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FRIDAY. JANUARY 25 1935. SPENDING FOR THE FUTURE THE Senate probably will tie a tew strings to the $4,880 000.000 work relief appropriation which the House voted to the President late yesterday to spend as he thinks best. The Senate should take time to outline the general policies and rules to govern the spending. Such is the proper function of Congress, and special precautions should be taken to remove all doubts of the Dill's constitutionality in view of the Supreme Court’s recent hot oil decision. But we hope the Senate will resist all efforts to pork-barrel the fund, and all proposals that might interfere with the Presidents announced intention of spending, “a substantial portion” of it for projects recommended by the'National Resources Board. These vast expenditures contemplated lor next year will not be paid lor out of current taxes. They will be added to the debts of the future. Wisdom and lairness dictate that money spent to ease our immediate unemployment distress be devoted to projects that will bring the greatest possible benefits to future generations. By wise investments, we can increase the wealth of the future and thereby lighten the debts we also bequeath. Our ancestors were not so considerate. They wrested lrom the Indians a continent of boundless wealth. They stripped it of trees, exploited its minerals, plowed up land unsuited for cultivation, defied the laws ol nature. Every year millions of acres of rich topsoil silt the river beds and wash into oceans. The resources board report marks the first serious elicit of the government to conserve and reconstruct our natural riches. Ihe board formulated a general program for planning and recommended definite projects which can be started at once to check soil erosion, stop the waste of mineral deposits, preserve and expand our timber supplies, turn millions of untillable acres back to pastures and parks and game preserves, and control and utilize the flow of water. In his message yesterday, President Roosevelt gave the keynote for this inspiring program of reconstruction: "We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions, but as life-giving assets to be directed by wL>e provision for future days. We seek to use our natural resources not as a thing apart but a* something that is interwoven with industry, labor, finance, taxation, agriculture, homes, recreation, good citizenship. The results of this interweaving will have a greater influence on the future American standard of living than all the rest of our economics put together."

THE RELIEF PROBLEM THE unemployment relief problem is one of the queerest puzzlers any society could be asked to solve. For when you work out a solution, you are apt to find that you have taken steps which will alter your whole social and economic base in a way you never intended. An example is the subsistence-homestead plan. Recent Washington dispatches say that the Administration may develop this plan on an elaborate scale this year. It is suggested that nearly a billion dollars may be used to put one million families on 10-acre plots of ground. Each family would be installed in a comfortable house and equipped with a horse or a cow and enough seed ior a year's planting. Figuring four persons to a family, government experts point out that in this way they would take four million people off the relief rolls and make them self-supporting. The money spent, furthermore, would not be a dead loss, since much of it would be laid out in the form of loans, to be repaid in 15 or 20 '.ears with a small addition of interest. Viewed from this angle, the idea is all to the good. Nor is there much doubt that the individuals settled on these plots of ground would have a better time of it than they have been having on relief. It is the secondary implications of the plan that make one pause. We are now engaged in an enormous program to reduce farm production and raise farm prices. How would creation of a million new farmers affect this? It is argued, to be sure, that these people would produce for their own use only, and not for the market; but even this would take a million potential customers olt of the market and. to that extent, would reduce the demand for farm products. Then there is the industrial angle. A leading feature of the plan is that the homesteaders would not be full-time farmers; they would supplement their earnings by part-time work in local industries. What sort of impetus would creation of a million part-time, small-town workers give to the decentralization of industry? What would it do to wage rates? Would it not put anew, unknown factor of incalculable potentialities into our great industrial equation? The subsistence-homestead plan might easily lead us into decisions of the most farreaching importance—decisions which would be taken, not because of any carefully planned attempt to revise our industrial and economical set-up. but simply as Incidents in • campaign to solve the relief problem. This is just a sample of the way in which the struggle to cope with this relief problem may have undreamed-of conseouences ol the whole fabric of our national life. HERITAGE OF AGE UNTIL now despair and ignominy have been the lot of millions of aged American*. Out of some 7,200,000 past 65 years more than one third are dependent. In 1970 there will be about twenty million of 65 or more years.

