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MONDAY DECEMBER 3 1934 SPLENDID DECISION 'T'HE Times frequently has pointed out that Judge John F. Geckler of Juvenile Court, was temperamentally unsuited for judicial office. It is likely that he would make an extremely useful public servant, but we have felt that as a Judge he was too prone to violence and bursts of temper, that his court lacked dignity and calm. It was for these reasons that we opposed him both in the primary and m the recent election. We were frankly disappointed when the Democratic landslide carried him back into office. Thus we were pleasantly surprised at his conduct of the Mack case in which he showed real judgment and ability. It was not an easy case for any judge to handle. Here was a father who had committed cruelties of the most repulsive sort upon his daughter. The very unnaturalness of a parent who would imprison his child in a dark room for a year revolted decent people. Yet Mack on the other hand had' none of the advantages of a decent education or background. He had served his country with honor during the war. Judge Geckler could have been as harsh as he pleased without risking criticism. On the other hand he might have given way to maudlin sympathy for this unfortunate and ignorant man. He did neither. “I have taken into consideration the fact that this man served his country ... 1 have taken into consideration also the fact of his iimited education ... He had no conception of what a father should be to his daughter,’ said the Judge. “There is nothing in the evidence against the character of the stepmother. Society ordinarily blames the stepmother for the things that happen in a home where there is a stepmother.” His sentence of Mack to 180 days and a S2OO fine is, wc think, entirely just. It is long enough to give this stupid parent a chance to meditate on his wrongdoing, but not so long that the man can not still become a useful member of society when he is released. Judge Geckler was justly merciful in suspending sentence on the stepmother. As the judge remarked, too many people are inclined to blame a stepmother for everything that goes wrong in a home. There are thousands and thousands of devoted women who raise other women's children and do as good a job as if they were their own. It is gratiiying to discover that Judge Geckler has talents of a high order when he chooses to display them. Let us hope that the Mack decision is the forerunner of anew and better era in the Juvenile Court.

REVAMPING RELIEF FEW believe the Administration will ask Congress for as much as the reported eight or nine billion dollars for work relief next year. The Government has neither the machinery nor plans for wise expenditure of that amount in a year. But all who understand the seriousness of the relief and unemployment problems hope a practicable plan to enable more men and women to earn their living will be evolved from the Presidents conferences at Warm Springs with his aids. Reckoned in dollars, work relief is more costly than doles, but thq social advantages can not be disputed. Few proposals for providing jobs by Government spending promise speedy results. Plans are ready and actual work can be started on a large scale this winter in reforestation. elimination of railroad grade crossings and construction of new highways. But highway building has been overdone in many places. It would be w*asteful to sink much more money in roads at this time, especially in view of the relatively meager work relief which this type of expenditure brings. Except in building homes for the needy along the line started by the Administration's rural rehabilitation program, little can be expected from a Government low-cost home building program this winter. Slum clearance and low-cost housing of the type sponsored by Secretary Ickes are necessary, but they are essentially long-range projects. Business revival remains the quickest and best alternative to relief doles. GOADING THE G. 0. P. Reorganization of the Republican party along liberal lines was advocated over the week-end by Senator McNary in Portland. Ore., Chairman Mellen of the New York county committee, and Senator Borah In Washington. These gentlemen foresee the virtual death of their party unless it is reclaimed from the Fletcher-Hilles reactionary machine. Few will argue with them as to the need. But many will be less optimistic as to the young Republicans' ability to capture th* machine. The need was equally apparent following the New Deal victory in 1932. But the young Republicans could not prevent the Old Guard irom hand-picking Chairman Fletcher to conduct the disastrous 1934 campaign. The job requires brilliant and courageous leadership—which is lacking. Liberals like Korns long since have dispaired of party reorganization. Borah will be 71 in the next campaign. The McNarys and Vandenbergs are lukewarm fellows. Mayor La Guardia of New York City, far abler than any of these, is an outsider. Os the Senate's younger liberals, such as Cutting and Nvc-, none has a national following. The Republican party lost its best chance for reorganization around anew leader and new policy when it lost Senator La Follette. If LaFollette continues in the next congress, as in recent sessions, to be t is most vigorous

