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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6. 1935.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES **T”VEATH plucks ihe ear ...” and this time Oliver Wendell Holmes has listened and followed. But the Indomitable spirit which was able to conquer old age Till conquer death a’so. It knew an eternal youth—that life is movement. chanty. It was the gallant spirit of youth, tempe ed with the wise tolerance that years of living can bring. The thoughts of men who have sought to lay dcw.i rigid rules between truth and untruth, right and wrong, have passed into oblivion. sometimes while their authors still lived. Mr. Holmes discovered long ago that: “Everything is dead in 25 or 50 jears. The author no longer says to you what he meant to say. If he is original his new truths have become familiar in improved form—his errors exploded. If he is not a philosopher but an artist, the emotional emphasis has changed.” So he taught that man should “lay his course by a star which he has never seen—should dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach." He said: “When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths they may come to believe, even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct, that the ultimate good desired is better reached by a free trade in ideas. We should be eternally Yieiiant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.” He constantly defended the right of political units to make governmental experiments whether he approved of them or not. He upheld the right of individuals to seek the stars they have never seen. As long as men love concepts of tolerance, freedom, justice, democracy, they will be grateful that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has lived. THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY. who thought Gen. Hugh Johnson -*■ was politically dead when he dropped the helm of NRA are looking now upon the livest corpse that ever leaped from a hearse or peeled off a shroud. And from now on, until time shall tell whether the ultimate course of the ship of state shall be to the right, left or middle, the general will be there, out in front, with bright lights playing on him. For the general has taken on none other than Huey Long and Father Coughlin. It is altogether fitting that Johnson should be the one to do this job. He is the type. And so. as one of the entertaining by-prod-ucts of the depression, we are about to witness, ladies and gentlemen, the battle of the century with no holds barred and winner take all. Asa master of the picturesque in language, of the slashing and the vivkl phrase, of rough and tumble words, Johnson is DArtagnan with a dictionary. But he is much more than that. While what he had to say in his New York speech about Long and Coughlin was the most striking part because of the fight there was in it, what he said about the old order—that same old order which, by the way, made possible the rise of the Longs and the Coughlins—was much more than merely picturesque. “They” (the Old Guard', he said, “are what they are because yesterday they were —and their fathers before them—and for no better reason. They learned nothing and they forget nothing. They believe that property and profits come first and that, if you take care of them, the humanities will take care of themselves. They think that the way to do that Is to keep the government in a castiron mold—and finally that the benefits of this country can not be entrusted to popular control, but must all trickle down to the grassroots through a sieve made up of small groupings of the wise, the good and the beneficent —old stuff—very old stuff—the mere recital of which, in this troubled modern day. is a challenge ‘to revolt.*” Those are words of wisdom in the deepest and most prophetic sense. And if they are not heeded by the forces toward which they are directed, the battle of the century may go against the General and the national anthem be changed from the “Star-Spangled Banner” to “Louisiana. Here I Come.” WAGES AND INFLATION *T CAN g-iarantee that there will be no inflation in this country while Franklin D. Roosevelt Is President,” Donald R:chberg told Boston audience. It would be comforting to t*ke the statement of the New Deal co-ordinator at its face Talue. Inflation is a far greater potential threat to the wage and living standards of American workers than the possible failure to pay “prevailing wages” on relief-work projects, dispute over which has halted the Administration’s recovery program. Ui*:- •‘unately. no man has the power to control inflationary forces once they get out of hand. However, President Roosevelt does have more power than anv other man to keep inflationary forces within bound. And this ia fortunate, providing Mr. Richberg has accurately expressed the President s determination. The stampede which currency expansionists are trylrg to start in Congress for passage of the Patman bonus bill and the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage retirement bill challenges the President s firmest political leadership. But this greenback drive probably is not as grave a threat as the external forces manifest in the uneasy world n.oney markets following the startling week-end decline In the value of the English pound. Money stability at home can not be assured instability abroad. The fluctuations of the pound, although not alarming, warn the President not to delay too lac* negotiations

