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THURSDAT NOVEMBER I9J4. FERMENT QPRINKLED along ide the endless columns on the astounding .-lew Deal sweep of congressional elections are news items that tell of the ferment also of state and local political reform. Significantly, the only striking defeats of the Democratic party occurred in Minnesota, where the voters gave substantial pluralities to the Farmer-Labor candidates, who ran on the radical co-operative-commonwealth platform. and in Wisconsin vhere they Indorsed the ultra-progressive program of the new La Follette party. In California, a militant minority of nearly a million voters is victorious in defeat. The old guard candidate, Mernam, owes his election to his last-minute swing to the left, and unless he carries out the policies to which he gave belated lip-service, his regime is threatened by another swelling of the EPIC tide. There are other signs of the working of the yeast of political discontent, evidences that the people are boldly overhauling traditional political machinery and ideas. In Louisiana, the people voted to levy high state taxes on Incomes and to exempt from taxation small homes and .arms. Other states exempted homesteads. In Arkansas, where legislative extravagance has brought the state near bankruptcy, constitutional restrictions were placed on taxes, appropriations and bond issues. In New York City, spendthrift Tammany’s candidate barely squeezed into the controller’s office, although the Democratic gubernatorial candidate carried the city by 800,000. New York and Illinois voted overwhelmingly for relief bond issues. Nebraska voted to junk its two-chamber legislature and try a one-chamoer body. Six out of seven states voted to repeal state prohibition laws. Toledo adopted a city-managed form of government. In Memphis the count was 16 to 1 in favor of a municipally-owned system to distribute power operation. St. Paul turned down a private company's offer of lower rates, refusing to renew its franchise to sell electricity and gas. The people are asserting their own ideas of government. ANOTHER TVA VICTORY citizens voted more than 16-to-l -*■*-*- in favor of a $9,000,000 bond issue to build or buy a municipal electric system to bring them the Tennessee Valley Authority’s low electric rates. Because of machine politics in Memphis, where 10-to-l majorities are not usual, some may discount this vote as really representative of public approval of the federal government’s first power rate yardstick. That would be a mistake. In the early days of TVA. four Alabama cities voted—under the influence of ample private utility company propaganda—against municipal-TVA systems. But today, the score stands 17 to 4 m favor of the TVA. The President’s lirst regional development authority has not only won approval of a majority, it has swept the seventeen cities which have recently voted on co-operating with it. Mr. Roosevelt is considering other watershed developments. He need not fear advocating a vast program of them. There are assurances of tremendous benefits to the Amercan people. The first TVA-electrified town was Tupelo. Miss. Its citizens are getting twice as much service from electricity today as they did before TVA low rates were available. Yet its municipal plant has paid all operating expenses. set aside 15 per cent of revenues to pay the city treasury in lieu of taxes and interest and put a 13 per cent profit into surplus. 1 The New Deal scored a great victory in the election: so did the Tennessee Valley Authority. the first of Americas watershed developments.

AFTER US THE DELUGE” IN view of the staggering losses of America’s I soil wealth from erosion, there can be only one criticism of Secretary Ickes’ transfer of $5,000,000 of PWA funds to the soil erosion service. It is not enough. H H. Bennett, director of the service and the twenty-five erosion control projects now under way, estimates that at the present rate of destruction "only about 150,000,000 acies of really fertile farm land will remain in the United States in fifty years time.’ Already at least 35.000.000 acres of good land have been essentially ruined.” In addition 125.000.000 acres have been stripped of productive top soil, and 100.000.000 acres more ■ are being transformed into marginal and submarginal land.” Losses so far are conservatively estimated at no less than $10,000,000,000. not counting indirect losses in flood damage, reservoir silting and the destruction of prosperity in many farm regions. •Unless the evil is curbed in a far-reach-ing way,” says Mr. Bennett, "the possible losses from erosion during the next fifty years are obvious.y enormous. The annual $400,000,000 direct loss in soil values washed away alone would accumulate to probably not less than $20,000,000,000.’ This is not the alarm of a disaster-monger; It is the calm conclusion of a responsible scientist. Un'der our very eyes the thief erosion has robbed us of incalculable and irreplaceable wealth- In view of these past and future losses the $10,000,000 we have spent is a pittance. Yet It is a tribute to this administration that It is the first in 150,year* to sense the danger and try to do something about It. Will we try now to do something in a far-

