury called Mr. York before it to substantiate his charges. The jury heard what Mr. York had to say. He said, the jury reported to Judge Frank P. Baker, that his allegations were based on “hearsay.” L. E. York of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League isn t the only person in the state w r ho says very flatly that public officials not only are tied up with the liquor industry, but they will go even further and tell you, even, that they own the liquor plants. All the grand juries in Indiana couldn't find a breath of truth in any one of the statements. And simply because all of the whispers going around are based on mere hearsay. Hearsay is dangerous. Stay away from it. Even if your cousin tells you that a cousin of his by marriage knows the best friend of the man who is on the “take.” take it w'ith a giain of salt. After all, that certain "best friend’ may have obtained his information from a cousin of his whose cousin has a cousin by marriage who knows the guilty party himself.

WITH BEST OF WISHES TUST what luck President Roosevelt’s new ** textile strike mediation board is going to have is something for the seventh son of a seventh son to predict. Certainly the great mass of Americans—including, no doubt, strikers and employers as well as general pub-lic-will wish the board all the luck in the world. In a strike as extensive as this textile walkout. the original issues are inevitably overshadowed by the dislocation which the strike itself produces in the fields of business and industry. When such a strike continues for any length of time, a point is soon reached at which the public's desire to see the strike ended must be dominant. We hopefully are expecting an autumn revival in business. Continuance of the textile strike can not fail to have a bad effect on that revival. It is to be hoped that the new board will find some way of effecting a settlement. DON’T BLAME SCIENCE T> ECAUSE the triumphs of applied science have made us marvelously productive, but have left us unable to make full use of the things we produce, many people have jumped to the conclusion that it is science itself that is at fault. We hear, periodically, demands that science “declare a holiday”; that new inventions, discoveries and research generally be held in abeyance until the race has had tame to catch up with its own cleverness. One of the best answers to this demand comes from Sir James Jeans, famous British astronomer and physicist. Addressing a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Aberdeen, Sir James declared himself as follows : “Scientific knowledge is transmitted from one generation to another, while acquired characteristics are not. Thus, in respect to knowledge, each generation stands on the shoulders of its predecessor, but in respect to human nature both stand on the same ground. ‘These are hard facts, which we can not help or alter, and which—we may as well admit it—may wreck civilization. If there ts an

