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HATURDAY. OCT 27, 1934 george ( reel speaks olt LORGE CREEL S letter repudiating Upton Sinclair and his program cuts the last (rayed tie between Mr. Sinclair and the New Deal and shows up his EPIC plan for what it is, an unsound, unworkable and unAmerican concoction, "designed to appeal to the credulities of ignorance and despair, and j immeasurably hurtful In its effect on true progress! vism.” Coming from a man known all his life as a bold and fearless champion of economic reform, and from a Democratic leader who had gone more than half way in an attempt to purge the Sinlair program of its absurdities, Air. Creel's letter will appeal powerfully to those followers of Mr. Sinclair whose minds still are open to reason. No other man in California is so well qualified to judge Sinclair and his program as this generous and patriotic New Deal leader who couraeeou. iy went to Mr. Sinclair .s aid after his own defeat in the August primary and labored with hirn in what he thought was a successful effort to bring the Sinclair program into line wdth common sense and economic reality. It just could not be done, as Mr. Creel shows in a letter that should be read by every thoughtful Sinclair follower in the state. A OMITTING to Mr. Creel that the most -*• *• glowing and spectacular of those promises on which he had won the primary election were utterly impossible of fulfillment, and subscribing to a Democratic program from which they were omitted carefully, Mr. Sinclair no sooner had left his conference with Mr. Creel than he proceeded to reaffirm every one of them. As Mr. Creel puts it: “In ‘immediate EPIC' what do I find on the back page but your original plan, set forth cxatly as it was in the first edition of ‘I — Governor of California.’ The fact that the contents admit various changes and acknowledge necessity for certain postponements only aggravates the offense.” If this is not downright political dishonesty, it comes dangerously close to it, although Mr. Creel is too charitable to say as much. Instead he sums Mr. Sinclair up in a few words when he writes: “Let me say again that I do not question your honesty, but you have a most amazing faculty of making yourself believe the things you want to believe. As an example take your repeated statement that you can end poverty in California, and that you ‘won’t take more than one of two’ of your four years to do it. This is optimism carried to the point of delirium. Your dream of an ‘economic island’ j alien and antagonistic to its immediate environment and to the rest of the country as well, is damned by every economist, yet you persist in it.” * • • AAR. CREEL'S repudiation finally destroys, of course, the pretense that the Sinclair candidacy is Democratic or anything but menacing to the success of the Roosevelt administration and to the cause of economic reform in state and nation. It will be hailed by tiiose few remaining partisan Democrats who still are hesitating on the score of party loyalty as a release from the slightest obligation to give even lip-service to the Sinclair ticket. The plain fact emerges more clearly than ever that Mr. Sinclair tried to kidnap the Democratic party name in California and to exploit it for a Socialistic program that is not even Socialism. He has not succeeded, thanks to a repudiation by Mr. Creel that will be interpreted rightfully as clarifying the position of the administration beyond all doubt. But the significance and effect of Mr. Creel’s repudiation are far greater than its bearing on party politics. For Mr. Creel speaks not only as a Democrat and as the foremost spokesman in California for the administration. but as a courageous and disinterested progresive who repeatedly has placed his devotion to humane and liberal measures above party loyalty. His voice is the voice of reason, raised in the same cause and for the same ends as those to which the followers of Mr. Sinclair are devoted. No thoughtful man among them can read his letter without being moved by its sincerity, it logic and its truth. NEW RACKETEER RISES THE gossip is always with us—has been, no doubt,since the pyramids were a-build-ing. But it has remained for present-day America to put gossip on a paying basis and make a racket out of an ancient failing. Reporters for the New York World-Tele-gram recently dug up news of one of the oddest businesses ever invented. They found that there are in New York certain firms, some of which have branches in other cities, which will circulate rumors for you. for a price; rumors about your competitor. about yourself, about some individual—insidious whispers that will spread from mouth to mouth all across the country, untraceable and unstoppable. They have trained operatives who go about circulating such rumors. Some of them pose as house-to-house salesmen, and drop their propaganda in the ears of, housewives. Others filter about through hotel lobby crowds and travelers in railroad stations, dropping a word here and there to help the cause along. Anybody, apparently, can hire their services. One large corporation has lost thousands upon thousands of dollars because rumormongers have persuaded people that employes of the firm were suffering from leprosy. Another has taken huge losses because it has been whispered about that the firm has made big donations to the German Nazis. This sort of work has been found useful in labor troubles. A stnke in a large Connecticut city was broken by &ly propagan-

