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MONDAY. MARCH 11. 1935. THE THREAT OF WAR AIfAR is nearer. That is the clear mean- * * in* of Germany's overthrow of the Versa illes Treaty and her order conscripting half a million soldiers. For many months Great Britain, France. Italy, Russia, and other powers have been preparing for war. Today, as a result of Germany’s action, they are preparing more frantically. Germany is not alone to blame. The provocations of 16 years outlined by Herr Hitler's proclamation are not imaginary. It is true that the Versailles Treaty unjustly condemned Germany to an inferior status. It Is true that Germany was disarmed with the solemn pledge that this was done to mane possible self-disarmament by the victors. It is true that this pledge has not been kept. It is true that armaments have been increased instead. Therefore, it is true that Germany, from the, standpoint of her self-respect, her independence, and her safety, as a nation, has a right to break through hypocrisy and avow opemy the rearmament to which 6he hitherto has been driven secretly. But it is the world’s misfortune that thia largely inevitable development should have occurred with Hitler and his firebrands in dictatorial power over Germany. For, whatever the theoretic justification for Germany’s assertion of military independence, that justification can not make it safe for a militaristic dictator of Hitler’s type to hold the stakes of European peace or war. a a a p EGARDLESS of the heavy responsibility of the Paris and London governments in the past for the unfair conditions which produced Hitlerism, the world now has no choice but to rely upon imperialist Britain and militarist France to save the peace from the worse madness of Pan-German fascism. The fact that Britain to some degree is taking this anti-Hitler position is attested by the Baldwin declaration that Britain's defense frontier is henceforth the Rhine, and that she has worked for a Britlsh-French-Italy entente accordingly in western Europe. But there is a weak point in the peace barricade against Hitler's military plans. That is Britain's hostility to Russia. Hitler knows that he can not move westward against a Brit-ish-Frrnch-Italian line without suicide. Therefore he looks to the east—as did the kaiser before him. Specifically he looks toward Russia, and already has half-won Poland to his side. Having split Poland from France, he needs now only two more factors to give lum a gambling chance. One is British neutrality—which is. or at least has been, a possibility in case he attacks Russia. The other factor is dependence upon Japan to move against Russia from the east as he moves from the west. And on that score the Germans, rightly or wrongly, seem assured. a a a THUS the recent Franco-Russian understanding—perhaps alliance is not too strong a word—is the most important single peace force in the world today. It has restrained Hitler so far. If Great Britain buries her hatred of Russia because of a greater fear of Hitler's menace, and stands with France and Russia for world peace, the combination may be able to hold Hitler back. But if Britain is satisfied to stand with France merely for the protection of western Europe, in the mistaken belief that she can permit an eastern European war without injury to herself, then the prospect for war is Indeed great. One exceedingly unfortunate aspect of this world danger is that the United States government, unwittingly and indirectly, may have encouraged the related war forces in Germany and Japan by an apparent coolness toward Russia following the brief friendliness of recognition. It is the duty of Washington to refrain from meddling in the war brew. But in st Judgment it is equally the duty of the Unted States government, reflecting the clear will of the American people, to prevent any misunderstanding abroad that we would welcome a war by others against Russia. Americans want no war. STOP IT! •'PHE auto death toll in Marion County continues to climb. There is only one reason for this tragic situation. That can be told in a few words: The driving public of Indianapolis is the worst of its type. Indianapolis motorists apparently are under the impression that this is “a mam-street town” and that any driving errors or traffic violations committed off Washington-st are larks, not serious outbreaks. The Indianapolis Times suggest* that the motorists of this city have some regard for life and property. Until they do. Indianapolis will be burdened by a black mark not pleasant to contemplate. WORTHWHILE READING THE ramifications of the gas situation In Indianapolis are many. The city has been talking for a long time •bout acquisition of the Citizens Gas Cos . but the negotiations are still far from conclusion. In the meantime a general scandal has cropped out in which the public finds tliat there might be an opportunity for much cheaper gas if some of the barriers were dropped and the red tape slashed. While Indianapolis Is waiting for the opportunity to purchase cheaper gas through some means or other, it will pay every Interested person to read what is being published about the Citusens Gas Cos. The Times is offering this sendee to its readers in a aenes of stories written by Vincent Lyons, financial editor. You will find that Mr. Lyons has cut the decorations off the fic^es

