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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1935,

THE NEW CAR SEASON

are beautiful new streamline models which you, the average automobile user, will see on display at the Indianapolis automobile show. Machines of many hues and many improvements. And as you ponder whether to trade in your old car for anew one this fall, or wait until spring, you hold in your hands the success or failure of a great experiment. The automobile industry has risked millions in the hope that the public will change its buying habits, now that the motor vehicle has become a year-round necessity instead of a summer luxury. If the public responds, the industry can overcome a costly characteristic—the irregularity of employment which was spelled misery to the families of hundreds of thousands of workers in the automobile and kindred industries. At President Roosevelt's request the industry moved up the introduction of new models by two months in an effort to level off the extreme seasonal peaks and valleys of production and thereby provide months of steady employment for workers whose tenure on the pay rolls heretofore has been compressed into a few weeks of filling rush orders. The automobile industry long has been one of high daily wages, but the periods of employment have been short and the layoffs lengthy, resulting in low annual wages and lean months of insecurity for the workers. This maintenance of pools of unemployed around automobile factory centers has been socially destructive and economically wasteful, and has added much to the relief burden in those communities. The workers in automobile factories have not been the only sufferers, for the industry's purchases have been marked with about the same unevenness as its sales, causing irregular pay rolls in factories supplying it with tires, appliances and steel. This effort to regularize employment deserves encouragement. The automobile industry should be commended for its co-operative experiment in industrial planning. One company, General Motors, has announced the establishment of a sixty-million-dollar fund to stabilize production and employment even further than the inevitably gradual change in buying habits will make possible WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT? OPEAKING to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce in Cleveland, Gov. Landon expounded a doctrine which he described as Kansas horse sense. This seems to consist of keeping government as simple as possible, adjusting it in the light of experience to meet problems as they arise, and accomplishing this as far as possible on a pay-as-you-go basis. Few people, we believe, will disagree with his general thesis. Yet they will differ on what is necessary for government to do, on what experience has taught, and on when and how it is possible to operate on a cash basis. This Kansas idea is not new. It essentially was the philosophy of President Coolidge. In his regime, the disparity between the income of the rural population and the city population grew ever wider, the credit of the people was tunneled into the stock markets, billions of the people's savings were dissipated in blue sky operations and sent abroad on bad loans. Through it all Mr. Coolidge kept government simple, and his Federal budget better than balanced. But not the economic budget of the people. tt tt tt TJRESIDENT HOOVER embraced the same philosophy. His regime harvested the whirlwind of bankruptcies, foreclosures, pauperization. In his four years the national income shriveled to about half its former size, and the ranks of the unemployed and dispossessed multiplied. Though he strove mightily to keep government as simple as possible, and by higher taxes and economy to get on a pay-as-you-go Wy.ziz, he couldn't even balance his Federal budget. From bad to worse went the individual and collective budgets of the people, whose welfare the government existed to serve. President Roosevelt lias often expressed this same general theory of what constitutes good government. Yet his application of it has been quite different from that of either Coolidge or Hoover. Under him, the government stepped to stop some of the gambling with other people' money which had proceeded apace under Coolidge, and to reverse the deflation which crushed out economic life and hope under Hoover. The President, busy making the government do what he regards as necessary, has given less attention to balancing the Federal budget. Perhaps not enough attention. How simple can we keep our government? What has experience taught? When is a balanced government budget more important than all other considerations? THE BLUE LAWS PASS result of the recent elections was the release of Pennsylvanians from the Sunday blue laws ot 1794, By exercising local option, granted by the last Legislature, major cities and towns opened their theaters. The decision of the people was expected. They already had obtained Sunday sports. Now they can go to the movies and a Sunday afternoon and evening of wholesome recreation will be possible, just as it is in Indiana, New Jersey, Illinois and many other states. The Sundays under the blue laws encouraged vice, ranging from the minor ones of children with nothing to do after church, to the major ones of bored men who found the way to back doors of saloons. Tlic healthy situation, in states which permitted innocent amusements, following the morning church services, was much better than that in Pennsylvania, but it took the citizens there a long time to make up their minds. ANOTHER WAYNE MEMORIAL Tj'ROM the lovely little churchyard of St. David's, Pennsylvania, across the mountains to the Ohio, and through Indiana, runs the path of memory of Anthony Wayne. The Waynes lie in St. David's; it was their family church. We are reminded of the many scenes of the general's exploits by a current movement to build, by Federal grant, a memorial at Greenville, O. The memorial would be in lienor of & treaty

