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FT : '.Y rrOVFMBER 28. I*B4. MILK IN THE COURTS RETURN to chaos in the milk industry is not inevitable, despite the welter of basXLng court decisions. In Chicago, Federal Judge Barnes again has held that t..<* f* derai government lacks power to control milk production. In York, a special federal statutory court has held that the state government can not control the sale price of milk shipped in from another state. These decisions, while not in conflict with each other, have increased the uncertainties in •n industry badly in n****d of stability. Frankly experimental are the federal and st.v* laws which have sought in the last two years to reverse a decade’s rapid trend toward lower and impoverishment for producers. higher prices for milk consumers and .monopoLzarion of markets. These efforts to set up self-government in the industry, with federal and state checks to protect producers and consumers, have suffered court reverses. But, fortunately, this need not prove fatal. The .New York and Chicago decisions, together with many other conflicting court rulings, are headed toward final Judgment in the United States supreme court. That high tribunal should define clearly th r limits of federal and state controls in time to guide congress and rtate legislatures in cooperative action in their coming sessions. FEWER BABIES EpilE United States is growing older, and so are its people. According to Dr. O. E. Baker, department of agriculture economist, fewer American babies are being bom. In the pre-depression decade the number of births fell off about 75.000 a year. During the depression the decline has been about 100.000 a year. Farm rommunities are threatened with a loss of population. If this decline continues and we do not modify our immigration ban the United States will reach its population peak in 1945, with some 131,500,000 people, the experts predict. With fi tens .there will be relatively more oldsters. It has been estimated that, while 22.9 per cent of the population now Is past 45. in 1980. at the present trend. 37.9 per cent will be of that age group. These si . ns can not be ignored by city, state and national planners. Probably we shall settle down to a more static poulation and economy, and become as toil rested in distributing wealth as in producing it. Our farmers and manufacturers will look abroad for expanding markets, which means modifying foreign debt and tariff policies. Industry will have to pay capital less wages and labor more in order to build up the home markets’ buying power. Social security, particularly old age pensions, unemployment and health insurance, will be demanded. Education will expand its plant more in the interest of adults. The adventurous job of conquering anew world will give way to the quieter art of civilizing it. Life will be less exciting, but it will be more secure and happier. At least that Is the forecast of some of the population experts.

A FATHER’S PROBLEM AST. PAUL youth. 18. went out on a holdup one night recently, got involved In a fight with police, and shot and killed a patrolman. He got away and dragged himself home, seriously wounded. When lie got home, his father quickly learned what had happened. What should a father do in such a case—r.ur, e his son bark to health, keep his mouth shut, and pray that the whole affair could be hushed up. or step forward with Spartan courage and let the law take its course? This St. Paul father took the latter alternawe. He called a doctor, then he called the paiisli priest—and then he called the police, nnd saw his son taken away to Jail to be indicted for second-degree murder. "It was the only decent thing to do," he gays I hope no other father has to do what I did." Tins man had about as hard a decision to make as any father could face. He met it with considerable fortitude. Do you think he did the right thing? t HIEY AND THE WHITE HOUSE SOMETIMES the different Items In the day's news tie up together more closely than you'd think at first glance. Here's a little sample: The wires a few days ago reported that the the national planning board has submitted its findings, after some months of study, urging long-range national planning “as a means of richer life for the masses and an indispensable bulwark against violent explosions." This was hardly out of the oven before another story came floating over the wires —this one a dispatch reporting that the ineffable Huey Long of Louisiana was preparing to run for the presidency in 1936. Now these two items seem as far apart as the poles, when you first read them. But th’y re directly and logically connected with each other, after all. It does not take more than a moment's thought to make one rea.ize that this projected presidential candidacy of the loud voice from the delta is an excellent example of the "violent explosions" winch the national planners’, report forecasts. For there is always this to remember about Senator Long: He is. after all. the spokesman for a large number of people who feel that if he does not speak for them nobody wilL He may represent demagoguery at its most

