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r MiLNK'I SPEAK UP HARLAN of Ohio has ln- .. > ,:rh would require , • ”’arly on the • r r . answer qiu Such -t.. " - is a step closer to the L n •’ * .stem, unacr which cab.net . ely involved in the legislative p* It is not clear, of course, ti*. : should go all the way m c f,, ;>ving the good points of this system, bir to subject federal department head? to congressional qtiwi-.c at regular a * rvai: m.uht be an exceedingly wholesome reform Under R* p Harlan s plan, a cabinet member would appear on the Senate floor each Tu* dav and on the House floor each Thursday. He would be entitled to participate in the debates, and he would be required to answer such questions as the members might put to him. Asa means of keeping the legislative bran* h in closer touch with the plans and actions of the executive, there is much to recommend this proposal. COURT MUDSLINGING -ByflSS BETTY GOW. the unlucky young IVA woman whose position in the Lindbergh household caused her to make a trip all the way across the Atlantic to testify at the Bruno Hauptmann trial, has got back to England by this time, and it is going to be a long time before she forgives Edward J. Reilly, Hauptmann's lawyer. “I was hurt more by the suspicion Reilly endeavored to east on me than by any other thing during the trial.” Miss Gow said when she reached England. ‘ That is something I will never forget or forgive.” Now' this little remark calls attention to one of the queerest angles of our judicial procrf jure—the seemingly limitless freedom which is given to an attorney to attack a person's reputation without introducing a single shred of evidence to support his charges. Miss Gow, for instance, still enjoys the confidence of her former employer. At the time of the kidnaping, the New Jersey authorities went over her record with a finetooth comb and found nothing wrong. She was not under the slightest shadow of suspicion on the part of those who were most interested in finding someone on whom the crime could be blamed. Then she returned to America to testify at the trial—returned of her own free will, incidentally, since there was no way of making her come back. And mimed lately the Hauptmann defense began to shower her with insinuations veiled accusations, suggestive hints, until it almost looked as if she, and not Hauptmanr., were the one on trial. This sort of thing is common in our courts. Perhaps there is no way of completely ending it. A lawyer entrusted with a mans defense must be given a certain amount of latitude; he must be allowed to suggest that his own client was not the only possible suspect in the crime and he must be permitted to impugn the motives and the character of the witness against him. But—need the thing go so far as it did in this case? Has an upright, law-abiding citizen who is called on to testify in a criminal case no protection whatever? Can we properly permit a defense to be based on the old theory that if you throw enough mud some of it is bound to stick? Our criminal court procedure is crjing for revision in several ways. One of the most important of them seems to be indicated by this complaint of Miss Gow. There ought to be some pretty definite limit to the amount of free and easy mudslinging that can be indulged in during crossex .ruination and argument. *A ■ STRANGE EVENTS HELPING the winter long toward spring. folks in Sudbury, Ont., have found an apple tree in blossom at the bottom of a 600foot mine. Meanwhile, city authorities in Cleveland. O. announce that they can t collect the taxpayers' ashes because they are too busy removing snow from the streets, and simultaneously a dust storm hits Kansas. H L. Mencken invites Commonwealth College to move from Mena. Ark., to Baltimore, Md.. to preserve academic freedom, a freshman at Brown University wins an intercollegiate championship by eating 20 doughnuts in 18 minutes and 50 seconds, and a Wabash honor student is arre.-ted on charges of kidnaping himself and holding himself for ransom. Senator Bilbo of Mississippi turns up in the Senate with a black eye and Huey Long appears with a bandaged finger on his left hand, thus leading to official denials that the two mishaps were in any way connected. The bandmaster of the Kansas state penitentiary. himself a convict, persuades the warden to send him to town to get some new music and forgets to come back, leaving the band musicless and leaderless. An Indiana manufacturer of bows and arrows says that the American Indian was really an extraordinarily poor archer, and Andy Mellon's confidential secretary testifies that Mr. Mellon lost nearly $3,000,000 selling stocks to himself in 1931 and 1932. Meanwhile, the citizens of Jasper. Alberta, call a meeting to discuss the town's needs of an ambulance, and one of the moving spirits falls down on the way to the gathering, breaks an arm, and has to be lugged oft to the hospital on a stretcher. Crime raises its head in Chicago anew. A canary bird Is kidnaped from Holy Cross hospital. and a detective discovers that erstwhle auto thieves have turned to stealing baby.

