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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13 19J4

STARTING RIGHT Mayor-elect john w kern already has achieved a measure of success by selecting the proper men to fill important posts In the coming city administration. It his selection of Chief Mike Morrissey to retain his Police Department leadership, Judge Kern has chosen. The Indianapolis Times believes, the ideal candidate. Chief Morrissey has been on the Job long enough to know his duties and profit by that experience. The Times has disagreed with Chief Morrissey in the past and probably will disagree with him in the future. But, despite this. The Times believes the young police chief is the ab>st man for the post. Walter C. Boetcher. who will become City Controller, replacing Evans Woollen Jr., already has proven nis ability to direct the Works Board. Mr. Boetcher. it is to be hoped, will maintain this record in his new post and also will be able to complete his service as City Controller with the same standing as Mr. Woollen did while serving for Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Judge Kern has been wise in naming James E Decry as corporation counsel. Mr. Deery has had sufficient experience as a lawyer, a judge and as City Attorney to be admirably qualified. Dr. C. B. McCulloch, who will be a member of the Safety Board, has had years of experience in public life. Fred Kennedy, who will become Fire Chief, already has an enviable Fire Department record. Albert H. Losche will reassume his executiveship in the City Purchasing Agent's office after a successful term under Mayor Sullivan. Louis C. Brandt, who remains on the Works Board, is known to every contractor and business man who has dealt with the city administration these last few years as an honest, competent and hard-hitting city official. Floyd J. Mattice, named to fill Mr. Deery’s post as City Attorney, can look back on an outstanding career as Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. No important cases avoided his eye during his service under Prosecutor Herbert Wilson. Hubert S. Riley, Works Board chairman, and Michael B. Reddington. Assistant City Attorney, will take office with their backgrounds presenting them as capable men. Robert K. Eby and Edward P. Fillion are young attorneys whose records stand alone. Mr. Fillion will be on the Safety Board, of which Theodore H. Dammeyer has been named chairman. Mr. Dammeyer is well known to all residents of the city and Mr. Eby has served capably in political posts previously. CLOTHE-A-CHILD T3DAY the silver lining was cast upon the clouds over hundreds of needy children in Indianapolis. Today that silver lining has its origination and its purpose laid plainly on the sidewalk on Washington-st. near Meridian-st, where, for the second successive year, every resident of this city, county and state will have the privilege of donating to the most worthy of holiday causes. To clothe children costs money. There are several ways of accomplishing this goal if you desire. First, you may come to The Indianapolis Times with your money. Second, you may come to The Times with your pledge to take a child and clothe him. In the third place, you can contribute, each time you pass, to The Times Mile of Dimes. The Clothe-a-Child move has been sponsored for several years by The Times. Its only purpose is to bring warm clothing—a guard against sickness and shivering—to the children who need such aid. Every’ instance in which clothing is presented children is an instance in which aid might not otherwise have been given. There is no fear on your part that your money will not be spent beneficially and wisely. If representatives of The Times purchase the clothing for you. you may rest assured that the best has been purchased. If you/buy the clothing yourself, you. of course, know that the job has been well done. Three paths to give are open. If you can't afford the first two. don't forget that the Mile of Dimes presents the thirt. opport unity. - RKGI LATION OF WAR PROFITS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S announced effort to take the profits out of war obviously Is one of his man important undertakings since entering the White House. And it is one of the most difficult. It is not a problem that can be solved by the report of his new committee or by one simple piece of Congressional legislation. America operates under a capitalist system. Private profit is the basis of the capitalist system. Profit tan not be taken out of war without socializing the entire economic life Os ti:? nation —industry, commerce, agriculture —and putting all of the employed population Including capitalists, on a soldier's wage. That does not seem to be the President's air. Although he uses the phrase “Take the profits out of war." he probably means simply that excessive war profits shall be regulated as part of a larger general plan for more efficient industrial mobilization of the nation for war. It is unfortunate that the White House announcement yesterday produced such a hostile reaction on Capitol Hill. Several Senators Interpreted it as a two-fold move to prevent basic munitions legislation from growing out of the Senate investigation and to recapture political control of the situation from the Re-publican-Progressive bloc. Certainly there is glory enough for all In Uus big job. The best results can be accotnt