for an International monetary agreement. Lack of at least a promise of such an agreement may encourage a disastrous monetary war. Confidence in the dollar's stability is essential to success of the Treasury s refinancing program. Without that confidence, ‘he Treasury obviously can not carry out its new plan to cut 30 million dollars from interest charges by exchanging long-term 2 : -i per cent bonds for outstanding 4'i per cent Fourth Liocrty Loans. If investors have reason to fear major inflation, they are not apt to take 20-year risks for 2' i per cent. More important still is the need lor checking the threat of higher living costs. To pay relief workers SSO a month on soil erosion, reforestation, road and grade crossing projects might conceivably cause a drop in private hourly wage scales, though there is little danger that It would result in lower annual earnings of workers in private industries. But if inflation ever gets out of hand—whether because of a continuing national deficit, political pressure at home, or a money war abroad—certainly the workers will suffer most as the helpless victims of runaway living costs. LEST WE FORGET TT would be deplorable should the Legislature adjourn without passing House Bill 192, perhaps the most Important of all the bills introduced this session for reform of Indiana’s criminal procedure laws. And there is danger that the Legislature, amid the press of more sensational business, will wind up its labors without placing its stamp of approval on House Bill 192. which is known to lawyers as the “Alibi Bill” and which would force a defendant in a criminal trial to give notice 10 days in advance of trial of his intentions to rely upon an alibi. The measure provides that the defendant, 10 days before his trial is scheduled, must declare his alibi, stating where has was on the day of the alleged crime. Philip Lutz Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, has conducted an exhaustive survey Into laws of this type and as far back as last July he told the Indiana Bar Association in session at Lake Wawasee of the benefits of such a measure. Michigan and Ohio both have alibi laws and Mr. Lutz asserts that the criminal element knows of this law and that the common practice of perjury has been reduced considerably in both these states. Indiana needs this type of law in its criminal procedure statutes. The Legislature should pass the Alibi Law promptly. It will be a forward step of the first magnitude. A MASTER EVADES THE AX 'T'HE spy’s job is never a pretty one—whether the spy be engaged by a government to ferret out international secrets, or by a New York stock broker to get the goods on an unfaithful wife. The business is a nasty one any way you look at it. The German government recently beheaded two women for espionage activities. Now it develops that Baron George Von Sosnowski, the "master mind” of the espionage plot for which these women were beheaded, was also captured. But was he executed? Not at all. Instead, he was sent to Poland and given his freedom—in exchange for the return of certain German spies who had been arrested by the Polish authorities. If a spy can afford the luxury of a conscience, this Von Sosnowski must have an uneasy moment or two, now and then, when he reflects how he led two women to death and then managed to dodge the penalty himself. EASING THE WAY TO DEATH AS long as capital punishment lasts which probably will be a long, long time —the authorities will have trouble trying to decide what is the most humane way of treating a condemned criminal during his final days on earth. Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama has adopted the policy of not letting condemned prisoners know until the last moment that their final appeals for clemency have failed. His idea is that such a man might just as well have the benefit of hope, up to the last possible minute. The shock of learning that the last hope is gone will be painful whenever it is received, and Gov. Graves thinks it kinder to postpone it. Many people will disagree with this theory, emphatically. But the point is that capital punishment is a cruel process, at best. You can’t he so very humane with it, no matter what vou do. Gov. Graves at least deserves credit for good intentions in the matter. THE SOLDIERS’ BONUS! IF the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars decide that enactment by Congress of a bill for a cash bonus for war veterans is in the bag. now, as a result of the activities of the Senate Munitions Committee, one can hardly blame them. First of all, Eugene Grace testified. Mr. Grace drew down something like $3,000,000 in bonuses during the war period; but he thinks that workers in munitions plants in future wars should get a soldier’s pay, he feels that it would be very unfortunate if the same rule were applied to executives, and he believes that the demand for the soldiers’ bonus now is “very* unfortunate.” Then the investigators began to get curious about the doings of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.. which operated during the war as a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel. During the war Charles Schwab, who held 37 per cent of all voting stock in Bethlehem Steel, was director general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. which was letting government shipbuilding contracts. First they examined a war-time letter written bv an admiral in the Navy, charging that Bethlehem demanded high prices for its ships and refused to stand behind delivery dates. Then they looked at a report from a specie’ examiner for the Fleet Corporation which asserted that the “enormous profits” made by Bethlehem showed that Bethlehem’s contracts "were unconscionable and against public interest.” Next they dug into Fleet Corporation records showing that while other shipbuilders were averaging a profit of $lO a ton on ships built for the government, Bethlehem was making $49.50 for a profit of better than 20 per cent. Furthermore, the examiner pointed out that this 20 per c*nt profit was not p?,j> 5 < on Bethlehem’s laves l funds, but on ~

