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THURSDAY JANUARY 24. 1835

HEALTH IS WEALTH TJRESIDENT ROOSEVELT mqy be wise in ■“■ postponing plans for health insurance until the people are more ready to accept it. Yet the need is here, f and the example of Europe Is before us. Whether in or out of depressions the hazards of illness are hardest on the smallincome families of America. According to Dr. Abraham Epstein of the American Association for Social Security, between 2,500.000 and 3,000,000 persons are ill at any given time. Among the lower fourth of the population illness is a major threat to security and independence. In families with incomes of $2500 or less the wage loss due to illness reaches an estimated S9OO 000,000 a year, while expenditures for medical care total $1,500,000,000. The human body needs periodic examinations just as much as an automobile does, yet only 8 per cent of Americans have an annual health examination. Almost half of the people In the lowest income group have no medical, dental or optical care at all. While 40 per cent of our families spend less than $25 a year on medical expenses. 8 per cent spend S2OO or more each year. This inequality of medical care injures doctors as well as patients In 1929 & third of all private practitioners hed incomes of less than $2500 a year. Thousands of able doctors subsist today on the barest necessities, unable to collect fees. Health insurance is designed to enable wage-earners and other low-income families to budget for adequate treatment. In a score of European countries it has been operating for years. Tn some it is the oldest form of social insurance. The Administration’s pending social insurance bill does not cover health insurance, but President Roosevelt says “difinite progress is being made” in studies by the government experts and medical groups. A report expected soon. Meanwhile the Administration asking $10,000,000 to be spent in health measures by the states and Federal government. The nation’s health is its wealth. To the extent that income is moie equitably distributed so will health become more uniform. No social insurance program Is complete that does not include provision for bringing medical care to the families that need it most. NAVAL DISCLOSURES THAT beats anything I ever heard of in all my life,” Senator Bone said of testimony at the munitions inquiry that the Navy Department drew a contract Permitting a shipbuilding corporation to charge the government for all of its taxes, including income taxes. Men who have lived longer than Senator Bone might say the same. Disclosures of the cordial co-operation between the military departments of the government and manufacturers of war weapons are eye-openers. They seem to prove that neither the American people, nor their Congress, nor their president, nor their Stace Department, have had enough to do with the government’s defense policies and international relations. This alleged Navy Department effort to save*a shipbuilding contractor’s profits from taxation is an especially flagrant usurpation. The corporation's attorney said that any one signing such a contract was “a fool,” and an officer of the corporation admitted the contract “would not stand up.” Also revealing are the statement of Admiral Land that cruiser prices quoted by private builders have doubled in the last three years, and evidence mat one engineering firm draws warship plans for three major companies and also for the Navy Department. Congress might save the taxpayers money by asking the Navy to hold up its big building program imtil more is learned. WE RE GROWING OLDER 'T''HE people of Lima. Peru, have been celeA brating of late—celebrating the 400th anniversary of their city’s founding. And in that celebration there is a gentle reminder that white civilization on the American continents is an older thing than we usually suppose. Keeping our eyes within our own boundaries, we generally take it for granted that the traditions of the new world are all very short. But to go back four centuries Into the past is to go back a long way. When Lima was founded, England’s fight with the Spanish armada was still half a century in the future, Shakespeare was not yet born, and Martin Luther was still alive. A society that can trace its lineage that far back is getting on in years. The United States and Canada may still be youthful; but Latin America is. as human societies go, well along in middle age. WELCOME CHANGES PERHAPS the most interesting thing about the security program offered to Congress by President Roosevelt is not the program Itself, but the Congressional reaction to it. So far, hardly a voice has been raised in opposition to the measure itself. On the contrary, criticism seems to be based almost entirely on the contention that the measure does not go far enough. In that fact you have a yardstick to measure the distance which our viewpoint on such matters has traveled in recent years. If such a measure had been presented to Congress at any time before, say. 1933, it would have aroused a great deal of protest. It would have been called dangerous experimentation, and its attempts to provide protection for the victims of economic stress would have been dubbed an un-American

