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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17. U3V CHAIRMAN BIDDLE A PPOINTMENT of Francis B.ddle as cha.rman of the national labor relations board adds another Interesting personality to the administration's official family. Like the President, Averell Harriman. and other New Dealers. Mr B.ddle is the son of a wealthy and famous American family. Asa Philadelphia attorney and civic leader he has been active in education, child labor reform, civil liberties and other human welfare cfkises. He has the warm indorsement of exchairman Garrison and the other memoers of thi.- able board. If he makes as good a chairman as hi; predecessor, he will live up to the highest hopes of his friends. Mr. Biddle is landing in no bed of roses. He will be in the center of bitter industrial struggles The law is written clearly, but the head of the judicial board should be a man of ability, courage and human understanding. QUEEN ALICE MANY years ago, "all in the golden afternoon" of a rural English July, three little sisters were being rowed up river to Gostow by their friend, Lewis Carroll. Alice, Lorena and Edith begged the shy oxford don to tell them a story with “lots of nonsense in it." There began the immortal tale of Alice in Wonderland, that has so enriched our AngloSaxon lore and language. Yesterday in England Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, the flaxen-haired Alice of the story and “imperious prima" of the trio, died. Before she died she had lived through a real adventure in a real wonderland. She came to America two years ago to help honor the Carroll centennial. America welcomed Queen Alice “with thirty times three.” but what a topsy-turvy land it must have seemed to the little Victorian widow ! A land of mad hatters and mock turtles, of greedy walruses and trusting oysters, of dodoes and jabberwocks and pools of tears! The little Alice who begged for a story died with Mrs. Hargreaves’ youth. But the story will live always to charm and fascinate youngsters of all ages. Children yet. the tale to hear, “Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. , “In a wonderland they lie, • “Dreaming as the days go by, “Dreaming as the summers die: ••Ever drifting down the stream, “Lingering in the golden Rl ea ™; “Life, what is It but a dream? DISORDERLY CONDI CT CHARLES STEWART, a gentleman of V> seventy winters who wore a shabby suit and emaciated face, shuffled into a Chicago police station and approached the desk officer. Sergeant," he said. “How about booking me for disorderly conduct? It will give me a warm spot in the jug for the winter.” The sergeant thought it might be arranged, and directed him to await his sentence along with other miscreants. Finally the judge reached his case and called his name. There was no answer. He had died while he waited to be sentenced for the crime of growing old in poverty. Perhaps Charles Stewart is the answer to President Roosevelts doubt: “I do not know whether this is the time for any federal legislation on old age security.” moderation pPAIN was once a good customer of the United States. Our sales to Spain were about three times as great as our purchases from her. Trade between the United States and Spam has been falling off. and to revive it representatives of the two countries are trying to negotiate a reciprocity treaty. Spain asks, among other things, that we lower our tariff rates on wines, which now range from ft 25 to $6 a gallon. But spokesmen for American wine Interests say. in effect, that it would be sinful to grant to foreign wines any freer access to the American market. They pomt to a prospective American surplus at the end of the present vintage season, and say that, instead, our wine tariffs should be Increased. Some of them argue that an embargo against foreign wines would be an act of patriotism. American wine producers seem to think they have an inherent right to a virtual monopoly of the American market. Even if we disregard the right of American consumers to drink the vintages of other lands, we must admit, as a practical matter, that unless Spain sells her wines in the United States she can not buy as much American cotton and oil. as many American automobiles and machines. So—without even considering the consumer H narrows down to an issue between one group of American producers fearing competition from abroad, and other groups of American producers seekuig an opportunity to compete abroad. LIFE THAT Illinois banker who took $57,000 from the till, fled to the Wisconsin woods, and there learned that the simple life has it all over the ordinary rush for worldly goods seems to have made a great discovery in much the way the most of us make it—too late to do himself much good He found out. of course, to begin with, that putting his hand in the till has been a tragic mistake for which he could not hope to escape retribution. But that was really among the last of his discoveries—since it is, alter ail.

