Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1934 — Page 12

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TUESDAY. NO’. EMBER 37. Hl*. __ THE TEST N'OW the power Interests have come out directly to test the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Although Ice and coal companies, and a widow who holds a lew shares of stock in a Knoxville utility, already are contesting the validity of TVA. It Is much fairer that the great power holding and operating companies should make the issue between themselves and the people before the United Sttaes supreme cdurt. Their protest was to be expected; they have every right to make it. But the people hould not lon hope because of the legal opinion Just rendered to the Edi on Elect nc Institute that TVA is ‘ palpably union ntutional ” Although it com*, from such famous lawyer , as Newton D. Baker and Jam<s M. I> f k. fortunately it is not final. Nor is the delicht of the Edison Electric Institute in obtaining such an opinion to be red at. n He. it *UI be renumbered, VIS organized as the result of a supposed house cleaning of tne National Electric Light Association, whOoe power propaganda activities were exposed by the federal trade commission, and widely condemned. Whether TVA will live to pursue its policies will de pend, in the last analysts, upon the people whom it is endeavoring to serve. If the people of the Tennessee valley want ch*ap power to lighten the burden of human toil, then TVA will live. If they want to help the government mark ofl the power rate yardsticks so that the whole country can benefit, through lower charges for electricity, then TVA will live. If they want the government to demonstrate that power can be produced, transmitted and distributed cheaply without the high finance setup, watered stocks, and the rest then TVA Will live. If the country wants TVA to point the way to other similar opmcnU elsewhere, as it can then. TVA will live. Knoxifile by a lane majority, and Memphis by an 18-to-l vote, declared for cheap power and TVA. And there can be no doubt about the feelings of President Roosevelt, who represents the na *n \ i Htag the valley recently, he scrutinized the TVA development and said: “Great stuff,” then lie added that “obstructionists, few in number in comparison with the whole population/’ would make every effort “to block and harass and to delay this great national program." We believe with the President that these “obstructionists” will fail in the end. And in their test of TV As constitutionality we see only one regrettable phase, that pointed out by Senator Norris, who said. “They have a right to test the act. Os course every one knows who will pay the bill for the suit. It all comes out of the rates charged."

HERE’S A SOLUTION THE traffic division of the Indianapolis police department is making an effort to block the large number of traffic law violations and the evil which is linked with them—sticker fixing. Unless sticker fixing can be erased, efforts to enforce the city's traffic ordinance would be fruitless. Any police officer who. doing his duty, distributes several tickets daily for law violations naturally should expect results. No doubt it would be disheartening for a conscientious officer to find that his every effort, to maintain law .nd order is being skirt and bv politicians and their friends. A jioliCt man could not be blamed, after experiences of this type, to abandon his attempts on the theory that “What's the use?" Stickers could not be fixed unless the prac- : dosed by our public officials, prosecuting authorities and political lights. The knowledge that fixing is general and can be had for a cigar or a drink has spread to such a degree that many law violators now tear up their stickers and “just dare anybody to pinch me." * Chief Mike Morrissey and Captain Lewis Johnson are to oe commended for their steps to halt this unwholesome practice. The Times reminds these gentlemen that there is a mighty fine Black Maria in the police garage. Perhaps it should be called a “host coach" and drop in on some of the wise boys who don t bother with observing the law. CRADLE FODDER ALL new-born Italian males will be ushered into the Fascist army immediately upon birth, under the latest government edict. Until the age of 6. bambini will not be required to wear uniforms or engage in target practice and dnlL At the ripe old age of 6 the man child becomes one of the “Sons of Wolf." and begins military practice. At 8 he joins the “BaUiUa Hikers." At 12 he enrolls In the Baliilla Musketeers,” and gets a rifle. By the time he is 21 he is expert in artillery, machine gun drill and the other arts of warfare. Thus, from cradle to grave—or worse— Italian manhood is on the march. Why or whither no one knows. “It is necessary.” says II Duces paper, Popeio and Italia, announcing the new order, “to be strong to meet and dominate ail events." Yes, but isn't Italy in danger of overtraining? THE HUTCHINS REPORT IF there are still members of the Roosevelt administration who think the United States can live unto itself, we recommend to them the reports of the Hutchins commission on International Economic Relations. Nothing new will be found in this report by Americans who have followed the leadership of Secretaries Wallace and Hull in their

