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FRIDAY. APRIL 5. iAT LAST AFTER two and a half months of backing and forthlng, crossing and double-cross-ing. the five billion dollar works relief bill Is At last ready for passage. The millions of unemployed who have waited patiently for promised Jobs may be thankful that finally a formula for compro- : mise was found which saved the face of the • Glass group, and ended the senseless delay. • Now Congress can complete its botched performance. approve the conference report and •end the bill to the President for his signature. While the President and his executive aids try to use this fund to change doles into pay i rolls. Congress can go ahead with its appointed ’ tasks. It can legislate for social security, labor peace. NRA revision, an end to war profiteering. and other parts of the Roosevelt program. Congress can do this if it will only deal effectively with the minority opposing the President. Minorities have their i ghts. But legis,ative sabotage is not one. Tne majority has both the right and the duty to function. THE MUNITIONS DEADLOCK NOW that the public has had Its shock over the war mongering of munitions makers, the reform movement may peter out , into nothing more lasting than an emotional debauch. After all of the revelations by the Nye Senate committee, the prospect of an adequate law passing this session of Congress is ! waning. The rub is in the House. There the McSwain bill is being railroaded through. Fortunately there is little chance of the Senate accepting this measure. The Senate will have its own Nye bill. That attempts to take the profits out of war by heavy taxation. But opponents will raise the parliamentary point that revenue measures must originate in the House. And the Administration leaders in the House, by refusal to attach any taxation amendments to the McSwain bill, seem to be preparing a legislative jam which will kill all munitions measures at the end of a busy session. As usual in such deadlocks between the House and Senate, the President’s position is Important. He has the support of the country and his party aids have control of the House. But the President does not like to use his power in this issue. In the first place the hostile Army and Navy, with the munitions makers. are on his neck. Moreover, there is a limit to the number of orders the White House can issue to Congress without a kickback, and the President has been saving his strength for such emergency legislation as works-relief, social security, and NRA. There is still some hope, however, that the President can move effectively into this munitions jam which his House leaders are rigging. The Senate committee, which discussed the matter fully with him before he left on vacation. came away with the definite impression that he would make a fight for the Nye bill. The President is somewhat freer to do this now titan before because of Mr. Baruch. Betweerl the fall and winter hearings of the Nye committee, the White House set up its own munitions committee under Mr. Baruch. When this was widely criticized as taking the legislation out of the hands of the Senate committee, the President and Mr. Baruch let their duplicating organization die with nothing more than a brief verbal report. But the McSwain bill, embodying the original Baruch plan, got the inside track in the House just the same. Mr. Baruch is now trying to save the situation. With great generosity and openness of mind he has testified to the Senate committee that he accepts the Nye bill, and that he is willing to go as far as any member of that committee which is urging government monopoly of the munitions business. Since Mr. Baruch, the father of the McSwain bill, already has moved so far beyond it, he may be able, as the President’s chief munitions adviser, to help break the deadlock threatening effective reform. We hope so.

THAT BALL CLUB A LTHOUGH battling bad weather most of the spring training season, the Indianapolis Indians will open the annual American Association season in Columbus, April 16, with the old hope of making the grade and grabbing the pennant. The Indians play in Toledo April 19, and are home for their first game at Perry Stadium April 22. Last year the Indians gave the fans some real ball and it is to be hoped by every baseball fan that this season will be better than the 1934 playing year. The opening day parade is out of the picture but that won't keep hundreds of the real fans here and nearby from jamming into the stadium for the initial fray and subsequent battles. SHEEP AND GOATS CONGRESS should not be too busy or indifferent to pass intelligent and humane legislation relating to aliens and their deportation. The Administration's Kerr bill puts emphasis in the right place. It gives the government power to deport certain undesirables —alien smugglers, habitual criminals, gunmen, extortionists, racketeers and vicious gangsters. At the same time it permits the government to apply rules of reason and sympathy toward the families of worthy and welcome aliens. Under the bill the Secretary of Labor may suspend deportation orders In cases where, •therwia* deportable aliens are “of good

moral character.** or have citizen relatives her# or have lived here for 10 or more years. Discretion is denied in cases of aliens convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude or who have engaged in subversive political agitation or conduct." This latter is a loose-lipped phrase, and should be clarified to apply to violators of the 1918 law relating to alien advocate* of force and violence. Hoy easy It is to misapply this law is seen by the absurd action of the Labor Department In arresting the British author, Strachey, and then being unable to prove the case. The Kerr bill would not let down bars to new immigrants. Since it decreases the number admissible in a preference status, to make up for those permitted to remain, and Increases the number in the criminal deportable class, it should reduce the number of aliens here. Solons complained that laws work like cobwebs, catching little particles and letting weighty objects fall through. This is particularly true of our immigration laws that work hardship on worthy aliens and their families, but let the big crooks get by.

