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THE LEAGUE’S FUTURE ORITISH PREMIER STANLEY BALDWIN, in U a week-end speech, indicated the possible failure of the League of Nations in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. But, he added, such failure would not mean the end of the League itself. “It would say, rather,” he ventured, "that if this first attempt by the world to secure peace fails, let us see whether our machinery, or whether our work, may have been at fault. Let us try again, and let us see once more whether we can not get those still outside the League to join.” Apparently he had America uppermost in mind. If the League fails in this second effort to head off a war—not the first, as Premier Baldwin said, strangely forgetting Nippon's conquest of Manchuria a few years ago when Britain was not so enthusiastic for world peace solidarity—the failure can hardly be laid at America s door on the ground that she did not come in. Her aloofness perhaps weakened it. But her failure to join had nothing to do with Japan’s withdrawal, nor with Germany's, noi, apparently, with any of the League's most pressing difficulties in this crisis. Ihe non-co-operation of Germany and Austria and Hungary- the latter two League members in good standing—would seem sufficient to nullify the League's economic sanctions against Italy. And should the League take the next step—blockade !he United States, we believe, can be depended upon to make no effort to break down the blockade. So if the League fails again, other weaknesses borides the failure of all of the world’s nations to become and remain members will need to be investigated in any attempt to strengthen it as a world agency for peace, in any event, the League will not die. Despite its failures, it is too useful an instrument of humanity for the world to permit its extinction. “IT’S OUR JOB” readers eager to see a brighter side • ~ of our economic picture than they find on the lugubrious editorial pages of the anti-Roosevelt newspapers should turn to the financial pages of the same papers. Here they may read such realities as these, headlined in current issues: "Executives see traae upswing . . . Nation said to be ready for the greatest replacement in history . . . Boom in 1936 predicted . . . 500 sales executives told there will be buying waves in consumer goods, machinery housing.” "Rail loadings gain 16.2 per cent over year ago .. . New high since 1931.” “Earnings data reflect gains in building field.” "Auto trade plans for 1936 output of 4,500,000 units . . . Attainment of pbjective would mean production above 1923-29 average.” “Corporate financing gains in September . . . $261,910,000 in new capital compares with $6,176,000 year ago.” “Electric power production again sets record high.” “Cotton consumption up 54.520 baies.” "Republic Steel's net earnings estimated at $500,000.” “Farmers turn heavy buyers—Farm income this year is estimated at 6.7 billions.” ‘‘Best October in five years seen by survey , . . Industrial production is estimated 18 per cent above year ago.” "Continental Can earns $4.23 a common share in 12 months period . . . compares with $3.78 in corresponding 1934 period . . . income at record high.” “Inland Steel 9-momhs net may pass best full year since 1929.” "Associated Dry Goods declares $3 dividend on first preferred." "Office equipment firm reports higher profit.” "Continental Baking net $501,985 in 13 weeks.” a a a look like realities, indeed; as if we are definitely on the way. But how long the upturn will continue is, in our opinion, dependent altogether on how wise business is in its distribution of the gains that arc now occurring. The soundest advice to business that we have seen is tiiat expressed by Vice President Charles Francis of General Foods in a talk to 500 of his sales executives in New York. "This is no time for political criticism,” he said. "If there is going to be a substantial and enduring recovery, we've got to pull ourselves out in spite of our wonderment and disbelief in many activities going on about us. It's our job.” Much of the business improvement to date can be traced to government spending. But this spending can not continue forever. Private business must take over the show. Before business today are all the makings of a healthy boom—a vast, highly civilized, but temporarily threadbare country, millions of whose people are under-housed, under-clothed, under-equipped with simple comforts, and even under-nourished. Mr. Francis reminds business that right here is "the greatest potential market on earth.” Last year only one pair of trousers was manufactured for every three males, only one overcoat for every 11 men. only two pairs of shoes per adult male, a felt hat for every four. Coats and suits were limited to only one woman in three. Three-fourths of our motor cars aie mote than four years old. Farm machinery is dilapidated. Millions of homes are in a “primitive state.” But, to furnish these millions with what they need now and in the future is more than merely a making and selling job. Lessons of the depression should prompt finance and industry not onlj 1 to the distribution of goods to the multitudes as times pick up. but also to the distribution of the increased wealth in higher wages, shorter hours and shinty reserves in order that the number and purchasing power of customers may constantly rise, a balance of production and consumption be attained—and then maintained. All that can't happen—the vast potentialities of our domestic markets can not be realized—on any such per capita income as that which now exists, with one one-sixth of 1 per cent of American families having S7OOO a year or more, 6 per cent S3OOO to $7500, 23 per cent SISOO to S3OOO, and about 70 per cent less than SISOO. Prof. Neystrom of Columbia estimates, and we believe his conclusion is by no