something that a custodian of other people’s money ought to know from the beginning. What was more important was his discovery that he had been on the wrong track even before he became an embezzler. He took the money, is, to play the market. He was going to make a big killing, restore what he had taken, put himself on easy street, and live happily ever after: the act of embezzlement was simple the product of the pressure which a go-getting society put upon a personality that had lost a proper sense of values. And his big discovery was his realization that even if he had got away with it, it wouldn't have given him what he wanted. He learned, that is, that where money is the one yardstick, the effort to build a satisfying life is almost certainly doomed to failure. And that, after all, is what most of the rest of us forever are finding out; that it is possible to spend so much of our time and energy in making a living that we have none left for living itself. We take all the force and intelligence God gave us. and apply them to the business of getting ahead—and then, presently, we find ourselves looking wistfully back on our lives and saying, "Why—is this all there is to it?” So we dream of what we shall do, some day, when things break just right for us and we retire to that little house in the country-; or we use books, or sport, or restless movement of one kind or another, to escape from our subconscious dissatisfaction with modern life. For we have somehow built up a society j which cuts us off from those things that are | to be prized above all else —free fellowship with ! one another, contact with the open earth and sky, solitude, leisure to savor such things as th*> wind in the leaves or dawn on the empty hills. And the tragedy of it is that, too often, we find it out as this banker did—too late to do anything about it. COALITION FOR RECOVERY 'T'HE unsolicited bouquet of approval which President Whitney of the New- York Stock Exchange gave to the federal securities and exchange commission is typical of the business-government - coalition - for - recovery news which is crowding politics out of newspaper columns. When market control was pending before congress, Mr. Whitney was a doleful prophet. He voiced distrust of government reform methods. But after a month’s trial, he has found that the SEC is not bungling its job and is not discouraging legitimate trading. Brokers need not fear that business will be destroyed nor that the traditional free market will be disrupted, says Mr. Whitney. There are other indications that the partisan groups of business men have decided to stop their political sniping at the administration and to start attacking the depression with business weapons. The election may have convinced them that they are not very expert in warfare, and that this administration, whether they like it or not, may be in the saddle for some time. Instead of corralling opposition votes in congress to block radical legislation at the next session, it is reported, industrial leaders have assured the administration that they will strive to increase employment and thereby demonstrate that recovery is possible under the present system. The Pennsylvania railroad, for Instance, has ordered fifty-seven new streamline electric locomotives. There also is evidence that the administration is quite willing to give private industry a chance to show what it can do in the way of substituting private pay checks for government pay checks and doles, private lending for government lending, and free flow of private credit for government control. Examples include: The efforts to stimulate housing repairs and construction by insuring loans and mortgages, the tentative withdrawal of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation from mortgage refinancing and the lifting of restrictions on the export of capital. If there is enough private spending and lending, there will not be need of as much government spending and lending. If private industry does not want inflation, it should make good use of the present stabilized dollar. If private industry does not want a compulsory thirty-hour work week, it can best avoid such restrictive legislation by demonstrating that the unemployed can be absorbed by other means. “THAT’S STRANGE” A RECOUNT of the Cutting-Chavez ballots is in prospect, and perhaps that will be followed by election contests first before the New Mexico supreme court and later before the United States senate, where the Democrats will have more than a two-thirds majority. Senator Cutting's apparent 1,300-vote victory, it seems, is bitter medicine that the Democrats do not intend to swallow if they can help it. In 1932. Progressive Senator Cutting supported candidate Roosevelt and the Democratic party. Then, through two sessions of congress, he supported the New Deal. It is still a mystery- as to why the Roosevelt administration chose, in the recent campaign. to encourage New Mexico Democrats to repudiate this eminent New Dealer. The common explanation is that the administration in New Mexico was interested less in the New Deal than in Mr. Farley's effort to build up a national Democratic party machine. Mr. Cuttings plight recalls the remark attributed to the late Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania. That blunt and cynical political boss once heard that a certain man was traveling about the state making derogatory remarks about Penrose's character. •Hump!" grunted Penrose, "that's strange. I don t remember ever doing a favor for him.” WORSE THAN PRISON NICHOLAS SCHWALL, a little Chicago stock gambler, has learned what Samuel Iqsull, a big Chicago speculator, did not learn. This is the lesson taupht by Edward Everett Hale in his famous story. "The Man Without a Country.” Schwall was a banker who admired the great Insuil and thought that anything so big couldn't lose. So he took $56,000 of his depositors' money and invested in Insull's house of cards. When he lost, he fled to the Wisconsin north woods. For two years he lived, like Robinson Crusoe, on nuts and roots, working at limes as a wood chapper, begging bread at other tunes. Os all the hardships he endured the worst was the loss of his identity as an American. When he was arrested and held out his

