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MONDAY. DECEMBER 31 1934 A HAPPIER NEW YEAR seem headed for a happier new year. The millennium is not just around the corner—far from it—but we are very definitely moving forward. The index of general business activity is up. It has been climbing steadily since September. Now it is 80 per cent of estimated normal, compared with 75 a year ago. Fortunately this is not limited to consumer goods. Steel and some other basic industries also are gaining. Can we hold and increase the gains? If we don’t, it will be our own fault. Certainly the chances of sound recovery are much better now than they have oeen before. Here are some of the hopeful factors: Banks, though needing more reform, are much stronger. The agricultural situation, with a billiondoilar increase in farm income this year, is much healthier. The conservation and use for the public welfare of natural resources, including hydroelectric power, will create and distribute new wealth. Five years of depression have consumed industrial surpluses and left a rich natural market for all kinds of goods and plant replacements. The morale of the people is better —an exceedingly important factor in success or failure. A New Deal President is in the White House, with more experience and more political power in Congress and in the country than he had a year ago. Os course there are obstacles and dangers 3>head. Very serious ones. One danger is currency inflation, a scourge which would injure all but fall heaviest on the working classes. This danger does not come from any desire of the Administration. The danger, rather, is that overpowering Government deficits and debts may lead to the use of the printing presses. There is an increase in unemployment and the relief burden. Even with gradual business recovery’ and with states and communities carrying as much of the relief load as they can, the Government relief expenditures will be large for some time. That road leads to currency inflation unless the Government has the political coinage to increase taxes, especially on income. The amount of increased revenue from taxation, which is necessary, will depend upon the speed with which private industry puts the unemployed back to work. The unemployed have to be put back to work. Unless private industries and individuals with money use it for productive jobs, the Government will have to take their money through taxation and use it to make jobs. The second danger* is capital-labor strife. Denial of the right of collective bargaining and widespread evasion of Section 7-A have created an explosive situation which may wreck the hopes of 1935 unless there is anew spirit of capital-labor co-operation under the law and new strength of policy in Washington. The greatest danger of the new year is the drift toward war. Suspicion and friction multiply in the Far East and Europe. A destructive armament race is threatened by Japan’s withdrawal from the naval limitation treaty. Unless the United States makes another and stronger effort to save the world's peace machinery. through co-operation with the League of Nations or otherwise, the drift toward war probably will continue. But none of these difficulties is insurmountable. Honesty and courageously facing them is half the battle. And the assets of 1935 outweigh the liabilities. We have a better chance to make it a better year.

NO COMIC OPERA IN WAR WARS in Latin America are popularly supposed to be comic opera affairs. The memoirs of soldiers of fortune, and innumerable romantic-adventure novels, have sold us on the idea that such campaigns are usually very picturesque, enlivened by the presence of one gold-braided general for every three barefoot privates, but not very bloody. Recent summaries of the fighting between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco region show that in this case, at least, the popular idea is all wrong. Latest figures show that fully 40,000 soldiers have been killed in that war; 25,000 Bolivians and 15,000 Paraguayans. When casualties are recorded on that scale—for the populations of the two countries are not large it is no comic opera war that is being fought. It is the real thing; as grim, tragic and bloody, on a small scale, as any wars that have ever been fought anywhere. ccc GOES MARCHING ON /CONGRESS will be asked to continue the civilian Conservation Corps for ait least two years more. This statement is made by Director Robert Fechner, on the basis of a talk with President Roosevelt. It is very doubtful if Congress will show any reluctance to follow this recommendation. Whatever may be said about other New Deal policies, this one, at least, seems to have sold itself to the country at large pretty thoroughly. To begin with, we have reached anew realization of the need for work of the kind the CCC is doing. Beyond that there is the fact that the corps has saved heaven knows how many young men for good citizenship. In hundreds upon hundreds of cases It has been, quite literally, a life-saver. The Acpense may be high, but there is little douist money is very well spent.