I avenue of escape, it does not, as I see it, lie in the direction of less science but of more science.’’ It is /me of the ironies of existence that the achievements of science are two-edged tools. The discovery of vast sources of physical power makes it possible for us to do an enormous Amount of work with far less effort than our grandfathers had to use; but It also makes it passible for us to blow ourselves out of existence, and if we indulge in another world war we may do precisely that. Scientific agriculture has enabled us to rid ourselves of the old feaivthat the earth's population would grow faster than its food supplies; but it also has robbed the farmer of his Old independence and left tons of food to rot on the ground while city people go hungry. Machine power has taken the drudgery from the worker’s routine—but it has also, in some millions of cases, taken away his job and left him without the means of existence* But the remedy for these things isn't to lock science up in a itark claset and turn the clock back to 1800. Our only salvation is to learn how to use these scientific tools sensibly. If we do. we can make human life much happier than has ever been before. Now that the government has solved the problem of hungry cows by canning ’em. some way may be found to dispose of the drug store cowboys. Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES THE textile strike now in progress is serious enough. Yet it involves only one industry. Even under the most disastrous circumstances it will be settled in time without ruining the economy of the country. Another strike, far less prosaic but far more menacing has been in progress since 1929 and has settled down with particular determination since June, 1933. If this strike is not settled before too long, the capitalistic economy—at least capitalism under Democratic form of government—will be impaired beyond all recovery. I refer to the strike of American capital and its* refusal to finance industrial activities and business recovery. Some time ago I mentioned an article by Governor La Follette in “Common Sense'’ on this subject. There Is a much more factual and informing discussion by Raymond G. Swing in the “Nation.” Mr. Swing makes it clear that while business has been falling off since June. 1933, the stock market slumping downward and relief rolls mounting, capital and credit reserve in this country have been steadily incd&asing. But the capital Is extremely loath to leave the bank vaults for the purpose of stimulating or supporting business investments. Bank deposits in the United States have grown by more than 14 per cent since June, 1933. standing at $26,762,000,000. They are only 17 per cent less than they were in June, 1929. The strike of capital not only Is illustrated by this accumulation of bank deposits but also by the related reluctance to make commercial loans. Since June. 1929, loans have declined over 51 per cent while bank deposits have declined only 17 per cent. Mr. Swing estimates that capital to the extent of at least $11,000.000.000 is being withheld from what would be its normal use if capital were not on strike. a a a THIS strike of capital has been determined especially since June, 1933, when the Roosevelt economic policy stood revealed fairly clearly. Business not only is holding up commercial loans, but it is refusing to invest normally in private securities. In March, 1934, the banks held less private securities than in June, 1933. the decline being no less than $1,500,000,000. The trend has been toward investment in government securities. Here the banks hold $3,250,000,000 more than June, 1933. This balking by capital has forced the government to finance many enterprises ordinarily handled by banks. In 1929, all governmental agencies produced only 7.8 per cent of the rational income, while today they are producing about 20 per cent. In short, the government today is carrying about one-fifth of the country's business as against the one-thirteenth carried when private capital operates in normal fashion. Incredible as it may seem, private business puts up A shrill squawk because of this so-called “governmental interference,” which is caused by the strike of capital itself. Han The net result of it all is to set up a vicious circle: “What faces America is a process of which it is hardly aware, an unformulated conflict between capital and the state. The longer the conflict lasts, the harder it is to resolve. The more the state interferes in business—even if it is to take the place of striking capital—the more capital will go on strike. And the more capital goes on strike, the more the government will have to interfere. “Unless the strike is broken, there seems to be one of two possible endings. The state becomes the fountain-head of business, and controls it either for social purposes, which is socialism. or to guarantee the profit system, which is fascism.” Mr. Swing is inclined to believe that this strike of capital is for most American business men not an act of deliberate intent. It is due to the fact that they feel uncertain about such things as Mr. Roosevelt's economic and financial policy. There is one thing about which they need not feel uncertain. That is that unless American capital loosens up. the day of private capitalistic enterprise, as it has been known in the past, will, be over. The risks of business today are trivial compared to tjie certainties of large-scale disaster if these risks are not promptly and resolutely accepted on a large scale. Company Unions BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—How the company union is created and operates is set forth in the decision of the National Labor Relations Board in the Guide Lamp Corporation case. "The Guide Employes’ Association, as company representatives testified at the hearing, was initiated by the company itself in September 1933,” the board found. “According to the by-laws its purpose it ‘to promote co-operation between the Guide Lamp Corporation and its employes’ with respect to hours of labor, wage rates and working conditions. “Elections of the association are held on company time and at company expense. Employes are paid by the company for all time spent in attending meetings of the council of the association. The company furnishes at its expense a stenographic assistant for the secretary of the association. All expenses of the council are borne by the company.” Despite this "nursing" the company union at the Guide plant at Anderson. Ind . failed to poll as large a vote as Local 52, Metal Polishers International Union, whose members met and organized on their own time. Majority rule, as originally laid down by the labor board in the Houde Engineering Corporation case, followed in the decision and collective bargaining must be carried out through the union and not the association, it was held. "The company's insistence upon bargaining with the minority employes’ association seems to the board essentially a reluctance to bargain collecthely at all,” the decision states. There follows the description of how the company union was organized and conducted and the board concludes: "We can not escape the conclusion that bargaining with a minority group of this sort would effectively nullify the efforts of the majority.”

