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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1335 _____ THE GREEDY STEP UP ORGANIZED opposition to the ratification of the Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution has reared itself in the Indiana House of Repiesentatives and the state's crusaders for social justice once more are embroiled in a bitter battle in their efforts to obtain ratification of the amendment". Fate of the ratification measure in Indiana will be decided late this week, it was learned today. Selfish and greedy interests have stepped into the fight and a split has appeared in the Democratic ranks. Those Democrats who oppose the amendment are being told to disregard the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and in Indiana of Paul V. McNutt. They are told that farmer* will be forbidden to send their children out to do chores, that the amendment gives Congress the absolute right to regulate the entire life of every child in America up to the age of 18. That isn't so and every intelligent person in the United States knows it isn’t so. Behind the opposition to the ratification of the Child Labor Amendment stands the selfish, bloated figure cf Business—Sweatshop Business. Those Republicans who oppose the ratification are not opposing <t for apparently any other reason than to harass the majority. Those Republicans forget that one of Indiana's greatest Republicans—one of the greatest Republicans ever to grace the United States Senate—waged a battle for the abolition of child labor years before the amendment was ever proposed to Congress. That Republican was the late Senator Albert J. Beveridge. Republicans—and especially Indiana Republicans—should remember him. He spoke for three solid days in the United States Senate for the abolition of child labor. Albert J. Beveridge could see what was happening to America’s children. But perhaps Indiana’s legislators are blind. THANKS TO MR. MACCRACKEN NO particular good can come from requiring William P. MacCracken to serve his 10-day jail sentence. Now that its power to punish a recalcitrant witness has been upheld by the Supreme Court, the Senate may well be merciful and revoke the sentence of the attorney who w r as so eager to protect the secrets of his clients. Mr. MacCracken. of course, is not entitled to any special sympathy. No mercy was extended to Col. Brittin, who was convicted with him by the Senate on the same charges of refusal to produce subpenaed documents for the Senate aivmail investigation. Col. Brittin went to jail, Mr. MacCracken went to the courts. But the controversy was not personal. And. thanks to Mr. MacCracken’s appeal, an Important Issue has been decided by the nation’s highest court. The decision confirms and supports the vital congressional power of inquiry-. It affirms the right of Congress to investigate, to subpena witnesses and evidence, and to punish any one w-ho wilfully attempts to thwart a congressional committee's search for facts. Committee investigations pave the way for important national legislation. The MacCracken decision warns future witnesses not to obstruct this essential legislative function. THE LONDON ALLIANCE THE latest Franco-British proposal for another European pact is touted abroad as the longest step toward a guaranteed peace since Locarno. To which the cynical will reply that Locarno turned out to be only a gesture and that the present furious armament race is a more accurate indicator of the future than all of these so-called security pacts combined. That, however, is only a half truth. While the London conversations are not apt to end the real danger of European war, they do make possible the re-entry of Germany into the League of Nations and an arms limitation agreement. If Hitler is willing to go along with the other powers the way is now open on a basis of political equality. This would legalize the bootleg rearming which Germany has been carrying on at such a rapid pace. While extending one hand in welcome to Germany, the Franco-British allies clench the other fist. Britain is to act with France if Germany threatens Austrian independence. And France Is to send her huge air fleet to defend England if the latter is attacked by Germany. The earlier security pledge, in which one was to give indefinite military support to the other, is to be supplemented by a more definite promise of specific and immediate air defense. To the British, who have grown more and more alarmed over the possibility of attack from the air. this part of the proposed agreement is the most important since the last war. Thus the British have joined the French in a dual policy. Part of that policy aims at a restoration of European peace machinery, through Germany's re-entry into the league and a revived disarmament conference. But the other part of the dual policy aims at a reconstruction of the old Franco-British military alliance against Germany in much closer form than the pre-war alliances for balance of power. AFTER THE AUTO CODE ROOSEVELT may or may pot have helped that industry in extending the modified automobile code, but he is likely to pay a heavy price. He acted without consulting organized labor, and again refused labors request for open hearings on alleged

