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WEDNESDAY FEBRCARY 27. IMS. A DIFFERENCE, INDEED la a difference" between drafting I manpower and drafting capital in time of war. President Eugene Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Cos.. told the Senate Munitions Committee. Mr. Grace is right. There is a great tragic difference. A nation can take over a factory and return it at the end of the war. and compensate the owners in cash for any depreciation of plant. But a nation that drafts a mothers only son may not be able to return that 100 per cent tax on the treasure of her home—and can not compensate her loss. There is another difference: Drafting manpower for war is an established government policy. Drafting capitals for war is still merely an issue of debate. And this difference in the World War resulted in interesting differences in the fortunes of factory presidents and men in uniform. For example, Mr. Grace's Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding Corp. paid to him bonuses totaling 52.887.725 for the war years of 1917 and 1918. That was equivalent to nearly SSOOO a day for the 585 days the United States was in the war, or nearly S4OOO for each of the 730 days of the two years. The man in uniform was awarded a wage . of $1.25 a day for each day of overseas service the kind of service Mr. Grace did not perform—and $1 a day for each day of home service, the kind of service Mr. Grace did perform But, of course, Mr. Grace’s home service was slightly different. He probably never had his pay docked for losing a spoon out of his mess kit. HANDS OFF EDUCATION! SELF-APPOINTED snoopers are sleuthing about the schools and colleges of the country trying to uncover signs of alleged “subversive" teaching. 4 Certain persons disguised as prospective students try to entrap professors into admissions of “guilty" opinion, or failing that misquote their views. The New York Legislature considers a bill requiring students and teachers in public institutions to swear allegiance to the 6tate and Federal Constitutions. The Arkansas Legislature is investigating Commonwealth College. In Wisconsin five state Senators ride a Red hunt across the state’s school and college campuses looking for communism, atheism and agnosticism. From coast to coast patrioteering societies and “vigilante committees” join the pack. An educational inquisition is on. Any reader of history knows the abysmal folly of such attacks on free thought and freo teaching. Repression will breed ermmunism or fascism in free America. The unthinking should listen to the protests of some of the country's leading educators, such as Dr. Charles Beard, dean of American historians. “I am concerned,” says Dean Grayson N. Kcfauver of Stanford University's school of education, “with the effect of this unwarranted attack in causing many teachers to refrain from considering important social problems for fear they will be criticised or their positions be put in jeopardy. Such an effect would seriously devitalise instruction in this important field at this time when there is great need of it.” “The rights of free thinking and free speech are at stake.” warned Dr. William W. Beatty, president of the Progressive Education Association. “And unless we protect those rights, guaranteed to us in the Fifth Amendment, soon there won t be any American democracy left.” • Repression of certain groups,” said President Frank E. Baker of the State Teachers College at Milwaukee, “is the first step toward fascism. Such repression is already an accomplished fact in many communities in America."

AVIATION GOAL THE pending fight over air mail legis’ation. if properly handled by Administration forces in Congress, can be steered clear of battle-royal tactics. On the other hand, if air transport companies jockey for advantages and vitriolic law-makers indulge in catcalls and sabotage, the future of American aviation may be jeopardized. Every effort should be made to follow as far as possible the rational recommendations of the Roosevelt Aviation Commission. One pressing problem—that of air mail rates for the immediate future—can be solved by the method outlined by the commission and approved by the President. Their suggestion to give the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to revise the rates, either upward or downward, seems eminently fair. The ICC has a proud tradition of probity and efficiency, and can be trusted to protect the larger interests of the American people. It has already investigated operating costs and profits and losses of the 31 transport companies now carrying mail under contracts which expire March 1. In a recent report to Congress, it recommended higher rates for 19 air routes, lower rates for 11 routes and no change in one route. It found that "most of the routes are being operated at substantial losses," and that an adjustment was imperative to prevent the destruction of many companies. The Aviation Commission's long-range plan, to be worked out after the present emergency has been met. seems to be as near perfect as such a plan could be. It calls for flexible air mail rates to be determined on a strictly commercial basis, allocating to the various routes the income from Vie Postofflce Department's air mail revenue. The commission estimated that Income on a commercial basis from freight and mail

