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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1935

WHITHER MUNITIONS REFORM? THE English people, aroused by disclosures of our Senate Munitions Committee, have forced the hand of their government. Prime Minister MacDonald has appointed a royal commission to conduct the same kind of inquiry that our Senate committee has been conducting. The commission is instructed, among other things, to report on the desirability of replacing private manufacture of war weapons with a state monopoly. The apparent anti-militarist make-up of the commission encourages hope that this action may prove more than empty gesture of British co-operation. There can be no doubt of the world sentiment against the corrupting, war-scare practices of many private munitions peddlers as revealed first at Geneva and now in Washington. British and other peoples of Europe have been more than friendly in their reception of American proposals at Geneva for a treaty to regulate the arms trade. However, the present high tide of public opinion may recede if definite action is too long delayed. Popular Interest in this country, some people believe, has been declining for several weeks, due doubtless to the tendency of some Senators to play politics at recent munitions commits hearings. Private arms manufacturers probably would be pleased to have the Senate investigation turned into a political free-for-all. The Senate committee should waste no time on trivialities, but hew to the substance of the Inquiry—such as evidence of collusive bids on warships—and proceed without deliy to draft corrective legislation. Effective ac.ion is possible at this session of Congress. Next session may be too late. We have assumed world leadership in the effort to reform the munitions traffic, and should not abandon it if we are to expect other countries to co-operate. THE MIDDLE ROAD AS the Senate debate on the relief-re-employment bill proceeds, it becomes clearer that unless we want to move in all directions at the same time and get nowhere, we must follow President Roosevelt down the middle road. Goaded on by the United States Chamber of Commerce and other conservative interests, one group of Senators is trying to slash two billion dollars from the appropriation, making work relief impossible and embracing a permanent and defeatist policy of subsistence doles. Another group, incited by labor leaders, is insisting upon a paper scale of “prevailing wages,” which would either add two billions to the borrowed outlay or make impossible the President s plan to give work to all employables. Still another group suggests that two billions of the $4,880,000,000 asked by the President be used to pay off the veterans’ bonus, without regard for the fact that the bonus payment will not be due until 1945 and the fact that many veterans are not in need of relief. Strange indeed is the phenomenon presented by certain Senators catering to all three factions by favoring all three proposed amendments. This eagerness to shove the nation off the main road on to any and all bypaths, regardless of their divergent directions, obviously is dictated by something less than the country’s best interest. By every means at their disposal, a vast majority of the people have indorsed the Presidents program. They want to end "this business of relief.” as the President does, in a way that will encourage private industry gradually to re-employ the jobless. And they expect their representatives in Congress to follow the President's lead with a minimum of delay. BRAKES ON HORN-TOOTER SEVERAL months ago English authorities made the experiment of outlawing the use of automobile horns in the nighttime. The stunt has worked so well that they are now considering the advisability of prohibiting the use of such horns altogether, 24 hours a day. The original idea was to permit tired citizens to get some sleep, undisturbed by the racket f ill-advised horn-tooters. Now the authorities believe that the disuse of horns promotes more careful driving, on the theory that the man who knows he can't toot at all will use his brakes a whole lot sooner than he wouli otherwise. The idea has possibilities, and it is well worth a trial. It wouldn't be a bad stunt to -*et reckless motorists to rely on their brakes, rather than on their horns, to keep from hitting people. And what such a law would do to the halfwit who leans on his horn-button as soon as a driver two blocks ahead stalls his engine—well, it’s just too lovely for words. THE WORLD OF NEWS IF you have tears to spare, shed a few for the Long Island gentleman who got relifion at a street comer revival meeting and. as a result, went straight to jail. Moved by the spirit, this man addressed the crowd and toid how he had. in his unregenerate past, stolen two valuable bronze candlesticks from a church in Brooklyn. It was Just his hard luck that a detective who was working on that case happened to be in the crowd. Now the repentant convert is in Jail on a charge jt burglary. By such odd little twists does the news of the day move. We find, for instance, in White Plains, N. Y.. a man remarrying hia ' divorced wife because she is the only bridge partner he ever had who could be counted