and facts and they are easily read and understood. With the gas situation one which will continue to occupy news space for many months to come, The Times recommends this series to the man or woman who really is desirous of seeing behind the scenes. THE GOOSE-STEP INVASION "T'HE Senate has added $1,443,774 to the House War Department appropriation of $3 452.304 for setting up 113 new reserve officers’ training corps units in high schools and colleges. The Item, If accepted in conference, will increase the present student R. O. T. C. enrollment of 148.000 by 30,000 to 60 000 youths. Probably most of the new units will be in high schools, and doubtless drill will be compulsory In most units. In the same War Department bill the Senate has added $1,560,000 to the $1,000,000 House item for enlarging Citizens’ Military Training Corps camps. Thus increase would enable the enrollment of 37.500 young men, instead of 14,000 under the House bill. The House also has before it two bills, one backed by Chief of Staff MacArthur, further militarizing the Civilian Conservation Corps. They would add two months to CCC enlistments to prepare the young woodsmen for a five-yea- course in the auxiliary reserve force. To what end, sober-minded Americans are asking, :hese martial gestures on Capitol Hill? Eve-.i were we faced by danger of an invading foe, which we are not, these methods would not advance effective preparedness. Pernaps. the purpose is what some are pleased tc call "educational.” In the Infantry Journal recently Lieut. Col. R. A. Hill of the General Staff wrote: “It is apparent . . . that the Junior <R. O. T. C.) units should not be considered producers of reserve officers. . . . The great value of the Junior units lies in their disciplinary and educational possibilities.” Ross Collins, when chairman of the House subcommittee on military appropriations, advocated abolition of the C. M. T. C. on the ground that they were expensive and inefficient. Gen. Summerall thought them worthless from a military viewpoint. In 1930 Collins said: "We trained 40,000 men and got 10 officers out of them.” Lieut. Col. Hill admits they have "failed in fulfilling their mission” of producing officers, but not "from a publicity viewpoint.” An impressive group of educators, ministers and publicists have protested to President Roosevelt over Army attempts to capture the CCC. and make poor soldiers out of good woodsmen. We may not be in danger of invasion by foreign dictatorships, but the invasion of their ideas apparently has begun.

EXPLOITATION "PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S remarks on public utility holding companies bring into sharp relief the growing disposition to distinguish between big business and high finance. A generation ago the average citizen kept a wary eye on big business. The gigantic new industrial combinations frightened him. He had an uneasy feeling that they were growing so big and so powerful that his liberties were in danger of being trampled under foot. Today he looks in another direction. He is used to big business, now. He has discovered that the worst sweatshop conditions, for instance, are often to be found in the small industry; he recalls that it is frequently the big industrialist who pioneers in high wage scales. But high finance is something else again. There is a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t quality about It that leaves the ordinary man dazed. Furthermore, the events of recent years have demonstrated that altogether too many of these busy financiers are not “men of vision” or “makers of America” so much as clever and not too scrupulous self-seekers. The President expresses the average reaction pretty clearly: “It is time to make an effort to reverse that process of the concentration of power which has made most American citizens . . . helplessly dependent for their daily bread upon the favor of a very few, who, by such devices as holding companies, have taken for themselves unwarranted economic power.” That says it. It draws the line between industrial leadership which seeks to produce and the kind of financial leadership which seeks to exploit. The former helps to enrich the whole country; the latter is distinctly anti-social. For a large industrial corporation, after all, is interested in just one thing—production of usable goods. That is its only reason fop existence; that is the only way it can make money for its stockholders. Its goal, in other words, is the goal of the country as a whole. The financial outfit that expresses itself through a chain of holding companies, on the other hand, heads in the opposite direction. It is interested in profits rather than in production—and if you play that game cleverly you can make profits without doing much producing. To attack the holding company system is not to attack big business. It is to attack a thing which is a parasite on big business —and on ail the rest of us as well. DAILY MURDERS AT the present homicide rate of 9.2 out of every 100.000 persons, insurance statisticians estimate that between 12.000 and 12.500 Amercians will die in 1935 at the hands of murderers. This means that murder will account for the deaths of about 33 men and women each day—a grewsome harvest. Our homicide rate tops that of any socalled civilized land. It is two and a half times greater than Italy's, four and a half times greater than Germany’s and Belgium’s, 11 times greater than England's, 29 times Holland's. Shallow-minded reformers will say our laws are too lenient, and will demand that the gallows. electric chairs and gas houses be speeded up. This is not the answer. England does not carry out .the death penalty more frequently than does New York. In each, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co’s, figures show, the guilty person pays for his crime with his life in but six cases in 100. In New York, however, 54 per cent of those prosecuted were discharged or acquitted; in Great Britain only 39 per cent. While New York was convicting 22 out of every 100 accused killers. Great Britain was convicting 33. Speedy apprehension and swift and certain punishment will deter killers and other criminals. The removal of slums, poverty, insecurity and other conditions that make for human deterioration will help even m^rc.