and intelligent Senate leader, the future stock of his new Progressive party is apt to be worth more in the public market than the depres-sion-priced G. O. P. Os course, neither President Roosevelt nor Senator La Follette has a copyright on leadership. There is plenty of room for Republican leadership. But. after so many false alarms, the public is likely to remain skeptical until the Republicans produce something more tangible and effective than the present postelection laments. INDUSTRY’S OPPORTUNITY \I 7HILE electric power interests prepare to ’ take the whole Tennessee Valley experiment to the Supreme Court, to see whether anything in the Constitution enables Uncle Sam to behave as he has been behaving in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, anew proposition of even greater interest is being made in connection with a neighboring watercourse. This one is the Monongahela Valley of northern West Virginia. There is already an extensive industrial development in this region —coal mines, steel mills, glass factories, and wha-not—and Government experts have been looking at the possibilities for a great power project there. But this time, according to reports in Washington, they are jgoing to suggest that the job be done by private industry and not by the Government. Many details still are to be worked out, of course. Whether the electric power which can be had so abundantly in these 10 West Virginia counties should be generated by water or by coal is still an open question. The precise way in which housing projects, industrial organization, and power distribution systems would be organized has not been settled. But the interesting thing is the suggestion that this whole development be financed and controlled by private capital, with Uncle Sam doing little more than offer suggestions and exercise general supervision. With the social objects that are being sought in the Tennessee Valley no one has any quarrel. Better housing, rehabilitation of backward rural areas, cheaper and more abundant electric power, a regional plan which would eliminate wasted effort and give every inhabitant a chance for a better life—these are goals with which no one can quarrel. Objection to the program arises because the Government is doing these things, leaving little room for private initiative. The Monongahela proposal would be an excellent counter-balance. By this plan, private initiative would have a chance to show whether it can provide the same social reforms. If it should prove that it could —if the ends sought in the Tennessee Valley can be made available by private capital seeking a profit—then our traditional, profit-motive economy would justify its right to survival in the modern world. It w’ould be hard to think of a better way of comparing private and public projects of this kind than to set up some such undertaking as this, with the TVA alongside it as a yardstick.

POPULATION NEEDS ADJUSTMENT A S if American cities did not already have enough problems, a declining birth rate is about to present them with an entirely new one. E. O. Baker, specialist attached to the Department of Agriculture, warns the American Country Life Association that the American birth rate already has fallen so low’ that the national population '■an not be maintained permanently. Nothing can keep our dries at their present size, he says, but a heavy migration from farm to city, and that will do the trick only for a few more decades—at the cost, incidentally, of a drained and impoverished countryside. Sometimes one is forced to suspect that the race has managed to r each an end of a whole biological era. During the last two centuries, there has been a tremendous expansion of world population. The rising curve now seems to be leveling off. If national populations, including our own, are not to increase any more, or even to diminish, some profound readjustments will presently be in order. AUTO DEATHS AND REPEAL 'T'HE first detailed figures on auto accidents -*■ for 1934, just made public by the Travelers Insurance Company, are exceedingly shocking. During the first ten months of this year there has been an increase of 16 per cent in number of traffic fatalities. In Marion county, 118 people have been killed. Last year the twelve-month figure was 131, with ninetysix having been killed in 1932. More than 28.000 people have been killed by autos since Jan. 1; the total for the year will be upward of 36,000—an all-time record. The first question to be asked is, “How far is repeal responsible for this?” The figures have not yet been broken down and analyzed: but at first glance alcohol seems to have played an important part in the increase. There has, for instance, been a gain of nearly 24 per cent in the number of intoxicated drivers involved in accidents. Indications are that repeal has made our traffic problem considerably more difficult. ,