The Constitution: U. S. A., Inc. .BY TALCOTT POWELL

This is the first of a series of articles on the Constitution of the United States. * • * THE Supreme Court today faces the adjustment of our basic law to the desires of the people. In two national elections the people have emphatically declared their wishes. The problem of the court is to see whether these demands may be met in an orderly manner. If this proves possible then the present session of the court may be the last step in the bloodless revolution of President Roosevelt. If the justices can not reconcile the people and the Constitution there is the tedious alternative of Constitutional amendment. Unfortunately a third possibility exists. In 1857 the Supreme Court, in a masterful opinion by the distinguished Chief Justice Taney, undertook to “settle” the slavery question. The people rejected the court’s decision, war followed and within a decade a mere proclamation by President Lincoln wiped out the Dred Scott decision forever. The Tory mind is prone to consider the Constitution an invincible, perpetual motion machine, unchanging and unchangeable. Asa matter of fact it is a way of life. Thus the people live it must prevail over it. The late Senator Albert J. Beveridge sensed this three decades ago when he said: For, in any event, the people will grow; in any event, problems undreamed of by the writers of the Constitution will be evolved from changed conditions and unprecedented social and industrial situations. And, if the Constitution is not self-adapting to the march of history and the progress of the people, revolution will rend the Constitution to pieces. Since Senator Beveridge made that prophetic remark students of government have begun to realize that it is not easy to define just what the “people” means. , That the “people” must and shall be the supreme authority under the American form of government is admitted. But who are “they”?

CRACKER box politicians of the breast-beat-ing school love to wave the flag and shout about the “peepul.” A mayor of New York was elected on the slogan “I am for the people and against the interests.” It never occured to him that these “interests” —corporations were what he meant—were as integral a part of the people as the man who operates a trolley car or runs a dry goods store. For a corporation, under the law. is a person. Sir William Blackstone, world’s outstanding legal commentator, speaks of corporations as “artificial persons.” John Marshall, greatest of Supreme Court Justices, in almost the same words, defined a corporation as “an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of the law.” Before the bar of justice a corporation has all the privileges of citizenship except the vote. But it can, and does, profoundly influence the ballot. It may sue and be sued, purchase and hold property, and transact the various types of business. In addition, It has two remarkable dispensations denied to any flesh-and-blood person. It can be immortal on this earth. Because “it has no soul,” as Sir Edward Coke remarked, it can not commit a crime and go to jail no matter how unsocial its conduct. The corporative device originated as a shield for the humble. Ancient Rome granted it as *a privilege to slaves and freedmen who wished to club together to insure one another decent burial. Many scholars believe that the early Christians made use of the corporation to conceal their forbidden religious activities. o a a EARLY in the Renaissance England granted the right of incorporation to rich men who wished to establish universities, hospitals and other educational and charitable institutions. The crown allowed this privilege so that a donor to a worthy cause might, be assured that the purpose for which he gave his money would be carried out in perpetuity. Thus the corporation gained its legal immortality. When the ecclesiastical authorities tried to meddle with some of these incorporated enterprises the courts promptly declared them “soulless” and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the church. So the corporation acquired criminal immunity. Up to this time the “synthetic man” had not been put to making profits. His uses were primarily benevolent. The discovery of the New World changed that. European monarchs wanted to exploit American resources without risking funds from their state treasuries, most of which were depleted from a long period of war, pestilence and depression. So the crown allowed the merchant adventurers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Capital Capers . BY GEORGE ABE LI