carried over 33 per cent of the present system was sufficient to pay the costs of operation. Under the Aviation Commission's plan, that would mean the granting of direct, open government subsidies to the companies operating over the other 67 per cent of the route mileage. The ultimate goal, of course, is a completely self-sustaining air transport industry. Why not move toward that goal along the line which has been mapped? A TAX WARNING / A WARNING that there is a limit to the amount of money the government can borrow to finance recovery is implied in the latest study by the Brookings Institution. In noting the growing importance of the government In the capital investment field during the depression, the economists of the institution observe that recurring deficits have caused a parallel rise in the national debt. They do not quarrel with the policy of making large emergency expenditures, nor even with the policy of financing expenditures by borrowing. But the economists do say: “If the government credit is to be preserved,/it will obviously be necessary in the future to impose added taxes with which to meet Interest and sinking-fund charges.” That simple factual statement) can hardly be disputed. And it points to a lundamental weakness in the New Deal program which should be remedied soon: The flailure to develop a taxing program that will /keep the national debt within limits- and ultimately pay the costs of recovery. “It is hoped,” the Brookings economists say, "that a restored prosperity will make it possible for the national economy to carry the increased charges involved.” But is it wise to wait for prosperity to overtake us? Is it wise to risk such a vital stake as the government’s credit cm a hoped-for future? Is it fair to multiply'the burdens of future taxpayers?

LEST WE FORGET SENATE Munitions Committee investigators have listed a few calculations of profits made during the World War: Bethlehem Steel, $61,800,000, or 43 per cent, in 1917. Atlas Power Cos., 27 per cent in 1917. Colt Patent Firearms Cos., $5,797,000, or 60 per cent, in 1917; $5,603,000 or 64 per cent, in 1918. Savage Artns Corp., $6,577,000, or 65 per cent, in 1917; $6,917,000, or 43 per cent, in 1918. Bethlehem Loading Cos., $151,000, 362 per cent, in 1918. Nagel Steel Cos., 319 per cent in 1917. Winchester Arms Cos., 40 per cent in 1918. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Cos., $3,298,000, or 86 per cent, in 1917; $3,990,000. or 72 per cent, in 1918. New York Shipbuilding Corp., 41 per cent in 1918. Jones & Laughlin Steel Cos., $48,869,000, or 47 per cent, in 1917. In light of these disclosures of war-time profits, it is interesting to recall that the first war revenue measure provided for taxes on t ea, coffee and other necessities. When that Measure was reported out of the Senate Finance Committee in August, 1917, Senators La Follette of Wisconsin, lliomas of Colorado and Gore of Oklahoma submitted a minority report favoring a tax on the profits of war to defray the expenses of war. They backed an amendment favoring an 80 per cent tax on war-time profits. Senator Simmons of North Carolina and Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, respectively the Democratic and Republican wheelhorses of the Finance Committee, led the fight to defeat the high profits tax. Said Senator Penrose: “It would make the war unpopular.”

BLACK MAGIC IN AMERICA TF you are ever inclined to feel that public -*■ education has been pushed about as far as it need be pushed in modern America, you might find it helpful to reflect on these strange “hex” cases that continue to pop up in Pennsylvania. The latest is a case tin which a 5-year-old boy was “cured of a spell” by a witch doctor. The fact that the child, after being “cured,” got a butcher knife and carved his 8-month-old brother almost to death, does not shake the parents’ faith in the. efficacy of the hexer’s mumbo-jumbo. Now Pennsylvania is far from being a backward state. The general level of intelligence and education there is probably above the national average. Yet even in Pennsylvania there lingers this relic of medieval belief in black magic! Could there be a more st; iking example of the need for broader and more thorough educational policies? 22 YEARS FOR GOOD LTHOUGH much of the “charity work" previously done by private organizations is now financed by Federal government appropriations, the old-fashioned Community Chest remains the backbone of local efforts to help the unfortunate; and it is worth noticing that March 1 is the twenty-second anniversary of the formation of ihe first organization of that kind in America. This took place in Cleveland, 0., when the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy —later to be known as the Community Fund —was founded in 1913. The idea Droved to be such a good one that it was widely copied. Today there are 414 Community Chests in as many American cities. The Community Chest has led to greater efficiency and better service in community social work. The anniversary of its inception is worth more than a passing glance in commemoration.