pushed only through the maximum efforts and co-operation of both the Administration and the Republican Borah-Nye-Vandenberg group which initiated the current investigation. The Senators need not fear that their valuable inquiry will be sidetracked. The President yesterday gave them deserved credit.for making the munitions racket a public issue. The Senate ordered its (‘ommittee not only to investigate, but to recommend legislation, and this should be .i-'d will be done. Probably mott of the suspicion in Congress arose from the President's failure to include any member of Congress cm his special committee to handle a subject already under Congressional consideration, and to his choice of Mr. Baruch and General Johnson as the active members of his committee. General Johnson is very unpopular in Congress. On the basis of past performance, we are much more confident of the President’s ability to convince Congress of his sincerity and leadership in this as in other matters than we are of the President's ability to teach General Johnson to work either with him or with any one else. We are not among those who discount or forget the General's genius and unselfish service in starting NRA in high gear. But in the end he almost wrecked NRA and the Administration because he had to be a dictator or nothing. Maybe he will do better this time. At any rate all will agree that this vastly Important new undertaking requires the utmost co-operation between the Administration and Congress, which alone can enact the law. THE MOTORISTS SAY—XTORTH SIDE motorists ha r e three ” complaints. One is that the wide, yellow, painted markers on N. Meridian-st are slippery when crassed by vehicles. Many motorists assert that they believed the tread on their tires was at fault, but investigation revealed that the street surface along the line appeared slippery. The second complaint is that the ridge where Meridian-st was widened on both sides is rough and causes difficult driving for motorists who seek the outside lanes. The third and last is that Central-av, between 38th and 52d-sts, again is bumpy. Residents of that vicinity are sounding pleas for the scraper again w’hen the weather permits. These tasks probably will fall on the throne of the next city administration and the North Side awaits action. HIDDEN COSTS T? NOUGH evidence has been uncovered by the Senate committee to reveal that bribery is widespread in the munitions business. There has been no proof of its use in getting United States Government orders. But our military branches have helped American arms manufacturers get foreign orders and a few Army and Navy officers have retired to go on the pay rolls of the manufacturers. The State Department has been accused of “shutting its eyes to small graft” in Latin-American munitions sales in 1928. The plea of American firms that they had to use bribery to meet foreign competition is hardly a justification for practices so costly to the American people. This type of unofficial diplomacy brands American peace efforts as insmeere, promotes world suspicion, and in the end forces our government to increase defense expenditures. One argument against the Government taking over all manufacture of w r ar materials is the exorbitant cost of maintaining munitions plants in peace time. In private hands these plants may be turned to the manufacture of peace time goods. But when the Senate committee concludes its inquiry and faces a decision between Government ownership and private ownership, it should weigh the hidden as well as the visible costs. APPEAL TO PROFIT MOTIVE TkyCOST bankers swear by the law of supply and demand. Therefore they should heed the suggestion of Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, that, they reduce interest charges on general loans to 5 per cent. Commodities and labor generally decline in price when supply exceeds demand. Likewise credit should become cheaper when vaults bulge with idle deposits and bankers complain of the scarcity of sound loans. Bankers say that business men to whom they would like to make loans refuse to borrow because they fear the risks of contemplated enterprises. One factor in any business risk is the interest on the money used, and banks now charge from 6 per cent up on moct loans. By slicing 1 or 2 per cent off their interest rates, banks could reduce business risks, increase prospective business profits, and theredv gain more safe borrowers and a larger volume of loans. The Administration already has forced down interest on city and farm mortgages. One weapon used was Government competition. The Government does not want to compete with commercial bankers. It will not if the bankers agree with the RFC chairman that “5 per cent is as good now as 6*j to 7 per cent was two or three years ago.” The United States Supreme Cou’t has declared compulsory military training in land grant colleges constitutional, but things haven't yet come to the point of making attendance at land grant colleges compulsory. You can't say the United States hasn’t maintained neutrality in the Gran Chaco. American-made bullets are being used by both sides. When a man like Major John L. Griffiths. Big Ten commissioner, says education is more important than football, how can we expect high school boys to go on to college? Even the dogs have felt the depression, for America’s fleg population has been reported dwindling. A woman threw her hat into the ring for mayor of Chicago, but if it was the type of hat women wear nowadays, the politicians probably never noticed it. We may not understand Yugoslavia’s reasons for banishing the Hungarians and appealing to the League of Nations for justice, but It be the genius in little King Peter.

