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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935. ONE WAY TO BALANCE THE BUDGET T'HR National Economy League deserves credit J for proposing a specific method of balancing the Federal budget. Prom too many politicians and other organizations critical of New Deal spending Dave come only generalities on this subject. Instead of arguing with the customary emotionalism, the league simply says, in effect, that the budget should be balanced, and can be, and how. This gives the public a chance to pass on the merits of a definite alternative to the Roosevelt program. The league's plan contemplates no increase in taxes, bul a drastic cut in expenditures for the fiscal year 1037, to be achieved for the most part by discontinuing the Civilian Conservation Corps and all work relief and AAA crop benefit payments. A halfbillion would be given to the states for payment of doles, and another half-billion would be used to complete unfinished public works. So the question presented is whether the ppople want to balance their Federal government's budget Immediately— B- unbalancing the budget of some 500,000 young nmn who have been taken off the street corners and employed in useful forestry development and soil erosion prevention, and who arc sending home to thGr families on relief $25 out of their S3O a month wages; By ending all Federal efforts to provide jobs for the breadwinners of relief families, and passing th" problem ol supporting those families back to the state and local governments, and thereby probably unbalancing the budgets of those state and local governments, and By abandoning the economic mainspring which has made the farm program work, and thereby risking a disastrous reversal to an unbalanced budget for American agriculture. Republican Party leaders, who condemn the New Deals unbalanced budget, have not said whether they approve the Economy League’s plan. Nor have thev proposed a plan of their own. Neither has the American Liberty League, nor the United States Chamber of Commerce, nor the National Association of Manufacturers. The public, we believe, would also like to see their plans—if any. THE COLLEGE PRESS AGENTS than 50 college and university press agents are meeting here today and tomorrow to isten to each other and to newspaper men. Tneir object is to learn how to get their respective institutions a better showing in the newspapers. These gentlemen and ladies are called directors of publicity. They are charged with getting good stories about their colleges in the papers and keeping bad stories out. What they should realize is that each and every one is a reporter for every newspaper, obligated to furnish the news of their colleges as it happens, when it happens. Where they go wrong is when they become 'suppress” agents, when they attempt to conceal genuine news. Fortunately, through the ethics developed by their association, they give the newspapers a break. They give the papers the facts. The alumni of these colleges should think rather highly of their publicity people.

A LAW WITH TEETH A CURIOUS. pathetic and enlightening liquor case was reported from St. Joseph County this week. A 53-year-old man, father of three, was sentenced to the State Farm for 30 days for having in his possession a half-pint bottle of moonshine. The newspaper reports said he never had been in trouble before and that his attorney was going to appeal However, the fact remains that possession of liquor on which the tax has not been paid is an offense on which excise officers are bearing down This man's offense does not seem serious enough for a 30-dav sentence and a fine of S3OO. but it does # call to attention the stringency of the Indiana law. The law’s intention was to end bootlegging. If a person can be sent up for having a half pint of untaxed liquor it certainly has teeth. THE SHELTER BELT 'T'HF. biggest tree-planting program America ever has undertaken will mark 1036, the sixtieth year since the nation's first feeble step toward forest conservation. In 1876 the first “forest agent.” Franklin B. Hough, armed with a S2OOO appropriation from Congress. began his first inquiry into forest conditions. Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, is dedicating the forty-third edition of his free Forestry Primer (bringing its circulation to 4,300.000 in 10 years) to this tree conservationist. The Midwest Shelter Belt will get the great bulk of plantings in 1936. Nursery plantings this fall assure 75 million seedlings for this program. Os the 6,347,000 seedlings set out in the spring of 1935, Paul Roberts, the Shelter Belt director at Lincoln. Neb., says 70 per cent survived. Some species show 90 per cent. Here is the Shelter Belt program for next spring in miles to be planted as compared with what was done in 1935: 1936 1935 North Dakota 300 35 South Dakota 300 26 Nebraska 200 22 Kansas 300 25 Oklahoma 200 15 Texas 100 2 1400 125 a a a nnHE fall planting program was limited because ■*- the foresters wanted to see whether the season is practical for planting in the semi-arid areas where the Shelter Belt is to rise. The Shelter Belt will shift and zigzag, as the foresters think best. There will be gaps as much as 100 miles wide in the 1200-mile strip from Texas' Panhandle to Canada. In addition to this planting, about 4800 acres of trees have been set out as shelter for 1800 farm homes. The planting of thousands of trees bp towns

