Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1934 — Page 14

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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19. 1934

CREDIT FOR HOMES •pRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS appeal to the Governors is a tacit admission that the private mortgage business in many states is not yet ready to take over the job of providing credit for present and prospective home owners. If that is true, the doors of the Home Owners Loan Corporation should be reopened to distressed loan applicants. Senator Wagner of New York will ask Congress to increase the HOLC's lending capacity by an additional one billion dollars. Other congressmen suggest increases of two and three billions. Since the Government do-s not want to get any deeper into the home financing business than it has to. Senator Wagner's proposal seems Wiser. Home building and financing can be handled adequately by private agencies when the Federal Housing Administration's plan, to eliminate second trusts and' insure first mortgages up to 80 per cent of the appraised value, becomes elective throughout the country. But in many states, existing laws will not permit the operation of this system. President Roosevelt now asks the governors to have these state barriers removed. The depression wrecked the 21-billion-dollar home mortgage market. If the HOLC had not stepped in, hundreds of thousands of home owners would have been turned into the streets, and thousands of pthers would have lost savings tied up in banks and in building and loan organizations. In many states, moratoria laws ended th" willingness of lenders to risk mortgage investments. To restore this valuable mortgage market and encourage more ownership, the FHA inaugurated a program to insure mortgages, reduce and standardize interest charges, simplify foreclosures, stop forced sales and thereby give needed stability to the general real estate market. It is a plan to protect both lenders and borrowers, and should in time promote a steady increase in heme building. But until state laws are revamped as the Pr~ dent suggests, the HOLC should remain a place of last resort for those whose home finmc ng and fficultics can not be solved through private agencies. SCIENCE PAYS AFT7R more than a year of study President R 'osevclt's Science Advisory Board, headed by Dr. Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recommends a 16-m:llicn-dollar six-year program covering all phases ol scientific research. We know of no bettor public investment. Th~ research m"n of seme 40 bureaus are the Government's eyes, ears and brains. Blind spending of public money will not bring dynamic recovery. But a few millions spent on science cen bring back billions in wealth and well-being. Inventions like the automobile and n-'w processes like rayon manufacture have charged and vitalized our whole industrial system. Behind these is the patient and underpaid toil of nameless men of science. This report shows the damage done to research by sh^rt-sighted economy. The plight of scientists "who are essential to the tuture life oi the country, is pathetic," we learn. Unless this class of Americans is encouraged two unhappy results will follow: "First, tnese will drift down into the more unskilled labor class or the competitive business class, increasing the distress in these clas es; second, ambitious and able young men will be discouraged from entering a career in sc.er.ce or engineering, thus paving the way for great economic and intellectual loss in the near future.” We now spend only one-half of one per cent of the federal budget on scientific research. In an age of science this is an indictment of our intelligence. LIQUOR LABORATORIES 'T'HESE United States are today 48 separate ■- laboratories conducting experiments in the social control of the liquor traffic. Complete prohibition is the law for only four states—Alabama. Georgia. Kansas and Mississippi. Nine other states prohibit all alcoholic beverages except beer. Twelve states operate monopolies—some wholesale, some retail and some both. Nevada is wide open. In other states, varying degrees or regulation are imposed, with licenses for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. The Montana state monopoly licenses drinkers. Legislatures convening this winter and spring in nearly all of the states will wrestle with proposed revisions in liquor laws. In most of the states, liquor control will be a live issue in even' legislative session for years to come. The national Congress can help the states by modifying taxes and tariffs and thereby limiting the profits of bootlegging. THIS TOPSY-TURVY WORLD CHARLES G. DAWES, a Republican in good standing, says that the depression will be over for sure by next June, and gives the credK to President Roosevelt. On the same day Lewis W. Douglas. Democrat and former budget director, warns that Roosevelt's spending program is leading straight to a "ghastly social and economic calamity.” Are things getting a bit mixed? Very likely; the rest of the day's news is almost equally confusing. A New Jersey widow asks for permission to destroy the six-suite apartment house that she owns so that she cau be eligible for the dole, complaining that her tenants have paid no rent for two months and that, as a property owner, she is not eligible for relief. Psychologist J. McKeen Cattell complains that the Administration s Brain Tnut doesn t

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use enough gray matter in approaching Government problems; whereupon he himself suggests a 100 per cent tax on automobiles to provide funds to care for the country's children.

