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THI.'PSDAV OCTOBER 11 1935 THE ROAD TO WAR \r ESTER DAY'S ements by President Roose- -*■ ' 1 end Secretary Hull, again warning Amer- )■ an r,'i,(n not to trade wdth Ethiopia or Italy, are ir.die <*ive oi the Administration? stiffening determination: * 1 Not to permit American business interests to oh true! the collective peace efforts of the League o! Nations: 2 Not to permit use of American goods to prolong war; and 3 Not to permit desire for '‘temporary and risky war profits'' to endanger American neutrality. The traders have had their warning. It they pei.'ist in pursuit of war profits, and their goods are confiscated or their ships sunk, the American people, wc trust, will uphold the Administration in refusing to spill American blood in revenge for lost profits But apparently tho Administration does not intenri to risk this nation’s neutrality on such an "if." I he Amerr an government.” the President said, "j keeping informed as to ail shipments consigned for export to both belligerents." Should this cheek reveal that persuasion has Jailed, the Administration may decide on more forceiul action. When and il the time comes to make that decision, the big problem will be to lay out a course of action that can be followed when and if the war spreads and other powers become belligerents. We hare but one objective—to maintain the right of peace-loving Americans to keep out of other people's wars JOHNSON ON WALLACE r | ■'HE trend ol cash income for American farm- * ers: 103’ $4,328,000,000 1033 3,11 .000.000 1034 6.387.000,000 1033 (probable) . 6.800.000.000 4* # * Results of the last four AAA referenda, m which the farmers were asked whether they wished to continue under the control of Secretary Wallace: December. 1034, Cotton—B9D per cent favorable. December, 1934. Tobacco —07D pci cent favorable. May. 1035, Wheat—B6 per cent favorable November, 1935, Corn-Hog—B 6 per cent, tavorable. Gen Johnson says the farm problem "is a business problem involving control of production, marketing and distribution.’ and therefore the fob of running the farm program should have been turned over to "the man of business who had given the most cf study, effort and sacrifice,” namely, the general’s friend George N. Peck. We agree that Mr. Peck is a sound agrarian and an able citizen. But the general also says that "the ruminating Mr Wallace" is floundering around in the job of Secretary of Agriculture. Tell it to the fanners. General! NOW THEY’RE IN FOR IT T TIDDEN somewhere in the bar’s rode of ethics, -*■ * and often forgotten, is a prohibition against any lawyer drumming up litigation. That is the reason you never sec a lawyer's paid advertisement m a newspaper, and it explains why ambulancechasing shysters arr held in such low regard in the profession. There arc more subtle ways for lawyers to promote themselves, of course, and seldom do they risk censure. But the 58 lawyers who have undertaken, for the American Liberty League, to pass on the constitutionality of all controversial New Deal laws apparently have not been quite subtle enough to escape criticism For seven members of the grievance committee of the American Bar Association are to meet in Columbus two weeks hence to examine charges that lno Liberty League lawyers are guilty ol what might be described as constitutional ambulance-chasing. Tiic grievance committee is asked to rule on thres questions concerning the practices of the Liberty League lawyers. Boiled down, the questions are: 1. Is not their encouragement of litigation both unethical and criminal? 2. Does not their offer of free legal service handicap all other lawyers in collecting fees? 3 Should not the bar association repudiate such practices, even though indulged in by men "of prominence and eminence in the profession"? Wouldn’t surprise us if the bar association did something about this —especially in view of charge No. 2. THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS x j EXT Tuesday ’s scattered elections hold little LN| promise lor politicians anxious to test New Deaf sentiment. Kentucky is electing a governor, but Democrats have been so badly split since the primaries that a Republican victory is a possibility quite without regard to national issues. Kentucky is electing a congressman, also, to succeed the late .Cap Carden, but this election takes plp.ee in a district that has seesawed between Republican and Democratic candidates, giving each side a small majority in alternate years. Ohio and Illinois have congressional vacancies. Put neither state is filling them this year. Ohio is having a series of municipal elections, but several attempts to drag in national issues have been unsuccessful. Strong newspaper supporters of President Roosevelt arc supporting Republican city nominees on the strength oi local issues. In most of tlie Indiana city and town elections, the issues are entirely local. Philadelphia is electing a mayor, and the vote will probably dc taken as a gauge of the strength oi the renascent Democratic organization there. New York elections promise the most interest, because Republicans have hammered away at national issues almost to the exclusion of local ones Anew assembly is Doing electioned and Republicans are trying desperately to wrest control ot this branch oi the state government from Democrats. They have sent a caravan ot Republican speakers on tour through the riate. and have enlisted the services oi oHicial? ol the Republican National Committee, who have talked exclusively of the Roosevelt Administration. Less attention has been paid to tne two New York