Physical science Is adding years to men’s lives. Until now social science has done little to make those years secure or happy. The Administration proposes to create for the lower-income families a heritage of hope, if not of absolute security. The Wagner-Lewis bill, for the first time in our rich country’s history. recognizes this as a national problem. It proposes a 50 per cent federal subsidy to standardized state old-age pension systems, to provide a minimum of security for the needy past 65; a national system of compulsory oldage insurance for all wage workers, through employer-employe contributions, to supplant gradually the means-test pensions; the sale of small annuities at cost for white-collar and other groups. Die-hards say this program would destroy individual thrift and wreck public credit. Others, of various types, say it does not go far enough. Conservative opponents should remember that 5,750,000 families in 1929 had incomes of SIOOO or less, and that 80 per cent of all our lamilies in that ‘prosperous” year lived on less than S3OOO. Without age pensions for many of these and compulsory insurance for the wageearners, increasing millions will be thrown on future relief to burden taxpayers and unbalance budgets. Insuiance annuities are thrift measures, forcing industry to plan and workers to save. Federal subsidies may have to be increased and more sums obtained from income and inheritance taxes. The proposed S3O-a-month pension is little enough. The sum should be made as flexible as the cost of living. Also the states should standardize their age limit at 65 at once. Neither this nor any federal law would cure the blights and ills of poverty, nor assume for all of us an “old age serene and bright.” All it sets out to do is “alleviate the hazards” that now haunt most of us in growing old. To such a purpose Congress and the states can apply, themselves with a will. THE TALKING BOOK OF the 120,000 blind persons in the United States, only about thirty thousand can read books in raised types. Even those trained in Braille system are necessarily limited in the scope of their reading. Science and a thoughtful government have opened to the blind anew door to literature and education. A phonographic device known as the Talking Book, manufactured and sold without profit by the American Foundation for the Blind, 125 E. 46-st, New York City, can reproduce an eighty thousand word book from a dozen discs. Congress annually appropriates money to buy these records and place them in libraries, from which the blind may borrow them without charge. But most blind persons are too poor to buy machines capable of reproducing the records. For this reason the Foundation has started a campaign for funds to place ten thousand Talking Book machines in the homes of the blind. This effort to help the blind help themselves deserves support.

TRIAL BY ATTORNEYS T AWYERS who criticise the way newspapers cover criminal cases usually complain that reporters and editors like to “try the case in the newspapers.” Any one who follows the daily reports of the Hauptmann trial must feel, however, that if this case is being “tried in the newspapers” to any extent it must be the fault of the prosecution and defense attorneys. Is there anything in legal procedure requiring these attorneys to issue lengthy analyses of the testimony each evening? Anything requiring them to make lengthy forecasts of what they are going to do to this or that witness tomorrow morning? Anything requiring them to tell how so-and-so hurt the state’s case, or how whoozis weakened the defense, or how tomorrow they will prove this, that, or the other thing? If the Hauptmann trial is leaking over into the newspapers, it is the attorneys themselves who are responsible. BUILDING BOOM AHEAD T TQUSING Administrator James A. Moffett tells the Middle Atlantic Retail Lumbermen’s Association that the housing administration is laying the groundwork for “such a revival of building construction as this country has rarely seen.” The results to date have hardly been spectacular, and one can onlj hope that future developments will be of a kind to fulfill Mr. Moffett’s prediction. It is certain that full recovery waits on a revival of the building trades; certain, also that a tremendous amount of work is waiting for these trades, if only some way can be found oi getting it started. Mr. Moffett warns that we can not expect too much at first. Ultimately, he is confident, the long-range program to reform methods of home mortgage financing will release a flood of building orders. If he is correct, a great reservoir of sales and jobs should presently be tapped. “JUSTICE” TURNS BRUTE THE temperature was 20 above zero. A young man. stripped to the waist, was led to the jail yard. He was made to face a post and his hands were strapped to it. A warden swung a cat-o’-nine-tails. The youth cringed as the whip fell against his naked back. Again the whip rose and fell and again the victim writhed. Ten times he was lashed. Then his hands were freed. At the prison hospital his back was treated and precautions were taken against pneumonia. So that's the wav they treated prisoners in Siberia in the days of the Czar? No. That’s tire way they treated three prisoners at Wilmington, Del., a few days ago. Great welts arcse on the backs of the victims and blisters appeared as the whip cut into flesh. And this was done in the name of justice, whose mission, we are to believe, is to elevate society and save men from themselves. But when “justice” turns brute, how can it hope to hold respect? Crime must be curbed. There has been too much pampering of influential criminals. But if “justice” wants to be respected, it must keep itself respectable. And it is far from respectable when It re-sorts to such savagery as was displayed in Delaware.