IT all has to do with a very sticky situation concerning Commerce Secretary Dan Roper, some chewing gum and screams in the night. Secretary Roper s son Fred is the father of a 2-year-old son and heir. The other evening the young Ropers left the baby at the home of Grandpa Roper while they stepped out for the e'” aing. Hie baby was put to bed after dinner, and Stjreta’*y Roper applied himself to reading the evening paper. The servants had gone out. Suddenly, screams were heard from the chi’d's bedroom. Dropping his paper, Secretary Roper leaped agilely up the stairs, three at a time. He burst into the room and found his young grandson covered from head to foot with sticky chewing gum. There was gum in his hair, on his ears, his fingers, his body and his toes. He had gone to bed with a stick of gum and had tried to take it out of his mouth with his thumb. The Secretary of Commerce knows how to deal with a commercial product like gum. so he placed the little boy in a bathtub and spent a full hour scrubbing him with soap. At the end of that time. “Grandson” Roper was clean. But Grandpa Roper vows that in future there will be no more chewing of gum at night in the Roper homestead. a a a THE day after Christmas is a bad day for exertion. Which explains the'fact that a smaller number of distinguished guests than usual attended the morning musicale of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in the Mayflower. Energetic Mrs. Roosevelt was present, with Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President’s mother—a thoroughly aristocratic and charming elderly lady with silver hair and a distinguished manner—and Mrs. Rexford Tugwell, youthful wife of the “brain truster.” Those who failed to attend, missed an excellent concert. Mme. Greta Steuckgold (or to be strictly correct, Frau Steuckgold), the charming German soprano, was a vision of blond loveliness and sang (in the opinion of listeners) divinely. She received the largest bouquet of red roses ever given in the Mayflower. All the German embassy, headed by Ambassador Hans Luther, turned out en masse to give Frau Steuckgold a big hand. There were also many musicians in the audience. At the conclusion of the program, Li. s. Townsend was hostess at a luncheon, with Frau Steuckgold and rotund Envoy Luther exchanging compliments in German. Young Barpn von Struve (who is soon to be married to an American girl), busy Count Strachvitz, another embassy secretary, Minister Prochnik of Austria (who put on his monocle for the occasion), Frau Koerner (a close friend of the Luther family), attractive Baroness von Rabay and other Teutonic guests kept up a rumble of German, which made one think of Berlin beer gardens. A canary given as a Christmas gift to a man in Nebraska turned out to be a yellow- , painted sparrow, after he heard the bird sing, "cheap, cheap,* j

to incorporate, being careful, however, to retain rigid control and the long end of the profits. Tremendous drives to sell stock to the public followed. Some of the prospectuses would have put a promoter of the nineteen-twenties to shame. One company declared that the Indians of Virginia used cooking utensils of pure gold and gave their children gems for toys. Even the clergy touted favorite securities from the pulpit. Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, Delaware and Georgia were all originally colonized by corporations. The Massachusetts Bay Cos. had five separate stock issues with an involved system of dividends and a corporate structure nearly as complex as that of the Insulls. The “artificial person” was launched on his modern career. n an BUT for centuries this legalistic device was suspect. The right to use it was jealously guarded by the state. Chief Justice Marshall thought that the creation of a corporation should be allowed only when its purpose was definitely “beneficial to the country.” In America many states fought a long and losing battle against liberalization of the corporative scheme. Attempts were made to limit the amount of capital it might hold. Missouri, the last state to abandon this method, gave it up only in 1927. Along wish this effort at control there were rigorous restrictions by some of the larger states on the purposes for which a corporation might be used. These restrictions fell when states like Indiana and Delaware, greedy for tax revenue, removed such safeguards in the granting of corporative charters. The advantages of the corporation in providing for collective business effort are obvious, but thinking people are beginning to question whether the “synthetic man” has net outgrown or overreached his usefulness. By using the corporation, business has divorced ownership from control. Rascals have learned to use the vast tissue of corporate law to evade personal responsibility for their acts. Last year 200 non-banking corporations controlled a quarter of the national wealtn and were in turn dominated by only a handful of directors. Individuals are divided against themselves. An officer of a large corporation may, ass, human being, have one set of ethics, but as a part of the “synthetic man" he may have quite a different philosophy. Such an individual Is not necessarily a hypocrite. He is merely one person during business hours and someone else during the time he spends with his family and friends. The corporation idea has become a cult like the worship of Baal or Mithra. Its defenders fanatically declare that those who take a critical attitude are assailing the profit system. This is nonsense. The profit system existed for centuries before the corporative device was imagined. a a a EVEN today great Titans of finance like the Morgans are organized not as corporations, but as partnerships in which every partner is responsible to the last penny of his private resources for his official acts. Three modern nations with widely differing political philosophies are attempting to grapple with the problem of this “artificial man.” Soviet Russia has absorbed the corporation, made it an integral part of the state. Fascist Italy is attempting to establish a “corporative state” in which the government dominates corporate policy. The United States, through the policies of Mr. Roosevelt, is apparently moving in the direction of gaining veto power over the corporation without assuming the power to initiate,. The Administration wishes to be like a football referee who sees that the game is played according to certain prearranged rules, but who does not attempt to call the plays. Whether the President succeeds or not is dependent somewhat upon the ability of the conservative mind to accept such a change. Fortunately the average American is resilient in his thinking. But it is well to remember that not all revolutions are caused by the “have-nots” who wish to have. Oceans of blood have been spilled because of futile efforts to maintain the status quo for a privileged class. Thus the present session of the Supreme Court must not only adjust the Constitution to the people, but It must seek to adjudicate the wide differences existing between two classes ot people: Those of flesh and blood and those who are legalistic robots. Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Supreme Court has already foreshadowed his views when he remarked last year, in his opinion in the Florida Chain Store Case, that the movement of wealth toward concentration in corporation coffers was “the negation of industrial democracy.” Next: The Constitution: Birth.