The Battle of the Bidders An Editorial

AT first glance the battle of the bidders at the statehouse seems pretty ludicrous, but, on taking a second look, we have decided that it is not very funny. There are some mighty sour inferences back of it. The central purchasing department called for bids on office furniture. C. M. MeAlpin, purchasing agent, specified that all bids must be m by noon Wednesday. Four bidders marched to the statehouse in a body, put in their bids and then requested that, since noon had passed, they be informed of the identity of any other bidders. Their motive was obvious. They believed that the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company was being permitted to look at the bids of its competitors, note their prices and then underbid them. In other words, they thought that this one concern was a favored bidder. It is possible that they were mistaken. They may have been all wrong about the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company and its relations with Purchasing Agent MeAlpin. Here was a splendid chance for Mr. MeAlpin and his superior, Paul Fry. to prove it. Instead, Mr. Fry went into a temper and refused to tell them who, if any one. besides themselves were bidding on the job. It seems to us that the request of the furniture men was simple and reasonable. It would seem that Mr. Fry and Mr. MeAlpin, as servants of the state of Indiana, would have welcomed an opportunity to clear themselves when t.eir motives were called to question. A public official, when he assumes office, loses the privilege of getting angry when he is questioned about his official acts. He should explain first and get mad afterward. Bear in mind the time when Mr. Fry refused—it was 12:30 p. m. The Times, meanwhile, heard from an excellent source that

dangerous stage, but he also represents a blind but powerful resentment which is boiling up from the bottom of the kettle and which is bound to have an outlet. People do not hand political power over to such men out of pure perversity or wrongheadedness. They do it out of desperation. Such men come to the top on a wave of public unrest; and this unrest appears only when large numbers of people grow convinced that it is hopeless for them to expect to get anywhere by proceeding along more orthodox lines. The great irritating factor in all this depression has been the fact that it has been witnout any obvious physical cause. We have the plant to provide all our people with an abundance of everything they need, if we can ofily find the way to set it going. If we don't succeed pretty soon in devising some sort of broad plan that will enable us to do it, the number of people who are not horrified by the thought of Huey Long in the White House is apt to sw'ell to an alarming total.

FIXERS AND FIXING TNDIANAPOLIS’ police department boasts an excellent record in every branch of service with the exception of one. In that one division. the Indianapolis police force has a shameful “score.” That branch is the traffic violations arrests and convictions. Thousands of stickers are affixed to the cars of traffic violators each year. Many are "fixed''—fixed by politicians and every one with the merest breath of "pull.” And the truth is that it is no fault of the police department. The police are forced, yes virtually forced, to fix stickers for offenders who know “someone” who is a cousin of a state representative or “someone” who is a precinct committeeman. The man who pays for Indianapolis’ traffic violations is the man who can’t afford the fine—the man. truly forgotten, who knows no politician, no ward heeler. The finest service that Mayor-elect John W. Kern can do for Indianapolis is to instruct his safety board that traffic sticker fixing is a thing of the past—that Mayor-elect John W. Kern himself intends to pay a fine if his car ever is tagged for a minor violation. Mayor La Guardia of New York discovered soon after taking office that his chauffeur had been arrested for a traffic violation. Police discovered the chauffeur's identity, attempted to “salve” the whole thing over. "What.” thundered Maypr La Guardia, “are you apologizing for? He violated the law. He’ll pay. The mayor is a citizen, too, and no citizen is exempt from the law." That's the spirit Indianapolis needs. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN? ONE hundred and fifteen persons have been killed in Marion county since Jan. 1 by automobile accidents. Last year the whole year’s traffic death toll was 131. and there is every fear that 1934 s record may pass that figure. It is something that causes us to shudder when we contemplate the situation seriously. One hundred and filteen persons are dead —dead, many of them, through rank carelessness on the part of automobile drivers. For this there can be no excuse. Let every automobile driver in Indianapolis and Marion county absorb this thought: "I often am careless while driving. I may be the one hundred and sixteenth traffic victim of 1934. I intend to be more careful so that not only mine, but others’ lives will be protected.” KNIGHT OF THE SEA A SLIGHT, wind-tanned, middle-aged downeaster has been drafted by the government for top post in the federal steamship inspection service. In charge of the main eastern division. Ordinarily this would be just another news item. But the appointee happens to be Captain George Fried, and the inspection service happens to be on the spot. This mariner with twenty-six decorations has for years been knight errant to distressed vessels, an officer worthy of the seas best traditions of valor and chivalry. He was a captain who nearly always brought his ship alongside In time. In January. 1926. Captain Fried heard an SOS from the Britisher Antinoe. and speeded his ship. s he President Roosevelt, for hundreds of miles off his course to her side. For four days he stood by in a blizzard rescuing twenty-five men from the foundering vessel. On the request of King George, parliament voted him a medal, and the Roosevelt

