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mturoat. march jo ms _ THE HOMESTEAD PROJECT riTH articulate opposition in full swing * V again-t the proposed subsistence homea*rad project m Wayne Townshio. it seems only fair that some mention should be made of the government's side of the story. The situation, stripped of all opinion, is this. At the la * session of Con cress, $25.000 000 as appropriated * for building subsistence hom* leads and of this amount $2,500,000 was allocated for projects in which the homesteader' would be largely Negroes. Indianapolis is merely appealing for a share of it, amre Federal surveys show this city to have sr,nv of the worst housing facilities for Negro* in the United States. The local project calls for the purchase of 310 acres m Wayne Town-hip. Local labor only is to be used and the maximum cost of the project has been set at $490,000. Wayne Township was selected by the committee in charge of the planning because, with the exception of Center, it has the largest population of Negroes in Marion County. There is airead> a settlement of Negroes near the pro-pr-ed site and also a Negro cemetery'. The planning and engineering has been done by the State Planning Board and by volunteer local technicians working under the direction of the Department of Interior's Subsistence Homesteads Division. m a a 'TMIE project calls for the settling '■{ 140 families with no racial discrimination to be made in the selection. The families w. re to be chosen from these, with incomes ranging from S7OO to SISOO a year and some families with higher incomes were to be included for community leadership purposes. The settlement is to be under Federal supervision through a federally-appointed project manager who will administer the business management and act as the community leader. Stale and Federal agencies along with local social service units, will co-operate in agricultural, civic and social programs for the homc.-teaders and some co-operative business enterprises may be run by the community, such as a grocery filling station and dairy. The homesteaders arc to be selected from tho-r employed in Indianapolis industries, who during “slack'’ seasons o due to shortwork weeks will be abi; to raise their own subsistence and thus maintain, or raise, their standard of living. It is not a relief measure and is not designed for persons who are unemployed or unemployable. One of the problems presented by Wayne Township officials is that of schooling. The Subsistence Homesteads Division asked if the government would build a school on the site and lease it or sell it over a long term, would it be accepted by the township and mamtamed? a a a 'T'HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES realizes completely the problem facing Wayne Township in its schooling facilities. Wayne Township is faced with an acute over-crowding problem and The Times takes the position that the government and Wayne Township should get "heads together” as soon as possible to Iron out all passible points of the Federal offer, should the homestead project be approved. The cost of the land is approximately $28,000. leaving $462,000 to be spent for local labor and building materials. Objections have been made that the site's proximity is “within 100 yards of the Girl Scout Camp.” but homestead officials point out that actually the nearest part of the tract is a half mile from any part of the 400 acres held by the Girl Scouts and a mile by road from the Scout entrance gate. * In further debate on the subject, it is only fair that proponents of the measure study carefully every objection voiced and equally fair that even- opponent study the proponents' aide of the story.

ACTION IS NEEDED IF the much-publicized bank cases are gomg to rest on the charges which have been fled acamst Scott R. Brewer, former president of the defunct State Savings and Trust Cos. then the Marior juntv Prosecutor's office will have faileu as ' vn.y in the matter as did previous grand ju ies. Surely, the citizens of this county are not gome to believe that out of four bank failures which can be investigated, that Mr. Brewer near death m. Washington, is the only alleged violator of i~r *-ho can be found. !i the~e are m others, then it is up to the efficials of this ountv to say so. instead of Stalling with promises of more charges. This not only w uid be fair to other men who will be c.st ir.'o the shadow of the situation by the threats of additional charges, but .o the thousands o. persons who are affected by the losses incurred by -he closing of the Institutions. The Times in he last few days, has asked that if there a.-e foundations for criminal action that upon t.iese foundations be erected structures which will show the public what has happened. If there is no bas s for action of this type, quit the stalling and admit frankly that nothing can be done. HEART BALM BANDITTI MODERN sunk who set a fancy price upon their broken hearts and hopes and hie to the court* to collect from romantic—and wealthy -male*, mave have to get their balm in Gilead. if at aIL The jig is about up. it seems. Some time ago Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson. Indiana ! only woman legislator, opened