ANOTHER MYTH npo blame the closing ei horse betting joints A in the city on tho appearance of Dillinger loot seems rather foolish on the surface. Further than *nat it seems that reports of the bond coupon cashings-—had they been the real basis for the drive— would have been current early in the stages of bookie joint closings. For years police officers have been friends of these bookies and if the ghost of Dillinger had been the cause of the freeze out it would have been public information the first day. No, it doesn't click. Because one place may have cashed a few dollars worth of coupons, Is no reason for the closing. There’s more than that behind this. If it is to insure a law-abiding community—fine. If not, then revision of the city's police policy is urgent. MOCK AIR RAIDS THE Germans are a clever and thorough people, and when they set out to stage mimic air raids over Berlin they went ahead and did a pretty life-like job. News photographs show us supposedly shell-tom streets, stretcher parties, and ambulances, firemen in gas masks, and all those other little details which go to make modem warfare such a romantic and high-spirited undertaking. Asa dress rehearsal for the real thing, It must all have been very realistif and grip-ping-just the sort of thing to make any people glad that they are at last able to support air fleets of their own. But let no one make the mistake of supposing that it was really a faithful reproduction of the genuine article. To get that, you need a fertile imagination . . . and a strong stomach. Let’s suppose we could have a look at the real thing, for a minute. What would we see? First of all we might come to a peaceful suburban garden. On the torn sod lies a 5-year-old boy. He was a sunny, happy chap up to five minutes ago. Then a bomb fragment knocked his lower jaw off. He is lying there now, moaning rather quietly. In a few minutes he will be dead. Down the street a way is a schoolhouse—was a schoolhouse, to be more exact. Now there is a mass bricks and broken beams. It wouldn’t be advisable to go too far; we might see something that would spoil our sleep forever. You see, a 500-pound bomb landed there before the children had time to get out. Farther along we come to a department store. That, too, Is a good thing to stay out of. An incendiary bemb landed in the midst of a throng of shoppers. The results are the sort of thing the devil in hell might dream about on an especially bad night. Next we reach what is left of a hospital. Some of the exhibits are rather disturbing . . . the children’s ward, for instance, where one bomb went off ... or the maternity ward . . . no, we shan't go there at all. Down here is a smashed street car, with a few broken bodies still showing faint signs of life. Just beyond is a theater, where a bomb landed just as every one was hurrying for the exits. You understand, of course, that as we go to see these things we have to pick our way along pavements that are more or less cluttered with legless bodies, scattered arms and heads, and the like? . . . All this is a little too harrowing to go or. with any longer. But it is only a pi*ie, shadow-like imitation of what w.ll actually happen when the next war breaks out. And if you don’t like the looks of It, you might meditate that that's what the nations of the earth are blithely and Irresponsibly preparing for themselves these days.

THE KILOWATT HELPERS ' I ''HE old adage: ‘ Man works from sun to sun, but woman’s work is never done." used to apply to American farmers and their wives. Scon it may apply to neither. Chairman Frank McNinch of the Federal Power Commission predicts that, through rapid expansion of rural electrification, more than 5.000.000 American farm homes will be wired for light and power. Congress has just earmarked $100,000,000 of the big work-relief bill for rural electrification. Private rates are lower as the result of better technical devices, regulation and public competition in the power field. Under TV A and other Federal projects even cheaper rates are in prospect. In 1920 only 125.000 farm homes were wired for electricity. Now there are 750,000. This number, however, represents only 11.2 per cent of the nation's 6,288.600 farms. A great cultural frontier for the development of labor-saving, power-driven appliances awaits American industry. The farm sector of this frontier has hardly been attacked. Until the kilowatt helpers are busy on every American farmstead, lightening the burdens of overworked men and women, we can not even talk of the over-product ion of electricity. With those dust storms increasing, let’s hope the government does something for the land's sake. Florida man captures eight-tan whale. If he’s a typical fisherman, hell have it mounted and move in his furniture. Now that they’ve Invented a flying automobile you’ll never know whether a waman dmar is going right, left, or up.