Why the Pink Slip Won’t Work An Editorial

A READER in a medium-sized city writes: “I don t object to this pink slip order or the eround that it opens the way to a lot of kidnapers and racketeers. That, to my mind, Is a lot of silly hokum. “My objection is comparable to the objection I have to my doctor's broadcast of the details of all the petty sicknesses and ailments and defects in the family, and to the best of my knowledge there Is nothing that I need be ashamed of in them. However, I still don’t think it is anybody's business but my own and my doctor’s, unless the family becomes a menace to the public health. “Can’t some plan be worked out that would permit inspection of income tax reports by those who have any legitimate business making such an inspection, without throwing them open to ail the busy-bodies, gossips, and bridgetable hatchet-wavers that thrive in a smaller community? “The wholesale publicity provision has in it so much dynamite. It can cause so much strife, bitterness and jealousy among neighbors in a town such as this.” a a a vite think that expresses in a very human ▼ way why the pink slip income tax licity law should be repealed. If publicity actually served' the purpose for which the law was intended—if income tax cheating were cured thereby—the law might be defended on the ground of general welfare. But publicity in the pink slip form, like publicity as tried in the middle- twenties, won't do the job. The reason is that the pubheity is only partial. Such partial publicity wa brought to hear in the revenue act of 1924. It generated a lot of curiosity, produced plenty of gossip, created no little envy and spitefulness and reprisal among neighbors and competitors, but it didn't accomplish the end that it had been hoped it would accomplish. Hence, its repeal in 1925 with few if any to carriages, finding the traffic in hot autos too dangerous - The Pi. *:e of Wales is mobbed on the streets of Vienna by the biggest crowd of women seen in one spot since the days of Vienna's great Socialist mass meeting, and 300 people jam the edneourse of Cleveland's Union Terminal to say hello to Kate Smith. A Hungarian count has challenged 13 residents of Budapest to duels, on the ground that they insulted his wife by throwing her out of their club when they caught her cheating at cards. And then, to cap the climax, a New York woman goes to a hospital with a stomachache, attributing it to something she ate. A doctor operates on her and removes from her stomach 224 pins, pieces of bed springs, links of auto tire chains, a set of rubber bands, and bits of broken glass. WORK IS FIRST REQUIREMENT SECRETARY ICKES makes a good point by informing the Senate munitions committee that PWA funds spent on naval construction produce less employment than a good many other public works undertakings. This statement has some significance in view of the fact that the PWA has allotted some 5238.000.000 to naval construction. The issue here is not whether we need more warships. Considering the uncertain state of international relations, a great many citizens will feel more comfortable when our fleet s built up to treaty strength. But if we are to do that, why should we not make straightforward appropriations of the money needed, in the customary fashion? Money for public works is supposed, primarily, to increase employment! If naval construction is not an especially good way of attaining that goal, it might be wise to allot the money somewhere else. GARDENS OF EDEN r T’'HE Irak government is about to spend some $5,000.00# raising a dam across the Tigris to irrigate a desert where the Garden of Eden is supposed once to have grown. The paradise where the legendary Adam and Eve delved, spun and begat the human race has been a sandy waste for more than 3000 years. NOw water will turn it green again, this time with date palms, wheat, maize and cotton. Making useful Edens is not anew industry to our own enterprising country. Since passage of the Reclamation Act m 1902 the government has covered with verdure nearly 20.000,000 acres of once barren wilderness. It has made possible 44,000 fertile farms and 214 cities and towns on its 27 federal reclamation projects, wherein dwell 700.000 sons of Adam and daughters of Eve. Their toil has created 51.000.000.000 worth of taxable property. They buy 5120.000.000 worth of goods in the American markets. While these little cases cover only 1 per cent of the nation's cropped region and their output a negligible and largely non-competitive mite, their part in the national economy is important. They form what Reclamation Commissioner Mead calls “seeds of civilization” in an otherwise unpeopled no man's land. To the West they are indispensable. While we have been creating Edens from the deserts, we also have been destroying natural Edens. Many of America's wastes are man-made—ruins of once magnificent forests and prairie pastures. The work of the Administration in sound reclamation projects and in checking deforestation and soil erosion is vital to the country's future, if not to its very survival. Nations before have destroyed their own Edens. Through folly and greed we can destroy ours. A bishop and a Congressman, on the same day, declared in speeches that we are sitting on a volcano. That should be encouraging to the pants manufacturers at least. An AAA report says that farmers remaining in the Michigan milk shed are thoroughly dissatisfied. That seems to be logical, as it would be hard to figure out how any one could be satisfied remaining in a milk shed. A ministers’ association in the East has added a sixth verse to “America.” That will merely make six instead of the five that the average citizen doesn't know. The expert who declared that repeal was an unmixed blessing evidently hasn't tasted some of the blends that are going around*