I —; Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES “All in the Name of God,” by Everett R. Clinchy (John Day Cos.. $2). “Negro Americans, What Now?” by James Weldon Johnson (Viking Press, $1.25). “Fourscore: An Autobiography,” by Robert Grant (Houghtor. Mifflin Cos., $3). a st a CLASS an-j race prejudice seems well on its way to wrecking the modern world. Class prejudice makes it impossible to work out a realistic and adequate program of social and economic justice which would enable us to use for the benefit of all the marvelous resources of modern machinery and applied science. The economic pressure resulting from this failure, together with the menace of race prejudice, is heading us toward another devastating world war. It is well known that religion can be a powerful force for justice and good will or a tremendous impulse to selfishness and hatred. Mr. Clinchy's work as director of the National Conference of Jews and Christians has been a conspicuous instance of the possible beneficial influences of religion. His book, on the other hand, is one of the most powerful and lucid portrayals of the hatreds and passions which have been engendered “all in the name of God.” While Dr. Clinchy makes cogent reference to the revival of racial prejudice and other bitter hates in contemporary Europe, he does well to imply that we should solve our own problems in this field before setting ourselves up as critics of foreign countries. Accordingly, he devotes most of his interesting little volume to the various examples of racial, religious and national prejudice in the United States from early days to the present time. tt tt tt HE describes the early prejudice against j Quakers and Catholics, the rise and progress of the Know-Nothings, the development of the Klu-Klux Klan, especially its recent manifestations, the growth of anti-Semitism and the exploitation of all of these various prejudices by various groups of politicians. He ends up with a powerful plea for “cultural pluralism” and a policy of “live and let live.” A wide reading of this book would be a notable contribution to the growth of a more civilized attitude in our country. One of the most notable forms of prejudice in this country is the race prejudice of the white against the black. Os the many distinguished leaders of the Negro cause, there is no one more intelligent, dignified and realistic than James Weldon Johnson. In a brief book he has put the essentials of the Negro problem in clear, realistic and logical fashion. He recognized that Negro emancipation can not be expected immediately or all at once, but he warns against any satisfaction with the temporary advantages of segregation: “I have tried to show that the most logical the most feasible and most worth-while choice for us is to follow the course that leads to our becoming an integral part of the nation, with the same rights and guaranties that are accorded to other citizens, and on the same terms. I have pointed out that common sense compels us to get whatever and all the good we can out of the system of imposed segregation, to gather all the experience and strength that can be got from it; that we shornd use that experience and strength steadily and as rapidly as possible to destroy the system. The seeming advantages of imposed segregation are too costly to keep." n tt g WHILE he is thoroughly committed to an advanced program of social and economic justice, Mr. Johnson recognizes the danger of adding the prejudice against the Reds to those which exist against the blacks. Hence, he sees little hope for the time being in any alignment of the Negro with the Communist party in the United States. Nor is he blind to the defects of Negro institutions, and in particular, calls attention to the necessity of modernizing the Negro religion and having it come to grips with the social realities of today. Perhaps the most dangerous sort of person is one whose prejudic* s are so deep seated as to be practically unconscious. Os this type, Judge Grant’s autobiography illustrates a conspicuous example. The judge is best known as one of the committee who finally sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the chair. In spite of all the material which has been published to demonstrate their innocence as thoroughly as tiny human issue can be settled decisively, there is no evidence that Judge Grant realizes that he did a great wrong. Incidentally, the publication of his book will not enhance the reputation of another eminent judge, the late William Howard Taft, who wrote the following letter to Judge Grant shortly after Sacco and Vanzetti had been electrocuted: “Now that all is over I can properly write you about the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Asa citizen I want to thank you for accepting the task of serving on the Governor’s committee of advisors in that case. It was a thankless task and required courage and sacrifice to do it. You and your colleagues did it and did it well. It concerned the welfare of society here and the world in an unusual way. It is remarkable how Frankfurter, with his article, was able to present to so large a body of readers a perverted view of the facts and then through the worldwide conspiracy of Communism spread it to many, many countries. Our law schools lent themselves to the vicious propaganda. The utter lack of substance in it all is shown by the event. It was a bubble and was burst by the courage of the Governor and his advisors. “Feeling a personal debt to you for what you did for me as one of the too often forgotten public, I write to note and acknowledge it.” Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL THE judicial reception given at the White House the other evening was distinguished by a superb beard, a gold sequin coat which eclipsed the gold clause controversy, and a “spiked” punch. The beard was that of Jo Davidson, famous American sculptor who lives in Paris. The gold sequin coat was worn by Mrs. William F. Dennis, an old Washington resident. The punch was red in color, and vastly preferred to a pale orange punch by scores of thirsty judges, lawyers and Department of Justice Dfficials. tt a tt A GRAND procession of justices of the Supreme Court started the gala evening. His white whiskers perfectly combed, his brow serene, his waistcoat a bit fuller than last season, the Chief Justice appeared with Mrs. Hughes gowned in red velvet, at the head of the line. Justice Pierce Butler, his face ivreathed in smiles, followed with Mrs. Butler, who wore a gown of black satin. Justice Owen Roberts, sedate and dignified, strode in with Mrs. Roberts, gowned in white satin shot with silver. Justice Harlan F. Stone, looking like a goodnatured Buddha, came next with Mrs. Stone, radiant in wine-colored velvet. There was not a single bachelor justice in the line. Justice Benjamin Cardozzo was missing. Justice Willis Van Devanter, who is in mourning, was also absent. “And where is Justice Clark Mcßeynolds?” lamented an admirer. Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes overheard the remark. “My dear.” she said, “he might have better things to do.” a a a THE charming Mrs. Harry Baxter, daughter of Secretary of War Dern. regarded Sculptor Jo Davidson’s black and white beard with admiration. “Come and meet him,” urged a friend. “He’s one of the most famous sculptors in the world.” Mrs. Baxter declined. “I am so afraid,” she said, ‘1 might make a mistake and call him a chiseler.”