A BETTER DEFENSE T7OLLOWING the electric industry's announcement of plans to test constitutionality of the whole Tennessee Valley Authority project, comes news that the Alabama Public Service Commission has called private companies into conference to consider rate reductions comparable with TV A schedules. The Alabama commission, by its action, pointed to the only effective way the utilities can meet the New Deal challenge to make electricity a greater servant of humanity. Public demand for lower rates—proved feasible by TVA in Tupelo, Miss.—can not be stemmed by attacks on the constitutionality of the act which created TVA. They only will increase public conviction that exisiing utility rates are unjustified. Fees paid lawyers will inc/ease the cost of private electric service—fees which, if saved, might be appned to the saner method of meeting low-rate public competition. Hitler should have Huey Long helping him to iurmsh the comic relief in the German drama. Communists are waiting for the day to set up a Soviet republic in Cuba. Perhaps the approval of Sloppy Joe is holding them up.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES——

“Who Gets the Money?” by Walter Raui tenstrauch 'Harpers, $1). • Human Exploitation,” by Norman Thomas I (Stokes. $2.75*. “Myself,” by John R. Commons. $3. OF the current efforts to arrive at a passable condition of social justice and human welli oeing, Techoncracy, Socialism and Labor Union- | ism are among the more prominent. The three i authors of the books here reviewed have taken a leading part in one or another of these movements. While Professor Rautenstrauch of Columbia never was identified with the more vocal or exuberant apostles of Technocracy, he was one of the wise counsellors of the movement and was responsible for much of its data which was truly impressive and must, one day or another, be reckoned with. In the present little volume he devotes himj self primarily to the alarming growth of over- ! head costs in contemporary capitalism and its relation to the depression and possible recovery. Overhead costs, according to Dr. Rautenstrauch, : cover “the chain of events which leads to the I final disposition of production goods, which, as you know r , may be either farm or factory goods or the primary sources of power, transportation ! and communication.” | Since the World war this increase of overI head costs has been amazing. “In 1917, when producers got one dollar for making goods, overhead people got another dollar for their various services leading up to the sale of the goods to the consumer. But in 1932, when producers got one dollar, overheaders got $2.30.” Even the depression, when production was falling off, overhead costs to the nation increased by some 70 per cent. a tt a PROFESSOR RAUTENSTRAUCH assigns responsibility for this ominous change in our national life to the Liberty Loan drive in 1918 and its subsequent effects upon American psychology: “In that year we began to create a nation not of consumers, but of investors and speculators. It began with the Liberay Loan drive. Tens of thousands of men and women turned bond salesmen. Patriotic citizens by the hundreds of thousands poured money into bonds so that your national plant could wage war to make the world safe for democracy and international bankers. “The technique worked perfectly. Then along came other drives. Investment bankers began underwriting securities by the carload. American were urged to invest money in German railroads and Florida shore-front lots; in Texas oil wells and Indiana retail stores; in anything and everything, from shoe stores to republics, from rubber tires to Rivieras-by-the-sea.” Suppose this transformation had not come about and the relationship between production and overhead costs had remained as in 1917. What would be the result? We would need 12,300,000 more producers and no more overheaders. We would have an increase in producers’ income ol 56 per cent over that of 1932. We would have an increase in farmers’ income of 216 per cent over its 1932 level. Compared with this, even the most rosy results predicted from the New Deal fade into triviality. And the New Dealers will do well to study Dr. Rautenstrauch's book with care and open-mindedness. He has put his finger on something more important than killing little pigs, plowing under cotton and coaxing Weirtons. u a a IN my opinion this is by far Norman Thomas’ most important book, and that is no faint praise. He reviews with sanity, balance and plenty of quantitative data the staggering record of what the United States of Aiherica might be if we utilized our resources and mechanical equipment intelligently and fairly. This he contrasts with what it is today. Farmers, miners, industrial workers, consumers, all come in for consideration. Whether one agrees with Mussolini, Stalin. Thomas or President Roosevelt as to the solution of our economic crisis, this book will give him an almost unrivalled statement and analysis of what the task really is. Mr. Thomas’ solution is socialization without the loss of all human liberty—an avoidance of the futility of non-political labor unionism and of the bureaucracy and oppression of Russian Communism. Professor Common’s brief autobiography is both interesting and highly illuminating. He has been the intellectual leader of American labor unionism. He has lived through the length of developed American capitalism. He has had a prominent place among American academicians. He has been a member of brain trusts, state and national, for a generation. All of this he tells us in a quiet and selfeffacing manner which makes the book a classic in the history of human modesty. Readers will get from it an unusual insight into American history and culture, exposed from almost as many sides as in Lincoln Steffen’s much more voluminous work. It will surprise many to learn that that valiant champion of American labor rights once worked for Ralph Easly. But the American Civic Federation was something different in those days over thirty years ago.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

