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FRIDAY. JANUARY 18. 1935

SOCIAL SECURITY 'T'HE Administration's long-awaited social ■*- security program writes American history. It is the turning of a page, the beginning of a new chapter. Only three years ago our Federal Government was refusing to accept even the duty of bare hunger relief. Yesterday it assumed responsibility for at least a minimum of security for America’s underprivileged—unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and insurance. aid for widowed mothers and orphans, and the promise of later health insurance. For the first time the Government proposes to write into our laws the principle that industry must help to care for its own casuals. At last we are dropping the callous system of devil-take-the-hindmost. The harsh facts of machine civilization, driven home by the depression. have turned us into realists. The President’s program, as covered by the Wagner security bill, is criticised by die-hards as a radical departure from American traditions. Radicals assail it as too timid. To us It seems an effective starter. In general the states are to remain laboratories experimenting with different plans under Federal guidance and minimum standards. It is not paternalistic. For those now in need of the relief provided in the measure, the Fedeial Government would assume some $100,000,000 of the burden for the fiscal year. These Federal grants would go to states for pensioning the aged poor, caring for needy widows and dependent children, financing certain health measures. This would reduce the present Federal relief load. Otherwise, except for relatively small administrative costs, the states and industry would finance the security program. In some cases industry alone would contribute to unemployment funds and in other cases the workers would pay a share. Every industrial country, except ours, long ago established some such system. Many have gone much further. Doubtless Congress will amend certain details of the Roosevelt proposal after hearings. But there is need for haste in adopting the measure. The 44 state Legislatures now meeting should know as soon as possible what laws they must adopt to carry out their part of the co-operative project. Os course no program of this type will provide national economic security in any basic sense. At best it can and should take care of the victims of our economic and social systems. That is one job. But there is also the fundamental task of reforming our economic system that it will no longer cause mass unemployment and poverty that has to be cared for. PRISON BREAKS r I ''HE prison break in California and the attempted prison break at Michigan City are more than the acts of desperate criminals. Those two outbreaks constitute a warning. For years San Quentin Penitentiary has been scandalously over-crowded. Built to hold 3500 men. it houses nearly 6000. Recently a prison investigator returned to Washington after visiting San Quentin. He predicted early trouble there as a result of over-crowding and Idleness. Nearly’ all of the prison riots of 1929 and 1930 were caused by these two evils. Not long ago Alexander Paterson, commissioner of prisons for England and Wales, visited and studied American prisons. He was shocked at the lack of room and work in many of th**m. He ventured the suggestion that we shorten our senselessly long prison sentences, increase the use of paroles and probation, fit prison populations to prison capacity or vice versa, provide daily programs of state-use work and other activity. The Wickersham commission discovered alarming conditions of over-crowding and idleness. The recent Ullman committee report to NRA suggested a nation-wide program for industrialization of prisons for employment of prisoners on state-ifee work. Why should it require such cruel lessons to teach the states that idle men huddled into close quarters will plot riots and jail deliveries? A ROMAN FATHER 'J'HERE is something very fine about the action of Radio Patrolman George Liese in starting his thorough manhunt for his son. Released from other duty at his own request. this policeman is now engaged in the tragic task of trying to locate his own flesh and blood so that justice may* be served. Richard Liese. only 16. stands in a not too favorable light before the public. His father, middle-aged and with years of police experience behind him, looks for Richard without showing what must be his sentiment. Reporting to his superiors only when he has something new to tell them, George Liese searches for Richard Liese. Richard is wanted by police—and his father is a policeman—for questioning in what seems to be a particularly brutal and unnecessary murder. The murder is made even more sordid and shabby by the fact that the victim, James E. Hunt, leaves behind him a widow scarcely out of her teens and a 4-months-old baby. George Liese, whose record with the Safety Board is unspotted, believes his son is innocent. His suffering, silent wife believes her son is innocent. But George Liese seeks that boy—seeks him as he would any suspect in any crime! George Liese. to the eternal credit of the Indianapolis Police Department, puts his duty above any possible family sentiment. It is not George Liese s duty to judge his son. That is the duty of the courts. It is George Liese’s duty to catch persons suspected of any crime,