General Wayne made in 1795 with Little Turtle, chief of the Miamis. It would perpetuate one of the most Important works of peace done by a fighting man. The Treaty of GrecneVille, as it then was called, was one of the events which opened the Northwest Territory to safe settlement. Rep. Frank L. Xlccb r f Ohio is sponsoring the necessary bill, which seems to have the approval of many groups of citizens devoted to historical research. Among the many petitions for government monuments, this one seems to be as worthy as any. Wayne left his trail from the seaboard to the Great Lakes. The grant for Greenville has merit. THE MODERN STUDENT A NY one who has been in contact with students during the depression will appreciate the little story which appeared the other day about the date bureau at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The boys and girls have become so efficient in budgeting their money and time that they have set up all kinds of little “New Deal’’ contrivances. This bureau is one of them. Boys who desire a companion register their requirements with the bureau. They describe the girl, say where they w’uh to take her, and state how much money they can spend. The bureau has on file the girls in the neighborhood who are eligible “dates'’ and makes arrangements for the meeting. It has gone so far that it has produced a perfect date, a sort of little Miss America named Bobby Rapaport. She is described as a red-head and a junior at Simmons, One must admire today’s collegians. They do things which show the American spirit is not flagging. An incredible amount of hitch-hiking is done, even when they have money. This in the face of anti-thumbing laws. In addition to getting to and from college without spending money they make long summer tours. We suspect that the depression student sees much more of the country in a year than the pampered children who grew up before the hard times. What we like about the dating bureau is its frankness, A date occasionally is a necessity to the students, so they go about eliminating all the waste and lost motion In obtaining it. WHERE WE ARE ✓COMFORTING to taxpayers is the assurance of Jesse H. Jones, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., that the operating profits of this big government bank will more than cancel possible losses from bad loans. Challenging to private financial institutions is Mr. Jones’ invitation to them to take over the now profitable service of supplying the nation’s credit needs, a responsibility which they loaded, into the government’s spacious lap when the depression made profits uncertain. And stimulating to industrial leadership should be Mr. Jones’ suggestion that it take unto itself the problem that is its own, the problem of stabilizing employment and building up purchasing power and bring about a balance between the nation's ability to produce and its ability to consume. Jesse Jones and his colleagues risked billions of the taxpayers’ money on the country’s future back in the dark days when private financiers were raking in their chips and withdrawing. Their boldness proved to be good business. Not only were the bank deposits and insurance policies of millions of Americans salvaged. Not only were great corporations saved from bankruptcy and banks and other lending agencies enabled to meet their demands. Today, 64 per cent of the billions lent have been repaid, and of the remainder only a small fraction is in danger of being found uncollectable. But what the RFC started out to do under Hoover, and what it and other government lending agencies have continued to do under Roosevelt, has fastened upon our economic system a more or less permanent structure of capital and debt, a structure which natural economic forces otherwise would have ruthlessly destroyed. The dog-eat-dog economists may say in retrospect that this was a mistake, that the depression should have been allowed to run its course. But ours is a political democracy, where the human equation is recognized. Those who now cry loudest against government interference, frantically solicited and obtained government assistance when the juggernaut of deflation bore down upon them. For better or for worse, we have a bolstered-up capital structure. And a bolstered-up purchasing power is necessary to keep our economic system functioning within that structure. That means higher real wages for industrial workers and higher incomes for farmers, small tradesmen and others who do not draw wages from industry.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