abuses. Asa result labor Is swinging away from the code and NRA, and turning to Congress for relief. Os course it is not unusual for one party in an industrial dispute to threaten withdrawal from a code. Employers have been doing that with increasing frequency in recent months, and several industries have succeeded in defying any and all codification. But the government has never refused employers a hearing. Labor therefore is making the most of the issue of discrimination. That seems more important than the fact that a majority of the National Industrial Recovery Board itself was reported overruled by the President in extending the automobile code. The discrimination issue is important because it goes to the heart of the purpose of NRA as created by Congress. The purpose here was to provide recovery machinery for balancing the rights of capital and labor, with the government as umpire. If the government rules in favor of capital without granting labor even an open hearing, what becomes of the democracy in the codes? W;th the United States Supreme Court holding that NRA acts to be legal and constitutional must carry out the purposes of Congress, labor's new appeal to Congress for relief is more than merely an angry gesture. The President’s automobile decision unquestionably has strengthened the Congressional forces fighting to scrap the alleged employerdominated NRA and codes and to enact instead a rigid law fixing maximum hours, minimum wages and majority union rule in all industries. THE MOLEY MYSTERY C*OME months ago there was a flurry over the mysterious Wall Street meetings of Raymond Moley. Though little has been said about them recently, these select gatherings continue to be held. And in Washington there is growing speculation as to their character and purpose. Originally it was said that these were semiofficial parties at which Mr. Moley served as the President’s appointed spokesman and ambassador-at-large to the world of business. The idea was circulated that this was the method chosen by the Administration to make peace between the New Deal and big business. But latterly there has been little evidence that Mr. Moley has a close working relationship with the President. Moreover, the President himself, properly, has been doing his own direct contact work with representatives of large business interests. Whatever the correct explanation of its character and purpose may be, this Moley institution in its ramifications seems to have the potentialities at least of anew form of lobby. But, unlike the Liberty League, for instance, it does not operate in the open, and neither its activities nor its achievements, if any, are known to the public. POOR BUSINESS "ITTHATEVER it was that inspired legisla- ’ ™ tive gentlemen in several states to defeat ratification of the Child Labor Amendment. it certainly was not social sagacity or business sense. Practically all the 500-odd NRA codes outlaw the work of children under 16. If or when these codes expire child labor regulation will be thrown back upon the states. Only four states have work age limits as high as those of the codes. In eight states children between 14 and 16 still may work nine to 11 hours a day. , What will happen when the children now protected‘by the codes are tossed to the mercies of these inadequate state laws? What else but anew unemployment problem and higher relief taxes? What but a picture of parents being pushed out of their jobs so that underpaid children may take them? What also but a set of new social problems raised by child labor's inevitable byproducts of disease, juvenile delinquency and crime? Child labor is not cheap labor for the nation. It is the costliest kind of labor in the long run. And without a Federal law every state with decent standards will be in competition with the backward ones. A peculiarly noxious sort of propaganda is being spread by a states-rights committee in the effort to paint the Twentyfirst Amendment a lurid red and its framers as American bolsheviks. The fact is that this amendment was framed 10 years ago by three conservative constitutional lawyers. Senators Pepper, Shortridge and Tom Walsh. This amendment is mild enough. If it is delea ed Congress prooably will pass anew child labor law and the more liberal United Statei Supreme Court probably will uphold it. Suchi a measure might go farther than the presei t one. w| have come a long way since 1924. A few spates may block this particular amendments But it is not likely that they can long block? a reform so well grounded in common humanity and common sense. ON NEW ROAD SOMETHING was written here recently a#out the progress of work on the great Pan-American highway, which will eventually provide a continuous motor road from Alaska to thvf Argentine. A great deal more of this road is now in service than most of as realize; however, it seems that it was an error to report that the highway is open for motor traffic from Texas to Mexico City. W. H. Furlong. United States representative on the National Highway Direction of the Republic of Mexico, reports that one sector of this road has been closed for repairs. The road through the mountain area around Tamazunchale is being widened and equipped with guard rails, and until this is finished through traffic is blocked. So-if you're planning to drive to Mexico City, better give the Mexican government a few more weeks to complete the job. An lowa professor has discovered five types of dumbness, although there are more students than that in his class. The Administration made a mistake trying to gag Congress. It’s the only chance the congressmen have to talk freely, with their wives back home. The supervisor of reindeer in Alaska gets S3BOO annually under-the New Deal. It may be money well spent, but we have a natural curiosity as to just how a reindeer is superj vised.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

