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FRIDAY. SEPT. !. MM THE ARMY AND THE STRIKE TF the textile employers continue to block arbitration and the strike go*s on. use of the United States army probably is only a matter of time. Use of federal troops in civil strife, as requested by the Governor of Rhode Island and last night rejected by his legislature caucus, can be good or bad. It depends largely upon the purpose of the authorities, the intelligence of the army officers, and the discipline of the troops. The last time Me armv was called out it disgraced Itself and the nation. That was in July. 1932. a hen President Hoover and General Mae Arthur loosed a military terror on the unarmed bonus camp at the national capital. There am horrified public protest. Typical of the public reaction was the statement of Frances Perkins—secretary of labor —that the action was “un-American and unjust.” Misuse of troops was not prevented by the original war department instructions to General Mar Arthur and his officers y> “use all humanity consistent with the execution of this order.” General Mac Arthur still is chips of staff, and the cry of Communist danger, which was used two years ago by the authorities—and later disproved completely by government investigation and the courts— is raised again today in the textile strike. On the basis of the record of misuse of federal troops and the wide misuse of state troops in labor disputes, it would be folly lor PreMdent Rooseielt to underestimate the hazard of calling the army in this emergency. Nevertheless it is the obvious duty of the federal government to use the army to curb major disorders whpn local and state authorities have failed. American citizens are guaranteed security m their property, protection of their lives and civil liberties. In the textile strike the mill owners have the right to property protection. The strikers have the right to be protected—by the United States army if necessary—in their right of free speech and and of peaceful picketing. State troops in the south and the north have tended to protect the mills’ property rights and violate the strikers’ civil rights. It ts to be assumed that, under the Roosevelt administration, the United States army would not be used in any such partisan fashion. President Roosevelt presumably would follow the precedent of the 1914 Colorado coal strike, when President Wilson used federal troops to restore order bv disarming both sides and preventing the importation of strike breakers.

“SI BA( ETOAIXr MUNITIONS makprs complain that they are misunderstood. The public it seems, has gained the wrong impression of the ethics of the traffic in war tools. Pprhaps thus us due in part to the confusion in terminology. Who can blame the common people lor their perplexity, reading in the senate committee testimony of one company paying a • commission" to a relative of a high functionary, of another company using 'grease" to get orders for guns. One salesman wrote of the need of spreading "palm eil" in South America. and another told how a little squeeze ’ money was necessary in China. In Turkey it was “ backsheesh." Sir Basil Zaharofl wrote that ke would use the funds turned over to him to "do the needful.” Would the arms manufacturers do well to end this anarchy of nomenclature by agreeing on someone tqrm? In order not to offend any nationality, they might turn to the international language. In the Esperantist dictionary they will find: “Subacetoado” means “bribery.” # AID VOIR COM MI'NIT Y IN the very near future most cities and towns will be the scenes of community chest campaigns Few of us ha\e had any too much money, these Uftt few years. When we are asked to dig down to support a chanty, it is only natural that we should ask whether such contributions —in view of the \ast sums we are contributing as taxpayers—are absolutely necessary. The federal government has been putting something like $128,000,000 a month into relief work. The bulk of the relief work is being earned bv the taxpayer rather than by the pnvate contributor. Is the community chest, in this fail of 1934. an essential thing? Perhaps the Dest way to answer that question la to examine a statement just issued by Newton D. Baser, chairman of the 1934 Mobilization for Human Needs. Mr Baker points out that the government work provides only the bare bones of relief. Private chanty has to clothe the skeleton with warm flesh. It is not enough to keep people from starvation; unless something more than food and fuel be provided, the national morale will suffer irreparably. Unemployment means ill health. Reliable surveys show that there is nearly 50 per cent more aickness in the families of jobless men than in the families of men who have steady incomes: Medical services for such illnesses "must be free; the hospitals and nursing associations that furnish them are largely supported by community chests Childhood suffers when adults are unemployed Children in families on relief are largely undernoun>hed. Government help can not reach them Unless the local, pri-vately-supported community agencies can help, they will suffer physical and spiritual damage which can never be made good. Young men who can not work find time hanging heavy on their hands. Keeping them from starving does not relieve them from the idleness. Unless their communities