on not to trump his aces. "he discovery came less than six months after iheir divorce. Then there is the Arizona cattleman who says he had been wanting to “sock a governor” for 20 years, and who Anally relieved his feelings by stepping up and hitting Gov. B. R. Moeur in the eye—getting, in return, a split lip from the governor s counter blow, and a night in jail. A French aviator, meanwhile, returns from Russia with the news that the Russians are finishing new Aghting planes at the rate of one every two days, and Russia's effort to pay off old debts in the United States by incurring new ones falls Aat. Two English airmen Anally Anish their part of the England-to-Melboume race four months late, but console themselves with the thought that they knocked four months off their cwn previous record for the Aight, anyway. A Philadelphia widow sues a motion picture operator for SIO,OOO for breaking her heart, and the jury agrees that something ought to be done about it, but marks the damages down to one dollar. A policeman who was dropped from the force at Columbus, 0., on charges of gambling announces his candidacy for mayor, and an English milkman is inspired by the matutinal clatter of his bottles and pots to become a highbrow musical composer. A world's record for fertility in pigdom is set in an English farmyard, where 25 little pigs are born all in one fell swoop. Simultaneously, a relief official in Dallas, Tex., reports that 64 per cent of all the babies born in Dallas last year were born to parents who were on relief. And then—just to cap the climax of news oddities —a beaver sneaks into the house of an up-state New York hermit and gnaws off the man’s wooden leg! MORALE FOR RELIEF r T~'HE man who is on the relief rolls needs a smoke, now and then, as well as something to eat, and relief authorities at Cleveland, 0., are requesting state relief auditors to permit them to put in requisitions for cigarets as well as for foodstuffs. This development occurred after someone had protested that recipients of relief had no business asking for smokes. The county relief chairman retorted instantly that “in some cases a package of cigarets will do more good than food of equal value.” There is good sense to this attitude. It is important to preserve the morale of the jobless man, and for some reason being entirely without anything to smoke ruins morale about as quickly as anything. A few cigarets can sometimes revive a man’s spirits more than a whole cauldron of soup. STONEWALL JACKSON IF there are ghosts about, a great collection of them should be in evidence in the famous old “wilderness” section of Virginia one day this spring. On May 2 cadets of the Virginia Military Institute and United States Marines from the Quantico base will unite to commemorate one of the most famous military maneuvers ever accomplished—the Aaiik march by which Stonewall Jackson crumpled the right wing of tne Union Army at the battle of Chancellorsville in 1862. Cadets and marines will Aght a sham battle; and an obscure wilderness road — remade recently by CCC workers, and named “Jackson Trail”— will feel once more the thud of tramping feet as the young men duplicate the march which climaxed the great Stonewall’s military career. We are a long way from thte Civil War, now, and events with which every schoolboy used to be familiar have become more or less obscure. This maneuver at Chancellorsville is one of them, and it is worth looking at for a moment or two. The northern army was beginning another “On to Richmond” pusn that spring of 1862. Hooker, the Union general, had a large, battletested army, and he was sliding it around to the left of Lee’s army, trying to get between the southern general and the Confederate capital. Lee was prodigiously outnumbered, and the maneuver put him in a perilous spot Winding back through the forests was an old, little-used roa \ot shown on most maps —the Plank road, sl, it was called, leading toward the Confederate left and rear. Lee and Jackson, seated on cracker boxes by a camp Are—that was before generals lived in secluded state, attended by innumerable staff officers—saw in 3hat road the key to the battle. So they divided the army, outnumbered as it was. Lee, with a ridiculously inadequate segment of it, remained in front of Hooker and persuaded that officer that the whole Confederate army was facing him, Jackson, with the pick of the army, followed the Plank road silently, emerged on Hooker's rear at dusk, and launched a smashing attack which crumpled up the northern army and sent it back in full retreat. It was Jackson’s last Aght. In the dark and confusion his own men Ared on him, giving him the wound that caused his death. Now it is this event which this spring’s sham battle will commemorate, and it is this old Plank road which the CCC boys have put into shape. President Roosevelt has been invited to attend, and the affair ought to be well worth watching. It marks one of the great moments in American history. LIGHT ON CITY BUSINESS THE city of Cedar Falls, la., is planning to spend some $300,000 this year for all purposes. To meet these expenditures, it will have to levy only about SIB,OOO in taxes. Why? Because Its municipal light, gas, and water plants are returning pro Ats of better than $280,000. It is Just a little bit hard to think of any very good comeback to this little argument, somehow. Cedar Falls citizens are going to get along this year without any general taxes. They will pay no taxes for sewers, lights, gas. cemetery. Are. or hospital purposes. Their only municipal taxes will be a levy of 2262 mills for library, park board, and comfort station operation. It might be difficult to persuade these Cedar Falls folk that municipal ownership of utilities is an unsound idea. A shark caught off Bermuda gave birth to 49 little sharks, without the aid Dr. Dafoe, either.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