only one other bid was In—that of the Aetna Cabinet Company. At 1:07 p. m., George B. Morrison, president of the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company, appeared in the purchasing department office. He was asked whether his bid was in and replied that it was. “When was it submitted?” was the nextquestion. “YESTERDAY AFTERNOON,” he replied. At 2:10 p. m. Mr. Fry and Mr. MeAlpin allowed reporters to see the bids. Lo and behold SIX were in! They were those of the four who came to the statehouse together, the Aetna company's and that of the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company. “Was the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company’s bid brought in this morning?” Mr. MeAlpin was asked. “YES,” he answered. The whole incident leads to one of two conclusions: either one concern is receiving special favors from state officials or Mr. McAlpin is operating the office in such a slovenly manner that he does not know when bids arrive or who receives them. In either event it is a matter which the Governor may well investigate. It is not enough for Mr. Fry to fly into a tantrum because he thinks his personal honor has been called to question. Nor is it enough for him to talk about the representatives of other furniture companies being “nuisances.” A central department of purchase is an excellent Idea, but it must be run honestly, competently and without even a suspicion of favoritism. Mr. Fry and Mr. MeAlpin, we think, have some explaining to do. No, the siege of the statehouse by four reputable business men and the treatment they received is not a bit funny.

steamed into New York harbor through a mighty ovation. In 1929, while commanding the United States liner America, Captain Fried rescued thirty-two men from the Italian freighter Florida, for which lie was honored by Italy and praised by congress. Off Ireland he rescued Lou Reichers, the trans-Atlantic flier. His new post will be one of prevention rather than rescue. With strict inspection and enforcement of the adequate safety regulations there should be no Vestris and Morro Castle disasters. On the sea an ounce of phecaution is worth a pound of rescue. Captain Fried, who has rescued so many humans from death at sea, in his new position should be able to save many more lives by making sea travel safer.

IMPORTANCE OF ALASKA TT is interesting to notice that the Russian Communist newspaper Pravda predicts that Alaska probably will be an important battlefield if the United States and Japan ever go to war. This spokesman for the rulers of Russia asserts that “the almost untouched wealth attracts the appetite of Japanese imperialists,” notes that United States naval authorities are contemplating the development of bases in the Aleutian islands, and calls Alaska “one of the decisive battlefields of the north Pacific phase of a future Pacific war." All this in interesting, not so much for its prediction of trouble, but because it is a useful reminder of the enormous potentialities of our great territory in the far northwest. Our development of Alaska so far barely has scratched the surface. Some day this great region will be one of the most valuable features of our national economy. German women are bleaching their hair to look Nordic. As in America, however, other women won’t let them get away witl\ it.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