Liberal Viewpoint by DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

HISTORY does not necessarily repeat itself and there is no reason to believe that Balkan disputes, border raids and the lineup of powers must bring war in their tram. The Bosnian crisis in 1908-9 and the Morocco crisis of 1911 both brought a decisive lineup of major European powers, but there was no war. The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 passeo without involving Europe, though they did help prepare the way for the outburst in 1914. Yet their are instructive similiarities between 1814 and 1934 which may be brought out with profit. We shall have to wait to see just how comparable these events turn out to be. The lineup of the powers in 1914 over the crisis between Austria and Serbia came fairly promptly. On July 5 Germany assured Austria that the latter could count fully on German aid, a promise which did much to encourage Count BerchtoJd to go ahead with his strong ultimatum to Serbia. Italy, the other member of the Triple Alliance, hedged, for as far back as 1902, she had secretly agreed with France not to attack the latter, though quite without knowledge of Germany and Austria. n n a ON the other side, the Tsar of Russia had assured Serbia of Russian aid and protection even before the crisis of 1914 broke out. In the summer of 1913 and in February, 1914, Russia had given its promise to stand firmly bes.de Serbia, though as recently as 1911 Russia had been willing to stand with Turkey against the Balkan states in case Turkey would give Russia full freedom of the Straits leading out of the Black Sea. President Poincare of France went to St. Petersburg after the crisis had arisen and during his stay in the Russian capital repeatedly assured the Russians that France was prepared to fulfill all of her obligations growing out of the Franco-Russian Alliance. When the Russian mobilization was decided upon—the act that was bound to bring a European war—France told the Russians to go ahead and count on French aid. The next day the French Ministerial Council decided upon war and handed the information to the Russian Ambassador in Paris. England joined Italy In rest ring to declare her stand with her allies in 1914. She declined to try to restrain either France or Russia in the warlike moves of these states, but she would not openly declare her loyalty to the Triple Entente. This had serious results, for Austria would not have risked a European war if she had known that England would join France and Russia. Count Berchtold explained to me in detail in the summer of 1927 that his action against Serbia was formulated on the assumption that England would remain neutral. He said he had such assurance from the British Embassy in Vienna. He asserted that he would never have gambled on the chance of a European war If he had thought for a minute that England would enter. n n NOW France ranges herself firmly on the side of Yugoslavia, and Italy alongside of Hungary. The other members of the Little Entente have declared their loyalty to Serbia. The chief cause for reassurance today lies in the fact that the lineup of powers in Europe is so one-sided that it is unlikely that Italy will permit Hungary to take warlike action. II Duce may now regret that he alienated Germany last summer with respect to the Nazi movement in Austria, but friends of peace may well rejoice that he did. With Germany ranged up with Italy, Hungary and probably Bulgaria, the balance of power be even enough to make war extremely likely. Border incidents played little part in bringing on war in 1914. The French withdrew their forces 10 kilometers back of the boundary in certain sections of the Franco-German frontier, the better to screen military measures. Both France and Germany charged border violations, but these charges were only trivial efforts at justification for policies already decided upon. Russian soldiers had crossed the German frontier before Germany declared war on Russia on Aug. 1, but war between Germany and Russia had already been rendered inevitable by the Russian general mobilization two days earlier. The intense feeling between Hungary and Yugoslavia at the present time may, however, provoke some overt act which will make it difficult to prevent war and a European conflagration. Italian pressure on Hungary would be the best preventive right now. In 1914 the secret understandings between the powers, especially between England and France, did much to help on the war. This may turn out to be the case today, particularly if there is any covert understandings between Germany and Italy which give II Duce added confidence in the face of war. We shall have to await developments before attempting to draw any further analogies between 1914 and 1934.

