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THURSDAY. SEPT. 27. 1*34.

THE NEW TEXTILE BOARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has acted with commendable speed In naming the new textile board. Bad feeling and an explosive situation have been created Dy some employers who refuse to Comply with the request of the President and the Wmant board for reinstatement of the strikers. , The workers, having called off their strike under the presidential settlement, charge that they have been tricked by these employers. Fortunately, the union leaders plead ior patience and reliance upon the new labor relations machinery to handle grievances. By naming the textile board last night the President demonstrated to the workers that the government intends to move with reasonable swiftness to enforce the collective bargaining law through the new agencies. The new textile board of three consists of the same personnel as the steel labor relations board, Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina supreme court, chairman; Admiral Henry A. Wilev, and James Mullenbach, labor arbitrator of Chicago. The careful and impartial conduct of this board In the steel Industry is encouraging evidence that it will operate in the same responsible manner In the textile Industry'. Behind it will be the very able National Labor Relations Board acting as a court of appeal. The test of the good faith of all parties in the textile dispute, employers and workers, is their willingness to co-operate honestly with this new textile board. ALBERT LIEBER INDIANAPOLIS has lost a great and good citizen in Albert Lieber, who died yesterday. A lifelong resident of the city, Albert Lieber was more than one of those pioneers who played a major role in the building of Indianapolis from a small midwestem town to one of the nation's leading cities. Albert Lieber was devoted to his home town. He was an able business man, an earnest civic worker. He was an enthusiast of nature and natural life and a gentleman in' the finest sense of the word. < Indianapolis has lost a distinguished citizen. WORTH THE EFFORT r T'HE Civic Theater this week is conducting its annual membership drive. Next week the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra conducts its annual campaign. Both of these drives deserve the wholehearted support of every lover of good music and every devotee of the drama. The Civic Theater does a splendid job. Each year it produces several plays with local talent for the enjoyment of Indianapolis lovers of the legitimate theater. The Civic Theater boasts able actors, an able director and the support it gets It deserves. The Indianapolis Symphony has made great strides toward its goal. Each season finds it a finer, smoother and a more talented organisation. Much of the credit belongs to Ferdinand Schaefer, director of the symphony. The Civic Theater and the Indianapolis Symphony are two of this city’s greatest assets. Long may they live and prosper. • A DIPLOMATIC PROBLEM THE high naval officer whose duty it is to keep his country's fleet in shape to meet any emergency has a rather tough row to hoe. when you stop to think about it. Its toughness is revealed, indirectly, by the dispatches from Tokio revealing that Japanese newspapers are all In a lather because the United States fleet is to he’d its 1935 maneuvers in the vicinity of Hawaii. These maneuvers, say the Japanese, can be nothing else than preparation for war with Japan. Thus Japanese fears and suspicions are heightened once more, and the harassed American naval authorities seem to be at fault. But what is a poor strategist to do, He has to look ahead to possible war; he has to train his staff in the program that must be followed if some specific nation is the foe. If he doesn't, he isn't doing his Job properly. It really is much simpler for the French. When they hold maneuvers, they make no bones about the fact that they are anticipating war with Germany. Other nations can’t be so blunt. They must prepare for trouble —but they must pretend that they are going to fight an entirely imaginary foe. A HANDICAP ON LIFE FOR the highlight which it casts on modem intercollegiate football, the case of Pat O'Dea is unique. Pat O'Dea. you will remember, is the former University of Wisconsin football star who found that it was impossible to get out of the shadow of his college greatness. Ha starred way back m the days of the flying wedge and the padded pants, but his fame always kept pace with him. Wherever he went and whatever he did. he was always Pat ODea, the former football star—nothing more and nothing leas. As he himself says: -I was merely the man who had once kicked a football. No matter what I wanted to talk about or get done, I always wound up In football or other athletic*. I simply had no time left for business." So Pat O'Dea finally had to change his name, shuffle off his old identity, and become • new person m anew role, before he could lire the normal life that the normal man wants to lead. Ha kept this anonymity for fifteen years. people believed that Football Star O’Dea was dead; it even was reported that he was the Unknown Soldier! A great deal has been said about "over-