As I See It HITLER'S flaming action is the most fateful news in years. It was inevitable. Up in a Teutonic comer of Europe has lived a fighting race that has been permanently licked by nobody since the first word of recorded history —"down” often, but “out.” never. Augustus, the greatest of Caesars, sent Varus up there to do it and all he got out of it was the worst trimming ever handed a Roman general and a hairs breadth escape from destruction of the empire. That ended the Roman attempt at subjugation. Chailemagne tried it and decimated those early Heinies. They w r ere on his back almost before he could turn around. Frederick the Great lost for them "all save honor,” only to come back as the most threatening military force in Europe. Napoleon trounced them brilliantly and himself invented a limitation of armaments to keep them down. But out of Prussia came the idea of the "nation in arms,” or universal conscription—a direct product of Napoleon’s own limitations on German arms. It drove Bonaparte to Elba and St. Helena. Sixty years later it almost destroyed France. A century later it endangered the whole world. I am not approving it. I am only stating a plain record of 2000 years of human experience. We ourselves helped to prove in blood and treasure that there are no supermen, German or otherwise —but that did not change one of the most obvious facts in human history—that the Germans are a fighting people and that nothing wall remove their threat of force save a threat of greater force. nan JUST two things have kept the peace of Europe in the past few years—one was the British fleet and the other a potential 100 French divisions fully equipped. Modern war on land requires a big and efficient modern industry. The Germans have a much better one than the French. Today I think the French army with its allies could march from one end of Europe to the other—but not after the Germans rearm with modem equipment. Fully equipped, they would be a military nation far superior to the French and, on the slightest provocation, or no provocation at all, could bring down on the world anew 1914 or worse. This mad move of Hitler’s starts catastrophe on its way. From his barbarous persecution of the Jews and his ruthless murder of his political opponents, the world knows that he stops at nothing of ethics, mercy or humanity and he certainly would not be stopped at a political boundary by so slight a thing as the peace of the world. If the past 21 years have not given us sense enough to keep out of that mess, there is no hope for western civilization. But there are some things we should do—and do them with the vim, vigor and vivacity of a man whose house is threatened by a vast conflagration. We should immediately pass the pending legislation to take the profit out of war and to provide for the mobilization of our wealth, property and industry, as well as of our man power in any great threat to our peace. We should get our State Department to work on whatever is necessary to make instantly clear exactly what are the rights and duties of absolute neutrality. If we have any engagements or commitments, commercial or official, that can possibly get our feet caught in the rapidly closing bear trap, we ought to rid ourselves of them at once. (Copyright.. 1935. by United Features Syndicate. Reproduction ini whole or in part reserved).