to catch them even if they are as close to him as is Richard Liese. And, in performing this duty. Radio Patrolman George Liese sets h‘mself on the same plane with famous fathers of history, who, down the ages, have placed the state above the family and have delivered their sons to judgment. The Brutus first famous in Roman history—the Brutus who was a military power when Tarqum, last and most wicked of the early Roman emperors, fell—might sympathize with Radio Patrolman Liese were Brutus here today to see this 1935 tragedy. Brutus, a Captain of the Horse fTribunus Celerum), learned that two of his sons had plotted with others against the Consuls, set up in the Emperor’s place. “And,” In the words of the Roman historian, “Brutus sat on the judgment seat and bade scourge and behead L.em all, nor spared his two sons, nor turned his face from the sight, for he loved his country more than his own flesh and blood.” All Indianapolis hopes that Radio Policeman Liese will uncover evidence to prove his son innocent of any connection with the murder. And, all Indianapolis applauds silently this man who, in a position of public trust, claims none of the special privilege which others, moie highly placed, have claimed before with less at stake. PEACE HIGHWAY WHILE we keep our attention fixed on more spectacular things, one of the greatest public works projects ever devised by human beings is slowly coming nearer to completion. This is the great motor highway which will, some day, link Alaska with Argentina and prdvide a smooth, up-to-date roadway for tourists all the way up and down the two American continents. It will be 15,000 miles long when completed. Os this length, some 8500 miles will lie north of the Panama Canal; and it is noteworthy that all but 1800 miles of this North American sectfion is now passable for automobiles. Nearly half the route from Fairbanks, Alaska, to the United States is in service. Meanwhile, to the south, autos can proceed from Texas to Mexico City without difficulty, and more than a third of the route from Texas to Panama is open. So, slowly, but steadily, this tremendous highway takes shape; and not the least striking thing about it is the fact that it is coming into being for a different set of reasons than any of the famous highways of the old days. The old roads were strictly utilitarian, with a strong military tinge. Those far-flung roads that tied the Roman empire together were laid out, first and foremost, to provide easy passage for the Roman legions. Their secondary purpose was to promote the flow of commerce. No one traveled along them for pleasure; any Roman who had suggested that a road be built through forest, mountain, and desert simply to enable idle folk to travel to places where necessity did not call them would have been looked upon as insane. So it has been with nearly all the international highways since. But this Pan-American highway is something different. It is not to be a military road, in any sense of the word. It is not coming into being because of the demands of commerce. Useful as the motor truck is, it is hard to imagine it supplanting the steamship on the long haul from South America to New York. It is being built, in other words, as a luxury —a tribute to the leisure and mobility which enable modern man to wander to far places for his private edification. In that sense it is a symbol of anew order of human existence. The greatest road ever built, it will exist simply to give people a chance to broaden their horizons. Nowadays the tourist, and not the soldier or the merchant, is king! THE BRITISH OWE MORE /'MTIZENS who fear New Deal expenditures will destroy national credit may take courage from a recent debt survey of Great Britain. This survey reveals that England’s local and national debt was $46,231,130,000 on March 31, 1934. With a population more than 46 million England’s per capita debt became $991 on that date, at the prevailing rate of foreign exchange. The American national debt on June 30, 1934, was $27,053,141,414. The city, county and state debts brought this sum to the total of $45,653,141,414. Estimating the population at about 126 million, the per capita debt was $370. If the per capita debt here equalled the English debt of $991, then the American obligation would reach the staggering sum of about 124 billion dollars. America is richer in natural resources than Great Britain and British income taxes exceed those of the United States in most brackets. Yet English credit remains unimpaired while viewers with alarm on this side of the Atlantic look askance at President Roosevelt's proposal to increase the national public debt to $34,238,000,000 by June 30, 1936—a step that seems necessary to national recovery. A FOOD AND DRUG LAW ONE exceedingly important job before this Congress is anew pure food and drug law. The old one is notoriously inadequate. The job should have been done last year. Failure was due to a deadlock between the industry and the Administration. Both were to blame. The original Administration bill was too extreme in parts. In retaliation some of the opponents manufactured a Tugwell myth which quickly became a false issue, obscuring the real problem. Now there is to lie a fresh start. As its contribution, the Proprietary Association has prepared a draft bill. The draft recognizes existing evils and suggests many correctives. That is progress. Os course the association knows that the Government can not properly let this industry write its own ticket of regulations any more than any other party to a controversy is ever allowed to act as the final umpire. Therefore a compromise is the probable outcome. Meanwhile the Administration should welcome and make use of the co-operation of the intelligent members of the industry. They have a selfish as well as a humanitarian interest in curbing the unscrupulous practices of the minority, which hurt their reputation and their business. Now Austria, for its independence, is dependent only on France and Italy.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY' ELMER DARNES