reaching way to save our farm lands from being turned into a Sahara? Or will we, like Madam dePompadour, repeat the cynical phrase, “After us the deluge?” AN AMERICAN GANDHI TN ail the startling headlines of these days, -*■ including assassinations, revolutions and threats of war. none perhaps has startled the public mind more than the report of the death strike of the 1,200 Hungarian miners. Here was a case, hot off the cables, of the amazing success of what was once called nonresistance. Such cases are not as rare as we are apt to to assume. Richard B. Gregg in his new book, “The Power of Non-Violence” fLippincott), lists many such cases in which groups have achieved success by the method of nonviolent resistance. The most familiar ones, to be sure, are connected with Gandhi and his movement in India. But there have been others, especially in Hungary and China. Gregg has lived in India as a companion with Gandhi. He believes in that gospel. But his book is in no sense an idealistic or evangelical tract. On the contrary, Gregg writes as a trained American economist, examining this doctrine in its practical aspect as an effective mass weapon in the contemporary struggle in the western world. He outlines the biological, psychological, social and political implications on the basis of the record of experiments with this method. Gregg concludes that physical violence defeats its own purpose, but that nonviolent resistance is almost always successful if properly used. The author, understanding the present attitude of Europeans and Americans, does not anticipate any sudden and sweeping conversion to this idea. But no reader is likely to put down this book without very seriously questioning the sanity and practical effectiveness of our present reliance upon physical violence as the ultimate weapon in economic and international conflict. 4 Gregg’s book is easily the best on this subject.

CRITICS ARE DECEIVED /V LONG about this time every year, earnest and well-intentioned people are apt to become worried about the status of college football. W eefc after week come the reports of gigantic crowds at college football games. The total figures on the gate receipts look like payments on the international debts. News of the doings of the young athletes fill the front pages of the newspapers. All of this, lumped together, comes under the heading of “overemphasis,’' as it is called. A game devised for the recreation of college students draws so much attention that In the minds of many people it completely overshadows the regular classroom activities. On the face of it, it looks like an extremely, unhealthy situation. Yet there is a great deal of loose talk about this. Critics of big-time football grow just about as mixed in their consideration of values as do the unthinking boosters. For it is not the fact that college football draws big crowds and creates black headlines that is wrong; it is the fact that in some institutions the responsible authorities are carried off their feet by enthusiasm for the sport, and let it take precedence over the regular curriculum, both in their own minds and in the minds of their students. It needs to be emphasized that youngsters in college, for all their effervescence and high spirits, are a pretty levelheaded lot. They are seldom really deceived by the glamour of football. They enjoy the game, as participants or as spectators; they enjoy the excitement, the thrills and the publicity. But if they get anything approaching the right kind of leadership from their faculty, they aren’t apt to be deluded by it all. It often is true that the football coach draws a higher salary than any professor. But that only parallels the situation in other walks of life. Prize fighters make more money than clergymen, movie actors make more money than scientists, stock promoters outearn doctors. Our whole system of rewards is askew; football simply gives the college student an object lesson in the fact before he leaves the campus. College football is overemphasized, to be sure. But its very overemphasis is typical of American life. The youngster at Notre Dame, Michigan. Stanford, or Alabama is not nearly so apt to be fooled by it all as we outsiders sometimes suppose. LABOR WAR AVERTED THE excellent services which an official organization like the na.ional labor relations board can render are exemplified in the handling of the difficulties between the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and its Cleveland employes. A labor dispute in Cleveland caused the company to close its stores there completely. It announced that it was withdrawing from Cleveland for good; one immediate result was the disemployment of some 2.000 workers. The labor board got busy promptly. A peace plan under which neither side sacrifices any material point has been submitted, the talk of a fight to the finish has died down and what might very easily have developed into a serious nation-wide labor war has been averted. It has been a fine example of wise and efficient action under difficult conditions. The New Deal, it is reported, has cost only $1,000,000,000 since July 1, but there’s so much yelling about it, you’d think those zeros meant something. At least the government could make the women feel they’re getting the New Deal cheap, if it reduced the figure to $999,999,999.98. With all the flying being done to and from Australia, that continent seems so dose now, the bootleggers and racketeers soon may include it in their territory. Florida reports that California was shaken by another earthquake. Japanese fans cheered Babe Ruth and his teammates at their first game in Japan. At least, Americans hope that the sound the Japanese made was a cheer. ' * •