IHAVE indicated that it lyis been the antisocial ideals of predatory Anance and exploitive business, rather than radicalism, which have laid the economic foundations of the remarkable development of organized crime in the United States. Today I shall proceed to make this fact more clear and evident by reviewing brieAy the evolution of the type of crimes which have become predominant in our day. Crime har> existed from primative society, but the crime that is signiAcant today—organized crime and racketeering—is a degenerate offshoot and by-product of Anance capitalism. Not only has it derived much from the ethics and psychology of Anance capitalism, but many an otherwise honest man has been driven into crime by the inadequate income that Anance capitalism has eked out him. The ancestors of many of our present-day racketeers, if they lived in this country, had usually made an honest living conducting shoeshining parlors, clothes-cleaning establishments, fruit stands, restaurants, and the like or at hard labor on farms, streets, and railroads. The younger generation looked with envy not at the bent backs and WTinkled brows of their parents, but rather at the achievements of the American buccaneers who had made aw’ay with their millions, with little service to society. B B B IF our usurers of high estate could “get theirs,” why should anybody submit to hard labor? So the future racketeers reasoned. They had come to believe, as Courtenay Terrett expresses the idea, that “only saps work.” About the time this something-for-nothing psychology was making headway among these groups, the Eighteenth Amendment came into force. This provided an ideal set-up for the budding racketeers. Hardly anything could have been better suited to their purposes. Public opinion was almost everywhere divided; in many sections of the country it was very deAnitely against Prohibition, and not a few regarded the bootleggers as allies in a common cause against this restrictive legislation. Bootlegging fostered other lawless pursuits—the hijacking racket among the wet outlaws, rackets in foods, milk, transportation, building construction, and the like. Legal recourse was extremely difficult: crowded dockets, timid witnesses, lenient juries, combined with all the delays and loopholes of the law which culprits, money in hand, could take advantage of through competent legal advice. The legal profession has much to answer for on this latter score. bondsmen were also an important part of the set-up to circumvent the law. The depression further stimulated the growth of racketeering, since it threw out of work millions who might otherwise have preferred to earn an honest living. From three millions it was easy to recruit the few thousands needed as the underlings of the master minds of the underworld. B B B THE belief that when prohibition ended the criminals who made millions in illicit selling of liquor would meekly turn to lawful pursuits was downright naive. They are already applying their technique to the dope ring, kidnaping, bank robberies, hijacking of legitimate liquor supplies, and the like. And again there are not lacking crafty lawyers all too willing to defend them from the “strong arm of the law.” The combined crime and racket bill has been estimated by competent authorities to run between $12,000,000,000 and $18,000,000,000 a year. Os this total, the racketeering bill amounts to around $4,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000. This appalling crime bill is produced primarily by organized criminal gangs and racketeers, for the total depredations of isolated criminals —the lone wolves of the underworld — are today slight by comparison The criminal types of the last generation have all but disappeared. Once the great majority of all crimes, the older thefts and pocket-pickings are now InsigniAcant in their costs, compared to the levies of the organized gangsters. The latter execute a great variety of antisocial acts—bank robberies, train robberies, looting of warehouses, and thefts of securities; the rackets in connection with liquor, dope, food, milk, the building trades, laundries, cleaning and dyeing establishments, garages, taxis, and the like; the use of gunmen in labor troubles; the swindles of the bucket-shop operators; and a host of lesser offenses against life, property, and personal liberty.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELI.