dlsts who spread the word that the union leaders were crooks. A mlddlewestem strike failed after gossip-mongers let it be known that the plant would be moved to another city if the strikers were victorious. Plots of this kind are impossible to trace. The victims may work themselves to a frazzle trying to spread the truth, without success. For there is a perverse streak in human nature which makes many people believe such rumors tenaciously, no matter how many denials are broadcast. Yet it is only through refusal to take any stork in gossip that this vicious kind of propaganda can be checked. The next time someone confidentially tells you that such-and-such a firm employes diseased persons to package its goods, or uses po.sonous or adultercd materials in its product, or contributes to Hitlers war chest, or follows an anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, or antiProtestant policy—remember that someone, ’way off in the background, probably has an ax to grind. Someone Is trying to play you for a sucker. Don’t let him do it. DEATH RETREATS 'T'HE “fell sergeant Death” always will oe victor, but, in this country at least, he is retreating. According to the United States census bureau, last year’s death rate was 1,067.7 for each 100,000 population. This means that one American in every 100 died in 1933, the lowest rate since 1900 when the bureau started collecting death data. The figure is significant, too. in that for the first time it is based upon mortality reports from ail forty-eight states. Hopeful are the bureau’s figures on cancer. The number of victims of this No. 1 public enemy had been increasing for the last fifteen years. Last year the rate was held stationary. Tuberculosis deaths continue to decline due to preventive and curative measures. Reflecting the high pressure tempo of American business and worries over insecurity are mounting figures on heart disease. But reflecting the upturn in business is a decline of suicides from the 1932 peak. Slowly science is winning over disease and premature death. WATERFOWL IN DANGER of the consequences of the recent drought is apt to be a disastrous reduction in the number of American waterfowl. Arthur Newton Pack, president of the American Nature Association, says that the drying up of so many streams and ponds has brought about an alarming decline in the numbers of game birds—so much so that sportsmen in some states are even urging a closed season. “But, instead of being accorded freedom from shooting,” he adds, “the harassed birds now face an open season that promises to be the most disastrous in the history of North America wild fowling.” Most hunters undoubtedly gladly would agree to a curtailment of this fall’s hunting season, if they were fully convinced of its necessity. From every standpoint, it would be a calamity for us to lose any of our present species of waterfowl. To no one would it be more of a calamity than to the hunters themselves. FLYING S GOAL CUTTING the flying time from England to Australia by more than one-half of the previous record merely confirms the inevitable. Given the dependable speed of an airplane, most any one can foretell what the traveling time will eventually be between points. We know*, for instance, that airplanes soon will be crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the rate of approximately 200 miles an hour, and that if straight hops prove too long for a reasonable factor of safety, seadromes will be provided. We know that a twelve-hour schedule between New York and San Francisco is w r ell within the range of probability, and that the day is not far off when passengers can girdle the world in five or six days. The problems which such achievements involve now rest chiefly on the questions of capital and organization. Aviation is not a new' form of individuallycontrolled travel, as many supposed it would be, but of highly organized transportation. You can’t string garages and service stations along an air route to take care of amateurs and nitwits. The flier can not pull up at the roadside and telephone for help when his engine stalls. Tire success of aviation depends on ground work, on the absolute certainty that a plane is going to reach the place for which it starts. It has taken thirty years for people to realize that they were not blessed with anew type of plaything and that air transportation could only succeed through system, experience and discipline. There always will be individual firing, but it won’t mean very much except in the fiald of tests, experiments and discoveries. Insofar flying becomes a business, an agency of general convenience, it will be managed by large corporations. When the time comes for people to flv from New York to London in a day. as it surely will, they will fly on a ticket, not in their own craft. All save the adventurous few have sense enough to know that the air is one field which men can not afford to trifle with alone. The right of way is plenty wide and there is little danger of getting wrecked on a rock or reef. The one thing to guard against is the likelihood of men and machinery going wrong, and that can be overcome by caution and alertness. We are. it appears, at the edge of a great new era in transportation, an era which dazzles even the most fertile imagination and which presents opportunities that past generations never conceived as possible. Furthermore, we look for transportation to become comparatively ’cheap, so that moderately circumstanced folks can visit distant parts of the world as easily as they now go to nearby lands or to far parts of their own country. Fifty years hence, when people talk about going abroad, it will really mean going abroad, not just to Paris, Berlin or London. It will mean seeing places that are now virtually barred to most of us. such as India. Africa and the interior of Asia. It will mean the wiping out of those vast differences which now separate the more advanced and the more backward countries. It will mean the spread of a common language and common standards of