war on “heart balm racketeers’* In her state. The Hoosier Legislature promptly passed her bill outlawing breach of promise, alienation of affection and seduction suits. New York followed suit, and now the Legislatures of 14 states are considering similar laws. Not only is the crusade against the heart balm banditti spreading, but the Alimony Reform League from its New York headquarters urges the ban be extended to Include the 'alimony evil.” This is described as a thriving $3,000 000.000-a-year industry, whereas the heart balm ladies collect a mere $2,000,000 from faithless lovers. Strangely the movement is led by women, opposed by men. “Many bachelors retain what might be railed Victorian ideals about protecting womanhood.” explains Mrs. Nicholson. ‘ Women, on the other hand, have deep disgu t for those of their own sex who try to ma.querade an itching palm as an aching heart.” A SOLEMN COVENANT “'T'HE public is growing confused and dis- -*■ couraced,” wrote a group of eminent Americans to President Roosevelt, urging immediate action on the bogged-down social security program in Congress. “The high hopes of millions of distressed people, raised by the Administration in its ‘solemn covenant with the people,' should be promptly fulfilled.” Both party platforms promised security legislation. Last year the Administration sidetracked both the Wagner-Lewis unemployment insurance and Dill-Connery old-age pension bills on the promise of a well-rounded program of security this session. Bravely enough President Roosevelt set forth on this high adventure. Hr put a group of experts to work last summer. On Jan 17 he sent to Congress the fruit of their months of toil, the new Wagrer-Lcwis-Dotichton bill. He adopted this measure as a major plank in his New Deal platform, warned of the “dreadful consequences of economic insecurity,” pointed to the 44 Legislatures then meeting and the need of guiding them in enacting co-operating laws, and insisted “that this legislation should be brought forward with a minimum of delay.” Instead of a minimum there has been a maximum of delay. Through eight precious weeks the House Ways and Means Committee tinkered with the measure. When finally it was ready for the floor the Democratic leaders quietly shunted it aside in f avor of the inflationary Patman bonus bill. The revamped bill, approved by the President, still is unreported. In the meantime bewildered state Legislatures waited. Twelve have now adjourned. Several have blindly passed state security laws contingent upon expected Federal action. Delays have dangerous ends. The dilatory tactics of House leaders invite hawkers of halfbaked security schemes to do their political worst. Witness the popular recall of an Oregon assemblyman who refused to indorse the Townsend plan, the favorable report by a House committee on the extreme Lundeen bill, and the House move to scrap unemployment insurance and drive for old-age pensions only. If it allows further trifling with this program the Administration will court serious political adversity.

TAX CO-OPERATION THE pink slips filed with the income tax returns are destined for the Internal Revenue Bureau's wastebaskets. But out of this fight should come at least one needed reform—co-operation between the taxing agencies of the federal and state and local governments. Federal income tax returns contain information not otherwise available to state and local tax assessors and collectors. The Costican amendment to the pink slip repeal bill would open those returns to examination by accredited state and local tax representatives. This is an obviously statesmanlike provision. Yet Senate leaders accepted it with reluctance and do not seem inclined to fight for it in conference with the House. With the Federal government lending and giving away billions of dollars to state and local governments whose treasuries are empty, any effort calculated to help those subordinate units to increase their own revenues would seem advisable. If for no other reason, the Federal government should be moved by a selfish interest in collecting loans and cutting down grants to local units. Citizens who are hiding incomes and intangible properties from local and state assessors are not entitled to Federal protection. The Costigan amendment provides an opportunity to translate into action some of the talk, about the need of better tax cooperation and more uriform taxing systems. ANOTHER TARGET NEEDED SENATOR LONG and Father Coughlin will have to find anew target. Their charge that Gen. Hugh Johnson is "Baruch's hired man" doesn’t sound like a very harsh indictment in light of Bernard Baruch's performance before the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee. Mr. Baruch proved to the originally hostile committee that he made no profits out of the last war. that, to the contrary, he sacrificed a portion of his fortune to dissociate himself from profitable industries during his service on the War Industries Board. He opened up his income tax records and asked the faulr finders to do their worst. He offered to answer the most personal questions regarding his income and his fortune and his conduct as a war-time public servant. Neither Senator Long nor any other accuser appeared to charge a single discreditable act. Mr. Baruch told the committee that he favored drastic "pay as you fight" taxes, and he offered to "go as far as any member of the committee" in working out a plan to take the profits out of war. He told the committee that he owned seven million dollars worth of government bonds, but that he favored removing tax exemptions to bring about "a fairer tax system" He told the committee that Congress should take steps to keep out of future wars by redefining American neutrality rights. Those who have indulged in so much loose talk about Mr. Baruch have yet to prove their superior patriotism. Italv indignant over new Absyssinian ‘incident * in which Italian subjects are robbed of 100 camels. But these reports are always exaggerated. Probably soma ona borrowed a dgareU