The president of a Chicago bird show says that people are breeding canaries to sing jazz, a police lieutenant in Mansfield, 0.. is ordained as a Baptist minister, and the children of La Grange, Ga., go into mourning because Santa Claus broke his leg in landing from an airplane by parachute. Meanwhile, an American world traveler, visiting in France, kills himself because the automobile is displacing the horse from the world's highways, and a Chicago girl gets two boy friends to hold up her father and rob him of SB3 after he give* her a parental scolding. A psychologist tells University of Virginia scientists that a thoroughly tired person is really mildly insane, some NRA official sends a letter to a firm in Toronto demanding compliance with the National Industrial Recovery Act, and Nathan Leopold, notorious murderer, is made censor of books at the Illinois prison library to see that the other convicts get no objectionable reading matter. The principal organize of Huey Long’s share-the-wealth clubs in New York turns out to be a very dark Harlem Negro, and the New York police protest that the tear gas they use to disperse mobs is making all the cops who use it hoarse, snuffy, and bleary-eyed. And so it goes. Say w-hat you will, the newspapers do manage to record some rather odd events these days. ELUSIVE LAWS ' I ''HE Suprrme Court's criticism of the Gov- ■* ernment's slipshod methods of keeping records of executive orders apparently will result in a needed reform. President Roosevelt quickly admitted the justice of the criticism, although some executive heads quibbled that these regulations always have been available to those willing to look for them. To the average man there is considerable difference between availability and accessibility. At its last meeting, the American Bar Association complained of the difficulty which even experienced Washington lawyers had in laying hands on administrative regulations. Dozens of Federal agencies have power to make rules that have the effect of law. In the last 20 months these regulations have multiplied. Many of them provide heavy penalties for non-observance. Forty years ago England faced the same problem and worked out a relatively inexpensive system for publishing all departmental orders. WAR PROFITS AND THE BONUS TTE7ITH both President Roosevelt and the V ▼ united States Senate moving energetically to put a crimp in the manner private citizens make money out of wai, this Government is at last finding an intelligent way of meeting the ex-service mans demand for a bonus. The bonus has been fought over in Congress ever since the war. Time after time Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury have mentioned all sorts of good reasons why the bonus should not, could not, or would not be paid; but all this palaver has had very little effect. Away off in the background, seldom mentioned by any one. but never for a moment forgotten the ex-service man who wanted the bonus, loomed the vask bulk of industrial war profits. It was all very well to tell the former soldier that by demanding a bonus he put his patrioti m on a cash basis; all very well to say that it was unfair to the rest of the country to give a man a £rior claim on the Federal Treasury simply because he had been drafted into the army; the veteran had only to think of those war profits to feel completely justified in his attitude. Meditate on some of those war profit figures briefly. We had, for instance, 181 individuals receiving net incomes of $1,000,000 a year or more. We had industrial concerns netting profits which ranged all the way up to 362 per cent on their invested capital. Wc had a long list of companies making 50, 70 and 100 per cent profits in one single war year. If those things have been sticking in the war veteran's craw all these years it is no wondc;; nor is it extraordinary that he is unimpressed by the accusation that he is being mercenary in asking a thousand or so in cash for himself. In strict logic, the bonus demand may be unjustified; built up against this background, it is the most natural thing in the world. It has taken us a long, long time to realize that there is shocking injustice in drafting a man to face death and wounds, while permitting the stay-at-home to make money beyond the dreams of avarice. Not until we have written into law an ironclad system for eliminating such grotesque war profits shall we be in a position to say "No” to the bonus-seeker without getting a horse laugh in return. SILENT, PROFOUND TRIBUTE IN the hall of the School of Tropical Medicine at San Juan, Puerto Rico, stands a bust of the late Dr. Bailey K. Ashford, the Army surgeon who relieved Puerto Ricans of the scourge of hookworm. Dr. Ashford died some six weeks ago. Every morning since then, his bust has been found banked with flowers—big bouquets and little ones, many of them in strange, little home-made native jars. No one knew who put them there; so at last a watchman was appointed to keep an eye on the bust all night long and see what happened. He found that poor folk from the country were tramping in to town each night with their arms full of flowers to lay at the feet of their benefactor—the one tribute they pay to the man who had done so much for them. Men who have served humanity have won many kinds of memorials, in different times and places: but was there ever one more beautiful or expressive than this? Crime experts in Washington advocate a national school to fight crime, which wouldn't be necessary if we used our present school systems properly. Anew third party, astrologers predict, will take the presidency away from Mr. Roosevelt in 1936. The NRA must have neglected the star-gazers, too.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