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(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit Phcin to 200 words or less.) ana METHOD PROPOSED TO BAN STRIKES By Joe B. Aillcr. Assuming there are at least 5,000,000 union men in this country, let them form a corporation and raise $17,500,000. This means $3.50 for each man. Let business men employing labor do the same thing. Ten millions of said amount shall be deposited by each corporation in escrow after purchasing government bonds with same, and shall be considered as a guarantee fund to fulfill conditions of the contract entered into. Five millions would be a reserve fund and $2,500,000 an expense fund to be deposited by each corporation in national banks. Guarantee fund to be forfeited by either corporation failing to live up to the contract. The contract shall stipulate conditions agreed upon and to be for a period of three or five years. A grievance committee shall be appointed by each side for the period of contract and shall consist of three, five, seven or more, according to by-laws. When a grievance occurs on either side the other must be notified. A time and place must be slated to discuss the grievance according to the by-laws. In the event of a disagreement both sides must select the odd man to decide, and this shall be final. Otherwise, $10,000,000 will be forfeited. The by-laws shall stipulate all expenses incurred in executing provisions of contract shall be paid for equally by both sides. Compensation to be paid each laborer on the strength of merit only. Each laborer is to be placed in a certain class according to his ability. If subsequently he is found to be deficient or more efficient he is to be transferred to a lower or higher j class accordingly. The union must j have a competent board to examine | these men. After placed in acer- j tain class and found competent each j one shall receive a certificate which shall state this, and the amount of ; compensation to be received. Some men ars faster workers and 1 more conscientious than others. In order to be just and encourage ail. a certain percentage of the increase in production above the remuneration for certain production required, shall be given the laborer, in addi- \ tion to the regular stipend. Sixty days prior to expiration of contract each side must give written notice to the other whether it wishes to enter into anew contract. This is a just and honorable method of preventing strikes and will mean a saving of billions to corporations as well as the public. WEALTH OF PRAISE FOR OTTO RAY By Vi. E. Lemon. One of the outstanding figures today in Marion county democracy is Otto Ray. candidate for sheriff, who not only beat the slate, but defeated his nearest opponent, and he had several of them, Jjy more than 7.000 votes* This goes to prove even in this day and age it is impossible t<s down an honest man even if the cards are stacked against him. He is under no obligations to factions or cliques and his deputy ap-; pointees will be men of the highest j moral standards which will give us. not only service, but honesty, and j the world knows we need that in

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By Stuart A. Reed. It is evident that The Message Center writer who took the space to crticise the New Analytical Bible did not know w-hat he was talking about. I represent the Dickson Publishing Company, which publishes this Bible. I feel Herbert R. Achley should know his subject a little more thoroughly. The new Bible has as its basic text the King James or Authorized version with the changes which occur between it and the American revised version placed in brackets in the text and not in the footnotes or other volumes. This enables one to compare the translations of the scholars of 1611 and modern scholars. Many words of the original manuscripts can not be translated into our English because we have no words w'hich mean the same. Modern scholars have many manuscripts that had not been found in 1611, the knowledge of the sacred languages is greater today and many expressions used in king James version are either

this day of personal gain and greed. His past record for charity and honesty has put him where he is today. He served faithfully in the World ivar, and with distinction as city councilman in the Shank administration. He is past district commander of the American Legion. He established the soup house and old clothes center for the unfortunate, and w-hile serving as captain of police and city license inspector, made hundreds of friends, and his honesty and leniency made a record unparalleled in Marion county history. Here is a man you can trust, and if he should be defeated there evidently is something radically wrong with the minds of Marion county voters. .a a a CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT BY WEALTHY CLASS By Harley I. Newton.' Oliver Goldsmith was an English poet, and in his writings he made this statement: “111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.” The man who “talked like poor poll but wrote like an angel” told a great truth when he penned the above phrases, for they apply to our nation today, where wealth has accumulated in the possession of a few persons. The mass, or the majority of the people are suffering untold privation and miseries. Walk the streets of cities, and see hundreds of houses vacant and others being torn down, factories idle, and undernourished children with their pale pinched faces telling of starvation. And all t this in America, in the land of plenty. “As ye sow, shall ye also reap.” The rich class has sown to the wind, and the harvest is almost due and will be reaped in the whirlwind’s wrath. It is said that history repeats itself. Well, the time is almost at hand for this to occur here in this so-called "land of the free and the home of the brave." and we are going to have a repetition of the Reign of Terror” of 1789 and 1793 that will cause the French revoluion to pale into insignificance. I am not a Bolshevik. Communist. Red or an Anarchist. I am a full-fledged American citizen, born