Looking at America BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON

OKMULGEE, Okla., March 30—This European shindy is no joke. France took a persuasive position at the peace conference. It was that not a single French generation in centuries had escaped the horror of a German invasion. She insisted that the war to end wars should leave her secure from that. She made several suggestions that would have kept Germany helpless. But her exaggerated economic demands, added to these military proposals, would have made France too strong and Germany too weak. The conference would not concede them. France repressed German armament, created formidable frontier fortifications and prepared the most powerful army on the globe. Thus she has lived for nearly 20 years in armed security. But the thing which Hitler now demands would blow her security away in a breath. There is much to be said on the German side. The peace terms were impossible. The armistice promises were not fulfilled and Germany was still able to fight. The remaking of the map of Europe was a mess. But we are considering here not equities, but facts. It is hard for us, behind our barriers of seawater, to understand the viewpoint of a nation like France. She has lived for centuries under threat and has seen that threat descend time after time. The German demands present to France an immediate decision of the greatest portent. a a a C GERMANY rearmed means war and probJ able defeat for her within the next few years. As matters now stand, she could go through Germany like a hot knife through butter. She could seize certain productive areas and render her ancient enemy impotent. That would greatly increase her own strength. Her deadly question is, easy victory and permanent security by striking now, or a long period of costly suspense and crushing burdens of competitive armament with possible defeat and destruction a few years hence. I f she had only herself to consult there would .-com to be but one choice to make. She would march tomorrow, but there is England and Italy. The German steel industry in the hands of France is no light concern for England. France accessible to her northern flank is nothing for Italy to smile away. There only remains some sort of alliance against Germany and the old instability of a balance of power. It Is a gloomy outlook for the peace of the world and. in the present economic prastration of the globe, for what we have the nerve to call our civilization. Why is Hitler so bold against the great forces which oppose him? A man intimately familiar .h the German chemical industry predicted all this to me three months ago. He said the Germans have anew and devastating gas against which there is no defense. These stories about ne A r weapons making a nation invincible never pan out. They may have anew and terrible gas. So have we. But wars are not won by magic any more than depressions are cured that way. Copyright. 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or ;.i part forbidden.)