THE New Deal is violently attacked from both sides. Recently, Ralph Robey wre j a burning book entitled "Roosevelt Versus Recovery." perhaps the most vehement Tory on the New Deal. Now, Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Vinton throw their hats into ti e ring with an article in the American Mercury on the "New Deal Versus Recovery.” This analyzes the New Deal from the advanced progressive point of view and is, to my mind, the most fundamental criticism of the New Deal yet written, in the same way that Louis Hacker’s "Short History of the New Deal” is the best historical summary of the Roosevelt Administration yet contributed. I am as much prepared as ever to defend the New Deal against the Tories. Mr. Roosevelt still stands out like St. George against the pirates of the Old Guard. But, unfortunately, he seems to me extremely vulnerable to attacks from the progressive angle. Like Professor Hacker, Messrs. Stolberg and Vinton find that "The One Big Happy Family Theory” on which the New Deal has been built simply does not work in the terminal stages of finance capitalism. Each important member of the family is at the throat of each of the others. The big industrialists elbow out the little fellow, as the Darrow report, whatever its other weaknesses, made very apparent. Capital squeezes labor, and the creditor class corners the farmers and the lower middle class. The Government has tried to keep the peace by robbing Peter, who is already broke, in order to pay Paul. a a a TYA'ESSR.S. STOLBERG and Vinton point out that the basis for the depression and our present troubles is that same hogging of the social income by the few which the income statistics of 1933 reveal to be still going on, in spite of the alleged crusade to save the forgotten man. "The depression was hatched during prosperity. Our present ills are a hangover from the spree of the New Era. From 1923 to 1929 big ownership increase its income by leaps and bounds. The top 400.000, who in 1929 reported incomes of over SIO,OOO, had increased thenrevenues by 76.6 per cent; the top 40.000 by 129.5 pier cent; the top 4.000 by 207.5 per cent. And the 400 real rulers of America increased their incomes by 234.5 per cent in these six years. The bigger the ownership the better it did.” During thus same period the working classes increased their real earnings by only 4.9 per cent. The farmers were actually getting less in 1929 than they were in 1923. "In other words, during prosperity the national income was being grossly redistributed—upward.” The result was ihe crash of 1929 and the subsequent futile efforts to bolster up those who were responsible without making them pay the penalty for their exploitive policies and their evil deeds.

A JR. ROOSEVELT made his great mistake by : not nationalizing the banking system when jhe had the God-given opportunity early in ; March, 1933. ‘‘There is little doubt that in those crucial days the New Deal could have nationalized our banking system. During that week Mr. Roosevelt was God.” Had Mr. Roosevelt done this, then there j might have been a real New Deal in which the Government could actually have taken charge instead of dissipating its efforts and resources in the effort to salvage a shaky credit system which had already been gutted by its own malice and maladroitness. The farmers have fared best under the New Deal, but though they have saved their homes ; and farms for the time being they are still saddled with the mortgages and debts which most of them can never pay. The Government has secured the mortgage holders more handsomely than even banks regard as necessary. Moreover, ' the higher prices that the farmer has to pay for {the goods he buys have eaten up most of the advantage coming from higher farm prices and Government bounties. Capital has run away with the NRA and successfully defied Section 7A, as we 1 as dictating ' the codes under which it operates. While uni employment and relief have steadily mounted during the last year, dividends increased 16 per i cent between June and November of the present | year. They seem to be the only item which is getting out of the depression. a a a ''T~'HE New Deal accepted the American Federation of Labor as the proper spokesman for labor, and Mr. Green boasted when Section 7A was passed that he would organize 25 million workers. But he did exactly what might have been expected of him, essentially nothing. Today. the American Federation of Labor has only 2.824.900 dues-paying members, and its total. \ membership is just about 4.000,000. In the meantime, company unions have grown twice as rapidly as real labor unions. The middle class, vast but diversified and unorganized, is hopelessly squeezed between Big Ownership above and the workers below. Sooner or later, the New Deal must make its decision as to whether it is going to serve the upper class or the masses—the manipulator versus the forgotten man. Perhaps it has already done so.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

