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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1335

CHILDREN AND MATCHES T TNWITTINGLY, but none the less effectively, 3-year-old Eobby Lunn has provided an excellent talking point for Fire Prevention Week campaigners. Playing with matches, Bobby set fire to his home. The house was destroyed. Children and matches form a combination with a great capacity for causing sorrow and loss. If Bobby Lund's act serves as a warning to all Indianapolis parents to exercise greater care in keeping children and matches separated, it will compensate in some measure for the loss of a family’s home. AUGUSTUS TRIED IT “JTIS generals, in the early part of his reign, at- •*- tempted the reduction of Ethiopia and Arabia Felix. They marched near a thousand miles to the south of the tropic; but the heat of the climate soon repelled the invaders and protected the unwarlike natives of those sequestered regions.” Gibbons, •'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”; Augustus Caesar; reign, 31 B. C. to 14 A. D. PANTS . . . AND WAR TJANTS is supposed to be a somewhat vulgar word. but because there is a distinct connection between pants and, war, we crave your kind indulgence. P* :mirr Mussolini has launched his adventure in Ethiopia. His planes are raining bombs upon Aduwa and other key places, and his infantry is following up the barrage. The conflict is on. Massed at Suez and Gibraltar arc squadrons of British warships. If they bar II Duce's path to Ethiopia, he has warned, he will fight. He can not desert his army battling in East Africa. And if war breaks out in the Mediterranean, between Italy and Britain, another general European war will become a grave probability. It is high time, therefore, for the people of the United States to begin some deep thinking. The President must declare an embargo on munition shipments to both belligerents—to Italy and Ethiopia alike. No difficulty is anticipated there. But what if the war spreads? Suppose France backs Britain and Germany backs Italy? Suppose Russia attacks Germany and Japan attacks Russia? Suppose Poland joins on the side of Germany and the little entente goes to the aid of France? And so forth and so on. The President may lay an embargo on munitions to each and all nations that join in the war. Scrupulously he might forbid the shipment of a single bomb, tank, rifle, cartridge, war vessel, shell, airplane, poison gas container, machine gun or what not. But there are scores of other things quite as important to war as any of these. tt tt tt PANTS, for example. Some of the bloodiest wars of all time have been waged without guns, planes or any of the modern accoutrements. And they still could be. But if you deprived all soldiers of their pants, they would almost certainly refuse to fight. Are we prepared—if the war spreads to Europe—to stop the shipment of pants, or the makings thereof? Or to stop steel, wheat, flour, grains of all kinds, chemicals of almost all varieties, automobiles and spare parts, tires, oils, fats, pork and other meat products, shoes—in fact pretty nearly everything? If we arc to stay out of the next war, says Bernard M. Baruch, hard-boiled business man, we will have to stop trading almost altogether. Can we do it? Will we do it? If we did, cotton would pile up in warehouses and even the streets of Southern towns. Wheat would choke the elevators. Pigs and steers would clutter up the pens. Prices would slump on the domestic market. The entire agricultural area would be stricken more, perhaps, than it ever yet has been. The industrial sections of the country would likewise feel the pinch. Their foreign market gone, and the domestic demand crippled by lack of the wherewithal to buy, factories and mines would have to slow down. Unemplcy.wvnl would increase and the vicious circle of depression start to get in its all too familiar work. Would the people held firm under such economic punishment? Few men in Congress believe they would. Washington would be besieged by angry and hard-h’t citizens, from every section of the land, demanding that the vast market in the warring countries be supplied. Then what? Nations at war will not accept our definition of war materials. They compose their own lists of contraband. They may include pants as well as pistols, cotton as well as cannon. Are we, then, going to insist on freedom of the seas? Are we going to ask bitterly what our Navy lo for if it is not to protect our merchant shipping? a a tt THAT, in our opinion, is pretty much what we would do. After all, we are only human beings. We are about as emotional as any other race. But, if we intend to stop trading in order to keep out of the next big war, it is imperative that we start now trying to evolve a plan. We can not simply forbid exportations wholesale and let it go at that. We will have to find a way to cushion the shock to our citizens. We do not pretend to know how it can be done. We do know it would be extremely complex and expensive. The government might have to buy the exportable surplus of cotton, wheat, meat, lard and the rest, and burn it—as Brazil burned her surplus coffee—or give it away to the unemployed. Stoppage of trade would cost this country a pretty penny. But. so would war. The late President Coolidge said the World War had cost America, up to the time he made his estimate, no less than 50 billion dollars. And before we finished paying for it, he declared, it would cost us 50 billion more. A few’ billion dollars spent to keep us out of the next war, therefore, would make the price of peace dirt cheap—if it worked. Tne government at Washington, it seems to us, should stait the best brains we have in this country thinking on tins problem, and invite recommendations. To say ‘‘we must and shall” remain out of “the next war” is not enough. Levying an embargo on a narrow list of death devices is not enough. Staying out of a major war of long duration will be far harder than that.