effort* to swing the nation away from economic isolation. But its recommendations are among more comprehensive and definite than public official* are free to make. The chief recommendations are to wipe out war debts, scale down tariffs and stabilize monetary exchange. Removal of these obvious barricic to world trade Is desired by most thoughtful persons, although a few may depute some of the methods proposed. If this could be done, regardless of the means employed, it wc M ld contribute more than anything. else to return of world prosperity. With these barriers lifted, natural economic forces could take hold and build toward sound recovery. The report also recommends for the United States a more constructive role in world politics—that it join the World Court, co-oper-ate actively with the League of Nations, and refrain from provocative policies in Latin America and the Pacific. The Hutchins report has wide approval in responsible circles. WE ARE FUNNY WE seem to be living in a topsy-turvy world. In big things and in little things, surprises are the order of the day. To try to summarize the current news is to get a queer feeling that someone, somewhere, is having fun with us by turning everything upside down. Th is we find a Du Pont calling for federal pruning of munitions p“olits in wartime, an Ogden Mills indorsing unemployment insurance. and the United States Chamber of Commerce backing the New Deal; simultaneously, a Clevelander stabs another man to death in an argument over the proper way to slice L Icgr.a sausage, and a Colorado high school bov slugs nine university co-eds to see how good a boxer he is. America’s secretary of state is proposed for the Nobel Peace prize, Urcle Sam having labored mightily, one supposes, for the peace of the world. On the ame day that this is announced, the United States war department unveils a brand-new armored tank, which carries three machine guns and is capable of traveling sixty miles an hour across open country. Profes.ional baseball players travel to Japan and stir Japanese enthusiasm for things American to anew high; simultaneously, American farmers in the southwest seek to oust a colony of Japanese truck gardeners, and thereby help bring Japanese public opinion one notch nearer the stage at which it would agree to a war. A New York woman announces that she will endow selected poets to the tune of $5,000 a year, Walter S. Gifford welcomes a proposed United States investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Daughters of the Confederacy meets in New York City and a model citizen of Herkimer, N\ Y„ who voted in every election for fourteen' years, discovers that he is not a citizen after all and prepares iO lake out naturalization papers A Spokane husband accuses his wife of communicating with his rival by using the Morse code in her snores, and a New Yorker hammers his wife to death with their framed marriage certificate. Smedley Butler says someone invited him to march on Washington with 500,000 men, and United States customs men detain a quart bottle of gin shipped from the Philippines, declaring that while gin from the Philippines is duty free, there is a tax on the bottle that contains it . . . And so it goes. Try to reduce these news and; patches to some orderly* significance and you will go daft. Reading the papers is almost like looking into the business end of a kaleidoscope, these days.

MEASURE OF EDUCATION T TARRY L. HOPKINS, federal emergency relief administrator, has been offering federal funds to various colleges to help finance the education of poor youths who would not otherwise be able to continue their studies; and to his vexed surprise he has found several privately endowed eastern colleges refusing to take the money, on the ground that the country already has more college-trained men than it can use. This, of course, is perfectly true; but Mr, Hopkins properly replies that it is a great injustice to reduce the number of college students solely on a financial basis. “Why in the world," he asks, “should we assume, merely because some people happen to have money, that they are the only ones who should have a higher education?” Why, indeed? We may need an “aristocracy of brains" in this country; but entrance into it should be based on brains, and not on the applicant’s ability to finance his way through college without outside help. * A BILLION DOLLAR TRADE TIjANUEL L. QUEZON, slated to be president of the Philippine commonwealth next year, tolls interviewers in Baltimore that he will do his utmost to help American business men retain their present $1,000,000,000 market in the islands after independence goes into effect. But he points out, also, that whether this market is kept depends chiefly on the American coneress. The Philippine government, he says, will protect the United States with quotas or tariffs if assured of preferential entry into the Aruerir;#. market for Philippine goods. This trade with the islands is large enough to be well worth keeping. It can be kept, as Mr. Quezon says, if we approach the problem intelligently. It should not be too hard to find a way of doing it without, at the same time, working any injustice on American producers. The navy department has ordered strict secrecy about all new naval developments, so that only the foreign powers may know what we re doing along this line. The kind of dictator General Butler said was wanted in this country was one whose correspondence would read, “Dictatored but not Red." Parents, a psychologist says, should tell all their family secrets to their children. So the neighbors will get the information straight the first time. What is keeping the various countries from going to war is they haven't yet agreed on the terms. The reason Europe insists on maintaining the League of Nations must be that the only fun it gets is in breaking its provisions.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