DIPLOMATS are mumbling and grumbling about the publicity which little Finland is ' getting out of the payment of her debt to the United States. When retiring Finnish Minister Astrom marched into the State Department to present the check of his government to Undersecretary I Phillips, he was eagerly snapped by photographers. Kis broad, sheep-like face was wreathed I in smiles. “Hold that pose. Mr. Minister!” said one j camera man. ! “Now, wave the check!” said another. Mr. Phillips with outstretched hand reached for the bit of paper. Snap! went the cameras. More smiles. More handshakes. “It has come to the point that when a foreign nation pays her debt to the United States—that's first page news,” sighed an envoy : who wistfully watched the scene. Beaming. Minister Astrom returned to his leeation. He realizes that the publicity will be worth more to Finland than the few thousands she paid to Uncle Sam. And the other diplomats know it also. Hence, the rumbles and grumbles! NOTE—Finland's $228,538 installment on its war debt was the only one paid by a foreign nation this month. Great Britain defaulted on ! its $376,451,776 payment, and other countries followed suit. a a a FOREIGN envoys hastened to New York over the week-end for fetes and celebrations in connection with their countries. Black-mustached. Kiplingesque Ambassador Munir Bey of Turkey attended a luncheon which ! athletic Gen. Charles Sherrill, former American i Ambassador to Turkey (he has won many marathon championships >, gave for him at Pierre's. Literary Minister Marc Peter of Switzerland hopped on a Manhattan-bound train to preside at a Swiss literary banquet at the Waldorf-As-toria. He was addressed as "Dr. Peter" instead of “Mr. Minister.” Jolly Minister Michael Mac White of the Irish Free State was at the Ambassador in New York. He saw some Irishmen about a bottle of Irish whisky. Rotund, pleasant-mannered Minister Otto Wadsted of Denmark went up to the big city to I give a speech in Danish to the Danish Luncheon ! Club. The Finnish colony in New York started a series of fetes for Minister Astrom, who spent a | few merry days congratulating his countrymen 'on the fact that little Finland paid the December I installment on its war debts.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

rpl Ti /T a. h wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 IVI [defend to the death, your right to say it — Voltaire. J