and individuals also is reported. The tree nursery business in the Midwest is said to be booming. ? In the meantime, the United States Forest Service has gone ahead with tree-planting programs such as Hough never dreamed of 60 years ago. Since Jan. 1 about 220 million young trees have been set out in the national forests. The CCC had a big hand in this and other tree-planting programs. Such a program takes nurseries to produce the seedlings. One of the largest of these is the Chittenden Nursery in the Manistee National Forest in Michigan. According to the Forestry News Digest the seedlings there include 47 million jack pine, 43 million Norway pine, 13 million white pme, three million white spruce, 750.000 hemlock, 750,000 white cedar, and 500.000 of mixed varieties. A WELCOME PEACE SETTLEMENT of the year-old building trades row within the American Federation of Labor is timely good news in view of hopes for a great construction boom in the near future. This settlement, credited to the peace-maker, President George M. Harrison of the railway clerks, goes further than patching a schism between two factions of the 19 building crafts that broke apart in San Francisco last year. It paves the way for orderly settlement of all jurisdictional disputes among the workers in the long-suffering construction industry. Under terms of the peace a Federal judge within the district will arbitrate disputes of jurisdiction. P'or years jurisdictional wrangles between this and that craft nave plagued both workers, contractors and the public. Years of labor and wages have been lost to the workers in strikes and other tie-ups for which the employers have not been to blame. Not infrequently labor racketeers have stirred and exploited disputes to mulct honest employers and workers. Several thing's are blocking a resumption of large-scale building operations—debts, inflated land values, high material costs and, of course, the low buying power of the masses. By adopting a peaceful mode of settling their own disputes the building trades workers are helping clear tne tracks for action. ‘ENFORCE THE LAW!” “GIVE US JOBS!” 'VTOWHERE in America's modern economic picture is the struggle between property rights and human rights so intensely dramatized as in three northeastern counties of the Pennsylvania hard-coal region. More tnan 15,000 men are making livings for themselves and their families by mining, transporting and selling anthracite which belongs to great absentee landlords. They are taking millions of revenue each month av ay from the legitimate industry. Western cattle and water conflicts and the southern Louisiana trappers’ war offer comparisons, but do not have the hard application of this spectacle in t::e densely populated heart of industrial America. Law enforcement there has broken down, so far as it concerns protection of the company lands. Local sentiment appears to be almost unanimously back of the coal bootleggers. Their unlawful traffic, conducted openiy, is the main prop of local commerce. The county officers apparently believe it would be political suicide for them to step in, and some sympathize with the bootleggers anyway. The state authorities also have refused to interfere, saying that primary responsibility rests with the counties, and that tlie companies themselves brought on the present situation by closing their high-cost collieries and concentrating work in new ones, largely mechanized. This has been going on for years. Now there are disturbing new developments, less wholesome than the spectacle of men keeping off public relief .through the only Kind of work they know. Middlemen are springing up at both ends of the line—intermediaries between the bootleg miner and the bootleg trucker, and between the trucker and the consumer. Little “bootleg barons” have appeared—men who hire other men to work for them in bootleg holes, and who follow the capitalistic example of paying no more than necessary ioi the service. In some cases woman labor and child labor are bring used There are charges of growing disregard for property laws other than those supposed to guard company coal.