Looking at America BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON WASHINGTON, April s.—Definition—decision—drive. These three things would break the jam and start the end of this depression. As it is, everything stands still because nobody knows which way to move. How can anybody know how to move? NRA affects business and labor to the core. Neither can plan ahead without knowing what is going to happen to NRA. Yet NRA has lost its drive. It has stopped making important decisions. It alone knew what there was to know about Itself, yet it made no definition of how it ought to go on. It simply dumped its ruffled feathers into the lap of Congress and said, in effect, ‘ Take me and fix me up. I don’t know what's the matter with me.” If NRA didn’t know, how could Congress know? Money is the measure of the value of everything you own or buy or sell or do. If you don’t know what is going to happen to money tomorrow, how can you plan or act today? A farmer, especially, must plan his production from six months to a year ahead. If he doesn’t know whether to plant or loaf—whether to breed or keep his pigs platonic—how can he f"rm? Nearly five billion dollars are to be put up to fight depression but if nobody knows how it is to be spent or when or where, how can all those upon whose planning employment depends begin to act in time to make action effective? a a a BANKS and insurance companies, financial houses and, above all, private investors, have to look to the future before they begin feeding into the present the stream of savings without which industry can not move a peg to create employment. Legislation has performed major operations upon this patient again and again. We look on him and say, “You're all right P-you look fine—go ahead.” In an undertone some of the doctors add, "But we re going to operate on you again, just the same. How can he plan next season's work? This Congress has sat for four months without making up its mind on any major matter. Wednesday, Senator Millard Tydings, a Democrat wheel horse, tore into the New Deal, Huey Long egging him on. Several Democratic Senators agreed and the Republicans sat purring like the cat who ate the canary. Not one Democratic voice was raised in defense. a a a IN the meantime, the impression grows that there is neither drive, definition nor decision. But there is plenty of all three out in the sticks. Father Coughlin has a plan. Huey Long has a plan. In the North, the desperate, suffering support of the former is rolling up like a snowball, and also for Huey in the South. These plans are terrible, but they falsely promise all things to all men. They are something and you can’t beat something with nothing, as the Democrats proved against Hoover in 1932 and against the field in 1934. A bad plan is better than no plan. We can go ahead with a bad decision. We can’t go ahead with no decision. We still need leadership. We still need drive. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or In pert forbidden.)

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES HITLER has never aroused my enthusiasm and he does not today. Yet unworthy people have often in history been the instruments of a worthy cause. Such may Hitler prove today if the other states have the wisdom to exploit the opportunity. A menace to peace may be turned into the most important step toward peace since 1919. I have reference to Hitler's unwavering demand for the revision of the Treaty of Versailles. In this demand he has at least 90 per cent—if not, indeed, 100 per cent—of moral right on his side. He asserts that all he wishes is a reasonable revision of the treaty. The Allied Powers will do well to call his bluff on this matter. If events prove that Hitler will be satisfied with treaty revision, then this will put an end to the Hitler bogey and give Europe a chance to get over the jitters. If he continues his swashbuckling after he has obtained revision, that will prove him a militaristic menace rather than a crusader for political and diplomatic justice. He will not have a moral leg to stand on. Nothing will be lost for Europe even if this last possibility works out in fact. European peace, Hitler or no Hitler, will be far easier to preserve after the revision that Hitler demands has been conceded. tt a a THE Allied Powers will no longer have to be continually on the moral defensive. Today they are in the role of robbers who are posing as exponents of law and order while hanging tenaciously to most of their loot. Hitler only asks that they surrender part of it. If the Allied Powers would remove the millstone of the Versailles Treaty from their neck their work as peacemakers would be far easier and executed in much better taste. If there are two propositions that are subscribed to by informed and intelligent students of world politics today they are: (1) that the Versailles Treaty was one of the most treacherous and vindictive treaties in the history of diplomacy; and (2) that there is no prospect of preserving peace of Europe unless the pact of Versailles is modified in harmony with fact and justice. Not even those who made the Versailles settlement defend it now. Woodrow Wilson was so disillusioned about it away back in 1919 that he turned away from it even before it was signed and devoted his efforts to furthering the League of Nations which he believed would help to undo the injustices of Versailles. Lloyd George makes no bones about the mistakes of Versailles in his voluminous autobiography. Only Clemenceau might defend it if the Tiger were to arise from the grave. a tt tt IF the Versailles arrangement ought to be folded up in any event, then it presents a twofold opportunity for good if the Allies can at the same time pull Hitler’s teeth. Until the Allies resolutely and frankly face realities in this matter. they will always be confronted with the dilemma of having, on the one hand, to hold that the Treaty of Versailles must be sustained and, on the other, to hear most of their competent publicists proclaim that the treaty is morally indefensible and practicably unenforceable. I abhor Hitler and the whole system which he stands so bigotry, ignorance, repression of freedom, mob antics and the like. But his international policy is not so easy to criticize, except, perhaps, his brutally frank mode of procedure. What does he ask? Merely freedom of Germany to arm on the basis of equality with other nations of like size and prestige and the natural and desirable union of Germany and German Austria—a step urged by intelligent historians, publicists and statesmen. , No sane person without an ax to grind can well oppose the voluntary union of Germany and Austria.* Germany for years gave Europe plenty of opportunity to disarm to the German level. So Europe can not very well take a holier-than-thou attitude when Germany proposes equality of armament on the non-German basis. If all that Hitler asks la rearmament and union with Austria as the price of Germany’s reentry into the League, then Europe may consider itself lucky. Germany can be denied these aspirations only on the grbund that she is a pariah nation. She can not be expected to reenter the League until that insinuation is frankly obliterated. The rest of Europe can not put Hitler and Germany in a bad light until its own policies surpass his in logic, frankness and candor. Washington Bureau of Standards discovers “radio roof" to the world 450 miles up. No wonder—every time we listen in It seems some one’s raising ik

