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TUESDAY. NOvniBER JO. IM4. GET HEADY TO ACT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT believes that every state in the union will copy the government's federal power project in the Tennessee Valley. He recognizes the fact that the only way that a utility can be controlled successfully is by competition. Indiana should begin to get ready for cheaper power. The next session of the legislature should pave the way for publicly-owned power projects, which will mean lower rates and more industries for the state. An Indiana Power Authority should be set up. ThLs organization would be self-financing. It would issue its own bonds, the yield on which would be guaranteed by the taxpayers. All of the earnings from power sold would go into actual cost of operation, amortization •nd interest on the bonds and the furnishings of cheap power. A power dam could be built in northeastern Indiana. Because this dam would also be part of the Mississippi Flood Control plan federal funds would be available for Its construction. The Indiana Power Authority could install the generating equipment. The authority also should construct a steam plant in the western part of the state, thus furnishing a market for coal and giving employment to workers in the mining industry. In the southern Indiana the authority weU could arrange for the transmission of TV A power to Evansville and neighboring communities. This plan would take nothing out of the pockets of the taxpayers. It would catch the private utilities in the jaws of a vice. If they did not behave all the authority would have to do would be to extend its facilities and wipe out the recalcitrant and mismanaged concerns. Such a plan would be far more effective than a thousand legal maneuverings and trials. The utilities have proved by their own record in the last fifteen years that there is just one thing to do with them: "Treat ’em rough!"

POLITICS IN RELIEF SENATOR BORAHS charges of waste of federal relief funds deserve—and apparently will receive— equally frank answers from ReUef Administrator Hopkins. If only half of Mr. Borah s allegations are true, they constitute a shameful record. No one is likely to agree more emphatically than Mr. Hopkins. Congress. Mr. Borah admits, was the original c-inuer, because it failed to erect proper safeguards and failed to fix responsibility. It enacted a loose-jointed law, under which Mr. Hopkins was required to allocate lump sums to the various states. It failed to provide adequately. as Mr. Borah points out. for federal audits and controls over expenditures by the state and local relief organizations. Pay rolls and administrative costs are said to absorb 25 per cent of the total relief funds expended in some states—for instance in Arkansas. 'With 11 3 per cent the average administrative cost the nation over, it should hav e been obvious that something was wrong in such atates. We agree with Mr. Borah that "25 per cent for administration is waste upon the face of it.” The law specifically gives to the federal administrator powers to investigate and. if he deems it advisable, to take over the relief administration in any state. This Mr. Hopkins has done in a few states. Investigation probably will show both state machines and the national Democratic machine have shared in these pork barrel activities and other political abuses in the relief system. It is no excuse, but it is at least consoling that 75 per cent of the relief personnel would have been on the relief rolls had they not been placed on the pay roll. There are other mitigating circumstances, and judgments should not be sudden. Millions of people were starving when the FERA lunged to their rescue. Without organization, and without either the power or the time to set up adequate machinery. FERA had to trust blindly to state agencies. A certain amount of waste and inefficiency was inevitable. But these are not reasons why mistakes of the past should not be swiftly corrected. The chief evil is the political one The public must insist that politic* take its paw out of the relief till.

flexible planning Decision of the agricultural adjustment administration to permit an Increase in com and hog production next year emphasizes again the flexibility of the government s planning program But it may embarrass political critics of production control, who shed so many tears over "the murder of little pigs.” A few weeks ago corn-hog farmers in a referendum voted for continuance of the government a program, demonstrating their faith in co-operation and planning. Scarcity never has been the goal of the AAA. Its first objective mas to eliminate priceaurpluse*. That has been accomplished largely la wheat and com and hog*. The present of the AAA is to keep production and consumption of these product* on n even tool, and thereby hold up farm purchasing power. The ultimate objective is to stimulate both production and consumption. This can be achieved only by a steady upbuilding of urban as well as rural purchasing power. ANOTHER CONVERT LAM MOT DU FONTS statement that the ' federal government should rigidly control the munitions business is encouraging. Only last summer. Irenes Du Pont testily charged that visionary pacifists and sensation mongers had fomented the senate inquiry. In p vary fcyrt tons, he questioned the right