ANOTHER FOR THE G-MEN? 'TnHE Federal Trade Commission has charged the A National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and 16 large member manufacturers of power cable and wire materials, with unlawful combination and conspiracy to restrain competition by establishment of uniform delivered prices. This association, “NEMA,” was one of the most difficult problems of NRA. Patent holdings apparently made monopolies legal. Competition is difficult to establish in such an industry’. Private and public utilities, both collecting directly from consumers, are major customers for these products. The complaint, as issued by the commission and calling on NEMA and the companies to show cause on Nov. 1 why a cease and desist order should not be Issued, makes serious charges of interference with price competition. If these charges are true, the commission is going to have a difficult time enforcing an order. The commission repeatedly has been overturned by the Supreme Court. Some of its cases have taken five or six years from inception to Supreme Court decision. The Department of Justice—since the Schechter decision—is also responsible for enforcing the antitrust law’s, a violation of which is charged here. The department might move more directly into the courts, if a violation is found. So it may mean another job for the “G-men.” PRESERVE THE CCC SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HAROLD ICKES is reported to have his eye on the CCC camps, in connection with his ambitious plan to revamp the Interior Department into the Department of Conservation. 'President Roosevelt already has announced that the camps will be made a permanent institution. Director Robert Fechner will fight to keep CCC a separate unit, with the Interior, Agriculture, Labor and War Departments co-operating as at present. But Mr. Ickes is expected to use the permanence of CCC as an additional argument in favor of taking forestry and soil conservation away from the Agriculture Department. Opposition to transfer of these divisions helped block Mr. Ickes’ bill for the new Conservation Department in the last Congress. The measure was passed by the House, but remained on the calendar in the Senate. Organized foresters have fought against any shift from the Agriculture Department. They argue that trees are a crop, though slow-maturing. All CCC forestry work is now carried out under direction of the Forestry Division of Agriculture, and soil conservation under the Soil Erosion Division of the same department. Only when dealing with parks are the CCC campers now given orders from Mr. Ickes’ department, which includes the National Parks Service. The Office of Education also is under Mr. Ickes, but its work in the camps is supervised by the War Department, which supplies the officer personnel for CCC. The CCC enrollees are selected under supervision of the Labor Department. In this four-department set-up, Director Fechner has served as a sort of umpire. It seems to us that on the whole he has served successfully. The CCC is one of the finest achievements of the Roosevelt Administration.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WHAT'S all this we hear about the men going sissy? Somebody in Chicago has it doped out that way because a few of them have lately won prizes in the domestic arts. A bachelor from Cook County, Illinois, took the blue ribbon on his blackberry jam. In Kansas three boys won a baking contest. Then there’s the Bostonian who beat all the girls at knitting, to say nothing of the Seattle father who came out with flying colors in the diaperchanging contest. Even so, the idea of calling these men sissies is preposterous. I thought it was a well established fact that, while women always lose their feminine charm when they excel at masculine endeavors the men are protected from such disaster by some divine gift. When they beat us at our jobs, they're simply better than we are. That’s all! Smarter, more resourceful. We know' there’s not a married man alive who couldn't step right into his wife’s shoes, if he took the notion, and get all the housework done during the time she takes daw'dling over the breakfast dishes. Like an efficient machine, he goes over the house in no time, ending the domestic tasks with a magical swiftness, so that the better part of the day is left him for loafing. I dare say you’ve heard the less modest declaim on this subject. With the single exception of having a baby—so the tale runs—there’s nothing in the way of woman's w T ork that a man can’t do better, in less time, and with less energy than mama k puts into it. This kind of talk has been going on so long, I’m glad we now have some proof to back it up. These particular specimens of the burly and capable males, who have thus brought distinction upon their kind by so veliantly making good the boasts of their fellows, merit the gratitude both if men and women. Instead of maligning them, we should pin medals on them. The damning title of “sissy” is an insult, for have they not vindicated some of the tall talk put out by the braggarts of their sex? If most persons were half as nice as snakes, this world would be a better place.