mourn its passing. Now it is back in slight but not essentially different guise. Publicity to have any chance of being effective would have to go the whole way. And whether such a whole-way policy would have public support is debatable. a a a TT would mean that every citizen who files an income tax report would have to display before the world every one of those inti- • mate details so carefully conceived in the creation of the individual tax return, ranging from whether you rere married and living with your husband or wife during the year just past, on through profits (or losses) of partnerships, syndicates, pools and fiduciaries; obsolescence, bad debts, rents, royalties, taxes and repairs; contributions, depletion and other expenses; Items 10 (A), Schedules C, B and F, Instruction 24, Paragraph D; corporations organized under the China Trade Act of 1922; and dependents incapable of selfsupport. It is conceivable that the citizenry as a whole might object to such a public goingover as callg for everything except sticking out the tongue and saying ah-h. But, even assuming for the sake of argument that such a clinic might be effective, that’s not the issue in this pink-slip matter. For the pink slip calls only for a small part of the story—income, deductions and tax payable. If there has been an evasion, it won’t show from that. And the public, to which that much is revealed, is forbidden by law to proceed further. So only inquisitiveness is satisfied, and it's still up to the Internal Revenue Bureau to find the cheater. Hence we believe the pink-slip law will do no good in the direction for which it was intended ar.d will do much harm in the manner expressed by that writer of the letter to the editor. STILL UNSOLVED nPHE unemployment problem becomes more ■*" serious when we consider business statistics just compiled by the Federal Reserve Board. Industrial production last month was 90 per cent of the 1923-25 average, the board reports. Yet employment was only 80.4 per cent of the “normal,” and pay rolls were only 64.1 per cent. We can hardly look for any quick combination of circumstances to push production abov enormal. And therefore we can hardly look lor any easy material reduction of the unemployed by absorption into existing industries. Machines have taken on the work of men and will continue to do it. The probable result will be continued Federal responsibility for millions of jobless men and women. If this responsibility is to continue, the dole becomes less desirable than ever. Work relief is a start in the right direction, but no one, from President Roosevelt down, wants to contemplate continuing that expense even for a few years. A more fundamental solution than any yet proposed by the Administration for this problem must be found if the United States is to escape the dangers that come with the presence of a permanently idle group of people. That is v. hy recovery without reform is impossible in the long run.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