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

BACK in 1930. when stocks were not so very high compared with what they had been a year before. I purchased some stock of a wellknown holding company in the electric utility line. I paid $lO5 a share for it. A few years later I was invited to surrender it, when it was selling for about $8 a share, and receive back anew issue of stock, of which I w r as to get one share for each two I surrendered. Otherwise. I could hang on to my old stock which would have no value. The new? stock Is now 1 selling for about $5 a share. Some friends of mine bought stock in this company back in the summer of 1929 at more than S2OO a share. Their investment today would be worth just about one-hundreth part of what they put into it, in 1929. Yet, only the other day. I received a letter from this company urging rp' > to use my influence to stop the passage of the nefarious Wheeler-Rayburn bill which would put an end to such companies after five years. Naturally, I did not write my Congressman. But the individual losses, frightful as they have been, are not the worst aspect of these holding companies. Without rendering any important service to the electric utility industry, they exact a tremendous toll in raking off the cream from the earnings of the operating companies that actually generate and distribute electricity. These holding companies are not more than legalized associations for looting, to the detriment of the electric utility business and the public alike. Were it not for their parasitic milking of the operating companies there would be little basis for any drive for public ownership or operation. The operating companies could earn a handsome profit and still sell electricity at rates which would be a bargain to the consumer. 2 tt tt IT is generally admitted, even by realistic friends of capitalism, that the great defect of our present economic system and the major reason why our economic order went prostrate in 1929 were the depredations of finance capitalism. This finance capitalism is the greatest enemy that industrial capitalism has ever known. and its chief instrument is the holding company. As John T. Flynn remarks. "The holding companies are the machine guns in the hands of corporate promoters.” Given thp motive of immediate financial profits, the holding company makes looting rather than efficient management almost inevitable. It is through the holding company and various allied devices of legal subterfuge that a small clique can gain control of a great industry with but slight investment. We used to learn in our college courses in corporation finance —and. God forgive me. I once taught it myself—that to control a great corporation or holding company one must oun at least 51 per -vt of the stock. But the facts are quite contrary to this pious generalization based on book-learning. In our great holding companies it is rare for the governing clique to own as much as 5 per cent of the stock, a great deal of which may be water anyway. Ar.d, believe it or not. there are at least two ‘ billion dollar corporations" in which the controlling group own only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the stock. nun HOW this comes about has been well described by Benjamin Mandell: “By means of ‘pyramiding’ ownership through a chain of holding companies and subsidiary corporations, by issuance of non-voting stock, by the utilization of proxies, voting trusts and other legal legerdemain. the stockholder has been reduced to the role of a rubber stamp, while control remains firmlv in the hands of a small group representing an insignificant proportion of stock ownership or invested capital.” What is the natural and inevitable result of this state of affairs? If the governing clique, owning, let us say to be generous. 5 per of the stock of the holding company, runs the business efficiently and manages the property :ompetently. they get only 5 per cent of the results through increased earnings and dividends. If. however, they rob and loot from the inside, they* get 95 per cent of the proceeds of the legalized pilfering. They can never be saddled with more than 5 per cent of the losses as stockholders. Given human nature as it is and the profit motive, few men will be honest and efficient in a business sense when they can make 90 per cent more by graft and mismanagement. The holding company is a standing invitation to graft in business and finance capitalism has made the most of the opportunity. One might inquire why. if this is the case, all big business has not been ruined? The answer is that much of it has been. That is what one means lundamentally. when he talks about the depression. One of the greatest living corporation lawyers once observed that he had witnessed over half of the major corporations of the ;ountry pass into receiverships.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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(Time* renders are, invited to ej-press their views in these columns. Make, your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to SSd words nr less. Your letter must he, sinned, hut. names will he, withheld at request of the letter writer.) ana NAME OF SECOND MAN IN STORY IS SOUGHT. By F. E. S. I don't, suppose you will want to publish this open criticism of your paper, but I'll take a chance. I noticed on the front page of Wednesday’s Times you gave an account of a local attorney having beaten up his ex-sweetheart, and you gave the name of the attorney and that of the girl. However, you refrained from giving the name of the gay Romeo who, despite repeated threats from the attorney, continued to seek the girl’s company. Now it seems to me that some newspaper reporter is getting hardening of the arteries and not doing his job properly or else the “man without the cut on his head” Who caused all the rumpus is a socalled estimable politician or racketeer with too much good old pull to have his fair name brandished across the front page. In every sense of the word I think it was pretty rotten to give the girl’s name in an attack of this kind when she merely had been unfortunate enough to have known a man who remains a natural. However, since the jeans have been partially spilled and we are all romanticists, notwithstanding our economic-mindedness, we'd like to know the name of the Lochinvar who dared all to see his lady love. Maybe it’s the prosaic boy next door we have found so boresome. You know. We'd like to know, too.