NEW YORK became the meeting place of many diplomats last week-end. Blond-must: ihed Jules Henry, counselor of the French emoassy, gave Park avenue a thrill by appearing in autumn-tinted tweeds at smart cocktail parties. Jules is off shortly for Le Belle France—-some say, not to return. Another Frenchman—M. Claude de Boisanger, secretary of embassy-was glimpsed on Madison avenue wearing a bow’ler hat and no coat. Failing Paris, Boisanger prefers the glory of Manhattan to any city in the civilized world. The new Argentine financial counselor, Senor Irrigoyen, visited Wall Street and Fifth avenue. He divided his time about equally between tariff problems and Argentine restaurants. Elegantly correct in Ascot tie and pearl pin, Senor de Bianchi, the Portuguese minister, was a guest of honor at a luncheon given by Viscountess d’Alte, widow of the former envoy’. Greek Minister Charalambos Simopoulos and Mme. Charalambos Simopoulos, traveling back to Washington by train, slept blissfully. Reason: §o many parties have been given lately from the capital to New York in honor of the retiring envoy and his wife that they are both exhausted. (The minister's long mustachios wave gently when he sleeps.) Nicaraguans in New York are inquiring when Minister Henry’ Debayle is again coming to pay them a visit. Henri was up last week, but dashed hastily back to his post before attending a gala celebration given by the directors of the National Bank of Nicaragua in an Italian restaurant. “Too busy, too busy,” sighed members of the Nicaraguan colony. ana MANHATrAN’S diplomatic exiles—former President Carlos Davila of Chile and Dr. Orestes Ferrara of Cuba are “doing nicely.” Sitting in his dove-colored suite at the RitzCarlton dynamic Dr. Ferrara, former Cuban ambassador to the United States, is busily at work on a book about Cuba. The erstwhile all-powerful envoy, who was known as the “Machiavelli” of the diplomatic corps, still compounds his delicious Daiquiri cocktails, energetically pounds his typewriter, gives statements to newspapers and maintains almost, as crowded a schedule as in his Washington days. Ferrara's mustache (which he recently shaved) is sprouting again as quickly as his ideas flow upon paper. At intervals, he takes enough time from his literary labors to don morning coat, suede-topped shoes trimmed in brown leather and top hat and attends fashionable Manhattan luncheons. Incidentally, he drives his own car now about New York. a a a CAPABLE ex-Ambassador and ex-President Davila works until midnight, writing speeches, revising essays and editorials for his Latin-American publications. One never knows whether Davila will be at home. Sometimes he's talking in Detroit, sometimes Cleveland, sometimes in Chicago. He dashes about New York preferably by subway. His modernistic apartment on upper Madison avenue, with white Venetian blinds, taupe rugs, black silver designs, glass-topped tables and aluminum cocktail sets, is one of the most attractive in town.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to tSO words or less.) a a a MILLIONS AVAILABLE FOR BANK VICTIMS, HE SAYS By C. A. Johnson, In The Times recently S. R. Baker asked what has the government done for this relief of depositors in the closed banks? Is it doing anything or does it intend to do anything? We will let Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation answer. He says: “We have the money and we are anxious to put it out to banks that closed their doors from 1930 to 1933 froze up $8,600,000,000 deposits of which $3,300,000,000 has already been repaid to depositors. The recent amendment says that we may make loan on appraisals in anticipation of an orderly liquidation over a period of years, rather than on a basis of forced sales in a period of business depression. Under the new law we have already authorized loans aggregating $800,000,000 for payments to depositors in closed banks. “Bank receivers and others in control of closed banks can not be forced by the RFC to borrow 7 or to windup their receiverships. The RFC is anxious to have them borrow and stands ready to make loans for fully as much as the collaterals will justify, but this is as far as we can go. “If the depositors committees would organize and insist upon bank receivers borrowing and distributing to the desopitors the greatest amount that can be borrowed, a great deal of money that is now locked up in closed banks could be released to the depositors with very little delay.” So it is up to the depositors to make the receivers accept the government’s liberal offer. The government expects that in a few years we shall reach the 1927 price level which is considered the crown year and is made 100 for appraisals under the new law. As an illustration; if a farm exchanged readily for SIOO an acre in 1927 that price would be used as a basis for loans. If on the other hand the receiver disposes of this same farm for S3O an acre it represents a loss of S7O an acre instead of a gain. The latest RFC statement says that there still are six million dollars available for depositors in small banks. a a a WHAT DID THESE BIG BOY'S SEE? By Georje Gould Hine. For those in a hurry, the astonishing gyrations of the Big Bovs, before and after the election, could be slowed down for a brief inspection as follows: Three weeks before the election, while the true gods were in the midst of the battle, bellowing through their megaphones and sweeping the horizon with their binoculars, they suddenly dropped both; rushed over to the false gods: shook hands; sprang upon the little business man; snatched out of his mouth the slogan-injector and applied the stomach pump. But the slogans were jammed in crossways between the back teeth and they wouldn't come out. There they were—"balance the budget” clear through a tonsil: “known and charted seas” lay east and west; “correcting the President's errors” lay where once were wisdom teeth, and “business on nervous edge,” the one most wanted, was clear out of sight, being the first swallowed. So there was nothing to be done but let the business man go to the polls