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

obsolete or have an entirely new meaning. The original manuscripts are always the final word in settling any disputed passage of scripture. Dr. James R. Kaye, who compiled the new Bible, explained much about how manuscripts have come down to us over a period of several hundred years. There have been many translations and I judge that the above mentioned Mr. Achley has a translation rather than an original manuscript. In presenting the Bible with both texts the student is better able to choose the more understandable meaning as many passages in the older translations are hard to grasp. The New Analytical Bible is the mast modern of study Bibles, it has received a greater number of commendations from scholars, students and ministers of all creeds and denominations than any other Bible ever produced. It stands for constructive views of the Bible and not for that disintegrating ar.d destructive skepticism that is honeycombing the church.

and reared in the jungles of southern Indiana, and am tired and weary of seeing this nation ruled by an oligarchy of wealth, the most hateful, detestable, damnable form of government on earth. ana OTHERS DESC RIBE LARGE METEORITE By Mrs. J. G. nrulrv. Mv husband and I were pleased to see the article in The Times about a meteorite by Phillip W. Carpenter. We also saw the meteorite which he described and can not add much to the description except that it came upon us so suddenly that we were actually frightened until we realized what it was. We were returning from the library and were at the corner of South Butler and Burgess avenues when a blue glare appeared and the enormous meteor seemed to come hurling out of space at us. It passed over the old Butler campus. As Mr. Carpenter said, it looked about the size of a barrel and was so bright it lighted the landscape for blocks. a a a CHRISTIANITY WILL BE JUDGED BY STAND By a Charchman. In the drought areas of the west, the religious leaders are saying to the people. "This drought Is God's punishment for your moral decline.” The repeal of prohibition and the reduction of crops are cited as violations of God's law for which the drought is a visitation upon the people. Disaster has driven the people into the churches to pray and to be swayed into emotionalism by the fanfare of the preachers. New sects Daily Thought Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool; what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of My rest?—The Acts, 7:49. THE lust of dominion bums with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.—Tacitus.

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are springing up throughout the drought area. These religious emotion nostrum dispensers are blaming Roosevelt for j everything the drought has done to j them. The preachers call this a revival, a return to God. It is too bad that religious racketeering should be added to the other rackets from which these victims suffer. Will these preachers seek to organize these people to perfect anew order of society in which every human being will be blessed with the bounties of God's gifts, or will they as heretofore condone the practices of an industrial order, which deprives the many of God’s riches, to divert them from workers to shirkers, and bless the old order if it feeds these priests of Mammon. Christianity will be judged by the side it takes in this social struggle. Individual as well as collective attitudes of Christians toward social justice will determine the fate of religious institutions. a e tt CHARGES CHURCHES USE GAMBLING By William H. Jelf. A reader of your paper for the last fourteen years, I think it is the best in the city, but would like for you to stop on slot machines and start where the gambling really begins; that is, at the so-called churches where cards are played for prizes and anew automobile is in front of the church, chances being sold for sl. I have seen some of them with punch boards. Where are the police when these gambling dens are open? These are the places where hundreds of children attend, what their parents call church. I would like for these parents to read Matt. 21:12-13 and Timothy 6:10. > \ So They Say The Japanese seem to be reconsidering their attitude of aggression against China. Robert E. Lewis, foreign affairs adviser to the Nanking government. I'll never be a Jimmy Walker.— Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York. Unfortunately, economists have studied the economic system as a whole almost as little as the business man—John Maynard Keynes, noted British economist. Navies are not built for the defense of the families and firesides, but for the defense of interests in China and elsewhere.—Miss Dorothy Detzer, secretary Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Supplication BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK Tristram in his heaven clasp.? th* darker Isolt To his breast. But the other Isolt— Still she has no rest. Tristram in his heaven sees only violet eyes Lifted to his face. And that other Isolt— No time does pam erase. Tristram in his heaven loves only one Isolt. She holds him every part. But that other Isolt— What of Tier broken -heart?