Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 143, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1934 — Page 14

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THURSDAY. OCT 25. 1834. NOT ENOUGH, MR. PRESIDENT TF all that business needs is assurance that -*• the administration does not want to go socialistic, then the President's speech to the bankers' convention last night should speed recovery. But if restoration of business confidence waits —as we believe—on definite knowledge of the administrations monetary, tax and economic program, then the President speech will not help much. In promising to take the government out of competition with private banks and business just as soon as the latter begin to do the Job, he said: ‘And when that time comes, I shall be only too glad to curtail the activities of these public agencies in proportion to the taking up of the slack by privately owned agencies. Just ns it is to be expected that the banks will resume their responsibility and take up the burden that the government has assumed through its credit agencies, so I assume and expect that private business generally will be financed by the great credit resources which the present liquidity of banks makes possible. Our traditional system has been built upon this principle and the recovery of our economic life should be accomplished through the assumption of this responsibility.” On the assumption that the tremendous credit reserves are not being used for productive business because the bankers will not lend these funds, the President appealed to the bankers to have more confidence in the people and loosen tip. This seems to us the minor and not the major difficulty.

nan For a year the administration has operated on the theory that the prime need was more credit, and therefore has built up the gigantic credit glarier which now overshadow's the country. But still the people will not use that credit. The government has had little .more success than the banks in making that credit flow’ out into the productive channels. Despite this long, and in many ways dangerous, experience in piling up unused credit, the administration apparently still fails to fare the fact that the mass of business men and home owners are afraid to spend their cash and credit. This Is not a capital strike or boycott in any deliberate sense. The rank and file of investors simply see no chance of making a profit. Before they put their money to work—in new homes, in new factories, in goods and commodities and all the things which create employment—they want to know’ w’hat the value of their money is going to be, what their taxes are going to be, what the rules of business laid down by the government are going te be. it. is this uncertainty which is so devastating. The people with money and credit to use have not the least idea whether the President wjl succumb to greenbackism under concessional pressure, or not: whether the Presiwill continue to avoid international stabilization of exchanges and restoration of foreign trade, or not; whether there will be Increased taxation to cut down the dangerous government deficit, or not; whether tariffs are to go up or down; whether the government is going to try to force the prices of materials and wages up or down. m n a Lacking that knowledge, the people with money and credit are sitting tight and doing nothing. Wise or stupid, patriotic or unpatriotic. reasonable or unreasonable, that causes the recovery impasse and the administration can not ignore or run away from it without disastrous results. The truth is that this country can not go on much longer with ten million unemployed. They have to be put to work. And there are only two ways. Either private industry’ will do it. or the government for self-preservation will have to do it. Either private capital must go to work, or the government will be forced to go into business on a staggering scale. We believe the President should put that choice before the country so clearly that no citizen can remain longer in the dark. We believe the people can stand the truth. We believe the hard facts will produce action, while the unnamed fears are producing only paralysis. We believe that five years of low production and underconsumption have created a vast potential market for virtually all kinds of goods and services. We believe that frank and vigorous presidential leadership, with a definite program which the people understand. would produce results. We pay President Roosevelt the great compliment. of believing he has that capacity of leadership, if he will use it.

ANGLOMANIA T TERR HITLER has no copyright cm the revived "chosen people” theory. The chauvinistic belief that one race or one nationally or one tribe is physically, intellectually and spiritually superior to all others is as old and as prevalent, in. direct ratio, as human Illiteracy. Civilized men and women expect such braggadocio among primitive and backwoods peoples who have had no opportunity to gauge other cultures of the world. Nor is there much surprise when a bigoted demagog of the Hitler type proclaims the supremacy of his kind. But when a high official of the supposedly enlightened British government utters sueh nonsense, civilized people can but feel chagnn. Said Vice-Admiral Chetwode of his majesty# navy: "Some people say we are brothers, and . . . all ... are equal. That is not true. . . . The English people descended from a unique stock, and as a result are the finest fighting race known." The mere utterance of such hogwa&h is