accommodation. It will blast highways for civilization into every jungle, open up markets, create universal desires for the best life has to offer. We can hope that spiritual intelligence will finally catch up with mechanical intelligence. PROBLEM IN POPULARITY 'T'HE present political campaign is one of the oldest in our annals. Not the least odd part about it is that practically everyone concedes that the administration will suffer no appreciable loss of strength in the mid-term elections—while, at the same time, the Literary Digest poll shows a very marked decline in the popularity of the President’s policies. These Digest polls have been, so far, pretty accurate reflectors of popular sentiment. The latest one show's that while the New Deal enjoyed the support of nearly 70 per cent of the electorate last spring, it now gets only a 50-50 break. One would suppose that such a shift in sentiment would find expression in the congressional elections. But no political expert has predicted that such will be the case. On the contrary, the administration's strength in congress is expected to diminish less than is usual at the mid-term point. How are you going to solve this contradiction? CIVILIZATION RESTORED historians of the future will probably remember the present moment as the era in which the United States finally discovered how to cope with large-scale crime. After the wild years following 1920, in which lawlessness seemed to be utterly beyond control, and underworld leaders were not so much defiant of the law as comtemptuous of it, society has found a way to reassert itself. Capone, Dillinger, Kelly, Sankey, Barrow, and now Floyd—one after another, the bad men are cut down. The old rule that the outlaw’s path can lead only to a prison cell or an early grave is being enforced again in the United States as in other countries. The bullets which ended the career of Floyd merely emphasize the fact that the United States is regaining its right to call itself a civilized country. GAMBLING ON FOOTBALL GAMBLING on college football games is rapidly becoming one of the most popular diversions of the sports fraternity. Week by week the total wagered on such games rises. Football is now one of the favorite mediums of the betting rings—partly, it is said, because this is the one major sport concerning whose absolute integrity no one ever has the slightest doubt. It comes as a bit of a shock, however, to read in a racing sheet an advertisement of a regular system of handicaping the various college teams on the basis of past performances. The stunt that has been applied to the ponies for years is widened to take in the gridiron. It will now be posible to bet intelligently even if you don’t know Notre Dame from the College of the Pacific. To find what is basically a form of recreation for college students turned into a thing of form charts and handicappers’ blurbs is—to put it mildly—somewhat dismaying. United States air lines are looking for their first paying passenger, to honor him. At the same time congress ought to give him the D. S. C. There’ll be more leisure for us in the future, predicts a famous theologian. Is he thinking of another era of unemployment? Looks as though most opponents of the New Deal in the coming election are just going to be lost in the shuffle.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

