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MONDAY NOYrMBF.P. 7* 1934 JAPAN ALONE JAPAN'S decision to terminate the Washington naval limitation treaty if. bad busing She has a legal right to do so. by now giving notice effective two years hence. But her moral right is another question. And the political of such a move also is highly questionable. One particularly and: agreeable aspect of the matter is that is no’hing much the United States or any one outside of Japan can do about it. If Japan us determined to break up a hat little remains of international peace machinery' there seems to be no way to rep her. If international agreements arc to ir. ,m anything they must be entered into voluntarily and sincerely. Nothing but harm can come from an agreement which one party to the contract is determined to break—as Japan violated her contract by conquest of Manchuria. Therefore some little consolation can be squeezed out of Japan’s naval decision, insofar as it is an open rather than a disguised breach. Ambassador Salto’s statement at Philadelphia is only one of several indications that Japan intends to throw over the Washington treaty. The only surprise in it is his declaration that she will proceed with this destructive action regardless of the result of the present London negotiations. The American and Britt, h governments have supposed that the chief purpose of the London conversations was to prevent precisely this disastrous outcome. But it appears now from the Saito address that the London meeting has been futile from the beginning because Japan has been determined to follow her unpopular course regardless of anybody or anything. Japan’s reason, as set forth by Ambassador Saito. are not apt to persuade the rest of the world of either the wisdom or justice of her policy. They merely advertise the weakness of her policy. His declaration, that no nation can retain its honor if it accepts anything less than an equal armed ratio with larger nations, is disproved clearly by the cases of France and Italy which accepted smaller naval ratios than Japan. But, regardless of any other aspects of the controversy, the chief and abiding mystery is the willingness of Japan to isolate herself from other nations and arouse the distrust of the world. The kaiser also defied the world; and others stronger than Japan have tried. This never turns out well for anybody, least of all for the nation that thinks it is strong enough to stand alone. THE SLATE IS NOT CLEAN r | 'WO other indictments still stand against Samuel Insull. He and his brother, Martin, are under indictment by an Illinois grand jury on embezzlement charges, and the dates for their trials have been set. Samuel Insull and others still are under federal indictment for violation of bankniptcy laws. Public interest requires that these cases be prosecuted to conclusion, and with vigor. The federal jury which last Saturday in a Chicago court room acquitted Samuel Insull and sixteen co-defendants of mail fraud did not clean the slate. It remains true that thousands of Americans have only worthless paper to show for hundreds of millions of dollars which they entrusted to Insull management. It remains true that both Insulls fled the country, and that the government believed strongly enough in the charges to pursue and force them to return for trial. It remains true that many Americans doubt the ability of our courts to punish persons w . h powerful financial connections in the same way poor citizens are punished on lesser charges. THAR'S I.IKKKR IN THEM HILLS IN the hills of southwest Virginia, federal revenue agents have uncovered what appears to be a large-scale liquor conspiracy. For six years, it Is said, thousands of gallons of moonshine have been trucked daily out of these hills down into the bootleg sales channels of four states. The most interesting phase of the Inquiry is the truce between the mountaineer moonshiners and their traditional enemies, the “revenooers.” From days antedating the Whisky Rebellion of 1794. the mountaineers of Virginia ar.d other states have stoutly defended their assumed right to distill “Ukker,” tax free. •Revenooers” contending otherwise, haie had to face the business end of longbarreled rifles. But rugged individualism was crushed when big business and racketeering methods came to the mountains. Once free moonshiners were reduced to the status of still-tending peons. Their profits were gobbled up by a bootleg syndicate, which also—apparently in conspiracy with dishonest law officers destroyed the stills of those who refused to pay for protection. The mountaineers rebelled, giving to federal agents the evidence needed to crush the bootleg ring. When they are released from tms bondage and terrorism, many of the mountaineers probably again will fire up their little stills. But then, they hope, the old rules of the game will be m effect—every moonshiner tak-.ng equal chances against the law. TV A NO “EXPERIMENT” THE Tennessee Valley Authority often is alluded to by its administrators and friends as an “experiment." They are too modest. It is not an experiment. There is not the slightest doubt either of the need or the workability of Us central purpose—regional planning for the correlated