that had to be financed by the Fleet Corporation itself. Now when you add all of this up you get a fairly ugly picture. It is the sort of picture which probably is unavoidable in war-time, unless the munitions industry and its profits be adopted: but it does put the soldiers' bonus bill in a different light. Meditating on Mr. Grace and his bonuses, and Mr. Schwab and his ships, it is a little hard to get very indignant over the question of a bonus for fighting men. IrIF TOWN DOCTOR PHYSICIANS who regard agitation for state medicine as an assault upon their profession will do well to examine an experiment being conducted in Ogema, Wis. For years this little timbcrland village of 1044 population had no doctor. Apparently no member of that widely distressed profession thought he could earn a living in Ogema under the traditional country doctor system of “pay me when you can.” About three months ago the people of Ogema decided to depend no longer on the services of physicians residing in towns 10 and 20 miles distant. A medical center was organized with a charter membership of 80 families and single persons. Single persons agreed to pay sl2 a year, and married couples agreed to pay S2O and $4 additional for each dependant child. No family was to be charged more than $36 a year. This group engaged a general practitioner to move to Ogema and set up a one-doctor clinic. Today, the charter membership is doubled. The people of Ogema have a doctor to give them regular health examinations, remove bad tonsils, cure lumbago, treat influenza and usher new babies, into the world. And the doctor is earning a good living. Dues to Ogoma medical center are payab’e in advance. Today there probably is no agitation for state medicine in Ogema.