DIPLOMATS passed a busy last week-end being diplomatic and patronizing home products. They dispatched emissaries of goodwill to out-of-town festivities of interest to the homeland; suffered pleasantly at formal dinners and luncheons for the sake of trade; mutually toasted each other at farewell parties, and talked at length of home industries. Kere were some of their doings: Plump Dr. Hans Luther, ths German Ambassador, put in a good word for German shipping at a stag dinner in honor of Herr Firle and Herr Schroeder of the North German Lloyd. Munich beer flowed and goldwasser further emphasized the spirit of camaraderie. British commerce was not hampered through the formal dinner given by bulky, heavymust ached Sir Ronald Lindsay, His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador. Guests including Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky, Ambassador Aranha of Brazil, Mrs. Robert Patterson Lamont, wife of tne former secretary of commerce, and the chief of the division of Far Eastern affairs, Stuart J. Fuller, courteously raised their glasses in a toast to King-Emperor George V. ass ■ a TO represent the French embassy in New York at the Alsatian ball in the Pennsylvania Hotel, went capable young Count de Leusse of the embassy staff. Since AlsaceLorraine is again French, the prestige of the home country becomes important. White-tied, dapper Count de Leusse sat in a gilded box with the French Consul General, marched around the ballroom, sang the Marseillaise, sipped French champagne, watched dancers do an old-fashioned polonaise, applauded politely. Before his box passed a brilliantly uniformed procession—old soldiers of the French Foreign Legion wearing the traditional white tropical uniform and white kepi, American Marines in olive drab, English officers in khaki, Scotch Highlanders with bagpipes and kilties, Zouaves in bright red pantaloons. Impressed by the spectacle. Count de Leusse turned to an old gentleman with a white beard, remarked enthusiastcially: “Never have I seen so many uniforms . . . such color!” When the show ended at 4:30 a. m., the weary young Frenchman went to Childs' with the Consul General and ate hot dogs. ts St St STRICTLY Japanese was the dinner given by Ambassador Saito of Japan in honor of Mr. Ito. clever secretary of embassy, who has been named Charge d’Affaires of his country in Cuba. Saki wine was served. Only Japanese attended. Japanese delicacies replaced Occidental dishes. Returning the compliment, Mr. Ito gave a modern cocktail party for his chief in the Garbo room of the Shoreham. a a a CHINA is rapidly climbing the social scale in Washington and pointing out its various advantages over bowls of Chinese soup. Recently, Minister and Mme. Sze have been wining and dining American officials and diplomatic colleagues on nunjerous occasions. Yesterday, affable, demure Mme. Sze was a luncheon hostess with Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Secretary of State, as guest of honor. Also present were Mrs. Claude Augustus Swanson, wife of the secretary of the navy; Mrs. William Borah, wife of the Idaho solon; Mrs. J. Ham Lewis, wife of the picturesque, pink-whiskered Illinois senator. The tide of crime seems to be on the rise again. A Massachusetts man just has been arrested lor stealing a valuable yeast formula.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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rpl IV ff - r 1 wholl y disapprove of what you say and will 1 me IVieSSage defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

(Times readers are invited to express i their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Tour j letter must he sinned, hut names will he withheld at request of the letter writer.) r a b PROGRAM OF RELIEF CALLED SENSELESS By S. L. Hand. No more senseless program for recovery could be devised than the | present relief program. Every penny of the money noiv being spent is not only wasted, but worse than that, it absolutely prevents our industries from getting an increase in orders, through which the persons on relief might be returned to private employment. Stopping the production of socalled farm surplus, and then saying to our unemployed industrial workers, “You boys just tighten your belt a little more, so can recover prosperity,” is the product of flathead thinking. Let us hope the program is not made to include tearing down or burning our homes. Providing relief at such low levels as now prevail, prevents the relief consumers from absorbing the products of industries in such quantities as will assure these industries the opportunity for increasing production volume, to provide additional employment. The low relief standard therefore becomes a subsidy to consumers for ! preventing the recovery of industry, j It becomes a guarantee for forcing i industrial bankruptcy. Tax money is being spent to retard recovery; it will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Dribbling this money out means an unending drain upon ,the taxpayer, while a sensible spending of it in larger volume would provide the needed additional consumption power, .for a revival of pi oduction on a higher level. Such spending would eliminate continuation of relief, because the relief victims would then be called back to their former jobs to produce the additional volume of goods. Any further squandering of the relief money by dribbling it out is inexcusable. The relief victims never will get jobs unless the state provides the -.ecessary additional consumption power. There is no other way out., B B B FORECASTS REVIVAL OF FOREIGN TRADE By F rank L. Martino. 4 , Disappearing foreign trade has been one of the most difficult of problems during late years. Last year an effort to solve it was made by passing legislation whereby the President was empowered to enter into reciprocal trade agreements with foreign powers, under which each country should agree to grant the other favors. Secretary of State Hull is heart and soul in favor of these treaties—he wants all foreign nations not discriminating against American products —to have equal advantages in trading with us. He is opposed to trade quotas, regimentation • and similar barriers to the free flow of products. Opposed to this is Gec’-ge Peek, special White House adviser on foreign trade —and the clash between the yiews of Messrs. Peek and Hull has, according to Business Week, “blocked the whole progress of export recovery.” Mr. Peek stands for government barter, with ironhanded regimentation of both imports and exports. A short time ago business men were elated at an authoritative report that the President has Anally decided against Mr. Peek, and for Mr. Hull. He will throw his weight behind reciprocal trade agreements, not barter. Thus, the chances ar that strong efforts will soon be made to bring