of any one to dispute the patriotism of munitions makers. . The senate committee brought out testimony that during the World war the Du Pont company received $1,245,000,000 in orders and paid dividends totaling 458 per cent of the par value of the original stock. Now Mr. Lammot Du Pont declares that the federal government has both the right and the duty to curb excessive war-time profits in all lines of industry. The Du Pont opposition to nationalization of the munitions business deserves consideration. But that solution properly will be kept open until the senate committee has completed Its investigation and giade its report. MUCH WORK TO DO THOSE sleeky, streamlined trains that the railway lines have been throwing about the country lately come dose to being the most encouraging single thing that has happened since the depression. Or, to be more exact, the public’s response to them does. Since those trains appeared, the newspapers and magazines have been full of predictions of vast new railroad construction programs. Hand in hand with this has come a great revival of interest in new types of construction in other fields. Makers of steel houses are stirring from the long sleep. Automobile makers are playing around with new designs. Even the output of such things as refrigerators and household furniture has been affected. Now all this, to begin with, is simply the process of putting ourselves on tiptoe to peer into an enormous new field that is fairly begging for industrial expansion. A great opportunity awaits American business, somewhere not far off; it begins to look as if we would be moving into it in the near future. But there is more to it than that. It also signifies the revival of the old, traditional American spirit. We are discovering that the world is not coming to an end, after all—that there is work to be done, and lots of it. and that we might just as well roll up our sleeves and get busy on it. We talked so much about overproduction, overexpansion, and overcapitalization in the last four years that we fooled ourselves into thinking that we had left our golden age away behind as somewhere. Everything was finished, all the big jobs had been done, and the only thing that would ever set the wheels going again was a great program of occasionally useless public works. Then we saw a couple of brand new types of railroad train, did a little meditation, and discovered that it just wasn’t so. There is enough work crying to be done in this country to keep us all busy for generations. When we have remade the world’s greatest railroad system, rebuilt some millions of homes, harnessed all our streams, restored our failing forests, checked soil erosion and performed a dozen other similar fifty-year jobs—then it may be time for us to look around and ask, “What next?" But we won’t see that time. Our grandchildren may, if they live long. Greater than all other troubles of the depression was the paralysis that fell on the old American spirit of determination and hope. That spirit is now reviving. There could not possibly be a better augury for the future.

NO PART REPRESENTATIVE EF. HUTTON of New York, one of the founders of the American Liberty League, feels that congress and the world of business must get a better understanding of each other, and that it is up to the business men to see to it that that is done. "If we admit.” he says, “that this country is essentially a nation of business people, then It becomes basically sound that they should have something to say in the halls of congress.” Now while this plea is certainly sensible enough, it contains the kind of misconception which pleaders for special groups are forever making. This country isn’t essentially a nation of business people, any more than it is essentially a nation of farmers, or steel workers, or white-collar men. It is a vast nation of human beings who enjoy certain rights as American citizens. Nothing but confusion can arise from the idea that any one group has paramount rights and represents the whole.

LETTING THE INDIANS RE THE great white father in Washington has stopped trying to force the Indian to behave like the white man. and is going to give the tribesmen every chance to continue their own development along their own lines. This promise was made in a recent lecture in Washington by Ward Shepard of the bureau of Indian affairs. It symbolizes a reform in Indian administration that has long been overdue. As Mr. Shepard says, the effort to “civilize” the red man according to white standards was doomed to failure from the start. To transplant a stone age people into an intricate industrial civilization is a hopeless task. It has led to confusion, injustice, unhappiness, and a serious deterioration of Indian life. We owe a huge debt to the Indians, though we don’t often realize it. Helping them to develop in their own way will b-j a partial repayment. One person in every ten in this country, it is said, has defective hearing. The losers in the last election might say it’s nine in every ten. Spontaneous combustion is said to have caused the Morro Castle fire, but far from spontaneous protection caused the loss of 124 lives. The cost of the New Deal the last twenty months has been put at $11.000,000 000. Now try to And your contribution in that haystack. The Nebraska farmer who ran his truck into the Burlington’s streamlined Zephyr will tell you it was no Zephyr at all; It was a cyclone. A British scientist has discovered the key to the shorthand of ancient Greece. Nevertheless. the writings will remain Greek to most ytf us. v