Capital Capers _ BY GEORGE ABELL

\ MBASSADORS and ministers are often ofj\. sered financial posts by their governments, after they serve as envoys to the United States. The idea seems prevalent, particularly in LatinAmerica, that residence in Washington somehow qualifies them to handle large sums of money.. Two Latin envoys have just been unofficially urged to accept financial posts. Ambassador Felipe Espil of Argentina is being suggested in Buenos Aires as Secretary of the Treasury. He has a good deal besides Washington residence to qualify him for the job, having served with a European banking firm for some years and being recognized as a keen financier. Friends hope he will turn down the offer. Minister Despradel of the Dominican Republic was recently asked to be Finance Minister. He declined, so the government said: “What about being Minister of Justice?” The post has been specially created for him, so Envoy Despradel, naturally flattered, accepted. He leaves tonight to take over the new job. Finance, incidentally, is nothing new to Despradel. He’s already served as Finance Minister and is reported to have been most successful at it. 000 CUBA’S widely known Ambassador, Mr. Mar-quez-Sterling. one of the Capital's interesting personalities, died suddenly the other evening. For a long time Envoy Marquez-Sterling had been in poor health, but his end shocked scores of friends who had supposed he was on the way to recovery. As soon as word of his death reached the State Department, Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a personal message of condolence, and this was followed by personal calls from Assistant Secretary Sumner Wells and James Dunn. Chief of Protocol. Marquez-Sterling had a long and brilliant career in the diplomatic service. ' As Ambassador to Mexica he achieved notable success. During President-Dictator Machado's term of office. he broke with his government and came to Washington. After the fall of Machado, he was rewarded with tbe ambassadorship here. 000 EN ROUTE to Miami, thence to taka a plane to Cuba. Charles Taussig, the Administration's advisor on the Virgin Islands, arrived in town last night. He called up friends from the airport and said he expects to be back in a few weeks. Charles takes numerous trips—but not cn the salary he gets from the Administration His check, signed by Governor Pearson of the Virgin Islands, has just been received by him. It's for $1 —his annual income from Uncle Sam. 000 ATTRACTIVE, blond Mrs. Emil Hurj;, wife of Postmaster General Jim Farley's chief aid-de-eamp and patronage dispenser, created a sensation when she appeared at Mrs. Roosevelt’s masquerade party in the White House, dressed as an Eskimo. “It was a terribly hot costume,” she admitted yesterday, “and to think that the Eskimos even wear flannel under all those furs."

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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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.) tt tt tt CITY TRAFFIC IS JUMBLE TO TRAVELER By C. L. Struckman. I see there are 18 deaths in Indiana due to auto accidents and six of these are in Marion County. Do you know why Marion County has so many deaths to her credit? Drive down any of the main cross streets, Illinois, Meridian, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Alabama, Washington, and motorists are requested to speed through the green or go signs with pedestrians crossing any time they feel like it regardless of go or stop signs. Pedestrians are not educated to the stop-and-go signs and yet traffic officers will bawl out motorists if they don’t move fast, regardless of the number of pedestrians moving in that hit-me-if-you-dare attitude. Such being the case in the downtown district, how can you expect anything else but high death rate in the residential section? Indianapolis is 20 years behind the times in regulation of traffic. Personally, I have traveled over most of the United states, but I find Indianapolis the hardest town to travel through, due to lack of coordination between motorists and pedestrians, through ignorance of city and county officials. a . tt FERA WORKER COMPLAINS ABOUT FIRE ORDER. By Times Reader. Just a word in behalf of the thousands of FERA workers in Marion County. Saturday morning, Dec. 8, we were all told when we reported for work that an order had been issued from FERA headquarters that beginning Saturday morning we would not be allowed a, fire to warm our hands and feet. I had on plenty of clothes and overshoes and two pairs of woolen mittens, but after an hour or so my fingers and feet were freezing slowly. Every man on our project was in the same condition. We are not lazy and we did not stand around the fire talking before the order came out. We stood by the fire just long enough to get warm and then we would return to work. I wonder if our President knows that such orders were issued? I wonder if the official who issued that order would work six or eight hours in an unheated office? Yes he would, in a pig's eye. All of us FERA workers are wondering what can be done about this situation. m u a STATES FAIL TO TAKE ECONOMY MEASURES : Bt Will H. Crai*. There are some foolish arguments among the spendthrifts of this country. Some defend our orgy of i spending by saying our per capita debt, every man, woman and child in the country, is only $215.50. while that of France is $497 and that of Great Britain is $872. That is about as silly as that of a former Governor of Indiana who claimed that his administration was saving ani economical because it did not spend as much on certain projects as Illinois. Carried to the crazy extreme is like an individual going on a spending spree because he only o’-ed $215 50, while one neighbor owed $477 and another $873. And we have so-called statesmen like that. Is it any wonder we are swamped and getting deeper? The