Liberal 'Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES THE most deadly challenge and Unplied criticism which the New Deal has to face does not come from Republican die-hards and Bourbons or from radicals inspired by Moscow. It has emerged from the calm and dispassionate figures gathered by the learned and conservative statisticians of the Brookings Institution in Washington. A hundred-fold more deadly than all the vaporizings of Ogden Mills and his like or the fulminations of the “Daily Worker” is the dignified volume on ‘'America’s Capacity to Consume.” by Maurice Leven, Harold G. Moulton and Clark Warburton. There has been a great deal of talk about ours being an age of plenty and of over-pro-duction. It has been assumed that our productive plant can produce more than we need, and that the only way to bring about a return of permanent prosperity is deliberately and ruthlessly to restrict production. This has been deemed especially true of our farming areas, where bounties have actually been paid to reduce the production of food stuffs. Some confirmation seemed to be given to this assumption by the first volume in this Brokings series, which stated that in 1929 we might have produced 20 per cent more than we did. This was taken by many to mean that we were equipped in 1929 to produce 20 per cent more goods than we really needed. This interpretation has served as the cornerstone of the economics of the New Deal and the NRA. But the book by Messrs. Levin, Moulton and Warburton blows sky high this whole thesis, and utterly destroys the economic perspective which has justified such assumptions. It shows that even if we strained our productive plant and farming resources to the utmost we could not today begin to meet the legitimate needs and requirements of the American people, provided they had the money to buy the goods which they would and should consume in a civilized society that maintained decent standards of living for all Americans. tt tt tt THE real crisis in capitalism today is not produced by the fiction of over-produc-tion but by the somber actuality of underconsumption due to the absurdly lop-sided distribution of wealth. In 1929, for example, the per capita income of the 30.000,000 American farmers, constituting about 25 per cent of the whole population, was only $273, as over against a per capita income of S9OB for the rest of the population. This would seem to place the non-rural population in an enviable position compared to the farmers. But at least the latter could eat, while even on the basis of 1929 incomes three-fourths of the non-rural families did not have a sufficient income “to provide an adequate diet a l a moderate cost.” Ninetenths of the non-rural population did not earn enough to provide themselves with “a liberal diet.” Just how facts like these justify restricting farm production passes ordinary human understanding. Let us take a few more very revealing figures. The average income of all families in the United States in 1929 was only $2,800. No less than 6.000,000 families, or 21 per cent of total, had an income of less than SI,OOO, receiving only 4.5 per cent of the total national income. Some 12,000,000 families, or 42 per cent of all families, received less than $1,500 a year. Twenty million families, or 71 per cent of the total had incomes of less than $2,500 a year. Over against these staggering and dolorous statistics may be set the challenging fact that 0.1 per cent of the families at the top—those with incomes of over $75,000 a year—enjoyed about as large an income as the poorest 42 per cent of the families, namely, those with an income of $1,500 or less. a tt a NOT so long ago Nicholas Murray Butler tried to assure us that poverty is a myth in the United States and referred to the existence of a large number of savings accounts. But in 1929 2.3 per cent of our families—those who had incomes of over SIO,OOO each—provided two-thirds of all the savings of all Americans, while the poorest 80 per cent of the population contributed only 2 per cent of the national savings. The Roosevelt administration and the New Deal must stand or fall with the success of capitalism. Capitalism can not endure,unless the American people have money to buy’goods. This can only come about as the result of marked increase in the income of the majority of Americans. On the basis of 1929 prices. and incomes, the authors show that a family needed an income of at least $2,000 to buy the basic necessities. But 60 per cent of the total number of American families had an income of less than $2,000. If the 71 per cent of American families —those having an income of $2,500 or less—were all to have their incomes raised to $2,500 a family, they could spend 40 per cent more for food, 65 per cent more for living quarters, T>s per cent more for clothing, and 115 per cent more for other goods and services. Here is the key to recovery—and the only key. What does Mr. Roosevelt propose to do about it?

