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MONDAY DECEMBER 16 1933. I)R. RUSSELL E. ADKINS \ LIFE well lived was that of Dr. Russell E. Adkias. It was an unhappy coincidence that this authority on tuberculosis should die during the tuberculosis seal campaign. Medical missionary as well as American doctor, he did much good in China, healing the sick and teaching the natives medicine. Dr Adkins took such an interest in his patients that he dc pMed his own health reserves. But such is the practice or medicine. It is impossible to halt a doctor in practice or research if he has a true calling for his mission. His death is a distinct loss to the city and to the many veterans lie looked after at the Indianapolis hospital. THE OARP AND G. 0. £\ MEMBERS of the Republican National Committee meeting today in Washington will have a lot to say in malediction of the Roosevelt Administration's spending. Yet they probably will say nothing at all about what is most on their minds—the Townsend Old-Age Revolving Pension Movement and its emergence and growth as a political threat. They will then strain at the gnat of the New Deal's relief and security program, yet fail to gag at the camel of this plan to spend half the national income to pension eight to eleven million elders at S2OO a month. Their silence may be explained on several counts. Not a few old-line Republicans—Rep. Earl Michener of Michigan, for instance —hope to retain or win seats in Congress by riding on the good Dr. Townsend’s coat-tails. (Incidentally, a good many Democratic congressmen are also booking election reservations on the "OARP, Ltd.’’) Other G. O. P. leaders possibly hope that a Townsend Party will split the Democrats and let the Republicans win next fall. And still others may reason that this movement has passed the stage of argument and become something akin to a religious crusade, surcharged with faith and passion. But silence on the issues raised by Dr. Townsend Is neither courageous nor honest. a a tt SAY what you will of this plan to levy a huge sales tax on everybody in behalf of the oldsters. Denounce it as economically unsound, financially perilous and socially unfair. You can not deny that the yearning for security in every American’s heart is as authentic as his very will to live and pursue happiness. There is nothing fantastic about men desiring security in a country as bountiful as ours in natural lesources and technical development. Nor is the dream of a S2OO-a-month annuity at 60 muclf, if any, more visionary than Engineer Hoover’s chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage. Yet how many wage-earners or salaried men or farmers in the tinsel days of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover lived in the knowledge that their toil and thrift would reward them in their old age? The Brookings Institution found that, in 1929. 20 million families, or 70 per cent of the total, were living on incomes of $2500 or less. And the comparative few who enjoyed more than a hand-to-mouth living and could lay aside some saving—how did Old Guard leadership protect their investments? The story of Oct. 29, 1929, a?id after, answers that. Had not President Roosevelt used Federal credit to check and reverse the slump, many another bank, insurance house and investment concern would have folded up, wiping out more billions of the people’s savings. Finally, what have those now in control of the Republican Party done since then to bring a measure of sanity and security to our society? What, but throw bricks it the Administration’s Social Security Act and its attempts to regulate investment houses, stock exchanges and utility holding companies? tt a tt T\R TOWNSEND cries a plague on both the Republican and Democratic houses. He and his aroused flock should know, if they do not know it, that the human hazards which sent them on their quest for security were inherent in the let-alone system of those "good old days” to which the Old Guard is calling back the country. The President’s New Deal policies have not assured security. But he has .tried, and with some success, to save the homes, the jobs, the incomes and the investments of the people. And he is striving now to evolve a system that will make life more secure in the future. In soft-pedaling the Townsend movement, it is not likely that the Old Guard leaders are outsmarting themselves? Will the rank and file of Republican voters again follow these leaders if they ignore the challenge of a movement spawned out of the abuses tolerated in their pseudo-prosperity rule? Or if they hypocritically try to use this movement as a ramp upon which to try to climb back to power? THE BUTLEK-DE PAUW AGREEMENT TJUTLER and De Pauw graduates, students and ■‘-'faculties have a Christmas present in the agreement to resume athletic relations. The breach, six years old, has been healed by a written statement of eligibility rules which places authority over scholarships in the hands of the faculties. This is where such authority should be. Opinion seems to be growing that athletic ability plus classroom aptitude plus personality make a boy promising material tor citizenship. When these requisites are studied by faculty men the chances are in favor of aidin; the student who should be aided. A $154,000,000 LESSON TODAY Britain, France and other European countries should hand over to Uncle Sam $154,820.848 on their war debts. But they won’t. Only Finland will honor her signature, paying $230,453. The rest will default, in toto. But as none expected payment, none will be surprised. The same nations failed to meet their June 15 installments. Likewise the installments due last December. Realk.s do not expect the debts ever to be paid. Some of the debtors plan to spend as much as a billion dollars preparing for the next war but, they contend, they can’t pay back the money they borrowed to wage the last war. There is some validity to their excuse. They could pay something on account. But unless we are