After having been so long out of office, the Democrats may find it a bit difficult spending the $4,880,000,000 relief money, but give them time. Hitler recalls the days when starvation stared him in the face. Any one try to do that now and he'd be purged. Anew barber school in Madison, Wls„ plans to have courses in conversation and rhetoric. It might also consider a course in haircutting. Proof that Japan has none but good ■ intentions toward the United States—lt hfs sent another army into China.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

IN the Epistle to the Hebrews, Paul observed that “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” When reading over the President's recent message to Congress on the continuance of the NIRA, I way struck with the applicability of these lines to the President's words. Among Mr. Roosevelt's more colorful and optimistic statements were the following: “The National Industrial Recovery Act was the biggest factor in giving re-employment to approximately 4,000,000 people. “The age-long curse of child labor has been lifted, the sweatshop outlawed, millions of wageearners have been released from starvation wages and excessive hours of labor. A great advance has been made in the opportunities and assurances of collective bargaining between employers and employes. Under it the pattern of anew order of industrial relations is definitely taking shape. , “Industry as a whole has been freed, in part at least, from dishonorable competition ... we have begun to develop new safeguards for small enterprises. Most important of all, business Itself recognizes more clearly than at any other time in our history the advantages and the obligations of co-operation and self-discipline, and the patriotic need of ending unsound financing and unfair practices of all kinds.” a a a HAVING been a Roosevelt booster since long before the Chicago convention of 1932, it would obviously please me very much if I could concur in the President's appraisal of the results claimed for his major economic experiment. Yet, as an honest observer, it seems to me that his catalogue of alleged achievements is more a list of what we might have expected from his speeches, both before and after election, than anything that has been actually realized. It is, to be frank, no more tha;,. wishful thinking, however noble its motivation. One need not necessarily accept the extreme contention of Messrs. Stolberg and Vinton that an earthquake would have accomplished as much as the New Deal in order to be struck with the discrepancy between Mr. Roosevelt’s claims and the facts. There is no good proof that the NIRA played any decisive role in putting 4,000,000 men back to work. This may have been due in large part to the temporary business revival early in 1933 prior to the installation of the Recovery Act. Other factors also entered into any re-employ-ment which has taken place. Child labor may have been formally outlawed, but it is obvious from authoritative reports that it has not been outlawed in fact. The clauses touching on child labor have not been at all rigorously enforced. Such increases in wages as have actually been realized have been offset in large part—often more than offset—by the increase in living casts. a a a F'VEN friendly observers of the Administraj tion labor policies who possess any serious regard for the facts are pretty much agreed that President Roosevelt and Mr. Richberg have thus far walked out on organized labor and have surrendered pretty abjectly with respect to Article 7-A. When men like Messrs. Green, Woll and Lewis are put in the light of aggressive fighters for the cause of labor by contrast with the Administration, then certainly the latter can hardly be held to have brought into being any new charter of liberties for organized labor. Whatever progress has been made in curbing dishonorable competition has forwarded equally dishonorable monopolistic tendencies by great industrial organizations. Business, far from being more tolerant toward governmental control and self-discipline, is recalcitrant and avaricious, having forgotten most of its confessions of guilt and shortsightedness so common in 1930-33. It has made the supreme mistake of being unwilling to cooperate honestly and extensively with so moderate and friendly a champion of private business as President Roosevelt. Instead of recognizing the necessity of curbing unsound financial practices, business has bitter!\ fought such slight efforts at reform as the Securities and Stock Exchange Acts. There has been nothing less than an organized strike of capital. The consumer has been sacrificed right and left, and very able men empowered to look after consumer interests—such as William F. Ogburn, Paul H. Douglass and Frederick C. Howe—have either resigned in disgust or been displaced by the Administration. I was never more disposed to defend the President against his reactionary enemies. But his supporters must now have more than words to use as ammunition in his support. It is high time to end the reproach of Stolberg and Vinton that the New Deal is an economic program which “moves one speech forward and two steps backward.”