• means fantastic, that at 1933 prices a minimum health budget per family required $1512 a year. We may have temporary recovery, recovery in spots, but we can not have what Mr. Francis calls enduring recovery, so long as there are 10,000,000 industrially unemployed and 70 per cent of the population living at or below the danger line. If private business, accepting long-haul recovery as "our job,” will employ the vision that is called for, the sky will be the limit for the future prosperity of this nation. MICROBE HUNTERS ■pvß. R. E. DYER, United States Public Health Service research worker, is ill in Washington's Naval Hospital from a streptococcus infection he suffered while perfecting a serum to prevent typhus fever—a scourge Mussolini's soldiers will find more deadly than enemy guns. Three years ago this famous “microbe hunter” suffered an attack of fever as the result of his deter- | mined fight to subdue typhus germs. Men who sicken and die in civilization’s eternal war on disease forego the glory won by fighters on 1 martial battlefields. But the future—if the war--1 makers leave the human race a future—will raise higher monuments to them. | Their reward will be anew beatitude like that of | the peace-makers: Blessed are the savers, not the | takers of life. A STATES’ RIGHTS MEASURE A/TOST of those business leaders who attack the new Social Security Law oppose it under the Hooverian argument that it will despoil the American worker of his individualism and "Europeanize” him. Now comes Silas Strawn, ex-head of the United States Chamber of Commerce, saying "The Social Security Act is a usurpation of the rights of the states.” This is exactly what it is not. Os all the New Deal’s "modernization measures” this one most consistently seeks to preserve freedom of action for the states. In its unemployment insurance plans and its grants-in-aid for the aged poor, blind, crippled and dependent children, health and child welfare, this act treads on the familiar ground of tradition. The barest minimum standards are required of the states in return for Federal help and guidance. So far, nine states and the District of Columbia have jobless insurance laws; within the limits of a few Federal standards these laws vary widely to meet the popular demands of the states they serve. Only in the contributory old-age benefit system does this act operate federally. This, all experts agreed, was made necessary by the insuperable difficulties that would be met in computing state by state contributions and benefits for millions of workers. a a o I only the experts but business leaders appear to be out of step with Mr. Strawn. Indeed, some of the harshest criticisms aimed at the Wagner-Lewis bill in and cut of Congress were that it lacked the unity and efficiency of a straight national undertaking. Secretary Daniel Roper's Business Advisory Council recommended that "unemployment insurance take a national form.” In a society of fluid capital, migratory industries, shifting labor markets, seasonal, technological and cyclical forces, unemployment is a broad social hazard,” said these industrial leaders. Ihe Administration’s advisory council of business and labor leaders also agreed that unemployment compensation should be on “as nearly a nation-wide basis as possible.” Confronted, on the one hand, with a dual Fed-eral-state political system and, on the other, with an industrial system that sprawls across state lines, the framei sos this measure had to make terms with reality. The co-operative Federal-state system they evolved may not be perfect, but as its impelfections are proved it can be changed. The courts and the people, we believe, will absolve it of Mr. Strawn’s charge of Federal bureaucratic invasion of states’ rights. Whatever its faults, the new Social Security Law is 100 per cent American.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson _

| TJOW much liberty should we allow drunks? This question was raised by a great-g.undmothc.* of my acquaintance, who told of a train trip on which eight men and two women passengers made the journey a misery for the sober travelers. I was never so mad in my life,” she snapped, and her eyes verified her belligerency. “Why, they ran in and out of that diner, and all through the train, making nuisances of themselves. They yodelled and screamed and knocked people around until the place was a bedlam. I just had to bless out the conductor, and v hen I asked the porter if such goings-on were j common, he said: -Oh, lady, they gits that way j sometimes. They ain't meanin' no harm.’ ” | Most of us find ourselves occasionally in a similar I situation and I, for one, get as mad as the old woman I who “blessed out the conductor.” Thci e seems no logical reason why sober people should have to put up with such carryings on from drunks. Tiresome, maudlin, pointless as their con\ersation can be, and wild as are their antics, we tolerate them since it's the custom in good society. But letting drunks take the place doesn't strike me as intelligent behavior on the part of the soberer element. We hear, however, that when the American Legion delegates swarmed over St. Louis, shopkeepers were cautioned to close their stores, and a saloon man who watched his place being wrecked was advised to take it in silence. We also know that in hundreds of less destructive instances we do take it, i mainly because there has grown up a feeling that we j must be gentle with the drinkers. They are supposed ' to be funny, so the drinker is accorded special priv- | iliges when he is "not himself." A sorry reward to sobriety, if you ask me. ——— The American housewife—ah! Her roast turkey, chicken pot pie. and hot breads have the once predominant French cooking on the run.—George Rector, famed food connoisseur. I Both the old parties have been and are continually conniving at the reign of monopoly. One refuses when in power to enforce the law against j monopoly and the other when in power suspends , the law. —Senator Borah. Labor thinks more of the Constitution than the Liberty League ever thought of it. They want to restore the liberty to starve to death.—Senator Rush D. Holt, West Virginia. What of it if Italy was found guilty by a committee of the League of Nations? 7.t happens in the best families that one loses a case at court.— The Rev. Dr. J. A. F. Maynard, New "h ork, defending Italian cause. A man who succeeded Roosevelt would have a tough job and would probably be the most unpopular man in history.—Gov. Alf J£. Landon, Kansas.

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(Times renders are invited to express their views in these columns, relinious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be tcithheld on reauest.) ana SAYS CAPITALISM DESTROYS SELF, CIVILIZATION By R. L. Rees The plan of Mr. Maddox to redistribute jobs under capitalism would not work. The worker receives about one-fifth as his share of W'hat he produces. He can not buy back all he produces, which leaves a surplus to fill capitalistic warehouse. Labor is then laid off. We now have about eleven million unemployed, with unemployment steadily increasing at the end of each school semester when the young enter adult life. It is unjust to deny them or any others to live their lives amidst decent surroundings. Also, capitalism is installing more labor saving devices to benefit it and not the worker. This adds more to the unemployed. Capitalism in its greed for power and profits can not see that it is destroying civilization and itself as well. How can a man look his fellow' worker in the face and tell him he is selfish because he wants his rightful share of what he produces? No single individual can do anything for the workers; but there isn't anything they can't do to better their condition if they would unite into a co-operative commonwealth. Manufacture for use and not for profit would benefit everybody. How much longer are we going to remain stupid slaves to capitalistic greed which has us in the grip of a permanent depression unless we use our power of the vote to break it? a a a MR. METZGER WOULD MAKE GOOD TOWNSENDITE By W. A. D., Clermont In reply to Mr. C. H. Metzger's proposed old-age pension plan, I believe he would make a good Townsendite if he had the proper instructions. Sorry to say he has forgotten one of the principal parts, that is, the amount of pension to be paid, SSO. $75 or SIOO per month might be enough to pay board at a hash house, but it will never put the wheels of industry to rolling. What this country needs is not less than S2OO per month to all over 60 years of age, so that they can buy necessities, luxuries and anything that will create a job for someone who is now working on relief work. Stop the government appropriations of millions of dollars yearly spent for labor that will never return a cent. Practically all relief

Old Letters BY EDNA CUNNINGHAM I’ve read them all over, (Your letters to me) And tried to pretend That they came recently. Os course, you and I know That they're really quite old. And the love that inspired them Has grown careless and cold. But I can’t tear them up! (I’m foolish, I guess) For each tender word Still breathes a caress. A