“What Makes Us Seem So Queer?” by David Seabury (Whittlesey House). “Making Our Minds Behave,” by William S. Walsh (E. P. Dutton & Cos., Inc.). “Social Judgment.” by Graham Wallas (Harcourt, Brace <sc Cos.). * • * DAVID SEABURY has established for himself a wide and well justified reputation as one of tffe foremost popular psychologists in the United States. He is such in the best sense of term, namely, that of a man who is both well; grounded in technical psychology and believes that such information is essential to solve the practical problems of everyday life for a large number of confused and misdirected human beings. % Mr. Seabury’s latest volume is one of his most I complete and helpful. He traces here in great thoroughness the conflicts and difficulties which \ arise from the clash of our inherited standards and patterns of conduct with the natural and j normal impulses of human beings. He has no hesitation in poking holes in the arrogance of; the self righteous, as the following paragraph will make clear: “While we seldom judge conduct by intention, we yet measure it constantly by patterns and platitudes. He who breaks our sanctions and disregards our stereotypes we automatically condemn. His own customs and conventions may so fortify his conscience that he survives our displeasure, but that does not keep him from feeling misunderstood. “Had Anthony Comstock married Cleo de Merode. or Cromwell eloped with Nell Gwynn, their contrasting moral values might well have barred continued intimacy. Yet Cleo was probably more pure of heart than Anthony, and Oliver's boyhood with its selfish libertinism leaves Nell a gentle angel in comparison. a a a THE censorious, of course, never understand anything, while delinquents are often delightfully sympathetic. Some day courtesans may become professors holding college classes where wives may learn wisdom. Equally, many a stiff-necked husband could study technique from Casanova. A supposed ‘saintly man’ or a ‘good woman’ is seldom agreeable company. As for marrying such a creature, or expecting understanding from him, the very thought should freeze the blood.’’ Dr. Walsh gives less evidence of professional psychological knowledge and his book is quite as much moralistic as psychological. But it will prove helpful and stimulating to the general reader and enable many persons to face situations with more intelligence and complacency. As an example of the author’s popular but sane judgments, we may cite the following judicious advice: “If we are praised, rise high in business, or achieve success in other fields, does it lead us to stand on tiptoes so that all shall see us, so that we shall seem to be bigger than we really are; to keep shaking hands with ourselves, •throwing flowers in our paths; to become boastful, arrogant, frigid toward old friends, to lose what Kipling calls the common touch? “If so, we are in for a rude awakening one of these days, a severe jolting; our balloon will burst or be bursted with none but ourselves to shed a tear or voice a single regret. For it is not alone by the way a man takes his losses that he is judged, rated, awarded the palm of good fellowship, but also by the way he takes his winnings.” n IF there is any such thing as sane, detached and well-informed wisdom, Graham Wallas was one of its foremost exemplifications in the last generation. He attempted to distill this wisdom from a wide range of knowledge, including the classics, English politics, and modern psychology. This posthumous volume is his final brief for the role of wisdom in human society. If he has no sympathy with the mystical reactionaries, he likewise repudiates those who would divorce laboratory science from any possible guidance of public policy: “It is easy to sympathize with the rage with which young American psychologists react against the edifying psychological generalizations which characterized the nineteenth century sociological courses in American universities and their insistence upon evidence for every psychological statement. “But psychologists and their students will have to use judgment both as thinkers and as voters in the ‘saving’ of society ‘outside the laboratory’ from its present dangers. A harshly empirical psychology may mean a psychology which deliberately neglects some of the most important elements in its own problems. “Mankind has still much to learn, more perhaps than we can now imagine, from the patient observation of scientists and the obstinate questioning of metaphysicians. But it is not too soon for us in our new world of mechanical civilization to take up once more the old search for wisdom.”