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

JOLLY, outspoken Rep. Paul Greever of Wyoming is always persona grata these days when he stops in at the Treasury Department. Every one knows immediately what he's after. When Mr. Greever arrived in Washington, the first thing he did was to call on Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the mint. “Will you give me some silver dollars in change for this $lO bill?” he asked. “Certainly,” smiled affable Mrs. Ross. The silver dollars in due course were brought up from the vaults. “Now this feels more like home,” grinned Mr. Greever, merrily jingling the silver cartwheels in his pocket. “Come back as often as you want,” invited Mrs. Ross. NOTE —The Treasury Department welcomes Rep. Greever’s attitude because one of its principal problems is getting silver dollars in circulation. They are still used in parts of the West, but in the East they come rolling back as quicky as they are issued. a a a THE Chilean ambassador, Senor Trucco, has gone to Florida for a rest, taking his Polish cook with him. So while the embassy staff here dines on such Chilean delicacies as “consuela” and “enchiladas,” His Excellency is eating Polish potatoes and pastries in Florida sunshine. SHARP-EYED Ferdinand Pecora, former member of the Securities Exchange Commission and now a justice of the Supreme Court of New York, was in town for the White House reception. At the reception, accompanied by his Titianhaired wife, dressed in a pink lace evening gown, the erstwhile demon stock market investigator was in benevolent mood. “How do you like your new job?” queried a friend, referring to Mr. Pecora's new position as Justice. “I like it," beamed Ferdinand. “You know I’m used to courtrooms. Besides, I’m having a beautiful rest.” “And I like having him back home again,” said Mrs. Pecora, taking her husband’s arm. NOTE —Not unpleasing, doubtless, to Justice Pecora is the fact that his present post pays him $22,500 annually in contrast to the slender income of his former job. A doctor in New York recently defined a model parent. Some children must have put | him up to it. The earth, says a scientist, has a vibration all its own, such is the power of the Cuban rhumba and the Mexican cucaracha. A Minnesota man has won first prize In a memory contest. He must have remembered what had become of Upton Sinclair.

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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. [Jmit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer.) a a a BLAMES CIGARET SMOKING FOR CRIME OF NATION By G. A. Stark. You are entirely wrong when you publish such an article as “Morale for Relief”; that it is necessary for men on relief to smoke cigarets. Instead of raising their morals, you are certainly lowering them and you simply cheapen your paper. Surely this degrading, nasty thing (the cigaret) is wrecking the very soul of our nation and for money’s sake, the devilish tobacco firms would place a cigaret in each man, woman and child’s mouth. The users of same only beguile themselves, believing it a luxury. However, tobacco in any form is a false luxury, snare and a delusion. The cigaret certainly holds on to its victim as does cocaine or morphine. You will notice nearly all of our criminals are smokers. Os a group of working men on relief (35 of them) of whom I was foreman, there were only a half-dozen clean men among them. It was very disgusting to hear the dirty stories from the cigaret smokers. Now i have been buying The Times for years. However, since your article, I do not care for it any more. Just note the sick’y, pale complexion of most of our cigaret smokers. Their bloodstreams are poisoned. It’s as satan would have it—“Cigarets and strong drink.” The cigaret ir. a cheater of health and mora.s. a a a STATE POLICE SCORED FOR ACTIVITIES By A. C. Stafford. Would you please print a few lines for me about the state police? I saw in the paper about spotlights on trucks. I have a spotlight on my truck and use it on the road. The other night, when I was coming in from Brazil, a car came over the hill with bright lights on. I dimmed my lights, but the driver of the other car didn’t. I turned my spotlight on a few times, but it did no good. When I got near his car, a flashlight hit me in the face. Os course, it blinded me. I went to the side of the road and stopped. I got out and watched the car stop at Stilesville. I walked up the road to it and there sat two state police. I said, “Say, buddy, you ought to dim your lights.” One got out and said, “Who do you think you are?” I told him. He asked me for my driver’s license and I had it. Then he was going to arrest me for having a spotlight. Well, if it hadn’t been for that light, I would have turned over with 10 tons of coal. They told me if I said anything about this, they would ride me. So I am giving this to The Indianapolis Times, so they will be sure and arrest me. If there is any doubt about this letter, I have three people who saw it and they will be glad to appear in my behalf. a a a POWELL EDITORIAL ON BONUS IS ATTACKED Bt E. L. PickerUl. In answer to the article headed “Bonus.” by Talcott Powell, in your issue of Jan. 30, it just doesn’t fit. He says that in 1931 it was argued that the paying of one-half of the amount of toe certificates would end the depression and that nothing of the kind resulted. Nothing of this sort was predicted at all, Mr. Powell. Your elaim is false. Paying one-half of the certificates .was merely to help the vet-

