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HUSBANDING OUR SOIL WHEN President Roosevelt launched the AAA attack on farm bankruptcy and disorder, he said that if the experiment failed he would be the htM to admit the failure and urge abandonment. But the program, having met the test of the emergency, having measurably restored farm purchasing power and the confidence of the farm population. the President now announces that the counti ■ will not turn back from the AAA experiment, hut will go forward to perfect it into a permanent plan for agriculture. Tne plan, he says, will be extended beyond control of the production and marketing of the great cash crops, which already has worked wonders in stabilizing farm income, it will be unified and simplified by enabling each farmer to enter into a single general contract with the government, affecting the use of all his acreage. This is to be done to foster a crop rotation that will conserve and enrich and bind down the soil that remains. If the President s program is carried out, it should tend toward elimination of the practices and conditions which have prevailed through several generations of wasteful individualistic farming. It should let> 1 off the periodic gluts and shortages of farm products, with low prices that have bankrupted farmers and high prices that have penalized consumers, and resulted in economic stress, which, as the President says, “compelled farmers to mine their soil of its fertility." Our gullied and denuded fields are our abandoned farm mines. For failing to adopt a positive land conservation policy long ago, we have paid the price of the permanent loss of billions of dollars worth of topsoil—blown away by dust storms and washed away by floods. No country in history ever has lived to a vigorous maturity without husbanding its soil. No country ever could. The President’s announcement may well mark the end of Americas profligate youth, and the beginning of her maturity. Under an autocratic government, the execution of such a plan would be comparatively simple. Under a democratic government, it can succeed only by the consent and with the co-operation of the farmers. In referenda such as that being held today among corn-hog farmers, democracy has an instrument for planning its future. DOLE’S END T)RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S prediction and Harry Hopkins’ promise that the Administration wall reach its goal by putting 3,500.000 employable jobless to work by Dec. 1 is cheerful news. These new wage-earners will face winter’s rigors more hopefully with wages instead of doles in their pockets. Frequent postponements of the famous “deadline' have been disappointing, but they were doubtless inevitable in so colossal an undertaking. Much more disappointing is the type of work many of these Federal jobholders will be called upon to do. Last January the President laid down as his No. 1 principle that all the work under the new’ program should be “useful—not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the nation.” t How much, one wonders, of the new made work will measure up to this standard? Were this vast spending program only a four-billion-dollar investment in human hope and social morale it would be justified. But if it encourages state and local laxness or fosters the spirit of dependence it will prove a positive evil. Because of these dangers the Federal relief program must be ended as soon as it is humanly possible to end it. First, the states, counties and cities should knuckle down to their duties, furnish adequate relief to 1,500.000 unemployables, keep up their social services and prepare to co-operate in the social security program. One-third of the heads of relief families are unemployables, but only 17 states, up to June of last year, were contributing as much as onethird of relief costs. The slacker states must do their part. Next, the call to private givers can not go unheeded. Thousands of families of jobless and partially employed need the aid of hospital, clinic, day nursery and other services maintained by Community Fund and similiar organizations. The 1935 slogan of the Mobilization for Human Needs—" Bea Good Neighbor''—challenges each of us to give what he can. But to private industry comes the loudest call. Since it must provide the bulk of taxes for Federal made-work it can not afford to loaf or play Levite. The President looks hopefully in this direction. He estimates that nearly 5.000.000 have been put back to work since March, 1933. To the extent that this number increases, the sorry expedients of doles and improvised made work will recede into an unhappy past. “It. is,” President Roosevelt says, "your hope and mine that the necessities of government relief furnished by funds received by taxation should decrease as rapidly as human needs will allow.” POLICE AND POLITICIANS T'HE United States leads the world in anti-crime facilities, but is lacking in co-ordination and has far more crimes and criminals than comparable European countries. Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings, just back from Europe, said he had dedicated himself to leaving in the Justice Department a "permanent contribution’ toward law enforcement, in the form of a bureau of crime prevention, which he hopes will remove the country's claim to pre eminence in wrongdoing. In England and Wales together he found that all types of public prisoners number only 11.000; in France there are 40.000. and in Belgium 4000. In the United States the number, including Federal, state and county prisoners, is 220.000. Allowing for differences in population, the American prisoners number more than twice those of the other countries. But there are extenuating circumstances. Many offenses are legal crimes in the United States and are not in Europe. Further, the great number of automobiles in the United States has produced a list of crimes that are of minor importance in countries not so extensively motorized. This counuy's great area, too, must be consid-

