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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 19,1935

THE AUSTRIAN COUP D’ETAT "T'OR a few hours Thursday, Vienna pulsated with -*■ the kind of excitement one reads about in an Anthony Hope novel. The Heimwehr was reported to be marching on the Austrian capital from the south. It sounded like revolution. Thick and fast came cabinet resignations. Certain ministers stepped out. Others stepped in. Much happened before you could say Prince Ernst Ruediger Von Starhemberg. When the smoke cleared however that young man apparently was the undisputed boss of the land. What was it all about? Europe is still speculating. But opinion is that Austria merely was battening down her hatches before the threatened storm. Prince Von Starhemberg is Fascist. He opposes the Austrian Nazis, who last year came within an ace of turning the country over to Hitler. They might have succeeded had not Mussolini mobilized an army at Brenner Pass and threatened to occupy the country. Today Mussolini is busy elsewhere. His eyes are on Africa and England, the Suez and the Mediterranean. He can not be paying as much attention to Austria and Brenner Pass as he did last year. So Prince Von Starhemberg has consolidated his forces and taken over the watch on the Danube until the hands of his Italian friend are free to help again. LAWYERS TO THE RESCUE JAMES M. BECK proudly announces that any American citizen, "however humble,” who is without means to defend hts constitutional rights in a court of Justice,” can command free of charge the services of "one or more” members of the American Liberty League’s committee of lawyers. Here, indeed, is good news for the oppressedfree services of the nation’s most expensive lawyers. Let the offer be accepted. Let Mr. Beck and Mr. Davis, whose legal services command premiums from such clients as the Eoison Electric Institute and the House of Morgan, be invited at once to San Francisco to help in the case of Tom Mooney. Attorneys Frank P. Walsh and John Finerty, who have been giving their time and their money to this case for years, should welcome such assistance. And how better serve the Constitution than by gaining freedom for a man who has been in jail .19 years on a conviction obtained by perjured evidence? The Constitution says no man shall be deprived of his liberty "without due process of law.” Frank J. Hogan, famous criminal lawyer, might interpret the Constitution’s guaranties eloquently enough to persuade the courts to undo their injustice to Angelo Herndon, the Georgia Negro who is serving an 18-year jail sentence for “inciting insurrection,” the overt acts being an effort to organize t.he unemployed, and possession of radical literature. The League’s president, Jouett Shouse, should be enlisted to appeal for a retrial of the three Mississippi Negroes—Ed Brown, Henry Shields and Yank Ellington—whose conviction on a murder charge was based on a confession obtained by police torture. And maybe he will have time enough to sue for a fair trial for the Scottsboro boys. And who better than R. E. Desvernine, the steel corporation lawyer, to have on call for the next martial law episode at Terre Haute, or when the vigilantes run wild again in the California lettuce fields, or when armed mobs next patrol Harlan County, Kentucky. Os course, these suggestions presume that Mr. Beck was not referring merely to those constitutional rights which flow from property. “WAR PSYCHOSIS” A GROUP of 400 leading psychiatrists of 30 nations of the world meet at the Hague and warn Europe's statesmen of a grave danger—a contagious form of madness they call "war psychosis,” which attacks rulers first and peoples next. “The suggestive force of speeches made by leading statesmen is enormous, and may be dangerous,” these scientists warn. “The warlike spirit, so easily aroused by the cry that the country is in danger, is not to be bridled, as was evident in 1914. “Peoples, as well as individuals, under the influence of suggestion like these, may become neurotic. They may be carried away by hallucinations and delusions, thus involving themselves in adventures perilous to their own and other nations’ safety.” Fortunate for America, President Roosevelt senses the subtle perils of truculent utterance. In his message, read at a forum in New York, he renewed his pledge to keep "Amercia free of those entanglements that move us along the road to war.” But, he added, there must be constant vigilance among the American people to see that "forces that make for discord are discovered and discouraged.” “I want to feel at all times that I have the sustaining influence of a healthy, sound, and, above all, thoroughly American public opinion on the subject.” Right now he has that. So that he keeps it, let each of us immunize ourselves against hate, fear, false patriotism and other germs of war madness. READY-MADE HOUSES WHAT will become of five million carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, painters and material manufacturers when the United States starts buying ready-made homes? The men are worried at the outlook, but prophets of the new order say they will be better off than ever before when they move from the home site into the factory. These prophets foresee regular employment, at steady wages, instead of the feast-or-famine existence led by building tradesmen in the past. Builders have suffered more than any other class of workers in the depression. Anew home is the first thing a family denies itself when hard times come. At one time a fourth of the men on relief came from the building trades. Even in the best of times work has been irregular, seasonal, dependent on land values, on weather, and a host of other factors. The result has been, inevitably, high daily wage rates for builders. In the 90 or 100 days a man worked out of the year he had to earn enough to I keep his family 385 days. And because h u had to earn 115 a day, most wage-earning: families couldn’t