A WOMAN S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON /'‘OPINIONS of the great and near-great are com-N-e monplace in our papers. The ordinary citizen is not so often heard. With that thought in mind I set out some time ago to talk to certain obscure women I know, who, having little, seem to be happy. From time to time I hope to report those interviews. They will be confined not wholly to educated people, but certainly to intelligent ones. The one today is from the wife of a professor in a small college. “In the first place,” she began, “I like being married to a teacher. We’ve had a hard struggle, but no harder than millions of other people. My husband loves to teach, so I realized from the beginning of our marriage that he would be a miserable misfit at anything else. What was there to do, then, but make up my mind to get everything fine I could from our way of life? “The depression, of course, was a period of great fear, even of torture, but when I feel discouraged now I make myself sit down with pencil and paper to balance up the good things with the bad in my existence. The latter list probably everybody knows. Mostly they all read the same. I think, but perhaps my good may help you to see why. even in moments of discouragement, I know I am fortunate. For instance: “We have access to a splendid library. We hear good music and each year one or two fine lecturers come this way. Our friends include scholars and students—people interested in knowledge for its own sake. I wouldn’t trade our social group for the richest in the country. “We are giving our son and daughter a good education at very little expense. Our home is small, but it's paid for, and being always hard run we've never lived beyond our means. “We had a car, but sold it at the second salary cut. The children grumble, but they're alive, which is something in this day of motor accidents. Perhaps—and I think about this many times—it is our poverty which has given us our greatest happiness. Forced to create most of our recreation, we spend many evenings at home together, reading and talking. “Yes, we believe in America and the greatness of her future. We feel sure social security in some measure will come to pass. And I know’ this: When we've finished with living, we will have furnished two good citizens to our nation.” Students are becoming reluctant to accept the fiat of the instructor as the last word on any subject. The “mat's what you think" attitude of the student is becoming something more than a slang phrase expressing disbelief/—C. E. Sherman, Providence _ (Mass.) educator. This shouting down of people and refusing to hear arguments is the seed bed of dictatorship. No democracy can live where opposition views are not tolerated—Stanley Baldwin. ~

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you ever talk to your sheriff? I talked to mine yesterday and came away convinced that I would not want to be a sheriff. Otto Ray, Marion County sheriff, is a vivid personality, a man who seems to j take his job seriously and finds plenty wrong with it. Otto told me —and he knew tie was talking to a newspaper man —that the 43-year-old Marion County Jail is one of the greatest breeders of crime in the country. aaa Men who finally end up in Michigan City, men who become Dillingers and Pretty Boy Floyds, get their start in such places as the county jail. a a a It seems to me that our best citizens do not take enough interest in such things as jails. I once knew a minister in Indiana whose congregation leaders repudiated him be- ! cause he went to the jail and talked to the prisoners, trying to help them as much as he could. The church people complained that ha was a publicity seeker and so he had to find a job elsewhere. He did. He went about as high as a man can in his particular sect. a a a C' VERYTHING is wrong with the Marion County Jail, according ito Sheriff Ray. Built for about a I third the number of prisoners current at this time, there is no room for proper segregation. Public indignation should demand and obtain privacy for young first offenders. They should not be locked up with incurable criminals. Suppose ;it was vour own son, who might i easily be lodged in prison on a tech- ■ nicality? u ft n This is no particular boost for Sheriff Ray, but for sheriffs in general. He gets S4BOO a ye&r and has to pay his own mileage. He is allowed so much a meal for boarding prisoners and if he does a humane job is bound to lose money. a a a f MADE it my business to visit the *■ meeting of township and county officers at their convention here, to listen to soma of their troubles. My mind is not made up about changes in the government structure, but I do want to say a word for the township trustee. He is closer to the people in need than any other person and his case workers are more likely to be understanding and sympathetic than professionals. There is something very intimate about the operations of the township trustee and his assistants and before the system is destroyed much thought should be given. a a a The capacity of Indiana people for conventions is incredible. This one, of county and township officers, made the hotels seethe. I am having my spies make a chock to discover whether or not Indianapolis has bigger and better conventions than any other city. Six charming young ladies, all typing at once, were required to register the convention of officers. Before one could penetrate to the rooms where the solemn business was being transacted one had to have a special badge and pass a series of deputy sheriffs and state policemen. aaa of the sad features of the meeting was that Peter Beszkiewicz. who was once one of the best township trustees in the state, had just lost—by death—a son whom he had named ‘ for Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Peter is now eonnected with the gasoline tax collection, a charming person and an earnest servant of whatever branch of the government employs him. He represents some of the finest Polish blood that ever came into the Middle West. The meeting did not seem the same without Peter.