City congressional contests, but if Republicans should in either oi the two vacant Democratic scats it would be a sensation. Special primaries and finals to be held soon in Michigan probably will shed little light on the national picture. Henry M. Kimball, whose death has left a vacancy in the Michigan congressional delegation. was a Republican, and another Republican success in his district would mean no more than it did in 1934. Primaries will be held Nov. 19 and finals Dec. 17. A year in advance of his bid for re-election, power companies have started a drive against Rep. D J Driscoll (D . Pa.) because of the part he played m bringing to light testimony about faked protests against the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. But if the campaign continues, a number of Democrats of national prominence have indicated they will speak for Driscoll, and the outcome of this battle is a long way in the future HEALTH S HEROES TNELEGATES to the twenty-fifth clinical congress cf the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco hear that public health in North America is almost twice as cood today as it was 10 years ago. One reason is that this country is blessed with such devoted public servants as Dr William Hallock Park, head of New York City's world-famous Department ot Health laboratories, who this week paused long enough in his w r ar against disease to receive the Roosevelt Medal and the affectionate acclaim oi fellow-scientists. Dr Park is 72. two years over the retirement age. He works on ceaselessly against man’s unseen foes, the germs of diphtheria, tuberculosis, cholera, scarlet lever, influenza, measles and the rest. He’s been at it for 40 years. Once, w r hen a human test was required lor a new' vaccine for infantile paralysis, Dr Park and five others rolled up their sleeves and used their own bodies for experiment He has no children oi his own. but he has been a medical forster-parent for all of America’s children lor decades. No one can estimate how many lives he has -saved. This week he was described as "a living link between science and the common life,” Dr. Park is no isolated figure. He is one of hundreds of similar souls daily risking life and health in the fight against disease. Their reward is neither the riches oi commerce nor the glory of war. Sometimes there is recognition like Dr. Park’s, or lame like that oi Pasteur. Behring, Roux, Madame Curie and Metchnikoh. More often there is only oblivion. Yet they have their reward in the knowledge that they are saving lives, not taking them. ONE POINT OF VIEW On Radio Censorship ''y'HE Federal Radio Commission and its recent -*■ successor, the Federal Communications Commission. have clung to the position that as long as they and“ not in advance prohibit or edit specific broadcast material they are not violating the law’ which expressly forbids all censorship of radio programs. . . Tire real question is this: Is there as much freedom from restraint in the use of radio as in the use of the press, or of the human voice in public? The answer is: No . .It (the commission) lias relied wholly on the vast power placed in its hands by the maintenance ot short-term licenses—a power not based on the law', which merely says that licenses shall be for not more than three years—and wherever it has disliked a station’s programs it has threatened not the penalties of the law. but the extralegal pain of summary extinction. . . . The result—the only possible result—is that every broadcaster in the country lives in abject fear of what the commission may do. t Henry Adams Bellows, former member oi the Federal Radio Commission, in Harper's Magazine.)

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT Bv Mrs. Walter Ferguson .

