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MONDAY. MARCH 25. 1935. SHALL WE GO TO WAR? THE nations of Europe once again are snarling and spitting fire at on * another. War, every statesman across the 5 lan tic seems to feel, will come to Europe sometime between now and 1940. We in the Unned States are watching Europe s newest feud with anxious -yes. The question which apparent.y is bothmg every American today is whether the United States will find itsell embroiled in another war. The citizens of Indiana. like the citizens cf cyiry other Mate in the Union, ti unanimously oppos'd to war. Ar.d, happily enough, there is something we can do about it. Rep. Louis Ludlow of the Twelfth Indiana District Indianapolis) has proposed to Congress a law so simple and so free of any controversial point that it should receive the active support of every citizen of the nation v ho is opposed to war. Mr. Ludlow s resolution presented to the House provides, bluntly and without wordy embellishment, that before the United States of America can declare war on any rival nation, it must first be necessary to hold a nation-wide referendum. Mr. Ludlow s bill provides further that no referendum is necessary when this country' is attacked. The bill simply provides that before the United States can send any of its troops to fight someone cLse's war. the question must first be put to the citizens of the country. There can be no opposition to such a measure. It is so inherently honest, so much in line with true democratic principles, that it seems odd that no organized movement in support of the bill has made its appearance. The citizens of Indiana should be the first to get behind the Ludlow measure. Every member of the Indiana congressional delegation should be- informed by his constituents to get behind the measure. The 12 members of the House of Representatives from Indiana can open an immediate drive for passage of the Ludlowr resolution. Indiana has a chance to show the nation how to keep out of wars which do not affect us. We hope Indiana doesn't miss this opportunity. END THE STALEMATE MUCH of the psychological effect of President Roosevelt's bold re-employment program has been, lost in the two months the Senate debated the works-relief bill. But it can be regained by speedy enactment of the measure and prompt attention by Congress to the correlated recovery problems of social security. NR A revision and labor disputes settlement. Differences between the House works-relief bill and the Senate bill should be compromised by conferees of the two bodies without delay. The Thomas inflation amendment, of course, will have to be eliminated, even if it is necessary to gag the oratory" of the Senate minority, winch, lacking votes, has resorted to obstruction. This issue should never have been injected. Many of the Senate improvements, such as earmarking the four billion works expenditures for general purposes, doubtless will be retained. But a few changes should be made. For example, the $350,000,000 earmarked for sanitation, reforestation, flood control and erosion prevention seems inadequate. Last week's dust storms were dramatic proof of the soil conservation problem's magnitude. We can not afford to stint on erosion control. To do so would be to evade responsibility to future generations which may have to pay the bills of this depression. The Senate provision giving the President power to reallocate the funds up to 20 per cent of the total fortunately makes drastic changes In the Senate allotments unnecessary. Most important, however, is the need of kicking the New - Deal off dead center. This can be done by getting the works-relief bill out of Congress and into the hands of the executive departments which will have to administer it. thereby clearmg the legislative tracks lor other important measures. The time has come for Congress to throw its machinery into high gear and recapture public confidence by moving ahead with the President's program. OBSTRUCTION SOUTHERN Democrats in Congress, playing what they thought was smart politics, last year blocked a vote on the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill by delaying consideration until late in the session ard then threatening a filibuster. Fortunately, this season that measure is before the Senate, with the unanimous favor of the Judiciary Committee, in plenty of time. Any similar trickery this year will be revealed for what it is—obstruction of the most irresponsible variety. This mild measure to hold counties respon- . for mob murder has widespread popular support both in the North and South. Organizations representing 42.0C0.U00 Americans have urged its passage. A giant petition containing the names of nine G< vemors, 27 Mayors, 60 clergymen ar.d more tnan 200 national organizations, asks the President to support it. The Administration is not unxriecdly. Only the false sentiment of local pnde and a misconception of state rights have prevented passage of a Federal ar.ti-lynching law for years. The very threat of this measure's passage last year seemed to check lynch horrors. While the bill was pending between Jan. 30 and June 8 not one lynching occurred. When it appeared certain the bill would be pigeonholed. lynehmgs began and continued at the rate of one a week. Senator* Costigan, VanUuys and Wagner think that at least a halfscore of mob murders were prevented by the gofr-ring effect of the bills threat. Last year