THE FOLLY OF THE LAW MR. BUMBLE'S immortal declaration that “the law is a ass” is not without plenty of confirmation. Sometimes the supporting evidence is pretty tragic. As an instance, consider the case of the unmarried housemaid in Austria who was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment the other day because her baby froze to death in her arms. When her child was born, the girl’s employers immediately turned her out of their house. She went to her parents’ home, and they likewise refused to admit either her or her child. So she started trudging off through the cold on a several-mile hike to her grandparents. On the way the baby froze to death. Now she has been jailed as "an offense against the security of life.” If th’ law is not, at times, just as much of an ass as Mr. Bumble said it was, wouldn’t that accusation have been leveled against either her employers or her parents? THANK YOUR DENTIST THE hardy cave dweller of old never had modem delicacies like cake, creamed chicken and ice cream. He gnawed his meat off the bone and ' ate unhulled grain—and, according to some modern theorists, because of that fact he had healthy teeth. However, Dr. E. B. Renaud, professor of anthropology at Denver University, has been looking at the skulls of ancient cliff dwellers in Mesa Verde National Park, and he finds evidence to the contrary. These old-timers, who lived on coarse, tough foods all their lives, had cavities in p’enty, suffered from toothache just as we do, and also had pyorrhea. And x one must shudder painfully to think of having toothache in a land where the only possible remedy was to summon a neighbor and have him knock the decayed tooth out of your head with a pointed stone! DEMOCRATIC FOLLY WHEN the bill enlarging the Home Owrers Loan Corporation’s lending pow us comes up in the Senate, Republican-Progress-ive Senator Norris probably will have to lead a fight to save the Democrats from their own folly. The Nebraskan led a similar fight last year, but the job-hungry Democratic majority defeated his amendment to place HOLC appjintments and promotions on a merit basis. Meanwhile there has been a rising curve in the rush for patronage. In order to get more jobs for constituents, the House Democratic majority packed the new HOLC bill with provisions which threaten to break down that corporation's efficiency. The Sweeney amendment permitting home loan installment payments at postofflees would needlessly add several hundred persons to the pay roll. Another provision would displace nine of the 11 regional managers and a large number of minor employes because they do not happen to reside in the areas served by their offices. Obviously, such provisions were never intended to aid distressed home owners who borrow, or protect the taxpayers whose money is lent. This patronge raid, unless defeated in the Senate may result in making the future management of the HOLC a major Administration scandal. Huey Long wants to increase the work-re-lief appropriation one billion dollars to pay expenses of college students. That ought to keep them from writing home for money—for • week, anyway.

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(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short , so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2’>o words or less. Tour letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer.) nan SEEKS LEGION’S ANSWER TO SEVERAL QUESTION’S By Jess M. Baker. I would like, through your paper, to ask the American Legion a few questions. First, does the fact that the Patman bill to pay the so-called bonus does not call for issuing interestbearing bonds to pay this debt have anything to do with the legion bringing out another bill calling for such a bond issue? Second, is it merely a coincidence that the legion did not voice its opposition to the Patman bill until after it had elected a banker as its commander? Third, does the legion honestly think it is to the best interests of the veteran to split on this question of how to pay when such a split means its defeat? Fourth, why does the legion always refuse to co-operate with other veterans’ organizations on matters vital to the veterans’ welfare unless the legion gets all the glory? Fifth, don’t you think if your organization would cull out the swarm cf honorary members and cater more to the actual ex-service man who knows what it is all about when you mention service, your organization would prosper more than it does now? Sixth, what reasons do you give for calling the American Legion a “representative ex-service man's organization,” with the sad record you have on the work the legion has done on legislation tor the veteran? I would honestly like to have an answer to the above, as while the legion has never been so very popular here in Amo, Ind., it seems to be losing what little popularity it did have. a a a SUGGESTS COUGHLIN HELP OPPRESSED IN MEXICO By William E. Evans. Father Coughlin is described as a militant priest. Why, then, does he not don his shining armor and go down into Mexico and do battle for his oppressed there? Possibly he prefers to remain militant in Michigan. Mexicans are pretty rough on priests who talk out of turn just now. Moses of old went down into Egypt and saved his brethren in bondage there, without the aid of a megaphone, shining armor or a Borah. The father might also establish a League of the Little Cactus while there for their pesos sake. The United States can spare him for a time as we seem to have a surplus of nation saviors just now. a a a SEES BANKER, LABORER ON BASIS OF EQUALITY By B. B. M. According to religious records, any sect, any race, all originate in the same place, descend into matter and, in the end, return to the point of origin for rest. Considering these points, can one person be so vastly different from another? We come ’via the route of the flesh and return by the route of corruption. In view of these truths, I want to be informed why an individual so unfortunate as to be bom of poor parentage, no outstanding talents or high intellectual attainments, must follow a humble vocation in life and be considered inferior to an office executive and through no fault of his. He is impressed early in life, that a menial position quite as a matter of course commands a small salary. Why? If the individual is a conscientious worker atyj giving his best to lu&

