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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1935

THE ECONOMIC 111 DGET TN hi*;.conferences with industrial leaders. President Roosevelt stresses a discrepancy of far greater significance than that between government income and government expenditure. This is the gaping chasm between industry's output of goods and the wages of those who must consume the goods. Industrial production, the President points out. has now reached about 90 per cent of what it was five years ago. But only 82 per cent, as many people are employed in production now as were employed fire years ago. Furthermore, these employed wage earners are earning only 74 per cent as much as they did at that time. Here, in a nutshell, lies the chief cause of the country's continuing economic stress. The great American economic budget is out of balance. Our big industrial plant is turning out almost as much goods as it did in 1929, but the country is not keeping pare in buying power. Until this economic budget is balanced, with production and buying power forming a healthy equation, we shall have the thing that chiefly causes unbalanced government budgets, a great relief load. To balance the economic budget requires the help and co-operation of industry with government. Employers must employ mpre men and pay more in real wages. For a time the government can borrow and tax and employ the idle millions in public works. But it ran not keep this up forever. The President is appealing personally to industry's leaders to help work out this problem. How else can the Administration encourage the co-operation of business? On<’ thing it can do is to set to work now on—ft a THE GOVERNMENT BUDGET SOME political observers assert that an Administration oner committed to a policy of government spending as an instrument of recovery can never retreat,, that to do so would be to make the fatal political mistake of admitting error. But it so happens that the Roosevelt Administration has never rommitted itself to the fallacy that, inflated government spending ran work a permanent solution of our economic ills. From the start, the President has Insisted that the extraordinary government expenditures should be curtailed as fast as private business re-employs the millions of human beings east adrift in the depression. It is true that private industry has been disappointingly slow in re-employment of its cast-offs. But it can not be denied that one of the major causes of timidity of business has been uncertainty over the government's fiscal policies, arising out of the failure of the Administration to start closing the gap between the government's income and outgo. Five fiscal years of operating in the red have almost doubled the public debt. But the next five years, rather than the last five, hold the key to recovery. Private business is in a healthier condition today than it has been at any time since the depression started. And one way, we believe, for the Administration to contribute to the vitality and permanence of the presem business upswing is to knuckle down on the government budget. The President has given the politically popular assurance that, new taxes will not be necessary. But this assurance business men will continue to doubt until they know that there will be a sharp contraction in the scale of government spending. For they realize, and the President also must, that existing tax rates alone can not possibly restore the government to a sound fiscal basis. So, in order to give business additional confidence, to remove the spectre of inflation which hovers over the unhealthy combination of swollen bank reserves and a continuing national deficit—to remove private industry's excuse, if you prefer to state it that way—it would seem that now is the time for the President to make judicious use of that brand new blue pencil which he displays proudly as a gift from his director of the budget. DEATH REJECTS A BRIBE A SINGLE gesture or a sentence may reveal more of a mans character than a full-length biography. There was Dutch Schultz, for instance. Fatally shot, he was still able to reach into his pocket when he arrived at the hospital. 'Here's something for you. pal." he said. "Take good care of me.” He pressed into the hand of the interne who bent over him a roll of bills—s72s. A natural and revealing gesture. Hadn't money always done its stuff? Did it ever fail him in a tight place? Wouldn't it buy anything, from “protection" to a champagne dinner? Why suppose that it wouldn't also bribe Death? We seem to see Dutch Schultz standing before the pearly gates, plucking by a sleeve the good, graybearded figure who guavas the portal. "Here's something for you. pal,” he says. "Take good care of me." What a surprise it must have been when his hand came away empty from the shroud that had no pockets, and he realized at last that there are some situations in which money doesn't talk! THRIFT S RETURN AMONG the nud-Victonan virtues that seemed for a time to have been swept under by the Whoopee Era was thrift. Signs are abroad indicating that this exile may yet return to save us from anew avalanche of private and public debt. One of these signs is a survey, Just made public, indicating that 50 American cities have reduced their long-term debts and are on the highroad toward an economy of balanced budgets. Several, in fact, are fighting toward the goal of complete debtlessness and a pay-as-you-go fiscal policy. Oklahoma City is reported as farthest advanced. This city of the Southwest went on a “cash basis” In 1929. Since then operating surplus has advanced steadily and bonded debt has fallen from 519.509.000 to *15.695,500. Atlanta cut its debt from $17,375,000 In 1929 to $13,163,900 this year. Milwaukee has embarked on a program to wipe out all its debt. It has reduced its bonded indebtedness from $46,380,000 In 1932 to $39,712,000 in January of this year. These records are exceptions, to be sure. Cities of