Liberal Viewpoint BY DIC HARRY ELMER BARNES

PRESIDENT BUTLER of Columbia university is well known for his remarkable versatility. According to facts set forth in the Nation, he never has afforded a better example of his ingenuity than in his present attitude toward liberalism and Fascism. He frequently has expounded liberal principles, and indicated the necessity of an educational system which would defend and vindicate liberalism. Last July, when addressing the Society of Pilgrims in London, he sharply called their attention to the dangers of Fascism and reaction and suggested that the English-speak-ing world ought to “rise in their overwhelming might to defend the democratic foundation on which their civilization is being built.” At the same time, according to the Nation, he permits full-blown and unabashed Fascist propaganda to flourish under his very nose at the Casa Italiana, the center of the Italian department of Columbia university. The Nation charges that this “has become an unofficial adjunct of the Italian consul-general’s office in New York and one of the most important sources of Fascist propaganda in America.” It would seem that Dr. Butler is determined to be prepared for either alternative—a liberal America or a Fascist America. ana THE story of this remarkable situation as unfolded in the Nation is as follows: The Casa Italiana was erected mainly through funds contributed by the Italian-Americans of Greater New York. Agents of the Italian government also have contributed to the support and furnishing of the Casa Italiana. The head of the Italian department at Columbia university is Professor Dino Bigonyiari, openly Fascist in his sympathies and activities. He invited to Columbia as visiting-professor of Italian, Giuseppe Prezzolini. a renegade Ital* ian liberal and one time associate of Professor Salvemini in the defense of Italian liberalism and democracy. The Italian department at once proceeded to build up Signor Prezzolini as a forerunner of II Duce. The heroiic exegesis necessary to make out of Prezzolini a sort of John the Baptist for Mussolini was executed by Professor Peter M. Riccio of the Italian department. Shortly after this effort, Signor Prezzolini was made director of the Casa Italiana and full professor of Italian at Columbia. The Casa Italiana maintains an educational bureau headed by a high school principal, Leonard Covello. The bureau of education carries on Fascist propaganda among the New York Italians. According to the Nation, the Italian con-sul-general of New York City contributed $3,000 last year for the maintenance of this bureau and other related activities of the Casa Italiana. tt u o THE Casa Italiana also has an official publication known as the “Italy-America Monthly.” This is overly Fascist in tone and in nine months of publication has not carried a single article which was in any way critical of the Fascist regime in Italy. Its leading contributor has been Beniamino de Ritis, an officer of the ItalyAmerica Society and a Fascist propagandist. There are no anti-Fascists in the Columbia Italian department, and Professor Arthur Livingston, the foremost American scholar in the field of Italian literature and culture, has been edged out of the Italian department into the department ‘of French. Thus, while a foreign journalist of no scholarly pretensions, he has been brought in as full professor of Italian. Nobody of sense or balance would demand that Fascism should be excluded from a fair hearing at Columbia university, in spite of its divergence from American traditions. By the same token, however, critics of Fascism should be allowed the same privileges and freedom. The Fascist Italian department at Columbia is not willing to concede this. It accords no hospitality within its own confines to antiFascist scholars and it has refused to invite eminent Italians, critics! of the Mussolini regime, to lecture at Columbia. So long as it thus abuses the principles of intellectual freedom in this fashion, it can not fairly invoke them in its own behalf. One can well imagine what a howl would go up if the Soviet government helped to furnish and support a Karl Marx House at Columbia university and if a prominent Moscow editor were called to Columbia as full professor of Russian literature and culture. The present procedure of the Casa Italiana is precisely comparable to this.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