help them to use their leisure—the government can not hope to do it—many of them will become casualties of the depression. These activities constitute only a part of the Community Chest program. Simply to mention them to enough to show how vitally important support of the Community Chmt Is. By contributing our share, we help to rebuild our citizenry; for as Mr. Baker says—- • Rebuilding this year applies not only to houses, skyscrapers, bridges and factories, but to broken homes, scattered families, hungerwounded bodies and the shattered hopes and dreams of America.” MEET NUMBER 91 r>ROACTINTUM, chemical element No. 91, *■ Is born. It is not new in the sense that It was unknown, but it never before had been extracted from its confining matrix of crude ore in pure from where scientists might see and study it. Dr. Aristid Von Grosse. young assistant professor in the University of Chicago chemical laboratories, must feel about this new chemical Infant as a doctor feels when he had ended a long and difficult confinement case—elated but not surprised. Dr. Von Gross* started with three tons of raw material and ended with about one threehundredth of one ounce of the isolated element. At the Cleveland chemistry convention he showed a minute fraction of this as plating on a bit of tungsten wire so tiny that it must be kept in a glass tube, and can be seen only by- using a pretty strong magnifying glass. But let no one sniff at that hair-scrap of proactinium-plated wire. All of us are what we largely are by virtue of the delicate balance of such minutiae as gene-bearing chromosomes, hormones, respiratory pigments, vitamins and slight but indispensable traces of metallic elements in our tissues. Benjamin Franklin asked: “Os what use is a baby?” Chemists, physicists, geologists, even astronomers do not yet know the use of this one. But they are crowding round the cradle, primed with questions. The answers which No. 91 may give one day may help to shove the world along an inch—or may revolutionize it. SCIENCE ADVANCES JT is not entirely without significance that the first bit of news from the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, at Cleveland, was announcement of a discovery of an exceptionally poisonous new gas. This gas. according to Dr. George H. Cady, research chemist, is a fluorine compound somewhat like phosgene gas. It produces death if inhaled; furthermore, a blanket of it in a trench would explode, with disastrous results, if its temperature were raised slightly. All in all, it looks like a very neat little addition to the chemical warfare unit’s arsenal. Thus we have another scientific triumph—whose chief result will be to make it a little easier for us to help wipe the human race off the earth. The future is dark indeed unless we can learn to use the discoveries of science for constructive ends.

TRAGIC PROMOTION Acting captain william f. warms of the ill-fated liner Morro Castle seems to have lived through one of the strangest personal tragedies that any seafaring man could be called on to face. Here was a man who had won a position as first officer on a large modern steamship. Being human, he undoubtedly was looking forward to the day when he himself might command such a vessel. Hs was nearing the top of his profession. He had a right to dream his dreams of what would happen when he got to the top of the ladder. Then, unexpectedly compressed into a few hours, came command—accompanied by the most overwhelmingly emergency responsibilities that can go with it. His captain dead, he himself put in charge, a sudden fire as mysterious as any in the annals of the sea, the ship lost and scores of passengers dead almost before he had time to realize that the command was his—did any sailor ever pass through a more tragically amazing set of circumstances? CHEAPER CREDIT r T''HLKL may have been some who shrugged their shoulders when Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins returned from Europe and recommended adoption of the British cheapmonev housing program. There may have been some who thought that Hopkins, a leftwing New Dealer, hadn't the proper respect for the sanctity of profit. But surely none will deny that Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company. is a man who believes that capital is worthy of its hire. Mr. Swope, just returned from England, makes the same recommendation that was made by Hopkins. There seems to be a misunderstanding as to wha*. is the real interest charged by pnvate capital on British housing loans. Mr. Hopkins said 4 per cent. Swope says 5 per cent. British housing expens in Washington recently said the rate ranged from 4 to 44 per cent. The rate now charged by American bankers on housing loans insured by the government is 9.7 per cent. “In England.” said Mr. Swope, “the number of small dwellings being built by private capital is 25 per cent above last year. These houses, whose \aiue is about $2,500 each, are being financed by private capital at an interest rate of only 5 per cent. That is what we should have here. The housing being built by government money in England is on the decrease.” PSYCHOLOGY OF FARMING IN ms speech declaring that government dictation to farmers can not endure. Owen D. Young touched on one aspect of the farm problem which is not often discussed. “If there is one thing sacred to the farmer," he sa:d, “it is the freedom of action or inaction which no other occupation knows. It is one of his great compensations. He accept no man as his boss, neither an employer nor an agricultural leader.” How far this may apply to present AAA programs may be open to question; but Mr. Young undoubtedly did put his finger on something of great psychological importance, —the fact that the American farmer finds m his occupation not only a means of earning a living, but a way of life. Farming, that is. has compensations of us own which never show up on the ledger at the end of the year. Any farm plan which is to be of lasting value must make lull recognition of the fact. c