fmtn of coddling, designed to sap our national self-reliance. This comment is not made in criticism of any party or any individuals. Most of us would have looked on it in that fashion. We simply were not ready to admit that things can happen in our country against which no amount of individual effort could avail. But now the plan is offered —and the objection most commonly heard is the charge that it isn’t strong enough; that it does not provide enough security, or promise to pay out enough money. Washington correspondents agree that there is no question whether the security bill will pass; the question is whether it will not be amended to give greater benefits. We have had a revolution in this country, after all; and it has taken place in our minds. Our point of view has shifted. We don’t look at things with the same eyes that we used half a dozen years ago. Yesterday’s dangerous radicalism is the height of today's conservatism—in this one field, at any rate. This simply means that we have found out some things about our country and about ourselves. We have found out that a country in which great masses of the people never earn more than sls or S2O a week, and are subject to spells of complete unemployment at varying intervals, is not a country in which every man can attain any measure of independence and security by his own efforts. And we have found out, simultaneously, that we as individuals can not stand it to have that state of affairs continue indefinitely. We are willing to subject ourselves to a complicated and expensive rrogram to end it. THE SIX-HOUR DAY TN face of outspoken opposition from Rail A Co-ordinator Eastman, union leaders at Chicago voted to press their demands on Congress for a six-hour day. We believe the railmen’s six-hour day, like the blanket 30-hour week, can not be won by legislative fiat. Doubtless, as the workers claim, there are about one million fewer men employed on the railroads than in 1921. But it is not probable that these, or any large number of them, could be reabsorbed by cutting the work day to six hours. Mr. Eastman says that to establish a six-hour day on the present eight-hour day pay scale would add $400,000,000 annually to the railroads’ labor costs. Would not this burden cause unemployment by forcing further installation of labor-saving devices? Because of over-expansion, stock watering, cut-throat competition and other past follies, the American railway system r nerally is in a bad way. Already 55 roads, operating over 42.000 miles or twice the total British mileage, are in bankruptcy or receivership. More than one and a half billion dollars of rail bonds are in default. To meet further deficits threatened by wage restorations, the roads are asking the Interstate Commerce Commission for a desperate and probably uneconomic measure, a general freight rate increase. The roads are in heavy debt to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and Public Works 'Administration. The workers’ prosperity depends on that of the carriers. To restore that railroad prosperity there exists no magic formula. Congress can help by imposing strict regulation of accounts, rates, standards and labor relations on the railroads’ competitors the barges, buses, pipe-lines and airways. Even then there remains the hard railroad job of financial reorganization and modernization. Only when the roads have restored their credit can they borrow to re-equip their lines. Aside from such reforms to strengthen the industry upon which they depend, the workers’ security lies along Jir of unemployment insurance, dismissal c ..ipcnsation, retirement pensions, and fruitic i of the splendid labor relations which have blessed most of this industry. JUST ANOTHER LYNCHING "TV OWN in Washington Parish, La., a mob entered the jail cell of Jerome Wilson, a Negro, and shot him to death. It was just another lynching to add to the odious list of n ore than 5000 in the past halfcentry. Not e'en unique was the possibility of this victim s innocence. A deputy sheriff had been killed in a shooting affray at Wilson’s house. Wilson was arrested, convicted of murder ar.d sentenced to be hanged. But the Louisiana Supreme Court had just granted him anew trial. A Federal anti-lynching law would make communities like Washington Parish hesitate. Under the proposed law now pending in Congress, the county would have been held financially liable for the young Negro’s death. Congress should pass this law before other suon lynchings smirch the records. WORK FOR ALL IT Is suggested that if the United States Supreme Court rules against the government in the gold cases, Congress might increase the Supreme Court by enough members to shift the balance and bring about a reversal of the verdict. This precedent once having been established, when the complexion of Congress is changed in subsequent elections, the new “ins” might further increase the number of judges, to get a cour r *o their liking. Finally, with Republicans and Democrats being in power alternately, our unemployment problems would be solved. All of us, in time, would be members of the United States Supreme Court. Even better than the Townsend plan. IN FAIRNESS TO AN IDEAL RETURN of the Saar Valley to Germany cleans up one of the least defensible tangles bequeathed to a troubled world by the makers of the Versailles treaty. > Here yas a region which wa~ solidly German and always had been. T- detach it from the fatherland and hold it under alien rule was to go completely counter to the fine words about “self-determination” and| “democracy” which the allied leaders were so fond of repeating. To turn its mineral riches over to the French was simply to add to a reparations load already too heavy to be borne. Now, long years after the armistice, the Saar goes back to Germany; and the step is a long one in the right direction. It hints that the rule of simple justice, and not of vindictive nationalism, may yet prevail in settlement of the problems born of the war. A man claims the invention of unbreakable china, but we won’t take his word for it until we’ve tried some of it on our maid.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

