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MONDAY NOVEMBER 19 1934 “GREAT STI FF!’’ PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT watched the Tennessee valley authority's workmen at Norris blast rot it from a hillside, puherizc it, mix it into concrete and swing it into the forms of a gigantic dam. Seeing hundreds of men. who might otherwise be unemployed, at work on a job which will serve thousands of Americans for at least a century, the President exclaimed: “It’s great stuff, isn't it?'* The Pri Mdent only had started his tour of inspection of the Tennessee valley. At the southern end, in Tupelo, Miss., he was able to visualize tie benefits of his No. I regional planning project. There, people who once used a niggardly amount of electricity because of high rates have taken advantage of TV A low rates to m tall modern lighting facilities, electric ranges, refrigerators and water heaters. Electric power has become their seivant. Nor does its service end in the home or In the store. It promises to bring them new industries. new Income and anew standard of living, blending agricultural and industrial activity to overcome the old unfavorable balance of trade. The TVA project truly is 'great stuff.’* Eventually it will be duplicated in many a river valley throughout the nation.

FAIR ENOUGH INSTEAD of ranting about government interference** and -invasion of property rights.” President Gifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company politely welcomes the investigation by the federal communications commission. "In a business as extensive as ours, which so vitally concerns so many people." says Mr. Gifford, "the public has a right to the fullest information as to how its affairs are conducted. We therefore have no objcct.ons to investigation by properly constituted authorities. Wc have no skeletons in our closet . . . we are concerned primarily with furnishing the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost. We believe there is no conflict between our aim and the aim of the... commission.” Mr. Gifford deserves praise. In passing, it may be said that his statement is typical of public utterances of A. T. <& T. executives. It largely is because of this enlightened viewpoint that the Bell system enjoys an enviable good will. Less adroit executives of the many le.'-s popular utilities might well emulate this attitude. Doubtless Mr. Gifford will join in the request that federal budget officials and congress allocate to the communications commission enough money to hire an adequate staff of accountants and other investigators. This inquiry should be exhaustive and should be condui ed by the public s own representatives.

CHILD LABOR of the accomplishments under the national recovery act which has given me the greatest gratification is the outlawing of child labor.” President Roosevelt wrote to the national child labor committee. “It show how simply a long desired reform, which no individual or state could accomplish alone, may be brought about when people work together. It is my desire that the advances attained through NRA be made permanent. In the child labor field the obvious method of maintaining the present gains is through ratification of the child labor amendment. I hope this may be achieved.” The economic thick-headedness that allows children to toil while jobless adults eat the bread of charity belongs to a past age. The United States already practically has banned industrial child labor. All of the more than 500 codes contain a minimum age limit ©f 18 years for workers, though thirteen of then permit exemptions under certain conditions. Both major parties are committed to abolishing child labor. Twenty states have ratified the child labor amendment. With only sixteen more states needed, and legislatures of twenty-four states that have not ratified meeting in 1935. America can put the official ban on this medievalism next year. The national child labor committee announces that, as soon as thirty-six states have ratified it will ask congress for a law perpetuating the NRA code provisions. This would fix a 16-year age minimum for employment. with light work in certain industries permitted outside of school hours at 14 years, and an 18-year age minimum for hazardous occupations. Tis is a reasonable reform, long overdue. GERMAN EQUALITY ENERAL JAN SMUTS of South Africa N-J Jong has been one of the most respected men m the British empire Now he comes forward with a suggestion that might well win respect for him. to-wit: That the nations try to insure peace by acting as if they wanted peace, instead of stalking about with bludgeons la their hands. Genera! Smuts refers to the German problem. What he says is worth quoting: “There is only one way to remove the inferiority complex that is obsessing and poisoning the mind and the very soul of Germany; namely, recognize her complete equality with her fellows. “Do so freely, frankly, and without reaerve. A resolute and determined effort may yet save the situation, bring Germany back to the disarmament conference and the League of Kauon*. and thus probably lead to a suh-

etantial step forward toward agreed disarmament." General Smuts likes Hitlerism no better than the next man. But he has the good sense to see that Hitlerism, like the present tendency toward war. is in large part a direct product of the repressions and inequalities of the postwar treaties. / It speaks volumes about the stupid way in which international politics have been conducted to find this simple idea, that trouble can be lessened by removing its cause, coming as such a surprise. There would be some risks attached to this program, of course. To give Germany full equality with other nations would mean to permit her to arm right up to the teeth, if she chose. A nation like France can hardly be blamed for looking on such a plan with grave anxiety. But the point to remember is that there are risks attached to the existing policy, too. When every magazine and almost every issue of your daily paper carries new rumbling of the war that everybody fears, we can hardly boast that world peace is out of danger. Furthermore, it might be argued that preservation of peace is something that it is worth taking risks to get. Too many peace policies are purely negative. Here is one that offers a straight forward, definite program. Risky? Undoubtedly. But isn’t peace worth a few perils?