development and right use of the land, water power, and other natural resources, not for the good of the few for a short time, but for the good of all for all time. True, in the carrying out of this purpose there are many experiments. For instance, in checking soil erosion, stone and log j:heck darns were first tried and then it was found that straw matting, which is cheaper, was just as good. But there can be no question that it is desirable to check soil erosion. There will be experimentation in trying to find the best timber, nut and fruit trees to plant on the hillsides. But there can be no question that it is desirable to take these steep slopes out of agriculture and plant them in trees. In the power policy, the TVA will have to find out, by the trial and error method, wn r ther it is possible to buy existing distribution facilities at a fair price or whether it is going to be necessary to build competing systems. But there is no question that it should bring a plentiful supply of electricity at a low price to the people. The oniy sense in which it truly can be said that TVA is an “experiment’ is that it remains to be seen whether the people of the south will accept what it is trying to do for them directly, and the people of the nation will accept what it is trying to do for them indirectly, in setting an example of a beneficial development which can be undertaken in the other sections later. There should be no question about that, and from the enthusiastic crowds which greeted President Roosevelt on his recent trip of inspection, there does not seem to be. STILL HANGING FIRE THE get-together recently staged by President Roosevelt and leaders of finance and industry seems to promise a mild business boom between now and the end of the year. Whether it will lead to a resumption of permanent prosperity is not quite so clear. A gentleman’s agreement to play ball seems to have been reached. But the President’s electric power program, reiterated during his visit to Muscle Shoals, is not a thing the business community can be expected to applaud heartily. Furthermore, it is reported in Washington that business will expect administration concessions on labor policy—which the administration may prove very loath to make. What we have, apparently, is a truce rather than a final, definite understanding. INDIANS VOTED, TOO A MERICAN Indians also have voted overwhelmingly for a New Deal. An election was conducted among tribes .affected by the Wheeler-How ard Indian rights act. The referendum, first of its kind, was to determine whether Indians wanted to live under the new act and participate in the selfgovernment it holds out to them. Returns just announced by the United States Indian office disclose that out of thirtytwo reservations voting, thirty-one accepted the act—the total popular majority being 73 per cent. Only 50.8 per cent of the eligibles voted on this measure so important to their tribal welfare. Yet this is about the same as the proportion of the rest of us who turn out to elect a President. The Women voted in large numbers. The act, which now goes into effect, will abolish the allotment system, initiate partial tribal self-government, and start the Indians toward a measure of economic freedom and cultural self-determination. Indian Commissioner Collier says of this measure: “It is, for Indians, the beginning of the most precious thing in life—responsible partnership in the world’s work, in the work of ones own group. How many thousands of years, in how many races, has the struggle for that most precious thing in life gone forward! It was taken away from the Indians and now they may have it again, if they desire. They do desire it.” MORE “GREAT STUFF” WHEN the national forest preservation commission approved the purchase of 2.053,000 acres of forest lands under option, it increased the total acquired by the government during Fresident Roosevelt's administration to more than 6,900.000 acres. This 6.900,000 acres compares to 4,276,000 acres acquired In the previous twenty-two years. The west's great drought last summer was enough to prove the wisdom of forest preservation. But the national forest service is doing more than buy up timber lands and let them stand idle. They are protected from fire, recreational and scenic values are developed, and the timber itself is treated as a crop—the right to harvest mature trees, with careful protection of smaller stock, being sold to lumbermen. The 520.000.000 allocated by the President for purchases is exhausted. There is every reason to believe he will obtain more funds for the work since, as Mr. Roosevelt remarked of the Tennessee Valley project, it is “great stuff.” LEGISLATION MUST BE SECURE SOME kind of social security legislation seems destined to come out of the approaching’ session of congress. What we shall get will inevitably be a compromise. The difference between what everybody admits is needed and what is actually possible is very great. Old age pensions, unemployment insurance, and the Uke cost money, and if w - e try to spend on them more than we can afford we are apt to .make things worse than they were before. The unfortunate part about such legislation. in fact, is that It is subject to two kinds of pressure. In badP times there is a rising public demand to go much farther than is either practical or wise. One need only consider the fantastic S2OO-a-mcnth schemes now being propagandized to realize this. In good times, on the other hand, there is an influential demand that nothing at all be done, on the ground that iv might rock the boat needlessly and put a crimp in prosperity. Beset by these alternating pressures, social security legislation to date has made hardly any progress at all. But this winter we are apt to have a different story. The demand is so