'T'HE Townsend plan is the great contemporary rainbow-chasing project which expresses the national yearning for social justice at the outset of the year 1935. Its proposal to grant a pension of S2OO a month to overybody over 60 has given it a vast degree of popularity. Its author can pack big auditoriums in large American cities, while the plan is easily the chief topic of conversation in the country groceries and Grange halls. It stirs the popular imagination as much, if not more, than the inflation schemes of a year ago. In the first place, just what is this panacea for the ills of the Nation? It is an effort to achieve two very desirable ends, namely the restoration of prosperity, and adequate provision for the aged, who are now admittedly sacrificed to our industrial and social machine. It proposes to achieve these goals through payments by the Federal Government of S2OO to every man or woman, not an habitual criminal, who has reached 60. Every such person will receive a check for S2OO on the first of each month. Recipients are not to work or in any way participate in the making of money, and it is prescribed that they must spend the entire S2OO within the month. The expense of the plan would be tremendous. In 1930 there were 10,350,000 persons in the United States 60 years of age or over. The number now probably reaches at least 10,500,000. The annual cost of such a pension plan then, would run to approximately $25,000,000,000 each year. a a a WHILE we spent even more than this sum in little over a year getting back Alsace Lorraine for France and attempting to secure the straits for Russia, it is certainly a staggering sum to be applied to any such constructive cause as social justice. Indeed, however commendable the end to be achieved, it probably is an expense beyond the capacity of the United States at the present time if the plan were to be maintained over any considerable period. The entire national income at present is hardly more than $50,000,000,000 a year and even in the boom times of the last decade it never quite reached $90,000,000,000. It is obvious then, that the Townsend plan would call for the annual expenditure of approximately one-half of our present national income, and nearly one-third even in boom times. Moreover, it is not socially just, since the persons over 60 in the country constitute less than 9 per cent of the total population, whereas they would receive from a half to a third of the total national income. How does Dr. Townsend propose to raise this enormous sum? He suggests a 10 per cent retail sales tax, but as M. B. Schnapper points out in The Nation, even if we were willing to resort to this drastic expedient it would not produce anything like the necessary revenue. Even in 1929 the total retail sales in the United States amounted only to approximately $49,000,000,000. At the best then, this 10 per cent sales tax would produce only $5,000,000,000, and at present sales levels only some $3,000,000,000. Even a 10 per cent tax on all monetary transactions—which might well paralyze capitalistic business—would produce only about $13,500 - 000,000. ’ a a a 'T'HE Townsend advocates meet these objec- . tions by contending that the scheme would increase the total national income to around" $250,000,000,000 a year. They contend that every dollar of money issued turns over ten or more times each year before it is retired. But the facts hardly support this contention. In 1934 about $32,000,000,000 were distributed in wages, salaries and other forms of income in the United States, but they produced a total retail sale of something less than $30,000,000,000. Therefore there is little 'chance that the payment or an extra $25,000,000,000 would raise our national income by $200,000,000,00. Another argument of the Townsendites is that their plan would enormously stimulate employment by giving to younger persons the places vacated by those over 60. But in 1930 only about 4,150,000 persons over 60 were gainfully employed, and many of these in agriculture. If these were all replaced by young persons, the new jobs would not take up even one-half of our present slack in employment—there being approximately 12,000,000 still unemployed. In spite, however, of all its fantastic content, the Townsend plan may do some good. It will call attention to the very real and immediate needs of the aged in America, and it ought to help to assure the passage of more practical and discriminating social insurance designed to protect old age, such ac is now proposed by Mr. Roosevelt.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