calloused hands for the handcuffs, he seemed relieved. “I'm glad It’s all over,” he sobbed. “I'm not going to fight. I don't want bond. I don’t want an attorney. I'm going to plead guilty and have It over with.” The ancient Greeks km-w psychology when they reserved for their worst criminals and for traitors the sentence of exile. Banker Schwall now knows he will be happier, even in jail, than as an outlaw and exile. PUBLIC POWER WINS 'T'HE people of Memphis, Tenn., seem to have been about as thoroughly sold on the merits of publicly owned and distributed electric power as any people could possibly be. At the recent election, the voters of Memphis were asked to approve a $9,000,000 bond Issue to acquire an electric distribution system for TVA power. By the amazing vote of 33.476 to 1948 the bond Issue was carried. Not only is this an unprecedented majority for approval of a bond issue—especially at this moment, when voters are loath to saddle local governments with new- obligations—but the affirmative vote was hearly 10,000 above the total vote ordinarily cast in a Memphis election. Whatever the rest of the country may think of the TVA plan, Memphis evidently is heartily in favor of it. LABOR TAKES TO GOLF T ABOR disputes in this country are seldom A-* exactly parallel with those of the older lands beyond the seas; but it remained for striking employes of a factory in Ludlow, Mass., to bring something absolutely new into the technique of labor warfare. These strikers were angry at their erstwhile bosses; being angry, they sought to take it out on the bosses’ property. But the nearest they could get to the factory was the top of a hill across the river. So what did they do, They got golf balls and drivers, teed up, and proceeded to drive a barrage of golf balls at the factory windows. They drove hundreds of them, and the state troopers were called out and the thing finally resolved itself into an old-time pitched battle. But the golt angle was anew contribution to the labor struggle. And considering the fact that golf has always been supposed to be the game of leisurely bosses, there is something grimly humorous about this new kind of tactics. BUSINESS MAN’S LEGACY npHE late William Lawrence Clements, MichA gan manufacturer who died the other day, was a fine example of the busine.j man who uses his wealth for the benefit of hi^?>tate. Mr. Clements had made a hobby of tracking down and buying original documents connected w-ith the American Revolution. In 1923 he gave his collection to the University of Michigan, and from that time until his death he added to it liberally. Asa result, scholars who wish to learn about the Revolution go to Ann Arbor instead of to London or Boston or New York. So rich is <the collection that it is still yielding to research new discoveries about colonial life. For generations to come, historians will be indebted to the Michigan business man.