Capitol Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

PRESIDENT and Mrs. Roosevelt have made public their program of receptions and dinners for the winter, thus greatly relieving the minds of diplomats and dowagers who do not want ary conflict with the White House entertainment schedule. A glance at the White House list of social functions shows January to be the most crowded and brilliant month. There is to be the diplomatic reception on Jan. 3, the Vice-President’s dinner on Jan. 10, the judicial reception on Jan. 17, the diplomatic dinner on Jan. 24 and, finally, the congressional reception on Jan. 31. Most dazzling and (to some diplomats) most trying event of the season is the famous diplomatic reception. For this magnificent display, envoys spend hours taking baths, being groomed, plastering pomade on their hair, buckling on swords, epaulets, gold fourrageres, medals and decorations in order to shine in splendor at the White House. The final effect is, to those who nave never seen it before, breath-taking. They immediately write home and tell their friends, so*the annual struggle to get an invitation to the diplomatic reception ranks among the bigger and better battles of Washington society. To many who are disappointed, it is a veritable Waterloo. Already, the front ranks of those who want to be admitted to the show on Jan. 3 have started the drive for invitations. They want to gape at all the gorgeous pageantry’—all the diplomats strangled in gold lace, crushed under heavy plumes, weighed down by cavalry sabers, squeezed into tight but beautiful uniforms, sufr sering but secretly flattered by the adulation. The reception will be a vast but superb crush. * * u FOREIGN envoys and officials are all delighted to find that there is no New Year’s reception scheduled. This event, which used to force sleepy envoys and cabinet members to rise early and toddle into the White House (without even the benefit of a stiff bracer) during the Hoover regime. has been abandoned by the Roosevelts. One consolation awaited those who went to the New Year’s reception, and it wasn’t much consolation, at that. They could always go and gulp hot coffee later as breakfast guests of the secretary of state in the Pan American Union. But the pushing throngs usually made the effort hardly worth while. Congress might have sold the statue of George Washington in a Roman toga to the authors who dug up a lot of gossip about his private life.

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(Tunes readers are Invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your l.lmit them to tSO words or less.l letters short, so all can have a chance. tt tt tt OUTLINES DETAILS OF INSURANCE PROGRAM By L. L. Hopkins According to the IC*3O census there were more than thirteen million persons between 45 and 54 and more than 10,300,000 persons more than 60 at that time. Insurance companies quote statistics showing that out of 100 average healthy persons at 25; at 65 years thirty-six will be dead; one will be rich; four will be wealthy; five will be supporting themselves and fifty-four will be dependent on relatives, friends or public charity. These figures are for 1930. It is doubtful if the figures for 1934 would be as favorable so you can calculate what your chances are from your own standpoint. I am indebted to Irving W. Barnet, life insurance representative from the Chicago offices of Marsh & McLennen with offices in this city, for the following information. A life annuity of $2,400 beginning at 60 would cost in old line insurance: At 25—W. C. R. $378.86—C. R. $439.27 annually; 35—W. C. R. $673.34 C. R. $780.64 annually; 45—W. C. R. $1.417.43—C. R. $1,643.39 annually; 55—W. C. R. $5,698.01—C. R. $6,600.66 annually. W. C R means without cash refund; C R. means with cash refund. If C. R. plan is selected the annuitant’s estate receives the difference between the cash value and the amount paid to the annuitant. From this you can see how impossible it is for a worker or small business man to carry any such annuity as this plan contemplates in old line insurance. It is not possible to go into detail in an article of this kind but the writer will be glad to cite any one interested to sources of full information regarding this plan which already has gained millions of adherents in the west and is spreading like wild fire in the east. ROOSEVELT*SUPPORT IS URGED BY READER By M. Russell In a letter to a "Times reader who suggested that we outlaw Socialism and Communism, a contributor asks just when we can expect to come out of the depression under either the Democrats or the Republicans? The answer is that we already are coming out of the depression as fast as it is humanly possible for a group of the best minds in the country (regardless of party) headed by the best brain in the country, to bring us out. Where have you been the last year and a half? In the first six months following President Roosevelt’s inauguration more good was accomplished for the American people, mark you, I say people, not just a favored class, than in a similar period any place or at any time in the history of the world—and that includes Russia, too. If you are not pleased at the progress our President has made, how do you imagine the Russian people, working at back breaking toil and living mostly on black bread and water, feel when the Soviet government tells them that the five-year plan must be extended another five years, then at the end of that time the answer is the same. The fact that unfortunate Russia was victimized by the czars does not mean that the other extreme of slavery is right, or that they are any happier under it. Just what is Russian, or Communistic "freedom?’’ The best way to enlighten people who answer any economic problem with “Socialism’’ or “Corn-