emphasis" in college football, and a lot of It is pure hot air. But the O'Dea case does emphasize the very great wrong which football can do to a young man. It hands him his life wrong-end-to. The summit comes right at the beginning. Everything afterward must go downhill. And a young man going out to make his way in the world could not start under a greater handicap. * This doesn’t apply, of course, to the stars who plunge into professional football and stay there until they get old and fat. They are living proof that something is screwy with our higher education, to be sure, but the handicap of premature fame isn't apt to bother them much. The chap who wants to be something more than a machine for throwing forward passes or dodging tackles Is put at a disadvantage. For such a man the handicap must be tremendous. We have no right to foster a game which twists a young mans whole life out of shape. The fame that attaches Itself to an AllAmerica half back is a load no youngster ought to be compelled to carry through life. SEPARATE AIR FLEETS IT looks as if the scheme for a unified air service is not going to be realized —not, at least, in the immediate future. President Roosevelt has put his approval on the Baker board’s report on army aviation, and this report disapproved the unified air corps plan. Instead, it calls for a steady build-ing-up of the existing army air corps, with the navy department left to develop its air force separately. Here is a highly technical question on which it is very hard for a civilian to form an intelligent opinion. On the face of it, the arguments for a unified air force seem very strong. It may be that the passage of a few more years—bringing, as it will, further development of the airplane as a military weaponwill make more clear the exact nature of the place which the flying corps will occupy in a future war. ALL HANDS NEEDED CONSOLIDATION of several organizations in the new Association of American Railroads raises a number of questions. Is this just another organization? Is it part of what seems to be a concerted movement among certain employers to fight government regulation? Or is it a step toward closer co-operation with the government in working out the railroads’ complex problems? If Its purpose is the latter one, the A. A. R. is needed. No major industry in America is in a deeper hole. The railroads must effect consolidations and eliminate waste, yet under the law and under good public policy they can not do this at the expense of the workers. They can not haul uphill their huge load of $13,000,000,000 in bonded debt, yet it is difficult to write this down under the present credit system. They are no longer a transportation monopoly but are in competition with alert new bus, air and water services. They face rising costs, wage demands and payment- of their $600,000,000 debt to the government, but to raise their rates, as they now are proposing to do, would drive business into the arms of competing carriers. Fortunately most of the leaders of rail management and labor are men of intelligence and good will. And they have the guidance of an exceptionally well-equipped government service under Rail Co-ordinator Eastman. It will take the combined will, wisdom and public spirit of all three groups to bring the railroads back to economic health. A DANGEROUS GAMBLE FALSE economy in Washington has greatly curtailed the safety work of the United States bureau of mines. The American Mining Congress has issued a warning. An even more pointed warning is the explosion in Wales, entombing 271 miners. Despite added work, the United States bureau of mines is forced to operate on the lowest annual budget since 1920, the mining congress says. Lack of funds has halted virtually all scientific safety research. Instruction in disaster prevention used to reach 100.000 miners; now it reaches only 50.000. The bureau formerly operated nine mine rescue cars; now two are in service. For some years the records of mine accidents and disasters have shown a steady improvement. Partly, at least, this is due to the bureau’s safety work. Must the country be shocked by another American mine disaster before the government realizes that misplaced economy in safety work is trilling with men s lives? A NATION HELPED UNITED STATES ATTORNEY-GENERAL CUMMINGS’ review of the Lindbergh kidnaping case does not slight the work done by the New Jersey state police and by the New York City police department, even though it naturally stresses federal department of justice activities with which Sir. Cummings is most familiar. There will be plenty of praise to go round when the final credit sheet for co-operating agencies is made up. Not to be forgotten are all the bank tellers, filling station and garage employes, shopkeepers, etc., whose constant vigilance in the matter of silver and gold certificates that might prove identifiable as part of the ransom money made It possible to map significant areas and eventually to run down the possessor. It took far more watchers than those who actually spotted the revealing currency notes to make this great detective plan successful. Attorney-General Cummings is right in believing “the American people have reason to feel that the prestige, the power and the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies is on the increase and that renewed faith and confidence in these agencies is justified.” But never did public, at the start, spur police to greater efforts in solving a crime. Never were more Americans, old and young, ready to do their utmost to aid. Who says this nation-aide will did not help? THE BAR AND MORRO CASTLE 'T'HE New York Bar Association, we believe, should investigate the conduct of Ward Line lawyer* in their attempt—testified to at the inquiry—to hush officers and crew in the Morro Castle disaster. These lawyers have not only tended to destroy rights of passengers, crew and 134