TALL, lean Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republican stalwart and mentioned as one of his party's hopes for President in 1936, was lionized when he appeared at a cocktail party on his return to Washington. “Hello . . . Hello . . . Hello, senator!” enthused a bevy of charming women as they projected themselves en masse toward him. Arthur smiled like a conquering hero, bowed gallantly, replied wittily to quips about the G. O. P. The campaign has only improved his appearance. He seemed in the pink, unwearied and entirely cheerful. Democratic friends quizzed him eagerly about his suggestion that Republican partisan opposition to the New Deal be abandoned in favor of a virtual coalition government. Surrounded by mi and women, Arthur held court after the fashion of Louis XIV. One lady was intrigued by 1 Arthur’s gray pompadour, which lends him a dashing appearance. . “I think,” she confided to an acquaintance, “he must be wearing a toupee.” a a a DIPLOMATIC corps Beau Brummels are beginning to follow President Roosevelt’s lead in wearing loud tweeds. The height of a checkered career was reached this week by Senor Eduardo (Rubio) Vivot, Argentine diplomat and sportsman, when he startled diplomatic circles by wearing blue and white checked socks, blue and white checked handkerchief and blue and white checked tieall at the same time. Over this amazing series of checks, Rubio wore a checked overcoat, and his tweed suit was not unlike the one which President Roosevelt is having made up in red, white and blue tweeds. Mrs. James Roosevelt brought the President these tweeds from Scotland last summer.

Lieutenant-colonel paolo sbernaDORI. popular air attache of the Italian embassy, and his charming wife, Magada. have postponed their departure for Rome until January. , .. . , Much delighted are Washington friends, already mourning the imminent loss of other diplomatic luminaries —to wit. Greek Minister Charalambos Simopoulos and Mme. Simopoulos, and the possible departure of Czechoslovak Minister Veverka. The Simops (as they are called) incidentally are setting a record for farewell entertainments. They have been honor guests at luncheons and dinners every single day (with two exceptions) for two weeks. That is popularity, and popularity’s price. Turkey settling our war claims against her for $1,500,000 cash. Makes it seem kind of all wrong this Thanksgiving day to roast Turkey. Howard Carter, who dug up King Tut, now plans to dig up Tut’s wife.. Just to pay old King Tut back for that famous curse. Palm Springs. Cal., is inaugurating jinricksha service instead of street cars (of which there aren't any). Trouble is, it takes so much pull to get a ride. A unique apparatus permits speeches to be heard in four different languages at the same time, at the League of Nations assemblies, with four different meanings as usual.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

‘AND I WONT BE THERE TO CRAMP HIS STYLE!’

The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to express t/ieir views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) ana PRICE BREAK FARCE IS FORECAST Bv a Times Reader. Your editorial lament, deploring the exit of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, before home owners have been given private facilities for refinancing mortgages coming due, may have appeal to the victims of high finance. The big blunder of the federal government was made when it attempted to peg the price of wheat, losing one half billion dollars in that unfortunate venture. The value of any goods or services finally are fixed by the consumer. Capital structures as well as debt structures which demand more “tariff” than the consumer will be able or willing to pay, most of necessity, be scaled down, until the price of goods and services entice the buyer to buy. The pegging of debt, which has lost its value, by RFC loans, home owners’ loans, farm loans and AAA subsidies, prevents temporary falling of the debts, to a level where they can be supported by prices which attract buyers. The law of supply and demand left to operate without these pegging operations, would have let the water out of our debt and capital structures so that production and distribution could start again on a new lower price level. The debt structure of the country was built on bank debts, which rose from thirty-three billion in 1919 to fifty-three billion in 1929. The price level prevailing during these years did not create the consumption of goods during those years. The money for the purchase was created by banks to finance production; while the consumer signed the installment contract and only asked about the first payment. The goods are gone, the products in construction shrank faster in earning value than the required payments on the debts. We had consumers inflation through bank credit inflation. The air has been taken out of these bank credits, for they have dropped to near their 1919 level, but the dead horses represented by the mortgages, bonds, notes and stock certificates are still 'here. Pay day will come for them, a dry cleaning is overdue. Consumers line shrinkage finally will force a price break which neither NRA, trade associations and unions nor RFC with other federal debt pegging can stop. Pull the pegs out and let the debt find its level.