MOST of the cabinet followed the presidential lead by spending Thanksgiving Day out of town, but a season of buffet suppers, cocktail parties, and teas—and. naturally, the traditional Thanksgiving dinner—still whet the appetite of diplomatic and official gourmets. Postmaster General Jim Farley, pinkcheeked and jubilant-looking (election results have made him look like Santa Claus without the whiskers) went to New York to spend the holiday with his wife and children. An admiring throng stood gasping as Jim stepped into his limousine to be whirled to the station. “Eat plenty of turkey, Jim,” called some irreverent onlooker. The bets as to what might happen to Jim if he ate plenty of turkey would have made a medical man look very serious. a a a “T ATE my turkey right here in town,” anX nounced Secretary Henry Wallace. He and Mrs. Wallace had as their guest at Thanksgiving dinner the secretary's sister, Miss Ruth Wallace. Wallace likes the old-fashioned type of dinner ‘with cranberry sauce and many vegetables. The more vegetables people use the more agriculture flourishes. The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Roper, surrounded by relatives, were among cabinet members remaining in town Thanksgiving Day. Roper is very fond of spinach—which perhaps accounts for his healthy appearance. a e a SENATOR JIM COUZENS of Michigan spent his Thanksgiving Day in Garfield Hospital, where he underwent a slight operation. He was able to eat a few slivers of turkey wing, and moved from a ,$lO room to a more expensive apartment in celebration of the holiday. Justices of the Supreme Court spent the day in seclusion at their homes. Only -gay dog” in the lot seemed to be Justice George Sutherland, who entertained a group of friends at a Thanksgiving party in his home. Gloria Vanderbilt—an attractive and rather pathetic looking figure—was entertained by friends here over Thanksgiving. Yesterday, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Ben Thaw, she was glimpsed in the cocktail lounge of the Mayflower Hotel before luncheon, tall, slim, smartly dressed in black—but very sad, despite all the gay chatter around her. Premier Flandin is thinking of getting France a “New Deal.” President Roosevelt may be glad to give him some of ours, as a starter.

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(Times readers are mvited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so alt can have a chance. lAmit them to SSO words or less.) 000 ALUMNI COULD EMPLOY TIME MORE PROFITABLY By V. H. The old gentlemen w r ho totter back to their colleges at commencement and football games still mutter into their beards at the lack of college spirit. In their opinion, college spirit is manifested by enthusiasm over football, by rallies on the campus in which, over bonfires, the student body screams that it would gladly skin a knee for dear old Rutgers; in effect, by a cauvinism that shows the weakness of the collegiate brain. The very fact that a young man is willing to spend four years filling and training his brain should enable him to give more relative value to things. If he cares more for football than for studying, he should not be in college at all. The enthusiasm of an educated man is for ideas and for greater struggles than ever took place between goalposts. The tragedy is that we have so few educated men among our undergraduates. College spirit should be a pride in the aims and ideals of all colleges, the spirit of an educated class, the spirit of enthusiastic youth that attacks the ideas of older people and not the aimless yelling of children. As it is, we already have in this country more egotism than is good. I shall be glad, not when football rallies are as wild and vociferous as they were in former years, but when our eagerness is directed to vital things. And if the old alumni die of horror, let there die w’ith them the feeling that beating the other team is more significant than beating the prejudices and narrowness that still abounds in our land. 000 MERIDIAN ST. HAS ITS PARKING PROBLEMS