ered. In the Urschel kidnaping case, Justice Department men covered seven states of 684 000 square miles in their investigation. That area is equal to several European countries plus the British Isles. The crime prevention bureau, Mr. Cummings said, will "round out” the facilities of his department. He expects it to disseminate information on crime problems and stimulate public interest in preventing crime. Also, he added, it should provide a training school for United States attorneys, marshals and other officials concerned with crime. "Many important crimes are definitely interstate,” he said. "We have broken the back of this evil with new laws extending Federal power along well established constitutional lines. We must go further. Police work snould become a profession. Local jealousies and politics must be eliminated.” That sounds like sense to us. WORM IN THE BUD ■'HERE is what Cowper called "a worm in the bud of youth” today. Between 7,000,000 and 8,090.090 young Americans from 16 to 25 are jobless because of the nation's inability to solve its unemployment problem. Others are pouring forth from schools and colleges every year. Some have turned to the open road, others to radical movements, others toward the devices of crime. At best the bulk of them are bound to suffer some loss of youth's most precious assets in enthusiasm and self-confidence. The Administration’s belated National Youth Program can merely scratch the surface of the need. With $50,000,000 to spend, it can employ at most only a scant 600.000. If these about 370.000 are to be kept in school and college under scholarships and 230,000 employed in part-time work. The time of others may be absorbed in PWA’s adult education work or in local recreational projects. Possibly more could be spent in scholarships. While the school plant can not absorb all of these young people and many are unwilling or unequipped to go to school, the schools and colleges seem best able to take on the burden. However, to expect the government to meet the “youth problem” alone is to expect the impossible. Here is no isolated problem. It is one with the economic mess we’ve made of things. Until this is straightened out, young people as w’ell as older ones must carry on the best they may. DR. BLOODGOOD AND CANCER <By Jane Stafford, Science Service) r T~'HE name of Joseph Colt Bloodgood and the fight for cancer prevention are inseparable, for the Baltimore surgeon who died Wednesday was one of the most vigorous fighters in the war against this dread killer. Publicity was his chief w r eapon in the fight, although at times his use of this was frowned upon by conservative colleagues. But the thousands of cancer patients who came to him in advanced stages of the disease, too late for his surgical skill to help them, convinced him of the necessity of educating the public and the doctors to detect and treat cancer early. Publicity, in newspapers and magazines and public addresses, was the method he used. Asa result, many a middle-aged or elderly woman today doubtless owes her life to Dr. Bloodgood, though she may never have heard his name. But she had heard or read his warnings telling the danger signals of cancer —the lump in the breast, the unusual bleeding—and she had heeded his advice to seek medical aid at once. Dr. Bloodgood, of course, was not the only cancer expert to issue such warnings, but he was one of the first to co-operate with newspapers and magazines in giving this information publicity and he was one of the most persistent in his efforts to educate the public and the physicians. His activities led to the establishment of an annual short course in cancer diagnosis for physicians and pathologists. Medical scientists from all over the country in recent years have gone every fall to his laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to study under the microscope specimens of cancer tissue from his enormous collection and to confer with him and his associates cn how to detect the disease in its earliest stages. Laymen on the alert to report to their physician at the first sign of possible cancer; physicians everywhere ready to detect and treat the disease in its curable stages—that was his dream, and Dr. Bloodgood lived to see it at least beginning to come true.