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employ him to do work on a house for them, so fewer houses were built and work got scarcer and scarcer and one of these vicious economic spirals began. Neither NRA nor any of the other New Deal agencies that have toiled over the problem has found a way to lower building costs sufficiently and at the 1 same time make sure that builders received adequate incomes. Factory-made houses offer the first ray of hope for solving this problem. If room units are to be built along more or less standardized lines, there is no reason why frameworks can not be constructed, pipes and wires installed, coverings put on, painting done, glass fitted into place, doorknobs screwed on, in winter as well as summer, and stored away for future use. Work can be as regular as it is in any industry, it is argued, quite without regard to the exact number of homes to be erected in any one community at any one time of year. Daily wage rates would drop, 6f course, and annual earnings would rise. As for the home builder, who now must in effect pay building tradesmen for all the days they don’t work as well as for the days they do, his costs would be more than cut in half, the prefabricators predict. At present one-fourth the cost of a home—or more —goes to labor. Not more than 10 per cent of the cost of each prefabricated house would be allotted to labor if present calculations hold good, and the figure might drop even lower as mass production swings into its stride. Material men will probably keep on manufacturing materials. If the present trend continues, the demand for concrete, steel and lumber will increase rather than diminish. As for the amount of workmanship at the site of the home, the picture is not clear. Today prefabricated homes are being placed on a foundation that is dug and prepared much as it always has been. This may be done away with as mechanized heating and cooling units are further perfected. At present it takes seven men an average of 21 hours to put up a prefabricated house, and some work will always be required, even though the amount may drop. Individual privation certainly will accompany the transition from hand-made to factory-made houses, just as hardship accompanies any revolution, but when it comes to regarding the labor picture as a whole, the prefabricators recall the tears that were shed over buggy makers and manufacturers of harness and buggy whips a quarter of a century ago by men and women who had no way of foreseeing the modern automobile plant, or America's concrete roads, gasoline stations and hot dog stands. If present indications can be relied on, the United States will be ready for prefabricated houses when the houses are ready for them. REAL REHABILITATION National Rehabilitation Association can well follow its indorsement of the Randolph blind employment bill with a nation-wide campaign to obtain passage at the next session of Congress. Little financial assistance is asked of the Federal government. The Randolph bill merely opens an opportunity to the blind to earn their own way through operation of news stands in Federal buildings. The Randolph bill is not a hastily drawn measure. It is the result of long study and planning by Leonard A. Robinson, prominent blind attorney in Cleveland. Adequate safeguards are set up in the measure. The majority of the sightless, like the majority of other American citizens caught in the wave of unemployment, desire a way to be self-supporting. To provide that way is to give real rehabilitation. Already approved by the American Legion, the American Federation of Labor, the Newspaper Guild and other national organizations, the Randolph bill should find itself on the “must” list when Congress convenes in January,

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT ■■■ By Mrs. Walter Ferguson -