who perished, but they have tended to block revelations upon which future sea safety might be based. The New York Bar Association has plenty of public testimony to go on. George Alagna, first assistant radio officer of the Morro Castle, told the commerce department hearing of the hush tactics of a Ward Line lawyer who concluded, he said: "If you keep your mouths shut and come to my office this thir.g will blow over soon. . . . You’ll be taken care of.” Line lawyers flanked witnesses at the commerce department hearing, though Chairman Hoover had announced that lawyers had no standing In the court. A line lawyer, as a goad to silence, warned a seaman in one instance that next he would go before the federal grand jury, stressing that this would be a "criminal” inquiry. Line lawyers rounded up witnesses and cautioned them in the ante-room of the grand jury until they were driven away by jury officers. And Martin Conboy, United States attorney, declared in federal court that the Ward Line and its attorneys were doing everything in their power to block his inquiry. What is the New York Bar Association going to do about it?

Liberal Viewpoint —BY DR, HARRY ELMER BARNES

AFTER some fourteen years, Russia at last has been admitted to the League of Nations, on the face of it one cf the major events of international politics since the World war. No less than five years ago Russia was unthinkable to the league. Likewise, even responsible Russian diplomats denounced the league as an international organization designed to serve and perpetuate capitalistic oppression. Russian Communists have bitterly condemned labor parties and social democrats in western countries for supporting the league. The nations in the league, if anything, are more crudely capitalistic and imperialistic than they were in 1920. Russia is even more of a menace to capitalism than it was then, because it has made relative success of the Communistic experiment, which was only a delicate and ugly baby in 1920 and only a dubious adolescent in 1927. Why this great change, in which former deadly enemies lock arms with ostensible enthusiasm? This question is answered by the distinguished English publicist, Mr. H. N. Brailsford in an article on "Russia Enters the League” in the New Republic. tt tt HE points out that the whole spectacle of Russia’s joining the league has been produced by a vigorous fear of Germany. Russia is perturbed lest Germany attack her in the rear just after Japan has provoked a war in the far east. France fears Germany because of the secret rearming going on under Hitler, and she knows that as soon as Germany is passably armed, France never could crush Germany single-handed. Russia was France’s old pre-war ally in the period from 1892 to 1914. But since the war, France not only resented Russian Communism,, but also doubted Russian potency as a military ally. But the French air minister went tc* Moscow. He found that the Soviet air force is one of the best in Europe, that the Soviet Union is in a position to manufacture airplanes in greater numbers than either France or Great Britain, and that its airplane factories are located at a distance which would make bombing impracticable by enemy powers from the west. a a u AS Brailsford remarks, this discovery on the part of France had a miraculous influence in changing her moral appraisal of Russia by France: “Here then w r as an acceptable ally. This power had all the moral qualifications for membership of the League of Peace. Russia’s pariah days are over: She can bomb with the best.” Therefore, the French and the Russians devised a treaty of mutual insurance against aggression. Obviously this was designed to protect them both against attack. But France saw the advantage of having Russia in the League, because the French are especially devoted to the League. "It guarantes their conquests; it stereotypes the map of Europe their general staff drew; it upholds the Versailles treaty; with an ingenuous air of liberalism, it is the ideal safeguard of stated powers against unwonted change. Therefore, the French stipulated that the Russians should join the league, bringing their pact with them.” It is quite apparent, then, that Russia’s entry neither is a sudden flaring up of idealism on the part France nor a momentary lapse of virtue on the part of Russia. It is political realism in full bloom: “Russia enters in the hope that the league, which means for practical purposes the French group, will localize in the far east the war that she expects Japan to levy against her. That limited reckoning, and not any conversion to Wilsonian liberalism draws her to Geneva.”