a a a THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU CAST A VOTE By I. C. Young. May I be allowed to comment on the election of Nov. 6? The voters on that day demonstrated that the depression has not taught them a thing. Os the nearly 70.000 who voted Republican 90 per cent were workers in need of a job or more wages. By voting Republican they demonstrated beyond doubt their backwardness in politics. This applies to workers of hands as well of brains. You can not go to heaven by taking the road to hell. You can not adjust a social injustice by voting for those whose sole interests are to continue the social injustice. Theodore Roosevelt was the best President the Republicans ever gave us, but even he, all he wished to give to a working man was a full pail. ' Lincoln was not given to us by the Republicans, Lincoln gave himself to the nation. The Republicans never did and never will believe in Lincoln’s human principles. Thank the Democrats for having Just two grains of salt more than

Youths Needed in Politics

By W. H. Brennen The youths who urge new blood in their political parties should get permission from the old leaders to put up young men in the Second district and let them go out and stump the district on their own, like young Richard James did in Portland, Ind., and won. If the young set is in earnest, the members will make a try for it and the press should help. I would like to see two good orators, young and able, hook up in this race with no help except from the young set. If youths are to get anywhere in politics, they must not let the old set hold them back. And this is as good a time as any to step out in front and show their strength. They have the greatest orators in the world —college man and women, who can turn back the old set with ease. All the youths need to select candidates, if the bosses in the two old parties will let them, and make a race of it without piling in bales of money. We want to know youth’s view’s

the Republicans. Two grains are not much but when you compare it with that of the Republicans, it is so much. Indianapolis had more intelligent voters in 1932 and in 1934. These that are missing either must be dead, away from town or sick. If they were not dead, away from town or sick (politically) they would have more respect for their city political welfare. As for the next three years my guess is they will be like the last five. There are more politically-minded people in Memphis, Tenn., than in Indianapolis. This election was a victory for the Indianapolis city utility companies, a majority of employers and some politicians who, by the way, are their agents in the governing power of city, state and nation. The jobless and underpaid employed are defeated; they will have what they voted for, they closed their eyes and voted for the past, they forgot or refused to see the future, but nevertheless they can look in each other’s face the coming years and say: “How foolish we are.” • You who did not vote and you who voted backward, be more polit-ically-minded in the future, think more than twice before you vote. a a a PUBLICATION OF WAGE RATES HERE SUGGESTED By Will H. Craig. The articles printed in The Times by John T. Moutoux on the TV A, the great Tennessee valley experiment, were informative and interesting. His -final article admits that no one can estimate its cost or benefits. Time alone can tell. In his description of the model town of Norris, he gives the cost of houses at from $2,500 to 57.500 and rents at from $14.50 to $45 a month. The thing that puzzles me is how a small, three-room house costs house costs $7,500. The same thing is true of the houses to be built in the “slum” districts in Indianapolis. To make the facts clear, Mr. Moutoux should have given the wage scales for common, semi-skilled and skilled labor, and then compare these wages with those paid in the mountain districts of the south. Why not give all the facts? It is a safe guess that the men on these public works are getting from three to six times as much as those in similar private work in the Tennessee valley. The Times wisely suggested in an editorial that the high wages and

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on the political matters, and the best way to find out is to see it acted out. Os course, there will be many to seek the nominations, so here - is youth’s big chance. This kind of a race will not hurt either side much, nor will it help much only to give the entire country a chance to see if we are right in urging young men and young women to be more active in politics. I say it will attract interest of the entire nation. If such a man as young Mr. James can be persuaded to make the race, on either side, this race will put them two ye ws ahead, on our young set in politics. The people will get everything they say, and it’s worth a big effort on the young set’s part to put on a race of national interest like this. If some of the young leaders will get behind this plan on each side, Democrats and Republicans, there will be more looking on than any congressional race ever held to fill a vacancy and all because it is youth in the race. If you favor this kind of a race, tell the people to clear decks and let them race it out.