OTHER OPINION Medal for Jurors IMuncie, Ind.. Star] It might not be out of place to aw’ard medals, or erect a tablet to members of a Hoosier jury w’hich spent two w’eeks on a will case. These good men and true returned a verdict in favor of the defendants, holding that the will was valid and that the testator was not of unsound mind, as alleged by those seeking to break its provisions. The ease with which wills are set aside has become almost a national scandal, aided and abetted by designing lawyers searching for such opportunities. Whenever relatives, sometimes scarcely entitled to that designation, fail to receive what they expected, hoped or schemed, they rush into court w’ith allegations that the one who drew’ the will was of unsound mind. Persons without the slightest valid claim make a practice of preying on rightful beneficiaries. Because of the law's well-known delay and the opportunity of tying up an estate in litigation idefinitely. attorneys frequently advise a client to compromise as the more expedient method of averting a protracted suit. This amounts to little more than banditry under collusion of the law, yet it is by no means uncommon.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reunions controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less. Your letter must he sinned, hut names will be withheld on rcaucst.) ana WANTS TO KICK SELF FOR VOTING FOR PRESIDENT By John Nipp Sr., Kushville The Constitution of the United States is,simply a contract between the government and the people. It is written in very plain English. Hence, it is so plain that any changes in the wording can be seen readily. I suppose you know that any act that the American Congress might pass could not nor would not change the meaning of the Constitution. It is simply impossible for it to delegate its power to somebody else. The Constitution doesn't say that Congress can delegate its power to some other body; therefore, all powers given to any corporation by our congressmen are invalid. Congress simply can’t do it. All powers given to the Federal Reserve Bank were wrongly granted and unconstitutional. When the Constitution says that Congress shall make the money and regulate its value, it did not mean that thp President of the United States should do it. Now the value of money is determined by the amount that Congress makes for the country. If it makes money as it did under Abraham Lincoln's Administration, it can put Rush County land up to S3OO an acre. Or the Congress can make such a small amount of money that the land of Rush County would not bring SSO an acre. All values can be determined, and always were determined, by the policy of Congress of the United States, directly or indirectly, if Congress makes and distributes the money. But when Congress delegates that power to the Reserve Bank, look out. This is supposed to be the New Deal. Another New Deal occurred when 252 Democrats went up to President Roosevelt and told him as one body that he could cast their votes on the money question. My opinion of such work is as follows: It was the same as stolen goods that the President received. I do think that every one of those congressmen should be indicted for such behavior as for a crime commit) ed. And they should have been expelled bodily from Congress. The President himself should have been impeached for accepting stolen goods. Now, it is well that I make a confession of the wrongs I have done, for the sake of the future, and I shall have to admit that I voted for this man. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932. I will say by way of condolence and shame that I

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have been trying to invent a machine for two years with which to kick myself for voting as I did. Please burn an old rag. u tt tt SHUDDERS FOR FUTURE OF AMERICA By H. H. Kimmerline, Elwnod Unbelievable even in the Dark Ages. That Was the verdict of the National Council of Teachers of English, one of the greatest gatherings of intellectuals ever to grace the city of Indianapolis: yet it came as a voice crying out from the wilderness of misery, despair and dense ignorance. That was the verdict pronounced against the Hearst Publishing Cos., which now is waging a campaign of infamous and false propaganda. It is inconceivable in this, the twentieth century, that intellect should be fighting a losing battle against the degrading influences of a subsidized press, radio and pulpit. What more could you expect cf a nation of people who would allow the Declaration of Independence 1o be eliminated from our school histories in order to destroy the very principles upon which this country was founded? What more could you expect when representatives of the press would shoot craps on the judge’s stand in Flemington, N. J., when a man’s life was at stake? I shudder to think of the future of a nation that would stand idly by and allow itself to be dominated by the baneful influences of the press and radio that seek to deprive us of every vestige of liberty. tt tt tt ATTITUDE OF BUSINESS BRINGS REBUKE By Oscar Houston, ElXtsville The National Association of Manufacturers in its convention last -week did just what was expected of it. It condemned the New Deal in whole, pledged its members to use every means to defeat President Roosevelt, and demanded repeal of all laws that govern big business. The leaders demanded that the old system that plunged this country into poverty and grief, amid plenty, be restored. They call it “rugged indiivdualism.’ I think a better name would be “rugged selfishness.” Let us see what really is the New Deal. First, the Triple A, which has brought prosperity to the nation's farmers. Second, Congress enacted a law’ compelling all banks to create a fund to guarantee their depositors. Third, the CCC camps were established, giving employment to 400.000 young men in useful w’ork that not only maintains them but helps their families. Fourth, the Home Loan law that has saved thousands of farms and small homes for the owners, was enacted. Fifth, an old-age pension that guarantees