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

ARRIVAL of anew Egyptian minister, a Latin American publisher and a high Polish government official added spice to the close of an unsettled Washington week. More diplomats, more officials are returning for the autumn and winter season. Some arrivals and revivals and survivals: Elegant Minister Charles Davila of Rumania, it was announced by the legation, is en route back to Washington. They are icing champagne for him, and his white bathing suit (which panicked Newport matrons) has been taken from the cedar chest, should he care for an autumnal dip. . Senor Antonio Martinez Aparicio, publisher of the newspaper, La Prensa, of Birranquilla, Colombia. arrived to be honor guest at a luncheon given by Minister Colon Eloy Alfaro of Ecuador. Publisher Aparicio is short, wiry, energetic, possessed of a keen sense of humor. He sipped a specially prepared Alfaro cocktail, called “Pride of the Andes.” declaimed in admiring Spanish about American newspapers, struck an 800-year-old Chinese bell which Minister Alfaro obtained from a Peking temple, and announced: “It makes less noise than a newspaper.” tt tt POLITICALLY minded, alert Mr. Bobkowski (to his surprise, many persons referred to him as "Bobkowska’'—in Polish and Russian names, the woman’s name ends in “a”) came here to visit Secretary and Mrs. Moscicki at the Polish embassy. Mr. Bobkowski is vice-minister of communications for air of Poland, married a daughter of President Moscicki of Poland, a sister of Secretary Moscicki. This visitor was feted by Ambassador Patek, called at the White House, sipped Rhine wine, danced an old-fashioned waltz at a party given by the Moscickis, viewed the Mexican-American polo matches, ended his stay with a visit to Hot Springs, pronounced Washington “the loveliest city I’ve seen in this part of the world.” Minister Charalambos Simopoulos of Greece is coming back from Hot Springs, with half an inch added to his mustachios and two inches to his waistline. His Greek wine supply is reported excellent. BULGARIA’S Charge* d'affaires, M. Petroff Tchomakoff, arrives today from the Adirondacks, with his attractive English wife. He has added more than thirty photographs to his famous collection, taken in all parts of the world. The ambassador of Peru, Senor Don Manuel de Freyre y Santander, Is due back next week from Eaglesmere, Pa., where he went “to keen from being bothered by all this political meit.' Only a diplomatic funeral (that of the late Ambassador Paul May of Belgium) disturbed his serenity. \