—Mrs. Grace Wiley, excurator of reptiles at a Chicago zoo. I must express surprise that so great a man and so wise a ruler as Mussolini should be willing, even eager, to put his gallant nation into such an uncomfortable military and financial position.—Winston Churchill, British statesman. We must bring the Republican Party back to the people. The people are thinking more of issues than of men.—Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher. Nothing could threaten the race as seriously as social legislation. It is begging the unfit to be more unfit and inviting the fit to join the ranks of the unfit.—President Cutten. Colgate University. What I am going to do for the President is to pray for him, because he needs it. I am not going to answer his letter.. It is the President's business to know how to run the nation, and not the clergy’s. —Dr. John T. Stone, Chicago. We have thought that we could be detached from the rest of the world, but events right down to the effect of the European situation on our stock market proves this is a foolish idea.—Dr. R. A. Millikan, scientist. The American people have suffered more evils from repeal than from all the wars in which this country ever engaged. Prohibition was a tremendous and overwhelming success.—Dr. Ira T. Landrith, in speech before W. C. T. U.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reunions controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2,'io words or less. Your letter must he sinned , hut names tcilt he withheld on rcouest.) a a a PROVIDING MOTORISTS WITH SOME LIGHT By A. C. D. Indianapolis motorists may be interested to know that Texas courts have held that a motorist who is blinded by the headlights of an approaching car while driving at night, and who hits something while so blinded, is guilty of negligence. The case which produced this ruling arose, I understand, after a motorist, traveling at 35 miles an hour, crashed into a parked truck which he was unable to see because approaching headlights had blinded him. He was killed, his heirs sued the truck's owner, and the defendent replied that the dead driver had failed to exercise proper care. This contention the court upheld, and its ruling is worth noting. A I driver, it held, must anticipate the | presence of objects in his path. If | a headlight blinds him, it’s up to him to slow down or stop until he regains his vision. If he doesn’t do so, and hits something, it is his fault. The ruling is a timely warning to all Indiana motorists. THE GUFFEY BULL AND OUR COAL STRIKE By a Non-Miner It strikes me that someone ap- | parently deceived somebody in coni nectioa with this bituminous coal ; strike. A few' months ago. when Congress 1 was in session, we were told that only by passage of the Guffey Bill i could a nation-wide strike be | averted. Well, Congress passed the Guffey Bill, and everybody breathed a sigh of relief. And then, just after President Roosevelt had appointed a board to administer the new act, the strike broke anyhow. A good deal of misinformation seems to have been passed out somewhere. How come? SWAN SONG*FOR OLD COUNTRY. STORE ; By An OH Philosopher The Commerce Department, we understand, having investigated 1 matters in such representative j states as our own Indiana and Ohio, | reports that the old country store is rapidly passing from the Ameri- | can scene. Autos and paved roads apparently I are depriving it of its reason for : existence. Fewer and fewer people 1 stop to shop at the crossroads; instead they go on into town. In Ohio, for instance, the report Old England BY BERTRAM DAY. Old England is well known in deeds and songs. Its sea-washed shores are picturesque and warm; It is a gem set in the ocean’s prongs Reflecting Nature's regal uniform! Its poetry is one rich legacy Os virile dramas from a Shakespeare's pen, Or stirring epics full of brilliancy. Or love-dreams from the minds of gifted men. Its galleries, museums, churches old Lure visitors to each rare edifice. They prove a magnet powerful as gold: i Famed London is the world's metropolis ! I A Pantheon of genius and renown, Westminster Abbey takes from all * the Crown.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME

Provide Wealth , Not Share It

By Middle-Class Reader The bullet that ended the life of Huey Long also deflated the most premising (or menacing, if you prefer) of the political movements based on the simple discontent of the man whose pockets are empty. Since people of this kind have been numerous of late in Indianapolis and their discontent has been great, Long was able to ride a long way and looked like riding farther. But although he is gone and the movement he led is in a state of confusion, the urge to share the wealth—to cut slices off the cake on the rich man’s table and pass them around to those who have no cake—still exists, and needs to be reckoned with. If the masses are to be enriched, it must be done through increased production and lowered prices rather than through a division of the wealth already existing. Our productive capacity is not in excess of our requirements for consumption. On the contrary, it is behind them. If we divide the wealth now, we shall be freezing our econdmic level at a point too low to satisfy us. Before we talk of dividing it, we ought to get busy and increase it. * This, to be sure, is nothing more

said. 76 per cent of the stores are now in the cities, and they do nearly 88 per cent of the state’s retail business. Here in Indiana the figures are nearly as high. The little old country store-w?as as distinctively American an institution as the nation possessed Its cracker barrel philosophers and informal debating societies helped shane the ideas of the republic. Indiana and the nation will have lost something w’hen it finally disappears. tt tt a SMALL FAMILY ONLY A PASSING FAD, IT SEEMS By a Reader Gather a little group of serious thinkers in Indianapolis together for an evening’s discussion of what is wrong wuth the world and sooner or later you will find them speaking sadly of the decline of the family. Broadly speaking, the complaint will be that educated folk who

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. Frederick M. Kerby. Director. 1013 Thirteenth-st. N. W.. Washington. D. C. THE EDITOR. Q —Where is the tree in California under which devotional and patriotic services are held on Christmas Day? For how Ion? have these services been held? What is the name and the size of the tree? A—The Gen. Grant Tree in Gen. Grant National Park. California. is the tree under which devotional and patriotic services have been held each Christmas Day at noon since 1925. The tree has a height of 267 feet and a diameter of 35 feet, and contains over half a million feet of lumber in the trunk, roughly 325 cords. It was measured and named in 1867 by Mrs. Lucretia P. Baker, a mem-

than elementary common sense; and yet it is a point that needs to be made over and over again, if we are to understand the real nature of the problem that faces us. With our productive plant, our natural resources, our inventiveness, and our skilled energy, we could make this city of ours and this nation of ours incomparably the richest ever dreamed of; richest in the sense that the ordinary, undistinguished man could have more comforts, more luxuries, and more safeguards in his daily life than ever the kings of the earth had a few generations agoWe do not, however, as of today, possess enough wealth for it. We possess the means of producing that wealth—but the wealth itself we have not got. We must set our productive machinery to work at top speed. More goods and lower prices—there is an avenue down which we can progress toward that nationally desired goal, a more abundant life. Trying to “share our wealth” today is putting the cart in front of the horse. It would seem to be more sensible to set to work to increase our wealth so that the shares would be big enough to be worth asking for.

stand the gaff financially in the matter of child-raising are having few children, or no children at all. while Mr. and Mrs. Joe Doakes from down in Hooverville are encumbering themselves with more offspring than is either financially or socially advisable. From all this yoit will learn that America is systematically breeding out those traits of character and intelligence which it ought to preserve. Now the only trouble with ail this seems to be that it isn't exactly so. I have just read a report by Dr. Clark Wissler, curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, who reports that the time-honored trend toward smaller families on the part of educated and well-to-do Americans is being reversed. Basing his views on a careful study of statistics, he reports that in the near future families of four or five children will be as common

ber of a pioneer family in the district. Q —Give the population and altitude of Tucson, Ariz. A—The 1930 census enumerated 32,506. The altitude is 2376 feet. Q —When was the British ship Tuscania torpedoed and what was I the loss of life? Were any United States soldiers aboard? A—The ship was sunk by a torpedo off Ireland. Feb. 5. 1918, with a loss of 213 lives. On board were Company E. Sixth Battalion, Twentieth Engineers; One hundredth Aero Squadron, One hull-, dred fifty-eighth Aero Squadron, Engineers Reserve Corps, and One hundred seventh Supply Company. Q —Who owns the race horse Man o’ War? Where is he kept? A—Samuel D. Riddle is the owner. The horse is in charge of Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield, at . Faraway Farm, near Lexington, I Ky.