TTOME-MAKING first foil into disrepute because it was so often confused with housework. That is to say, most women who wanted to train their daughters to be good wives concentrated on reaching them to bake, sweep, scrub and sew, to chase dirt and track down germs. Over and over the oldiashioned girl was told that her first duty to her husband was to cram him with rich foods and keep his house immaculate. For all she knew, here ended her matrimonial responsibility 1 hat eia turned out some of the best housekeepers and worst wives this country has ever known. By the time we had watched these highly trained women lose theii husbands to the first pert incompetent who came along, and seen their hearts breaking from neglect and their children running away to avoid contact with their kitchen-sink minds, we decided that perhaps just plain hard work wasn't enough to make a happy marriage after all. So we rushed off to the opposite extreme. There began the great rebellion against tradition. We heard snorts of disdain every time the housewifely virtues were mentioned The home-body lost her prestige, and girls went in for laziness and sex appeal Domestic arts were almost wholly abandoned while the hallmark of the perfect wife was the beauty shop’s official seal. If a woman was a good looker, a gracious hostess, and walked like a Hawaiian dancer, she felt herself prepared for all matrimonial emergencies. But alter a while the general male exodus from the home started once again. Now the men walk out on their beauty queens just as they did on their perfect housekeepers. That’s why the middle of the road is begining to look good to us. The girls, disillusioned about rouge and lipsticks as they used to be about domestic grubbing, are leaning toward the more conservative virtues. Because they know man must have bread and yet can not live by bread alone, they are taking pride in their ability to keep house and at the same time cultivate their mental and spiritual gifts. According to all the signs, tomorrow's girl should make a humdinger of a wife. Whatever may have been the case 10 years ago, America is now old enough to be told the facts of life —Edward A. Filene. Boston merchant. 1 hope to see the time when our speakers will never again refer to our country as a democracy or speak of democratic principles. The use of those terms played an important part in the submergence of the Republican Party —Alderman L W. Fairchild, New York The most effective remedy for tryanny of any kind is publicity; it is a dictator’s deadliest foe Col. Frank Knox. Chicago. Human hie can not go on unless we forget a great deal It is so with nations. Is it useful to rake up past history to rouse antagonisms that should not exist?—The Rev. Dr. G W. Butterworth. New York Musically and on its own merits. "The StarSpangled Banner' would never be put on a high school prog! am -Dr John L Tirisley, as-utant superintendent, New York City high schools.

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/Times readers are invited to express then views tn these columns, reunions controversies excluded. Make Hour letters short so alt. can have, a chance. Limit them to S'o words or less. Your letter must he sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.l B B B READER’ GETS IT RIGHT BACK ON THE NOSE! By An American I have just turned away from your first edition and I am sitting down to write this note for your "Forum" almost in anger over the blindness of a reader who signed his letter just that. "Reader" was attacking the assertions of a gentleman named "The Doctor" who, it seems, had taken the British to task. Mr. "Reader” was boasting about English "honor" and slapping himself on the back for his English blood. The history of Great Britain’s empire is certainly far from an honorable one. The English took India m a series of bloody battles from the French, who already occupied India; they took Canada in exactly the same way from the French; and they would have succeeded in keeping these United States had they had a larger force of soldiers, or a more spirited group. America, luckily, was populated Dv soldiers who felt the need for fighting and refused to turn tail in fright. England’s "honor” was so great during the World War that her warships dredged up ano cut the German cables to the United States so that the great empire could send its flood of lying propaganda to the United States without feai of contradiction. England's "honor"! Such drivel. tt B B IT’S DISAGREEMENT THAT FITS SriCE IN LIFE By Just What’s “Lrft” of a Liberal "A Liberal” in Forum of The Times of Oct. 28 expresses his appreciation of Heywood Broun's column. Fine. I thoroughly agree. Too often, perhaps, those of us valuing honesty, sincerity and sanity in the press fail to give voice or support to our preferences. One wonders if. to that customary attitude. may not be ascribed the poppycock and propaganda that is currently spread across our editorial pages as the fruit of thought and wisdom. I, of course, allude particularly to the local situation. I most certainly do not include the editorial page of The Times in that condemnation. Out of respect for what. I suspect, are the ethics of the press, I can not of course, name the offenders. Pap may be an entirely satisfactory food for infants: Men demand meat. A daily reader of The Times, I often disagree with your policy in certain matters, or your viewpoint. Never have I felt that such disagreement was because of a lack of sincerity or common sense in what I had read. To say that of any newspaper, dependent on advertis-

Evening Star BY M. C. W. In western sky one bright twinkling star Pressed close to day, whose last blush slowly pales. Soft drifting clouds light-hued as flowers of blue Join hands to greet the dimming grey of night While briehter grow? the lovely distant star Midst lesser glow of many millions more.