Conservation —BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS

1 FOLLOWED the argument through the Senate against the anti-pollution bill with a great deal of interest and was struck with the faot that, while the majority of the Senators wanted to vote for cleanliness, few of them were able to answer the erroneous arguments of the Senators who were against the bill for political reasons. “Don’t thrust this measure down our throats,” said Senator Jernegan. “It would cause a large increase in taxes and now would be a poor time to do that.” The first anti-pollution bill was put into the acts in 1909 and was killed by the same argument. If it had gone through at that time there was only 270 miles of rotten water in Indiana and the cost of cleaning it up would have been but a tithe of the present cost. Impure and poisonous water is now increasing in Indiana at the rate of 150 linear miles annually and. the time is rapidly appioachirfg when the cost of remedy will be very high. The decision must be made now. Are we going .to live with this thing forever or are we starting now to clean up? It will not rectify itself. Population creates it and men must stop it. The Creator of the rivers has done all He could to be rid of it. but natural laws can not take care of the burden of filth dumped into Indiana streams; there is too much of it. a a a THE element of expense mentioned by the Senator can be handled by revenue bonds. If vou use 1000 gallons of water, you make 1000 gallons of polluted water and you should be charged with the expense of purifying it so it won’t be an offense to your neighbors. The city charges you to dispose of your garbage, to sweep vour streets, to make your drinking water pure and you pay a large bill for soap and laundry annually to keep your person clean. Why exempt the mast distressingly impure product of civilization? , , . For Senator Jernegan’s information, who lives on the St. Joe River, the nastiest stream in the state with more than 2.0U0.000 colon bacilli per cubic centimenter in it at Mishawaka in midsummer, the cost to the water user of eliminating the impurities he creates will be added to his water bill under the revenue bond measure at the rate of about 6 per cent of his water bill each month. If you pay $4 a month for water, you will pay $4.24 a month for water and sewage disposal. If that wrecks industry, I am wrong. Senator Lynch from Hammond and the steel and oil districts shouts the bill is “dictatorial, despotic, arbitrary and discretionary.” Oh, Senator, and that comes from a district that manufactures steel and gasoline. And that argument has been heard for these many years from men who fix the price the public must pay for steel and gasoline and canned goods and rubber footwear and what not, all polluting industries. Consistency, thou art a jewel of rare water but not polluted water. a a tt THE health angle is not important, says Senator Lynch. In Brown County, where there is no polluted water, more people die than in Lake County, where most things are polluted. The Senator forgets that in Brown County only the old are left, the average age of Brown County residents is 18 years higher than Lake County and the young and strong have forsaken the hills for the centers that will furnish them either with employment, excitement or both. But there is one thing they don’t die of in Brown County and I have seen very few people down there inflicted with it and that is septic, inflamed sinus and there are few children there operated on for mastoid. The diseases caused by impure water cause loss of health mostly and not loss of life excepting in typhoid cases, although the hospital records of the state disclose an increasing record of fatal cases originating in youth who have played in infected water. “Stream pollution is an inter-county matter not an intra-county problem.” Rarely does the polluter suffer from his own acts, said Senator Janes from down on the Ohio. When the county above me makes the stream that flows by my door filthy with smells and disease I should have the right of appeal to some disinterested court. But Senator Bedwell of Sullivan favored an amendment to permit each county to judge its own filth. Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost, or in this case the nethermost. Blue River in Henry County has been so grossly polluted with Newcastle sewage that it is positively unsafe to allow cattle to venture near it, yet Senator Chambers called the bill a contractors’ racket, ignoring the protests of 470 farmers who met in Knightstown last year threatening suit against Newcastle for damages to their farms. The Senator is supposed to represent the entire community, including the farmers, and Walter Jolly will remember that. When Walter P. Chrysiei's attention was to the fact that his plant in Newcastle dumped a poison into Blue River he ordered it stopped and is now contemplating the erection of his own disposal plant. The average American citizen is a clean man and desires to live in clean surroundings among clean people. He does not desire to Interfere with the health and pleasures of his neighbors. A Cornell professor has developed a cabbage that won’t smell up the house when cooked. What a surprise wifey has for hubby when he comes home tired from work! So many activities of the New Deal have been declared unconstitutional, we’ll soon be afraid to eat a thufe lest it, too, be called unconstitutional, i® \

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 2kO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but mimes will be withheld at request of the letter writer J a st st EDITORIALS VS. COMIC PAGE—HE’LL TAKE THE LATTER By O. J. S. Your Feb. 25 “A Problem in Ethics.” Yes, it is more of a “sin” for a government (that had the authority to make a gold clause) to repudiate than for repudiation to be unexpectedly forced upon private persons who were in error in thinking they had the authority. Reason: To the private person, the discovery of lack of authority comes as an “act of God,” which dissolves the clause. Answering “Independence,” the crux of the TVA decision was that (per the 12th Amendment) the states and people are free and independent of the Federal government except where explicitly otherwise stated. So Judge Grubb is consistent with his illustrious ancestor. “Youth Instructs Age” carries the idea there is something about the Constitution to which one would not care to swear allegiance. Article V is a part thereof, and so ihe Constitution is not a mental straitjacket, as you infer. The Constitution is but a changeable, changing basic law; at any given moment the law of the land. It is rather vicious to say that youth should not hold allegiance to the law of the nation. But in general, I am little concerned about your editorials. They remind me of David Lawience's comment of Washington, D. C. “The right hand does not know what the left is doing.” Or more of Emerson's “With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do.” So you are well qualified as a demagogic newspaper. Lead on. I don’t believe you sane. I like your papereditorials and all. I am thereby kept dizzy and delighted. But as a source of facts, I prefer the funnypaper. tt tt tt TIMES PRAISED FOR ARTISTS’ NEWS By Richard Delavan. The Times is to be congratulated on the way it has picked up and held the fragile focus of interest upon Indiana art and artists these days. There is a surprisingly large body of intelligent people receptive and curious about this particular aspect of our culture. They will attend this most representative Indiana show. This body of people realizes the uses of truly modern painting, sculpture and craft in the beautifying of their homes, quite as important and decorative an element as any in the scheme of their interiors, quite as contemporary as I their latest clothing, and quite as much a part of themselves as the people with whom they associate and live the lives of their days. We'll see you at the Indiana Artists Exhibition. st n m OLD-AGE PENSION PLANS ARE CONSIDERED By W. E. Dslk. In answer to Charles Barrett’s criticism of L. L. Hop Kins for his letter to Otto P. Deluse on old-age pensions, I would like to say that if, after 15 years of labor for old-age pensions, the best Mr. Deluse can I show for his labor is a $3 to sls a month pension in Indiana, I fail to see any glory, or great accomplishment. in the pensions record of Mr. Deluse. Mr. Barrett’s statement on the economic phase of the Townsend recovery plan is erroneous, misleading, and indicates his complete ignorance of v? subject. He may himself on the

