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SATtROAV NOVEMBER 10 133* ARMS ACROSS THE SEA TN what a described as "a tone of freezing •* contempt." Sir John Simon denounced to parliament the methods ol Senator Nye* munitions investigating committee. The icy foreign secretary was icier than U-i iai as he deplored the committee s acceptance in evidence of a ‘grotesque” telegram describing King George s alleged intervention to save a Polish arms order for a British firm. Sir J jnah Walker Smith < whose constituency chances to include Barrow-In-Furness, site ol the V.ckers-Armstrong shipyard), contribut'd a charge that the Nye committee used “gang.-’er methods.” F.ir Jonah obediently defenc. and Sir Charles Craven, managing directtor of Vickers-Armstrong, whose injudicious letters were a senate sensation. He did not understake to explain the recent lament of Stephen Raushenbush, the senate investigator, concerning the "apparent ind.flem.ee of the British people to an explicit admission by Sir Charles Craven of collusion In rigging the price of naval vessels to the British admiralty.” His majesty's government may have some ground for indignation at the publicity given an unsupported tale about the king. But if that triv.al incident is to obscure the very real and fully documented revelations in Washington, the fault is not Washington’s, but London's. Sir John Simon suggested that the way to control the munitions industry was not by internal legislation, but by international treaty. When the debate was over, a labor motion to prohibit the private manufacture of arms was rejected, 68 to 279. Sir John is correct in saying the evils of the munitions trade must be cured by treaty. But his defense of the British armorers is hollow indeed, in the light of the senate exposures. And how are evils to be attacked, by treaty, or otherwise, if their very existence be denied? CLAMS VS. GOLDFISH CLAM-LIKE secrecy is not a good policy to follow in the conduct of “public business, the national industrial recovery board was told yesterday. S. Emery Thomason, Chicago publisher, who. by invitation, has been studying public relations problems of the NIRB, advised that body to keep the public informed about essentials that occur behind closed doors. The ballyhoo methods employed in the early days of NRA may have been indiscreet, but the policy of saymg nothmg, which has been followed by the seven members of the new board, is even worse. Employers and employes in the various units of industry have a right to NRA information and so have the people who are the consumers of industrial goods. They have a right to know what issues are raised by contesting interests, and how the issues are settled. It may not be necessary to return to the extremes of General Johnson’s "gold-fish bowl” operation. But most other government bureaus have worked out a satisfactory compromise. ‘CULTURE’ IS DITCHED THAT statue of George Washington in the guise of a Roman senator, for which the Smithsonian Institution finally has found a comfortable little corner, is an interesting little sidelight on the classical twist which educated men liked to give things in the early days of the republic. The classics of Greece and Rome, in those days, were the foundation of all education. The man who called himself a cultured gentleman was familiar with Virgil and Homer, with Horace and Plato. Wherever possible, contemporary life was adorned with the great names of the ancient worid. What more natural, then, than that a sculptor commissioned to do a statue of Washington should put him In the dress of an antique hero? The thing seems ridiculous, to our eyes; but that it should have been made in just that way is not really surprising, considering the angle from which the educated man of those days was accustomed to view things OUR RELATED BUDGET Hqary traditions in the handling of the national budget were broken by the New Deal congress, which surrendered to the President extraordinary powers In effecting economies, consolidating governmental units and controlling the allocation and actual expenditure of lump-sum appropriations. To a limited extent, the executive also was given authority to change revenue laws through tariff bartering. Because of declining revenues and increasing demands on state treasuries, there has been through the depression steady concentration of budgetary responsibilities in the hands of governors. The trend Is definitely B way from log-rolling, legislative budgetmaking. In this experience, the United States is following belatedly in the paths already trodden by the older European countries. And in the future, the trend will be even more definitely and rapidly in the direction of centralized executive budget control, says A E. Buck, technical adviser to the United States Bureau of the Budget. “The Budget in Government* of Today," published by the MacmiUian Company under auspices of the Columbia university institute of public administration, contains Mr. Buck’s analysis of budgetary practices and trends. Bound fiscal policy, says Mr. Buck, requi^a