Liberal Viewpoint

BV DR. HARRY EI.MER BARNES MUCH animated discussion is being provoked by the prediction of the English stock market expert. Major Angas, that we likely are to have a decided boom in business and security jjrices beginning some time within the next sve months. Personally, nothing would suit me better than the vindication of this prediction. On the assurance of another great business expert in 1930 that prosperity was just around the corner. I bought conservatively a number of gild-edge certificates. If Major Angas is right, I might escape with a whole hide. So my emotions are all with the major, but my intelligence is npt quite so unanimous. Major Angas admirably summarizes what he regards as the items in the business setup which are likely to promote an impending boom: “Larger purchases; a fall in retail stocks; increased orders to manufacturers; increased manufacture and larger industrial incomes paid out in the course of production; larger expenditure by workers before the new production is completed; a further decline in inventories and the prospect of still higher prices: increased manufacture by makers of stock in the hope of rise; hurried buying by consumers in the fear of it; increased borrowing from the banks by middlemen, manufacturers and speculators, and a further increase in the bank credit currency. A virtuous’ upward spiral thus will have begun; the vicious circle will be forgotten. Boom psychology wall add fuel to the flames.” If business and finance under capitalism were a purely automatic affair the major's predictions would be almost a sure bet, but there are psychological and social factors of great importance with which he does not reckon. /* * * THERE W'as a real basis for a big boom months ago’. The greatest boom known since the Coolidge days already was in full swing and there was no logical financial or business reason why it shbuld not have continued for months. There are two ways in which a business boom possibly may be started in thus country: (1) The enthusiastic initiative of finance and business; or (2) aggressive action on the part of the government taking the broad form of comprehensive inflation policies. Os course, the two might operate in conjunction. ’ At present, at least, there seems little prospect of any jxwm being launched by business and finance. The leaders thereof are sulky and sour, and capital is on the greatest strike in our entire national history. In their present temper the capitalists seemed determined to destroy Roosevelt politically even if they pull the economic system down about their ears in so doing. They wish no business boom which will boast the Roosevelt fortunes and re-elect him. By the leaders in business and finance, I refer, of course, to those who dominate the 200 great corporations that control American business and the less than a dozen great banks which control our capital—in other words, those w'ho are today backing up the Liberty League and other organizations designed to “Stop Roosevelt.” a a a THERE is little probability that business and finance will co-operate in setting off any business boom unless the congressional election this fall so overwhelmingly and obviously vindicates Mr. Roosevelt that even such shortsighted persons as themselves wall finally recognize that opposition and sabotage are futile. It is quite possible, how’ever, that even a sweeping Roosevelt victory w r ould not induce them to loosen up. It might do no more than to stiffen their backs more resolutely for the struggle of 1936, trying in the meantime to keep capital on strike. The government might promote a boom through extensive financing of business enterprises and through further vast public works and relief projects. But with the existing expenditure record and increased debt burden, it can not go too far in this direction without undermining government securities to a certain extent. If business and finance have been able to sabotage the inflationary measures of the administration to date, they can probably continue. All that the honest and intelligent man can do is to size up the factors in the situation and w'ait to see what breaks. He will do well not to count too much upon financial logic. There are a lot of penniless suckers whose movements in Wall Street since March. 1933. have been based upon the most impeccable logic. In the long run, even if a boom comes, it only can result in an even greater disaster if it is founded upon a shot in the arm rather than sound economic policies.