Land Purchase Is Scored

By Louis Moore, Bloomingrton. Asa resident of southern Indiana I feel I should have the privilege of expressing my opinion in regard to the state and Federal governments’ buying land in this part of the state for a park and game preserve. The southern part of Indiana has been settled and farmed for more than 100 years and they are just finding out that the people can not make a living there. How did they ever keep it a secret for so many years about so many poor people starving to death? It is just pure bunk. The politicians and the rich just want a place nearby where they can hunt and have a big time at the expense of the taxpayers. I have read statistics to the effect that southern Indiana supplies the state with more school teachers than any other part of the state. I wonder how this happens. Starvation usually dulls the mind. Speaking of dull minds, I wonder where the Democratic politicians who originated this idea were raised? Southern Indiana is normally Democratic. Without its vote Indiana would be as strong a Republican state as Maine or

work, can he do more? Isn’t he fulfilling his destiny? Does the executive do more? Each, according to his worldly equipment, is doing his best. When the banker and the factory worker, or other humble worker attends church, the church members strive to make both welcome and admit they are on an equal basis in the sight of God. If we accept this admission, why isn’t the worker as important in the sight of men? Is our judgment more decisive than God’s? Could we be a higher authority? a a a IT’S TIME TO LAY ASIDE CREEDS, ASSERTS READER. By Constant Reader. Thanks for the Message Center. It is very helpful and inspiring. I am 67 years old, worked most of my life for corporations. When my hair began to get gray my place was filled by a younger man who could stand more punishment, such as speed and long hours. I remember when the manufacturers organized all over the country but would not let their employes organize. Then the real exploitation of labor began. I could see what it would eventually lead to and wondered if I would live to see the day when God would raise up a man big enough to lead the common people in a fight for their rights. I believe today we have a lot of them but it took this depression to wake them to a sense of their duty. Three of the outstanding ones today are Dr. Townsend, Huey Long and Father Coughlin. I am glad to see such men as these come to the defense of an outraged and downtrodden people. I am a Protestant, but Protestant, Catholic or Jew, we are all children of the one God and striving to reach the same port. It is high time we should iay aside our creeds and fight shoulder to shoulder for our human rights. Dr. Townsend has a plan that would relieve the depression almost over night. Our present Administration can give us relief if they so desire. I wonder if they will avail themselves of the opportunity or still take dictations from the big profiteers until the common people are compelled to use drastic measures to obtain justice. a a a STATE REPRESENTATIVE DENIES OLEO TAX CONNECTION By Rep. John C. Kirch. I have been accused by some that I introduced a bill for a 5-cent tax on oleomargarine and that this article appeared in The Indianapolis Times. I have checked kacls

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

Michigan. Now they are going to move these people to every section of the state and nation. Well, after that is done Democratic politicians had just as well move to some other state, too, as a Democratic victory in Indiana will be about as common as a Republican victory is now in Georgia. There is not a more contented people anywhere than in southern Indiana. We are not asking any one to shed crocodile tears for us and scatter us to the four winds as the English did the Acadians. To those of us who have been reared in southern Indiana it is home. We have our churches, schools, our community life and our memories that no other section can replace. Also, what would become of the cemeteries where w-e all have relatives and friends buried? Would it be pleasant to have to watch the state destroy these or let them fall into complete ruin? No, we don’t want anything like that. Why undo now what our forefathers dedicated their lives to—settling southern Indiana ? Let them go to some unsettled section of some state for their playgrounds.