greater executive control over both revenues and expenditures. He also says that there can be little effective national planning in the United States without a concurrent integration of federal and state taxation, expenditure and borrowing. For state governments, he advocates uni-cameral legislatures, with little more than power to review budgets prepared and executed under direction of the governors. For the national government, he suggests also abolition of the rigid itemized appropriation acts and extension of the power of the President over the actual expenditure of lump sums allocated to specific governmental units. Asa check on executive spending, he suggests creation of a general audit office, headed up by a general auditor, responsible to congress. ' PROGRESS AND SKILL TT is always a little difficult to tell, when some aviator makes an especially dangerous transoceanic flight, whether the achievement reflects anew advance in the progress of aviation or is simply a tribute to the special *nn and daring of one man. So it is. to a certain extent, with the recent flight of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith from Australia to California. Such a flight would have been beyond the bounds of possibility a decade ago, of course. To that extent, it indicates that the science of aeronautics has made a substantial Improvement. And yet Sir Charles’ achievement does not mean that that flight is a sure thing for every and any aviator who happens to feel like trying it. In large measure it was his own skill and endurance which made it a success.

PARTY ALIGNMENT 'T'HE New Year will have come, probably, before people get through talking about what the election signified. Just now w e have the rather amazing spectacle of an administration winning the support both of those who feel that it is heading in the direction of change and of those who believe it to be the one secure bulwark against change. That is to say that Mr. Roosevelt, in some manner, has contrived to draw strength from liberals and conservatives alike. The liberals believe that he s going to amplify and continue those changes inherent in the New Deal; the conservatives believe that he will make as few changes as possible, and that any one who might be put in his place would almost certainly go farther to the left. These exceedingly contradictory developments make it very hard to figure just what the election may have meant. The administration continues to enjoy public support, in a quite unprecedented way; and yet this solidarity is more apparent than real, since it includes the support of two diametrically opposite schools of thought. Mr. Roosevelt can not forever continue to be the darling of the liberals and the white hope of the conservatives. All of which is just another way of saying that the much-talked-of realignment of parties can not be postponed much longer. Liberalism and conservatism are not words of very exact meaning. Nevertheless, they will have to do for want of better ones; and sooner or later they will have to be the unofficial labels of our two chief political parties, with one party standing for the attitude and the other for its opposite.

POLITICAL PUZZLE nnHE profound public unrest in France, which found violent expression in the riots of a few months ago, evidently still exists. It is hardly going too far to say that the republic right now is meeting one of the severest tests in its history. The Doumergue cabinet, seeking to revise the French constitution so as to end the notorious instability of governments, has fallen. In recent years the average life of a French cabinet has been nine months. A government which must fall every time it attempts to handle any really controversial measure can not provide the leadership which the nation needs. So Premier Doumergue tried to change things, putting more power in the hands of the premier, clipping the wings of parliament and shearing the innumerable blocs of their power to precipitate a cabinet crisis whenever the mood seizes them. Against this plan the cry of dictatorship was raised. It, is not yet clear whether the French democracy will be able to preserve and strengthen itself in this time of confusion and trial. FOREIGN TRADE PICKS UP BUSINESS in this country, as in others, still is a long way from complete health. Nevertheless, international trade is reviving, and to those who feel that we can not have a sound domestic prosperity until our overseas trade picks up, the sign is an encouraging one. Recent figures show that American exports for the first nine months of 1934 amounted to *l.s6l.36s.s97—approximately 5400.000.000 above the figures for the first nine months of 1933. In the same period our imports also rose, standing at $1,241,732,242 for 1934 as compared with $1,036,632,489 for 1933. Furthermore, our trade with LatinAmerica is picking up. Exports to Cuba, with which country anew tariff treaty was recently negotiated, were three times as great in September of this year as in the same month in 1933. Apparently a genuine revival is under way.