THE NEW KIND OF WATER IF a few years ago someone had suggested that there are two kinds of water, one heavier and different in its action on living things, the idea would have been ridiculed. Now not only is '’heavy’’ water being produced and used in research here and abroad, but the discovery of “heavy’’ hydrogen <deuterium, to scientists) and “heavy” water has been crowned by the award of the 1934 Nobel prize m chemistry to Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia university. He is leader of the trio of American scientists who announced in 1931 that hydrogen is twins. The discovery of deuterium is one of the thrilling detective stories that science writes day by day. For ages water was water and hydrogen was the elemental stuff of the universe, the unit atom out of which the rest of the ninety-two elements presumably were built. Then there came suggestions that a second kind of hydrogen existed, and in 1931 Urey. Brickwedde and Murphy, with chemical apparatus and electroscope, captured the evidence. What of it? First of all the chemist will be able to “tag” atoms in their maneuvers within the molecules and thus be able to verify theories. Out of new theories may come new products and even new industries. Thus heavy hydrogen may have its greatest practical usefulness in solving some chemical problem in which it, as a concrete element, takes no part. Any one or anything that lives has a vital interest in heavy hydrogen and heavy water. All forms of life live in a solution of w'ater. What happens if the new jumbo .kind of hydrogen replaces the ordinary kind? Biologists are hard at work. Their early results show that life processes are slowed down. They have even gone so far as to suggest that old age is due to a possible accumulation of “heavy” water in the body. This may not be the case, but other results as startling may come out of the beginnings made by Urey, Brickwedde and Murphy.

TO CONTROL A RACKET THE American proposal at Geneva to control the manufacture and traffic in arms by an international treaty deserves—and apparently is receiving—world praise. War-scared peoples of the world hope from the proposal and its favorable reception that something worth while may yet arise from the ashes of the disarmament conference. The treaty would provide for licensing and full publicity on all manufacture and traffic in arms. Thus, presumably, no manufacturer could accept an order for war materials without consent of his government. And no nation could place an order without other nations learning of it. Tins would strike at the international anarchy in the munitions business. and tend to eliminate dangerous secrecy and plots. In starting negotiations for a treaty with other arms producing powers, the administration recognizes that this is a problem which no nation can solve alone. WILL HALT RADICALISM A WASHINGTON dispatch reports that business and administration leaders are "moving toward a common front in an effort to cash m on present recovery gains as an answer to prospective left-wing drives in congress.” If this be true, it simply indicates that business and administration leaders are showing excellent good sense. A great deal has be.n said about the radicals who will be at large in the next congress, and a great deal more has been said* about the wild and wooly legislation they will try to put through. The thing to remember is that all this is a direct result of economic pressure. The one sure way of heading off such radcalism is to hasten recovery. Let unemployment approach the vanishing point and profit return in good measure, and that threat of radical legislation will vanish of its own accord.

PLAN MILLIONS of Americans, depression victims of an unplanned system, will agree with the recommendation to the President that a permanent national planning board be established. As emphasized by the temporary board's report on a comprehensive national program, planning is the antithesis of regimentation. "Planning." says the report, "consists in the systematic, continuous, forward-looking application of the best intelligence available to programs of common affairs in the public field . . . contemplates readjustment and revision. as new situations and problems emerge." With adequate national planning over the last one hundred years, our once-rich forests would not now be denuded, our once-rich grazing lands of the western plains would not now be turning into a desert, our coal and other national resources would not have been wasted. National pinning even for the last decade

would have helped harness social progress with industrial progress, built up unemployment reserves, worked out a long-range plan of public works and a sound, integrated national* credit system. ft could have made unnecessary wasteful emergency doles and public spending and the overnight improvisation of stop-gap banking regulations. It could have prevented many false starts and stops not only in the Hoover administration ijut also in these first twenty months of the Roosevelt administration. The only opponents of national planning are those who do not understand it. ROYALTY PUTS ON SHOW THE chief function of royalty in this modern world is illustrated aptly by the wealth of stories that are getting in the papers about the prospective marriage of Princess Marina of Greece and Prince George of England. The latest news is that Marina has been buying her trousseau. We are getting full details on the afternoon frocks, morning ensembles. evening gowns, jeweled accessories, and What-not; and a lot of readers are finding something glamorous and exciting in this account of a princess and her wedding wardrobe. And this, after all, is what royalty is for —to put on a good show. Certainly it seems to have no other function these days. It is simply an exhibit. It is most successful ‘ when it makes its exhibit glittering, colorful, and full of the old-,.me, story-book romance.