MOUNTAIN AND MOUSE completion of trade treaties between the United States and the three coffee countries of Haiti, Brazil and Colombia would be great news if it did not emphasize the snail-like progress of the administration's reciprocal tariff policy. Almost two years have passed since the Democrats were given the task of repairing our shattered foreign trade by this means. The last Congress, in response to his request, authorized President Roosevelt to lower tariffs by as much as 50 per cent in negotiating reciprocal trade pacts. Yet to date only one such treaty is in effect—the one with Cuba, which received much advance preparation. Preparation of the Colombia treaty also had long been under way, and required only revision in terms of the new act. We are told that negotiations are in process with Belgium, bweden, Switzerland, Spain and five Latin American republics. In view of the fact that the making of such agreements is In the hands of Secretary Hull, and backed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, the slowness of action is hard to understand, both officials being vigorous tariff reformers. The Republicans left the Democrats no harder task than to rebuild a thriving foreign trade on the wreckage of Smoot-Hawley blunders. The technical details and political obstacles involved in making reciprocal trade treaties consume time and patience. But, even after such allowances, the New Deal’s effort at foreign trade and exchange restoration has been disappointing. So far a mountain of hope has delivered itself of a mouse of reality. Before Leon Trotsky tries again to become head of Russia, ex-President Hoover might advise him how much more pleasant it is to live in retirement. That new star in the sky is reported to be getting brighter, but it will have to go some yet to rival those in Hollywood. A newly discovered planet was named in honor of Vassar College, in an effort to jet the girls interested in other than young, handsome satellites. Huey Long may be a great grand stand quarter back for the Louisian Stafte University team, but you’ll notice he never offered to buck the line himself.

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.) nan TOWNSEND PLAN SHOULD BE PASSED, HE SAYS By Andy J. Suttles. Connersville. The Townsend plan should be passed. It is the greatest plan ever proposed. It would start prosperity in forty days. It wouldn’t hurt to let the old boys have a few years of rest. Plenty of people spend that much a week, and they don’t get down on their knees nor spend it for whisky, either. Everybody doesn’t inherit $50,000 like Joe Katz. No doubt he has tried to hire some poor man for 50 cents a day and then want him to take it in the store. If everybody was like Joe Katz the country would still be riding the ship with a hole in the bottom of it. Katz belongs to the self-respect-ful, griping gang and sees from only one eye. He has no respect for a man who has worked hard all his life and spent all of his earnings for his family and had nothig extra to lay away. Mighty few men that have only had their labor for their living have saved up anything for old age. The employer has taken too much for profit. Yours for prosperity and the Townsend plan.