WHEN black-mustachioed, spectacled Munir Bey, Ambassador of Turkey, came to Washington recently, no one suspected he was a connoisseur of art. The other day Munir amazed art critics by purchasing a huge and vivid tableau called "Harem Scene” for $475 at the Henderson auction. “It is beautiful,” he exclaimed, “one of the most beautiful paintings I have ever looked at.” The scene represents a sultan’s harem, overlooking the sea. One of the beauties of the harem lies on an ottoman while slave girls fan her. The painting is the work of Benjamin Constant, the French artist. Ambassador Munir’s problem now is to And a place to hang “Harem Scene.” The picture is so big it takes Ave men to lift it. Present plans are to place it in the drawing room on the Arst Aoor, and invite friends to view it. Munir Bey is always making the most amazing discoveries. He visited Mexico City last autumn and discovered the Turkish language and that spoken by the original inhabitants of Mexico ere very similar. Hence, he concluded the Aztecs had come to the New World from Turkey. n His Excellency’s discovery of “Harem Scene’ is no less remarkable. If he follows suggestions of friends, he will give a reception to celebrate its hanging. Footmen in green livery will stand about serving Turkish sweetmeats and honey. A stringed orchestra will play. Lights will be focused on the great painting where, surrounded by a vast gold frame, the sultan’s favorite gazes pensively at blue water. B B B ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S birthday meant very little to the foreign diplomatic corps—if anything. But most of the envoys are interested in the celebration of George Washington’s birthday. Much more concerned, however, were they with these tid-bits of diplomatic news: Attractive Mme. Veverka, noted portrait painter and wife of the Minister of Czechoslovakia, has sailed for this country, accompanied by her daughter, beauteous blond Nella, for whom Scandinavian diplomats fall in droves. Sturdy, capable Pablo Campos-Ortiz, Counselor of the Mexican Embassy, boarded a Man-hattan-bound express yesterday, en route to meet the new Mexican Ambassador, Senor Dr. Najera, who arrives today in New York on the Berengaria. There are no night clubs in Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, where George Hanson, until recently United States consul-general at Moscow, is slated to go soon. So George is philosophically going to as many night clubs as possible before he leaves. The Minister of China, astute Mr. Sze, is now serving noodle soup at his parties. _ i- ■ Now that the Hauptmann trial is over and the special writers have gone home, the large metropolitan newspapers again may become acquainted with their regular reporters. The government is going to teach the Navajo Indians their own language. They learned ours a little too quickly for their own good. The fact that the Hauptmann jurors came to a decision so quickly doesn’t speak well for the hamburgers prepared for them by the jail warden's wife.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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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 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer.) B B B CARTOONIST MISSES BY A HAIR By John S. Leonard. I want to express my appreciation for the entertainment R. O. Berg gave us at our father and son banquet on Lincoln’s birthday. Every one seemed to enjoy it to the fullest extent. ♦ He made only one mistake as far as I could see. In drawing my picture it was so humiliating for a man of my dignity, standing in position to be drawn with only two hairs on top of my head, insinuating right there before all my friends that I was bald headed. After returning home my wife searched carefully and in a very few minutes located three. B B B NATION MUST NOT BE CAUGHT IN FASCISM By Socialist. B. B. M. of Noblesville, whose letter appeared in The Times, is one of the many millions who are Socialists without knowing it. All his objections to Socialism can be answered to his satisfaction. We certainly have a plan for old age, B. B M. Under Socialism every man and woman will for life receive the full amount of wages which he or she was receiving before retiring, and which will be SSOOO or more a year. This is a conservative estimate. Technocracy is based upon the fact that this country can produce an abundance for everybody, but technocrats aim at a dictatorship of engineers and technicians, instead of the strictly democratic ideal of the Socialists. We all remember how the press seized upon the statistical data of the technocrats as something new and startling, but dropped the whole matter immediately when it was disclosed that the new “discovery” was nothing but the old teachings of the Socialists. The attitude of the Socialists toward the American Federation of Labor is expressed in our declaration of principles as follows: “It is the duty of every Socialist wage earner to be c. loyal and active member of the union in his industry or trade, and to strive for the strengthening and solidifying of the trade union movement. It is the duty and privilege of the Socialist press to aid the unions in their struggles for better wages, increased leisure, and better conditions of employment.” The Socialists of course support all legislation within the capitalistic framework, which has as its aim unproved conditions for the workers and the aged. On the other hand they realize that such improvements can never reach desirable proportions under capitalism. Only a cooperative commonwealth can solve these problems in a satisfactory manner. The American people must operate industry, and produce goods for use instead of for pro Ats. In order to do so, the workers and farmers must regain the ownership of the wealth they once produced, and were forced to sell for a song. When that day arrives there will be nothing to worry over for any- . body, except those few, who now , exploit the country for their own enrichment. No depressions, no unemployment, no wars, less crime and prostitution, lifelong security, a richer home life, a higtoer standard of living, these are a few of the blessings