THE simultaneous announcement in the press of the Yugoslav accusations of Hungary of complicity in the assassination of King Alexander and of the death of the prominent French diplomat, Philippe Berthelot. brings sharply to mind another striking similarity between the crisis of 1914 and the possible complications in Europe twenty years later. In 1914. Austria accused Serbia of instigating anti-Austrian plots and of harboring the Bosnian plotters who actually mu: tiered the archduke. These charges since have been amply confirmed. Austria followed up her charges against Serbia with an ultimatum designed to correct the abuses or else precipitate a punitive war against Serbia. It was this same M. Berthe lot who. as undersecretary of foreign affairs in Paris, outlined the very clever Serbian reply to the Austrian ultimatum. The Serbian reply to the Austrian ultimatum only can be understood when viewed in tne light of the plans of France and Russia. If Austria astutely planned her diplomatic approach to the Serbian problem in order to make the proposed punitive war more palatable to European opinion, so did France and Russia similarly utilize the opportunity afforded by the Serbian answer in order better to prepare Europe for the initiation of the European conflict involved in their program. nun FRANCE and Russia desired to avoid, above all, either a truculent and arrogant attitude in Serbia or an actual declaration of war by Serbia. European opinion was still on the side of Austria on account of the murder of the archduke. For Serbia to have made a haughty and insulting reply to the Austrian demands would have made matters still worse. For Serbia to have declared war on Austria not only would have affected European opinion very unfavorably, but would have precipitated hostilities before Russia could get mobilized over her vast area. The first efforts of France and Russia were, therefore, directed toward securing an extension of time for the Serbian reply, so as to give France, and particularly Russia, more time for their military preparations before Austria declared war on Serbia. We know from General Dobrorolski that the Russian army of officials assumed that the European war was "on” when they heard of the terms of the Austrian ultimatum. Baron Schilling has revealed the fact that Sazonov, ,the Russian foreign minister, expressed the same opinion. In fact, on reading the Austrian ultimatum he specifically exciaimed: “This is the European war.” If France and Russia were to precipitate a European war in the guise of protecting Siberia, it was necessary to do everything possible to make such intervention attractive before European and world opinion. Siberia must be made to appear a “brave and innocent little country,” which had gone to extreme limits in surrendering to the Austrian demands —but had not quite acquiesced. a tt a TO carry out this program of putting the “soft pedal” on Serbia, the Russian Ministerial Council of July 24, 1914. decided to advise Serbia to avoid above everything else declaring tvar on Austria, and to -make her response to Austria conciliatory in tone and content alike. France went even further. Jacques Mesnil has revealed to us that Berthelot got hold of M. Vesnitch, Serbian minister in Paris, and drafted in outline the Serbian reply to Austria. This was wired in code to Belgrade. This reply w’as formulated in very conciliatory language, feigned great friendliness for and humility toward Austria, and seemed to consent to everything of significance in the Austrian ultimatum, while actually rejecting the only really important items in it. In this way Serbia, as well as France and Russia later, was put in a good light before world opinion, while Austria was placed in an apparently discreditable position when she carried out the secret plans of the Austrian ministers and off orbiorl QovhiQ In the diplomatic ruses of the entente before the war there was no more clever bit of subterfuge than Brrthelot’s planning jf the Serbian response to Austria. It sufficed completely to deceive even the kaiser. We may hope that similar hypocrisies, duplicity and tragedy will not follow in the wake of the present Yugoslav charges. Tlje main hope lies in the fact that the latter have been submitted to the league of nations rather than in the form of a direct ultimatum to the Hungarian government.