there were 16 lynching*, compared tftth 28 In 1933. Obstructionist tactics by Southern Senators killed the Dyer anti-lynching bill 12 years ago after it ha-1 passed the House overwhelmingly. If this sane and humane measure is killed again ‘n the same way, the people will know who did It and why. AFTER THE DUST STORMS IT may be. as Editor William Allen White of Kansas says, that the devastating dust storms are caused by the great war and its call for $2 wheat to the semi-arid pasture lands of the West. We can thank that most colossal of human blunders for many of our spiritual and economic pains today. A vast .and foolish project in dry-farming on land suitable onl 5 for grazing doubtless is largely to blame for America's new ordeal of dust and the 2.000.000acre desert created by the havoc of the winds. But there is a cure. Director H. H. Bennett of the- government's soil erosion service can prove that just as deserts often are manmade so thpy can be man-cured. Out in Kansas, in the heart of the big blow, the soil erosion service operates- a 150.000-acre project at Mankato. Regional Director F. L. Dudley of the Mankato development reports that by scientific planting of sofl-retaining vegetation the land was able to withstand the battering wind. ‘ Tillage operations directed by the soil erosion service on the Kansas project,” lays Director Bennett, "proved highly effective in reducing damage in the present emergency in the Mid-West.” Tedious, discouraging and costly will be these projects in .soil conservation and restorat.on. But folly always is y/stlj.

WAR AND THE PACIFIC SHERWOOD EDDY, who has devoted a pood part of his life to a study of the Orient, returns from the Far East with the warning that proposed maneuvers near the Aleutian Islands by the United States Navy this summer will bring us closer than ever to war with Japan. Mr. Eddy thinks it by no means a coincidence that plans for these maneuvers were announced by naval authorities on the very day that Japan formally denounced the Washington naval treaty. He points out that the territory involved is exceedingly close to Japan, and remarks that any slight accident to one of our ships—an explosion, for instance—might easily be blamed on some Japanese super-patriot and lead to war. "Many of us,” he says, "believe that the Aleutians are the right place to hold maneuvers for those who w :nt war, but the wrong place for those who want peaee.” And that remark, in turn, points to the most peculiar feature of American-Japanese relations. The ordinary American does not know whether he wants war or peace in the Pacific; or. to be more exact, he does not know whether he prefers to support a war-like or a peaceful policy. As things are now, we are drifting—drifting in the direction of war. Most of us don't like the idea, but we can't see just what we should do to reverse the trend. And yet it is really quite simple. In the last analysis, it boils down to a question of what we are willing to stand for in connection with Japan's course in China. Japan is moving steadily toward the establishment of something very closely resembling a protectorate over China. Seizure of Manchoukuo and Jehol, offer of loans to Nanking, and warning to other nations to keep their hands off—all are part of this one design. What we need to do, as soon as possible, is making up our minds once and for all whether we are willing to fight to prevent such a thing. If we are, then we should go ahead on our present course, building up our fleet, holding extensive maneuvers in Pacific waters, and preparing to give a good account of ourselves when the day comes. If we are not, we should stop acting as if we were. We should pull in our horns, keep our Navy close to our own coast, and let the Japanese know that they can go ahead on the course they have laid down. If we keep on drifting, we may have to make our decision suddenly, in a time of crisis, when sober thinking is impossible—make it, in fact, without ever exactly realizing just what the basic point at issue is.