The Message Center

AN ULTIMATUM!

Column Draws Support

By J T. If Mr. Ross, herald of the dawn in the Nov. 22 Message Center, studied sexual anthropology as shortsightedly as he read Mrs. Ferguson’s article, his confusion is quite understandable. Mrs. Ferguson only stated the problem without trying to solve it. The real happiness, she says, comes in sharing a home and children. Chastity and hope are babblings to poor and homeless young people who can not afford to get married. They are forced by a shattered society into relations that they consider no evasion of the moral codes. And what they need, says Mrs. Ferguson, is anew set of morals to fit circumstances. She does not, as Mr. Ross implies, cheer for promiscuity. Mr. Ross finds, in his studies of the sexual instinct that cover all tribes and races through history, that it ranks with with that of

as he was, fully distended, to pull one lever with one determined bang. Now, today, just as if they had won the election, we see the true gods heading a prosperity parade, whirling their arms in cake walk like Huey Long, expecting the business man to fall in line and march by the grand stand with protruding stomachs and eyes bloodshot, to salute the falsest gods that ever stood up smiling in the red glare of Moscow—the falsest gods ever yet stripped clean to the bone by a tongue-tied Democrat after election. Now the true gods propose as follows: That in consideration of stomach-pump plus prosperity parade, it shall be agreed that hereafter, whenever the false gods feel that the true god’s Mr. Dillingers “have not conducted themselves properly,” that the false gods shall then “approach their Mr. Dillingers and talk it out man to man;” also that their Mr. Dillingers “must not attack the false gods and by all means, likewise, vice versa.” In consideration whereof we have their solemn promise that whenever the President, or labor or any other stooge is found in the spotlight, we shall have a picture of Jack Benny oozing out and languidly pushing them back. What was it that the true gods saw through their binoculars? Who :an tell? a a a

CITY CAN GET FUNDS FROM TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS By C. S. R. The city of Indianapolis is badly in need of money, and we have thousands of motor vehicle drivers who are willing, apparently, to donate to the city’s treasury. All that is needed is co-operation of the police department in making arrests for traffic violations. For the last three months, automobile driving in the city of Indianapolis has been as hazardous as working in a powder mill. I have driven a motor car for seventeen years in this city, and never in all that time have I ever seen so many traffic violations as there are now. with motorists moving against red lights, not stopping at preferential streets, speeding, double and triple parking, parking all day in the downtown restricted territory, parking under railroad elevations, in fact, all laws and ordinances are being violated. Come on, police depatment, let’s get some of the willing offered money, save some accidents and also cut down the death rate. Election is over and not so many favors

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

hunger and self-preservation. It was endowed by the Creator and can not be enslaved to man-made laws. I think Mr. Ross has had his head turned by Freud, Russel and popular articles in the magazines. The sexual impulse, refined and civilized, ranks infinitely above hunger and self-preservation in the scale of human, not of animal, values. If it is was endowed by the Creator, it was endowed for the population of the earth, for a sound physical and spiritual companionship and not only for pleasure. The laws and customs that he scorns are outward reflections of an internal need and desire for control. Society, Mr. Ross, is not contrasted to the individual; in the wider sense, it is made up of the best in the individuals. It is not to be fought; it is to be developed as its members develop.