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TF charming manners and hard work are really reA cipes for success, then every salesman for electric cleaners ought to be president of his company. They're all artists at their business. Last fall I got to thinking something must be done about the family cleaner, which was in a sad state of disrepair. You probably wont believe it, but didn't one of those fellows show up the very next morning! Since then, there's been a continuous procession of them at my door. They've taken turns cleaning everything in the house; closets have been demothed, bedding scientifically aired, chairs and couches gone over and carpets kept in first-class condition. There is a particular rug in the front hall for which all of them make a bee-line. It’s a rich red, thick and velvet soft, just the thing for a demonstration. Each has had a go at it. They’ve sprayed it with their liquids and applied all their gadgets on an average of once a week since early summer. Impeccable manners, added to a line of talk which is enough to elicit any female's admiration, make these visits actually entertaining. It is, of course, a delicate situation; they do not wish to accuse me of being a bad housekeeper, yet they must get enough dirt out of my house to arouse my pride and thus make me buy a machine. The red rug never fails them. With the manner of a magician showing you the empty hat just before he takes out the rabbit, they display a piece of snow’ white cloth which they place over the mduth of the suction After a brief contact with the rug, the darned thing always comes up plastered with dirt. Miniature mountains have been drawn from that one bit of floor covering, a neverfailing supply of pleasure for the salesmen—and how their eyes glisten as they triumphantly show it to me. Well, my mind is made up. When one of them goes over that rug with his very latest improvement in cleaners, and fails to get a showing, I shall enjoy the sight of his crestfallen face and surprise hint by buying his machine. Men have codes of behavior that prevent them from stealing and murdering, but nations have none. —President R. E. Galbreath, Westminster College. Every unnecessary political government employe is. so to speak, sitting as an uninvited guest at meals with every family in the United States, eating a part o£ their food.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. America certainly will be drawn into war if we continue the present policy of trading with warring nations.—Admiral William S. Sim|.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reunions controversies excluded. Make vour letters short so alt can hai'o a chance. Limit them to 2SO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) a a a REFLECTIONS ON BANK MIGHTS By a Reader It was a public-minded printer who exposed the alleged fraud in the bank night drawings at the Rivoli Theater several days ago. Those who intend to perpetrate a fraud will be just a little more careful the next time. It can be done, and the public can be “taken in” again as easily as not. In all such lotteries there are gamblers who must always try Lady Luck’s disposition; there are always sponsors of the game who possess a keen appreciation of the chancetaking instinct of the public, and lastly there are always persons tempted to crime. These three factors always caused trouble and always will. We don't have to expose such trouble to the moving going public, however. I sincerely hope these drawing will be declared illegal. a a a DEPLORES RETIREMENT OF SENATOR NORRIS By Progressive The news that Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska will retire from public life at the end of his present term in the Senate—he has a year to serve—is bad news for all Americans who believe in good government. Few men have served in the Senate as long as Senator Norris, and few have left so great an imprint on the political life of their time. Despite the fact that he has been "agin” things most of the time, he has had some exceedingly substantial accomplishments on the positive side. He put over the "lame duck” amendment almost single-handed, thereby making our Federal government more efficient. He wrote his own power program into Federal law. He persuaded his own state to