strong, that something will almost certainly be done. That being the case, the thing to remember is that security legislation is only part of the picture. President Roosevelt has remarked aptly that "there can be no security for the individual In the midst of general insecurity;” and this Is a warning against which all security schemes must be assayed. Any pension and insurance schem? so ambitious that it sets-off a genuine inl.ation of the currency would, obviously, be a serry kind of boon to its beneficiaries. You may keep a man from disaster by giving him SSO a month —but not if your currency depreciates so fast that SSO will buy only a loaf of bread. Similarly, a program so expensive that the taxes needed to finance it proved actively deflationary, and thus postponed general business recovery, would also be a back-handed arrangement. Unless the economic machine can be made to function again, no security scheme will do very much good. The problem confronting congress, then, is exceedingly difficult. The demand for security legislation must be met—but there is need for great wisdom and forethought in selecting the proper means. JOB FOR GOOD MARINER IT is good to read that Captain George A. Fried, retiring from the sea, promptly is given one of the biggest jobs the federal government can give a mariner—supervising inspector in the important second inspection district for the federal navigation bureau. Not olten does a merchant sailor attain such widespread public confidence as Captain Fried has attained. His cool, seamanlike, and daring rescues at sea are almost legendary. Any man who could perform as he performed in the famous Antinoe and Florida rescues must be a pretty broad-gauge sort of man as well as a first-rate sailor. Captain Fried, in other words, is too valuable a man to be allowed to slip into retirement just yet. His new job is one of vast responsibility. The safety of many sea travelers depends on it being handled properly. And with Captain Fried filling in, the American public will have complete confidence that the work is being done the way it ought to be done. A HEMISPHERE APART 'T'HE great gulf that separates the occidental and oriental viewpoints could hardly be illustrated more sharply than by the recent attempt of that Tokio traffic policeman to commit suicide. This officer was detailed to route the Emperor Hirohito’s entourage through a certain stretch of country. Somehow he made a mistake. Traffic got tangled, and the emperor’s car was delayed thirty minutes. So the policeman felt that he could redeem his honor only by killing himself. Suppose President Roosevelt travels by auto from Washington to Philadelphia and runs into a traffic jam en route; will the traffic cop who should have prevented the jam put a bullet through his heart out of sheer chagrin? The mere fact that the question is utterly ridiculous shows how greatly the Japanese attitude toward duty, the government, and life in general differs from our own. Kidnaping a gang leader is going a bit too far. Now even Philadelphia’s underworld will be demanding justice. Huey Long offers to have Louisiana secede. That would be terrible. Can’t Huey find a way to secede all by himself? This He-Man’s Association, just formed in Missouri, you w r ill note, has the approval of the wife of the head “he-man.”

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

THE Egyptian Legation has done something rather new and novel in entertaining. Recently, Minister and Mme Ratib celebrated with a reception the anniversary of the accession to the throne of his majesty King Faud I of Egypt. And they did it without inviting all Washington by a judicious mingling of political and social celebrities and a careful analysis of invitation lists. It was a big reception. You can’t invite only forty guests when you give a celebration for the king of Egypt. But the tempo and tone made the party unique when one recalls that the “at homes” of the late minister, Sam Pasha, were so jammed with anybody who managed to shove past the doorman that there was some danger of suffocation. There was plenty of color, a magnificent buffet and excellent things to drink. The entire diplomatic corps, a number of the cabinet, many senators and representatives, and a large group of residential society attended. But nothing like the vast horde of persons who used to rush pellmell into the parties given by Sarny. Monocled Minister Ratib is a man of discrimination. a a a SOME spots of color at the Egyptian reception: Mrs. Baxter, daughter of Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern, dressed in vivid green, chatted to one who favors the shades of Erin, Minister

Michael Mac White of the Irish Free State. Mrs. Fred Britten, wife of the recently defeated Republican stalwart of Chicago, appeared with her house guest, Mrs. Watson, sister of George Brent, who married Ruth Chatterton. “I feel as if I were acting in that Irish play in New York. ‘Within the Gates',” remarked Minister Mac White, “between Mrs. Watson and George Brent.” “Oh. but Mrs. Watson has lost her brogue,” sadly observed Mrs. Britten. Representative Sol Bloom of New York gave a whoop of merriment. Charminc Mme. Ratib had just decorated his coat lapel with an enormous white Easter lily. “They give you these flowers when you’re dead,” he cried. “What I want is one of those big chrysanthemums.” Far from dead, Sol was the life of the party. a a a WHAT a glitter of tie-pins in the diplomatic corps! Turquoise, sapphire, diamond, pearl, lapis-lazuli and what not! Minister Gonzalez-Zeledon of Costa Rica with a huge turquoise rimmed in gold ... All the Egyptians with pearls . . . Minister Alfa-o of Ecuador with a pearl . . . Minister Alfaro of Panama with another pearl ... Dr. Chevalier of Panama with lapis-lazuli . . . Persian Minister Djalal with a huge gem of some sort . . . impossible to remember them all. unless one noted them all down in a book. And then, it would take'a secretary! Spanish Ambassador Calderon may perhaps halt the flood of scarf-pins with his sartorial idea, introduced yesterday—a flat bow tie with winged collar. It looked well. Wearing a sparkling aluminum collar on a striking Paris gown with lonfc train, Mme. Ratib. the hostess, was one of the most lovely women at the party. Minister De Bianchi of Portugal blazed forth in his customary Hollywood attire —all stripes and colors isven a lavender-edged handkerchief?.