Munitions —A Game

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Excerpts from the senate munitions hearing: From John Ball, head of the Soley Armament Company, Ltd., of England, dealer in secondhand munitions, in a letter to the American Armament Corporation: “We have been approached here by certain people interested in three-inch A. A. (anti-air-craft) guns for Bolivia. . . . The sale of material emanating from a British official department with a Latin-American country then at war, might lead to some diplomatic shindy, for it might be said that Britain was supporting Bolivia against Paraguay. . . . If, ■ however, an American armament firm of some standing bought the guns, for eventual re-sale, things might be easier. . . From the same letter; “In spite of all the dreams of the idealists, who imagine that homo sapiens is filled with honor, justice, love and self-sacrifice. Japan is going to take a still larger slice of China, and comparatively shortly, while the getting is good. ... We think that the United States would, under the above circumstances. support the Chinese, supply them with arms. etc. . . . We think it might be very advisable for you to approach the United States department of foreign affairs and the war department, and hand them a list of what stocks there are over fiere. . . ana FROM the same letter: (Speaking of orders from Japan) . . . “As you know, ‘incendiary’ bullets are prohibited, so they have become ‘tracers’ . . . what is in a name?” I. J. (Iggy) Miranda of the American Armament Corporation to the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation (regarding Far East inquiries for planes); “I am acquainted intimately with such well-known fliers as . . . Clarence Chamberlin, Roger Williams . . . Ruth Nichols, Elinor Smith, Amelia Earhart . . . All of these people I knowwell, and I find them useful in the pursuit of business. . . ” Ruth Nichols (in a telegram to the Nye committee 1 : “Exceedingly shocked ... I request the committee to demand an explanation from Mr. Miranda of his statement that he found me useful. . . .” Amelia Earhart (in a telegram to the Nye committee): “I do not recall ever having met Mr. Miranda. ... I am opposed emphatically to all that he has to do with war. . . My attorney is investigating . . . looking toward redress if possible ” ‘ —- a a a \ LFRED J. MIRANDA, now president of the x V American Armament Corporation, but “hen an agent of Driggs Ordnance (in a letter to a Driggs executive): . . . “Mail me $250 in banknotes . . . Many little extra expenses . . . Sackville (United States military attache to Brazil) for cocktails, and so forth ...” Senator Homer T. Bone, questioning A. J. Miranda regarding South America: “Do the European salesmen down there use 'palm oil’ and grease.’ ” Miranda: “Our methods are cleaner than the Europeans. I should be glad to discuss theirs in executive session.” Bone: “It is not necessary for you to use names.” Miranda: "We find certain conditions that have to be met ...” Government now has mosquitoes working for it in a health campaign. Wonder how patronage Boss Jim Farley managed to tell which of them were. Democrat mosquitoes.

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(Times readers are invited to e/rpress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) n a BARBER COMPLAINS OF LICENSE PENALTY. By an Indiana Barber. In 1933 there was a law passed requiring all Indiana barbers to purchase a state license, the charge being $3. This year the charge on these certificates w T ere reduced to $2, but on making application for license, barbers were advised $3 w r as a penalty charge for making purchase after Sept. 1. We barbers dp not understand why we should not be given some extension of time before addition of this $3 penalty. It seems that extensions of time are granted on most all other state license, why not ours? The barbers of Indiana would like an explanation on w r hy the state should charge such a penalty. VOTED FOR*HOOVER BUT HAS REPENTED By A. Warren Jacobson. I believe, now% more than ever, that there is absolutely no danger of the good old U. S. A. going hay wire. I believe, that the Stars and Stripes are anchored to the top of the flag staffs more firmly than ever before. - I believe that America has made greater advances than ever before to real, genuine civilization. I believe that this nation will be a world leader, and I was one of the citizens who voted for Hoover? Wrong? Certainly, I w r as. I am now a Democrat and proud of it, and back The Times and the President. SUPPLIES ADDRESS OF LIBERTY LEAGUE By Gaylord A. Wood. The papers have been full recently of articles concerning the formation of the American Liberty League, but I find very few persons who know how to address it for information. Members of the league do not have to pay any dues or initiation fees. Any readers of The Indianapolis Times wishing information or application blanks should write Jouett Shouse. president of American Liberty League. National Press building, Washington, D, C. a a a HOOVER. LIBERTY AND SOME MEMORIES By Joe B. Adler. Who is Herbert Hoover, and what does his opinion amount to that is of any importance? When he was President and had the greatest opporunity any man could possibly ask for, what did he do for the uplift of the people? Irrespective of politics he has not shown one trace of any originality or any disposition toward looking after the interests of the public, but has traveled with and catered to : the interests of the money-changers ! solely in every instance. He now is howling about liberty and the Constitution, but what liberty did he grant the thousands of marchers who came hundreds of miles to plead their cause and camped on the marsh lands near the White House? Didn't he force them out at the point of guns and bayonets? Was that the liberty he he is talking about? What did he do to get us out of the mire in which we were sinking deeper and deeper constantly every second? All that he promised and predicted wa%“pro6perity is just around the corner,” and during his lour