THE ONLY OUTSTRETCHED HAND

Duplicating Department Upheld

By Mrs. M. N. Brennoman, A brief article in one cf the evening papers announced the passage in the state Senate of a bill to abolish the central duplicating department as a part of the state offices. I think a little consideration of a few relevant facts should take place before that bill becomes a law. The central duplicating department was put in operation about 18 months ago in an attempt to save money on state printing bills. That attempt has had a decided effect. Contract prices have in some instances been reduced as much as 25 per cent to meet the competition of the department, a rather substantial saving. The department was described as “a vicious example of govern-

feasibility of the Towmsend plan j by reading the Congressional Rec- ! ord report on the McGroarty bill j which is now before the Ways and Means Committee in Congress. At least two of the most noted and capable economists of this country have testified before that committee and many other economists and actuaries of note have written exhaustively and favorably on the economic features of the plan, as a measure of recovery. The Townsend recovery plan and pauper pension plan are, in principle, as far apart as the poles, and no honest defender of either can make comparisons. One is honorable retirement on a revolving, selfsustained fund, administered by the Federal government; the other is a pauperizing crust thrown to the helpless old. v a o COP WHO DOES DUTY ALWAYS HAS ENEMIES By a Times Reader. I have been reading about the railroad crossing and the police. It seems that there has been more fussing about that than a man about to face the electric chair. I see where they said the police blamed the mistake on someone else. I wonder if the man who was arrested ever made mistakes? I think we all make mistakes about things sooner later. Why not give the police a good word once in a while? The only time some people have any time for the police is when they need them. When that is done, all is done. A policeman who will do his duty will have enemies. You can expect this. St St Si PRESS UNFAIR TO ITALY AND JAPAN, HE CHARGES By John Kennedy. Our press has been most bitter in 1 its condemnation of Japan's and Italy's invasion of China and Abyssinia. Even it seems when they take into consideration that China and Abyssinia would have a much more advanced and controlled social order under the direction of Japan and Italy. Our press also knows, it seems, that Abyssinia has rich natural resources, which she refuses to utilize and which would be of great use in building her own country and also enhancing the power and wealth of Italy. They also seemed to know that business and society are far more secure under the governing control of Japan than Chinese bandit generals. Os course, it’s a fact that our press always did seem to deplore Mr. Mussolini’s social order and •maybe that’s why they do not care for him to establish it in Abyssinia. ; The press also seemed to know 7 that American oil companies had an easier time exporting oil from Manchuria before the Japanese took I over the industry. And it seems our I press Is in sympathy so strongly with 'he Ab.vssir ‘ ~ tha' tl* hav

ment prying into business.” Why shouldn’t the government pry far enough into business to see that the bills it pays are reasonable, rather than pay exorbitant prices with taxpayers’ money? That the State of Indiana should be prevented from availing itself of modern methods of doing business seems grossly unfair. In addition to money saved through lowered prices on printing, the duplicating department last year showed a net profit of more than $10,500. It seems more than reasonable to suppose that an abolition of this department at this time would result in an immediate increase in printing costs to the state, and the virtual loss of an investment of about $20,000.