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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 250 words or less.) 8 B tt VIEWS ON SEX QUESTION AIRED BY READER By Mrs. Cora M. Darby. I do enjoy The Times. The editorial page is great, also Broun and Pegler. Jane Jordan and Mrs. Walter Ferguson make you think. I must say Mrs. Ferguson’s burst for freedom gave me a shock. I never would have thought it of her. We are living in a day of freedom. We see the result of it everywhere. Start with the home. Children no longer are taught restraint as in the old days. Oh, ye%! I know this is anew day with new ideas, and we also have some new conditions that we hardly know how to handle. If our darlings -want this or that, they must have it, and many parents have and do sacrifice all, even their godly belief, in order that their darlings might have freedom in thought and life. Is it any wonder that when it comes to the subject of sex, they expect and are determined to have their freedom? No need to worry about them getting their freedom in this day. The worry comes with the result. Visit the hideaway institutions, the juvenile court, the divorce and domestic courts and talk privately, if you can, to the victims of too much sex freedom and see if you will not think differently. Plays, books and jokes are full of sex. Are we better for it? No. This freedom has invaded the home and we see wrecks everywhere and we hear the cries of heartbroken wives and husbands. We hear a great deal of how the sex desire is just natural. So it is. Many desires of the humane flesh are natural, but in Gal. 6:7.8, we read, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: whatsoever a man soweth. that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.” Let us try to teach the young people that there is a restraint that will bring joy and happiness and that decent people just don’t enjoy or want so much sex freedom. May The Times continue to in every w iv, every day. get better and better. a a a HUNTING SHOULD BE LEISURE TIME PASTIME By a Reader. Mrs. Furguson. in her amiable fashion, finds that hunting is absurd. As one whose hunting is done with a mousetrap, let me reply with the objectivity of the bystander. Ancestral traits can not be cut away. In civilization, they usually become ceremonial. In various times, love, agriculture and war have taken on a sort of drama: the courts of love In medieval France, the rituals of planting common to most earlv civilizations, the gods of war that we still worship—or curse—in cartoons. As soon as the mind begins to work, it lends to habitual and instinctive actions a glamour that makes them more significant. As long as we have the hunting instinct, it is well to release it in a normal manner. We are not very far from barbarism. Hunting may be comic, but it is harmless. How much better is it for men to use their courage and preying instinct—if only in dumb show —on the hunting field, than to let them be pent up more than they are in

DEATH VALLEY!

Jobs Scarce for Single Women

By an Unemployed Woman After tramping the streets for more than a year looking for work with a livable wage, it is difficult to understand how some can say conditions are getting better. I have failed to see any improvement in industry. Every place I go they either are working half or one-third of their usual amount of employes or not working at all. Oh, yes, I have been to a few places where I was frowned upon, bawled out, and almost ordered out for not accepting work at unreasonable hours and unlivable wages. The enforcement of the NRA would be no loss to any one. On the contrary, it would be a gain to many. I was as optimistic as any one when the NRA started. One of the first to place my proof in the window. However, I still am looking for an NRA job. It seems to me those belonging to the NRA have cut their overhead down by laying off enough employes to make up the wages to the ones still working, therefore, it is an even break for the employer and a few more members of the unfortunate employed. Why don’t they organize a law that married women with employed husbands can not work? A married woman has enough work to do at home if she does it as it should be done. And there are plentv of single women needing work'badly. If all the married employed women were replaced by single ones there would be less women walking the streets. Only a short time ago a woman stopped me and asked me to get her something to eat. I did. of course, and gave her a little change to get her a place to sleep. I have worried about her predicament ever since and because I am fortunate enough to have friends to provide me a place to sleep I lay awake for hours wondering