THERE has been a lot of scare talk about Fascism in England. This has been based jrimarily on the antics of Sir Oswald Mosley, eader of the British black shirts. It Is probable .hat the Mosiey movement is chiefly noise and bluster. But there has recently been passed in the British parliament an amazing act which provides unmistakeable evidence of a trend toward that type of legislation which has everywhere in Europe preceded the rise of Fascism: I refer to the “The Incitement to Disaffection Bill.” This law provides a fine of 200 pounds and two years imprisonment for possessing or spreading any literature that might “seduce his majesty’s forces from their duty or allegience.” Even more astonishing is the provision that high court justices who suspect that any one has in his possession such seditious literature may authorize the police “if necessary by force, to search the premises or place and every person found therein, and to seize anything found on the premises or place or any person.” , That such an act as this could have been passed in twentieth century England seems almost incredible. It not only repudiates the achievements for free speech and press secured more than a 100 years ago as a result of the battles by John Wilkes, William Cobbett, William Godwin and others, but even chalk nges elementary British liberties which were supposedly made secure as far hack as the petition of rights, granted in 1628 in the reign of Charles. nun THE British government alleges that it has no intention to evoke this law' except in the case of direct and unmistakeable efforts to spread insurrectionary appeals within the army or navy. But there is no guarantee that any such limits will be observed. The inexitable ejects of the law’ are already apparent in a letter sent to the Manchester Guardian by seven of the most important publishers in England: “During the last week the proofs of a children’s annual have been returned to the publisher with a letter from the printer saying that certain marked passages could not safely be printed in view of the fact that the incitement to Disaffection Bill would already be law by the time the annual appeared. “The passages in question undoubtedly contain anti-war propaganda, which it is not for us either to defend or to criticise, but it is clear that the annual Itself is written for children, and equally clear that it is not addressed to. or intended for, circulation among members of his majesty’s forces. Yet we feel sure that in view of the vague wording of the bill this incident will not be an isolated one, and that the result of the bill as it stands today, will be to impose a severe burden on both printers and publishers, and in the end to set up what will, in -act, be a secret, unofficial. and most embarrassing form of censorship exercised by printers (who will quite naturally have regard to the principle of ‘safety first’) over the publication of any literature of an anti-militarist character.” • tt tt n THE extremes to W'hich the law might go were well indicated by George Lansbury, the leader of the Labor party: “What possessor of a copy of our Savour’s blessed Sermon on the Mount W'ould be safe?” he asked. “He might use it to seduce a simple sailor.” The bishop of Birmingham pointed out to the attorney general that he could not criticise British policy in India without becoming liable under the act, for his criticism might have an adverse effect upon the royal forces doing duty in India. Further, the bishop’s wife having in her possession a copy of a newspaper containing the bishop’s criticism, would also be liable to a fine of 200 pounds and two years imprisonment. Tie significance of this British act has been very well pointed out oy Mr. Leo Huberman in the Scholastic. “Certainly the passage of the Sedition Bill gives point to the argument that freedom of speech and the press are observed only so long as they are not dangerous. Once there is a hint of danger, then these ‘traditional’ liberties are swept aw'ay. That w r as true in our own country in war-time, as it appears to be true in England today.”