THE DUCE STEPS OUT!

Cops Lower Respect for Law

By G. E. W. It’s rather easy to understand why there is so great a disrespect for law in a country in which the police set such a fine example. The recent case of the two local police officers who, after making a dangerous mistake—and violating the law themselves—took their spite out on a railroad employe is a flagrant example of what may happen (and perhaps does happen) daily. Taking a citizen from his work for reasons of personal revenge and without knowing a charge to place against him is hardly an example to inspire respect for “Indianapolis’ finest.” And the saddest part of the story is that the men—so obviously in the wrong—have support. They are encouraged to go out and repeat their disrespect for the law. which inevitably will follow the establishment of the Socialist state. But if we don’t vote for such a program we shall have to be satisfied with the present criminally insane arrangement, known as capitalism, and probably in the ugly form of a Fascist dictatorship. The overture to Fascism is being played right now, and the American people may be caught napping. Beware of false prophets, folks, whether they come from Michigan or from Louisiana. an tt CONDEMNS PRESENT PENSIONING SYSTEM By H. E. Thixton. As our faulty system of economics continues to share the spot light of the most controversial subjects discussed by the many who are privileged to extol their radical and conservative conceptions through the medium of your paper, it would also be appreciated to likewise use the same medium to extol to the public the deplorable system of pensions exercised by our government in the granting of subsidies or pensions to individuals such as Admiral Byrd, Pershing, wives of Presidents and others who enjoy the misnomer of heroes and whose records fail to substantiate the actualities. Those are all unworthy recipients and in no sense deserving of such governmental generosities and a halt should be called to their constant gnawing at the vitals of our national financial structure. This wholesale distribution of the financial resources of our government is no less than a gross insult to the honor and dignity of our veterans who were actual participants in the crusades of other years, and in whose conscience memories lurk as shadows and continue to haunt through recollections of those grim realities of the past. While vc-cerans have set with arms folded and accepted as true the fallacy that prevailing conditions necessitated a sacrifice on the part of the veteran to maintain the national credit, the government continues to dole out its subsidies to fake heroes and greedy individuals, while the veterans who were designated to protect and carry’ our national honor into the world's most brutal and barbarous struggle to satisfy the greed of our money changers, must remain in want and poverty. For a decade the government and other private agencies, including the press, have recognized the inadequacy of the law to fulfill its just obligations to’ the nation’s