RINGING THE BELL

Age Pension Law Changes

By An Eagle. Your splendid editorial yesterday on old age pensions and the part the Fraternal Order of Eagles has played and expects to continue in behalf of this humanitarian movement, calls to mind that the order became committed to the pension campaign through the efforts of a Hoosier—Frank E. Hering of South Bend. It tttererore would be fitting for Indiana to have a model pension law, and I can see no reason why the 1935 Indiana General Assembly should not distinguish itself by passing such a law. The resolve of the Eagles to reduce the starting age for pensions from 70 to 65 years is fully justified. It is well known that men •of 65 find it practically impossible to obtain employment. We Eagles call pension laws with 70 as the starting age “graveyard laws,” for a very obvious reason. Another aim of the order, increasing the maximum monthly pension from sls to $25, needs little explanation. A person even of the simplest tastes can not live on sls a month. We Eagles also feel that the proposal to increase the property exemption of pension applicants from SI,OOO to $3,500 is sound and

low rates at which government bonds sell is an inducement for more spending. Men with money prefer safe investments in low interest bearing bonds to a venture in business, with the hazards, uncertainties and ; uncharted sea before them. Under such conditions, Uncle Sam will be a long time “priming the pump,” and a longer time before private industry will “take up the slack.” The deplorable thing about the situation is that states and local taxing units follow the example of the Federal Government. They have j no idea or will to economize, cut cut dead timber and duplicating func- i tions. “Spoils” is the ruling passion j of officialdbm and the people are as indifferent and dumb as driven cattle. 000 SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ARMY ALL VOLUNTEERS By William H. Collins. I wish to call your attention to a few facts in regard to the Span-ish-American War and its soldiers. I speak as one of the Nation's defenders, and from the records of the history of that war. “Remem•>er the Maine,” shouted America. The explosion which wrecked the Maine occurred at 9:40 p. m. on the night of Feb. 15. 1898. When President McKinley called for 120.000 volunteers, more hands were held out for guns than there were guns to give. The second call of an additional 75,000 men received the same response, and ever after, What are the facts? The only 100 per cent volunteer army America has ever known. No drafted men, no buying out, no letting George do it. Some few people often refer to this war as a 90-day affair. How far from the truth. It lasted just four years and four months. First in Cuba, Puerto Rico. China, and the Philippines, where some of the liveliest battles of the war were fought. There were 636 engagements. to be exact. The effect of the tropics has left its mark. Ten thousand men were killed or died of disease while in the service. Four hundred eighty thousand men .enrolled during the four years, and every man was a volunteer. No man received a

just. It is our contention that an old man and woman need not be reduced to the state of living in one furnished room in order to receive a pension. Regarding the proposal to reduce the county residence requirement from fifteen to five years, it should be emphasized that it is the intention to keep the state residence requirements at 15 years. The longer period in counties often works a decided hardship. It hardly seems fair that mere moving from one point to another, so long as it is within the borders of Indiana, should operate to deprive a person otherwise eligible of the aid of a pension. True, proper safeguards must be provided, but these need not include provisions so stringent that a major portion of the needy aged would be denied pensions. Last, but probably most important, is the Eagles’ demand for tightening the mandatory provisions of the law. We desire a law that will leave no alternative to county officials regarding payment of just pensions. Once the number of pensioners has been ascertained with a reasonable degree of accuracy, we believe not only that they should receive aid, but aid adequate to permit decent living.