Sunset BY BERTRAM DAY The shades of light were falling toward the east While Venice, silent city of the sea, Lay dressed in powdered gold for autumn’s feast And caught in beauty's net for you and me. Transcendent was my soul as I beheld The liquid labyrinths reflect the sun And saw old marble palaces upheld By brilliant sunset, as man's work was done. And woven looms of life, long in the tomb, Were souls of mystery from “Book of Gold.” Who prayed in poems, painted in the gloom, And are forgotten, thus the tales are told. O Jeweled Barge, that lapping waters lave, Your splendor scintillates from every wave Ii

MELANCHOLY DAYS

Why England Opposes War in Ethiopia

By a Doctor If your memory is good enough to reach back three years, you can get a pretty fair idea why Mussolini is going ahead in Ethiopia in defiance of the League of Nations. You can also get a good line on the sincerity, or otherwise, of the great powers which are holding their hands aloft in pious horror over his actions. Three years ago the Japanese set out to help themselves to Manchuria. Like Ethiopia. Manchuria was a potentially rich land held by an extremely weak people. According to all the old rules of the game, it would belong to the first nation that had the nerve and the strength to walk in and take possession of it. The Japanese elected to be that nation. It is instructive to note what happened thereafter. The American government made a series of sharp protests. The seizure of Manchuria (afterward renamed Manchoukuo) was in violation of sundry treaties. It was also a palpable case of aggression by a strong nation upon a weak one; and since Japan had been a member of the League of Nations since the league's foundation, the case was promptly referred to Geneva. Where, in those far-off days, were those English statesmen who have been talking so loudly of late about the need of collective resistance to unprovoked acts of aggression? Did they move heaven and earth to obtain a league boycott of Japan? Did they advance right to the edge of war to put pressure on Tokyo to give up its undertaking?

abolish its cumbersome, old-fash-ioned form of government and adopt anew one in tune with the times. These are great achievements for a man who has consistently played a lone hand. The United States Senate will be immeasurably the poorer when George Norris leaves it. a a a DEMANDS BETTER RELIEF FOOD By Hiram Lackey This is an emergency. Yesterday, in the waiting room of the Transient Service Bureau, a youth asked me for the alms necessary to buy a

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If your memory of those days is any good at all, you do not need to be told that they did not. The one nation to make a forceful protest was the United States, which was not even a league member; and the altruistic English, far from backing us up, left us ’way out on a limb with our protests, so that the Japanese concentrated upon us all the resentment they felt at foreign disapproval of their program The thing to remember is that the Japanese adventure in Manchuria was almost an exact parallel to the Italian adventure in Ethiopia, If Italy merits a rebuke and collective resistance by the league, so did Japan. Why should the British be so conscientious about league obligations in the present case when they cared not a fig for them in the former one? The answer to that one is easy. Japan’s act was not a threat to the interests of the British empire; Italy's is. Manchuria is surrounded by China, Siberia and the dim regions of Mongolia; Ethiopia, by Egypt, the Sudan and Kenya colony. England loses nothing by Japan’s conquest; she may lose much by Mussolini’s. All this is worth keeping in mind. If the present situation grows more serious, European publicists ‘presently will tell us that it is our sacred duty to aid the league. If we remember the Manchurian case, we shall be able to take that news with the proper amount of salt.

night’s lodging. He has been refused the continued relief which his present needs demand. He complained of the hardships which he suffers by sleeping out in the cold during these frosty nights. He explained that if he continued to, fail to get relief, he would have to steal. Os course, I was broke. A man can’t keep money and remain a Crhistian in this land of misery. He urged me to do something. We recall that The Indianapolis Times was not backward in condemning John Dillinger for his in-

erly involves a liberal education or its equivalent, and mental rather than manual labor; physician, lawyer, etc.” Q —How old is Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? A—She was born Oct. 11, 1884. Q —ls the noun generation singular or plural? A—lt is a collective noun, singular number, and takes verb in the same number. Q —How many clergymen of all denominations are in the United Slates? A—The 1930 census enumerated 148,848. Q —Are the widows of former Presidents Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, living? A—Yes. Mrs. Cleveland is now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr.

stability. In view of the fact that the politicians of your choice are in full power, that you have won in your fight against the relief of inflation and against Communism, is it not your duty to investigate and give this problem the consideration which the inherent dignity of man demands? Decency demands that relief for that youth should include the quality of food which builds resistance to disease, such as an abundance of fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs and whole milk—not the mere sweets and starches of the slop and garbage allotted by your politicians. I mean that this youth deserves the kind of nourishment which I hope you enjoy for your lunch and dinner. Do you understand? This is true of all persons who are willing to work in this land of plenty. This is not a time for politeness and courtesy. I know how to use the language of grace, but I would not employ it if I were to pass your home tonight and, knowing you were sleeping within, discover that your home were wrapped in flames. In daringly courageous language, it is your privilege to state facts in terms of reality so that justice may be obtained. Daily Thought I will therefore chastise him, and release him.—St. Luke 23:16. THE certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.—Tryon Edwards,

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Now, do hurry, Jackson. They’ll surely can me if I’m late to tyork again today.”