MRS. CAROLINE O’DAY, newly elected representative-at-large of New York, may become the unofficial caricaturist and artist extraordinary of the House of Representatives. When Mrs. O’Day arrived in the capital, die found a number of old classmates from the Lucy Cobb Institute of Athens, Ga. (One is Mrs. Ham Lewis, wife of the pink-whiskered senator from Illinois.) They reminded her of the school days when she was the class caricaturist. “You really should go to work and do some caricatures in the House,’’ these friends urged. “Well, I don’t know,” Mrs. O'Day murmured, uncertainly. But the temptation is becoming too strong. The House, with its scores of interesting profiles, curious haircuts, sartorial eccentricities and amazing contrasts is gradually weakening Mrs. o’Daj’’s opposition to the idea. “There are some beautiful heads in this Congress,” she says. “Such beautiful, wavy hair! They would make splendid pictures.” Next to artistic Caroline sits Rep. Everett M. Dirksen of Pekin, 111., celebrated here for having tented a dress suit to attend a White House reception. Some observers think that the sideview which Mrs. O'Day enjoys of the Dirksen mane may have prompted her remark about beautiful, wavy hair. Mr. Dirksen seldom combs his hair but allows it to fall gracefully about his eyes. He is (tonsorially speaking) the Borah .of the House. a a a THE other day a young Mexican diplomat, Mr. Pablo Campos-Ortiz, drew a check from a large official envelope and signed with a flourish “P. Campos-Ortiz.” At first glance, this does not seem remarkable. Campos-Ortiz is charge d’affaires of the Mexican Embassy and signs all checks for the staff in a routine manner. But here are some added facts. The particular check signed by Pablo was for half a million dollars. It represented the first Installment of the sum to be paid annually by Mexico as a result of the settlement recently made by the Mexican Claims Commission. As Pablo was about to sign with his fountain pen. a fellow-diplomat rushed up and said: “Wait! Don’t you want to use some special ink to sign that?” He produced a bottle of violet ink. “No,” replied Pablo, “I prefer my plain blue ink.” He signed the check, put it in his pocket and carried it down to the State Department. “Mr. Secretary,” he informed Secretary of State Hull, “allow me to present this little check on behalf of my country.” Secretary Hull accepted it gratefully and gingerly. (He hasn’t had much practice at accepting checks from foreign nations.) “Thank you,” he murmured appreciatively, nd added a little informal speech about “an jnusual gesture ... in these times.” Pablo went back to the embassy in a daze. He is the only diplomat here who has signed i his name to a check for half a million dollars | recently. If the Administration doesn’t want a majority vote on the veterans’ bonus, it should favor all 25 of the bonus bills now before Congress.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

GOLDILOCKS NEVER KNEW WHAT SUSPENSE WAS

r MaccorfQ r l wholly disapprove of what yon say and wiu 1 JL IIU i.VXCuudtLV V><UU-L I defend, to the death your right to sjay it. — Voltaire. J