says that the American woman, being swayed easily by her emotions, shops too hurriedly. Now such a woman may exist, but I’ve not met her lately. Most of those seen in the shops dawdle for hours over the simplest purchases. Instead of emotion, extraordinary caution appears to sway them. To be sure, there are occasional exceptions women who are overcome with the sudden desire for some hat or bag or scarf whose color or form makes such strong appeal that, l hey are not able to resist its charm. But this kind of buying can not rightly be called shopping' it's a spree. Ward! be planning is an admirable virtue, and usually a positive necessity. there come to all of us moments when plans must be flung to the winds lest something inside us burst. When that moment arrives, the economic skies may be their blackest, our love may lie bleeding in the dust, or perhaps our children have hurt us, and so we go on living only if we are able to rush out and buy something too extravagant for our purse, something wholly unfit for our wardrobe. It may not be bad taste, then, which prompts the typist, the kitchen maid or the salesgirl to some orgy of expensive shopping. It may be the expression of an inner rebellion which if suppressed too long would topple her reason or destroy her morale. Each woman’s closet contains some such article—a reminder of the conquest of spirit over circumstances. In mine it’s a hopelessly unbecoming yellow coat—but it represents a victory. So, the too-bright hat, the vivid shoes, the bag which shouts its coming far down the street, may not be just a hat or shoes or a bag. Perhaps they are stepping stones through some slough of despond. It is sometimes imperative that a woman shop with her emotions. The fact that the American Army is so small is proof positive we have no aggressive intentions against any nation on earth. —George H. Dern, Secretary of War. I’m not going back to the stage nor into films. In my opinion, marriage is a 24-hour job.—Mrs. James lJimmy) Walker.

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tTimeß readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reunions 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 withheld on rcoucst.) REPUBLICANS LEARNING ABOUT NOMINEES Bv N. E. P. The defeat of Jack Kelly, Democratic nominee for mayor of Philadelphit, may have been due partly to dissension in his own party but it does show something about the attitude of Pennsylvania toward the New Deal. The Republicans took a tremendous licking when George H. Earle was elected as the first Democratic Governor in 40 years and they immediately began to correct their strategy. Instead of a nominee for mayor of Philadelphia who could be branded as a reactionary conservative they took a Republican, S. Davis Wilson, who certainly is a progressive. In other words, the Republicans are learning. They are learning that they have to make anew deal themselves in their choice of candidates. It is more natural for Philadelphia to choose a Republican than a Democrat, but it has not been so natural to choose a progressive Republican. Kelly is one of the ablest of the younger followers of Roosevelt, a fine fellow and one of a notable family. His brother is the playwright. George Kelly, and another brother is the famous “Virginia Judge” of vaudeville. u u tt THE GENTLEMAN EVIDENTLY IS ANTI-NEW DEAL By a Times Reader The “recovery myth” is much like Halloween lore. No thinking person would deny that the inflation of bank deposits created by Federal borrowing, and the spending of these billions by the government are responsible for this so-called improvement in business. This injection of Federal spending is a hypodermic, and is only a temporary bolster for a diseased economic structure. The hypodermic must be adminstered again, and in larger doses as the last one wears off, if a total collapse is to be averted. That this can continue for a long period of time without bringing on exhaustion is another delusion. The New Deal architects have added more incumbrances to a failing economic system, rather than having removed a cancer that will cause its not far-distant death. Unemployment actually has inHistoric Rhine BY BERTRAM DAY The Rhine was born in far-off Alpine heights, Its glacier-cradle sheathed in snow and ice, In youth and age it laves historic sights, As it flows seaward to its Paradise. Old castles border this majestic stream And on its silver thread, inlaid with thought, Are strung the pearls of love—perhaps a dream. Perchance a legend dauntless men have wrought. The shadows of the Great passed o’er its falls And were reflected in its secret waves. For Romans, Teutons, Normans, Franks and Gauls Have battled here to conquer lands and slaves. Upon the bosom of the noble Rhine Have traveled commerce, culture, Cross Divine 1

FORGET NOT!