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

LITTLE Capt. Ramon Franco, the distinguished Spanish aviator, was guest of honor at a cocktail party given by Capt. Jose Vidal, military attache of the Spanish embassy. The diminutive Franco attended wearing an ultra-marine blue uniform decorated with gold braid. His black, tousled hair was uncombed. His black tie was unfastened. “How long are you here, mi capitan?” inquired a guest. “Three or four months,” responded Ramon, glancing uneasily about. The truth of the matter is that the estimable Ramon is none too popular with the Spanish embassy 6taff. Ramon was one of the first members of the royal Spanish air corps to mutiny against King Alfonso. He flew an airplane over Madrid, dropping thousands of pamphlets insulting the royal family and urging fellow'-officers to revolt. A native Andalusian. Ramon appreciates good Anoalusian 6herry, but never drinks it. He smokes neither cigarets nor cigars, his only stimulant being deep draughts of revolutionary activity. Fellow-officers refer to him admiringly as “el gallito” (the little fighting cock). Citizens of Madrid also have numerous pet names for him. Many American Army officers and their wives, and most of the foreign military attaches attended the cocktail party, passing in line to shake the hand of one of Spain’s premier fliers, tt tt a JOLLY Minister Otto Wadsted of Denmark is definitely opposed to those large picture hats sometimes worn by charming women. Yesterday Envoy Wadsted narrowly avoided disaster when he attempted to speak to the wearer of one of the chapeaux during a reception. “How do you do?” he began. The hat-wearer turned, and the board brim nearly swished off eye-glasses, ear and cigaret. Fortunately, Otto—by a deft twist—sawed all three. “He nearly lost everything,” remarked an observant diplomat. “But never his temper or his politeness,” truthfully countered another diplomat. a a tt SENATORS have been commenting very freely on Huey Long's masterpiece of oratory last Monday before the assembled Senate, and making rather sarcastic and cutting jests. No one, however, wants to be quoted. Each Senator appears to be somewhat in awe of the Kingfish. and hence the quotations can not be attributed —although the writer knows who made the remarks. One legislator observed to a group of friendt: “I'm in favor of letting Huey Long have the floor every Monday. That’s wash day, you know, and Huey will be able to launder Louisiana’s soiled linen in public.” Another Senator exclaimed: “I felt I should tell him to talk a little more softly, as a lot of people in the gallery were trying to sleep.” A third Senator: “Kingfish, is he? Blowfish sounds more like it to me! ” Amelia Earhart left her husband in Hawaii and flew to San Francisco to get home before him and prepare his dinner. The mistake other Pacific fliers made was to fly away from the United States, and all the while it has been such an easy mark. The wonder is that the Saar problem has been solved without getting Washington to send a battalion of marines over there.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all cat . have a chance. Limit them to 2JO words or less.) a a tt BELIEVES TOWNSEND PLAN WILL WORK PROFITABLY By a Subscriber. I am a constant reader of The Times, the editorials and the Message Center. I make a study of Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes for information on economic questions. lam much interested in the letters and I wish to congratulate Elmer J. Martin on his ably written letter of Jan. 5. It certainly expressed my sentiments. I am for the Townsend old-age pension plan. I would not be benefited directly, as I am not eligible myself and my parents have died. Dr. Townsend is the greatest man since Abraham Lincoln. He has created a plan to lift the suffering masses out of poverty and degradation, and thereby raise the world to a higher spiritual plane. If this plan is denounced as “fantastic” by some, others think it very practical. tt TOWNSEND BACKERS FAR FROM PASSIVE, SHE SAYS By a Reader’s Wife. Westbrook Pegler is an excellent writer. I envy his pithy expression. His use of the title “mahatma” in connection with Dr. Townsend is probably meant as a joke; however, there is some justification. Dr. Townsend’s followers are equally as zealous as those of Gandhi, but there is a little difference. Gandhi preached passive resistance to try to gain liberty for his followers; Dr. Townsend preaches active resistance to all congressional opposition. His workers are elderly people suddenly turned salesmen for his plan. Go into one of their meetings and try to pan the doctor and you’ll see if they are passive. Well, 25,000,000 voters can’t be wrong—in America. tt DANGERS OF HOLDING COMPANIES OUTLINED By Georxe Gould Hine. Every organization which has not yet passed anti-Communist resolutions should do so at once. There are two organizations which stand out conspicuously as having utterly failed to realize the seriousness of the situation. One of these is the Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman Car Porters George. The other is the Association for the Establishment of a Home for Unhappy Cow-Boys. They don’t seem to realize that the Communists polled 102,991 votes at the last presidential election. But this is not all. They can soon know all if they will now promptly fall in behind Dr. Wirt’s red shirt, now being waved by Dynamite du Pont’s Liberty League. When they have once galloped safely into Wall Street’s coral, it will then be all right for them to look back. They can then see plainly that they have been pursued, not by 102,991 rabbits, but by a clear majority, consisting of 24 million fire-spitting dinosaurs. Let the two organizations now take a little look at this: One of these dinosaurs stood up on the floor of the House last week and spat fire at holding companies. The Brain Trust had been digging again and Chairman Rayburn of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce laid the disrespectful results bare, in part, as follows: “The result of the ingenuity of able lawyers to persuade legislatures to write cunning statutes and courts to place shrewd constructions on the statutes, has given the American people a master in the form of the holding company. This master is soulless, . impersonal, intangible,