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS

Old-Age Pension Leader Praised

By Charles Barnett Criticism of a recent statement on the Townsend old-age pension plan by Otto P. Deluse, which was printed in the Message Center as coming from L. r. Hopkins, impels me to direct attention to Mr. Deluse’s real contribution to the progress of the pension movement in stats and nation—progress with a sane basis. Since 1921, Mr. Deluse has been the outstanding old-age. pension leader in Indiana. No one familiar with the facts can dispute that, nor can they dispute that his efforts have won him national recognition. Mr. Hopkins put the question as to what would be a fair and

erans and tt did help the borrowers because they needed it; yes, needed it badly or they wouldn’t have risked being “hooked” out of the other half by paying compound interest on v/hat was already theirs. Those veterans not in hard luck did not cash theirs. The government has admitted the debt and no ioyal Veteran thinks, as you say, “To get theirs just because someone else is,” or “to be a burglar because his next door neighbor is a burglar.” . Your comparing the Townsend plan with the bonus bill is unfair. The Townsend bill is an entirely different thing. If you were in need yourself you would be all for trying to collect some outstanding, honest debt. Sure the veterans did their duty and is that any reason why they should be kicked around like a football because they happened to be down and out and they are not a privileged class? If a veteran is seeking employment, he is unwise if he makes it known that he is a veteran, for in the majority of cases they will give him the “go by” or the bum’s rush. American World War veterans as a whole are the most hated human beings in this land, and at the same time'Europe idolizes her defenders. You admit yourself, Mr. Powell, that Washington might well consider full payment of the bonus to veterans on relief. So, in saying this, you mean that 85 per cent of the veterans are eligible to demand the bonus because there are only about 15 per cent of the certificate holders that are not in need at the present time. If you, Mr. Powell, were in the seme financial condition as the 85 per cent, you would find nothing in that predicament to inspire you to write two columns of propaganda against a worthy cause.

COPS VS. RAILROAD; IS THERE JUSTICE? ’ By Dlek Seilvert. I am just a boy in my teens, but after reading the article on the j front page of the issue of Feb. 15, I enter my protest against such laxity., When a policeman can arrest a j railroad conductor because the cop was ashamed of his own mistake,; it’s time for revision. Ever since the first grade of school, I was-taught to honor and respect an officer, but such things as these tear down my faith in them and makes me question. “Is there any Justice?” a a a PENSION LEADER TAKES ISSUE WITH TOWNSEND SUPPORTER By J. Pierce Comming*. Having been associated for more than a decade with Otto P. Deluse in the old-age pension movement, I can not let pass unanswered a letter appearing recently with the signature of L I Hopkins, who takes issue with criticism of the

[l wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

reasonable pension to those who have worked 40 to 50 years. Let me say that is a matter to be determined in each case, but in any event the pension should not be S2OO a month. I am informed that payment of such a sum would entail a sales tax of 30 to 40 per cent. May I ask Mr. Hopkins if it would be fair and reasonable to take from the pay of a working man witl* a wife and a houseful of children S3O or S4O of a SIOO a month salary so that one person could have S2OO a month? Is it any wonder, in the face of such figures, that Mr. Deluse termed the Townsend plan fantastic and utterly Impossible to administer?