MESSAGE CENTER SHOULD BE HAVEN FOR TRUTH By Times Reader. “The trouble with the world is that its owners are not interested in changing it.” In this exaggerated statement, Clarence Darrow embodies the great truth of our age. How thankful we should be to this virile, original old veteran who has intelligence and experience, but no earthly treasures which he holds as too dear to lose when the truth needs to be spoken! Let us remember that this ownership of the capitalists includes their ownership of the minds of the vast majority of American voters. This mental slavery of voters is just as real, and more pathetic, than was the physical slavery of thousands of non-voting Negroes of 1860. May we, the poor of Indiana, be thankful to The Times for The Message Center. It is the one place in Indiana where such truth as that of the above paragraph is given the consideration it deserves. The Message Cunter is a lone voice of the prophet crying in the wilderness. Let us write only the truth and hold its standards high. a a a CREDIT IS EVIL TO PROSPERITY By John Kennedy. During and after the war came another period of credit expansion and inflation. With it, as always, came prosperity. Every industry borrowed as much as possible to advertise and expand their modern industries. In fast, they over-bor-rowed, which was an easy thing to do from modern bankers whose only purpose was to make commissions from loaning other people’s money. But there came the time when no more money was to be loaned. Most industries which seemed to exist and grow on borrowed money had to economize by retiring to the unemployed ranks millions of laborers and even then running in the red. Yet today we are trying to bring back prosperity by expanding further the evil of credit. Credit must be abolished. It can not bring us prosperity, whether controlled or not, for any definite period. In fact, much of our modem industries, which could not exist if it were not for dishonest money, must be abolished and the millions of unemployed must be in-

DOUBLE DUTY!

By Einstein Jr. Well, it’s fun to figure and a fellow might as well while away a cold winter's night juggling billions as millions or even thousands. They say anything can be proved by figures, so here’s another whirl at the Townsend plan to pay people older than 60 a pension of S2OO a month: Let's assume each person in the good old United States of America takes in SIOOO a year, counting women, children and all (which is way above the actual figures). Suppose they all rushed down to the market place or the neighborhood saloon or wherever it is that people rush, when they want to spend, and do spend every cent of their SIOOO, saving nothing by for a rainy day. Then it is plain the country has spent 120 billion dollars each year. Ten per cent of that amount, faithfully gathered in at no expense, would amount to $12,000,000.000, while 2 per cent would amount to $2,400,000,000. Either amount would lack a lot of being the $19,000,000,000 and some over (mere $200,000,000) necessary to pay each one of 8,000,000 people

dustrially reclaimed by a back to the farm movement. The Governent must socialize the farming industry and bring about intensive farming, instead of extensive farming and the silly program of today. Modern manufacturers who have become rich off idiotic unproductive products, must cease to exist. We have been slaves to these manufacturers of idiotic unproductive products and gadgets, thinking we were doing it for progress because of their cheap propaganda. Modern manufacturing has failed us. It has made paupers of us. So away with industries of unproductive goods and back to the only industry that can bring national contentment and security—farming. a a a PRESIDENT AND WIFE SHOULD BE HONORED By Roosevelt Follower. When the United States elected Franklin D. Roosevelt as their leader in 1932 they really did something toward ending this nationwide depression. Not only has our President shown intelligence, but also a great willingness. I personally think there is no one who could have filled his place as capably as he is filling it. Mrs. Roosevelt also should receive great honors for what she is doing every day for our nation. One seldom picks up a paper but what they •ead about the President’s wife helping some, charity organization, having little* children cared for, and a number of other similar deeds. She certainly does fit right into the position as “First lady of the Land.” Not only that, but she is the first-thought-of lady Vhen speaking of charity and unemployment. She, like the President, shows such a great willingness to render aid to the needy. Hats off to the President and Mrs. Roosevelt! The United States greatly honors them, and why not? — they have more than won this great honor! o a a OBJECTS TO COPS’ ATTITUDE ON BAG SELLERS By Bill Angelo. I noticed an article in this section the other day about someone seeing a policeman chasing a little child off the street for selling paper bags in front of the market place. It didn’t strike me in any way until the day before Christmas when I ~was shopping. I saW a policeman

[1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

How It Adds Up

over 60 years their monthly pension of S2OO each. Aha! Correspondent Nettie Cook will cry, I hav& you there, brother, because the money changing hands in one year in this country is 1200 billions. Weil, friends, there is only one answer, then. It merely means that the SIOOO spent each year by every man, woman and child was spent immediately again by the person who received it, and the third person spent it again at once, and so on until the thousand had changed hands 100 times during the year. Each time it changed hands, however, good old Uncle Sam was there and dipped in for 10 per cent, according to some, or 2 per cent, according to others. I'll leave it to you how long it would be until the old boy had every blessed red cent of SIOOO, taking 2 per cent each dip for 100 dips, or at least had made what could be considered a sizable confiscation of money. Or, if you like easier figuring, take 10 per cent. Starting with SIOOO, at the end of only 11 changes, the thousand has shrunk to $313,812, while Uncle Sam would have $686,188. There’s the catch in a sales tax.