proof aplenty of the emptiness of the admiral's pretensions. A TIP ON REVOLUTIONS \ NUMBER of well-meaning Americana have grown fond of talking about revolution. People who haven't the slightest desire to mount any barricades or face any firing squads will say, glibly. "We need a revolution in this country"—as if a revolution were a pleasant little step in social evolution which could be shut off painlessly before it really hurt anybody. Such people might profitably listen to Emma Goldman. This revolutionary lady describes, in a recent issue of The Nation, the sad plight of the old-time Russian revolutionaries. She tells how they suffered and fought and endured dire punishment to bring about the overthrow of the czar's government, and how they hailed the 1917 overturn as anew dawn. Now they dare not enter Russia. The revolution ran right out from under them. They have found that Russia simply swapped one tyranny for another. Once a revolution starts, it is very apt to get out of all control and to head in a direction which those who worked for it never remotely desired. The wishful talkers in this country might meditate briefly on that fact. MURDER ‘SAFE’ IN U. S. CENSUS BUREAU figures show that 12,123 murders were committed in the United States in 1933. Few r er than 4 000 people were sentenced as homicides, and only 153 were executed. You need study those figures only for a moment to see what a comparatively small risk a killer actually runs. iiis chance of paying any kind of penalty at all for his crime is only about one in three; and there is just one chance in eighty that he w’ill be executed! More startling than this, however—though doubtless in some way related to it—is the fart that the 1933 record is anew high for the United States; furthermore, the total has risen by more than 4.000 in the last ten years, fewer than 8.000 homicides having been recorded Jn 1923. As fi disclosure of the growth of utter lawlessness m fWs land, these figures point their own moral.

WORTHWHILE BUREAUCRACY 'T'HIS word “bureaucracy” is a very horrid word, indeed, and we do w’cll to fear it. But the particular bureaucracy represented by the Tennessee Valley Authority seems to be an outfit that moves fast and keeps its eyes on the ball every minute. Within recent weeks there w r as completed a deal by which the city of Knoxville, Tenn., with its environs, receives electric current from the TVA. Terms of this deal are well worth examining. Knoxville originally planned to build its own distribution system to handle the current, and a PWA loan-was lined up for the purpose. Had this been done, the Tennessee Public Service Company, which was supplying Knoxville with electric power, would have faced ruin. So it was arranged that Knoxville should buy out this company's distribution system, instead. Knoxville, of course, had to go into debt to make this purchase, and a 10 per cent surcharge had to be placed on the new electricity rates to retire the debt. Even including that surcharge, however, Knoxville consumers will now get their current at rate reductions which—in the case of people who use as much as 240 kilowatt hours a monthwill run as high as 34 per cent. In ten years the citizens of Knoxville will own the distribution system, lock, stock and barrel, free of debt; meanwhile, they will have been paying less for their electricity than the cheapest rates privately owned utilities ever offered. It has been clear gain, obviously, for the people of Knoxville. How about the people who held securities in the Tennessee Public Service Company? Tire bond-holders get back the price at which the bonds W’ere issued, 96’-. Preferred stockholders retain $3,300,000 in cash and liquid assets; furthermore, the company still owns the Knoxville street railway, which is carried on the books at a value of slightly more than $4,000,000. Four years ago the company issued common stock on a “write-up” of $4,500,000. This stock represented no investment—although dividends of $846,000 were paid on it during the depression—and so it did not share in the pay-off. This TVA bureaucracy, then, seems to have shaken something very much like a Christmas tree for the people of Knoxville—while, at the same time, doing full justice to the utility se-curity-holders. Bureaucracy is a horrid word. But it depends on which bureaucracy you mean. Anew war gas is said to explode at the shake of a hand. Another hazard to politicians. The cost of living took a drop for a short while recently, so ask your wife what she did with the money she saved by it. And further to prove that talk isn't cheap, President Roosevelt gets into a casual conversation with Professor Warren and up go prices on the stock exchange. Three-fourths of the medical students in Soviet Russia are said to be women. What interest, then, will Soviet women have in being sick? The American Federation of Labor approves the idea of vertical unions as opposed to horizontal cuts. Secretary Ickes thinks Herbert Hoover’s book would do the Democrats more good than his own. Smart Republicans will take the hint. Princess, now Mrs., Cantacuzene. granddaughter of President Grant, regained her citizenship and immediately began suit for divorce. She never did lose her Americanism. If it took a tractor and three men to save Byrd, how many tractors and how many men would they need to save Kate Smith? An Argentine inventor has perfected an instrument that warns of earthquakes, but in San Francisco they’ll still ring a fire belL X .. . .. Ji,,