Sees Need for Change in Code

By T. Erilest Maholra, Attorney Judge John L. Sumner, of the Dubois Circuit Court, last Saturday, demonstrated his Christian spirit and human kindness when he vacated a previous judgment of conviction which carried a life imprisonment sentence for two 20-year-old boys. Bennie Robinson, motherless since 8 months of age and fatherless since 14 years of age, and Albert Boquette, of San Pedro, Cal., we're in Dubois County, Indiana, during September, 1934. Penniless and hungry, they held up a filling station at Hilham, had the agent get in the car, drive out of town, took $7.50 and then brought him back. They later were arrested and brought to Jasper, Ind., and placed in jail. They continually were warned and threatened that unless they pleaded guilty to kidnaping, they would be sent to the electric chair and made to burn on the hot seat. Finally they did plead guilty —on October 13, 1935—and Judge Sumner, having no alternative, was compelled to sentence them on their plea of guilty to life • imprisonment. And for one year and fifteen days, they remained in the Indiana State Prison, at Michigan City. Now it seems very curious this case has not impressed thoughtful people with the necessity for drastic reform in the fundamentals of our criminal code. Perhaps it would be more to the point to charge the basic theory on which that code rests has proved false, yet it continues to stand virtually unchallenged because of society’s intellectual laziness. Today we should know no two persons commit identical crimes with the same freedom of conscience, the same motives, the same backgrounds, the same mentality, the same physical adaptibility to modern life and the same capacity for repentance and reformation. If you will consider, you will

creased since September, 1933. Thert is the real test for the New Deal. The President says the New Deal is complete and business shall have a breathing spell. Take a deep breath, boys, for it will be hard to get another five billion. If you don’t get it, run for the oxygen tent, but don’t try to find it buried under a balanced Federal budget. With the lengthening lines of the unemployed go the shadows that cast before

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agree the ancient theory of fitting the punishment to the crime is not only false, but dangerous. You will understand better the occasions when the punishment actually fits the crime—taking into consideration the character and capacities of the criminal may be regarded simply as coincidences. Thus it is possible, these two now happy youngsters, happy because they have been relieved of their life sentences, have a chance to plead for mercy, for their first and only offense ever committed by them to a jury of Christian mothers and fathers. Legal machinery by which such tragedies as these at Jasper and all over the state might be averted is simple and comparatively foolproof. Indeterminate sentences for all persons convicted of felonies would place their fates in the hands of a prison board, composed of practical criminologists, psychiatrists and vocational educators. Regardless of the convict's offense he would be incarcerated until he could demonstrate to this expert board’s satisfaction that he was entitled to liberty and unlikely again to abuse it. The indeterminate sentence is a powerful safeguard which protects society while offering the repentant criminal a sporting chance to come back. The act committed by these youths was wrong, reckless. It was silly of them to believe that they could get away with it. These boys deserved a lesson, they did not deserve long terms in prison. Each day hundreds of young men enter prisons facing terms that leave them hopeless and embittered. Many could be saved. It is a crying shame that they are left to degenerate into blanched, furtive beasts because the society which judges them lacks both mass intelligence and mercy as practiced by our Savior while on earth.

them the approaching day of reckoning. It presages not a New Deal of tinkering, but anew structure of production. tt a tt SEES FASCIST TENDENCIES IN A. F. OF L. Bv Parlor Pink While professing to believe in Democracy the American Federation of Labor has shown its Fascis-

A—Sept. 16. Forty people were killed or died from injuries, and about 100 were injured. Q —What flag is flown by steamers entering a foreign port? A—The flag of the country whose port it is entering is displayed forward and the national flag of the ship at the stern. Q—Why are United States coins milled around the edges? A—To prevent chipping and also to prevent the coins from being fraudulently reduced in weight. Q —Who was Crispus Attucks? A—A half-breed Indian, or a mulatto, of Framingham, Mass., who was born about 1720 and was killed in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. By some historians he is said to have been a quiet onlooker; by others, a ringleader in the disturbance.