Passage of Age Pension Bill Urged

By c. L. With a favorable report from the Judiciary B committee of the Indiana House of Representatives, an old-age pension bill which is a model piece of humanitarian legislation is now before the General Assembly. The bill, which amends Indiana’s first pension measure enacted at the 1933 lgeislative session, is similar to the pension system which was adopted in Ohio by a majority of nearly 900,000. Now, if Hoosiers are possessed of the state pride with which they are credited, they will tell the Legislature that they desire passage of the proposed measure without a single change. Briefly, the new bill would give Indiana a system of old age pensions with a starting age of 65 instead of 70; a maximum pension of $25 a month and a minimum of sls, instead of a maximum of sls as at present; the property exemption is raised from SI,OOO to $2,000, and the county residence required reduced to five years from 15. Behind this record of Indiana’s progress in humanitarianism stands a notable achievement of an Indianapolis man, Otto P. Deluse. Since 1921 he has been the leader of the old age pension

immortal and well-nigh all-power-ful. It holds under its control billions of dollars worth of property scattered throughout the country and around the world. “Its decisions can shut down mills, move factories, reduce employes to a state of serfdom, strip the stockholders of local companies of their equities, siphon off the earnings of profitable companies beyond the reach of their stockholders to the stockholders of other companies. It is permitted to act as a normal person to contribute to campaign funds in municipal, state and national elections, to hire clever writers to carry on campaigns of propaganda to centralize the control of industry. It disfranchises stockholders of thousands of necessary and prosperous operating companies. It takes control away from those who built the companies and places it in a city oftentimes far removed. a a SEEKS 3-YEAR DELAY ON MORTGAGE COLLECTIONS By W. E. Martin. I would suggest chat you write to Gov. McNutt and all members of the State Legislature to enact into law a moratorium on all mortgaged property for a period of three years. This law has been enacted, I think, in seven of our states at the present time, and we in Indiana are as worthy as the mortgagors in the other states. We do not want to repudiate cur debts, but we want time to recover. If the depression is lifted in three years we can cancel our mortgages. If not, we will all go down in bankruptcy. Gov. McNutt, in an address in Anderson, favored a one-year moratorium. Now I am positive one year is not sufficient. Hoping all mortgagors get busy at once on this needed legislation. tt M tt COMPLAINS OF SERVICE IN LICENSE BUREAU Bv a Business Man. I am just wondering if Gov. McNutt is aware of how our State License Department is functioning. It is necessary in my business to come in contact with this department quite often and I must say that something drastic has certainly happened since the installation of their new system; whether it is the system or the “straw boss” I am unable to say. Prior to the time oi the new sys-

movement sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. At the time he enlisted in the cause of giving old men and women something better than a corner in the poorhouse, old age pensions were termed in many quarters as socialistic, paternalistic and visionary. Only a few years ago Harry G. Leslie, as Governor of Indiana, vetoed an old-age pension bill. Today, Indiana is giving most careful and favorable consideration to a pension system far more generous than many liberal-minded persons e’. Jr dared hoped would be a reality. Contrasted with the lone fight which Otto P. Deluse once waged, today we witness a parade of individuals and organizations who favor a real old-age pension system. To the everlasting credit of Governor Paul V. McNutt, let it be said that he had the courage to state in his message to the present General Assembly that the 1933 pension law was unsatisfactory, and to recommend changes to make it satisfactory. Had Indiana had a Governor of like vision in the past, it is probable that today the poorhouse would be only a memory in this state.