The Morro Castle

WILLIAM MTEE IN THE FORI M r 1 'HE mooem sea voyager has been corrupted in two ways in his attitude to the sea. He has been conditioned to expect a palace afloat. The whole tendency of modern sea catering is to make the passengers forget they are at sea. to make them wallow in an endless round of senseless amusement. The other way in which they have become corrupted is in their attitude toward the men who run the ships. A false romanticism with regard to the sea still maintains its hold on the imagination of Americans. Against this romantic illusion which Ivdes the sea afar from from the Average American passenger it seems helpless to struggle. But the passenger must make his choice. He can not have the huge, fast luxury liner at his service, with everything sacrificed to voluptuous speed, and yet retain within call the austere moral grandeur of a former age. Seaman belong to their own times. They reflect pretty accurately the ethics and the mores of their patrons. The destruction of the Ward liner Morro Castle has dramatized for us, as nothing else could do, the fire hazards on a modern ship. She was within a few miles of the Jersey shore and only twenty miles from Scotland lightship when she burst into flames in her superstructure, became unmanageable, and had to be abandoned so precipitously that several of her beats still remained on the chocks below' the davits when she was beached. Passengers w'ere burned to death in their cabins. Others, urged to jump into the sea, were either drowned or cut to pieces by the still turning propellers. Nobody who has served at sea can read the evidence at the inquiry without a feeling of profound humiliation. It became more and more manfiest as the inquiry proceeded that neither the acting captain nor the chief engineer had had the faintest conception of leadership in time of danger, and it is therefore impracticable to expect very' much from the rest of the personnel. nun "XTO life-saving apparatus ever will be of any use in a fire at sea if the personnel fails in fortitude and presence of mind. We have to examine the psychology of seagoing, therefore, in the light of present-day social conditions. We have to inquire how' far the public and the employer can expect the seaman to forget selfinterest and adopt at a moment’s notice what the newspapers grandly call ‘‘the code of the sea.” This code seems to boil dow’n to that—that a seaman's life is less valuable to him and his family than a passenger's. What the public, including all potential passengers, really demands of a modern seaman is that he preserve for their benefit a principle of medieval ethics while they themselves continue —through his sacrifices —to live and prosper in the twentieth-century manner. It might make the problem a little easier for the landsman to understand, if the modern passenger ship is viewed for what she really is, a hotel built over a floating base. It is in my opinion, for example, unreasonable and it should be legally indefensible to regard bedroom stewards, cooks, bakers, bartenders, and waiters as members of a ship’s crew. Neither the training nor the usual temperament of such people makes it feasible to call them seamen or sea women or to impose the responsibility of a boat's crew upon them. Nobody on board who takes tips should be classed as a seaman. It is one of the plagues and hardships of the ship officer’s life that the business of boat and fire drill disrupts the peace and routine of the ship. The law requires that it be done once a week, and, so far as w'eather and circumstances permit, it is done on every ship at sea. But circumstances are at times extremely stubborn. The weather may make it impossible, and, when a ship is in port, she is at a dock on one side, and lighters are tied up on her outer side. The passengers may retort that the ship should be anchored clear of the dock before sailing, to carry out these drills. Unhappily the passenger is the fly in the amber. The passenger is responsible for all the hurry. The passenger insists on getting to his destination at a faster and faster rate of speed and in a luxury and splendor beyond any thing the degenerate Roman emperors ever conceived. The passenger is the first to utter loud cries at the slightest delay.