Capital Capers BE GEORGE ABELL

ATTIRED in baggy Oxford gray flannels, tilting back in his chair and beaming the smile which has become familiar to all New Dealers, Henry Wallace received newsmen of the capital. The conference was in marked contrast—sartorially speaking—to that held earlier by the impeccably groomed undersecretary of agriculture, Rex Tugwell. Tugwell is the Beau Brummel of agriculture, some say it's Robespiere. During the French revolution, when to be well dressed was a dangerous thing, the revolutionary leader went gaily about with his hair powdered, wearing two gold watch fobs and silver buckles on his shoes. Wallace pays small heed to clothes. His vest bulged open yesterday, disclosing the dangling ends of a gray tie. But—no matter how he dresses—he candidly answers questions and never evades an issue. A reporter observed: “Mr. Harriman of the Chamber of Commerce says he has known you for many years and that you belong to the right wing of the New Deal” Wallace's broad smile grew broader. “I return the compliment.” he replied. “I have known Mr. Harriman for many years and he belongs to the left wing of the United States Chamber of Commerce.” Undersecretary Tugwell’s visit to the President at Warm Springs was touched upon. “If Dr. Tugwell outlining the department of agriculture’s policies to President Roosevelt?” someone inquired. “Well, he probably is,” said Wallace. “I haven’t had much chance to talk to him since he returned from Europe. He hasn't been here long enough to talk about policies . . . But he’s a good, quick learner,” he concluded, grinning. France and the wheat conference came up for discussion. France wants an export quota. “Are we going to allow France to come in and take our wheat away from us?” angrily demanded one correspondent. Another correspondent replied (before Wallace or Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel had a chance to answer): “N0...n0...a thousand times no!” The conference dissolved in a gale of laughter.

THE marriage in Rome of Count Charles de Chambrun. French ambassador to Italy, to Princess Marie Murat, is of interest to diplomatic circles here for several reasons. Chief reason—Count de Chambrun may be the next ambassador from France to the United States. Rumors of an impending change of ambassadors continue to reach Washington from Paris and Chambrun is mentioned as a likely selection. Other reasons—Chambrun's kinship by law to the family of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth and his honorary citizenship in the United States. Count de Chabrun is a direct descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette. He has many American friends, speaks perfect English, and would like to come to Washington. He has been granted honorary citizenship by congress. He is a brother of Count Adelbert de Chambrun. the distinguished French general, who married Miss Clara Longworth, sister of the late Speaker of the house. He has served in the French embassy as counselor and knows all the Roosevelts —or most of them. Princess Murat is the widow of Prince Lucien Murat of Paris. She has one son. Prince Achille Murat. She is a daughter of the late Due and Duchesse de Rohan, and her early life was spent in the ancestral chateau of her family in Brittany.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The Message Center

(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.) a a a THERE ARE MORE AND MORE ‘ISMS' TO CONQUER By Algermon Goodboy. Franklin Belgrano in his latest outburst of oratory possessing an undue amount of egotism, informs us that he will eradicate all the “isms” except Americanism. Now it was very plain that his mind was of such dimensions that he only could think of Communism and Socialism, but let me give you a little friendly advice before you start upon a task. First you might invoke the aid of Ku-Kluxism, which is overburdened with patriotism, and betake yourself to the political realm where you would find Republicansim, with its policy of momentaiisin, stanchly advocating rugged individualism, strongly favoring imperialism, reinforced by militarism, rapidly leading to Fascism, and from there to feudalism. Then after you have renovated thoroughly the rotten mess and as you are passing the field of industrialism you might take a whack at labor unionism, then remembering your catechism you naturally would hie yourself to the religious fold where you would find it largely governed by sectarianism, represented by Mohammedism, Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism. subdivided into Methodism, Baptistism, spiritualism and a thousand other “isms” with opinions divided between fundamentalism and modernism. Then you would find your job is not completed until you have abolished capitalism with its kindred attributes of pauperism, alcoholism, vandalism, terrorism and gangsterism, then after having erased all of these will you please tell us just what your definition of Americanism is, anyway.