A CHANGE OF BOXES

Lauds President; Raps McNutt

By a Times Reader. I wish to express some conflicting views concerning the Democratic party. All my family and I always have supported the Democratic party. I only can compare President Roosevelt with Christ, the redeemer, who came to save the poor and distressed people, the love in my heart is almost as strong for Mr. Roosevelt as it is for the first redeemer, but however strong my love may be for the President tomorrow, I voted for Sherman Minton, Louis Ludlow and John Geckler. Then I had to vote the rest Republican for whom I haven’t any respect in order to get these men through. I had intended voting straight Democratic ticket until last Saturday night, when I heard McNutt speak at Douglass park and heard him say, “We have dressed you in new clothes, fed you well, returned to you your self-respect, and put money in your pocket.” Five years ago my husband had an income received in return for union labor which was S7O a week which barely enabled us to retain our self-respect, feed and clothe ourselves as intelligent American people should live. Now as we are on relief, we have $5.25 a week with which to clothe ourselves, pay rent, insurance, light and gas, and buy nourishing food, retain our self-respect and have money in our pockets. The large sum of $5.25 is earned by the sweat of my intelligent husband’s brow laboring with a pick and shovel.

munism” would be to buy them a one-way ticket to Russia—or Mexico, it’s nearer. (Then, when they had learned their lesson, we might let them slip back across the border.) Just stick around, mister, history is being made right now—and you are fortunate to be living in this period (you know a lot of people have starved to death under Communism). Just think how nice it is going to be when President Roosevelt’s plans all are bearing fruit, and you can stick out your chest and tell your neighbors how you helped him, and tell them what you think of those who blamed him for not pulling prosperity out of his hat. Also, I believe it will make you feel a lot mere like a real American. a tt tt CULTURE, TRAINING NEED OF PRESENT GENERATION Bt H. L. Labor and unemployed people would do well to overcome the prejudices of their class. Prejudice is preference for error and wilful opposition to truth. How often have we heard the man in the street declare: “Rich people are no better than I am. I am just as good as anybody.” When I hear a fellow-laborer or fellow-pauper thus trying to hide his feeling of inferiority, I often think, “I only wish my comrade's words were true. It is a great day in the life of any under privileged man when he finds the courage to study his aristocratic brother with an honest and healthful attitude. Among the wealthy people, the true aristocrats are, in many respects, better than are “common men.’’ They are above the cheapness and baseness in which the vulgar delight. They are above a quarrel and the other petty things. They love the finer and higher pleasures. They know- they are above us; yet their chief interest Is to lift us to their levels. Above all. the true aristocrat is fair with his inferiors. Let us test our sanity by testing cur willingness to admit these truths. What does the man with the hoe