By Jimmy Cafouros. On the days before holidays and on Saturdays there is a surge of joy amidst the traffickers on South Meridian street. Ranged at every available point next the curb and far out into the line of traffic in every conceivable fashion are trucks hauling fowl and other creatures, as well as shoppers, in all manner of vehicles. A good object lesson showing how not to park is in force most any Saturday and on similar occasions. Many motorists no doubt are detouring to avoid this traffic horseplay while it has been whispered in several quarters that others are removing their fenders and other vulnerable accessories and deposit + hem at home before venturing into this mad house. To thread one’s way through Meridian street on such occasion is much like a camel trying to squeeze through a needle's eye. 000 FAIR COMPETITION IN TRUCKING IS URGED

Bv O. L. Davidsen. . I noticed an article in The Times and also other Indianapolis newspapers in regard to what was termed “Wildcat Trucking and Wildcat Mines." Your paper was much fairer on the subject than one of your competitors. I will admit that there are crooks in everything you see or hear about. But I, for one, buy the genuine “Brazil shaft coal,” and have each load or part of each load weighed on W. Morris-st. and never have delivered or had delivered coa 1 but what it weighed from 50 to 220 pounds overweight. Then another thing: I do not know of a small mine around Brazil that has a siding, and all of these mines work from two to nine men. Consider the gas tax our state gets from these trucks and the employment afforded. It is a great help to the unemployment situation,

ANOTHER SMART IDEA

Builders Hold Prosperity Key

By Floyd Peterman. Building is the only thing that will put the country back on its feet. If the Government would put the contractors back to work, it w’ould start the v/heels rolling. About one-fourth of our people are depending on living from outside work. When the bankers told all contractors five years ago to stop building, that they couldn’t loan them more money, the bankers would have known that w’hen all building stopped, the worst depression that the country ever had seen would follow’. It has. The Government could stop this depression at once if it would put money working in the right place. People don’t want this charity, but it is the only way out. If the Federal Government would put out as much money in a business way as they do in a charity, this country w’ould get some place. This country never will get any place as long as you see carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers and all building trade men working on country roads or standing in soup lines. Put those men back where they belong and they will start the wheels rolling again. The Federal Government should start this w’ork with men who have had the experience and know how to run it. Don’t get a man from one city and put him in another city where he doesn’t know the conditions in that city. They are going to do some building in Indianapolis and they had to get men from Chicago to

and not only that, but there are tw’o good-sized coal companies hauling. While we are on the trucking problem, I am hoping we can do something about Michigan, Tennessee and other states’ trucks hauling produce in here but not having our $250 license. Yours for fair competition and employment for all. a u n THE TIMES IS LAUDED FOR READING VALUE By Mrs. R. Chadwell. I long have been planning to w r rite you, telling you how much I enjoy The Times. I think you have a splendid staff of writers and columnists. I especially like Broun, Jane Jordan, Mrs. Ferguson, the entire editorial page and current events. That and the rest of the paper—which is all of it! I only regret not having taken the paper years ago. It constitutes my chief source of recreation. a a a FEDERAL AGENTS WHO DIED ARE PRAISED FOR VALOR Bv a Times Reader. The two young federal officers who sacrificed their own live3 in order to rid the country of a major public enemy deserve the deepest respect and gratiude of every rightminded citizen. They were two men who gave their lives for their country as bravely as any soldier on the battlefield and, in so doing, upheld the most cherished traditions of our nation since its foundation. If we are to have any hero worship nowadays, let us worship real heroes such as these men were in place of glorified thugs. a a a TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT DRIVE IS SUPPORTED Bv a Motorist. I wish to compliment your paper upon your drive to demand the en- j forcement of the traffic regulations. We do not need more laws, but 1 need a drive by public opinion de-