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MASSIVE, military-looking Sir Frederick Whyte, British expert on far eastern affairs, lecturer and world traveler, and His Eminence Cardinal O'Connell, dean of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in America, were received Tuesday by President Roosevelt. Both Cardinal O'Connell and Sir Frederick arrived at the White House at about the same time. There was some slight mixup about which appointment preceded which, but the Cardinal passed in first. "Let me take your picture, Sir Frederick,” asked a news photographer. "On the way out,” replied the Britisher. But the picture never was taken, Sir Frederick stealing away after his appointment like the proverbial Arab. Cardinal O'Connell, regal in his scarlet robes, was an honor guest at a luncheon given by jovial Michael Mac White, minister of the Irish Free State. Guests at the affair included Minister Prochnik of Austria (who wore his seldom-used monocle for the occasion); Postmaster-General Jim Farley, beaming from ear to ear, his face as pink as k broiled lobster; black mustached Minister Alfaro of Panama; busy, bustling Jesse Jones, chairman of the RFC; courteous Prince de Ligne, the Belgian counselor, and Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace (not much of a I talker at table). Sir Frederick Whyte is stopping in Washington briefly. He has a long and enviable career as the best type of British civil servant. He was the first speaker of the Indian legislative assembly which was created in 1922 and held that . post for two years. He is deeply interested in | the future of India. As financial adviser to the i Chinese government he also rendered valuable service. He has been ten years in China . a a a PRESIDENT HOOVER appeared Wednesday in Washington—but it was upon the movie screen, in connection with an entertainment given by Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro, minister of Ecuador. Alfaro invited the West Point class of ’36 to a private showing of films depicting Hoover's 1 good-will tour to South America in 1929. The entertainment began with cocktails (Pride of the Andes) specially -concocted by the inventive Colon, after which guests adjourned to the Pan- ; American room for the picture. Seven reels of film handled by the capable Arthur de Titta. movietone executive, drew proI longed applause—notably when a likeness of Host Alfaro was flashed on the screen. o a a HUNTING the grizzly bear in the wilds of Virginia is becoming a diplomatic pastime. 1 since Signor Giuseppe Tommasi of the Italian ‘ embassy and Baron Johan Beck-Friis of the Swedish legation set, the fashion. Although these valiant sportsmen returned bear-less from Dismal Swamp. Va.. others are j setting forth in search of better luck. Next to ! dare the terrors of Virginia grizzlies is intrepid Sidney Gest. former American diplomat and : admirer of Mexico. Sidney is going to Dismal Swamp next week, attired in his Charro costume of brown leather, ; accompanied by an Oklahoma guide. If he misses a grizzly bear, he hopes at least to bring down a few ducks. u v a YOUNG Raoul de Medina, son of former Bolivian minister to tbe United States, has presented to his friends copies of his new book, j "Autopsy of the Monroe Doctrine.” grimiy shrouded in black and white binding. Raoul writes under the pen name “Gaston Nerval,” and since taking up a literary career, spends much time in New York. His book has been renewed favorably. Two Frenchmen have invented a gun that will paralyze aviators with mysterious rays. while the people will be paralyzed by fright. An earthquake shock was felt in Cuba, and everybody grabbed his gun or ran for the cellar.

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<Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2HO words or less.) MISTAKES OF PAST SHOULD BE REDEEMED. By Jack Tiresias. Those who protest that our moral values have broken down in the years following the World war and in the depression protest in vain at conditions that always have existed :.n time of economic distress and in times of great social change. It is true that we need a deeper belief in mankind and in the spiritual nature of men. But until we are free to work and to be remunerated for our labor, there is little to come in the way of spiritual regeneration. Because we have been impelled by greed we have precipitated the collapse of our industrial civilization. It is only by generosity and co-oper-ation that we can establish it once more. In that civilization, men either will strive for mental and moral attainments or they will lapse again into the struggle for wealth and power that have brought us low. But our rebirth, which appears to be coming slowly, must be first in economics and that in society. A hungry and worried man always will close his ears to the preacher who says: "Forget that your family is j starving, and think of God.” In the meanwhile, as the necesI sary changes in our business strucj ture are being made, we only can lose by trying to drown our sorrows in dissipation. We have seen similar conditions to ours in all periods of unrest, especially in the time of the Caesars and after the French revolution. It is not by a synthetic I spiritual uplift that we are going j to mend our ways, but with a faith ! in the permanent and essential fineess of humanity. Instead of cursing at the morals of our age, it would be better for 1 the preachers and moralists to work for a society in which their ideals can grow. It is no time for one man to decry the conduct of those who are motivated by factors beyond the | control of any individual. It is the time for all men to work j together in tolerance, in faith and ; with energy. And to the Jerimaids, ! let us say: What have you done to bring about these same conditions | that you find abhorrent now? SureI ly. no one can rest on his oars, criti- | rising the world, when all of us are ! needed now to redeem the mistakes we have made in the past. a a a AID FOR HUNGRY IS CRYING NEED By Harvey Jones The other evening on Pennsylvania street a shabby, frightened : man asked me for money to buy some food. I took him to dinner 1 and let him talk. He told me that he can not get back his old job as a painter, and I that, having no family, he is unable I to receive help from the govern--1 ment. He is walking the streets, j looking everywhere for work. “What bothers me the worst,” he said, "is having nothing to think about except where in the devil I'm going to get the next meal and a place to sleep. When you look like I do, you can’t get any sort of job: you’ve got to put up a front.” This man had no faith in a government that allows him to beg and to sleep in a 25-cent hovel. He has not the intelligence to think of what might be done for him and other men. he is as skeptical of the Socialists as he is of the present administration. "What can you expect,” he told me, "when every one looks after himself and doesn’t care what happens to other people.” 1 remem-