FOREIGN TRADE RECOVERY SEVERAL thousand words of wisdom on the need of reviving world trade went into the record of the National Foreign Trade convention in New York. , Messages from President Roosevelt and State Secretary Hull and a speech by Foreign Trade Adviser Peck informed the delegates that the United States is working to batter down artificial trade barriers blocking recovery. Supplementing these expressions of good intentions, Charles W. Taussig, one of the President's unofficial counsellors, told how the administration’s only achievement so far in foreign trade—the treaty with Cuba—has multiplied our commerce. In September, United States exports to Cuba almost were double the tonnage in .the same month last year. To cite one commodity, United States exv' -rs shipped to Cuba in September, 4,000,-

000 pounds of hog lard, equivalent to about half the shipments for the entire year of 1933. So beneficial have been the results of the Cuban pact it seems strange that our authorities permit technicalities to hinder better trade with other nations, especially Russia. No large-scale revival of world trade is possible without (1) a general world-wide reduction in tariffs, (2) an easing of Import quota restrictions, and (3) International monetary stabilization. Since the United States with Smoot-Haw- . leyism started the world tariff war, since the United States was partly responsible for the failure of the London economic conference to reach a stabilization agreement, and since the United States is economically the world’s strongest nation, effective international action awaits American action. LONDON’S PROBLEM TANARUS) AMSAY MAC DONALD has scheduled a debate on the munitions industry to begin in the house of commons Nov. 11. Nov. 11, as-everybody knows, is the sixteenth anniversary of the day on which the muntions makers’ greatest gold mine was washed out by the armistice. Some American critics denounce the work of the senate munitions investigating committee as “deadline hunting.” They take particular offense at the committee's failure to protect officials and personages in friendly countries from the charges and innuendos of witnesses. The preparations for a debate in commons should answer such critics of the Nye committee. Nobody will deny that the senate hearings in September were sensational, or that they aroused resentment abroad. The same likely will be true of the further hearings planned early in December. Doubtless some of this is unjust. But it is well to bear in mind that here is a disease that requires strong medicine—such a potion as may scorch the throat before it finds the vitals. It is entirely futile to hope for a remedy for the munitions mess that will not hurt somebody. The senate hearings can not, by themselves, go very far toward solving a problem that is by its very nature international. The real hope of progress lies in the chance of stirring public opinion in other countries to such a point that their governments must follow suit. If it was necessary to drag the king’s name into headlines in order to provoke action in London, surely no one will quibble with Senator Nye over the niceties of international etiquet. War is not very nice either, and the munitions racket is without etiquet.

German storm troopers must prove there has been no Jewish blood in their families since 1800, excepting perhaps the blood their forefathers might have spilled. The jurors in the long Insull trial in Chicago are beginning to wonder whether it’s Insull or they who should serve time. Here Mussolini tells his farmers to produce more and we pay ours to produce less. Trouble with Mussolini is he has no brain trust. As new commander of the Yugo-Slavian army, little King Peter might like it better if he could order his men to play soldier rather than be it. Henry Ford seems to be more optimistic now' than when every one was saying prosperity was just around the corner. “Civilization is going to pot,” said France's Foreign Minister Laval. And here we’ve been trying to get it out of the pot since the World war. Roger Babson says the time is near for a coalition of the Democratic and Republican parties. Upton Sinclair will tell him the coalition is a fact already.