J the herd-hit Midwest and of the Pacific Coast, where relief burdens havp been stupendous, have piled up soaring deficits. Ail too common has been the tendency to avoid the hard ways of economy and ■ taxation and take the easy road of the borrower. News that some cities are responding to an aroused public demand for balanced budgets is encouraging. The primrose path of increasing debt leads to inflation. repudiation and ruin. The human race has as jet found no substitute for thrift. THE MARTIAL VIRTUES TF the United States wants to avoid war's horrors •*- it must do more than curse the war-makers or preach a passive pence, says Dr. Lloyd H. Ziegler, a New York psychiatrist. It must adopt what the late William James calls “the martial virtues,” and substitute for man-killing "a moral equivalent” that will meet youth's craving for “a strong life.” Prof. James urged that we conscript our young men. not for killing other young men. but for fighting “the immemorial human warfare against nature.” Und°r his utopia each fit young man would be used for a number of years in the state's service. “To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dish-washing, clotheswashing and window-washing, to foundries and stoke-holes and to the frames of skyscrapers, our gilded youths would be drafted off. according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas,” he wrote. Such a conscription, he argued, would preserve the “manly virtues” sung by the military party, without war s degrading duties and its tragic aftermaths. “We should,” he argued, “get toughness without callousness, authority with as little criminal cruelty as possible and painful work done cheerily because the duty is temporary, and threatens not, as now, to degrade the whole remainder of one's life. So far war has been the oniy force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. But I have no serious doubt that the ordinary prides j and shames of social man, once developed to acer- ; tain intensity, are capable of organizing such a moral | equivalent as I have sketched, or some other just as effective for preserving manliness of type, j “The martial type of character can be bred without war. Strenuous honor and disinterestedness abound elsewhere. Prisests and medical meVi are in a fashion educated to it, and we all should feel some degree of It imperative if we were conscious of our work as an obligatory service to the state. We should be owned, as soldiers are by the army, and our pride would rise accordingly. Wc could be poor, then, without humiliation, as army officers now are. The only thing needed henceforth is to inflame the civic : temper as past history has inflamed the military I temper. . . . “We must make new energies and hardihoods ; continue the manliness to which the military mind so faithfully clings. Martial virtues must be the enduring cement; intrepidity, contempt of softness, surrender of private interest, obedience to command, must still remain the rock upon which states are built —unless, indeed, we wish for dangerous reactions against commonwealths fit only for contempt and liable to invite attack whenever a center of crystallization for military-minded enterprise gets formed anywhere in their neighborhood.” Prof. James’ peace draft of youth would seem to require a Spartan or socialistic state. But even in our individualistic republic we could reach for the martini virtues. Is not the CCC just the sort of “moral equivalent” he dreamed of? ONE POINT OF VIEW On Slum Clearance TF slum clearance and new’ housing do not “pay,” why do them? That is not businesslike. The reasons for rehousing the poor are not all business reasons. Disease and crime are encouraged by letting human beings live in places that would make a herd of pigs unhealthy. But. merely as a matter of money, the real reason for housing is something outside of the relation between construction costs and rent. Surveys have shown that the typical slum pays small taxes and costs the taxpayers large sums for police, fire protection and hospitalization, not to speak of the expense of jails and reform schools. The citizens as members of the Community Chest are called upon for additional money to relieve the social distress caused by filthy living quarters. A large part of these expenses can be saved if the people can be giv£n sanitary housing with grass and trees around it. Subsidized housing is not a noble charity to the poor. We ask the poor to be kind enough to move into better quarters so that they will not so often get into sickness and other troubles that cost us money. They can not afford to move, so we have to pay part, of their expenses. (From “Brass Tacks,” by David Cushman Coyle.)