HE WOULD -CARRY IT

Senator Mcßride's Views Assailed

By Puzzled Reader. How in the world do you account, with your newspaper experience with all kinds of people, for m a n like Senator Mcßride? Your publication of his baldfaced, “public-be-damned” attitude of grabbing politics as a member of the Senate committee considering the so-called personnel bill is only another example of what he has been saying around this town all during this session of the Legislature. You are to be praised for putting his statements on Page 1, where many persons may learn what type of man this Mcßride is. Not long ago, I was lunching with some friends from out-of-town in the grill room of a downtown hotel. Senator Mcßride, who had been pointed out to me by the bartender, was roaring out his views at a nearby table. For A1 G. Feeney, State Safety

trade back, now that a course of action has been decided upon. If those efforts succeed, many hundreds of millions of dollars will come from foreign shores to tinkle in American cash registers. Our policy should be: To help preserve the ideals and sacred traditions of this, our country, the United States of America; revere its laws and inspire others to respect and obey them; strive unceasingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty, and in all ways to aid in making this country greater and better. • a b b RELIEF RECIPIENT LAUDS ROOSEVELT By Geneva Bogdon. In answer to Brother Carrick’s| letter in The Times of Feb. 25. It; seems to me he doesn’t see clearly. Aren't you ashamed. Brother Carrick. to* call this Hell in the paper where children can read it? I thought preachers were to preach from the Bible and tell the people what Hell really is. Yes, Roosevelt is sincere. When he told you no one would starve he meant It. Only lazy persons starve or freeze. Why pick on Roosevelt? Do you expect him to undo in two years what it took four years or longer to do up? Any fool can drop a stone in the river. It takes Just a second to sink, but ’t takes a man with brains to fish it out, and he needs plenty of time to do it. My husband is a relief worker; my grocer doesn't charge me more than he does the public, either. We have five in the family, and by our good management we have a good living which we could not have if we were wasteful. Mr. Roosevelt doesn't want the churches to support him; he wants the people who see and think clearly to support h m. Why not try resigning yourself, reverend. Come on now, think it over. I myself sometimes read a letter twice before I understand it clearly. Maybe the plate in the church is getting a bit empty. I can teach my children right from wrong with less trips to church. God didn’t sav to cover up thg light of your candle, either, but to let it shine, wherever you go. B B M EXHIBITIONISMCOLD AND HOT Bv a Reader. I have studied the public prints assiduously this winter and have found no mention, or pictures, of a Polar Bear Club in Indianapolis. The Polar Bears, you know, are those hardy individuals who break the ice on the coldest day of the winter, take a plunge before the camera, go shuddering home to mama, and break in® the news

Director, he had only the greatest contempt, apparently because Mr. Feeney believed that state policemen should be appointed, promoted and fired on a basis of ability and fitness rather .than on a basis of party politics. He seemed, too, to resent Mr. Feeney's honesty. You will hardly believe it, but he made then his now famous remark about putting out every Republican if he were Governor. Even in the noisy chatter of the grill room, several persons looked up from their drinks and their food to see who could be voicing these sentiments from pre-Civil War days. I found one interesting thing in my slight investigation as to how such a phenomenon as Senator Mcßride occurred. It seems that he represents Switzerland County. And, Switzerland is tfie only county in the state without a mile of railroad.