LOOKING UP!

Morrissey Retention Urged

By N. C. During the recent campaign, Mayor-Elect Kern stated that he would, if elected, keep politics out of the police and fire departments. He also based his entire series of talks on the fact that his policy would be a continuation of Mayor Sullivan's administration. Without civil service, politics is a natural part in the make-up of these departments. So Mr. Average Citizen takes that with a grain of salt. If Judge Kern does follow the business administration of Mayor Sullivan, he will be a truly efficient and respected mayor. I see in the papers where there actually is thought of changing our police chief. If Judge Kern, would allow that to happen, he will be violating his one and only general promise—that of following Mayor Sullivan’s program. Personally, I can think of no concrete reason for Chief Morrissey’s proposed removal. In talk-

bered what Emerson says of the quiet desperation of the majority of men, and wondered in this man’s case what would happen when that desperation reached a kindling point. When he went out on the street a cold wind had come up, and the stranger pulled up his collar and walked away. I will be glad this winter if I shoujd meet him in a dark alley when he may be forcing food for himself at the point of a gun. I will be glad if he recognizes me, and stays his finger. We have reason to expect a hungry winter. I don't know if we will have the long-threatened bread riots or if crime still will increase. But I do know that civilization is very sick when desperate men walk the streets hungry, and other people have more than they actually need. I had no job to give this man, no place to let him sleep. Until men who can give jobs and food and lodging have done so, we will not go home this winter confident of our personal security and of the stability of our country. IMMEDIATE “REVISION OF LIQUOR LAW IS URGED By a Lone-Time Subscriber. With the political campaigns out of the way, I think it high time that Governor McNutt came forth with an announcement of plans, if any, his administration has worked up for revision of Indiana’s liquor laws. If the Governor hasn’t already done so. I think it would be just about ripe for the Governor, canny Frank McHale. his No. 1 adviser; his Pleas Greenlee, not so dumb as oft pictured, and his shrewd, able lawmaker. Jacob .Weiss, to get together and start drafting a little bill for anew liquor law. And if the Governor is interested I wish some'one like Mr. Simmons would whisper in his ear that the importer clause is the first of the awful, awful things that ought to be stricken from the law. a a a “UNAMERICAN” IS CRY OF “OLD LINERS” Bt Franklin Palmer When the old-line politicians, such as Governor Merriam of California. see their cherished rights of exploitation endangered by the ideas, however Utopian, of more democratic statesmen, their first cry is that of unAmerican! In times like these, when more than ever the rights of the people are being upheld and organized, it is well to re-

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

ing to people of all classes in the last two years, I often have heard comments on Chief Morrissey’s record for honesty and efficiency. Just stop and consider the wonderful improvements and modernization that Chief Morrissey established. Ask your own and the other police reporters, as I have, what they think of the present chief. Ask the average fai*-minded policeman, regardless of rank, his honest opinion in comparison to former chiefs. Chief Morrissey is one of the few men who ever held that office, with the exception of the beloved Jerry Kinney, who never has openly been accused of corruption. The Indianapolis Times claims to be, and generally is, a fair newspaper. Print Chief Morrissey’s record with regard to crime curtailment, equipment changes, and cost savings. I think you would be rendering a public service.