NO PRICE TO LOVE WHEN Meredith Nicholson's daughter-in-law induced the Indiana Legislature to outlaw "heart balm” damage suits, she seems to have started something. The New York Legislature has passed a similar bill, and similar measures are pending in California, Illinois. Maryland. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Washington. Worth reading, in this connection, is a quip tossed out by the man who is sponsoring the New York bill. Senator McNaboe. Some .one protested that the law would prevent some innocent persons from obtaining jusu-e: and Senator McNaboe parried with the question. "Do you think money will bring back virtue?” That, of course, sums up the best of all reasons for opposition to breach of promise suits. An unlucky love affair can make a person suffer agonies—but money won't assuage the pam, and it is difficult to see how any self-respecting person can seek that kind of redress. If those Kansas dust storms continue, anyone who wants to visit the state may have to organize an archeological expedition. Should the mode industry decide to move to Florida, a number of actresses will undoubtedly put up a kick. It would take them longer to get back and forth from Reno. For congressmen, the good old days were those when they could answer their fan mail with a couple of packages of seeds. Since it would naturally interest her exhusbands, that book which Jean Harlow wrote should prove something of a best seller. Hitler timed his sensational rearmament announcement just about right. A couple of weeks later—with the baseball season on—and the United States public might never have learned of it. New Jersey police announce theft of a 22 000-pound locomotive. The underworld is evidently branching into a new line.

As I See It —BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON—

TULSA, Okla.. March 25.—Without getting even so dramatic as "breathes there a man with soul so dead.” there is some elemental kick to coming back under the tent of the particular sky where you were born and spent your boy - hood. When I first saw this country, Sapulpa was a box-car on a siding. Tulsa was a little snuggle of huts aed Okmulgee was a slightly larger one only 50 miles away, but that was a day's journey if you went on horseback and traveled hard. I ilew down here yesterday—Chicago to Tulsa in lour hours in a Vultee Transport plane of tne American Air Lines with every seat occupied—jver 200 miles an hour on the regular schedule. It would have been faster except that for the first time in many tens of thousands of miles of flying I felt an altitude of 12,000 feet and had to ask the pilot to fly lower. People do not recognize what is happening to them in these near miracles which are literally making over both the face and the trend of our national li.'e, A day s hard riding to get from onp huddle of territorial huts to another 50 miles away—four hours of comfortable floating to get from one great metropolis to another more than 600 miles away. For Tulsa is a metropolis. I know of no more modern city and—although it doesn't think so—l know of few that are better off in a business way just now. They are doing a good deal of new residential building. It is not at all easy to rent a house. The stores are full of people and the;- are well dressed and not long-faced. Spring is already here full fledged in flowers and greenness. tt tt tt IF tl e rest of the country were as well off there wouldn't be any depression. For in this spotty wa’- we shall puil out of this mess. Every district that gets some better makes every other district a little better and that is the great blessing of having 125.000.000 people in one country within one tariff wall. The afternoon I got here my favorite nephew, Tommy, age 13, had just w T on the all-city high school oratorical prize. I persuaded him to repeat that speech which he did very earnestly—complete with gestures and dramatic emphasis. Tt was a beautiful, harmonized medley of Father Coughlin and Huey Long entitled “The New Social Order.” The only difference was that there w r as some sense to Tommy’s discourse. But don’t let anybody tell you that both of ’hose tom-tom beaters haven’t made an impression with rhe schmuss they are leading out to this country. Os course, T got all kinds of news queries as to whether I am down here to run for the Senate. It would be a great honor, but I came down here to see my mother. That leads me to another modern miracle that just couldn't have happened 10 years ago or even five years ago. During the war when I was trying to raise our army. I had to complain to Surgeon General Gorgas about the incompetent supervision of medical examination of men for the draft. He said he would send me a good doctor. In a day or two. a fat old fellow in a converted private’s uniform came in and said, "Lieut. Billings reports for duty, sir.” His cap did not fit. His leggins were on backwards. His hair was too long. I just groaned inwardly and said, “all right Doctor. Your office is across the hall.' After he went and while I w T as cussing about It I happened to look at the assignment .card, and got a shock. It was Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago, one of the greatest diagnosticians the medical profession ever produced. He became one of my closest friends. Os course, it was a crime to send him on that job—like using a 16-inch gun to kill a mosquito. We kicked about it until hfc was made a brigadier general in charge of all hospitalization. a tt tt THE sequel is this: Last winter my mother was desperately ill. No two local doctors agreed. I went to Okmulgee to bring her to New York. She couldn't be moved. Bernie Baruch offered to fly down and bring two of the best doctors in the East. Just then I heard that one of Frank Billings’ boys, a Dr. Goodman, was making a local reputation as a diagnostician in Tulsa. He came and gave my mother one of those head-to-heel examinations which are the triumph of modern medicine. After the days needed for that kind of a going over he said, “This is a common condition of old age miscalled pernicious anemia, and it is nothing else. The treatment is very direct, simple and certain. lam going to startle you. We will have her worst symptoms out of the way in two weeks, and she will be normal for her age in two months.” I stayed a few days to see this treatment working exactly on schedule. It is now more than two months and that is why I came to Tulsa. A man like Frank Billings U not gone from the earth merelv because w'e do not see him any more. < There has been as much progress in medicine and surgery as there has in air traffic, the outlook of little high school orators, and in the change of Sapulpa from a box-car, Tulsa to a great industrial city, and Oklahoma from the wild and woolly territory I knew as a boy to one of the 12 or 14 great states on any yardstick you want to use to measure it. I wish I could say the same of the statesmanship from Abraham Lincoln to Huey Long. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part forbidden.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