tern the service was excellent and I never had any trouble in transacting my business, now it is necessary to wait from 40 minutes to an hour on one little matter. Even in the drivers' license department one can not get service. I have made several inquiries trying to find out what the trouble might be and am listing below my findings: It was recommended to the Governor that the department could be run with fewer employes, resulting in the dismissal and transferring of several men and women; now it is necessary that the employes now on duty work from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. and from 6 p. m. to 10 p. m., totaling 12 hours; that’s NRA in our Statehouse. Employes are not allowed to stay on one job until they become efficient, but are transferred from one job to another, and those efficient on one particular line of work aie not allowed to do this work. a a a ORGANIZER, EDITOR ARE PRAISED BY WORKER By a Times Reader. After such a wonderful meeting Saturday morning, I feel that I’ve just got to express my feelings. It was a mass meeting of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers and William Smith, who was our strike leader and organizer last fall and spring, was the chief speaker. What a welcome he received. It is wonderful how just one man can be so beloved by so many people. It was thought for a time by so many that he was to blame* for our defeat in the strike, but it certainly was made clear that he was not. And the welcome that he received in Indianapolis proved that all of us have the utmost faith in him. I want to compliment you for

Daily Thought

Therefore I say unto you. What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them —St. Maik. xi, 24. A WISE man will deiire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly.—Burton.

JAN. 13, 1935

having such an editor as Mr. Powell. He gave a wonderful talk about organized labor and he has proved mere than once his friendship by printing in your paper things that the other papers absolutely refused to recognize. We thank him sincerely. I was a boarder at the Real Silk mill and haven’t been working since the strike started, April 6, along with 30 more in that department. But being out almost a year has not dampened the union spirit and some day I know that we will be on the other side of the fence, knowing that we got there by fighting for what one of our officials called our “God-given rights.” nun FERA WORKER CHARGES HE WAS SHORTCHANGED Bv FERA Worker. I am writing regarding back pay on the FERA. I have been working at the Indianapolis Abattoir Corp. for two months and I have received my check correctly until a month ago when I was short $8 and I have not been able to get it. I have seen almost every one but the Governor and I guess I’ll have to see him before I get it. You may print this if you like then perhaps the persons involved may feel ashamed of themselves that they are taking food from my family’s mouths.

So They Say

The human race is evolving into a broader sense of international relation, but the speed of the evolution is bitterly slow.—Leopold Stokowski, famous conductor. In this emergency, industry and agriculture must unite to stem the tide. Their interests are identical; they are both proprietors.— John C. Gall, associate counsel, National Association of Manufacturers. The best pass defense is a prayer. —Coach Bernie Bierman of Minnesota. We are on our way, better prepared to think things through soberly than ever before.—Commerce Secretary, Daniel C. Roper. The ship of the New Deal is not manned exclusively by Galahads. Political considerations control a great mass of appointments.—Dr. Frederick C. Mills, president, American Statistical Association. The great failure of the present British government in the Far East is that it did not co-operate wholeheartedly with the United States when Secretary of State Stimson protested against Japan's absorption of Manchukuo.—Phillip Henry Kerr, marquess of Lothian. I advocate reflation as the remedy for the emaciation of deflation.— Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale.

CLOTHES

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM Today I walked out, oressed for Spring, A pessimist stood near. “Such clothes as you have on,’’ she said, “Will give you cold, my dear." She froze me with her dire precept. With fear I gazed around. Bright dandelions, in yellow dress, Looked up from grassy ground. • It isn't clothes that give us colds." (I didn’t know ’twas true.) “It’s shrinking dread that makes us chill, I fear, my dear, for you."