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a comfortable living to aged people, many of whom are victims of this so-called ‘‘rugged individualism,” was assured. Sixth, job insurance measure that protects a man and his family when he is without a job and provides a pension for him at retirement age was passed. It is amazing to me that men, who through the positions they occupy and the opportunities they have to be leaders in all things, have determined to tear down the only barrier that stands between them and the destruction of their profit system. We hear the captains of big business warning us of Fascism, Communism, Sovietism and what not. But isn't it a fact that through their determined fight against shorter hours and refusal to pay a wage that will meet the necessary expenses of a decent living they are displaying a selfishness against the very people that have made their success possible and against a government that has always scrupulously protected their interests? Hasn’t such selfishness laid the very foundation for Communism. the thing they fear? This coming election will be the most important since the Civil War. The issues will be well defined. It will be the re-election of President Roosevelt and social security in all its phases, or his defeat and a turning back to the policies of "rugged individualism.” greed and exploitation. With Communism on dork the question will be—Who is going to dictate the policies of our government—the people in general or a few of the big interests? WINTER THOUGHT BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY In spring, in summer, and in autumn, too. God beautifies the world for you. But winter's as bleak as an old ash can. Perhaps He left that up to man. So laugh, and glorify your face with smiles And tune your heart to tender wiles. Hang a Christmas wreath up high on your door, And radiate good will galore. Don’t chill and freeze like a brown hunk of sod, But beautify the world for God. DAILY THOUGHTS In your patience possess ye your souls.—St. Luke 21:19. HE surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.—Lavater.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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"It would be something to amuse the baby when you aren't home.”

DEC. 13, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. ASHINGTON. Dec. 13.—New ’ ’ Dealers have two confidential charts graphically picturing the great °conrimic problems of the country—how to bridge the chasm between the steadily rising level of business prosperity and the unmoving peak of unemployment. Chart No. l is the as yet unpublished Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production for November. It records a joyous story of business well-being, with industrial production up to 98. or just two points under the 1923-25 average now used as the base figure. If the rate of business upturn continues this month at the pace it has the last two months—and there is every indication that it. will—the index for December should easily reach 100. possibly top that figure. In other words, business has shaken off the pall of depression, is back to normal. aaa CHART NO. 2 is based on private employment figures of the Labor Department and tells an entirely different, story. It shows gains for November as during October. In fart, department economists expert to be able to announce a total employment increase for the year of around 1,000,000. But the total of the army of jobless is practically unchanged from the figure in 1932. Thus, while approximately 1.000.000 workers have returned to private employment, no dent has been made on the great mass of jobless. Government experts explain this seeming paradox as follows: 1. The increase in the population. 2. Technological developments in production which are wiping out tens of thousands of jobs. How to gear the speeding wheels of business to the slower wheels of employment is a problem about which much will be heard at the coming session of Congress.

A work-week restricted by law—the demand of organized labor—will ibe among the foremost solutions ! offered. In 1933 such a proposal, in the form of a 30-hour week, came within an ace of being enacted. Passed overwhelmingly by the Senate, and headed for similar action in the House, the measure was sidetracked by the Administration with its substitute plan of the now defunct NRA. a tt a MRS. HUGH GIBSON, Belgian wife of the American Ambassador to Brazil, has won fame in Rio de Janeiro as the "snake j woman.” Reason is that Mrs. Gibson rented a country estate in the mountains just above the capital, but found it i infested with snakes—many of them poisonous. Protecting herself with high boots, anci armed with a revolver, she ; started killing them. On one oc- | casion she even staged a snakei killing party, at which her guests : were invited to join in the hunt. The total killed was set at 100— though some of Mrs. Gibson's i friends claim this is a snake story. atta C CHARGED with enforcing the > shipping laws of the United | States, the Bureau of Navigation j and Steamboat Inspection operates a patrol fleet w’hich itself would hardly pass inspection. A good insight into the seaworthiness of its vessels can be gathered from the following: The ex-presidential yacht Sequoia was given up by Mr. Roosevelt because she was built of wood and therefore considered a fire j hazard. j How’ever, with one exception, she lis the best of the bureau's fleet. Cut of six vessels in the patrol fleet, all but one are built of wood and powered by gasoline—making them additionally inflammable. The Sequoia had a Diesel engine and w r as only 10 years old. Some other of the bureau's ships date back 26 years. Probably they could not withstand a severe squall even on the sheltered waters of the Potomac. a tt a FOR several months repayments of RFC loans have been running around $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 a day. This is nearly a billion dollars a year. Most of these loans, of which about $2,500,000,000 are still outstanding, are short-term grants from six months to a year, i Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i