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson-

TN Cincinnati this year social agencies organized A what they called “See for Yourself Tours,” on which groups of people were taken to the places where Community Fund contributions are spent. Organized charity needs this kind of interest. Without it, the task of raising funds will become I harder every year. Most of us, you know, are not ungenerous. We are like the priest and the Levite in the parable—ours is the sin of omission; we iust turn our heads away and pass down on the other side, leaving the task of aiding the unfortunate to the more imaginative Good Samaritans. Yet we have the liveliest curiosity about our friends and their business, and are in a constant state of agitation over the doings of the people in our social set. We want to know how- the Smiths manage to keep iheir children in expensive schools, how the Joneses get along with their mother-in-law and whether the Browns are going to be able to pay for their home. What's more, we can worry ourselves half to death over the next door neighbor’s cousin's baby who is dangerously ill, mainly because we have seen the child, know its parents and are thus able to imagine their state of mind, and in a measure share in their anxiety. But we sleep in comfort under the same little slice of heaven that covers hundreds of other babies who are crying for milk and whose parents’ hearts are breaking as they listen. It isn't charity, or pity, or money we lack. It's imagination. Our minds are not quite capable of picturing the sorrows of the unfortunate, the pains of the sick, or the fears of the helpless. If the rich could only visualize the lives of the poor, as the poor dream about the lives of the rich. Im thinking things would be more pleasant in our tops\ -turvy world. America will never get ahead if it gets one the night before.—James Schermerhorn, writer, in Detroit address urging return to prohibition. The blueprint of .the New Deal was good. The hopeless tangle of today is not the paths then plotted.—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson.

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(Times readers are invited to express ttieir views in these columns, relipious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short so all can have a chance. Limit them to S'O words or less. Tour tetter must, he sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) HE WONDERS WHERE THE CYCLE TOLICE ARE By \V. T. H. Nothing has struck me so forcibly about Indianapolis recently as the amazing lack of motorcycle policemen. Why is this? We hear so much about safe driving and yet we have no policemen around to arrest the wild drivers. I have been driving automobiles in this city for a dozen years and I can never recall the time -when we seemed to have so few motorcycle officers. I honestly can't recall having seen a motorcycle policeman for more than a month. Have they been taken off duty? ana HIGH TRIBUTE IS PAID JUDGE RALPH SMITH Bv Theodore C. Smith, Bailiff, Appellate Court of Indiana The passing of Judge Ralph N. Smith, of the Appellate Court of Indiana, will be mourned by thousands of citizens of this state. I have known Judge Smith intimately for the past five years, and know that no one could ever have a truer or better friend. I served as bailiff of the Appellate Court under Judge Smith and his associates for five years. He honored the good that was in every man, regardless of race, creed or color. The memory of a great man never dies. It lives on and on in the hearts of all who knew him. it a a APPRECIATION IS VOICED BY NAVAL RESERVE By Lieut. F. F. Knachel The members of the Fourth Battalion. United States Naval Reserve, in Indianapolis desire that I express our sincere appreciation to you for the excellent co-operation given by The Indianapolis Times during the observance of Navy Day. If at any time throughout the year, we can be of any service to you or your newspaper, please remember that we shall esteem it a pleasure to respond. nun ANOTHER BALLOT FOR CIVIL SERVICE Bv J. S. I desire to add my 2 cents’ worth, if you will permit me, to the reader who expressed himself so fluently about Mr. Pleas Greenlee, the socalled patronage dictator of the state administration. For I, too, am open-minded about Mr. Greenlee. I am unwilling to believe all the things I have read about him in the local newspapers, Tired Heart BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL It tires my heart and soul to care for you My love’s a strain I scarcely can endure And vet I am in love sincere and true And I'd give all to feel myself secure. Those few rare hours of bliss we sometimes share Are paid for with long hours of pain and doubt It's not worth while and yet each day I'll care A little more until my heart wears out.

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Does Mr. Broun Call His Shots?