NEW DEAL FOR CITY IS NEED NOW Bv a Loyal Citizen. I would like to submit what I think, is one of the essentials for the restoration of our city to its former status as a manufacturing center. For the benefit of those who have not resided in our fair city for more than ten years, I would say, take a trip with the old-timer back to the good old days of 1910-11-12 and so on, up to the early twenties, when we had many large manufacturing firms within the city limits, employing thousands upon thousands of men and women, with weekly pay rolls well up in the six figures. Most of this money was spent in the city's mercantile establishments. Was there at that time, the now familiar cries of hard times, depression or chiseling? No. We were so busy there was hardly any time for play but, at that, those were the good old days. For some ten or fifteen years, this city enjoyed the close companionship of these Industries, then for one reason or another, these industries slipped away. From that time to the present day, this city has been on the skids, as a manufacturing center. Now let's go back to the last presidential election, and if you wish, include the election just tabulated. Beth show very clearly what the people of this nation want and are demanding—a change, a New Deal, somethin? that will bring relief -to the masses. Every sane, thinking man fully realizes the enormity of the under-

TOPSY TURVY HOUSE!

Safety Board, Criticised

By a Times Reader. Some time ago, I was asked to join a motor club. I said I would if the club would get the members together and go to city hall and demand that the laws be enforced. I was told that wouldn’t do—of course not, as that would catch the worst breakers of the law, she BIG fellows. What is the good of knocking the police when the safety board does not pay any attention when you tell them about a dangerous condition which it could fix but hasn’t. Tenth street and Sherman drive had a bad stop and go signal in the middle of the street but the light was in operation all night. Corner lights were installed but the lights were not operated all night, making it more dangerous than before. If that is what you call safety, I don’t see it. I know it’s a stop corner, whether lights are on or off, but do others? They don’t. This morning when making a stop, a truck went by me 25 to 30 miles an hour, and that’s what I see every morning. Grocery and milk trucks do the same. How do you suppose a stranger can tell if local motorists don’t pay any attention? Get out at that place about 5:15 a. m. on a dark morning and test your judgment as to safety. What do the members of the safety board know about such conditions

taking, yet the government is ‘taking over the proposition wholeheartedly and unflinchingly. Os course, the government expects each state, county and city to co-operate to the extent that each bear its part of the burden. Os course they will. It’s their moral duty and obligation. Now to the point. Why can’t our Chamber of Commerce come out of its prolonged lethargy, follow the example of other live, wide-awake cities, go out, ask, beg, implore, or buy manufacturing concerns to locate in our no mean city? We have everything to offer, power, light, water, central location, unlimited shipping facilities, and an inexhaustible coal supply near by. What more could any city have to offer? Now come on, Chamber of Commerce. Wake up. Let’s go, and don’t stop until you have Indianapolis back in its old accustomed place, right up there with the best. When you’ve accomplished this, then you can sit back, and with pride, acclaim to the whole world, “Ours is a thriving and contented city.” I ask you, wouldn't it be worth the effort? Let's coin anew slogan. “A Netx Deal for Indianapolis,” and live up to the slogan. a a a TIMES BOWLING COLUMN IS PRAISED BY READER By E. H. Janke. Asa bowling enthusiast. I want to compliment The Times upon the manner of giving us the bowling news. It is of interest to note that all leagues’ activities are reported in an impartial and satisfactory manner. I might also say that Bowlingrams, published every Monday, is a novel innovation, and I hope this feature will be continued, as it furnishes an account of intimate happenings in an interesting way. For several years your paper ha3 been the only one received at my home, for the reason that I feel it!