IT ISN’T HALLOWEEN YET, ARTHUR

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We ‘Go 800m 9 to Get Boom

By a Boomer. Major Angas forecasts an American boom; Mr. Hopkins assumes direction of relief for twenty-three million helpless victims of depression. Mr. Wyer, the engineer-economist, assures us that $80,000,000,000 of the American debt structure must be written off before the boom can even become a "pop.” Mr. Warren in his book shows that all previous depressions cured by natural lorces invariably had a price decline in the sixth year of depression, which was double the decline of the third year. This decline in the sixth year forced the debt structure, built in the previous boom period to collapse, bringing wholesale bankruptcy, repudiation and reorganization of capital structure. The action of these natural forces has temporarily been halted by transferring the debts from private'' to public account through placing the debt account of the victims of natural forces with federal agencies. The earning capacity of the victims has not been increased to meet the obligation. The location

years of administration he did absolutely nothing to improve the situation. At the election he went down to defeat with the worst licking any President ever received, except Taft, and that was due to the division of the Republican party when Teddy made the split. It was said that a few weeks before the election he remarked ■he didn't care a damn about being elected again, but three weeks after this he went on the stump and in a desperate manner made the greatest effort to be elected. Like the drowning man grabbing at a straw, he said if he was not. elected the country would be ruined. Subsequently he said if he was defeated grass would grow in the middle of the streets in the principal cities of this country. If any ordinary person made a remark of this kind you might think he was a fit subject for the lunatic asylum. So what can one think of the former President making such a statement? He was judicious for a while in keeping his mouth shut, but politics forced him into the open. He should be relegated to the extreme rear, pass into oblivion and be placed in the category of inocuous desuetude. a a a REAL DEMOCRACY DECLARED LACKING By a Social Democrat. The strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country indicate that real democracy has not been established in American economic enterprises. Politically, we vote to determine policies of administration. Economically, we resort to tactics of barbarism to settle our divergent views. Ownership of production facilities gives to the owner legal rights to deny the workers any voice in the conduct of the business, although every business depends upon the workers to produce both the wage received and the profits Shooting the workers or starving them is the orthodox way of forcing the will of the employer upon the workers. Very few industrialists would think of operating their plants with strike breakers as a permanent proposition. The cost of operation spirals when • green" hands attempv production. In a constitutional democracy, developed from an agraitlan economy to a machine age economy, the right to work at decent recompense, un-

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

of the debt does not solve the paying power. The problem still is the same. Before Mr. Angas’ boom can come the bath will be applied to our debt structure. No amount of tinkering with or bolstering of this debt can supply the necessary props. We are too orthodox in our economics to permit a realistic scaling down of the debt, because each debt is assumed to be collectable. However, natural forces will further depress prices to the point where the debt will topple. After the debt barnacles have been removed, another rush for profits is possible. These so-called profits are the next debt for the following depression to wipe out. Only a planned economy can eliminate these cycles of natural forces which are nothing more than records of social stupidity. Instead of making our curves of business activity, we follow the curves leading us into air castles of prosperity and dungeons of depression. We “go boom” to have a boom.