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

What are the results of such a situation? Do the police derive pleasure from shoving a man around 'perhaps beating him) and keeping him in jail illegally? Would they feel even better, being good Christians, of course, if the railroader lost his job for the grave crime of saying the same thing to them that he would say to other careless drivers? Or, are the officers acting the parts of little boys, somewhat swollen with the idea of their own power? One result is certain. The arrested man’s opinion of law enforcement has been lowered. The whole episode fits in nicely with the first of the Bar Association’s radio talks on “Law for the Layman.” The title of the talk was: “Were You Lawfully Arrested?” combatants. While we, the combat class of veterans, are in the minority and our political influence may hold no significance for the statesman, we should and will insist on justice to prevent further abuse. Eligible veterans, as a means of preserving their rights, principles and integrity should enroll in the organization of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. That organization is in no way subject to dictation or control of political or other selfish groups or individuals and is entirely free to accept the mandates of the rank and file. Members of that organization have equally shared the hardships and privations resultant from wars and through the friendship thus molded have accepted as an obligation the partial care of its widows and orphans. Knowing, as do veterans of foreign wars, the formidable foe against whom they must deliver the attack to secure and maintain justice for the veteran, they have the courage and initiative to carry on and with the support of the veteran will continue to honor the dead by helping the living. • B B ANOTHER READER UPHOLDS TRAIN CREW IN COP CLASH By Ed Hale. On. Feb. 6, 1935, I stood at Ken-tucky-av and the Belt Railway and watched a cop stroll down the right-of-way from Morris-st. He arrived at Kentucky-av as the crossing gates fell and lights were in operation. Two passenger cars and one truck ran the warning before this policeman’s eyes and no effort on the part of the cop to obtain license numbers. Less than 30 minutes later, at the same crossing, two embryo race drivers beat the old gent with the scythe by less than 10 yards. The case of the City of Indianapolis vs. Morton Reid is pure comedy and an insult to a railroad man. I have known Mr. Reid for several years, also his train crew. To my

Daily Thought

Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. —Jeremiah 23:19. WICKEDNESS may prosper for a while, but in the long run he that sets all knaves at work will pay them.—L’Estrange.

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knowledge he is an excellent man’ in his position, conductor of an important stock run. For reasons best known for safety, a trainman does not stand on the coupler or sit upon the edge holding his lantern as a warning to fools who try to cheat death. His duty upon the leading car Is to protect his train or a train that is occupying the same track. The red light on the flasher is the one automobile drivers should notice. The prosecutor had better read a little farther to determine what a “fixed signal” is. .No doubt until the trial he thought a “fixed signal” was a student brakeman atop a car with his lantern out. In some localities there are laws enacted so that the railroad may be reimbursed for damages to equipment and other losses incurred in a crossing crash where the driver is at fault. Railroads, exercising this right, make some of the “train beaters” think twice. Justice in your appeal, J. J. Liddy!

So They Say

Huey Long devoted a lot of time to me in the last Congress session and I suppose he’ll carry on this session, so I’ll grin and bear it.— Postmaster General James A, Farley. If the czars of industry had their way, Herbeit Hoover still would be in the White House, chanting “Prosperity is just around the corner,” as millions of citizens slowly starved—J. E. Van Zandt, Veteran of Foreign Wars commander. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it.—Benito Mussolini. The country’s health service is a disgrace and the low status of attempts to improve it also is a disgrace.—Prof. E. C. Lindeman, New York School of Social Work. The hand that turns the household electric light switch is the hand that will determine New York City’s rates.—Mayor F. H. La Guardia. The American Liberty League is in no sense a political party. It has no intention of placing its own candidates in the field for any public office—Jouett Shouse, president. It is idle to protest against war and preparations for war if we are to oppose and prevent the rule of law and reason, which is the only alternative to the rule of force.— President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia.

COLD

BY ALYS WACHSTETTER The cold has no soul It permeates our hovels bereft of coal; It slips in windows stuffed with rags, It creeps under doors where the door sill sags. Chance ... so we were born to fight For and not have warmth at night— All summer we labored for pennies to hide Against winter—our sweat didn’t make enough .. . but we tried, —God, how wl tried.