“UNOPTIMISTIC” NOT content with efforts to keep the CCC boys—like King Arthur’s legendary knights —pure of body, heart and mind, Director Robert Fechner apparently wants to keep their minds empty as well. He has censored out of civilian conservation corps libraries a pamphlet called “You and Machines.” It was written by Professor William F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, approved by the war department and the education office. It told in simple language how machines have brought poverty instead of wealth, unhappiness instead of happiness. It shed light on why these thousands of young men were out cutting brush and building roads instead of doing what they were educated to do. It explained technological unemployment. It called upon youth to make machines serve instead of destroy civilization. It seemed an innocent enough tract, but Director Gachner would have none of it. It was, he said, “foo unoptimistic.” The hearts of the sylvan knights must not be troubled with doubts, nor their minds sullied with thinking. They may make themselves toughmuscled, but not tough-minded. Ever they must follow their Patroness Pollyanna. Funny that Andrew Mellon should be indignant over the government's suit for $2,000,000 back taxes, when most of us would feel highly complimented. Santa Claus decided to make an early trip this year to the Dionne quintuplets, so he'll be able to make it for the rest of us on Christmas. Another reason Princess Marina might have for selecting only thirteen costumes for her trousseau is that she’d like to devote a little of her time to Prince George.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

FIERY, quick-moving Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York recently bustled about town on one of his hasty and infrequent trips to Washington, attended the opening session of the advisory council on economic security, and whizzed back to New York by airplane. La Guardia moved so swiftly it was hard to follow him. At one moment he was chatting animatedly with Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. The next moment he was climbing into an automobile. Ten minutefe later he was soaring toward Manhattan. In a brief, pungent talk concerning economic needs, the New York executive characterized charts and diagrams as worthless. He wise-cracked: "I’ve seen the same charts used to prove that unemployment insurance is no good and to determine the amount of lipstick used in the Polish corridor.” Again, paraphrasing the oft-quoted remark about the United States Constitution, he added significantly: “You can’t eat charts!” Wearing a rumpled blue suit, horn-rimmed glasses (which he frequently wiped on his handkerchief*, and a seldom-fading grin, his honor accomplished a prodigious amount of business in short order. He has been working hard and seemed tired at the close of the session. He slipped away from Washington as quietly as he had slipped away from New York, where he temporarily abandoned the difficult problem of finding a tax program in order to attack economic problems here.

THE white spatr-so long banished from state department corridors—has again come into its own, with the arrival of the Panama treaty commission. Members of the commission are here to negotiate a treaty with the United States, and, incidentally, to revive the vogue of spats in the Latin-American diplomatic corps. Seldom has so be-spatted a group of international law experts arrived here. Spectacled, elegant Dr. Narciso Garay is the best turned out of the crowd. He wears fawn colored overcoats, smartly cut morning coats and his spats are a pure shade which no one has been able to equal. Minister Alfaro of Panama, more conservative. wears pearl gray spats and gloves to match. But the Hon. Carlos Lopez's white spats are something to marvel at. Dr. Leo Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, has searched his spat collection in vain to find any like it. Unable to compete, he imitated Legation Secretary Juan Chevalier and appeared spatless, in highly polished black axfords. a a a BENJAMINO (or. to be less ornate) Ben Cohen has sailed from Santiago, Chile, and will arrive here in several weeks to resume his duties as counselor of the Chilean embassy. News of Ben's imminent arrival delighted friends here, who supposed he might never return. Since his departure he has been all over South America and has had numerous experiences. Ben was in the thick of the Paraguay-Boliv-lan war. was robbed of important diplomatic dispatches by an international pickpocket, conducted important private negotiations for Minister of Foreign Affairs Conehago. and was reported first in one capital then another—like Sindbad the Sailor. During Ben's absence, the most important things accomplished by the Chilean embassy here was presenting a book to President Roosevelt. Another thrilling bit of news—Chilean Ambassador Trucco is just back from New York where he saw the Chilean team capture fourth place in the horse show. France was first, the United States second, and Canada, third.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short , so all can hare a chance. I.imit them to 250 words or less.) n n a NATION HURTING GROWTH IN CROP PROGRAM By F. L. H. Some who are sympathetic with the government’s crop destruction program argue that it is just as wise for the farmer to cut production, when producing at a loss, as it is for Henry Ford. Perhaps the cutting of production on the farm is attended with more danger than it is in the factory. When the heavens dry up, it does not prevent Henry Ford from manufacturing cars. The corn borer doesn't seem to like automobiles. If Uncle Sam were involved in a great war tomorrow and we were short on automobiles and food—two imI portant factors in warfare we ! could produce millions of automobiles in a short time. But it would take nature nearly a year and a half to produce a hog for market. It would take until the middle of next September to produce a grain of corn, and until July, 1936, to produce a grain of fall wheat, if the wheat was not sown last September. Destroying crops, to the tune of “Tighten up your belt, boys,” is a fine way to halt the growth of our population. Shall the next army that goes to the front in our defense, be old men on crutches? If so, then after j the war is over a foreigner may be 1 occuping the old home on the hillside,- instead of you, Mr. Farmer. Raising prices on the underpaid i laboring class means that they will be compelled to consume less. It takes less hired hands, box cars, j trucks and clerks to get this “less” to the people. This perhaps explains the increase on unemployment.