Ambassador aranha of Brazil, gray flanneled and elegant, returned from Chicago enthused about the world's fair, a $1,000,000 coffee combine and Michigan boulevard, "What is the most interesting thing you saw?” he was asked. “The Hall of Science at the world’s fair,” replied his Brazilian excellency. He spoke Portuguese to a gathering of coffee moguls, but tried out his English on the Pullman porter. "Dat man tip well,” exclaimed the porter, as he examined the 50 cents he received. Interested in the moves of Ambassador Aranha to raise the coffee market, English, Dutch and Egyptian diplomats followed his Chicago moves with interest. What, they wondered. will be the result of a plan to spend $1,000,000 for coffee? Will their interests suffer? Intrigued also were Ambassador Espil of Argentina and Minister Bordenave of Paraguay, who have been ardently propagandizing in favor of Paraguayan tea—Yerba Mate. Recently, an office for the distribution of mate has been established in Washington. But the Brazilians figure out a profit either way. They own the best coffee and mate is a Brazilian, as well as an Argentine and Paraguayan, product. a a a GOATEED Dr. Hugo Eckner, commander of the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin, is being toasted in pale Munich during his visit to Washington. German Ambassador Hans Luther is giving a party in honor of the flier, and various German friends are planning quiet bier abends tbeer evenings). Dr. Eckner will describe transAtlantic flying in lighter than air craft to the federal aviation commission. Dr. Eckner visited the commerce department and had a long talk with Ewing Mitchell, assistant secretary of commerce for air. As he left the building, he was pointed out to a group of tourists. "That's the famous German commander,” remarked the guide. "Oh. yeah.” replied one of the group. "He's the guy they wrote ‘The Sea Wolf’ about.” Dr. Eckner's goatee quivered. a a a THE Chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia has been transferred temporarily on a small scale to Washington. Remarks made recently in a public address by Minister Bordenave of Paraguay about the courage of Bolivian soldiers drew instant fire from the Bolivian legation. Envoy Bordenave had said: "The Bolivian people have little military courage.” Disdainfully retorted a Bolivian official: "Paraguayan soldiers are bushmen and consequently used to fighting in jungles. Our troops come from the high plateau country.” Bolivian circles commented caustically on the failure of Bordenave to reply to facts about the Chaco struggle embodied in a book recently completed by Minister Fmot of Bolivia. They scored Bordenave's attack as "cheap talk.” Monday, Counselor Enrique de Lozada of the Bolivian legation will reply to the Paraguayan address with a speech at the George Washington university.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so all car. have a chance. Limit them to 850 words or less.) a a a THIS VETERAN WANTS SENATOR ROBINSON By J. A. Perkins. I see James F. Walker is at it again. He does not like the tone of my letter in The Times of recent date. I notice he places judgment on many others as well. Mr. Walker, I would suggest you brush up a little on the history of your Democratic party as it applies to veterans’ legislation. You say in part: "The veterans will get a square deal from Roosevelt. Minton and the Democratic party. Li’l Arthur, like Sunny Jim, will be set aside and forgotten.” I would like to ask you where you were when your Senator Frederick Van Nuys, promising Democrat,! stood when the test came to stand j by the people back home or Wall j Street. He voted to stand behind j the present administration, in no- j wise living up to campaign promises. The Democrats, in majority in both houses, passed the economy bill, thus wiping off the map every pension bill since 1776 to the present time. At no time has the Democratic party been our friend. The Republican party never in its history took a cent from a veteran’s pocket. We want Senator Robinson, not Minton. We old veterans are not going to be fooled. Minton is an unknown quantity. We want Li’l Arthur. a a a MISSED SECOND VOTE IN NEW DEAL TOLL By Steady Reader. Newspapers announce the result | of a checkup vote tak°n by the Literary Digest on support of the New Deal, according to which ballots were sent to the same persons who were polled in the spring. I would like to state that last spring I received two ballots: one as j a citizen and one as an educator. I, did not receive any ballot this fall, j In at least this one case it is not true that the ballots were sent to 1 the same persons who voted in the spring. a a a WHY HOOVER FAILED TO GET CO-OPERATION Bv Mrs. A. D. Johnson. I have been an interested, and some of the time, amused reader of the Message Center for a long time, but the article by J. W. Hughes in Tuesday's paper seems to be the most inconsistent of any I have read. He notes. "If the people would co-operate with the Republicans as they are with Roosevelt.” Can he tell why the people did not co-operate with Republicans? Was there any plan offered for their relief to call forth co-operation? If conditions were as good as he implies, why the uprising of 1932? Democrats did not elect Roosevelt. It was done by the people, some of whom can be fooled all the time, all of them some of the time, but not all of them all of the time. Listening to Mr. Hoover's radio talks during the campaign of 1932. I did not hear any constructive plan for relief from the depression. His attitude was that of the man who borrowed, broke, and failed to return his neighbor's lawn mower, thus: There is no depression. It was here when I came, and it is all over now anyway. Also, that he intended to continue the same program that he had during the four years past.