JT) like to be rich for one reason—so I could have a horse. Something lovely seems to have gone out of the world when the common, little boy can have no association with the noblest of animals except by watching his papa place bets at a race track. For there's no satisfaction in looking at somebody else s horse. You want one of your own to know what love can exist between man and animals. And hiring steeds for riding will always strike me as an upside-down way of doing things. There is a nobility about the nature of the horse that makes association with him of vast value to humans. While the dog has licked man’s boots, the horse has borne is burdens, slaved and died for him; worked to death under the yoke, or been torn to bits upon a hundred battlefields. Any one whose memory holds the treasure of such an ownership can never forget the morning smell of the stables, or the feel of a soft muzzle against his palm or the sensation of power given by the strong muscles beneath him. In our family, Button, a bay with a white star in his forehead, was the favorite. Long years he served us, striding through night and storm, through heat and dust, carrying the doctor over miles of country to the sick and dying. No trip was ever too long to take the Are from his valiant heart. Sometimes when I think of the past I can still hear the ring of swift hooves upon a pebbled road, which in childhood w r as the signal for getting father’s meal ready. Old Button spent his last days, as every good horse should, in green pastures. But even so, I think he died of the sorrow that consumes neglected animals. When there were no more Journeys for him to make, and his doctor had departed, he was done with living. What, I wonder, can life with its automobiles and airplanes give my children to compensate for never knowing what it is to owm and love a horse? Our patriotism, prosperity, and love of justice i are a sure sign of our virility and greatness, but they ! are also emotions and elements that lead easily to war in time of war.—Ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith. The butcher, the grocer or whoever sits in the jury box is just as important and just as dignified an officer of the court as is the judge who receives $25,000 a year.—Chief Judge F. E. Crane, New York court of appeals. A mystical faith, similar to that of uncivilized mankind for their idols, is springing up around us. a faith by which we are called upon to submit all our problems to a being called the government.—John W. Davis, famed attorney. Next year may be too late to prevent the next war. Today is the time to create a will-to-peace that will not besw r ept away by war cries that may sound within the next six months.—Bishop Francis J. McConnell. New York. I think anything is beneficial that makes men realise that there is a much greater power in the universe than the human being on earth —Charles Hayden, banker, referring to New* York’s new Hayden Planetarium.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Hake vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them, to 2.'io words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.l a tt tt CITES BEVERIDGE PLEA ON CONSTITUTION By Andrew Renz Recent articles appearing in the papers have professed to repeat something that Albert J. Beveridge had to say about the Constitution. I wish to call your attention to several paragraphs from his keynote speech before the Progressive Party convention in 1912. “The Progressive Party believes that the Constitution is a living thing, growing with the people's growth, strengthening with the people’s strength, aiding the people in their struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, permitting the people to meet all their needs as conditions change. “From certain sources we hear preachments about the danger of our reforms to American institutions. What is the purpose of American institutions? Why was this republic established? What does the flag stand for? What do these things mean? “They mean that the people shall be free to correct human abuses. “They mean that the men. women and children shall not be denied the opportunity to grow' stronger and nobler. “They mean that the people shall have the pow r er to make our land each day a better place to live in.” tt a a INDUSTRIALIST THINKS ONLY OF HIMSELF, IS CLAIM By Subscriber George Macaulay Booth, a British shipper and a director of the Bar • of England, in an address be f ,e members and guests of the York Bond Club, advocated international co-operation in the gradual elimination of trade barriers toward ultimate free trade. Booth said, “We have a status quo in busines which is extremely unsatisfactory. Man has failed to adequately distribute his resources. Between nations, we should treat each other as assets and resources and deal on that basis. I should like very much to see the principle of free trade extended the length and breadth of the world.” And the state of conditions with-

Eternal City BY BERTRAM DAY Ethernal City! Full of history: A reverence your memory inspires, The Tiber holds your birth in mystery’, Your well-known oignet all mankind admires. Your language, culture, science, laws and art Have traveled to the confines of the globe. We are your offspring, secret counterpart. Our lives are folded in your purple .robe. The Colosseum spells old pagan Rome: It stands dethroned, defiant, yet sublime. Its crimes are sleeping now in Nero’s home But Christians have survived the tooth of Time. Though Roman roads diverge to every shore Her former golden milestone is no more.