Capitol Capers

BY GEORGE ABELL

IN dignified setting, the august committee for reciprocity information met in the hearing room of the United States tariff commission td hear discussions on the proposed Swedish treaty. One witness bashfully insinuated that matches manufactured by a “certain country” are made of imperfect chemicals. "They might burn someone,” he added. Intensely interested. Thomas Walker Page, benign and errudite chairman of the hearing, leaned forward. “I had an experience of that kind myself,” he explained. "I set my shirt on fire.” The picture of venerable Mr. Page running around in a blazihg shirt was one to conjure in Poe's tales of horror. A few of the more lightminded and frivolous members of the audience sniggered, but the hearing proceeded decorously. Several minutes later Mr. Page referred to Japanese matches, and there was a suggestion that possibly Tokio phosphorous was responsible for the ignition. Another witness caused a sensation among clothes pin magnates by revealing that the Swedes have a monopoly of the clothes pin market in the vicinity of New York. Jovial Minister Bostrom of Sweden not being present (he takes a Swedish constitutional at about the hour of the hearing), the bright light from the Swedish viewpoint was a baking supplies manufacturer who pleaded for a cut in the Swedish tariff. This was raised 100 per cent in 1932. Edgar Ricard, a paper manufacturer from Maine, caused a slight furore when he dramatically declaimed: “For God's sake, let this news print industry alone! We don’t want to be aggravated by something that's not necessary at this time.” NOTE— Observers at the hearing noted that it seems to be an old Spanish custom (or is it an old Swedish custom?) to invariably bring in the question of Japanese exportation at treaty hearings. a a a CHANGES continue apace in the diplomatic corps. Word that Minister Simopoulos of Greece is to be sent to London has caused regret, for he is intensely popular. His mustachios and pleasant smile have graced many a bridge table. Affable Mme. Simopoulos will be missed. The Czechoslovak minister, Mr. Veverka. is also going, it appears, reports being that he will become foreign secretary, replacing Edouard Benes, who will be vice-president of the republic. ana MATE, that popular Paraguayan and Argentine tea, has found anew advocate. Mme. Felipe Espil, wife of the Argentine ambassador, has seriously gone in for the new beverage and drinks it out of a bottle. Mme. Espil—being American —may start a new fad in the United States—bottle mate. You drink It with a straw and order it at the drug store. Hitherto, Latin-Americans have been accustomed to solemnly sipping their mate from gourds or, at best, tea cups. But the world progresses.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

NOW TO GET BACK TO OUR KNITTING!

The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) a a a STREETS CONSTRUCTED FOR HIGH SPEED TRAFFIC By Orie J. Simmons. To Robert Waller—l am deeply sympathetic for your loss of a loveti and loving dog. You recite the j things Max did for you and what you did for him. Your nursed him when sick. You and Max were pals. You were proud of Max. You taught him tricks. But it is hard to teach a dog the trick of staying off high speed streets streets specially paved and designed for projectile speed vehicles. You say the driver saw Max. yet did not stop and rescue him from traffic. At the tender age of 3 or 4 years, Max should have been at home tucked in his cradle, never turned out all night to be admitted to the house early next morning. Max might have caught cold or have been run over by a milk truck.

I love dogs. I love children, I love automobiles. I have neither dog nor auto just now. But I have owned both. I do not think automobiles have any business careening around dog kennels and back yards. And in turn, dogs and children do not belong ifi the street baiting traffic. Max was in the wrong place, and it was fatal. I have children, lots of them, and none of them plays ball in the streets where traffic belongs. When chickens, dogs and children cross the street too often, the big bad autos will get ’em if they don’t watch out. a a a TAKES ISSUE AT LETTER ON MILK SETUP. By Ronald Admire, Greenwood. In your Tuesday issue appeared an article in which Mr. Christensen, erstwhile federal milk administrator, placed the blame of the present milk price war on the recent decision of Judge Baltzel in the case of the agriculture secretary, Wallace, vs. Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc. A 10-year-old child should know better, and Mr. Christensen, if he knows enough to be at large, knows that his statement is untrue. The federal administrator had nothing to do with fixing retail prices, and he never paid producers under his control as much for their milk as was paid by the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc., to its independent producers. The producers never, in my memory, received so low a price for their milk as when they were under political regimentation and control. Mr. Christensen is not much interested in producers’ distributors or consumers. All he is interested in is an opportunity to warm a cha.r seat at the expense of the industry, and his statement of yesterday shows him lacking in both mental and moral fitness for that or any other job. I should like here to recommend to Mr. Christensen to try honest work once as a means of respectable livelihood. „ a a a REPUBLICANS ARE THROUGH WITH SENATOR ROBINSON By Arthur Xraver*. During the campaign, I found only sanity in your paper. It might be of interest what a high ranking Republican mentioned last Saturday within hearing distance. He emphatically stated that the Republicans wanted to be rid of Robinson, but they did not want the responsibility nor did they wish to lose his following. Hence, they purposely made him the nominee, so that his defeat would be laid to