UNCOMFORTABLE FOR HIM

Here’s the Bus Driver’s Side

Bv F. S. In reply to Mr. R. W.'s article of the 28th. I wish to state that there are many others of the same impression, due to lack of thinking and consideration on their part. I have been driving busses on the streets of Indianapolis for the Peoples Motor Coach Cos. for 10 years, under all traffic conditions, in all kinds of weather and on dry. w’et and icy streets from eight to nine hours a day. six days a w’eek. so I think I should know a little of this situation. As far as the company having a number one job for this w’eek: Safety has been preached to us until it hurts from aw’ay back. A majority of us drivers nave at least five vears' experience of every-day driving and handle a vast number of the city’s population. First, about the lanes of traffic: There are only a few streets in Indianapolis that are wide enough for tw’o lanes of traffic such as Delaware-st from llth-st to 16thst. The driver would prefer to us the inside lane because he has access to the curb at all times, and at the intersections any one making a left turn is not likely to hold him up. But for a few conditions that exist he can use onlv

ing. in whole or in part, is. I think, something of a compliment. B B B ATTENTION MR. GREENLEE: HERE’S A FRIEND By Lc Roy S. Moore. Bedford It is not the habit of this writer to take issue wdth initialed or

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp lor 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 —Was John Schrank, who attempted to kill Theodore Roosevelt, given a life sentence? A—He was adjudged insane and was committed to a state asylum in Wisconsin. Q—Did German submarines enter New York harbor after the United States declared war against Germany? A—No; but the submarine Deutschland arrived in Baltimore, Md.. in July, 1916. with a cargo of dyestuffs and mail, and returned to this country in October of the same year to take on a cargo of nickel and rubber at New London. Conn. Q —How does one roast corn on the ear in hot ashes? A—Remove the silk and replace the corn in the husk anc bury it in hot ashes for 12 to 15 minutes. Q —What is virgin wool? A—Wool not previously used in manufacture. Q —Please translate the Latin phrase. "Dominus illuminatio mea.” A—-The Lo;d is my light.” It

two-thirds of the lane in safety. I w'ill tell you of a few of those conditions; and there are many more. Imagine yourself operating a bus loaded with people, maybe 10 to 18 standing. You are using the slow lane w’ith only two feet from the side of the bus to the side of the parked automobile. Maybe: 1. A machine is double parked. 2. Someone opens a door of a parked car in getting out. 3. What about the messenger boy on the bicycle? 4. What of the driver that pulls away from the curb without looking? 5. Maybe someone is trying to park. 6. Maybe a child stops from behind one of the parked cans. 7. Maybe someone passing the bus crowds you to the right. 8. Maybe a car is parked with the back w’heels three feet from the curb. What would you do going 20 miles an hour? Please consider what the trouble may be, or w’hat reason the other fellow may have for doing what he is before condemning him. Do you consider the rights and safety of 50 people riding in a bus below yours? Give the bus driver a break and you w’ill get two in return.

anonymous authors. How'ever, the person who signs as "Reader” and assails Pleas Greenlee for his admirable dispensing of patronage only to members of his party should be scored roundly and brought out in bas-relief. This person claims to be listed

is the motto of Oxford University in England. Q —When it is 12 o’clock noon in New York City, what time is it in Lima, Peru? A—Lima and New York have the same standard time. Q —Was Carl Mays a right or left-handed pitcher? A—-Right hand. He was famous for his underhand delivery. Q —Which of the five boroughs in New York City has the largest area? A—Queens, which has an area of 109.88 square miles. Q—What percentage of the population of Poland is Roman Catholic? A—The Catholic population is 23.688.123. or 74.9 per cent. Q —ls the British navy the largest in the world? A—Yes. Q —Should a wedding present be sent to a bride when the donor is only acquainted with the groom? A—Yes. Q—How is the age of deer date rmined? A—The best method is by the teeth. They get their permanent teeth about the age of three, after which they wear off gradually with increasing age. Some have been known to wear down to the gums. Q —Where and when was Napoleon Bonaparte born? A—Corsica, Aug. 15, 1769.

as a Democrat. Stuff and more stuff. No true Democrat ever objected to the spoils system. All is fair in love and w ? ar and the victor will gather in the spoils for many a day to come. On election day this person no doubt asked the Democratic Party to fill his car with gas and oil supposedly to haul voters to the polls. This piece of chiseling completed, he probably drove the car around the block and into his garage. When the party won and the appointments were being passed around, this person no doubt applied for a place on the strength of his exhausting trip to the garage. Failing in this, he or she was naturally a sudden convert to the merit system. Many good officials have found their beginning via the patronage route. They all have to learn and are afforded the opportunity to “get on to the job.” No one is anxious when the elected city or county official goes into office for the first time. So why all the bother about political patronage? Mr. Greenlee, as long as you continue to hand out patronage to the deserving members of your party, I have only this to say: "More pow’er to you, Pleas.”