willing to accept goods in lieu of cash, the bulk of the debt is impossible of payment. There simply isn't that much monetary gold in the world. Our remarks, therefore, are mostly by way of reminder. We are paying a lot for today's lesson and we want to make sure it is not wasted. That is going to be about all each succeeding June 15 and war burns up money, destroys wealth, creates debts which can never be paid, and that if we have any sense at all we will leave no stone unturned to keep out of the next. a a a 'TPHE direct cost of the World War, according to Prof. Bogart of the University of Illinois, reached the astronomical figure of 186 billion dollars. The indirect costs—in human life, destroyed property, etc.—he estimated at 151 billions. Grand total: 337 billions. Yet in all the earth there is not 20 billions in monetary gold. As for the United States, our allies are pledged to pay us alone, principal and interest, some 22 billion dollars. Our own war costs amounted to about 23 billions These tw’o items alone set us back 45 billions, and before we are through, the late President Coolidge estimated, the direct cost to the American people will amount to 100 billions. One of the results of juggling so much fool’s gold was to create in us a sense of false prosperity. We spent profits we never really made. We soared high on the tail of a beautiful rocket, only to land with an awful thud. Our depression, and the world depression, with all its unemployment, bankruptcies and human misery, was largely an aftermath cf our madness. a a a NEXT month Congress will again tackle the problem of our neutrality—how to keep us out of the next conflict. That may prove impossible—if the war is big enough and lasts long enough. But assuredly it shouldn't keep us from trying, with the very best that is in us. So endeth today’s 154-million-dollar lesson. BURY IT! ON May 27 the Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional. Today the Blue Eagle, although officially dead as of that date, commands a large and expensive staff of official mourners whom President Roosevelt seems loath to send on their way. At the time of the last pay roll on Nov. 30, the NRA staff bulked large in Federal officialdom. It had a personnel of 2577. of which 590 were field officers. This is nearly half as many as NRA employed in its heyday when 550 industrial codes were in full working order. NRA is costing the taxpayers about $530,000 a month, or at the rate of $3,350,000 a year. Ostensibly this large and well-paid staff is busy gathering data and writing a history of the two years’ experiment in regulation by codes. Important as this work may be it could be done bj a small and efficient staff of researchers. While this house of mourning thrives, other and more essential government services are kept gaunt and needy. The Federal Trade Commission does an important and difficult job administering the FTC and Clayton anti-trust acts on a budget of $1,645,000. Tiie Securities and Exchange Commission is making history, not writing it, on a budget of $1,545,000. The entire Labor Department operates on about $11,000,000 or less than twice NRA’s costs. The State Department, including ambassadors, ministers, legation guards, reciprocal tariff experts and others, gets along on $8,450,000. It is fair neither to taxpayers nor to other government services to perpetuate this costly set-up. It is not even fair to NRA employyes to pension them, like so many high-salaried work relief beneficiaries, at useless tasks. It has been said of government bureaus that many are born and few die. Here is one that is dead. Let’s bury it, in sorrow for its passing and in hope for something constitutional to carry on its work. But let’s bury it. • JIM HAM TAKES A RECOUNT TTIS sojourn among the Soviets has left Jim Ham •*- A Lewis a changed man. For now these many years the elegant and eloquent Senator from Illinois has been exceeding coy about his age. He was even known to shrug off a few years from time to time in recording his career for the Congressional Directory. His last official word on the subject would have made him 64 this year. But all that has changed. Returning from abroad, after an illness in Moscow that nearly did for him, J. Ham "pointed out,” according to the United Press, “that he is 74.” He didn’t say, though, how much longer he intends to try to keep his whiskers pink. HSTORICAL FOOTNOTE npHE Middle Ages did not end until Hitler came to -* power in Germany, according to one of Hitler’s inspired historians. Maybe so. But certain it is that a modern era can not begin for Germany until the Dark Ages of Hitlerism expire. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson TTAVE you noticed how many society women are taking to a trade or profession? None but a cruel soul could blame them, since in spite of glamorous stories their lives are often stale monotony. Today I have a letter which expresses their problem. Here it is: “Shall I resign myself to the belief that my usefulness is ended? I’ve raised two daughters who are well established in life and ro longer need me. My husband is dead, leaving me an income. My friends are very considerate of me. We motor, lunch and dine together; we go to concerts, art exhibits and shows, and I’ve played bridge until I can’t look a card in the face. “But I keep asking myself, ‘ls this all?’ I feel sure there are many years ahead of me, and I want desperately to have something worthwhile, vital, engrossing to occupy my time, something to absorb the energies of my body, mind and emotions. And please don’t imagine that means remarriage. No, indeed. I want to work ” Now there is voiced the plaint of thousands of middle-aged women. It should not be ignored. Let me reply by telling the story of another woman. She lived in a small city. One day she set out to visit all the social agencies, to find out for herself exactly what the needs of the community were; she was months making her investigation. At the end of it, she made up her mind that the thing most needed was a milk fund for underfed babies. So she started it. With the help of a committee of interested women, she now attends to the entire business seeing that not one penny of collected money goes for anything except milk and that only those who need it most are supplied. Is it necessary to say that life for her has a new meaning? I wish that my letter-writer might go and do likewise. There is plenty of work, and workers are far too lev.