By Anti-Broun “It seems to me” that the lib-eral-minded gentlemen who wrote you praising Heywood Broun are a trifle over-enthusiastic about Mr. Broun's “liberalism.” I can't be termed a “liberal.” because I don't happen to believe that way. I'm a middle-of-the-roader, so to speak, but I enjoy liberal writings for a different slant. But whoever calls Heywood Broun a “liberal” is certainly stretching a point. Mr. Broun to me is an out-and-out radical, flaming red. The writings he produces are magnificent from an including your own courageous publication, and I am willing to give him a break. But Mr. Greenlee's actions haven’t struck me as being of the kind that w’ould make him an ideal Governor. For too long have we suffered under the blight of patronage. We

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing: any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, Frederick M. Kerby, Director, 1013 Thirtecnth-st, N. W„ Washington. D. C. THE EDITOR. Q —What is the population of Soviet Russia? A—The official estimate of Jan. 1, 1934, was 168,000,000. Q —What is the annual salary of the Governor General of Northern Ireland? A.—Ten thousand pounds, or approximately $48,000. Q—When will the next presidential election be held A—Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1936. Q —How were the early Colonial American Dutch ovens made? A—They were round, square, or oblong, with an open front. The round variety was often fitted with a spit turned by a handle on the outside, to roast meat. Otherwise the ovens were used for baking. The open side was set close to the fire, to receive the full heat. Usually they were constructed of tin, which gave them the name of “tin kitchen’’ or "Dutch kitchen.” The bake kettle, a covered receptacle on high legs to set over the fire was sometimes called a Dutch oven. Q—Who appoints the Federal judges? A—The President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Q—Give the derivation of the expression. “Fiddler’s Green.” A—lt originated as a sailor's term for a happy land beyond all care, or Heaven, where credit is freely given, and there is always a lass, a glass and a song. Q —Can Bird of Paradise feathers be imported into the United States? A—Live Birds of Paradise may be imported, but the tariff act prohibits the importation of their plumage.

entertainment view’, but whoever takes him seriously is really cheating himself. I regard Heywood Broun as slightly cockeyed in many of his beliefs. He has no consistency about any one thing, as I see it, and if he will come out in the open and say that he is a first-class humorist and wishes to be classed mat way, I’m for him 100 per cent. But if he is going to insist on being called a “liberal,” I am going to list myself as strongly antiBroun. He claims he’s not a radical, he’s not a purely comic writer, but a “liberal.” Not for my money. can’t have efficient public service if the Democrats who have built up a certain degree of efficiency in four years are tossed out on their ears when a Republican administration takes office. And the same is likewise true of Republican office-holders who are

Q—Can glass be made 100 per cent transparent, so that it will not reflect a single ray of light? A—lt is not even theoretically possible. Reflection necessarily accompanies refraction. Q —When was the act passed that establishes the present quota limitation on immigrants? How many quota and non-quota immigrants have been admitted since 1925? A —The immigration act of 1924 established the present quota limitations. From 1925 to 1934, inclusive, the total number of quota immigrants was 990,923, and nonquota immigrants 1.835,210, Q —How long was the film of the motion picture, “Wings,” and what was its running time? A—lt contained 12,267 feet and -ran about two hours and fifteen minutes. Q —ls the game ping pong ’-egistered? A—Ping pong is the registered trade name of Parker Brothers, Inc., Salem. Mass., for a table tennis equipment manufactured by them. Q —What is the record attendance for a football game in the United States? A—More than 120.000 at the Notre Dame-Southern California game at Soldier's Field. Chicago, Nov. 16, 1929. Notre Dame won by a score of 13 to 12. Q —How did the term pennynails originate, and what does it signify? A—The word originally applied to the price per hundred, and now the grades ten-penny, five-penny, etc., signify lengths. Q— By whom are American Ambassadors to foreign countries appointed? A—By the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. Q —Can a pure-bred bitch produce pure bred pups from a pure bred sire if she has previously had a litter by a mongrel sire? A—Yes.