modem living. Is it not better to slay a sparrow than to pot a policeman? Is it not better to massacre rabbits than to turn a tommy gun against a bank? If hunting is a check against more pernicious shooting, let us praise it, let us institute free hunting for the masses—with rabbits trained in ferocity, and a cheering section. The rabbit, compared to a policeman, is a philosophical beast, and he doesn't suffer much. If Mrs. Furguson mocks the man who is prouder of his aim than his more refined attainments, let her remember Byron—who boasted more of snuffing a candle at twenty paces than of writing “Don Juan.” a a a BELGRAXO AND BUTLER ARE LAUDED Bv a War Veteran I am a reader of The Times and would like to defend our great American Legion commander. Frank N. Beigrano Jr., for coming to the front in behalf of the World war veterans. I want to say a word in behalf of General Smedley D. Butler accepting the Wall Street job as a leader of the war veterans. That never will happen for General Butler is a fine man. I am sure he never will try to lead the war veterans down Pennsylvania avenue to unseat our

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how many unfortunate women are out in the cold. There are many of these unfortunate women who have too much pride to ask for something to*eat or a place to sleep. What do you suppose becomes of them? If the people would stop to concentrate long enough on this question, the answer would be obvious to the most fastidious mind. The one and only way to these distracted women seems the easiest way to enable them to still maintain what they are pleased to call their pride. Obviously, the fortunate are taking advantage of the unfortunate under the conditions and will continue to do so until something is done about it. There are relief organizations to help the married men with their families, there are flop houses for the single men to sleep in, and soup houses for them to eat in. But where is the relief for single women? Why don’t the lawmakers get together and organize a law that will send all the married women with working husbands home, and replace them with single women. I have been sponging on friends for months but many single women don’t have friends to sponge on. I am willing and able to work, and mv predicament is crushing my pride. It has placed me under an obligation that I probably can never repay. And besides the friends I am obligated to are in the hole themselves. If something doesn’t occur soon we all will be seeking shelter in a flop house. Oh, well, my optimism has been crushed in many things but I still retain a little in others. Some one should get busy and do something and while I await for developments I shall live with hopes that my dogs hold out a little longer in my daily search for work.

great President or to overthrow our government. Just ask any war veteran who was in Washington, D. C, during the bonus march about General Butler and he will tell you what a fine man he is. a a a STILL NOT AT WORK IN MILLS, IS CHARGE By a Times Reader. I guess the public has just about forgotten the recent textile strike, but I want to remind you all that 119 people are still unemployed, owing to strike breakers taking ( their jobs. Not only that, but they have brought people in from Henderson. Ky., since the strike ended and given them jobs. No doubt the editor of The Times remembers our fair law-abiding citizen, Mr. Young, telling his re-

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porter that all workers except those found guilty of lawless violence would he taken back without discrimination. His bosses are firing union help every day and have told the workers there’s going to be no union in that mill, and nobody can make him put any more strikers back to work. He also says he’s getting ’tired of being called to the labor board for meetings. That’s our citizen, Mr. Young, who, if he had to work by the sweat of his brow, would be the best union man in that mill. a a a HOURS AND WAGES OF COMPANY ARE SCORED Bo a Times Reader I am a reader of your paper and a supporter of President Roosevelt’s administration and the NRA. There is a construction company in Shelbyville which works its men from fifty to sixty hours a week and only pays 35 cents an hour. I wish this matter were looked into and see if the company is working and hiring their labor according to the code.

So They Say

The general tenor of what I saw is that the demand for economic nationalization is much exaggerated. —Rexford G. Tugwell, under-secre-tary of agriculture. Even in the midst of my present haupiness (his marriage), I can not keep away from my horses.—Sumnex Kirby, 5-and-10-eent store heir. Programs, you know, don’t depend on people.—Josephine Roche, newly appointed assistant secretary of the treasury. if wisnful thinking by brokers had any power, the country today would be riding the high tide of recovery.—Richard Whitney, president. New York Stock Exchange. I made Edison a lot of money.— Samuel Insull. Obsessed with the idea that everybody was fit for college, we have tended to make the college fit for anybody.—Dr Dixon Ryan Fox. president of Union college. This century can not admit the inevitability of poverty Premier Benito Mussolini.

Incompatibility

BY M. C. W. Every day a little colder—growing more apart, A wall of reserve and misunderstanding a heart; Graver, deeper grows the general gloom, depression— Always words or actions shuts the door of expression— In silence they draw back in the shell of hurt and pain. Leaving words unspoken, loving actions held in chain — Til you see a love that should be the brightest on earth Growing dimmer, fainter and dying on their hearth. Day by day they see the sweetest thing on earth dying— Leaving them so lonely, so alone, hurt and crying. Both hearts hungry for love of each, wanting the other; Too alike yet unalike, this daughter and mother.