AGAIN IT LIFTS ITS HEAD

Thinks Dnjs Too Oratorical

By William Lee Evans, Martinsville Recently a high commander of the “dry” forces made an attack at a church session on what he termed the "rum privilege”—alcohol and the white apron. In a fling of florid oratory the brothers and sisters were treated to this effervescence: “State and national enactments which grant privileges to liquor interests must be altered if interests of citizens in our commonwealth are to be upheld.” This alteration, this forerunner of Utopia, w'as inaugurated some 15 years ago to preserve interests of citizens—the bootleggers. The gentleman declaims further with a degree of energy: “The liquor traffic is an impostor, a usurper and a murderer under the guise of privilege.” This exhibition of spleen will not prove conducive to an acceptance of the prohibition gospel. Continuing, this sponsor of ideality is greatly perturbed as to why “men who call themselves statesmen will grant license and legality to a business w'hose existence depends upon devastating homes, debauching the electorate and defying the law.” The ills of a complex society are magnified by the extremists with hatchet-brigade tendencies. They are volcanic in their condemnation of any,measure which gives sanction to a sparkle of foam, a rendezvous for the socially inclined. Just oratory, and then more oratory, seems to be the outlook. w'ith the habits of the multitude unchanged. As to the reason of license laws on the part of legislators-, let this be said: The gentlemen involved

in a nation are j-ust as bad as those bet" een nations. William Graham Sumner punge.itly describes the tariff as one of the principal method of mulcting the farmer and the underprivileged laboring class. This device, said Sumner, “consists in de-

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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 —What is Teapot Dome? A—A naval oil reservation in central Wyoming. In 1922 it was leased to private interests by Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior. A congressional investigation into the legality of the leases led to disclosures of irregularities that resulted in several lawsuits, and the return of the oil lands to the government. Q —Was military service compulsory in Russia In 1834? How long were men required to serve? A—Russian youths were called for military’ service at the. age of 21. The period was 15 years—six in active service, and nine in the reserves. They served only such portion oP’the six years of active service as' was necessary to keep the army full strength, and the

realize that three-fourth of the people indulge m alcoholic beverages, more or less. They know, furthermore, that as drinking is widespread a system for its regulation must prevail. In the second place, it can be assumed that these statesmen, individually and collectively, look with favor on a few tall ones. There should be naught but acquittal, approval, for the statesmen under fire. Any accusation as to their authority should be striken from the realm of controversy for all time. There is no wisdom in assuming that the major part of creation, by its alignment with Bacchus, is destined to wind up in Hades. The agitators who preach calamity, and more calamity should be treated to a respite from their nightmares, a fairminded appraisal of the multitude must reveal the fact that the ship oi state is not headed for the rocks. The partakers of “cheer” are characterized largely by their regard for law and order. The uneducated over-step bounds and invite reproach, but they are not the whole works. The elite can pass them up with impunity. The virus of loose conduct may prove a lure to those lacking all moral force, but that influence will not undermine the temple of civilization. Call it what you may, case or tavern system, drinking culture is unmistakably on the upgrade. Today’s social gatherings are largely a glad-hand frolic of the “right people.” It will be a boor, indeed, who will insist upon the right to become paralyzed before “company.”

livering every man over to be plundered by his neighbor and in teaching him to believe that it is a good thing for him and his country’ because he may take his turn at plundering the rest.” When I ask for a job the indus-

rest of the time they were on furlough. Young men possessed of a certain amount of education were permitted to volunteer at the age of 17 for a short period, thus escaping compulsory active service. After this short active period, they either took an easy examination and went into the reserve, or took regular officer’s examination and became army officers or reserve officers. Q —What is cullet? A—Broken or refuse glass, a certain amount of which is used with raw materials in the manufacture of glass. Q —Must applicants for second citizenship papers apply to the court in person? A—Yes. Q —How long is the northern boundary of the United States? A—Excluding Alaska, but including the water boundary through the Great Lakes, it is 3987 miles. Q —What is the address of the British Medical Association? A—Travistock Square, WC 1, London, England.