OCT. 26,1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBE RT S. ALLEN. TTTASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Pre i- * dent Roosevelt is a fairiy r ular correspondent with King George of England. The letter wn - ing began after the President s mother was a guest of King George and Queen Mary, and Roosevelt wrote personally to thank them. Since then he has continued to pen in his own hand an occasional letter to the British monarch. . . War and Navy Department chiefs are planning to take advantage of the war-threatening situation in Europe to launch preparedness drives at the coming session of Congress. BUL providing for an expanded Army and Navy are being quietly whipped into shape. . . . Florida's hardworking senior Senator, Duncan l . Fletcher, received the follow ing If - ter from a worried constituent: "17ns is to let you know I am against the Townsend old-age pension scheme. I have too many other things to worry about without; being compelled by the government to spend S2OO a month.” . . . Any doubt as to whether Rep. Fled M. Vinson would again sponsor the American Legion's bonus bill at the coming session was dispelled la>t Sunday. Led by National Commander Ray Murphy, a delegation < f state and national veteran lcatie , journeyed to Ashland. Kv„ to participate in a home-town rally n r i Vinson, at which he was acclaimed as the Legion’s ball-carrier on the . bonus. . . . Thirty-one-year - o 1 i Blackwell Smith, retired NRA lcc.d chief, has been succeeded by another youth. He is Burr Tracy Ansell. 29-year-old Harvard law 'graduate who broke into the news la 5 spring when he took a sock at tha late Huey Long in a crowded Washington dining room. . . . Federal Trade Commission insiders predict, that Colonel Charles H. March is to be the next chairman of the agency. Judge Ewin L. Davis, present chairman. is to step down Jan. 1, in accordance with FTC procedure of rotating the chairmanship. a a a TWO of the nine elaborate suites of offices in the new Supreme Court Building are vacant. Jintices Mcßeynolds and Brandeis prefer to do their work at home. . . . I It is a struggle for Henry Wallace ! to avoid the practice of medicine. | Last spring he sent to his lowa | friend. Congressman Fred Bierman," a bottle of allantoin as a possible cure for the foot ulcers that had kept Bierman on crutches. I acted like a miracle. Since then Wallace and his department’s Dr. William Robinson have been flooded with requests for the medicine. (Note Robinson discovered the healing effect of allantoin from experiments with maggots. Knowing that maggots are used by physicians to heal wounds, he tried to find what gave them that power. It proved to be the substance allantoin, which maggots discharge as they work their way through a wound) . . . Robert i Fecnner doesn't get excited when ! he hears that mutiny has broken I out in one of his CCC camps, as iit frequently does. "It must be the | cook.” he says, knowing that he is j spending 50 cents a day on each member, as compared with 27 cents 1 a day spent on transients in FERA camps. a a a THE investigation of tha American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. by the Federal Communications Commission may be expanded at the coming session to include radi„ networks and independent stations. Several Senators, who put over the A. T. & T. probe, are aroused over numerous complaints of discrimina- | tion and censorship by radio operators, and are talking of opening ! fire on them with a sweeping investigation. ... In a telegram sent | to a number of coal companies ask--1 ing for urgently needed statistical information, the officially hard-up Bituminous Coal Commission con- ' eluded: "Please do not reply collect, as we have no funds to pay i for your answer.” . . . Bureau of Labora Statistics employment figures for September showed such a i marked gain that Commissioner I- - Lubin would not believe them, i He telegraphed for a re-check by i the 135.000 manufacturers through - I out the country w’ho supply the ; data on which the monthly report !is based. This delayed the statej ment several days, but Lubin re- ■ fused to issue it until he had satisfied himself that the original boom- | ing figures were correct. (Copyright, 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i