SENATORS won't do so much whispering in the future when Senator J. Ham Lewis of Chicago take, the floor. Pink-whisKered Mr. Lewis rose to make a speech recently on an amendment proposed by Senator Borah to cut out price fixing. Dapper in a double-breasted brown suit and fancy beige waistcoat, he waxed eloquent. Suddenly. Senator Lewis observed that Senator Borah.was leaning across to whisper in the ear of Senator Couzens. Both were apparently paying no heed to the Chicagoan’s harangue. Senator Lewis’ famous beard fairly bristled with indignation. He stopped his talk instantly. "If the honorable Senator from Idaho,” he boomed, “will stop his conversation and listen, he will learn things of interest to himself.” Startled. Senator Borah hgfstily pushed back his chair and fixed his eyes on the speaker. After a moment's dignified pause, Senator Lewis resumed. Shortly afterward, Senator Wagner of New York was enjoying a quiet tete-a-tete with Senator O'Maboney of Wyoming. Again, the pinkwhiskered orator interrupted himself to rebuke the inattention. Following the brief censure, there was no more whispering by Senators Borah, Couzens, Wagner or O'Mahoney. All kept their eyes glued upon wary Senator Lewis. NOTE—Several days ago. when Lewis was haranguing the Senate. Senator Couzens interrupted with the cry of "Vote!” Lewis quelled his temerity with an astonished glare. tt a a CAPT. COLON ELOY ALFARO. Minister of Ecuador and traveler on the high seas, returned to Washington after a visit to his country's capital. Quito, wearing a fiber hat and a cheerful grin. "Congratulations on the beautiful Panama hat,” enthused a friend, "but you're rushing the season. ’ "Tnat is an Ecuadorean hat.” replied Capt. Alfaro, "and this is beautiful spring weather.” In Quito. Capt. Alfaro enjoyed a visit with his old friend, Col. Carlos Flores-Gucrra. inventor of the "Pride of the Andes” cocktail. Last year Col. Flores-Guerra came to Washington and delighted Americans by introducing them to his special drink. Then Cast. Alfaro <who was Col. FloresGuerra s host) made a Chimbarazo cocktail, using narajilla—a fruit juice which hails from the high regions of Ecuador. It had the exotic flavor of mar go. "This drink—Chimbarazo—is named after a volcano in my country.” explained Capt. Alfaro. Guests feund it volcanic. Mix a “Pnde of the Andes” and a Chimbarazo, and Vesuvius seems as nothing.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 wards or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at reguest of the letter icritcr.J tt a a SAYS LEGION IS LOST ON UNCHARTED SOCIAL SEAS Bv H. E. Thixton Memories of those whose voices were stilled and whose achievements are today subject to the exploitations of a privileged few, is the source and inspiration for this * seeming outburst of indignation. Silence as a measure of preserving veteran harmony has lost its appeal to the writer after years of veteran abuse. Hopeful that the spirit of the writer shall be clearly understood and that the results shall be both constructive and critical, I submit the following: ‘The American Legion is today dominated by a nefarious group of spellbinders who would barter the very souls of our heroic dead, sacrificing their honored achievements while greedily promoting a social order bound by political shackles with principles wholly in contempt of thase embodied in the words of Lincoln, ‘To care for him W'ho shall have borne the battle.’ The American Legion is lost on the uncharted social and political seas. Leisurely, it is drifting from thase noble principles embodied in its constitution which are now riding the political waves aboard that ill-fated ship that never returned. We who suffered physically and mentally the ordeal of seeing our comrades passing through an agony of bitterness while we administered to their parching throats our last drop of water, disdainfully think of the American Legion as worthy of veteran support. Years have passed and to many the tragedies of w'ar are but idle memories dimmed and faded with the march of time, but to us involved in that whirlpool of madness, memories shall continue to linger and hauntingly remind us of those mutilated bodies who w-ere destined to fall in that abyss of human destruction. For more than a decade the potical maneuvering of the American Legion has continued in full sway while the combat soldier suffers unabated from the unseen wounds in minds and nerves Imposed by the war and its exposures. Such is the consequence of an organization created by human sacrifice, born smirched in political shadows, while the poppies were still flaunting their blood-stained petals to the breeze. Gold Star Mothers before indorsing the audacious and vicious policies fostered by this organization, so repugnant to the combat veteran, may well be interested. Who knows, your boy while a subject to the supreme test of patriotism may have been comforted by a buddie who is today a victim of those discriminatory policies which have delegated him to the honor rolls of the bread line. As long as bankers and financiers who would lift the crown of glory from the heads of our heroic defenders are permitted to form the nucleus from which emanate the repugnant policies of that social order, we will bo confronted with an element virulent in character de-