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(Timet readert are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Umit them to ISO words or less.) a tt tt PROPOSES BANKS OWNED BY CITIES By a Spectator. New York is floundering with a a relief burden, with one of each four inhabitants on relief. The lottery 1 idea was ruled on many years ago by the United States supreme court, which held that a legislature could not barter away the public health or morals in the Louisiana lottery case. The city of New York carries millions of dollars of city tax funds in privately owned New York banks. Mayor La Guardia has appealed to the federal government for aid, which the banks can not or will not give. If New York would create its own municipal owned bank, using the city funds as a capital structure, it could loan itself the money credits necessary to carry on governmental functions. These credits could equal twelve times the capital of the bank, apd might be made in the form of tax fund notes issued for services rendered and goods delivered to the city government. The notes, if issued in $5 denominations would circulate as scrip currency if made acceptable for payment of city taxes. New York could show the country how to break the finance strike of our banking institutions. We need city owned banks. a tt tt ASSERTS CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY REIGNS NOW by Perry Rule. The writers of the Constitution in giving the purpose for its drafting, declared: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.” The Constitution was written many years ago but not until the ert of the New Deal has the true intent of the Constitution been exemplified. It remained for FYanklin D. Roosevelt to Inaugurate a system for the exemplification of the true intent of the Constitution, to establish justice, promote the general welfare and thereby secure the blessings of liberty for all. The old deal ran bias to the constitutional grant and secured for the predatory and favor seeking interests a monopoly on the blessings of liberty by imposing injustice, instead of promoting justice and tlie general welfare of the masses, hindering them from securing justice and the blessings of constitutional liberties. Those who have abrogated the true intent of the Constitution now cry most loudly for the liberties of the old deal that lavishly granted unjust liberties to the favored few. tt tt m JOBLESS VETERAN MAKES PROTEST By i Job Seeking War Veteran. I wish you would print this article to let the community know what is going on. I went to the Indianapolis Abbatotr to seek employment ob government beef. I was hired ang. went up to the truse

Challenges Goodrich , Watson and Beck

By Tom Berlin*. The day was hot and the asphalt yielded to rubber heels. When traffic paused at the stop light perspiration began. A decrepit model of the old tin can driven by a workman had the place of honor at the head of the line. The driver’s hair stuck out of his old straw hat, which was worse for wear. Boots in the tires protruded like goose eggs. The hood rattled, the radiator was leaking and the top was curled up and ready to fly away. Second in line was a shiny new model driven by a well-dressed man. Maybe he was a capitalist. What does a capitalist look like, anyhow? When the sign flashed green the old tin can coughed across the intersection and the new model

tee and was turned down because I was single. In the meantime all of Miss Hannah Noone’s proteges were coming to work, driving all makes of automobiles and on one occasion three men came to work in a taxicab. I can not figure how a man can own and operate a car and still be on relief. I am an overseas veteran and served two years in France, but I am single and not supposed to live. 1 If there should be another war, I would not be asked if I had a relief card before I went. Miss Noone, if you doubt these statements send your investigator over there and check those cars. I think it is a lot of nerve to operate an automobile and ask for charity. I had a party ask me if the trustee bought gasoline for those cars. I want to work for what I get. tt it it DISAPPROVES OF RAPPING G. O. P. By E. H. Simmons. I have written a few articles in to the Message Center and you have printed them. I am sincerely hoping you will print this. I am defending the Republican party which you are razzing in cartoons above the Message Center. • I have noticed the last month you have been running cartoons ridiculing the Republican party. How is it you razz the Republican party and never the so-good Democrats? Is it because the Democratic party is above reproach, or is it because you have a finger in the pie for your own good? I suppose when election time rolls around again, your subscribers, the good, good Democrats and the bad, bad Republicans, will see in big bold type, "The Times wishes to inform its subscribers that it is neutral in regard to politics." Does it take nerve to make an assertion like that when all the subscribers have to do is read a few lines and know differently? If you doubt that the people are tired of the McNutt, Sullivan and Noone rule send one of your re* porters around to the trustee's office where the needy line up like cattle to get their three loaves of bread and pound of salt pork and see what the poor people have to say about it. One of your cartoons showed Mr. Coffin sitting in a chair with Stephenson's, Duvall's and Jackson’s pictures on the wall. Above it was Coffin saying, ‘‘My boys.” Why not put McNutt In Coffin's place and Fry's, Greenlee’s and Coy s fixtures