Kern Has a Real Task

By W. J. L, All credit to The Times for picking the winner in Tuesday’s election. After comparing the two candidates for United States senator, it is easy to see why the voters retired Arthur R. Robinson and elected Sherman Minton. While Robinson deliberately was avoiding criticism of the New Deal, because of its obvious popularity, and was trying to get votes by insulting our Governor, Minton was conducting a dignified campaign. Minton is one of the people. He was a iwor farm boy who worked his way through college, graduating with high honors. His war record was at least as good as Robinson’s. He knows the war veterans’ needs as well as “Li'l Arthur.”

the Democrats; the Republicans would be freed from him, and yet would hold his following. Very shrewd, these Republicans, "ilie Republicans were determined to scratch Robinson. It sounded reasonable to me, hence, I pass it on. a a a DEMOCRATIC BEER—G. O. P. HAS WHISKY By Mrs. Rowena Applegate I would like just a little space in regard to a letter in The Times Nov. 5 signed by “A Times Reader.” The subject of said letter was ‘‘Democratic beer” and the letter said that the Republicans didn’t have beer and drunks at their political meetings. My husband went to two Republican political meetings, and he didn’t get beer —he got whisky. Before he went, he said that he was going for some of that good old Republican liquor and I think that he got his share. I know what I'm talking about. It isn’t hearsay or fancy. When I read The Times letter, I told him that I was going to write regarding the Republican liquor and his remark was, “You write the letter and I’ll mail it.” And there were others drinking. Os all the narrow-minded, bigoted people, you surely can pick plenty from the Message Center, and especially at election time, Also, I know for whom I’m voting and why, and I don’t have to have my husband or someone else tell me how to vote. a a a G. O. P. IN DISGRACE WITH EVERY ONE, CHARGE By Hiram Lackey The other morning I read an editorial on the upper front page of a morning paper. The editor was trying to curry favor from the Democrats. The old rascal wishes to be on the winning side. That editorial was written poorly. One sentence, which was not punctuated properly, contained four misused words. What do you suppose an educated man, such as Governor McNutt thinks of a newspaper which prints such editorials on its front page. Os course it is ighored by the educated, just as it is scorned by the illiterate. Once I explained to this editor that taking the Governor to task is no small undertaking. I take a day off Tor that. To win his favor is no less difficult. Sentences that are above his contempt would be indispensable. The Republicans who wish to get into the good graces of the people should do so in an honorable way. The first Christian step is for them to admit that they are wrong. Let

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

Yet Minton has considered his country’s interests while Robinson would bleed the treasury by paying out billions to war veterans —the majority of whom can afford to wait until the present crisis is passed before collecting. Lacking any definite constructive program, Robinson indulged in personalities. Minton campaigned solely for a principle and the voters evidently admired him ' for his action. With the election of anew mayor, Indianapolis probably will have anew police chief. Here’s hoping that Mayor-Elect Kern will name an efficient police officer to the job—not a politician. From his past record, I am sure Mr. Kern will not violate the confidence placed in him by Indianapolis citizens.