[1 wholly disapprove of what you s r iy and ivill defend to the death your right to say ic. — Voltaire.

when they are in a nice warm bed at that time and go out and look the situation over and look wise on a clear day and say, “Just a kick from another crank.” I am in position to see hundreds of cars pass a bad location, and there have been seventeen accidents at that point in the last year, but there is not a sign of any kind to show it is dangerous. Ninety-five per cent of the drivers blow borns but do not reduce speed. The police are blamed when their hands are tied. Maybe their judgment and talk at times won’t agree with our views, but if the board, mayor or chief would put a lot of them in plain clothes and tell them to arrest and send down in the wagon traffic violators and if the policemen were caught showing any favors to either men or women, there is no question but things would be better. But what a noise we would hear. Safety zone! What a farce. Why not name it, “Gateway to heaven or the other place.” By the way, Mr. Editor, is there a law that says the driver at your right has the right of way regardless of all other things? If there is any such law, why don’t you print it in big letters in every issue of The Times, so people would learn about it, and then there could be no excuse as to who was right.

gives all the news contained in any other publications, and I have particularly noticed that your issues are being constantly improved, and the news given in a very comprehensive and enlightening manner. May I go so far as to say I think your paper has developed very considerably as compared to several years ago? a a a VIEWS GIVEN' ON ANSWER TO MRS. FERGUSON’S THEORY Bv Harry A. Ross. I am accused by the nameless J. T. of shortsightedness in reading Mrs. Ferguson’s article published in The Times on Nov. 19. The gentleman (or are those cryptic initials feminine?) claims Mrs. Ferguson only stated the problem without trying to solve it. Let us see. The third paragraph of the article in question distinctly states: “It then should be obvious that the only way of getting around such condition—shocking as it may sound—is for them to live together without being married.” If that isn't a suggested solution, then I plead guilty to a severe astigmatism and immediately shall consuit my oculist. You speak. J. TANARUS., of “the sexual impulse refined and civilized,” ar.d later you remark. “If it was endowed by the Creator.” Why the “if”? Is not life endowed by the -Creator, and is not our hu-

Daily Thought

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.—Timothy, 4:5. I do not envy a clergyman’s life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. —Samuel Johnson.

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man life the direct result of obeying the sexual impulse? And has not the Creator purposely surrounded this mysterious impulse with zuificient attractiveness to make it far more difficult to disregard than io obey? He well knew it would require much more than His mere command to keep His human children propagating. And only the human ego could conceive of “refining and civilizing” a divine impulse. You close, J. TANARUS., with a touching peroration on the duty of the individual to society, although in your third paragraph you refer to “our shattered society.” Really, don’t you think you should be a bit more consistent? When you have studied and analyzed with a more open mind and a greater vision, you will learn that society can only advance as it advances the individual. Frankly, my dear J. TANARUS„ don’t you think one should hold sufficient courage in their beliefs not to hide behind initials or a nom de plume? I greatly fear you are an armchair philosopher. While I have studied much. I speak not merely theoretically, but from actual experience.

So They Say

The American motion picture industry is destroying the good name of America in the far east, where censorship is not effective.—Bishop Herbert Logan Roots of Hankow, China. My trouble was that I was a piker. I should have sided with the big fellows. Then I would have become a big man instead of what I am.— Charles Ponzi, deported swindler. In this mad world of Ours, the only safety lies in knowledge.—Newton D. Baker. Society possesses too many educated rascal^.—Dr. Louis C. Wright, new president of Baldwin-Wallace college, Ohio. Our average present-day automobile appears to have run its engineering development course.—William B. Stout, automotive engineer.

EPITAPH

BY F. E. HUTCHENS When I am dead and you have sung Those sad farewells for me, And your tears have been shed among The flowers spread over me. Remember that I’m not the first To see the Great Beyond. Better than I have once traversed The road I travel on. When all the things I've said and done Are recalled to your mind And you recount them one by one, I'm sure that you will find The good will equal with the bad; My worst you’ll cast aside And find the virtues that I had Seem greatly multiplied. Then when at last I'm laid to rest Where earth’s reserved for me, I'd like to make this last request For my posterity. Engrave the marker: He has passed. Then with these words conclude And he died fighting to the last For sheiter and for food.