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all cat. have a chance. Limit them to SJO words or less.) aaa DISLIKED EDITORIAL ON “WHAT REALLY COUNTS” By R. E. Baur. Under the caption, “What Really Counts,” we read an editorial that should properly have been placed in the Indianapolis News, or appearing in The Times there should have been a question mark after the caption. What really counts is whether or not Henry Ford is to take any responsibility for the 70,000 workers and the additional 10,000 mentioned after the two or three months of feverish production, whether he will recognize their rights as human beings to say how fast a pace they are to work. Henry Ford car. not throw out his machines at tne end of several months’ production, but he can'and will throw out from 40,000 to 50,000 workers who will join the ranks of the seasonally unemployed. We know that we will refuse to recognize any organized voice of his workers. The business is his and he runs it as he pleases. The Times will, of course, get Ford advertisements for writing editorials of approval. a a a EX-SERVICE MEN ARE ACTING IN GOOD FAITH By H. C. M. It is most interesting to read the article in Saturday’s edition, “By Junior,” to know that he is, at least, one of the younger generation looking into the future. He shouldn’t limit his ambitions to the organizing of, the younger people for the abolition of the professional veteran (as he calls them); he should look a little further to a much greater calamity facing his generation than the payment of the so-called bonus. The burden of the spending volcano that has been in its eruption the last two years is being placed on these young taxpayers’ shoulders, and if these members could only realize what the spending of these billions mean, they would organize to stop this outpouring of money. There has already been enough money wasted to have paid off the service certificates in full, and more will be appropriated that shall go the same way. The percentage of whiners against the payment of these certificates is so much greater than the percentage of whiners for it, that there is little doubt of it being paid. Being a member of the reserves as “Junior” claims to be, he should be better informed. His definition of a doughboy is one of the boys after the dough. Os course, this egotistical thoughtlessness is so characteristic of those who insist upon criticising the ex-service man. Please forgive me if I seem to reminisce on a matter of a personal nature, but I happen also to be one of the younger set that was too young for the service; however, I managed to get in, seeing service with combat divisions, and discharged with a service connected disability. I am fortunate and grateful for the opportunity to be called one of the good time Charlies both in the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. I might add here that those of us, who are eligible shall have done our duty only when we associate ourselves with these organizations. Thero are few of us. indeed, who are wise enough to be contented with our present lot, without inter-

Slot Machines Scored

By R. V. At least one legislator has taken a step in the right direction. He is the man who introduced the bill to make possession of a slot machine punishable by law. The situation on slot machines in Indiana has been deplorable for many years. No community is without the curse of these devices, made only for the purpose of chiseling the men, women and children who haven’t sense enough to keep away from them, out of their few nickels, dimes and quarters. There is a huge profit in the operation of these instruments. And if the people of this state haven’t enough sense to keep away from them, it is the duty of the public to protect people of that type.

mingling with actualities of our lives some dreams which have no place at all among them. The vague and unsubstantial speculation in which minds without stability like to indulge have been too much a part of all of us. Men have learned to appreciate one another with reluctance. They have but a feeble inclination to approve of one another in action, conduct or thought.. The ex-service men have found it very difficult trying to be understood and to please at the same time. Prejudice, injustice and abuses to be encountered. Whatever is said about them, they arc acting in good faith. tt tt a PEGLER ADVISED TO “HAVE A CARE” By a Reader. Let Mr. Pegler have a care in his unbridled weaving of words against Dr. Townsend. Mr. Broun, on Pegler’s right, once ate bitterness after a similar attack on the NRA. All former recovery plans have been originated by the politicians and given to the people. The Townsend plan is originated by the people but it remains to be seen if the people will get the same co-opera-tion from the politicians. The Townsend people are in a position to jeer at politicians or columnists. From Dr. Townsend’s bones a clever writer may be able to “tear the flesh,” as Pegler says, but I have heard of another great man who was crucified with words and in fact, whose teaching went on after Him. Have a care, Pegler. Don’t try to be slick. tt tt a PERSECUTIONS OF AGES CONTRARY TO BIBLE By June Davis. The remark made by the Chicago clergyman was quite to be expected if he was inspired by W. R. Hearst, but the statements of the letter signed “Cato” do not follow logically from that premise. For instance, he assumes that the world’s useful work has all been accomplished by so-called atheists who didn’t believe that volcanoes were the chimneys of hell; which belief by the way is Miltonic, not Biblical. The three-story universe rose also from the same source, and existed during the period when Bible study was replaced by the study of pagan philosophy. Those who denounced geologists as atheists were apparently too steeped in man-made theology to see the beautiful harmony Between geological findings and what “Cato” calls the legend of Genesis. Any one who places the chronological order of fossils agpinst the order of