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

Now as to my conflicting views. If McNutt and others are for President Roosevelt, why did McNutt run the statehouse printshop with scab labor? Why did he permit girl typists to sit in uncomfortable chairs and work for a salary much less than the NRA code required? Why did he shout, “You are well fed and clothed and have money in your pockets!” when it is untrue? . I believe the President ordered all men working on relief should, on June 27, 1934, start working thirty hours a week. Why aren’t they allowed to work those hours? Why, before you are allowed to work an hour more than your twelve hours a week an investigator from the trustee’s must visit you and see whether you should be allowed to earn $1 or $1.50 more on the month with which to buy your coal. I wonder If McNutt could keep his selfrespect and his shins warm on a dollar’s worth of coal a month. Well, the Republicans as well as the Democrats voted for our dearly beloved President; our love for and faith in him never will be broken. By the time this is printed the Democrats no doubt will be' enjoying their victories. But why can’t they, whichever party may be elected, go forward with our courageous President with love and faith in their hearts for him and his honest, helpful policies?

see and feel in the presence of great art? Too often the laborer finds only torture where the aristocrat finds the sublime joys of culture. A laborer who will spend his day’s savings for alcohol, instead of hearing or seeing the works of the masters of literature, drama and music, needs something besides higher wages. In this maze of life to find the kernels and to let the shaff go is the most important thing anybody can learn. The poor man who turns his radio dial in disgust when his home is flooded with the music of the masters and who constantly gratifies his taste for trashy reading wall not find the abundant life even in social Justice. Most of the finest things of life are within the easy reach of the laborer who receives good wages, and many, udthin reach of paupers. It is possible to become wealthy overnight. But we need to realize that, to enjoy, fully, the blessings of wealth, years of time and patience are required in learning the art of appreciation of the good, the true and the beautiful- This can be gained most easily and quickly during the plastic years of childhood and youth. Wise are fathers and mothers who bless their sons and daughters with this heritage, without which wealth may but magnify their vulgarity. Just as it is our duty to strive to create a more just and humane ecoHbmic system, so it is our privilege to learn to appreciate its blessings. SUGGESTS ALTERATION IN POOR RELIEF PLANS By a Rrader. Voters of Indianapolis, I think the time has ripened for all of the good thinking people to change our Center township trustee system. Just a few words in regard to the present operation. I. as a taxpayer, citizen, and voter of Center township, and working on relief through no fault of mine, do know three families receiving relief which I think is wrong. No. 1 family is a man owning

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three pieces of rental property, but he and his wife received a basket and about a week later received wage relief work at one of the government packing plants in the city, receiving sl2 a wfcek. No. 2 is a man working at a city canning company making $lB a week who has a wife and three children and an auto; receives his basket every week, coal and the government relief such as meat, butter, etc. This has been received for the last year. No. 3 is a man who is not an American citizen, is living with a woman by whom he has one child, is not married. They, too, receive the regular trustee relief. Now, people, let us all change this unfair system by voting for an honest and upright citizen and business who will clean house. , So They Say I am willing to admit that some day communism may supplant capitalism, but this is perhaps 100 or years hence.—Roger Babson, economist. The English people descended from a unique stock and as a result are the finest fighting race known. —Vice-Admiral C. K. Chetwode of British navy. The poorhouse is one of the greatest blots on the history of this country. It is utterly wrong that such an institution should exist.— United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, New York. I dare the government to go to trial. I have too strong a case.—' Fred C. Perkins, York (Pa.> batteryman accused of NRA code violation. The politicians may give up the struggle against world armament, but the church must never give it up.—The Rev. Walter W. Van Kirk, secretary Federal Council of Churches. I have always very, very much preferred orchestral concerts to opera.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Daily Thought For I was envious at the foolish when I Saw the prosperity of the wicked.—Psalms 73:3. WE never can be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. —Dryden. WISH BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK For just one hour I’d like to think again That love is wholly rapture: mad, divine. That love swerves with the sureness of a blade; That love is deaf to reason, dumb and blind. For just one hour I’d like to think again That love is pulse hot beating; a mad song. That love is drowning in swift ecstasy; That love makes wrong thing# right, and dull things wrong. For just one hour I would like to steep In slender dreams as cobwebby as lace; Searching beneath the surface of my mind To find a word as lovely as your face!