TIMES-EM-ROE SHOOTING SCHOOL IS PRAISED By Ceril F. Soott. I wish to express my appreciation for the opoortunity offered by The Times-Em-Roe Shooting School. I, like most people who were taught to use a gun in childhood, was quite egosiical. and it was through the patience of Mr. Adams, the instructor. that I was shown where I was wrong. lam sorry I did not attend this school sooner and regret very much that it is nearing its closing day. In observing the people w r ho came for instructions I found them, for the most part, all like myself. They seemed to think there was nothing to it. After a few careful-and selected instructions on safety and form Mr. Adams made his school one of art. Daily we read of bankers and peace officers learning to shoot to protect the public against bandits, but this is the first time, to my knowledge, that any one has taken an interest in teaching the public how to protect themselves against the many casualties resulting from ignorance during the hunting season. I hope the public attends the shoot this afternoon so that it can appreciate the good work the school has done.

a u 2 ANOTHER READER SCORES CURLEY EDITORLAL Br A*lt*ted. After reading your editorial comment of March 27 on the recent utterances of Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, one can hardly help from thinking that you know not whereof you speak. You aver that in a previous era the clergy were content to leave politics to the politicians. The interpretation of this statement depends on your definition of politics. If you consider the present activities of Father Coughlin and Archbishop Curley as delving into politics, then your statement is without any semblance of truth. From the earliest days of the church in this country the clergy have been active along these lines.

THE WAY IT WORKS

Times Editorial Rapped

By F. -I. MrNplis. After reading your editorial I was unable to find in the paper a news itfem relating to Archbishop Curley’s speech. It evidently was important only as the genesis for writing a beclouded comment on what the writer had in his mind. The political leaders of Mexico have become wealthy through their policy of confiscation of the natural resources of Mexico. Calles rose from a poor school teacher to the position of a multimillionaire. If we condemned the oil scandals of the Harding Administration, how can we with consistency uphold similar misdeeds in Mexico? The persecution of religion in Mexico is an effort to silence opposition to corrupt government. It is a smoke-screen, a decoy to detract the attention of other nations, while unscrupulous politicians allied with government and money interests continue to get their spoils. What did the archbishop speak about? Certainly not Father Coughlin’s social justice plans, because he can speak for himself. Not about Bishop Cannon’s controversy w’ith A1 Smith and Senator Glass, because the bishop also speaks for himself. What was his subject? It was about Mexico, the Mexico that never gets a hearing in the newspapers. The persecution of a helpless people by a godless government, who are determined. like Soviet Russia, to crush religion, because religion is the one and only obstacle they feiw. During the last- 20 years Ameriicans have been killed in Mexico and their property confiscated. Last September the Mexican government permitted trespassers to appropriate and confiscate for their own use a 4200-acre plantation owned bv American citizens. Only this month Senator Tom Connolly of Texas wired Ambassador Daniels demanding that this property be returned to the American owners. Was this interference in a “Mexican Chi’ - Fight?"

It might be pointed out that John Carroll, the first bishop of the see over which Archbishop Curley now rules and also the first bishop in the United States, was called upon to serve as a member of a delegation sent to Canada on a political errand. Bishop England of Charleston frequently spoke before the Senate, yet the ecclesiastical activities of these men suffered not a bit as the result, in fact such men as Carroll and England were the backbone of the early church in the United States. The clergy has been frequently forced to assert itself in matters political for the sake of religious tolerance. No clear-thinking Catholic could resent reasonable controversy between the press and the clergy concerning statements made by the latter as a citizen, but in rebuttal, The Times has avoided logical arguments and has resorted to degrading cartoons and caricatures of Father Coughlin clad in his priestly garb. The press certainly doesn’t leave politics to the politician, nor does any public-spirited citizen. When this is done the taxpayer pays through the nose for the graft that is bound to ensue. a a a DESIRES ENFORCEMENT OF LIQUOR LAWS Bv A TimM Reader About one year ago. an arrest was made in the business district of this city. The charge was selling alcohol beverages to a minor, which was a violation of the liquor laws of the state. This law was upheld by a judge in the Municipal Court. At the end. the defendant was fined. Under the new law which has been