I wholly disapprove of what you say and wiln defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

silently passed it and disappeared in the distance. The stop light gives equality and knows neither rich nor poor. How can you hold back labor without jamming capital. Why hold back labor when capital is bound to leave labor far behind on the straightaway. I challenge Jim Goodrich, Jim Watson and Jim Beck to write to the Message Center and name specific instances where the government of the United States under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt has nullified the Constitution. It is understood that I can retaliate from history, from George Washington to Herbert Hoover, who was President before Roosevelt, and from the Battle of Monmouth to Teapot Dome.

on the w-all instead of the other three? I am hot kicking about Democratic rule as a whole, but only McNutt’s administration, and the Sullivan administration, for I sincerely believe that Roosevelt did not mean the New Deal the way Governor McNutt is trying to run it, and what is more the fall election will prove that I am not the only one thinking that way. a tt tt MR. LEMON IS SOUR ABOUT COFFINISM By William Lemon. Why should we, as hungry, intelligent, American citizens, have any faith in the promises of the Coffin - controlled Republican party? During its regime we lost our homes, our jobs and our pride, inherited from our forefathers. Such men as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Otto Ray, John Kern, Glen Ralston Charles Grossart have given us back our own American heritage. To vote anything but the Democratic ticket would make us appear as a nation of imbeciles. Imbecile is defined as without strength, especially of mind; feebleminded; idiotic; one of feeble mind. tt tt u SUGGESTS STREET REPAIR TO CREATE JOBS By Taxpayer. With the election not far off, the voters are casting an eye on city streets, noting the care or lack of care. The condition in which the street car company left abandoned tracks shows that the city officials either are bluffed by the car company, or that the officials are more than half blind. We pay the police enough to be reporters of chuck holes to the street department. With thousands of men on made work, what excuse is there for the streets not being kept in first class condition? Repair of broken curbs and sidewalks would employ hundreds of men for months. The taxpayers will be saddled with the cost of fixing the street car right-of-way, worn out by the company. To make it sweeter for the company the city could take up the rails for the company and haul 1 them out to the company’s yard. m LOGIC DECLARED LACKING IN RECOVERY PLANS By • Subscriber. After five years of depression the country still 1* muddling along hoplog the unforeseen sill happen to

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end the depression. No real plan is being pursued to systematically reduce the ranks of the unemployed. That these ranks will have to be reduced tremendously before a normal period can be ushered In, is undeniable. The processing taxes rest upon the theory that the city consumers have a surplus of purchasing power, that must be delivered to farm product producers. If there was a surplus of purchasing power in the hands of city consumers, there would be no farm surplus. The federal government is compelled to feed millions of persons who are out of work. If, instead of subsidizing destruction of raw materials and feeding persons who are idle, the government would subsidize idle factories in a production program which would absorb these idle producers, and really produce wealth, instead of debt, then there would be new wealth, which the government could tax to provide the subsidy credits to industry. We prefer to muddle In the puddle of our own making instead of using logical methods of escape.

Sc They Say

If a traitor stole the plans of Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head and sold them to the Japanese, it would do less harm than would follow the elimination of private industry in the manufacture of munitions.—lrenee Du Pont, munitions maker. There is a Communist uprising, and not a textile strike, in Rhode Island.—Governor Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island. The Roosevelt attitude toward the problems of Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua constitute the milestones leading to Geneva.—Constantia Mayard, Haiti delegate to League of Nations. I’m a peaceful guy who likes to stay out of trouble.—George Raft, film star. There is no lack of potential demand for everything which can be produced.—John B. Berryman, plumbing manufacturer.

THERE IS NO JOY

BY ARCHER SHIRLEY There is no Joy without some secret sorrow, No laughter without some deephidden tears; We have brave h<spes, but fear some dark tomorrow Whereon we fall before the brutal years’ Great reaching hand of death. We have no peace Without another’s torment; for all our love Another human heart will never cease To feel the grip of jealousy’s iron glove. But all pain leads to beauty; where the song Is tinged with sadness, there tha notes Are sweeter than the melody of long Held chords from some unknowing, thoughtless throats, % Who never know that in each changing life No love or peace can come with* out some strife.