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2~0 words or less.) a tt DOG ARTICLES OF GREAT VALUE TO READER By Ames Durth, Columbus. I wish to commend you on the excellent articles in your paper, “A Dog's Life,” by Leon F. Whitney. These articles are very well written, and by one that certainly knows his dogs. I took advantage of Mr. Whitney’s offer to answer any problem concerning dogs by writing him. enclosing a stamped envelope, and he solved a problem for me that had two doctors baffled. I believe these articles in The Times do more toward eliminating cruelty to animals than all the humane societies in the country. Educating people how to care for dogs is one of the foremost problems in this movement. i a ts a WARS INSTIGATED BY PROFITEERS, HE SAYS By Veteran. These remarks are in reply to “Junior” in the Message Center Jan. 19. There is a familiar ring to your remarks. The veterans all know your type—bom 20 years too late. There were many of your type in Morgan’s army (the A. E. F.) blusteringly patriotic at first, but whining at the first tough breaks. Many of your type fell out of ranks by platoons, even in that long march up the hill, with full packs, to the so-called rest camp at Le Havre. Your type tells what “I will do,” the type that got the soft noncommissioned jobs and thereafter tried to tell the common soldier how to be patriotic and do his duty, but your typ" turned out to be the whiners, if you should ever go to war for your country (meaning, of course, your country’s profiteers and despoilers) you will be one of the first to grab all you can from the public coffers. Many of those boys who joined the army as grumblers are still grumbling. I grumbled and cursed at the army from the start, and am still cursing it, and any one who tries to get me or any of my progeny to serve in any man’s army hereafter will not find it so easy. I do not receive any pension and don’t want any, but will say that any proposals to help the great mass of veterans, do not propose half enough, in view of what the many able-bodied profiteers took and are still taking. Ignorant and negligent army doctors are to blame for my leaving the army with broken down feet, but my case is only one of many. There are many veterans w r ho don’t receive compensation and would consider it tainted money from a profiteerloving country. a a a FERA IS GREAT AID TO NATION’S FUTURE. By a Reader. { This is my opinion of FERA. Quite a number of persons have said that the Government is wasting money on useless enterprices. Let me call their attention to Project No. 2. It extends north along White River to the junction with Fall Creek to the City Hospital. It is supplying work to about 1600 men. The money these men receive is spent with the merchants of our city. It also permits the worker to buy his supplies where he can serve his best interests. Second, this project will beautify that section of the city, and encourage the expansion of the hospital center and improve health conditions. Third, the project is beyond