grab two little boys who were selling bags and hurry them down the street. It might have been the only money they would have for Christmas or maybe they were helping their parents in paying the home expense. Who knows? The few cents these boys make don’t amount to anything, but if they were making several dollars a day and didn’t have a license, then I wouldn’t blame the police for chasing them away, but as it is, I don’t think it gives them a fighting chance. a a a MR. KATZ TAKES ANOTHER BUMP By a Times Reader. Thanks for the little article headed, "Objects to Proposed Pension Plan,” by Joe Katz in your Christmas Bay Times. I got the best laugh out of it I have had for some time. I had almost forgotten that there are still people like Mr. Katz in the world. It would be a pleasure to get a look at the man. I had not thought much about the plan one way or another, but if the Joe Katzes are against it, I know one thing sure, and that is that I am for the plan tooth and toe-nail. If William Green of the American Federation of Labor and Mr. Joe Katz will get Elmer Zilch to join them and hire Professor Batz for a brain trust, I’m sure they can defeat Doc Townsend, especially with the help they will get from an Indianapolis morning paper. PROHIBITION AGAIN SHOULD BE ON STATUTE BOOKS By a Subscriber. I have read the Message Center of The Times for some time and pohdtr over the different views of current events, and I would like to add a word. Some rap prohibition. They claim

Daily Thought

And the king answered them roughly; and King Rehobaom forsook the counsel of the old men.— II Chronicles, 10:13. EACH succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before’ it.— Publius Syrus.

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the Government is receiving so much revenue now from liquor, at the expense of many people’s lives, destruction of property, morals and character. What a great price is being paid to satisfy a few thirsty as well as a few brewers made wealthy. And here comes the sad part of it all. The thousands of preacher;: of most denominations who profess the name of Christ, are responsible eor repeal. After Christmas, think of the drunkenness and lives lost, which is a poor way of celebrating Christ’s birthday. I think 70 per cent, and I think I have it low enough, of the preachers should hang their heads in shame. Where is there any good accomplished through repeal? None. What few are put to work, compared to the evil it does and causes, is not worth it. Shame on every man or woman who votes to make liquor legal. I pray that many will repent and do all they can to bring back prohibition in a better form than before, curbing crooked politicians and police and officials in every section of Government.

So They Say

We Danubian states are so imperishably bound together that the misfortune’ of one destroys the happiness of the others.—Tibor Eckhardt, Hungary’s representative in the League of Nations. What impressed me most in Italy was Mussolini’s work with children. What he is doing for their physical welfare is simply amazing.—Thaddeus Wronski, director Detroit Civic Opera Society. Our congressional committee has proof that most of the howl about Communism in this country today is for the purpose of hampering President Roosevelt. Representative Carl M. Weideman, Democrat, Michigan. Roosevelt knows his business. I’m “that way” about the Federal Government. He’s running it and I haven’t even bothered him in that. —Senator Huey P. Long, Democrat, Louisiana. Germany is the loveliest, cleanest, most comfortable prison in the world. The whole population is in prison.—Dorothy Thompson, author, barred from Germany. If I owned a circus, General Hugh Johnson is the first man I’d hire for barker, but I’d be careful not to let him train lions.—Norman Thomas, Socialist leader. In spite of everything, I still believe the tin can is an immortal American institution.—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Paris is no longer the fashion center. The only well-dressed women are in London.—Paul Poiret, onetime French fashion czar.

MYSTERY

BY EAN BOYD HEINEY A ring of shining jingling keys; Whfct use had he for all of these? The labels tell: This on; unlocks His precious store of bonds and stocks; And this one opens wide the hold That guards his store of shining gold; Keys to his office desk; the chest That hides some trinkets; this “The Nest”— (His paramour’s apartment.) Keys For all his life’s dark mysteries Except the most bewild’ring part, The secrets of his lonely \heart.