member just what it is to be an American. In no way do I suggest that the New Dealers, the Farmer-Laborites or the Socialists, conventional or of the Upton Sinclair variety, are more in the American tradition than the Republicans and the reactionary Democrats in general. But our advanced parties are not controlled by any authority outside of this country and we only can criticise them fairly as impractical or destructive and never as unAmerican. Our nation was founded on a revolution that was even more of a class war, a war between the Tories who were supported by England and the Whigs who wanted freedom for the greater masses of people, than a mere war for the rights of a country yet unformed. a a a BEER LAW SCORED; LEGISLATORS BLAMED Bt Thomas Ralston. The result of the Indiana beer law is appalling, because of its demoralizing effect on our children. Due to the unrestricted sale of liquor, boys and girls of high school age and younger all over the state are congregating in saloons and beer parlors instead of spending their evenings in more desirable places. The blame for this condition rests entirely on the Democratic members of the legislature. TIMES CONGRATULATED ON POLITICAL CAMPAIGN By D. Yaver Congratulations on your noble achievement of passing Lil* Arthur Robinson into oblivion. Your wonderful editorial and cartoon campaign, more than anything else, accomplished this major operation and the citizens of Indiana owe you a debt beyond comprehension. As the final returns came rolling in, it was quite obvious the great majority of people are not the least bit frightened they are going to be regimented or have personal liberty denied them. The boogey man tactics of the subsidized press failed completely. SALARY TOO LOW FOR DECENT LIVING, HE SAYS B * Time* Reader. I would like for you to print this letter on your editorial page in reply to L. B. Peak’s letter which appeared in your paper Nov. 12, about Winifred Wilson. He says that a man with a fam-

NOV. 17, 1934

ily of seven should be able to feed them well on SIO.BO weekly. I am a young man, 24, have been married for two years and have made a salary of $9.72 weekly since February, 1933. I can not very well keep two on the salary, so how do you expect Mr. Wilson to feed on his salary? You must be one of those who never had to scrimp and scrape to make ends meet, and probably never earned under $25 or $35 a week, and try to say others can live on less. If you would try it, you would not be so bold about this statement. When the NRA became effective wages were to be not less than $14.50 a week, but I never have had mine raisei. I am working for a railroad company and /lot for the county.

So They Say

Vtfe need more money in this country.—Senator Huey Long. We know that the good sense of the American people will lead them to reconstruction. —Pope Pius. I long so often for the black, black soil.—Anna Sten, famous Russian actress. The desire of the investment banker to lend capital was greater than that of corporations to borrow.—Ralph T. Crane, president, Investment Bankers’ Association. When National Socialism came into power, the most immediate task was to make clear to other countries they could expect no more money from us. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German minister of economics. Hoarding belongs to a period of civilization that is past.—Edouard Dalladier, French radical Socialist. To plan for Utopias is to stop thinking and efforts to attain Utopias are efforts toward chaos.—Dean Wallace B. Donham of Harvard. World traffic by airships can be accomplished only by international friendly co-operation, or not at all. —Dr. Hugo Eckener. The first charge on us is to lay down anew security of livelihood. —Paul U. Kellogg, magazine editor. Unless the public has had experience in spending large sums of money on a wayward son, it might not be able to appreciate the feelings of a broken-hearted father.— Thomas H. Robinson Sr., father of Stoll kidnap suspect.

Daily Thought

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.—Job, 5:21. We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.—Thoreau.

I HEARD.

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM I heard the sigh of dying leaves. A gasping, shortened breath; The muffled swish of women’s , skirts Treading the hall of death. I heard the dance of falling leaves. A rustle and a leap; The dreamland song of many elves Pajama-clad for sleep.