trialist says-, “Can you produce the goods?” But it is .a different story when it comes to him. He wants the farmer and the underprivileged laborer to stand the losses brought about by his inefficiencies. He looks down on the man who begs on the street, and the man on relief, not taking into consideration that he himself put them there. The industrialist is lower than the beggar when he asks Congress to put a duty on an import that makes him use his brains to compete with it. He admits his laziness when he asks for it. His argument and main line of hooey, the American high standard of living, sounds nice, but it is not very widely distributed. The ballyhoo is identical with that of the low swindler. The only person’s welfare that he is looking after is his own. He is the loudest mouthed guy who raves about President Rosevelt's practice of giving the farmer and the underprivileged laborer a bounty, or subsidy, commonly called relief. Os course, it was all right when Harding, Coolidge and Hoover made it possible for him to raise the price of his commodity and make a greater profit through the mechanism called the tariff. The profit was spent on undue expansion; thus he hoarded his money in a way a little different from the miser. Daily Thought But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.—St. Luke 6:24. TO have what we want is riches. but to be able to do without is power—George Macdonald.

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OCT. 19,1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. —A head-on collisioin over neutrality legislation is brewing behind the scenes. The present law expires Feb. 29. Meanwhile the State Department is at work on a oill, to be offered as the Administrations measure, which would give the President wide discretionary power. On the other hand, Senators Nye, Bone and Clarx, authors of the original neutrality proposals, plan to renew their demand for a law- mancat orilv banning munitions, loans and war materials of all kinds to foreign belligerents. . . . Floyd Dell, widely known novelist, is the latest addition to the WPA's writers' division. ... If Chairman Henry Fletcher has his way the meeting of the Republican National Committee. tentatively scheduled for early December, will not be held in Washington. Fletcher favors a Midwestern city, first because it is more centrally located, second because the atmosphere of the capital is too Democratic. . . . After much uncertainty, the Federal Trade Commission finally has been supplied with funds to start the Senate-ordered nation-wide probe of food prices. An appropriation of $150,000 to make the survey was contemplated, but Huey Long's filibuster of the deficiency bill prevented the grant. After -everal months of searching the Budget Bureau found a way to make $70,000 available to the FTC, which will suffice until Congress meets. a a a THE inner circle is buzzing wiih a report that Madam Secretary Perkins soon may retire from the Cabinet. Her absence from Washington for nearly two months ■is lending strong color to the whisper. Reports are that Miss Perkins is being tempted with the job of heading a nationally known college. However, the rumor should be taken with a grain of salt. Miss Perkins is attached ardently to her job and proud of her high official eminence. . . . Employees of the Works Progress Administration have been instructed never to refer to the McLean mansion, recently rented for office space by Harry Hopkins. Instead, they must use "1500 Eye Street." Even verbal use of "McLean mansion” is frowned on. ... A drive to line up the lawyers of the country against the Administration has been quietly launched by the Liberty League. The entire membership of the American Bar Association is • being circularized with application blanks to join the League’s committee of lawyers ! which "handed down” an unofficial i opinion holding the Wagner labor I disputes act unconstitutional. ... A j snappy long-distance telephone call from the Federal Alcohol Administration the other day caused an Eastern brewery hastily to withdraw a full-page advertisement • that carried a picture of the President and the line: "Mr. President, we 1 thank you.” tt tt DAN ROPER'S Department of Commerce is staging a highpressure sales act in the interest of United States aircraft manufacturers. By inviting South American aviation officials to Washington, then allowing private companies to take them over the nation’s airways, the idea of United States superiority in aircraft is being driven home. The act was timed to beat Europe to this new market. French, German and Italian companies are to try to*sell their aeronautical stuff at a conference in Lima, Peru, next month. ... It is no figure of speech to say that William Warner Durbin is the New Deal's master of money ! magic. As registrar of the Treas- ! ury, he handles government securiI ties. But in spare time he is an amateur magician, taking money ; out of the air and making it vanish i again. He is president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, j . . . Homer Price Rainey, New Deal’s latest brain truster, was a I professional ball player before he became president of Bucknell Unij versify. Since quitting the Texas | League Rainey has gone in for ten- | nis and vocal virtuosity. Booked for a part in ".The Messiah,” he | sang lustily through an hour's rehearsal, directly after having cleaned up the Bucknell tennis championship. In Washington he will be j another adviser on youth. . . . Revolt against California's sales tax was staged by her would-be Governor the other day. j (Copyright. 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

By George Clark