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

One likes to remember and will appreciate always your excellent work in behalf of the Jews in Germany. The Hitler persecutions merited and received unlimited publicity. Headlines on the front pages, editorials of condemnation, mass meetings, boycotts and a Democratic Senator, the mouthpiece of the President, arose in the Senate and denounced the persecution of the Jews in Germany. Was this interference in a German church fight? Why the secrecy about conditions in Mexico? If by their deeds we brand thfe Hitler government barbaric, tyrannical and enemies of freedom, why not brand the Cardenias government who are guilty of similar crimes with the same iron? Aren’t Catholics in Mexico human and entitled to the God-given rights we demand that Germany give the Jews? If you condemn Curley, the Archbishop of Baltimore, for speaking in defense of a persecuted and voiceless people, why not condemn Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, for his speeches against the Hitler atrocities? The rub? Is this a veiled threat? Last week former President Hoover and Col. Roosevelt attacked President Roosevelt. They have millions of followers—will the rub affect them? Perhaps you intended to infer that Catholics silence their hierarchy, stifle truth and. like groundhogs, crawl in a hole. Your ending is mirth-provoking. Leave politics to the politicians. Your past record as a champion of honest government disproves such a statement. lam wondering if the office boy wrote this editorial because it contradicts principles I know you have fought for. Editor’s Note: The story on Archbishop Curley’s speech appeared on Page 8 Tuesday, March 2fi. The editorial was published the following day.

made in this state in regard to alcohol beverages, there are several sections that the city police department w’iil have the authority to enforce: for instance, selling without license, selling illegal alcoholic beverages, selling to minors, regulation of closing hours, and seeing that these places are closed at 2 on Sunday mornings till 6 the following Monday morning, for operations of illegal stills and manufacturing of alcohol beverage. I am a mother and have several sons who are minors. When this law was enforced a year ago, it meant a whole lot to me and I think to other mothers. I have confidence in Chief Morrissey that he will enforce the liquor law to the fullest extent. tt tt a COAST DEFENSE CALLED IMPORTANT AS POLICE Br B. M. C. On March 19, Mrs. Ferguson and Dr. Oxnam expressed practically the same sentiments, which boiled down in my kettle amount to, “What will the neighbors say,” and considering that the neighbors don't pay the rent, why, what of it? If Uncle Sam wants to cruise

Daily Thought

If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? —I Samuel, ii, 25. HE who sins against men may fear discovery, but he who sins against God is sure of it. —Jones.

MARCH 30, 1935

around on the Atlantic coast, or for that matter, on the. Pacific coast, why not? They seem to think it might hurt Japan’s feelings—she- or someone else might misunderstand. If the shoe doesn't fit, who is going to wear it? Certainly no honest India napolis citizen feels insulted when he sees a big police officer swinging along toward him, but if he has a stolen hen squawking under his coat tails, he might feel a little offended and think the public protector showed poor taste. As for using taxpayers’ money to build up coast defenses, this government is responsible for millions of defenseless women and children and elderly people. It is the duty of this government to protect them by its various departments, from lust and crime, from all sources. World conditions make coast defenses as important, surely, as city police. The rather popular idea that if banks left their vaults unlocked, they would not be robbed, and that if police stopped carrying guns, society would not have any enemies, is just as true as that an unprotected country means peace and safety for her children.

So They Say

“Treat ’em rough and make ’em like it” seems to be the motto of the Mdivanis. Marry American girl.<f! —Mae Murray (ex-Princess David Mdivani). Secession of the Pacific Coast from the rest of the United States as the resul of intense nationali.vn developing in that region would not suprise me.—Roger Babson, noted economist. Our young people have had artificiality thrust upon them. They need to simplify their lives and have less money to spend.—Dr. Thurman B. Rice, health authority. I believe that my fans have a perfect right to know about me.—Jean Ha rlow. The principal business of government must be seeking ways and means of increasing the total income of all of us, and securing a fair distribution of that income among all of us.—Gov. Philip La Follette of Wisconsin. I don’t like small towns. I haven’t been back home since I got a job in pictures— Rochell Hudson, film star.

A KING?

BY JAMES D. ROTH Wouldst thou have sweet peace of mind? Come with me. We'll hit the woodland trail—entwined. Come with me. And take a look at nature grand. All our cares and worries banned: To measure time, we’ll just use sand. Come with me. There are. mansions great and many. Come with me. But for worth, they’re worth ft penny. Come with me. They are man-made phoney th.ngs, And the praise the owner sings. But they're not the homes of kings. Come with me. Oh friend! If king you'd really be, Follow me. We'll trod the paths o’er vale and lea, Follow me. Then I'll know your heart beats true. Your friendship I will never rue; There'll be two kings, I’ll follow you Come with me.