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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 25 0 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request of the letter writer.) n tt tt LEGISLATORS SHOULD DO DUTY, READER SAYS Bv A Voter. The Representatives of this state are elected to represent the people, not some special interest that maintains a lobby. Must we of the electorate maintain a lobby to beseech our own servants to do our wishes? No. Why this special session of the Legislature to consider how to raise more taxes, after we demanded lower and less taxes? Mr. Legislator, that is what we want, and we had better get it. We don’t mean camouflage, either. We know that with very few exceptions this last session was just a waste of our time and money. Wfe wouldn't have gotten any benefits if it hadn’t been for the press. It is known to us that the minority wasn’t to blame for the poor results we got, but the majority has irritated us by sidestepping every promise. Where is that economy in governmental affairs? Where is that efficiency? What has become of the promise to cut the public pay rolls? Mr. Legislator, the people are demanding that you do your duty and quit stalling. a tt tt POLICE RAPPED FOR FAILURE TO ENFORCE LAW Bv R. n. I often think while reading your paper, which I have done for the last ten years, that the city officials do not know exactly what is going on or they would do things differently; sometimes folk are afraid to tell them for fear of losing their own jobs, etc. This seems to me to be the fundamental reason of the doings of our police force in Indianapolis today. Every one is afraid to tell the chief what really does happen for f ear the police will “crack down” on the teller and try to make it “hot” for him. Chief Morrissey is to be commended for his order as recorded in your paper of March 27 in which he says, “stay in sight of the public” and not to visit any suspected gambling place, beer tavern, or house of ill-fame “on a tour of duty.” He is only to be reprimanded that he did not issue that order when he was first appointed. As the owner of a .small poolroom it has nearly been impossible to keep my doors open for keeping tbe police pacified. On their first trip around after starting out on their “trick” they drive up to my door, from two to four police climb out and come in to fill up their pockets. They demand cigarets, cigars and beer, oh yes, and ball tickets, all on their "tour of duty.” Three times each day this happens. At the end of the day I am out from $8 to $lO and some days even more, besides the customers I lose from seeing the police and thinking my place is "hot.” I believe Chief Morrissey means to do the right thing, but he certainly does not know, sitting in his office down wt police headquarters, that ha has such a mass ot pikers *

THE ROAD TO DESTRUCTION

Ballot Box Is Solution

By James E. Tindall-Foley, Columbus. It would be iftteresting to know how many fervent “Amens” pierced the stratosphere Saturday night when Gen. Hugh Johnson said: “I ani done with this controversy,” and how many more were uttered the following morning when the millions who did not hear the ex-general’s oratorial hemorrhage read his solemn pronouncement (so gleefully and accurately reproduced) in some of the Sunday papers. His decision will no doubt come as a great relief to the millions of Father Coughlin’s followers, for, if they are so ignorant, as the would have us believe, that only one out of a thousand know what Father Coughlin is talking about, what must be their mental anguish when tney try to fathom the alien, Cromwellian philosophy of the ”crack-em-down” NRA relic? Johnson cackled without reason and the “radio padre” decided to give him the trap-nest test. Now the poor old ex-general is cackling himself hoarse, but despite all his labor pains he has failed to bring forth even a soft-shelled egg. His only fruit last Saturday was a stench bomb with a black and tan label that should not have been cast in free America. If the suffering millions in this country are looking to Father Coughlin rather