HARVEST MOON

These Questions, Li'l Bv Will H. Craiir. A few questions for Senator Robinson to answer: During twelve years of public service, did you ever vote for a bill to reduce taxes? Did you not vote to override the vetoes of Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt on measures of economy? Don’t you think you have made a fool of ypurself in fighting the world court, strictly a Republican measure? Don't you believe you are in a class with Norris, La Follette and Hiram Johnson, who should be outlawed by the G. O. P.? Don't you know you .lave and are catering to the groups and classes as against the masses? Why don't your “dear” friend. Jim Watson, come to your relief In these times of dire distress? In shifting your campaign tactics, you have found a panacea for all our ills—loaning government money to small industries so that the wheels will go round and men be employed. •*Why should the government come in competition with private banks that have oceans of money to lend to industry on proper se-

See any chance for co-operation there? To an observer willing to give credit where credit is due, it would seem as though President Roosevelt is co-operating with the people as they believed and expected he would, and their trust in him never has been betrayed. a a a DENIES DEPRESSION NO LONGER EXISTS By a Tax Delinquent. In The Times of Oct. 20 there appeared in the Message Center an article by T. A. Whalen from which I quote: "Now that the depression is over, and it has been over for several months, credits have been re- j established.” In the same issue of The Times.; on the last page, is an article by I Lyle C. Wilson, staff correspondent at Washington, from which I quote: "Emergency unemployment relief must be stepped up to meet a cold weather destitution peak and prevent violence in the United States this winter, responsible officials believed today. "Conviction that violence would accompany failure to care for the destitute is based on the opinion that men would seize food, clothing and perhaps shelter before they would starve or succumb to exposure in large numbers. Potentialities of violence are no different this winter than last. "They expect a substantial upturn I of private employment to help 1 within a month. By next autumn they hope better business will have cut far into the 10.000,000 or so of unemployed persons.” Mr. Whalen’s statement is nothing more than pure propaganda, but 10.000.000 of us know that Mr. Wilson's statement is still a cold fact. Yes. Mr. Whalen, the depression is still with us and will continue to stay until our factories can open again and employ the hundfeds of skilled men in all lines who are now walking the streets and who may be sick in bed with nervous prostration brought on by the dei pression. Indianapolis used to be a fine in- ; dustrial and manufacturing city, but • the depression, high taxes and rot*

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

Arthur, Are For You curity? What would you do with the goods manufactured? Why did you, under Hoover, vote millions to the railroads, big banks and insurance companies, and forget the little fellows whose votes you now are begging? Being so stuck on the Constitution, why have you remained silent for nine years while the southern states have disfranchised the Negro vote, contrary to the federal Constitution? And while in the Indiana legislature, why did you vote appropriations to state schools, contrary to the state Constitution? Did you ever handle a pay roll or do any practical work that would enable you to know the needs of the common man or the capacity of the taxpayer to pay? Haven’t you always voted for higher salaries and wages and increased pensions and bonuses to specially favored classes of the country? Don’t you know that those who are “whooping it up” for you are a lot of old barnacles who want to get back on pay rolls? Honestly, do you think you fit into the seat once occupied by Morton, Hendricks, Harrison and Fairbanks?