and I can not find any such article in the paper. I have continuously fought against any and all oleo tax, for the very reason that this is the poor man’s spread for bread, and I am very grateful for the Indiana Senate for killing this bill—it shows that they are more considerate of the poor man than the House. Also, Gome of our aged are becoming alarmed because we have done nothing for old-age pension. I wish to inform all concerned that at this time we can not act on this matter; we must wait until our national government acts on the pension, and it will be taken up at the special session.

a ts ts THINKS MARRIED WOMEN SHOULD GIVE UP JOBS Bt E. H. I am a young man with two years of college wprk forced out of college for lack of funds. I can’t find a job. What I can’t understand is why respectable firms keep their married women on jobs men ought to have. All married women whose husbands are working and making $25 a week or more should be asked to give up their jobs. There should be a rule that after a girl marries she must leave her job within a year; that would help to give the couple a start. A girl nowadays gets married and stays on and nine out of ten jobs could be filled by men and cost them no more. The big fellow in this concern prides himself in the length of service of each employe, not considering what he can do if he lets some of these women go that don’t need to work. I want to make a living and can't find a job. If the government wants to do something really American why don’t they put the women back in the homes? There is no turnover in jobs any more. This thing of married women working is much more serious than firms think. They are not being fair by allowing such conditions to exist. The most honorable firm in the city of Indianapolis has threefourths married women on its force. Daily Thought Again the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. —St. Matthew 4:8. THE devil tempts us not. It is we tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.—Georg* Eliot.

MARCH 18, 1935

At least two dozen couples working for one firm and making big money as this concern pays good decent wages. I have tried to get a job at this firm, but no openings—if they would ask some of these married women who don’t need to work, to at least give up their jobs, they would do a lot of good for this old depression and that seems to be their goal. Something should be done. a tt a SUSPECTS GRANT WOOD ONLY SOUGHT ARGUMENT By Richard Detavan. In itself relevant or not, we have thoroughly enjoyed the extensive newspaper palaver over the art and artists of Indiana in The Indianapolis Times, this merry month of March. And we liked the exhibition now at John Herron very much. I would like to suggest my suspicion that Grant Wood meant only to tickle the argumentative rib of the majority of Hoosier craftsmen, in his opening cantata, though it did apply only too well to certain of our lot. The forthcoming objections of Elmer Taflinger and E. E. Spenner were interesting, too. and helped stir the waters, whether or not they were altogether reasonable. And lastly, Wilbur D. Peat, a man lauded by acknowledged American and European authorities as a connoisseur of the first water, and whom Indiana does not appreciate half enough, cited a fact that shrewd artists of our generation have always considered: They must judge by the works or the theory of the appointed jurymen, whom they generally know, whether or not the exhibition is to be of the sort sympathetic with such and such an artist’s particular work. Thanks to The Times for this study. So They Say If the colonels and generals had tact, courage, loyalty and brains enough, they would keep the soldiers from disloyalty.—Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas. What do nudists do at a party? We just sat around and played guessing games—The Rev. F. T. Kruger, Denver pastor caught in nqdist raid. While communism might become dangerous in the Navy, it certainly is not now and there seems no likelihood of it so developing.— Secretary of Navy Claude A. Swanson. The National Recovery Act does contain the power, if assented to by publishers, to destroy the Con# stitutional freedom of the press.— Elisha Hanson, counsel American Newspaper Publishers’ Association. I am wearing exactly the same kind of clothes I wore in 1906. I don’t think men’s fashions will ever change much—The Earl of Derby. What we must do is to find a middle ground and this calls for a reconditioning of our democracy as it exists today.—Dr. Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University. I WONDER? BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM I hear a fresh wind waking Then silence seems to fall As still and close as sleeping, No move, no stir at all. A stillness that is brooding Like mothers when they sing, I wonder, will this silence Awake to joyful Spring?