WAY UP THERE

Questions on Legion Are Answered

By Frank A. VoeeJsane I would like to answer a few of the questions in reference to the American Legion that Mr. Baker asked for. He either must have just landed in this country or suffered from insomnia for the last 16 years. , First. Does the fact that the Patman bill to pay the so-called bonus does not call for issuing in-terest-bearing bonds to pay this debt have anything to do with the Legion bringing out another bill calling for such a bond issue? Answer —The American Legion did not present any bonus bill to Congress—it never does—it only recommends. Second. Is it merely a coincidence that the Legion did not vote its opposition to the Patman bill until after it had elected a banker as its commander? Answer—The American Legion's national commander has nothing to say as to what course the American Legion should take at its national convention. All he has to do is to try to fill the mandates of the American Legion to the best of his ability and with the approval of the Legion. 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 defeat? Answer —The American Legion has not split on the question of which bill to support. It is supporting a bill that is leaving it entirely upon the Congress on how to raise the money which I feel is right. 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? Answer —To my knowledge the American Legion never refuses to co-operate with any veterans’ organization if their cause is in the interest of the veteran.

stroying the very roots of our patriotism, that which is the most sacred heritage handed down by our forefathers. a it a UPHOLDS COUGHLIN’S WEEKLY ADDRESSES ON RADIO My M. Pifrce. I should think The Indianapolis Times would be more tactful in dealing with bigots whose comments might bring resentment from some ot its readers. The wastebasket should have been the place for the ideas of William E. Evans. But instead. they were allowed to appear in print, highly uncomplimentary to some subscribers. Though I am not a Catholic, I fail to find anything amusing in Mr. Evans’ sarcastic suggestion that Father Coughlin should go to Mexico and “do battle for his oppressed there.” And the reminder that "Mexicans are pretty rough on priests jut t now" is fitting and proper only in the lowest of circles. There are many Protestants who can see something beautiful in the thought of St. Theresa’s declaration of spending heaven doing good on earth. Perhaps someone else has that same idea. Mr. Evans’ reference to the Little Flower as “the Little Cactus” is disgustingly poor stuff. No one compels Mr, Evans to