looked for. If the police are unable to find or locate these place- where violations occur, get out on West Washington street around Belmont avenue after 4 p. m„ on Pennsylvania street south of Georgia, where cars and trucks are three and four deep; go up on Pierson street, from Ohio to New York streets. Look for all day parkers on any downtown street. If the police department will wake up to the traffic violations and make three or four hundred arrests, the streets of Indianapolis will be safe for democracj/.

MOTORIST IS ACCUSED OF KILLING DOG By Chalk Howe. To the hit-and-run driver, whoever you are, you aren't much of a man. If you were, you would havt come to my door and informed me that you had killed my dog. He was struck between 8:30 and 9 a. m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at Churchman and Troy avenues and Seventeenth street in Beech Grove. Isaw 7 no tire marks to show that even an attempt had been made to stop. You could at least have placed him over to the side of the road, so that other cars wouldn’t run over him. People like you shouldn’t be permitted to drive a pushcart. If you want to show 7 any decency at all, please pay me a visit. My residence is 80 North Seventeenth street, Beech Grove. Ask for Chalk Howe. You don’t know how much grief you have caused. That puppy’s life was just as sw-eet to him as yours is to you. a a a FATHER COUGHLIN S TALKS BRING READER QUERY Bt J. o. > Father Coughlin that is a name on the tongue of illany people today and I have a genuine belief that it will bulk much larger in our thoughts as time goes on. Here is a man who talks the language of the people in a straightforward, unafraid manner, not to get himself elected to a jjlgh office but because he wants to show the people of this country that the continuance of this depression is unnecessary. We don't have to be driven to red Communism or Fascism to end this. All that is necessary can be done easily under our present constitution if we will only make our congress and President do it. If you wish to know what I mean, spend an hour each Sunday afternoon with Father Coughlin on your

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radio. How a nation populated with supposedly intelligent people has allowed this depression to drag out this long I can't understand. There is want amid p’enty. A handful of men have the money and industry :so firmly in their grasp that they really are masters of the nation. There is enough in this country for everyone to be happy, but because we refuse to modernize an out-of-date and worn out system, we are condemned to go through life with half what we need and could have. What do others of you think of Father Coughlin’s philosophy? I would like to know. GAS COMPANY ° “ RECEIVE CO3IPLAINT By a Times Reader. I have just received my gas bill, and It is much higher than last month. I know I haven’t used as much gas as last month, as I have not needed to heat water for baths or dishes or all the hundred and one other things one heats water for when there is no fire to heat the, tank. Why is it? The gas company must be trying' to get rich quick. They could afford to give their gas away after all, the money they make on their waste' product—coke. I understand they ; control the coke market in this city. 1 There are about 100 valuable items! they take from coal before it is coke, gas being the main one. In England, they almost give coke, away, and one is considered very poor to use it. Yet here, the peoplego on paying through the nose. The Times suggests you file a formal complaint with the Citizens Gas Company. The company will be glad to check your bill.

So They Say

The challenge for us today is to 4 be doers in the field in which we> think.—Labor Secretary Frances’ Perkins. ; This is a difficult world, in which { we have to walk warily.—General! Jan C. Smuts. * I Banks are nice places to borrow* money.—Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland' financier, at; Insull trial.

Daily Thought

• For as by one man’s disobedience [ many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.—Romans, 5:19. : WE need only obey. There is* guidance for each of us, and! by lowly listening we shall hear the? right word.—Emerson. j

DISCORD

BY VIOLA BARRETT Thoughts without beauty Hours empty and long Words without honesty Chimes without song. Flowers after rainfall Valiies naked of mist, Sun on battlefield dead Trees freet has kist. Wealth without happiness, Death’s recurring fee, Souls without loveliness Life without eternity.