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Heart Balm Bill Attacked

By Iris Hamilton. A certain Indianapolis woman legislator, a Democrat (I am sorry to say) advocates equality with men to such an extent that she offers measures to bar breach of promise suits. All politicians receive more or less criticism and “mud-slinging” so, since she is a strong advocate of equality, she must be “man” enough to take her share or sit down. I was highly amused when I picked up The Times and noticed her picture and the bill she advocates to prevent women from suing for breach of promise or heart balm. No real woman with a strong mind and with any practical experience in the business world would even listen to such “bunk,” let alone sanction it. But like her sister the designing, scheming stenographer or office assistant, as she calls them in her interview,

valuation in dollars and cents in damage it will prevent in floods and overflows. Now as far as the burden to the future generations is concerned let us think of the time we paid war taxes. We all have thought at sometime or other these taxes were a burden. Let me say that we knew nothing about where the money went to, or the cause our men fought and died for. But in the last three years the nations that shouted for help from Uncle Sam when they were in great danger, despite the fact that the United States was meeting its obligations to them, refused to pay back the money that our government had borrowed from the people. Never will any nation be able to atone for suffering our soldiers are enduring. We may be misguided by the way the different experiments are being administered, but let us remember that no one is beyond making mistakes. We do not take into consideration the greatness of the task. st a POLITICAL ISSUES PRESENT CRITICAL FRONT TODAY By James Paxton. There is or there is not a cure of all human—natural—ills. If there is, it surely should be found. If, in the modification of good and evil, the media be a true and final result of life’s conclusions, however imperfect or short of our concept of content and happiness, from this cheerfully should be worked out our natural economies of well being. If an ideal life is possible in our social control of, so far, favor and impediment, it would appear as inevitable that exclusive self-posses-sion be qualified by a common surrender to an additional mutual consideration—in other words an elimination of selfishness preventing, obstructing, the realization of our idea of a common American Union so far it might seem impossible to level off the obstructions of consuming, of tenacious, greed to an even, a more even, plane of interested humanity. It is here, of all the countless interferences of exclusive and self-seeking interests, that politics presents a major front. The division of the country on political issues presents indeed a critical, a crucial, issue. In it is a great, if not controlling, part of the destiny not only governmental but humanly social of humanity, and to it largely is referable every hope of happiness and fair, kindly dealing between man and man. To those who look for other things than those of crafty, unsparing gratification of all-encompassing ambition and desire for place and political

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she realizes that in catering to the all powerful male sex she will climb higher and more rapidly in political circles. I have been in the business world for ten years and as yet I have never seen or met any of these designing and scheming stenographers or office assistants that this woman legislator mentions. In fact I have seen many girls, including myself, who were discharged from offices because we were not designing and scheming enough to associate with our employers after business hours. According to my idea men are becoming worse philanderers every day. There should be some law to make them stop, look and listen, before they start trying to complete and surpass Don Juan, and not one to encourage them. This woman legislator better not make it too easy for the men to “step out” with the fair sex without suffering the consequences.