Capital Capers

SINCE the Senate decisively defeated United States entry into the World Court, Senators are beginning to hear a lot about the “world viewpoint.” First, Secretary Cordell Hull appeared before the cotton conference of the Senate Agricultural Committee, and delivered a mild lecture in which he tried to explain the rapport between world trade and a friendly attitude toward other nations. Then Oscar Johnson, credit expert for the AAA and contact officer for the Treasury Department, had a few words to say to the conference. "It seems rather paradoxical,” he remarked, “to vote against the World Court one day and then hold a conference to revive world trade the next.” Senator (Cotton Ed) Smith, chairman of the conference, leaned forward, stroking his walruslike mustachios. “Well,” he drawled, “you can trade with bums, but you don’t necessarily have to invite them into your home and associate with them socially, like we would in the World Court.” And the conference to promote world trade proceeded! a a a CHERUBIC-LOOKING HARRY PAYER of Cleveland, who used to be assistant secretary of state a few months agq, stopped briefly in Washington en route to New York. Mr. Payer looks as much like a character from Charles Dickens as ever. He still wears open-faced Pickwickian collars, heavy gold chains, fancy waistcoats, cravats with enormous knots punctured by gold and pearl scarf pins. His fuzzy hair wreathes his head like an aureole and stands out like patches of w r ool above the ears Eating a cheese souffle at his hotel, rosvcheeked Mr. Payer paused to inquire about Washington conditions. “How are all my old friends?” he lifting his glass of white wine. “How is Mr. Hull? Howe is the State Department?” “You should have oeen here for President Roosevelt's birthday party,” suggested a friend. Mr. Payer drained his white wine. "I dance a very good waitz,” he said solemnly. a a a VISCOUNT POWERSCOURT, chairman of the Associated Irish Hospitals, cabled President Roosevelt felicitations on his birthday and offered the use of an enormous artificial cat—which heads parades at the drawing of Irish Sweepstakes tickets—to further the President's campaign against infantile paralysis. The cat is now in nos Angeles, but is being brought East It is jet black, stands 25 feet 6 inches high, waves its tail and sings. At night its eyes flash fire. Transportation problems make it difficult to crate, since it won't fit in any baggage car. Nevertheless, its sponsors are slowly trundling it eastward. It drew large crowds on the Pacific Coast. So long as the bonus is kept unpaid, all our diplomats feel they can do is simply talk of a com nag war.

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The Message Center

<Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your tetters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.j a a a Will the correspondent who signed her letter, in last Friday’s Message Center, with the initials R. R., please communicate with The Indianapolis Times? a a a OBJECTS TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLOT MACHINES By Disgusted Democrat. This sudden desire of our county and city officials to eliminate slot machines is a little groggy to ’me. A1 must be kept busy. It is his business, you know, how we spfend our money. It seems as if a man and woman have sense enough to earn money they surely have sense enough to spend it. Some of these soul savers will tell you that you must not gamble. Yet they will spend a whole afternoon or evening in a nerve-racking bridge game, trying to win a 25-cent prize, not because of the value of the prize, but, because they like to gamble. It is in all of us. When ym go to the polls to vote you gamble. You think you have something this time sure. They told you “he” would help employment, lower taxes, and be our public servant. I am afraid it is a case of too many Democrats. Five jobs to five men; not five jobs to one man. a a a WOMEN WITH JOBS ARE SCORED BY READER By J. B. L. In a recent issue of your paper you published an article by Helen Welshimer, regarding jobs giving independence to women. In this article she states that when a woman’s interest is built solely around one man, it will grow warped. With regard to the marital state of women, she further says: “When a woman realizes that she has sold her glorious birthright of independence for a vegetable plate and a fruit salad she will never stand so straight again, never look at life so clear-eyed. To be forced to stoop to such action is comparable with being dragged in chains in the wake of a conqueror's chariot.” If this is the modern American woman's idea of the married state, it is time the poor sap husbands of this country, who slave from morning until night to buy their women fine clothes and automobiles, and other luxuries not enjoyed by women of other countries, voted for a dictator form of government as in Italy, Russia and Germany, and put their women where they belong in the scheme of things. I wonder why woman was created? To take the jobs away from the men, and run the government? Independence! Bah! Women have lost more in the way of love and respect since they have independence, than they gained. Nietsche says feminism brings anarchy in government. That is out trouble* today in this country. During the war we gave the women the jobs, and woman suffrage, and today they run the country and still hold the jobs. Ours is a petticoat government, and naturally we are the laughing stock of the world. We don’t have the respect of the rest of the world—why should we? Nor do we poor sap husbands de- ! serve the respect cf the women, after giving away o>ir birthright. With a booze-fighting, cigaretsmoking and dominating womanhood, we take the back seat and laugh at the asses we have made