While the Legislature is on the subject of preventing phoney games of chance, it might be well for the assemblymen to start a drive against baseball pool tickets, A law that would make possessors of these slips of paper subject to severe punishment, would not be amiss. Every baseball owner in the nation has fought baseball pool tickets. He wants to see the game played as a sport and not as the basis for a method ol cheating the buying public. There are many other criminal reforms that could be instituted. But, if the Legislature will act favorably on the slot machine measure and pass a pool ticket bill, there certainly would be no protest on the part of the decent citizens of Indiana.

creation in Genesis will see this harmony very plainly. Furthermore, any one who takes the six creation days literally is also under necessity of taking the prophetic days literally, and the fulfillment of these prophecies definitely proves that they can not be taken thus. “Cato” should realize that the biologists’ theory of man’s evolution from a lower order of animals has never been proven. I quote from the recent address of Sir Ambrose Fleming, outstanding British scientist, “I can not consider that we have any serious proof of the evolution of modern man from an animal.” Other scientists make the same affirmation. Speaking of witches, “Cato” should remember that the Biblical witch is neither the Halloween type nor the Colonial crone who was so unjustly persecuted, and that Luther, Wesley and Calvin were not far removed from medieval beliefs. Persecutions and burnings done in the name of religion were all contrary to Bible teachings and therefore can not be held against it. Furthermore, these cruelties were also practiced in the Dark Ages when the Bible was neglected. But the picture of fanaticism has another side. During the French Revolution religion was abolished; reason held sway, and what happened? The unbelievers set up a guillotine and beheaded the believers. Truly, wisdom is justified of her children. a a a PREDICTS TREND TO DICTATORSHIP By Mrs. Florence Newlin. Because of general recognition that political factions and clash of personalities high in public office constitute an ever increasing barrier to the progress of modern society and the development of industry, world wide public opinion and action in 1935 will favor dictatorship. This is the prediction of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, contained in the brochure entitled, “1935 and Surprise.” The brochure is one of a series of annual predictions issued by the grand lodge of

Daily Thought

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.—Jeremiah, ii:xxvi. SHAME is a feeling of profanation.— Novalia.

JAN. 24, 1935

the philosophical order in San Jose, Cal., and startling in their accuracy. Further predictions included 'n .' the brochure are that Australia will fight for and win a return to a modified form of monarchy. Inter- , national affairs of Germany will but solidify the support of Hitler, but also bring about an alteration of his . objectionable policies. France, it is stated, will be further distressed and terrorized by a war fear complex. A constant display of her evident suspicions will affect her international good-will resulting in a loss of trade, j In the United States, the brochure continues, banking and speculating systems will receive a number of new jolts during 1935, and the present vacillating conditions in mone-A tary matters will continue for sev-\ eral months. Readjustment in the * United States Government, it is contended, will bring about during the next twelve months a series Pf charges of deceit, fraud and deliberate misrepresentation and secret alliances agairjst the highest officers of the Government. A favorable note, according to the brochure, is that the relationship between the United States and Canada will become more assuring and result in expansion of trade between the countries. The predictions conclude with the statement that great advancement will be made by science in 1935 in connection with the study of the influence of high frequencies on the cause and cure of disease and particularly of nervous disorders.

So They Say

Certainly those now most addicted to severe criticism of the socalled New Deal did not offer any constructive social plan for relieving the distress during 1930, 1931 and 1932.—Senator James Couzens, Michigan. Why money should establish precedence of the wealthy when there are scientists, inventors, poets and M painters who really beautify life is.A beyond me. Millionaires? They re . petty, pathetically dumb, hams of the purest ray.—Theodore Dreiser, famed author. * I think this is better than the French Foreign Legion.—Lord Ed- * ward Montagu, now running a hot dog stand at an English resort. The American Legion is still death on Cofnmunism.—C. C. Kapschull, Illinois state commander.

Repentance

BY RUTH SWAN PERKINS Dark night, unflamed by any part of me, Still night, untouched by any sight of me, Hide me beneath the shadowed brush, Let the low wind whisper, “Hush—\ hush.” I have been far away for years, Or was it moments, or was it seoonds? I have lived the agony of tears, Tears I have reckoned. Now, night, my burning face I wish to hide In your cool water. Cover me with purple glide Over me, your prodigal daughter