ten politics have about cleaned it out. If you want to prove this statement just get in your auto and canvass the factories in this town. You will find a few in the food lines still going, but in other lines hardly able to keep their doors open, and some entirely closed. I wish to make three suggestions to employers in this city which I believe wifl put back to work some of our worthy citizens who have lived and paid taxes here all their lives: Dismiss all married women whose husbands are working and able to support them. Dismiss all persons who live in small towns around Indianapolis who come here each day to work but do not pay taxes here. Do not employ persons who come from other states looking for work, for we have plenty of unemployed here who should have first chance. ana CHARGES SABOTAGE IN CAMPAIGN B D. L. In the last three weeks two “Walter Pritchard for Mayor” tire covers have been stolen from the car which I own. This was very petty. However, when I placed a “Stop McNutt” placard on my windshield, the sabotage was carried somewhat further. A rock was thrown and smashed the windshield. Sabotage and destruction of property is the last resort of a olser. B B B WHY BANK PAYMENT WAS NOT MADE By Mrs. V. C. W. Some time this summer there was an article in the papers stating that the City Trust Company would pay

Daily Thought

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.—Hebrews, 4:13. VAST chain of being, which from God began. Natures ethereal, human, angel, man.—Pope.

OCT. 27, 1934

a certain per cent to depositors in September. This is October and we haven't heard anything more about it, Where can we find out? Editor’s Note—The article you refer to was printed June 29. It quoted Oren S. Hack, receiver, as saying a 5 per cent dividend would be paid this fall, but that because of court adjournment for the summer, and because hearings had to held on preferred claims in September, the dividend cheeks could not be issued until Nov. 15. Additional information may be obtained from Mr. Hack, 901 New City Trust building. a a a NEW LAW APPLIES TO PARTIES ON BALLOT By Charles Ciinsberf. The Socialist Labor party will not be on the ballots this year. This is due to the change in the election laws passed by the New Dealers in 1933. Editor’s Note—The law referred to undoubtedly is the. one requiring that, for a political party to have its candidates placed on the ballot, th>.y party must have east a vote in the last preceding election equal to one-half of 1 per cent of the total vote east for secretary of state. At the office of W. W. Spencer, state election commissioner, it was pointed out that for a number of years the qualification was 1 pe r cent of the vote cast for secretary of state, but that the 1933 legislature reduced th-e figure to one-half of 1 per cent.

So They Say

When God says do, I want to do. When God says go, I will go. People are hard-hearted today and need the Word of God more than ever.— Albert Teester, Sylva, N. C., preacher who survived the rattlesnake bite. Real recovery is not possible except through an increase in employment by private industry.—Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. Uncle Sam has become incomparably the biggest money lender in all history, and the source of funds is confiscation. —Professor Z. D. Ennis of Stevens Institute of Technology. If I were to name an eighth wonder (of the world;, it would be the law of human relations. All the wonders are not worth much without understanding in the world where friendship, square dealing, and service abide. —Professor A. W. Nolan, University of Illinois. The limits of progress are not in sight.—William A. Dei Mar, acting chairman, National Research Council. Huey Long's ideas of government are a menace to American institutions—Mayor T. Semme j Waimsley, New Orleans.

Lap of Gods

B 1 POLLY LOIS NORTON “Your fate is in the lap of the gods,” The people said to me; So I curled up m that comfdrtable lap As cozy as could be ; Sleepy I grew, and heavy. And the gods are only men, Men's laps are not substantial So I'm back on the ground again!