ts tendencies by the resolutions adopted during the convention. The first is the decision not to aid in organizing the unemployed or relief workers. On record, the A. F. of L. is opposed to the class theory, but in making this decision it recognized at least there are two classes of workers; The unemployed and relief workers in one class and the employed workers in another. The purpose of the A. F. of L. is to aid only the employed class and may the devil take the other. It is a serious violation of our theory of democracy when the American Legion fosters legislation to disfranchise an American citizen because of his political belief, but when the A. F. of L. disbars a worker from holding office in his labor union because of his political belief it makes democracy seem a farce. With its present tactics of applying political pressure, the A. F. of L. has accomplished some meager results in the way of labor legislation, but most of this legislation has been declared unconstitutional by Federal judges and the Supreme Court. The only way that labor can have laws interpreted to its advantage is to unite in a political party and appoint its own judges; but the A. F. of L. again refuses to believe in democratic methods and will revert to the old method of direct action which is anti-social. An organization believing in democracy should use democratic methods. Daily Thought And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.—St. Mark 3;24. THE multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude, is tyranny.—Pascal.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I don’t know what she sees in her father.”

_NOV. 9, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW TEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. XTTASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The ’ ’ Postoffice Department is making preparations for tne biggest Christmas mailing season since 1929. Local postmasters have been ordered to make ready all reserve equipment and call into service all substitute employes. . . . Railroad labor is planning an active resumption of its drive for government ownership of the carriers. A Washington bureau is being established to d.rect the campaign. Senator Wheeler, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, who introduced a gov-ernment-ownership bill last session, plans to press for action when Congress reconvenes. . . . Since March 4. 1933. Big Jim Farley, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. has visited every state in the Union but two—Montana and North Dakota. His traveling expenses, totaling $15,000 a year, are paid by the National Committee. ... A survey just completed by the Labor Department revealed that the 724 co-operative societies operating in the United States dui a gross business of $47,800,000 in 1934. tt tt tt Tj'Oß the first time in the history of the Post office Department, stamp collectors—now numbering about 10.000.000 in the entire U. S. A.—forced the postponement of a new mail service. Claiming that the date set for the first trans-Pa-cific airmail flight did not give them time to get their “first-dav covers’’ to the San Francisco postoffice, the philatelists persuaded postal officials to delay the take-off two weeks. . . . The large, elaborate crystal chandelier that once hung in the center of the old Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol has been appropriated by the House Rules Committee and will be hung in its ornate meeting room. . . . Reports regarding the political demise of Secretary Perkins have been given much impetus by the recent transfer of her closest aids to other bureaus. Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.. Labor Department solicitor, moved to the Justice Department, and Thomas Elliott, his assistant, was made general counsel of the Social Security 3oard. tt a tt FOR years, Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, wife of the Supreme Court justice, has been a contributor to Commonwealth College, a Communist institution in Arkansas. Its new director, Richard B. Whitten, is waging a fight for economic justice among cotton share croppers. . . . SEC’s new commissioner. J. D. Ross, is a master of salesmanship. When citizens in Washington State grew apathetic about their new public power plant, which Ross managed, he induced them to visit it by illuminating the cascades and playing music from the cliffs. The plant is 100 miles from Seattle, but they came just the same. The War Department is trying to avoid publicity on a certain sore subject—excess war material still remaining 17 years after the World War. There are several hundred thousand pairs of shoes not finally disposed of. A buyer took them, but failed to pay. A court decision next month may dump them back on the department. . . . TVA’s model town of Norris boasts that its citizens are law abiding. Norris police make arrests on the average of only two a month. . . . The Department of Agriculture is supervising the “dipping” of 115.000 cattle in a solution of lime and sulphur to cure them of scabies. The cattle are forced to swim a distance of fifty feet through a dipping vat eight feet deep. . . . a tt it lAUNCHING his fight on “reaetionary” Republican leaders, Senator William E. Borah soon plans to invade the home grounds of the two most powerful in the East—Charles Hilles and Henry Roraback, national committeemen for New York and Connecticut, respectively. The Idahoan will make speeches denouncing both Old Guard bosses in their states. ... A friend who recently saw Railroad Coordinator Joe Eastman wandering about the Interior Department inquired if he was lost. “No,” answered Eastman. “I’m just looking for office space.” . . . Government expansion under the New I>3al has made the problem of finding office accommodations a difficult task for heads of bureaus. . . . (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)