SIGN IT—FOR THEIR RELEASE

World Court Vote Lauded

By Willma Hendrickson. My heartiest congratulations to the 20 Democratic members of the United States Senate who had the fortitude to be statesmen instead of Administration rubber stamps in the vote on the World Court, and to the 16 Republican, Progressive and 'it armer-Labor members, who fougnt so valiantly to keep America American. The people of America believe that the Constitution, as originally written and intended, is the best form of government under the sun, and chat the Monroe Doctrine is the code to follow to the letter in dealing with foreign countries. Under these documents the legislative body of the United States has the power to legislate in all things, the executive only the power to execute these laws, and the judiciary the power to pass upon the constitutionality oi the laws. Then up bobs the question of adherence to the World Court which would set up a body greater in importance and higher in authority than our Congress, and in which we the people of America would have about as much voice as a lonesome guinea pig, and yet United States Senate, with the same great vision and foresight that has characterized its legislation since the World War, came within seven votes of betraying us into that situation, and our own Senators from Indiana, despite thousands of telegrams to vote against adherence, multigraphed form letters refusing to be moved

of ourselves. Take the jobs away from the women and give them to the men, and prosperity will return —the men will support their families and the morals of our women and families will get better. The government would do without the spending of billions for jobs and poor relief, and we would regain the respect of the world. a a a LAWMAKERS SHOULD LIVE ON S4 TO S8 WEEKLY By Hush B. .Marshall. As expressions of opinion in the art of running our government seem in order, to even amateurs, I would like to express my opinion. I am grateful to James Van Zant for his explanation of the Veterans’ bonus .angle, in the Jan. 22 issue, and I feel that the soldiers should be paid whatever is due them. Now for the good laugh. Every state has too many laws which they are ngt using, therefore, if our lawmakers were all put on the dole system with us for one or two years the big salaries used to pay them could be used to pay the veterans, open the factories and pay the workers, then the country would be on a far better footing and possibly the old could be pensioned also. I feel that those high salaried gentlemen are no better to live on from $4 to $8 a week, as I and two of my boys have had to do this winter. a a a COMPENSATION INSURANCE LAW SHOULD BE REVISED Bv J. H. K. We are hearing people on all sides asking this question, What will the state Legislature do for the huge number who are now unemployed in this state? I am going to state one solution which, if carried out, will be a great help. We now have a huge number of men whose ages run from 36 years