ABOUT TIME, TOO

It Is to Laugh, It Seems

By H. M. R A. You folks have written so much, and displayed so many pictures regarding “safe driving” that I had occasion for a good laugh on the morning of Oct. 17. On Pennsylvania-st, between Washington and Market-sts, headed south, about 9:45 a. m. a car driven by a woman (of course) stopped without giving any signal, double parked too, and al-

work I have seen around Indianapolis is just money thrown away as far as a return in any substantial good is concerned. It is a disgrace to the American citizen, when they see the price of living commodities and what the men get that are on relief work, nan SEES TOWNSEND PLAN AS TAXATION CURE By %V. L. McNeer The letter of Mr. Arthur L, Duncan in your issue of Oct. 14 surelyhit s the spot. The present security legislation surely is inadequate and

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp ior 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. Kerhy, Director. 1013 Thirteenth-st, N. W„ Washington. D. C. THE EDITOR. Q —How is “safety” or non-shat-ter able glass made? A—Two flat sheets of plate or window glass are placed in a steam-heated press, with the laminating material, usually pyrolin, between. The two sheets adglass itself is broken, it will not break away from it, and if the glas sitself is broken, it will not shatter or fly. Another form of “safety” glass is the triple-deck “sandwich,” which is bullet proof. Q—What is the derivation of the name Lolita? A—lt is an elaborated form of Lola, a Spanish diminutive of Charlotte. Q—Can mildew be removed from canvas? A—Make a thick paste of bicarbonate of soda and rub it into the material. Allow it to stand in the sun for a day. Q—How many photographers are there in the United States? A—The 1930 census enumerated 39,529. Q —Who were the first inhabitants of Ireland? A—Native legends affirm that Ireland was inhabited first by various tribes of which the most important were Nemedians, Fomorians, Firbolgs and Tuatha De Danann, who were eventually subdued by Milesians or Scots. Although Ireland is mentioned under the name of Irene in a Greek poem five centuries before Christ, and by the names of Hibernia and

most caused a truck to hit her car. The truck in trying to avoid a crash, almost struck an elderly man. It was such a ridiculous place to stop to unload three women that I took particular pains to look at the car. On the side was written words to this effect: "Marion County Safety Drive. Deputy Sheriff’s Car No. 5.” Now laugh that off!

highly ineffective. Why is it that no one thinks of the non-taxable plan as advocated by Dr. Townsend? Every bit of legislation proposed is aimed at the taxpayer and when someone like Dr. Townsend puts forth a plan which relieves the depression and at the same time removes the fear of old age without burdening the already overtaxed taxpayer, our legislators fail to see it. There is no admission charge to any of the Townsend meetings and any one who wishes to learn more about it than he hears from the ridiculing uninformed, may have the

Juverna by various Roman writers, little is known with certainty of its inhabitants before the fourth century A. D.. when, under the appellation of Scoti, the Irish armies became formidable by their descents upon the Roman Province of Britain. Q~Can a triangle have more than three sides? A—No, because by definition, a triangle is a portion of a plane bounded by three straight lines. Q—Who said, “One on God’s side is a majority?” A—lt originated with Wendell Phillips in a speech on John Brown, delivered at Harper’s Ferrv Nov. 1, 1859. Q —What is the Jewish population of Great Britain and Ireland? A—The latest available figures are 300,000 for Great Britain and northern Ireland, and 3686 in the Irish Free State. Q —Do any states have laws that absolutely disfranchise Negroes? A—No. Q —What is the title of the song sung by Grace Moore in the Lake Placid winter sports scene in the motion picture, “Love Me Forever”? A—“II Bacio” ‘"The Kiss), an Italian street song. Q —What kind of wood is commonly used to make guitars? A—The sides and back are usually made of maple, ash, service, or cherry’. not infrequently adorned with inlays of rosewood or other woods. The sound board or face is of deal. Hard woods, such as ebony, beech, or pear, are used for the neck and fingerboard. The bridge may be of ebony. Q—Which state leads in dairy ( products? A—Wisconsin.