LEAGUE OF LOYAL DEMOCRATS SCORED FOR ACTIVITIES Here we have a league called ‘‘The League of Loyal Democrats.” These "Democrats” are ariti-New Deal. These Democrats are not Democrats, they are Republicans of the worst tvpe. These Democrats are afraid to face the facts. They are organizing an anti-Sinclair league for the purpose of crushing radical propaganda, they can call any thing radical, any thing that is not fit for their greedy interest. These are the ones that are doing any thing in their power to prevent the New Deal having a success. These are the anti-Roosevelt program "ats” who disguised as "loyal Democrats” bore the Roosevelt balloon from inside and flatten it beyond hope of rising again and for their deeds they blame the radicals. They use the Message Center for their ill propaganda when they can pay for it with the ill-gotten cash. There is the rich element in the party and those who lick the sweet dollars behind them. They care not for the millions who suffer. These "Loyal Democrats” if they had come out before the election and said what they now are saying they would have so disgusted the Democratic voters that our party would have lost ail its prestige, and the election. These are the Democrats who eventually will destroy the party from within. They can not see the mistakes they make. They think they can fool the voters all the time. The voters, millions of us, need food, clothing, shelter and good time, these kind of Democrats offer us misery beyond hope. Sinclair seems to be the only who gives

Traffic Problems Aired

By Jimmy Cafouros Evidently all good things ultimately come to their end. That can well be observed on Saturday if you try to drive through the mile square or any other thriving portions of the city. One wonders how on earth so many motor cars, trucks, and other vehicles can crowd themselves into such a restricted space in so short a time. Obviously there is a defect; some place. And it seems that quantitatively the automobiles are on the uptrend so that conditions will grow worse. It has not been so long since an intersection was the operating traffic officer’s own business and

us the least light of hope to solve our economic problems. I care not if you call him Socialist. Let him be Socialist, so much the better, that shows that we Democrats have not sense enough to do the things the Socialist can do. You unemployed, who stand in line by the thousands like sardines, at the employment agencies and at county trustees’ offices, be on the alert, or you will be crushed by your own party deformers. Arise ye sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, workers of hands and brain, have some respect for yourselves. So far we have fought battles for the rich. That is why few today own the wealth of the nation. We, the millions who have produced the wealth should enjoy it. If we are not enjoying it ours is the blame. The future is ahead, let us prepare ourselves for any political event. Nineteen thirty six is not far away. Twenty months from now we shall hear all*politicians come out to fool us again. Twenty months is long enough time to train your minds for political action, to cure all the past social ills. It is up to us and not up to the “League of so-called Loyal Democrats.”

WORKERS, FEARING WORST DO NOT SPEND MONEY By a Times Reader. Perhaps the exponent of the low-wages-for-workers theory imagines that his latest contribution in the Message Center will silence forever those of us who in our blissful ignorance do not agree with him. However, I for one. am still a bit hazy as to his conclusions. It is one thing to answer simple questions directly; it is another to answer with a flock of statistics which might prove or disprove most anything. It would be well for those of higher intelligence to bear in mind that we of the more simple and trusting class are only responsive to that which is obvious. And to me it certainly is obvious that if this contributor has the proper solution for our own nation’s ills, we should have turned that celebrated corner long before now. I have yet to talk to a business man who supports such a theory. It seems to be an EPIC plan in reverse. I can not conceive of any one sponsoring a plan which already Kas been tried and proved a failure. If a man doubts this statement, let him ask any merchant what low wages has done for him in the last five or six years. He will discover that workers hardly buy absolute necessities because they feel insecure and have no surplus and for this same reason credit pcan not be