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

from their avowed intention to vote for adherence, and did. Evidently we people back in Indiana, who by our votes gave them their jobs, mean nothing if the Administration snaps its finger. It is time, perhaps, that Senators and Congressmen were given to understand that the forgotten man, the FERA laborer who can't keep body and soul together on what he is permitted to earn, voted the straight Democratic ticket in November not because he approved 100 per cent of the Administration policies, but because he believed then and believes now that the Democratic party should have complete power to do its best for the masses of the people; that the Republican party had its opportunity and failed; and that if, given supreme power, the Democratic party also fails, there is only one alternative left to us, the people, and that is the birth of a party of the masses in 1936, instead of adherence to either of the old failures. Many of you rubber stamp gentlemen are going to be unpleasantly surprised at the next election if you can’t wake up your brains and think and act constructively for the masses. We believe that President Roosevelt is our friend, but we do not believe that he can't or hasn’t made mistakes, as both the House and Senate, by their actions, would have us believe, and we are going to uave to have more concrete proof us recovery than mere generalities by 1936 if we return him to the White House.

up to 65 unemployed on account of the compensation insurance law which increases the premium rates so much after the man is past 36 that the business man and manufacturer must hire younger men so as to keep down his overhead. Be it resolved, that the premium rates in such an insurance be compelled to have just one rate to be paid from 18 years up to 65 years, then place him on old-age pension, providing he has no other income which is enough to support him the rest of his life. I would • also forbid married women from working, when their husbands are earning a living wage, enough to keep the family, or they have businesses which pay a living income. a a a AGED MUST BE GIVEN RIGHT TO LIVE Bv John Brown. I am a constant reader of The Times, the only paper in our city that deals tairly with all classes. I spent 31 years of the best part of my life working for two large corporations, both of which quit employing men of 40 years of age in 1912. When the war took most of the young men away, the old men got a break until it was over, then were dropped again. I have been out since 1927 and, on account of my age, bould not land a job anywhere, so I started a little business for myself. Then sickness and death came into my home; hospital bills, doc-

Daily Thought

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.—Psalms 50:23. ONE of the most essential preparations for eternity is delight in praising God.—Chalmers.

_FEB. 5, 1935

tor bills ami funeral expenses took all my savings. Now the depression has paralyzed my business and at 67, I am a ourden on my only child. If I had got a fair per cent of what I produced for those corporations, I would still have a living. I know a score of families of men who worked for the same firms who are now on charity, while some of the stockholders are in California and at least one is in Europe enjoying life on what we produced. I like to see them enjoy life, but not at the expense of poor .people who suffer for the necessities of life. Dr. Townsend has a plan to help us old people who have produced most of the wealth of the nation and at the same time create Employment for the younger people by increasing the purchasing power of the people who will purchase. We will not have prosperous times, as long as 90 per cent of the money of this country is in the hands of a few who already have everything that one could wish for.

So They Say

According to my way of thinking, a liberal is a person who does not imagine himself to be God, endowed with omniscience capable of saying the right thing and doing the right thing for humanity, always and everywhere.—Prof. Charles A. Beard, historian. I am surprised at Mr. (Al) Smith. He has forsaken the brown derby of democracy for the high hat of Puritanism. —The Rev. Dr. Charles Francis Potter of New York. Give an hour a day to your brain. Think—and think regularly—every day—Fay Wray, film actress. Women have become independent and more self-assertive, which carries with it a domination of character, with freedom of habits so expanded that it frequently obliterates their sex.—Carleton Simon, criminologist. The most flagrant waste that is going on in the country today is in our oil fields.—lnterior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. Our colleges need to educate not only leaders, but also intelligent and critical followers.—Dean Tristram W. Metcalfe of Long Island University. All governments are temporary.— Deposed Premier Kimon Georgieff of Bulgaria. Trans-Atlantic flights have been publicized so much that, given the weather reports, any one could write the full story of a flight before the takeoff.—Mrs. James Mollison, noted English aviatrix.

CONQUEROR

BY HIRAM LACKEY Piercing my heart thy cutting word, Stating that which makes me absurd, Struck chords so tenderly painful, Making music sweet and gainful. For no anguish stirred in my heart. That was not surging in thine own; So as I strive to do my part. I’ll think of what thy soul hath known. Rich thanks to thee, thou little queen, For loveliness that I have seen; For sympathy and kindness rare, Making Heaven for earthly pair I