a st a SINCE very early days the question of lifeboats has engaged the attention of inventors, legislators, and owners. It must be borne in mind by the landsman that no lifeboat even approaches the theoretical ideal of safety. It should be noninflammable, in which case it should be made of metal and therefore w’ould be subject to corrosion. It should be instantly detachable, and it will be in consequence extremely vulnerable. It must be accessible, and it is therefore necessarily carried above the superstructure, W’hich in a modern, large ship is about fifty feet above the waterline. It must be buoyant and noncapsizable, which means it must be of large capacity and thus heavy to handle. It may have a motor, when it w’ill be doubly difficult to raise and lower. It must be equipped with sails and oars and also stores and water for a long voyage. It must have a compass for navigating and flares to attract attention. It must be a ship in miniature and it must also have some protecion from exposure. Such a boat does not exist save in the minds of nontechnical landsmen. The electrical gear, which is used to raise and lower and move lifeboats on a ship, may go out of commission if the engine room is abandoned, and a motor lifeboat on the davits of a burning ship is a terrible fire hazard if she uses gasoline. If the fuel is a heavy oil she may take too long to start. The best contrivance for lifeboats is neither a motor nor an oared boat but the Fleming lifeboat, in which a propeller is driven by gears actuated by folding side levers which in turn are> actuated by the passengers and crew, sitting on the thwarts. The Fleming lifeboat is accepted by the British Board of Trade in lieu of a motor boat, for freight steamers. Its handiness in getting away from a ship's side is far beyond that of an oared boat.

When the United States senate graciously designs to ratify the conclusions of the London conference for safety at sea it will be possible to offer more constructive criticism for American ships. But nothing will take the place of first-rate men of the type of Fried and Stedman, in command. Nothing will be of any avail unless the continual smolder of discontent, among the officers and men. with conditions of work at sea, is quenched by concessions that will send them out keen on their work. If a shipowner can not make money without sweating the men who have the lives of passengers and millions of dollars of ship and cargo in their care, he had better go out of business. Unfortunately. during the boom that followed the war a large number of men who had no tradition of shipowning behind them entered the shipping business, and they have bedeviled shipowning ever since. It is a delicate theme to approach, but the memory of what happened after the explosion of a Fall river pleasure steamer some years ago forces one to the conclusion that the two departments of inspection and inquiry should be completelv divorced. The boilers of that pleasure steamer had been inspected in New York only a short time before the disaster, and passed. The same department that was responsible for the inspection conducted the inquiry into the explosion that killed many of the passengers and crew. When the Morro Castle burned, the inquiry was conducted by the very men who were responsible for the inspection of the efficiency of her equipment and personnel. It hardly is necessary to point out that in other human activities it is found desirable to dissociate the functions of judge and defendant. By the present arrangement no delinquency cm the part of the inspection department can ever be brought to light as an actual fact.

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(Tune* readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so all car, have a chance. I,Unit them to SSO words or less.) 0 n DEMOCRAT APPEALS FOR ROBINSON VICTORY By Albert Moore. A few days ago I read in The Times that the Democratic candidate for United States senator, Sherman Minton, put a query as follows: "Is Paul McNutt running for office” or it appears to him that Senator Robinson was running against Governor McNutt. It appears to me that a capable candidate for United States senator would not make such a feeble statement as that, when he himself knows and the people of Indiana, both Democrats and Republicans, know that Paul McNutt is the Democratic candidate for senator under camouflage, or in other words using his rubber stamp, Sherman Minton. Senator Arthur R. Robinson is one of the most capable men in the United States senate today. He has the ability to fight against those things which are wrong, and fight for what is right. The citizens of Indiana should be proud of Senator Robinson for he has represented all the people regardless of their political affiliations, religion or race. I have been a Democrat all my life, but like thousands of other Democrats I ana, opposing the present state administration, which is one of the worst in history. Furthermore, I hope the Democrats will take advantage of this opportunity and help banish from our good state the 2 per cent clubs, racketeers, and the Lord only knows what else. Let us all get back of Senator Robinson, one of the outstanding statesmen of the country, and send him back to the United States senate.