forgotten about their own disfranchised Negro in the southern otates. It seems they also forgot about England's enslavement of Ireland and India and her domination of South American countries. Also, our domination and naval port closing escapades in Central America. But now maybe they never heard of these. St St SS BONUS QUESTION BRINGS ANOTHER READER ATTACK By Eldon E. Barry. Are you there, Junior? I hope whoever jacked you up high enough to read this isn’t expecting any pay. Any one low enough to deny a bonus to the men who went through hell for us is so low he would have to be jacked up to read a paper. I am not a w-ar veteran, nor is any of my family, but just the same, I think the least we can do for the men who did come back is to give them a much-needed bonus. If I owed you for work I asked you to do for me, wouldn't you want pay for it? You're darn right you would. The kind of work you can do would in no way compare to what these men have done. The man who damned our flag was put on a ship never to see the United States again. You are worse. You want to see those who saved you a flag and a place to live go hungry just because you don’t think they deserve a bonus. If they don't deserve a bonus, you sure don’t deserve the right to live in the nation they upheld for you. Tell the guy who jacked you up, that he can let you down now. St SS tt OLD-AGE PENSIONS SHOULD BE FAIR TO ALL By William Rui>ert. There should be one pension only, and that is to every worthy needy old person more than 70, sls to $25 a month, regardless what his former occupation was, provided it was honorable. Why should John or Will receive different amounts? John selects teaching as an occupation which he follows until unable to earn any more money at it, though he bad a steady job every year. Will selects farming, which he follows for years. Some year3 there is a drought or crop failure and he has become old and needy. Each should receive the same pension or help as the other. Too often those

Daily Thought

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.—lsaiah lix, 8. PEACE is the natural happy stjite of man; war is corruption and disgrace.—'Thomson.

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who are engaged in mental work are favored above those who do manual labor. It’s pure favoritism, not equality to all and no favors to any class. The present Legislature has raised the salaries of some whose salaries were already high. Appropriations have been made for things that are not needed now, but as yet they have made no appropriations or laws to improve old-age pension laws which they promised and .should be done at once. Some men and some couples are now suffering for the comforts of life because they only receive $7 each or sl4 for each fa.-dly, upon which no family can live decently who have no other income whatsoever. Why not care for humanity first? Even fish and game laws are being improved upon. Some aged in some counties are ii need because they did not carry out the intent of the pension option law and allow sls a month. Gov. McNutt, in a letter to me, said: “Many of the counties have failed miserably and defeated the purpose of the law. It is hoped that a national system of old-age insurance will provide a solution. It if does not, then it is our plain duty to strengthen the present act ana insure adequate provision for the aged poor.”

So They Say

Stop calling me “Your Royal Highness”—l’m just mortal like you. —Prin.c* of vVales to Budapest cloakroom attendant. I can’t r.ay yet whether this Is the end of polar exploration for me—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. There is no such thing as a lazy child. When we find a child who appears inactive, we find that he is either physically sick or in emotional difficulties. —Prof. H. W. Zorbaugh, New York University clinic director. I have come to be a profound believer in the possibilities of a managed currency system.—Frank A. Vanderlip, New York financier. When you get my age, your old legs begin to let you down.—Babe Ruth. To unborn novelists I say, do the best you can and let the critics batter it as they will.—Pearl Buck, author.

Imagination

BY AUSTIN JAMES ’Tis true I'm poor and dressed in rags And don't exist in glory, To tell of my pajhetic plight Would make a baleful story, But though I stand the dreadful brunt Os fortune’s depredation, I’m still as happy as can be— I’ve got imagination. I shut my eyes and there I see Myself in silks and “rmine, I'm king of all the universe Tis easy to determine, I’ve gained the pride of queer and prince And won their adoration, Yes. I become a gallant knight Through my imagination. My dwelling has but four wee walls. Yet it becomes a mansion, And all therein becomes of gold, A trick of mind expansion, It matters not that I am poor. E’er need I restoration. Just close my eyes and I am rich— Jt’s jprand—JMAGINAHQN.