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

come here and oversee it. No man knows the other man’s community as he does himself. Let the government tell every contractor who was in business five years before the depression to start work and call back all the men he had working for him. If all contractors would call all the men back, about one-half of them would be taken off the relief rolls and the other half w’ould come out of factories, and that would make room for some who are on relief to find jobs in factories. In about a w’eek, lumber and building material men w’ould start buying, the railroads would call back their men w’hich would take more men off relief. In another week, the saw mills w’ould call their men back and by that time, plumbers, tinners and furnace men would be working. It would be common sense for the government to loan this money to put these men to work. Some people will say they can't sell or rent the homes they have so why build more? If you put the men to work, they won’t have to live as they are now with four or five families crowded in one house. Each family will get a home. They will occupy all the homes that can be built and there will be a market for everything that goes in a house. There would be a buying wave in this country in thirty days if the contractors could get money to start work. Most contractors can start work in two days after they are sure they can get money.

i manding the enforcement of those regulations already existing. ! 1 read the traffic department claims it is short of officers. I should like to know if the other 'officers who are not detailed particularly to traffic are only officers i who can’t enforce other laws outi side of their own department, or does their oath of office cover all offenses? 000 PUTS QUESTION ABOUT RIGHT-OF-WAY By a Times Beader. I see that you placed my letter in the preferred space, but I failed to see anything as to the question I asked as to the law the driver at the right having the right of way. There is no red light at 21st.st. and Sherman-dr. yet, and I wish the board, or whoever has the say, had been in my car one morning, when there was misty rain, when one could not see that column under the railroad track ten feet away, let alone see or know there was a dangerous street crossing just back of the column. The present generation doesn’t seem to know the meaning of Webster’s S. S. S., “Stop. Safety, Selfishness.” 000 DOWNTOWN PROPERTY OWNER URGES TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT By Downtown Property Owner. I read your editorial on automobile parking and traffic violations with a great deal of interest and I am more than pleased with the way you attacked this haphazard

Daily Thought

For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; ana I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an exerlasting covenant with them.—lsaiah, 61:8. * THERE is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.—George Eliot.

.DEC. 3, 1934

manner in which parking laws of Indianapolis have been neglected. The police department, no doubt, feels that lack of enforcement of the stickers issued makes a laughing stock of them, and I have heard them say that often. We have an ordinance prohibiting double-parking, over-time parking and alley parking. A check-up on street parking at 2 a. m. disclosed that nearly every available space taken on many streets and alleys. In case of fire it would be impossible for fire trucks to get through some alleys or near fire plugs. This condition also interferes with street cleaning or iocatinr stolen automobiles. I am sure the public will co-opt rate with you in cleaning up this parking menace and see that the law will be enforced for the protection of pedestrians and property owners.

So They Say

So largely has our contact with the Orient been marked by injustice and greed that we might well marvel that retaliation has not already overtaken us.—Dr. Olin D. Wannamaker, American director of Lingman University, Canton, China. Recovery is aided by placing emphasis on volume of business and volume of employment, rather than on wage rates and prices of manufactured goods, when the volume of business is abnormally low.—Professor George F. Warren, monetary expert. The lure of the farm may prove as disastrous to the city-bred as the lights of the city to those who might better have stuck to the soil—Robert Whitten, consultant to New York state’s planning board. Harry told me before he was executed that it was a terrible price to pay for what looked like an easy life. —Mary Kinder, former sweetheart of Harry Pierpont, executed Diilinger gangster. The old things business did, the fid practices it followed, are, some rff them, no longer the right ones.— Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the federal securities commission. Either the government will be forced to conscript wealth under the general welfare clause or mobs will rudely confiscate it.—The Rev. Edmund A. Walsh. I hope to be able this year to start a regular service between Germany and the United States with our new airship, the LZ-128.—Dr. Hugo Eckener. Much of the cynicism in the writing and comment of today is a pose, an attempt to be up-to-date.—Dr Mary E. Woolley, president Mt. Holyoke college. A disarmed United States would be a menace to the peace of the world.—Dr. Thomas H. Healy, Georgetown university. We are going to put labor on a personal basis in Germany.—Dr. Robert Ley, German trade union commissioner.

SCAR

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I shall forgive your outwardly. I shall be smiling, gay, and sweet. You will be sure that I forget, And you will think my hurt was fleet. Oh, I shall love you as before. And keep you on your altar place. But I shall carry, hidden deep. A red scar cm my soul’s white lace,