URGES WORKERS SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC PARTY Bv Elmer Houston. A few days ago I read an article in The Times concerning a man who said that he once had to get a card signed showing he could not get work in order to obtain poor relief. Now he has to work two days for what he gets. If this man does not wish to work for an honest living, he had better lie down and give up. The world would profit by it. Does not the majority see that since Miss Hanna Noone has been trustee, no one has wanted if they were deserving? The trouble with lots of persons is that they do not stick solidly' enough to the Democratic party. Let he that has wisdom think, before he jumps at conclusions. Let us all get together and make it solid for the workers’ party, the Democratic party. DISCUSSES CONDITION OF NEGROES IN CITY Bt Spurtfon Davenport. In regard to an article appearing in The Times on Friday, Oct. 19. signed by L. B. E., who criticised Mr. Osborne on his views regarding the Democratic party and the Negro, I wish to take the liberty to remind him of a few things he forgot to mention. He went to the south to show how Negroes were treated and overlooked how they were treated m Indiana during the Republican reign. Perhaps he doesn't remember the hangings of two Negro youths at Marion while Harry G. Leslie was Governor and that nothing was done about it. Perhaps he doesn’t remember Gene Alger, who shot one of the

Capitalism vs. Socialism Declared Real Issue

By W. Williams. The fundamental aim of the New Deal was to balance production and consumption by raising wages and farm income. The points gained by the New Deal are measured in money. Sales have increased; measured in volume, they have decreased decidedly. According to Donald Richberg, chief counsel of the NRA, some 4.000,000 more persons were employed in June. 1934, than in March, 1933. This is not June, but October, 1934. and a great many things have happened during that time. For instance, the federal reserve board index of industrial activity for August. 1934, was 23 per cent lower than in August, 1933. Home building in July, 1934, was 30 per cent lower than in July, 1933. It may also be worth noting that the turnover in groceries was less in June, 1934, than in June, 1933. On the other hand, Mr. Richberg points out that the total labor income of June, 1934, was 62.5 per cent of the entire national income, which I am sorry to add is 3 per cent less than the smallest share received by labor in the 1929-1932 period of the depression. In brief, accepting Mr. Richberg's own figures, labor’s share in industry is 3 per cent less in the second year of the New Deal than in the Hoover stage of the depression. while labor's cost of living increased 9.6 per cent.

best Negro policemen who ever wore a uniform. A Republican Governor let Alger out of the reformatory. But he turned again upon society and became a desperate criminal. L. B. E.. you stated the Negro has no responsible positions in the south. Please get a copy of the Pittsburgh Courier of Oct. 13. and on page 7 you will see that T. S. Molette, Ft. Valley, Ga., was appointed the first Negro superviser in the country under the adult educational program of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. I suppose you want us to vote a Republican ticket and get back the beans, molded bacon and sour corn we got while Herbert Hoover and his multimillionaire cabinet was in power, or do you belong to the Coffin machine? Do you know that the Negroes of Indianapolis are holding 60 per cent more city jobs under the Democrats j than under previous Republican ad- j ministration, and that the majority j of them are going to vote the straight Democratic ticket? 000 PICTURES ECONOMICS UNDER CAPITALISM By H. L. Sfeger. The serious phase of our economic j debacle arises from the false hopes raised by an optimim which attempts to ignore the real facts confronting the nation. In a capitalistic system of production, cycles appear in rhythmic order, and are produced by cause and effect like air other natural phenomenia. Production can only be maintained by sustained purchasing power. Profits taken out of production by prices in excess of an amount necessary to maintain and extend equipment for additional production, are in effect the same as destruction to that extent of the good produced. Profits turned into needless production equipment also curtail consumption and throw the consumers buying power out of balance. Prices charged for goods in excess of requirements for a maintenance of production facilities, force a curtailment of buyers' needs. The profit system of production is finely balanced, and profit excesses