preferment, our national system is a bewildering checker board of unredeemed promises. a tt a TIMES LAUDED AS “BEST NEWSPAPER” By Carl Kofahl. I am a subscriber of The Indianapolis Times for a few months only, but I enjoy reading your paper daily. I have been living in Indianapolis for 48 years and I always read a newspaper, but I think The Times is the best paper Indianapolis has had since 1887. Anybody interested in a little more than football or baseball should read The Indianapolis Times. n u o TIMES READER VISITS ASSEMBLY AND SAYS— By D. C. I have visited the Legislature. The way I understand it is that the House makes the bills, the Senate passes or rejects them and then the Governor O. K.s them. In the House everything started out quietly. The House was called to order, the prayer and then there was confusion. Utter confusion. Men standing, such ’n’ such a Representative has the floor. A bill is read—confusion again—a Republican opposed it. Now a debate. Another vote, and this time the bill is ready for the Senate. Another bill. A debate. A misunderstanding. And another vote. The vote is suspended in midair. The absent members have to vote — the answer rests on the absentees. No vote. Bill is held over. A great thing—this state Legislature. You citizens ought to visit. It is free, you know. Coers acting like he is more than he is. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson looking very feminine in a very charming way. Nothing chic in the House, but very busy looking pages and nonchalant reporters. Lunch, and really there is more to this legislation business, but it calls for a personal visit to get to the inside of it. Then, I doubt whether it will be wholly understood, but it is great fun. Did someone call the Indiana Daily Thought Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.—Proverbs, ix:xvii. I VOW and protest there’s more plague than pleasure with a secret.—Colman.

JAN. 25, 1935

Senate the Weiss Senate? Really, this man is good . . . debating, smoking a cigar, talking and then once in a while, his eye on a cuspidor, wait—ah, he made it. The Senate is the dignified section of the Legislature. These men are polite, some even witty, or can a Senator be both? The bills are presented—bills with amendments. What changes, sometime a comma, sometimes a conjunction, but they must count. By the way, I did not visit the Governor’s office. Not open to the public, you know —too big a chance to take.

So They Say

Don’t tell Lucille I’m honest; she thinks I’m a high-class crook James Morris, Birmingham, who posed as tough to win his girl. If business courage were equal to the business statistics, we would be in need of controlling a real business boom.—Daniel C. Roper, secretary of commerce. The American Liberty League is formed for the purpose precisely defined in its charter—to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.—lrenee du Pont. Far more of the national income than ever before must be devoted to social securtiy, to giving a decent living to many people who never got a break, not even in 1929, much less now.—Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator. Divorce can happen in any family. When an inharmonious, intolerable situation exists, divorce is the humane and justifiable remedy.— Judge C. J. Guild, Nevada, who granted two Roosevelt divorces. The cost of unplanned production is prohibitive in terms of decency and human happiness.—Rexford G. Tugwell, undersecretary of agriculture. Trade unions are the only way to have democracy in industry. W| can’t have democracy all along the line —in sports, business, society—unless it exists also in mill, shop and factory.—Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania Governor. Strikes are fewer in number, more readily adjusted, and the loss of man hours of work less than in periods of recovery from previous depressions.—Frances Perkins, secretary of labor.

Ice Pattern

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLIMCK I shall make a pattern of cool thoughts; Os coldly beautiful things. I shall think of crisp snow; Hard and frozen, hugging the ground. I shall think of cool green water; Transparent beneath a hard, white moon. I shall think of ice-flanked wind; Wind with a knife in its mouth. I shall think of a gray vase; The firm, smooth feeling of pottery. I shall think of a diamond; The harsh white sparkle of stone. 1 shall think of green eyes; Eyes that clink with ice in their depths. I shall think of a heart; A cold heart sneering at emotion. Lastly, I shall think of your voice; Your voice that freezes me to stone.