opportunity by attending these meetings. ana TOWNSEND PLAN CALLED FAR FROM DEAD By O. K. Tamplin Is the Townsend Pension Plan dead? Far from it. Attend the club in your neighborhood and learn what is being done. There are more than 30 clubs in Indianapolis alone, with memberships well above 1000 in some clubs. There are from one to five clubs in every town of any size in Indiana. The National Townsend Convention convenes Oct. 24 to 27 in Chicago where history will be made and for once our politicians will sit up and take notice that they are on the wrong side of the fence. Chicago expects and is planning for the largest convention in its history. Delegates will be present from every state and county of the United States. It is understood there are seven train loads (300 to the train) of delegates coming from California, Oregon and Washington. Five hundred people expect to attend from Indianapolis and vicinity. Railroads and bus companies are making special rates during this convention. No, the movement is not dead. You will see increased activity after this convention. The official Townsend Weekly states more than forty million voters of the United States have signed the Townsend petition to date. That is considerably more than voted at the last presidential election. The New' Deal has failed. Why not try the Townsend plan, dear American citizen? With the Townsend plan in action Communism and Fascism would die out.

IDE GLANCES By George Clar

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Washington Merry-Go-Round

By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN A TLANTA. Oct 21—This metropolis of the Southland has become a laboratory for one of the most important of New Deal urban experiments—slum clearance. People here would prefer you did not call it ‘‘slum clearance." because they claim they never had any slums. Atlanta is not a beautiful city, but it is proud and efficient, and it prefers the term “low cost housing.” At any rate, Atlantans are glad to get rid of the huddles of dirty shanties which feature the Negro quarter in almost every southern city, and in doing so. they have won the distinction of almost completing the first low cost housing project of the New Deal. a a a TN doing so, furthermore, Atlanta has come face to face with certain problems which may be typical of the heartaches in store for all slum clearance projects in every part of the country. That is why housing experts in Washington have taken out their microscopes as far as Atlanta is concerned. Chief problems encountered are: 1. To collect taxes from low cost housing projects, since they are owned by the Federal government, which can not be taxed. 2. To reduce the cost of the new buildings low enough to meet the budget of the average “slum” occupant. 3. To attract that occupant into the new buildings even though the cost is sufficiently low. a a a ONE day some years ago. Atlanta's chief of police was patrolling the Negro slum area, viewing it from the brow of a low hill. The lawlessness that he saw so aroused him that he lost his balance, according to the story, and slid all the way down the hill into the slum area. The chief’s name was Beaver, and since then the place has been called Beaver Slide. The things that Beaver saw have continued ever since. It has been a place where no self-respecting person worked or cared to w’ork. Here and there, a woman took in washing. But for the most part, what money came in. came from illicit sources. It was to Beaver Slide that farmers brought their "corn” to be bootlegged to all comers, white or black. Prostitution, gambling, and brawls were the means and the methods of Beaver Slide living, while those of a playful disposition made passes at each other with “switch-blade knives.” But Beaver Slide kept its crime to itself, and had its own code o£ retribution. Its disorders trouble the city of Atlanta only when they were disorders of health, for, though black morals may be winked at and segregated, contagion knows no color line. a a a IT is on the site of “Beaver Slide” that the new' project known as “University” now stands. The question now is: Will Beaver Slide move into University? It is a test question, not merely important to Atlanta, but to housing authorities everywhere, as a gauge for the entire country. And the answer is No. When the people of Beaver Slide who carried their few sticks of furniture out of the shacks and stood by to watch the Secretary of the Interior pull a switch, blowing up one of their homes, they established anew "Dark Town” around Larkin and Hunter-sts. They did not w r ait for the clean new brick houses, and they never will. There are two reasons for this. One is the fact that the people of Beaver Slide can t pay even the low’ rental of $5 a month a room. The other is that they wouldn’t live in the new houses even if there were no rental at all. They prefer the shadow's of the alleys to the immaculate conspicuousness of the new buildings. (Copyright, 1935 bv United Fca’ura Syndicate. Inc.i Daily Thought How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of w'ar perished!—ll Samuel 1:27. IET the gulled fool the toils of j war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few'. —Shenstone.

Bea Good Neighbor Contributed to the Indianapolis Communltv Fund , by George Clark, who draws "Side Glances.'’

OCT. 21,1935