J (Times readers are united to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. \ Limit them to 250 words or less.) an n PROPERTY PLAN IS OFFERED TO NATION By Frank Foster Plan to issue 10 billion in scrip and require its use seen by ex-candi-date as way' out of the depression for the United States. As the election is over I can congratulate the winners. I hope there will be constructive legislation for the people and not for a few and if their wish is to do something to make good times issue 10 billion or more of scrip backed by the Government to be redeemed in five years at cash value. This scrip be used to give any one over 60 and unemployed SIOO a month. Pass a law that this scrip will have to be accepted on all payments of all kinds of debts or purchase and no bank can keep the scrip longer than 30 days and any one receiving the scrip must spend it in 30 days. This would assure 12 different deals or payments in one year or 60 in five years, which would mean 60 billion' dollars of purchasing power in five years. The reason I make it SIOO instead of S2OO is that the average person never earned S2OO a month and it would only kill him by kindness. He would not know how to spend S2OO without harm to himself. If you are in favor of some plan of this kind to make good times send me just a post card and I will see that they-are given to our United States Senator. n n a WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE CRIMES? By E. S. B. I want to howl a bit more. Some howling is o. k., some is not —owing io the facts brought out and the ' motive. George Washington and his crew howled against England's ! treatment of the colonies. The result? Even fair-minded people in England would have said. "Go to it, j George and Benjamin and Patrick. 1 We don't blame you.” The prophets j of old howled against the harmful j and wrong things of their time. , Jesus did. His followers did. The over-wealthy of this land ; howled against Dillinger until their tools slew him in cowardly fashion. They thought they had a good reason to howl. But let's take a square, honest look at the wealthy. Science says that tobacco and alcoholic drinks are very harmful. They advertise widely and deceitfully these goods and thus sell them to the deluded and the ignorant, to partially or completely destroy themselves. Do you read much against these crimes in the newspapers? What will result from the selling and wearing of high-heeled shoes so fashinable today? What about the methods used by unscrupulous politicians and officeholders? Are these crimes?, Or are they the earmarks of civilization? ana LEGISLATORS DO NOT REPRESENT PEOPLE By Ptlrirk Henry To the people of Indiana and the members of the next session of the State Legislature: It is time that we stop the Huey Long stuff of McNutt's. We. the people, send our repre- ; sentatives to the Legislature, and in- ) stead of representing the people. I they are merely political puppets of i McNutt.. Do you realize that if the con*

ABOUT TO BE SHANGHAIED!

By John D. Danaher. With a wealth of sarcasm and insinuation Westbrcok Pegler seeks to establish the inaccuracy of the tradition concerning the superiority of the Irish as pugilists. I glory in the accomplishments of the Celt in boxing and athletics and after subtracting all his shortcomings he still has a big balance of glory to his credit. Mr. Pegler tries to show that ‘‘John L.” wasn’t Irish. Why he may as well seek to assert that Dr. Hallahan or T. K. Kiely is not Irish. The latter were not pugilists, but they were about the most renowned athletes the world ever knew. John L., Corbett, Fitz, Tom Sharkey, Dempsey, Tunney, Loughran, Walker, et cetera, were and are all as Irish as “Paddy's Pig,” for the simple reason that because a man is born in a stable, he is not a horse. All credit to Jimmy McLamin, but he is not an Irishman. He is no more than a Celt. We had as many pugilists in this country who were Irish as those with Irish names, because, like Lindbergh and hosts of others, their maternal sides were Irish. The most and best comes from the mother. Mr. Pegler thinks the Irish couldn't lick their weight in

gressional primary is abolished, that the voters’ powers of nominating their own candidates for state and national offices are gone and you vote for delegates to a convention who will follow the dictates of McNutt? Let the people by popular vote nominate and elect their own officers. You legislators stand up and fight for the people. Don’t be a bunch of yellow dogs and deceive the people who are trusting you. I ask you to repeat to yourself the pledge of allegiance every time you are about to enter the Statehouse. a a a FOOD. HEALTH OF TRANSIENTS IMPORTANT. By a Reader. A study of the history of medicine reveals that people who travel and slaves who are moved from one distant place to another, are dangerous disease carriers. Powerful nations have been weakened, if not ruined, by the diseases of their slaves. Our staff of social workers, who are responsible for the care of our Indianapolis transients are to be commended for their efforts to provide warm clothing, nourishing food, an atmosphere of peace and quietness which aid rest and digestion. cleanliness and all the ocher blessings which increase resistance to disease. The transients are receiving an abundance of food. Considerable bulky foods, which correspond to roughness in the feeding of cattle, are provided. This is a splendid thing because it makes for clean digestive tracts, thus giving the boys a change to recover from their colds. In green vegetables, such as lettuce. the boys receive vitamin A, which makes their resistance to disease possible. True, not ve>-y large amounts of vitamin A are required; but that small amount which mgy be found in two eggs or a quart of whole milk is needed every day. Experience with cod liver oil indicates that there is little danger of any one being injured by eating superabundance of these food qualities.