in the upper income brackets as they are now among the very poor. “The social ideal about large families is subtly changing,” he remarks. "The large number of married couples who can afford children, put don’t have them, has caused a lot of thinking, and this has started the reaction going the other way- It is all a matter of social ideals. “A social ideal about the desirability of large families will inevitably bring about large families. This would indicate to me that America’s upper middle class is at last beginning to get some sense. Rearing a family of children is just as expensive and difficult as every one says it is; but when ail is said and done, it remains the most rewarding activity that the ord.nary human can indulge in. The married folk who can limit themselves to one child, or to no children at all. are simply cheating themselves out of the best thing life can offer them. In no other way is it possible to taste the full richness and deep flavor of living. It calls for sacrifices, it means heartaches and worry, it brings vexing complications—but what thing that is worth doing does not? It is safe to assume that the recent trend toward small families is but a passing fad. In the long run it makes life less satisfying rather than more so. Sooner or later the common sense of the race will recognize the fact. Daily Thought If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.—Proverbs xxx, 32. To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.—Aeschylus.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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OCT. 5, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN VITASHINGTON. Oct. s—Srna- ’ ’ tor Borah nas determined on definite strategy in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. He will get himself api pointed chairman of the Idaho delegation, then make the speech ;of his life before the resolutions | committee, thereby draw up tha Republican national platform. He confides to friends that he doesn't care about the nomination himself, but is determined to dictate both the platform and the type of liberal the nominee shall be His aim is to "write the Republican platform, or else tear it to pieces." . . . Mayor LaGuarida of New York is worried about Negro riots against Harlem Italians because of Ethiopia. : The night of the Baer-Lewis fight ! he sent an undercover commission to watch Negro feeling in Harlem. It reported the Negro battle-cry was: “Tonight we get Baer. Next Mussolini!” . . . Reason for the referee's ultra-strict admonition against low punches in the Baeij Louis match was the fear Joe Louis , would b? disqualified on a foul, . causing Harlem riots against the j Jews. ... J. Edgar Hoover must ! subscribe to a clipping service or 'else have his G-men carefully scan .the papers. Whenever a friendly story is printed about him the editor gets a letter of thanks from J. Edgar. ] ear THE whisky, gas, ice and milk Industries are in a dither over an undercover tip that Prof. Walton H. Hamilton. NRA Consumers Adviser, has sent sharply critical reports to the President regarding their trade practices. The producers. recalling the withering NRA report on the auto industry, are worried over possible publication of ilia Hamilton reports. Roosevelt friends on his transcontinental train considered it significant that the deeper he got into the farm belt, the more cordial became his receptions. Also that Mrs. Roosevelt received much more applause than in the East . . . Roosevelt's big navy pronouncement was rushed from the Presidental tram in order to take the from page play away from the snub given Roosevelt by Gov. Ruby Laffoon and his Kentucky faction. Steve Early, the presidential press secretary, went

down the aisle of the newspapermen's car making sure that they realized the importance of the naval statement. . . In order to got the special Boulder Dam stamp completed in time for the President's appearance at the great power project, Edward M. Hall, 73-year-old Bureau of Engraving craftsman, aided by Carl T. Arlt, another expert, rushed through in one week engraving that ordinarily requires one month. # tt tt SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE has vivid memories of Herbert Hoover, when the latter, then Secretary of Commerce, spiked the farm reform measures of Wallace’s father, then Secretary of Agriculture. It is Wallace’s private conviction that disappointment over failure of these measures caused his father’s death. In 1933 Wallace told friends: “The job killed my father, and it may kill me, but I’ll take it.” . . . Funsters aboard the Houston are telling the President that whatever fishing luck he may have, he is sure to bring home a trout. A radio expert on board is named Trout. . . . While the potato act is making all the smoke these days, the AAA is quietly preparing to put another commodity under its control. In this case, the program will not reduce production, but increase it. Tire commodity is flaxseed, of which the United States produces less than the domestic requirement. Not to be outdone by his fellow diplomats, Dr. Enrique Bordenave, Paraguayan Minister, is setting out shortly on a tour of southern states. He wants to see the difference between cotton growing in this country and in Paraguay. . . . The private life of Steve Early, secretary to the President, is suggested in the row of four pictures standing on a desk in his White House office. They all depict wild ducks in black swarms rising from the water. . . . The British embassy in Washington has a third secretary named Philip Broad and a first secretary named Philip Broadmead. . federal statisticians find that five farms have automobiles, and three hftve telephones for every one that has electricity. (Copyright. 1035. bv Uniled Fcaturs Syndicate. Inc i