Townsend pension plan voiced by Mr. Deluse. I recognize the right of Mr. Hopkins to be heard, but I must agree with Mr. Deluse that the Townsend plan is fantastic and utterly impracticable. Permit me tp point out that Mr. Deluse has been identified with the pension movement nationally for nearly 15 years, and within the last few years his understanding of the need of the aged led to his appointment as a member of a committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to study old-age pen* sions, the only Indiana man given such recognition. It is my belief that the Townsend plan advocates are so fired with zeai that they have lost sight entirely of colcLfacts. After all, pensioning the a gel can not be carried to a point where it would pauperize the entire nation. The plan reminds me of a steamboat described by Mark Twain. It took so much steam to blow the boat’s whistle that the engine stopped. a a a OLEO TAX WILL WORK HARDSHIP ON NEEDY Bt M. E. They have added another link to our tax chain, which will eventually weigh down the laboring class of Indiana. I am referring to the 5-cent oleo tax which passed Lie House by a vote of 51-36. God bless the 36.; Their hearts are in the right place, but for the 51, may their souls rest in “grease.” Os all the laws to be passed by our present Legislature, why choose one that imposes an additional burden on the underpaid man? Butter is colored artificially. Oleo is not. Users of oleo have to color it, or use it as purchased. Why not add a tax on artificially colored butter? Let the man who is able to pay 40 or 50 cents a pound for butter help carry the burden. In fact, I am in favor of taxing non-essentials and leaving the essentials alone. The man of moderate means has more than his share to c .Ty, so why add deprivation to .misery? a a a WORKING WIVES SHOULD RETURN TO HOMES By Mr*. A. Edward*. I read in the paper of the great number of married women working

Daily Thought

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.—Psalms 137:1. EARTH hath no sorrow that heaven can not heaL— Moore.

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in our Statehouse, Courthouse and City Hall. I would like to say they left out our township trustee office. I know of married women working there whose husbands and children are working. I can’t understand how people can be so greedy with so many married men with big families out of work and can get nothing to do. I am talking from my own experience. We have four children. My husband has a good education and can do any kind of office work, but is unable to get a job. We will soon have a boy out of high school to do the same thing his father is doing—walk the streets for work. Married women with husbands working should be made to quit and stay in their homes and return to the ( right way of living. a a a AUTOS FOR STATE AIDS CLASSED AS “HUMBUG” By H. H. McGuffin 1 have been a reader of The Indiana.>'lis Times from the beginning i of its existence. I would like to ask I a question. Why do we, as taxpayers, furnish/ automobiles and upkeep for all 6tat employes? What amount of monej would it save the taxpayers if this were not allowed? Don’t they get pretty fair wages? To my way of thinking It is one of the biggest humbugs in the state of Indiana to- < day. !

So They Say

I think Hollywood is the screwiest place I’ve ever seen. Unless you ( have 16 maids, a butler, a doorman and a footman—oh, yes, and gardeners—why, you are just nobody.— Mary McCormic, famous operatic, singer. The President’s opposition to immediate payment of the entire face value of the bonus certificates is based on sound principles and deserves to be upheld.—American Liberty League. 4 Our problem is in the Pacific. If Japan seizes Alaska, she can bomb New York in 20 hours.—Brig. Gen, William Mitchell, retired. , The country can go about its business with assurance that we are prepared to manage the external value of the dollar as long as may be necessary—Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Mussolini is no war maker and would rather see the jobless learning to be soldiers than remaining idle.—Sir Herbert Ames, treasurer of the League of Nations secretariat. The United States military service has not one plane in service which is suitable to engage in war against a first-rate power.—Brig. | Gen. William Mitchell, retired.

HIS HANDS

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON Lean and strong, they work & capably, Lithe and brown, they clutch so abl; At my poor heart That, fluttering in unknown anc fearful terror Lest by seme beat it might betrr its wearer! It bursts apart. [ Oh, hands, you! make things whol< You seem so teiider. Could you not take this heart And be the mender?