high price of material were damaging the recovery program. How can a poor fellow getting, when he can, from 20 to 40 cents an hour, pay from $1.25 to $1.75 an hour for work in .building or repairing his house? The PWA is about as wasteful as the ridiculous CWA—in one sense worse, when public buildings are built all over the country by union labor and with material furnished by profiteers. The nation has a lot of white elephants on its hands with fixed charges on bonds issued and on the upkeep of the building which are four times the cost of rents for decent, adequate properties. Won’t The Times publish the rate on w-ages in TV A and also in Indianapolis? a a a CCC WORKERS REPLY TO CRITICAL NOTES By Clifford Calvin, Russell Fisher, Xashvile, Ind. In answer to our letter on* the CCC, published recently, we have noted many kind replies and two not so kind from Bloomington. No personalities are intended, conditions only are criticised. In our opinion very few things only render Weed Patch Hill endurable. Among these are, first; our mess, the best in the state and rendered so by the ceaseless efforts of a service man in charge, second, the praiseworthy humanity and consideration of some of our leaders in their treatment of the very human problems of the men in their charge and the comradeship of fellow workers. This is the result of our efforts, In spite of our critics. We have waded in corruption, filth and unmentionable hardships to preserve your homes and ours. Have our critics done as much to preserve our homes and theirs? in the loss of these homes who, therefore is most to be blamed? When we demand our socalled “bonus,” because we are in need and it will be a mighty hammer to knock off our shackles are we more to be blamed than the banksters who have been drawing their billion dollar yearly bonus in war bond interest since the war? We are inclined to judge Bloom-

Daily Thought

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.—St. Matthew, 21:22. BELIEF is not a matter of choice. but of conviction.—Robert G. Ingersoll.

NOV. 20, 1934

ington by the very fine courtesy accorded us by the Bloomington police department, not by the sellers of bad booze there. Are we to be judged by the antics of a few overcome by the bad booze sold in Bloomington? The banksters loaned funds to the government and receive it back with a yearly interest bonus. We gave our lives, health, family, homes, friends, neighbors and we get what? Is the answer to be, “only a CCC camp.” Is that our future? Why can’t veterans be employed on the various alphabetical projects near their homes? We believe the principal behind the CCC camps the finest of any government but can not its application be improved? Haven't we more than earned our right to a CCC camp? And isn't anything we do that much extra over and above what we have already done to more than earn our p: tance of $1 a day? If we “Jive like kings,” then our ideas of royal living must be wrong. We have the impression that “kings,” have more than eighteen inches of space between their bunks.

So They Say

I got a charley-horse in my arm from shaking hands, and my legs are stiff from sitting on cushions on the floor.—Babe Ruth in Japan. I believe that today there is more mutual sympathy and understanding, nationally and internationally. —The duke of York. It is to make communism both unnecessary ahd impossible that we want to see vigorous action for Socialism.—Norman Thomas, famous Socialist. I’ve always beer, in the unfortunate position of being already married. —Frances Heenan (Peaches) Browning, engaged to marry a Denver theater manager. The capitalistic system under which our nation carne into existence holds in its very essence a doom for women.—Lena Madesin Phillips, president National Council of Women. Nature endowed man with enough | brain substance to permit him to develop mentally for a million years. —Professor Temple Fay, Temple university, Philadelphia. It is the history of football In American universities that alumni and friends mistake such occasions as opportunities for displaying undue hilarity through drinking.— Dean James F. Broussard of Louisiana State university. You never will get American soldiers to hide themselves in a hole.— General John J. Pershing, Instead of one, there are a dozen Sarajevos in Europe—Dr. Oscar Jazi of Obe-rlin college. Rehabilitation of the railroads ! furnishes a great opportunity for | stimulating commerce and industry. —Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-or- | dinator of transportation.

OUR VERSE

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL The gold leal felt the autumn chill And limply floated down, “Nj use,” it sf.id. “to wait until I’m frozen crisp and brown.” So helplessly it lay and wept Until ’neath winter’s snow it slept The red leaf said, quite unresigned “111 have a little fling Before I die a breeze I’ll And And go adventuring.” So on a breeze it danced and whirled And saw a little of the wad* t