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T SEE by the papers the boys in the baseball business are making seme changes in the teams for next year, designed to improve trade. They are tired of opening the parks for three or four hundred fans. I wish them luck but I wonder if much can be done. The people who can be free from work in the afternoon as a rule do not have enough money for baseball and the rest want to play golf. a a a OASEBALL is a peculiar industry. Its affairs get free advertising like no other commercial j enterprise. If any other business ! had the publicity baseball gets it could not possibly reach the dol- j drums of the major and minor league clubs. The only comparable situation is that of the movies and radio. They get publicity because people like to read about them. But they have constantly improved, have constantly kept abreast of the times. Baseball, on the contrary, is pretty much as it was in 1900. The only change has been to put the umpires in light gray suits for the hot weather. a a a /CUSTOM is a fascinating study. You see mountains of huge trunks on a sidewalk. Their stickers tell you they belong to actors playing at the local theaters. These are not the costume trunks but the personal ones, which must be taken to the hotels. These weighty boxes look as large or larger than they did in the past; yet we know the ladies are wearing much less and certainly the male actors do not have the wardrobes they once had. a a a 'T'ONIGHT at the Butler Field- „ house will appear one of the most colorful men in basketball: I refer to Dr. Harold Clifford Carlson, coach of Pitt. He is familiarly called “Red” because his hair was once red. Cliff and I were born in the same little town. He was the son of a miner and his boyhood prospects were anything but bright. But he had athletic ability. Somebody spotted him for the University of Pittsburgh, sent him to prep school, and presently—in 1916—he appeared as an outstanding end on the football team. After graduation he became freshman football coach and later basketball coach. a a VyHAT distinguishes Dr. Carl- ’ * son—he is a medical doctor now—is his intense interest in the students. Director of student health, he has a personal check on all the men at the university and in hundreds of ways not advertised he helps them with their personal problems. Having been oenefifted by the athletic system himself—for he would be a coal miner today had not he been discovered—he is an enthusiast for the athletic system. Almost any day one can see him driving over the campus, his ancient car loaded to the guards with boys he has picked up to take here and there. r I "'HERE is a suave and charming host in the town who goes fr' the name of Tiff, according to a correspondent. Curious as to how this striking nickname had its origin, my friend asked him. It seems that he was christened Theophilus. The family being German, the pronunciation was “Teophilus.” This was gradually shorted to Tiff. And there j ju are. a sea '’T-'HESE smoggy mornings, when a newspaper man goes to work, laborers appear like gnomes out of cf the murk. The scene is like what I gather the London of Charles Dickens must have been. There is a job for some young Indiana writers. Interpreting the life; seeing what, it is about. There must be enough material for a modern Balzac right here in town. OTHER OPINION Business in Politics [Marion Chroniclel Picturing business and politics as rivals for the leadership of the American people, Bruce Barton, nationally known sales consultant, urges industry to choose advertising as its weapon for the conflict. Barton said: “Fundamentally, the people of the United States think they should have a better life, more comfort, more security, more opportunity, more hope. “What they are likely to do is to make a choice between industry and \ politics as to the easiest method of achieving all these benefits. “Industry and politics, at the mo- 1 ment are competitors for the confidence and favor of the same patron —the public.” On Public Life (Chief Justice Hughes.) To one who has been in Washington long, there is consciousness always of the fleeting of time. When we look upon the changes in administration in various departments : of official life we come to feel this ! swift passing of time and realize that we are here to work a little, to j do our best and endeavor, so far as we can, to buttress the foundations ’ of American public life, and always to feel that this work is an endless task and that when we have finished our work someone will relieve m