Irish Vs. Pegler

Dutchmen. I disagree with him. I believe that the Irish could lick their weight should it be possible to include the whole world. The “champions,” Willard, Schmeling, and the so-called Jack Sharkey, can say to themselves that “’tis better to be born lucky than rich,” because they didn’t have any Irish to meet. Jack Johnson was a pugilist, but he wasn’t Irish. ‘‘Fair enough” for McTigue. Note he won from Siki in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day and it would seem he should thank James A. Farley for his second victory Mr. Pegler also reminds that Joe Lynch "is an American out of that section of New York City known as Hell’s Kitchen.” Thanks. It seems, according to Mr. Pegler, also that McTigue will sell his saloon in New York if he is assured sufficient remuneration to go back to Ireland. Many of the Irish had to settle in New York City because they lacked fare to come farther west, and many also joined the police force and ran saloons because they were denied the chance of a literary or technical education in their native land by the form of government under which they had to exist. Mr. Pegler writes well if he would only try to identify himself with a little more reason, truth and common sense argument.

It Ls important to remember that the extremes to which some faddish mothers have gone in insisting on an excess of vitamins should not blind the public to the needs of those on relief, especially children. Too, complete diets will lessen that experimental alcoholic craving which results in drunkenness and loss of resistance. One of the many commendable services of the medical department at 309 E. Ohio-st is its recommendation that certain of the boys receive a quart of milk each day. The fact all of the boys who need milk do not receive this amount reminds us of the great truth which The Times proclaimed when it declared: "Tc health poverty may be most dangerous.” It will be a great credit to President Roosevelt's Administration and to his social workers, if among the transients which are sent back home, there be no undernourished victims of poverty and no carriers of disease to curse the land of their birth. a a a TIMES DRAWING LESSONS PRAISED BY READER By Mrs. Cera M. Darby. You are running a feature, “Today's Drawing Lesson,” that I think is splendid. I wish the whole set could be put out in book form, it is such good pastime for children and many grown-ups get a kick out of drawing the daily lesson. a a a IT SOUNDS SWELL BUT IT COUNTS BADLY By Mathew Roe What's all the fuss about Clothe-A-Child for Christmas? Where is the S6OO 000 that was given the Community Fund? I am a working man end make less than $25 a week, but still I have to give to the Community Fund or lose my jdb. I would like to know what or how much the big official of the Community Fkind that lives on S-Arlington-av gives. Well, he does get his picture in the papers. It

-DEC. 19, 1934

I looks to me that the Community j Fund could give every person in In- ! dianapolis SIOOO a year and then ! have about $300,000 left. Wouldn't that be enough to have parties and blowouts? And still someone is always asking to give to this chant, jl or that one I sure wish I could get a job with the Community Fund. These guys i sure live in swell homes. Too much ! truth to this. I don't believe you : will have the nerve to print. Editor’s note: If we were to go by census figures, the Community Fund could give each person ill Indianapolis SIOOO, or a total of $364,161,000. That makes a deficit of $363,561,000.

So They Say

We are indeed devoutly thankful for present mercies, but may I add that for what we are about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful.—Si’ Robert Hadfield, British munition, manufacturer. All the young writers are reds < r reddish. What'll the readers do? Read, I guess, and hardly notice it.— Lincoln Steffens. We’ve taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius; we have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent.—President George Barton Cullen of Colgate University. The best relief measures are those assurances which the Government can give to business that it is now safe to invest in new enterprises President Henry R. Harrison of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Daily Thought

But in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him.—The Acts, X:XXXV. TRUST reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.— Dryden.

INVINCIBLE

BY EUGENIE RICHART Go your triumphant way, and les old men Sigh as you pass them, animated bronze — You with your gallantry, ycur strength of ten. Making them mourn the glory they had once. They will look after you, remembering All their unconquered kingdoms. They will say, "There was a girl I madly loved one spring . . . Tnere was a tree in bloom—a fatal day . . .” They will admire you shyly, wistfully. Thinking how little wisdom matters now That they are old and know futility Withered like apples fallen from the bough. But the bright armor of youth is such That these small agonies can not hurt you much.