them admit the reason why the Republican party is in disgrace. The Republican party is rejected because it values the sanctity of money more highly than it does the holiness of human life. a a a WATCH YOUR STEP,’ HIS ADVICE TO LUDLOW Bv George Gould Hine. The progressive Republicans of Marion county will be astonished to learn from Louis Ludlow that he considers his election a victory for Herbert Hoover. Mr. Ludlow’s victory statement reads like a concentrated blast straight from the center of the Republican national committee. It includes all their best slogans and catch-words. Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, himself, would not have changed a word. Here they are, Mr. Progressive Republican, in all their pristine vigor, sizzling excoriation and hamstringing innuendo: the familiar slogans and catch-words, as follows: “Wandering after false gods.” “Correcting the President’s errors.” “Governmental interference with business.” “Emergency relief program modified in a way encouraging to business men.” (One guess, only, allowed on this one.) “Chart a safe course.” “Business on nervous edge.” “Stabilize the currency.” “Balance the budget.” “Known and charted seas.” In all these phrases is the familiar assumption that the President is mentally incapacitated to chart his own course in the interest of all tne people. Therefore, Mr. Ludlow, in co-operation with the Republican national committee, will do It for him. By and with the advice and consent of Mr. Hoover, of course, and Wall Street. The progressive Republicans. after listening attentively to one long, loud laugh by the Indianapolis Star, will protest feebly that they didn’t know Ludlow was a stand-pat Republican. But they should have known it—he kept so still. Politicians and newspapers who think independent Republicans are dead and buried, should ask themselves: “Who elects Democrats in a normally Republican county?” They have long memories and they now lean toward Ludlow, and they solemnly hiss these words: “Watch your step, Louis —remember Hoover and Robinson.” a a a PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA—WHAT DOES IT MEAN? By Jimmy Cafouros The autocratic genius, the saturnine chinnsy of the Message Center ha* a diabolical knack for dis-

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torting and pointing up false aspects. Ten days ago the writer presented him with ar> appropriate or at least not ill timed article which he seized up on and held until the day after election, when he inserted it much after the manner of a bombshell. Such a rational man, such a preponderant man of such acumen should be lauded and heralded and perhaps hamstrung. This surely creates joy in the hearts of prospective contributors and naturally the Message Center is the better for it. a a a JIM WATSON SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN SOMETHING By J. E. B. Republicans of Indiana, after conferring many honors on Jim Watson, have observed with considerable disgust and amusement his excuse for not speaking in the recent campaign for Arthur Robinson and the Republican state ticket. Friends of Mr. Robinson remember how he “ran out” on him at the Republican state convention, and never will forgive nor forget his duplicity on that occasion. At the Republican state convention in 1D32, this proverbial “sore toe” again asserted itself, when he "ran out” on M. Bert Thurman, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Mr. Thurman had spent his political life in advancing the cause of Jim Watson. He had built to perfection what was known as the Watson personal organization in Indiana. Thurman gave his‘all to Watson, but at a convenient time, Watson “ran out” as usual. Immediately after the election, the “Lovable Old Humbug” showed up at Republican state headquarters, and gave out a statement for publication, evidently convalescent from his serious ailment.

So They Say

I’d be delighted to be an old-* fashioned secretary of agriculture and concern myself with scientific matters. Jt is a calm and peaceful kind of existence—Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. The fundamental purpose of our state is the creation of anew type of human being.—Secretary of State Hans Lammers of Germany. I am a speed merchant.—Colonel Roscoe Turner, famous aviator. Business men do nothing but bellyache.—United States Senator Thomas T. Connally of Texas. We have had a lot of pious twaddle from celibate clergymen who are about as far from knowledge of the realities of life as the man in the moon.—The Rt. Rev. Simeon A. Huston of Seattle. The depression would be over for the whole country very soon if American industrialists would just forget the alphabet schemes and take hold of their industries and run them with good, sound American busuiess sense.—Henry Ford.

Daily Thought

For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.—St. John 16:27. ALL I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.- Finer son.