der healthful conditions should be inherent. The right of citizens to petition the king in colonial days to remedy grievances is not yet established against our industrial lords. Property rights are sacred under our law, but the property right theory should include the jobs of the workers as inalienable while a controversy over wages or conditions exists. The state should protect the workers from being deprived of their right to earn a decent wage under decent conditions. Conciliation boards or arbitration boards should have judicial authority to impose their findings upon employer and employe after public hearings of the grievances. No worker should be subject to the arbitrary whims of an employer; the contract to work should be as sacred under the law as the right to protection of corporate property. Political democracy is a farce if the government fails to enforce industrial democracy; the freedom to starve must be inalienable, but to make starvation a necessity reveals barbarism in industry. Shall we have democracy in industry, or invite sovietism? a a a OPTIMISTIC HOOVER GOES PESSIMIST Bv John Bffk Mr. Hoover says we are drifting to tyranny, so that is that. Old Pessimistic Herbie —the same one who said the grass would grow in the streets if Mr. Roosevelt was elected president. But, wait—let me retract part at least of what I have said. He was, back in the halcyon days of ’29, an optimist. Some of his pet phrases were, "Prosperity is just around the comer,” “In thirty days we will be back to normal,” “We have reached the peak; things are getting better.” And while we were all waiting for these great events to happen what did he do? Well, I think the election of ’32 proved that the majority Daily Thought Also unto Thee. O Lord, beiongeth mercy; for Thou renderest to every man according to his work.—Psalms, 62; 12. WE do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.— Shakespeare.

_SEPT. 14, 1934

of people kfiew what he did, so why go on? Now we should listen to optimistic, pessimistic Herbie. Phooey! a a a REPUBLICAN CHEERS FOR ROOSEVELT 1 By a Rrpubliran. In reply to A Reader and Booster! You do read the Bible, don’t you, for you statpri part of it, but my Bible says, love your enemies. My God is also God of the Russians. Os course, you are a Republican, not Christian enough to hold up the hands of one trying to help the needy. Talk about our Arthur—who put him in office? I am a Republican, but when I am whipped I am man enough not to squeal. If there is a spark of Christianity about you, put your shoulder to the wheel and help Roosevelt get us out of the rut that such men as Jim and Arthur and a few others got us in. a a a DEMOCRAT TO VOTE FOR ROBINSON By D. M. In regard to B. B's letter on Sept. 12—what if Senator Robinson did vote for the NRA and has since changed his mind about it being a success. There are many persons who were for the NRA and now regard it a failure. So he isn't the only one who has changed his mind. I could name other senators from Indiana, who ran on one platform and voted against it as soon as they got to Washington. I always have been a Democrat, but I can see when things are run right or wrong, regardless of who is at the wheel and I am voting for Senator Robinson because he isn’t a yes man to the President and isn't afraid to express himself when in Washington. So They Say 1 A1 Smith amuses himself by throwing monkey wrenches at the bandwagon as it passes by. Too bad. This is the gentleman whom many of us once hailed as great.—Representative C. A. Woodrum, Virginia Democrat. I don't think the open door is worth a ghastly war. I don’t think the Chinese market is worth a heavy price in blood.—The Rev. L. K. Patterson, dean of history. Woodstock college, Maryland. When people are dipping their handkerchiefs in Dillinger's blood and selling them, and men with machine guns can stage a half-million dollar holdup in a crowded city street. I refused to get excited over a so-called movie decency drive —Cecil B. DeMille. noted movie director. I came here for a rest, but I can't get any. No sooner than I come into sight, some one starts shooting questions at me.—General Hugh 3. Johnson, vacationing at Bethany Beach, Del. ABSTINENCE BY ALTA BRUNT SEMBOWER I would rather have my heart cool than scorched by pain; I-would rather forget than remember! I would rather have the mist than the rain: Better than the fierce August, the mild September! I would rather have the song unsung than the notes falling On ears that so oft have heard the music pass; So, love, I close the window, and the calling Os life is muted by the liastJ