removed to make way for Democrats. We can obtain the best public service by placing every possible employe on civil service. That will pave the w’ay for higher grade service in all branches of the government and give us a type of employe which we are sadly lacking. When Mr. Pleas Greenlee takes the stump and says: “I'm for civil service,” then I, too, am for him solidly. tt ft SS AND HERE S A CITIZEN “AGIN” TAXICABS By Another Motorist I’m not quite in agreement with the gentleman who criticised the bus company for its busses which ride in the middle of the street. If he had said the taxicabs, I would have cheered. Thousands of other Indianapolis drivers feel the same way about these taxi drivers. They are a menace to public safety and the number of accidents caused by taxicabs is beyond count. This city certainly will never solve its traffic problems as long as taxicabs are allowed to “cruise” around the downtown section, steering in and out of traffic every time they spot a prospective “ride.” When we get the taxicabs down to a reasonable number then we'll have better and safer streets. Dffily Thought O Lord our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!—Psalms 8:9. A NAME is a kind of face whereby one is known.—Fuller.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I always forget, from one year to the next, just how much trouble and how uncomfortable this is.” i

_NOV. 1, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. "ITTASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The VV naval conference to be he’d in London next month is not pnrticularly impor r ant except to pav* the way for the big naval conference in the spring of 1936. But behind the scenes some extremely important, though ironical, warship dickering has already been going on. Probably it will be denied officially. but American and British naval officers are all set for a little AngloAmerican co-operation at the expense of the Japanese. The deal revolves around the British need for a larger number of light cruisers—which we don t consider practicable—while we need some new 35.000-ton battleships—■ which the British consider extravagant. Hitherto, British and American admirals have scrapped like cats and dogs over these two types of vessels. We wanted the British to build fewer cruisers and the British wanted us to build smaller battleships. But in view of the Japanese demand for parity, American and British admirals have come to terms. Their idea is to let the United States build more big battleships while the British will build more light cruisers—probably about 20. And both navies are ready to serve an ultimatum to the Japanese that they will build two to one against them, unless the Nipponese give up their claim to parity. an a A FORMULA for an alternative to the Triple-A farm program is being written in the Capital right under the nose of the New Deal. Author is Dr. Ernest S. Griffith, dean of the Graduate School and professor of political science at American University. Much mystery surrounds the sponsor of the undertaking. Inner administrat ionites fear that Deari Griffith is in the secret employ of the G. O. P. to write the farm plank for their 1936 platform. Asked about this charge. Dr. Griffith laughed, replied cryptically, “Wait and see.” “Who’s Who” lists the dean as a Republican. It also notes that he is the holder of “miscellaneous speed and endurance records in mountain climbing.” a a a BELIEVE it or not, there are several hundred Republican post- , masters still holding office. Big Jim Farley, despite his reputation for-patronage avariciousness, is allowing them to fill out their terms. Asa result he is having his troubles. Farley is being bombarded with contentions that the holdovers are potential sources of strategic Republican campaign activity, and should be replaced with loyal Democrats. So far, however, Jim has resisted this pressure, has replaced Republicans only as their terms expire. But—certain Republican leaders claim Jim merely is being wily. They say that, with a few’ exceptions, the Republican holdovers are Hoover appointees, and that Jim is keeping them in office hoping they will work: for Hoover's renomination. NOTE—Hoover is the man Jim thinks it would be easiest for Roosevelt to beat. b b a ONE of the prized treasures of the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress is a collection of early American “dime novels.” . . . The map division of the library is proudly displaying a map of Ethiopia, once the personal possession of Emperor Haile Selassie. The map. decorated with pictures of the emperor and his empress, was presented to Dr. Homer L. Shantz, president of the University of Arizona, who gave it to the library. . . . The Federal Trade Commission has quietly launched its na-tion-wide investigation of food costs by sending several agents to Detroit. The automobile metropolis was chosen for the opening survey because of its recent strike of housewives against meat prices. . . . Politics is not the only thine that makes strange bed-fellows. Immediately adjoining the headquarter*> of the Democratic National Committee in the National Press Building is the law office of Robert Lucas, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. He is now’ a strong booster for Col. Frank Kr.ox. iCopvrieht, 1935 hv United Feat'ir* Syndicate. Inc.t