again several days later by dying of pneumonia. The Polar Bears are the winter counterpart of the nudists who on the hottest days of the summer caper about with no clothes on in the interests of health, and thereafter spend several painful days in bed nursing sunburn blisters. It seems to me these exhibitionists offer a diversion that the public at large is entitled to. Physicians usually are professionally indignant over the antics of the Polar Bears, and semi-professional moralists moan out loud at the actions of the nudists." In the absence of the Polar Bears we have on view only those mild exhibitionists who occasionally don gaudy and impractical uniforms and march the streets, more or less in step, to the complete confusion of traffic and for no demonstrable logical purpose. This winter, of course, the Legislature has filled the gap admirably, and I should be thankful. But what about next year? tt tt a RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM TREATED SARCASTICALLY By M. L. Billings. Congratulations to The Times for printing both sides of the question! Congratulations to Charles L>. Blume, whose timely letter, “Individualism Must Stay,” will do much to create opposition to the radicals who believe that there should be a more equal distribution of wealth. We need no “new and dangerous generation of thinkers, a generation of people who will not care to think for themselves but depend upon a group of men to do it for them.” Today the majority of the Americans form an admirable group of thinkers. They are not so shortsighted as some few who think that it wasn't right of Andrew Mellon to make $72,000 by selling stock ■ short” while secretary of the Treasury, or at any other time. Thei° are accounts of hungry, homeless Southern “share-croppers ’ who are so dissatisfied with the “rugged individualism” that they are actually thinking of using force to obtain food and shelter. Our own State Assembly, Mr. Blume, has lowered itself to ratify the child labor amendment. This will rob we rugged individualists of many hard-earned dollars, for no

Daily Thought

With the merciful thou will show thvself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.—ll Samuel 22:26. MERCY turns her back to

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doubt we ll have to pay a little more for adult labor. An editorial in The Times of Feb. 22 plays up the fact in a recent peace poll 90 per cent of the students who voted favor government control of munition plants. That is to be expected, for Mr. Powell is extremely opposed to individualism. But don't be alarmed—students’ opinions mean nothing when Uncle Sam needs boys to “make the world safe for DuPontracy.” Despite your insight, Mr. Blume, you made a mistake in criticising the New Deal. Unknowingly (?) President Roosevelt is truly aiding we individualists. The latest government bond issues will yield an interest of 2.9 per cent. This is a boon to we individualists. The bonds are nontaxable. Our idle funds can be invested in them and we can realize a return of 2.9 per cent, and the sweet part is no taxes. Nov , Charlie, I feel that our common interest permits me to address you so—you say, “It takes suffering to make great men.” Readily do I agree with you. Lincoln owes much to his ability and greatness to the sufferings he endured. Yet it is hard indeed. Charlie, to convince the hungry hordes tiiat clamor for work and food that they are fortunate in their hardships. If we can only persuade them to see the folly of not desiring to suffer we shall soon have a nation of people superior to Lincoln, for unfortunately Mr. Lincoln usually had a roof over his head and something to eat. Too bad for Abe! Let us delay no longer, Charlie. We individualists, the crusaders of 1935. must don the ruggedest armor of individualism, mount the steed of selfishness, and girding ourselves with the sacred sword of excessive profits defeat the foes of starvation and serfdom.

So They Say

The last I saw of the ship (the Macon) was the nose sticking up like a cone above the water—Lieut.Com. Herbert V. Wiley. Labor controversies can best be handled with patience, intelligence, humor, and imagination.—Francis Biddle, NLRB chairman. Our great-grandchildren will still be paying on this debt we are piling up now. James M. Beck, former United States solicitor general.

SURRENDER

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICH Tonight you held me with your ' tenderness; Your gentle clasp upon my nervous hands. You held me with your quiet, sing- • ing voice. You held me by a hundred silver bands. You kept me with the message in . your eyes That held the weighted calmness of , twilight; The stillness of the moment when - the stars Break into sky to burn their candlelight. r , If I had wished to go; to leave your arms, Tonight has set a magic seal on me. You held me with your blessed ten- . derness, And I no longer wished to b* ae* i ireel