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relinious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sianed, but names will be withheld on rcaucst.) tt tt tt SEES GREAT BENEFITS IN TOWNSEND PLAN By Gustav A. Stark. The Townsend Revolving Plan will undoubtedly give us the greatest era of prosperity and happiness America has ever seen, will retire over eight million people over the age of 60 years on a pension of S2OO a month and give employment to 12 million unemployed under 60 years of age at just and better wages. Poverty will be abolished in the United States forever and crime reduced to a minimum. The Townsend Plan should be an inspiration to every American as it is founded upon the principle of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Humanity will be forever relieved from the fear of destitution and want. Millions of people will ever have reason to be thankful to Dr. Townsend and his meritorious plan to establish prosperity and happiness for the American people. Every patriotic citizen in the nation really should use his influence for the success of Dr. Townsend’s plan because the nation and its people will prosper financially and enjoy a greater spiritual life. Regardless of scorning and maligning, the Townsend Plan movement goes marching on to victory. In its ranks we have enlisted the support of well-known economists, lawyers, preachers, reputable professional men and thousands of business men of unquestionable integrity. They pronounce and acclaimm the Townsend Old-Age Pension and Recovery Plan the greatest movement for recovery and permanent prosperity, known to all generations of the ages past and present. e a a PLEADS FOR UNITED FRONT AGAINST EXPLOITERS By a Times Reader Before this depression, when election time came, those people who aid go to the polls did not go for the purpose of voting for a man for I the presidency of the United States but to vote for a party. I venture to say 75 per cent of the people who entered the election booth pulled the lever beside a party name and rarely looked at the names on the party ticket. The well-to-do class of people will go on doing the same thing and try to persuade others to do the

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same because a certain party stands back of their every desire; but' the common class of people will never do that again. They have had a taste of legislation for their benefit from men who had their interests at heart and they are going to vote in the next election for the man who is going to keep on having their interests at heart. This is supposed to be a country governed by the people and not by big and international bankers as had been the case up until 1933 and they will never rule again. That is why they are blackballing this Administration. It has ruined them and their ideas of running the government to suit their purpose. Common people, let’s hold together and look out for ourselves. If we don’t nobody else is going to. a a tt THINKS HOOVER SHOULD KEEP QUIET NOW By Mrs. Galan I have been reading lately about how former President Herbert Hoover is condemning President Roosevelt in his speeches. Well, I must say that he has very poor judgment or he must have been asleep for the last two and a half years if he can not see any improvement. When he gave up his office it was just as if he had taken about a million jig-saw puzzles, all different, put them all in one big box and had given them a good shaking and then had turned the box over to President Roosevelt to straighten them out. I think that President Roosevelt has done remarkably well in the short time that he has been in office and I’m sure that if he is reelected. this country will be well in shape by the time his next term runs out. What did Hoover do outside of fish and take all kinds of trips? Herbert Hoover had his chance in the White House, but he made a very bad job of it. The rich were getting richer and the poor were dying of starvation. If he should be nominated and be elected next year I think he would be our last President, because he would finish where he left off the last time. If I were Hoover, and if I couldn’t say anything good about Roosevelt I wouldn't say anything at all. Why mislead the public when every one sees that he is doing splendidly for the shape this country was in? Os course it will take time to untangle the mess but I’m sure that if Roosevelt is reelected he will put this country in shape. It took this long to get acquainted with everything but now

some scenes taken in the surrounding vicinity. Q —What is the full name and title of the Emperor of Ethiopia. A—Haile Selassie I is his name. | His titles are: “The King of Kings ! of Ethiopia,” "The Conquering Lion of Judah” and “The Elect of God.” ; Q —Give the names and ages of the : children of Premier Mussolini of Italy. A—Edda, 25; Vittorio, 19; Bruno, i 17; Romano, 8, and Anna Maria, 6. j Q —What was the period desig- j nated as the Middle Ages? A—The period between the fall of j the Roman Empire in the West, A. D. 476. and the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492. Q—What is the address of George Gershwin, the song writer? A—l 32 E. 72nd-st. New York. Q —What has become of the dirigible Los Angeles? A—lt is at Lakehurst. N. J., and is being used by the United States Navy in ground training for aircraft. It is not being used in actual flight training. Q —ls there a duty on Bibles and hymn books imported into the United States? A—Bibles are free, but hymn ‘ books are dutiable.