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

If this is balancing production and consumption, then two and two make seven. The foregoing is not a Republican criticism of the New Deal. The Republican party has nothing to offer but a return to the ruged individualism that landed us in the dismal swamp of nation-wide bankruptcy. Moreover, if the Republican party were in power now, it would do exactly what Roosevelt has done to save the capitalistic system or seen the country go down in bloody chaos. Deep down, the New Deal is as Hamiltonian as the Mellon and Hoover deal of painful memory. It changed not an iota of the policies that brought about the calamity. It simply added state charity to private charity to prevent calamity from sliding into catastrophe with Uncle Sam in the role of Salvation Army lassie dispensing doughnuts and hot dogs. The choice is not Republican or Democratic. It's between capitalism and socialism. What we’ve got is capitalism. If you like it, vote for it; and in that case it matters not a whit what brand you choose, be it Democratic Blue Eagle or Republican spreadeagle. The difference between the two old parties is the difference between boil and carbuncle and whichever you vote for you get it in the neck.

are as disturbing to economic balance, as drinking excesses are to normal body functions. The only real profits from production are those created by an everincreasing production and distribution of goods. Capitalism attempts to ignore its social obligations when it deprives the consumers of buying power through unjustified profits. It pays for this folly by having the law of supply and demand operate upon its excesses, in that the capital and debt structures upon which it seeks profit fall into bankruptcy, receivership and writing off of capital and debt. The cycles produced by these rhythmic actions are called prosperity and depression. Prosperity starts when the false capital and debt structures are written off through a decline in prices, which decline is brought about by the buyers’ inability to purchase the goods produced. Pegging of debt by shifting to government agencies only aggravates the fever instead of breaking it. 0 0 0 CAMPAIGN BANDS CALLED MOCKERY B* V. T. E. I have observed many Democratic meetings during this campaign which were accompanied by street parades by large bands, much red lights and fireworks. It appears to me that with so many hungry persons in our community, the money used for these displays, could best be used for food, fuel and clothing. The needy would appreciate warm clothing for their half-naked children. It is a mockery of the Democratic claims of returning normal times.

Daily Thought

Now therefore, O our God. hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the Lord's sake.— Daniel, 9:17. HOW blessings brighten as they take their flight.—Young.

OCT. 25, 1934

when Washington reports that 24,5CC.000 persons will b* dependent upon federal relief this winter, and Democrats parading before men, women and children with empty stomachs, and a dark and dreary winter staring them in the lace,while the bands are playing, “H3ppy Days Are Here Again.' 1 000 FORECASTS ANOTHER FOLITIC'AL SEESAW Bt a Cloverdale Reader. Six million men and women deserted the Republican party in 1932 and rushed madly over to the Democratic camp, changing the political complexion of the country completely. These 6,000.000 will rush just as frantically back to the Republicans in 1936, when the New Deal collapses. Evidences of this collapse multiply day by day. General Johnson's exit from the NRA merely is the first of the blowups. The political history of this country has been this seesaw movement since the founding of the republic, and it will continue to be until the Socialists, the only ones with nerve to face facts, show these millions of befuddled victims of the capitalist system why they are in distress and why they can get no relief from a mere change in the political collar the masters of the machine toss to them in place of the more substantial things of life.

So They Say

Hitler has proved himself never greater, never more human than in the last forty-eight bitter hours. Hitler has averted chaos, and he has not only averted ruin for Germany, but for the entire civilized world—Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl. I believe that some day the German state will be crowned with a state head that will be removed once for all from the political arena.—Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany. Strong governments drive men into artificial lip service to their slogans.—President Glenn Frank ol Wisconsin university. Those who conspire against the state may rest assured that they are playing with their own heads. —Paul Joseph Goebbels, German minister of propaganda. We realize now that money may be the cause, or part of the cause, of quite genuine love.—Bertrand Russell, English philosopher.

Lesson

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLIMCH I thought since you had spumed my love, that I Would build myself a house and bolt the door; Would pull the curtains close and draw the blinds, And tell my heart that it was gay; not sore. I built a fire and watched the leaping flame Throw orange and crimson lights upon the wall. I said. This is a cosy house, and warm. I do not need his paltry love at all.” But when dusk came I drew one slender blind. And looked into the deepening purple sky. My house collapsed about me like cardboard. I knew that I must have your love, or die!