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

Fifth. Don't you think if your organization would cull out the swarm of honorary members and cater more to the actual ex-serv-ice man who knows what it is all about when you mention service, your organization wou'. ’ prosper more than it does now? Answer There are no such things as honorary members in the American Legion. Every one belonging to the American Legion must have been in the World War and have an honorable discharge. 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 for the veteran? Answer —The American Legion is the largest World War veterans’ organization with a membership well over one million—in other words one out of every four exsoldiers is a legionnaire—and if Mr. Baker would go down to the American Legion's headquarters and see how many ex-service men that are not legionnaires come there for help or advice he would no doubt see why we say that we are the representative body of the World War veterans. As far as the sad record goes I don’t see what other organization has done any more than the American Legion toward making the veterans’ legislation the best for the veteran. It seems to me that Mr. Baker feels like he is the representative body of Amo, Ind. I wonder if the citizens of Amo think so? If this should not be sufficient answer to Mr. Baker I would recommend that he go and visit national headquarters, which is not very far from his home town, Amo, Ind., and I am sure they will be glad to enlighten him on any point that he cares to know about.

listen to Father Coughlin. He may as well turn off the radio and read the funnies, giving his brain cell its customary exercise. Or the Evans household might even tolerate a few resonant snores from Little Willie, for would not a. nap between the hours of 3 and 4 on Sunday afternoons oe helpful to one who has grown weary from saying all those clever things. After all, there is small reason for worry. No doubt the Dillingeresque bankers will soon “frame” Father Coughlin, and all the people who have opposed him can continue to enjoy our nice little old depression. a a a BROUN IS CONGRATULATED ON ARTICLE OF MARCH 21 Bv Edward Barker Heywood Broun's editorial in the March 21 issue was, in my opinion, a

Daily Thought

But I will hope continually and will yet praise Thee mbre and more. —Psalms, 71:14. HOPE Is a lover's staff, walk hence with that, and manage it against despairing thoughts.—Shakespeare.

MARCH 25, 1933

perfect gem of excellence in every respect. Its constructive criticism of those isolationists and opponents of the World Court and League of Nations is the best I ha vs ever read. To all your readers, both isolationists and internationalists, I urgently recommend its reading (even at some trouble to get the above issue). I wish to extend to Mr. Broun my heartiest congratulations on his uniformly splendid contributions to the cause of humanity in the field of social justice, as also in the field of intellectual probity. I wish again to repeat my appreciation of The Times for your splendid and, to me, indispensable, paper. To paraphrase a Scripture, it is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path! I count that day lost if I fail to read your editorial page. May your shadow never grow less!

So They Say

Charlie, hold me up. .'ll be back in a few days. The vorld needs this play.—The late Richard B. Harrison, *'De Lawd” of “The Green Pastures.” I have never advocated the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence. I nevejf advocate anything.—E. Jbhn Strarhey, English writer arrested in U. S. after Communistic speech. Women, with very few exceptions, never will be able to compete with men when it comes to professional flying.—Elly Beinhorn, 27, outstanding German aviatrix. It is unpatriotic to compel one man to endure the hardships of war, perhaps to give his life, while another is earning profits from war. —Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of Wr. The higher education of women has made such, great advances that there is little excuse any more for imagining that males must necessarily fill all the chairs of our colleges.—Prof. Harold A. Larrabee of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. Washington is now the capital of the world.—H. G. Wells, British author. There is no place left in Germany for foreign capital.—Bernhard Koehler, chief of the Nazi Economic Commission.

Dim Certainty

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLENICK Dimly through some past remembering I have stumbled to this door. Treading softly down blank ages Back of chaos, born before. Knowledge gleaned from what wis* teacher Brought me to this room, this hour? Brought me to these petaled moments, Opening slowly as a flower. Vaguely do I know the answer. Vaguely I remember this. When I turn you will be waiting: - Waiting for my lips to kiss.