bounty, bonus, land grant, vocational training, or beneficial legislation for more than 20 years. More than half of that loyal body of men have passed on to the life beyond. 000 THERE WERE OTHER CENTURIES, TOO By J. C. I agree with certain isolated portions of S. E. M.’s letter, yet I disagree with much of it. S. E. M. confuses Father Coughlin with the Roman Catholic Church. Granted that Father Coughlin is a part of that body, but that still falls short of identifying him with it. S. E. M. says, “Because Father Coughlin indorses the New Deal the church is not opposed to progress in science and government.” That is the long and short of what he says. It is very difficult for me to see any conf ction. I often think the same thought that Father Coughlin is a potential political force in the land, due to his incisive talks. He may flqwer some day. And again he may not. S. E. M. becomes thoroughly aroused over the fact that a Catholic priest made an invention. Go through the list some time and you will observe a great variety of inventions made by all kinds of people ranging from barbers to Berbers. That a Catholic priest made an invention is not extraordinary. Even if a hundred priests made inventions there still is nothing extraordinary about it—considering the immense number of priests in the world. The law of averages sees to it that they get their share. After all, there are all sorts of inventions and discoveries. If I invent a simpler way of brushing my teeth I am an inventor in the same sense as Robert Fulton or Ben Franklin. Some are recognized, some have social value, others are indispensable, it seems. “It is cut and dried.” says S. E. M.. “no doubt, absolutely conceded that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. During this period.” he goes on, “all the sciences flourished.” The fact that alchemy was going strong, the search for the philosopher’s stone was in high gear, and the philosophers wondered how angels could dance on the point of

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a needle and the fact that biology, chemistry did not exist, and astronomy was a mere puppy while astrology was the rage make makes no difference, it seems. At this time (the Thirteenth century) folk did not dare venture out to sea too far lest some awful sea monster gobble them up or they might fall off the flat earth. The Greeks way back in B. C. had proved (to themselves) that the earth was round. S. E. M. says that the Catholic Church was the only important religious body at the time. Apparently, the Mohammedans who ranged from China across Asia to Asia Minor and across northern Africa into Spain, and who did it just like that, and the Greek Orthodox with headquarters in Byzantium, later Constantinople, now Istanboul, and Buddhism, and the religion of the Incas of Peru, and the Mayas of Yucatan, and the religions of the Red Indians, and the Hottentots and the Zulus and the Bushmen of Australia go by the board. There is no man great by himself, because of himself, or by means of himself.

So They Say

I understand that formerly I used to have the reputation of being imperious. I’m sorry I appeared that way. I just hated publicity.—Mrs. Samuel Insull. If there is an attack on any policy of the VRA that I sponsored, I'm going b ;ck at it and defend myself.—General Hugh S. Johnson. The spoils system of governing cities is definitely on the rocks. Those who would coin money under it had better hurry up.—Professor Charles E. Merriam of Chicago University. The bankers of this country want recovery just as much as anybody else, and maybe a little more Francis M. Law. president, American Bankers’ Association. It is only when an artist feels he no longer cares to perform that he ceases to perform.—Fritz Kreisler, famous violinist.

Daily Thought

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.—Romans, xiii, 10. THERE comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.

SHELTER

BY MAIDA L. STECKELMAN Heads bent low heath the sha.p pelt of rain, Footsteps speeding—home Tgam—home again— Hurry, hurry—warm food ind fireside— Quick, close the door: shut the rain outside— Now shine the lamp that glows in your eyes. Now wrap me close in their soft paradise.