ard grafters working for him. Immediately upon receiving appointments as policemen, they forget they are servants of the people and paid by the taxpayers; their heads immediately swell up to size 20 and become “bully” personified, hardboiled, and themselves licensed to "pull” anything and get away with it. a a a ANSWERS THEORY OF “NEW EARTH” IN LETTER By Leora Dalton. I am addressing Dr. Gustav Stromberg who wrote an article in a paper of very recent date, regarding a “New Earth” as seen by astronomers. I wish to state this is interesting, especially the way they believe it was formed. You also state our own earth may have been formed in the same manner as this three-month-old phenomenon. Our own earth on which we dwell may not be millions of years old, but on the other hand may be and is, a wonderful creation from the hand of God, and about 6000 years old. It can not be possible you disbelieve the story of the creation of all things, as Genesis gives it in chapters I and II or that you would discredit any of God's plans from the creation of all things, including the earth, to a complete restoration of all things, which includes anew earth. This new earth was seen and described by John the Revelator. Don't you see him as God’s man equal to your astronomers. He, John, also described the capital city of this “New Earth,” the New Jerusalem.In other words Mir Bible begins

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than to wall Street for relief, who is to blame? If this is true—and the ex-general admits it himself—it is not because of Father Coughlin’s nationality, religion, or mode of dress, but because they recognize in him a leader who can not be controlled by the moneyed interests; a man whose heart bleeds with compassion for the destitute victims of a financial system that is antediluvian in practice and effect. But such satanic propaganda is a fair example of the extremes to which the harbingers of plutocracy will go in their frantic efforts to thicken the smoke screen. The exgeneral and his frightened abettors would do well to remember that “knowledge is power” and “the truth will make you free.” The radio and the press, (I refer to free press) have exercised a wholesome educational influence in our country during the last few years. Through the zealous efforts of honest men much of our political and financial corruption has been brought into the open. If this treatment is continued the curative rays of public ooinion will eventually heal our social and economic sores, not through revolution or Fascist dictatorship, as the ex-general seems to tear, but through the good old fashioned American custom of the ballot-box.

with a wonderful earth, the perfect creation from the hand of God. and then after all the turmoil of earth since sin entered that Book c'oses in the last two chapters with anew heaven and anew earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. What do you think of that, doctor, and how do you take it? ana WEALTHY SHOULD PAY DEBTS OF AGED, POOR By Times Reader. The article by J. H. in the April 1 issue surely takes in a lot of territory. For instance, if he were living on a farm and his wages were $6 a week, how much would he be willing to give to pension someone else? It is true 25 cents is a small amount but there are some whom it would cramp to give that much. The government has helped the farmer, yes, but the government surely didn’t help the farmer's help. His plan is all right for those who are making sl4 a week and more, but when it takes into the idea every wage earner, he is going too far. The aged and poor must be considered but that is what taxation is. Let those worry who own acre? and acres of land and thousands upon thousands of dollars in personal property. a a a BAD MANAGEMENT IS DEBT BOOST CAUSE By C. A Hubbard. Mr. Hendershot in The Times states that the total debt, public and private, is more than the value of all property In the United States. In other words, the property in the United States is mortgaged for more than it is worth. The debt will, at current rate of interest, double in

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less than 15 years. To maintain; solvency, the workers and producersof wealth—3s per cent of the population—must maintain themselves and the 6a per cent of the popula-* tion who do not produce. In addition the workers must earn interest, on the public debt. In other wordsthe working 35 per cent erf the population must earn a living for all the people and in 15 years double' the wealth. This is manifestly im-, possible and is the reason Gen.’ Johnson, Lewis Douglas, Bab-on, Dr. Charles A. Beard and others predict war, revolution, dictators. What will a dictator do? Capital must take profits on a participating basis, not from mere lapse of time. Socialism is out of the question, but capital must co-oper-ate with managers and workers. No business should be liquidated except’ for obsolescence cl plant or product. It is cheaper to “fire” bad managers and incompetent workers.

So They Say

We don't conduct the government for people who can take care of themselves We conduct it for people who can't take care of themselves.—Bernard Baruch. American audience* are good, but not as warm as the English. But they are much better thah in France, where they shout at youj and in Italy, where they throw chairs at you.—Nick Romoff, pan-, tomime artist visiting in United States. When you get to be 90, medal* don’t seem as important as they da when you are younger.—Gen. A. wj Greely, just honored for his leadership of 1881 Arctic exploration. * How can a court hold the authority to take the life of a boy in war is within the Constitution, but that it is all the other way if we take a copper mine?—Senator H. T. Bone of Washington. * 9 Daily Thought But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.—Romans, 14:10. 'T'O live Is not to live for one’* A self alone; let us help one'another.—Menander. MAGIC BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM : The earth is magic-drenched tonight; l The moon rides high. A million, trillion joy-mad stars # Sing from the sk.'. This madness is ipon the earth * And it, too, sings, A million, trillion echoes o t i A thousand springs. $