Daily Thought But w’hen ye shall hear of w r ars and commotions, be not terrified; for those things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. —St. Luke 21:9. THE next dreadful thing to a battle last is a battle w r on.— Wellington.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Go ahead! Travel—be a soldier of fortune. Nobody's keeping you.”

OCT. 31,1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. Tt TASHINGTON. Oct, 31 —NO V ▼ matter what may be the outcome of the African war, one thing is certain. Haile Selassie, Anointed of God. Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings. Light of the World. Descendant of Solomon. Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, will go down in history as one of the w orld s greatest salesmen Actually. Ethiopia is anything but an empire. It is a collection of tribes—Mohammedan. Coptic Christian. Negro, Egyptian. Arab, Semitic —whose chief occupation in times of normalcy is to pasture their flocks, till their fields, steal each others wives, refuse to pay taxes, and wage their own tribal warfare. The descendants of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon the Wise, have held only tenuous and sometimes broken reign over their nominal empire. tt a a DESPITE that history, Haile Selassie has sold Ethiopia to the world as a homogeneous, patriotic people with a culture and civilization worthy of preservation. Furthermore, he has won the entire world's sympathy. He has conducted his press conferences with a skill which even President Roosevelt might envy. He has shown an uncanny instinct for invoking exactly the right article of the League covenant at exactly the right time. His notes to the League have rung with an eloquence rivaled by few others filed in the dusty vaults of Geneva. Finally, his gesture of ceding onehalf his domain to American oil interests, just as it was about to be conquered by tire enemy, had a quality of tragic showmanship which deserves to rank with the wooden horse than vanquished Troy. Haile Selassie's salesmanship really dates bark to the days when, as prince regent, he set out to pay his respects to the crowned heads of Europe. a a a CONSTANTINE BROWN, co-au-thor of “The American Diplomatic Gamp.” tells how he met the future emperor at that time in Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo, accompanied by eight of his rases, w'ho suffered excruciating pain from the shoes they were forced to wear in the dining room, while their chief dined upstairs—barefoot. "These men are able, faithful souls,” explained Haile Selassie, "but their minds follow simple fundamentals. I am merely regent of my country, now, and it is possible that during my absence one of them might attempt to replace me. 1 did not want any one to lose his head as a result of such a brainstorm, so I brought _my rases wdth me. It is safer for them and safer for me. tt tt a NOT long after this, Haile Selassie made another attempt lo sell Ethiopia to the w'orld, when he discovered—in 1925—that Britain and Italy had made a secret deal to partition his domain. Selassie promptly wrote a note w’hich remains a classic among the archives of Geneva. "On our admission to the League,” he said, "we wrere told that all nations w’ere to be on an equal footing, and that their independence was to be universally respected, since the purpose of the League is to establish and maintain peace among men in accordance wdth the w-ill be God. . . . "The people of Ethiopia are anxious to do right, but throughout their history they have seldom met with foreigners who did not desire to possess themselves of Ethiopian territory. . . . "We should like to hear from the members of the League whether they think it right that means of pressure should be exejted upon us w’hich they themselves would doubtless never accept.” B B B REALIZING, however, the faults and failings of the League, Selassie turned his salesmanship toward the United States, sent as special envoy Dr. Waldo Martin, w r ho made a deal with the J. G. White Cos. to build a dam at Lake Tana. Martin also persuaded the parsimonious Mr. Coolidge to send an American minister to Addis Ababa despite the fact that Congress turned down an appropriation for a legation. Later the State Department helped send economic and educational advisers to Haile Selassie. i Copvriaht. 1935 hv United Feature Rvndica’p. Tne.i