it will be easier for him because he understands the situation. Why put anew man in there? It will take him four years to get acquainted again and in the meantime may make a w T orse mess than this country was ever in.. I’m 100 per cent for Roosevelt and I know that every one that can see what he is doing for the United States is, too. a a tt CONTRIBUTION ON FOETS AROUSES INDIGNATION By Thomas E. Halsey I hereby voice my indignation at the contribution titled, “Poets,” by Daniel Francis Clancy, appearing in the Dec. 10 issue of The Times. You may recall that I am a writer of verse myself, along with many other Indiana citizens, and I have learned, as has Mr. Clancy, apparently, there is no money to be garnered, and very little fame, by amateur poets, but I still believe that poetry is an expression of a human soul, and not the product of a distorted mind, bent for “insanity’s row” as Mr. Clancy states. There is little wonder that Indiana poets, a few of whom have risen above the state of incompetency to write interesting and inspiring verse, are looked upon with pity, rather than acknowledged for their talent, when newspapers display such an attitude of disrespect, by printing such uncalled for tripe as the piece referred to. If Mr. Clancy or any one else wants to travel tow'ard insanity row, let him, but don’t agree with him that all who write verse are courting insanity, by displaying his convictions, when there is most certainly more wholesome thought available for your contributed verse space. NIGHT R AIN BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY The rain falls gently upon the roof, Darkness, silence, the freshness of of the rain, I sigh. The perfect melody is in my heart, God, grant that I may capture it and die. DAILY THOUGHTS For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.—Ecclesiastes 2:33. VIRTUE would not go far if vanity did not keep it company.— Rochefoucauld.

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.DEC. 16, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—The greatest drama of the New Deal these days is being enacted in a dazzling white marble hall just across from the Capitol. Outside its door the “Standing Room Only" is hanging. Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war. nods to James M. Beck, former solicitor general. Attorney i General Cummings shakes hands with ex-Secretarv of State Kellogg. The stage is a long dais of carefully polished mahogany. And at I the hands of the great gold clock suspended above it come together | at noon, a hushed silence falls over i the throng. Behind the velvet curtains at one nine aged actors wait for their cue. They are gowned in black. In front of them is a little boy in knee breeches. At a nod from the leading man—a bearded gentleman of stately mien—the boy pushes a buzzer and the Nine Old Men advance abreast through the curtains: The audience rises. “The Honorable, the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States!” calls the court crier. “Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the honorable. the Supreme Court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable Court!” The Justices take their seats. a a tt

THE chairs in which they sit are the only protest which the most venerable court of the land made against the encroachment of modernity in their new temple of justice. Marble pillars, air-cooling, shower-baths, fountains, expansive fire-places—all these they accepted. But at new chairs they balked. So new they still teeter back and fourth in the old worn leather swivel-chairs from the old Supreme Court chamber. Chief Justice Hughes nods to Justice Cardozo at the extreme left, and Justice Cardozo launches a long talk on building and loan associations. Newsmen stuff messages into pneumatic tubes to be carried to the telegraph room on the floor above. No scurrying messenger boys disturb the supreme serenity. Like a schoolmaster calling on / his pupils, the stately Chief Justice nods to one. then another of his collegues. They recite. Opinion after opinion drones on: Indian property, workmen’s compensation, mortgages, garbage disposal. The expectant audience is bored. a a IT is 1:30 p. m. Suddenly the court recesses. The first act has been a dud. But, as if with a sense of the dramatic, the nine aged actors have kept their best show for the end. Crackers and milk in the robing room. Justice Brandies eats two sandwiches put up iy a small box by his wife before he leaves home. Justice Mcßeynolds prefers more solid food. Once again the justices march out on their stage. Sharp-nosed Stanley Reed, solicitor of the Justice Department, stands before them in morning coat and gray-striped trousers Senator Smith, co-author of the AAA Act, cups one hand behind a large ear. Mordecai Ezekiel, economist of the Agriculture Department, forgets that he has been standing on his feet for one hour v But the chief actors appear blase A and bored. Roberts, at the right, Jeans forward to whisper to Justice Butler, his neighbor. Next to him, Mr. Mcßeynolds lets his eyes close and his head drop forward. Solicitor Reed talks on. Suddenly Mcßeynolds snaps to life as if from a deep sleep. But the question that he shoots at Mr. Reed indicates he was not dozing. Justice Butler shoots another question. Then Mr. Sutherland, then Mr. Brandeis. The nine justices have come to life. At last they have reached their climax. Questioning and argument continue that afternoon and part of the next day, but the final fate oi the AAA will not be learned until about the first week in January. Justices Stone and Roberts are the only members of the Court who attend the theater. But there is no doubt about it—they all appreciate drama. (Copyright. 1935 fcv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

By George Clark