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

he manipulated the traffic rather handily and with no great effort. Those were the days of the horses and all their things. A horse or an automobile was the order then. Today a traffic jam at one corner means congestion at many corners. It always has been a conviction that traffic entering at one point in the mile square should emerge at the other end without stopping once. This is possible if every intersection is supplied with semaphors and if they operate in checkerboard fashion. Also, this would release the policemen to cruise about, adjusting emergencies.

extended to them nor can they pay the bills they already owe. Perhaps the merchant, like the rest of us simple folk, does not realize that soon the employer class will come driving up to his store, or every store, and with the profits which they have been able to amass as a result of low wages, will start a wave of buying that will once more make this a rich and prosperous nation. Another fine feature of this plan is that if and when this prosperity arrives, the unemployment situation will be greatly simplifiied because of the fact that half of us will be starved to death. 808 SEEKS TO LEARN WHAT U. S. DOES FOR LOSERS Bv S. R. Baker. It would be interesting to know what the government has done for the relief of depositors in the closed banks; if it is doing anything or intends doing anything. Having lost all I had in banks I am very much interested. Editor’s Note—The government has aided in reopening of banks, but has not helped the depositors in obtaining funds lost in bank failures.

CO-OPERATION OF NATION ! NEED IN CRISIS *>y Franklin Palmer. Throughout our entire history liberty of the masses, the right to have fair wages and decent hours has been based on the war that gave our freedom from King George. When America was not yet developed industrially and agriculturally. ! we could without danger, allow the capitalists to exploit the land, to build the great railroads and establish the great mercantile systems; there was more than enough to go around, and freedom of action let the capitalists expand at a rate impossible under a controlled state. Now we have come to a point at which the idea has broken down. In order to survive we must cooperate, labor with capital and consumer with producer, in order that one class of men will not grow rich while the other starves. It may be that the New’ Deal has already gone sufficiently far to the

Daily Thought

And He said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you—St. Luke, 3:13. Lose not thy own for want of asking for it: it will get thee no thanks.—Fuller.

_NOV. 19, 1934

left. It may be that the progressive Republicans are sound in their views that some of the restraints on present business are frightening the industrialists into stagnation. But, let us in the name of honesty and dignity, remember that Sinclair and La Follette are Americans as much as I<ncoln was, and that we can not with impunity cry un-American when the masses arise and cry, as they did in 1776, that the rights of the people are stolen from them. B B B NEWSPAPER EDITOR IS LAUDED BY WRITER By a Reader. In the Message Center Nov. 14, I read another harsh attack on the Indianapolis Republican newspapers. I wonder if you ever receive any kind words relative to your fellow editors and if you would print them if you did. The contributor's shotgun practice of referring to these two separate institutions as one is unfair in the opinion of people who know both. This week I have taken two articles up to the people’s column of the News. This editor is a gentleman. Please print that last word becausa he is all it means. He Is all that is valuable in Christian accomplishments. Only a few moments are required to express these attainments which require a lifetime to develop, is he not your “ideal young Republican?”

So They Say

The only time I’ll collapse is when I get back my baby, and then I'll collapse for joy.—Mrs. Glona Morgan Vanderbilt. Ball clubs are no bargain today. —Colonel Tillinghast Huston, former part owner of New York Yankees. I have been struck by the deadening standardisation of American life. —Lieutenant Pasupuleti G. Krishnayya, educator of India. Isn’t it funny how people back home can handle an expedition from their office?—Captain Bo'o Bariett, who accompanied Admiral Peary to the North Pole. What does this currency rest on? Gold? No! It rests on wind.— United States Senator S.meon D. Fess of Ohio.

WHY?

BY J. DUKE MOTLEY Why in earth's great glowing glory Os sunshine in the fall Do caterpillars choose the roads Os all places to crawl? With goldenrod and asters strewn In field and wood and ditch, Why should motor-ridden highways Fur-coated worms bewitch? In unconcern, they wiggle forth. While 'round them engines roar; Sometimes they journey safely on; Off death flings wide his door. It seems the danger spots of life Are gifted with appeal; From lowly worm to lofty man. Temptations they reveal. They lure us blandly onward where It's nice and warm to crawl, To meet our fate with life or death In golden glow of falL