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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1935

THE LINDBERGHS’ DECISION TT is not good Christmas news that Col. Lindbergh and his wife have sailed to England with their 3-year-old son Jon to avoid a possible repetition of the tragedy that robbed them of their first-born in March, 1932. America's heart will go with them in a trip that will have little enough of the peace that the season should afford every one. At the same time the American people would like to believe that it was not necessary for the Lindberghs to take so drastic end sensational a step. The coming execution of Hauptmann has stirred all sorts of sinister rumors and threats. We believe these came from cranks, and that the law of America now is strong enough to protect this unhappy family. Indeed, the law against kidnapers now is nomean thing. According to Department of Justice figures there has been no major case except the Milne kidnaping for a year. Os 55 kidnapings since the ‘ Lindbergh Law” was passed in June, 1932, all but the Milne case have been solved and arrests have taken place In all but two. A total of 122 persons have been convicted, four kidnapers have been executed, 24 are doing life terms and sentences have been meted out totaling 1700 years. That good record was made possible only because in respect to this particular crime against society a law was passed which paid little heed to state lines. Fortunately no high-priced lawyers have yet been knocking at court doors crying that this Federal law is unconstitutional in that it infringes on the rights of states to catch kidnapers. Perhaps the Lindberghs were justified in their escape. It was a personal decision which nobody else could make for them. Certainly no parent will quarrel with it. We would like, however, to think it was not necessary. GOOD WORK 'T'HE way the municipal street department atA tacked the snowfall yesterday was almost thrilling. Limited to 35 trucks and 300 laborers, it cleared the way in the shopping district in an admirable manner. Naturally, outlying areas had to be put on the deferred list, for the problem was to move vehicular and foot traffic downtown. It must have been evident to observers that the truckmen and shovelers were doing all they could to make the streets passable. To criticise municipal government is always easy. It is never what perfectionists know it should be. But often it can be seen functioning for the convenience and protection of the citizens. This was the case when traffic seemed about to bog down due to the heavy storm. We are glad to say a good word for those who toiled in the streets that people might finish their shopping and go about their normal business. DISSOLVING THE NRA TTTHILE Secretary of Labor Perkins is urging enVV actmcnt of the Walsh bill to enforce NRA hour and wage standards on government contracts, NRA itself is abolishing the special bureau set up to enforce such standards and to prepare for administration of the proposed law. This cross-wires program within the Administration probably will have to be resolved by President Roosevelt or by Congress. The special NRA bureau was wiped out in the latest personnel clean-out at NRA, which is reducing the NRA staff from its present 2300 to 1300, effective Jan. 1. The reduction is expected to head off reported Administration plans to abolish the NRA lock, stock and barrel on Jan. 1, instead of letting it continue until April 1, as provided by Congress. The Walsh bill as passed by the Senate in August required observance of NRA code regulations, and other regulations as well, not only by direct government contractors, but also by subcontractors. The measure was tabled by the House Judiciary Committee, but can be brought up by the committee at any time after Congress meets Jan. 3. NRA officials believe the job of policing subcontractors in enforcement of such a law would be almost impossible under the bill as now drawn. Hence the bill will likely be simplified if it is revived. NRA and Labor Department officials are reported working on redrafts. The Administration may be forced to push the Walsh bill through to head off the drastic 30-hour-week bill which organized labor is planning to demand. The A. F. of L. also is pushing the O'Mahoney bill for Federal licensing of all business *in interstate commerce, which has regulatory ramifications even more extensive than NRA had. But this would not apply to businesses held by the courts to be Intrastate. "Little NRA” bills like the Guffey Coal Act are being drafted for textiles, oil and other major industries, but they will not be pressed until the Supreme Court rules finally on the Guffey Act, according to present indications. JUDICIAL MIND READING \ WARNING by Justice Cardozo that fellows on the Supreme Court should steer clear of “psychoanalysis" in probing Congress' motives is timely in view of the momentous issues now being argued in their Corinthian palace on Capitol Hill. Learned counsel for the corporations fighting the AAA farm program argue that Congress didn't intend the processing taxes for revenue but for regulation of production. The same argument doubtless will be invoked in court battles on the Guffey Coal, Social Security and other reform acts. In his minority opinion in the liquor tax case Justice Cardozo said the high court's duties do not include a delving “into the motives of a legislative body.” "The judgment of the court rests upon the ruling that another purpose, not professed, may be read beneath the surface, and by the purpose so imputed the statute is destroyed,” he said. "Thus the process of psychoanalysis has spread to unaccustomed fields. “There is a wise and ancient doctrine that a court will not inquire into the motives of a legislative body or assume them to be wrongful. “There is another wise and ancient doctrine that '

a court will not adjudge the invalidity of a statute except for manifest necessity. "Every reasonable doubt must have been explored and extinguished before moving to that grave conclusion. "The warning sounded by the court in the Sinking Fund cases has lost none of its significance. ‘Every presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government can not encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.’ "I can not rid myself of the conviction that in the imputation to the lawmakers of a purpose not professed, this salutary rule of caution is now forgotten or neglected after all the many protestations of its cogency and virtue.” A MERCHANT’S OPINION T)ROBABLY the most unpopular man discussed around “well-warmed and well-stocked clubs” tills w r eek is Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant. This is because Mr. Filene in a radio broadcast the other night committed what many of those who frequent such clubs might consider an act of treason to his class when he reminded his fellow financiers and big business men of some unpleasant truths. He reminded them that they were a pretty sick lot in the spring of 1933, that their sickness was one which they had helped to bring upon themselves and upon the country, and that they were then only too glad to take the doctor’s orders. He reminded them that the recovery they are enjoying is due not so much to their own native vigor as to President Roosevelt's New Deal medicine, which is building up the red corpuscles of the country's mass purchasing power. Moreover, as an insider who knows how the big business game is played, he warned the American voters that they would be letting themselves in for another headache if they were again to let the violent critics of the New Deal have their way. And he explained why it is that certain reactionary newspapers, which these big business interests own, publish in their editorial columns comments discrediting the New Deal’s recovery efforts—comments which do not seem to track with the actual facts about recovery recorded in the news columns of the same newspapers. tt tt tt TN CURRENT news columns, we find many items cf the type to which Mr. Filene referred. We list them as additional evidence to confirm Mr. Filene’s point that the New Deal has not been the complete failure which some doleful editorials would have us believe: General Motors cuts a holiday bonus melon of $5,000,000 for 200,000 employes, and many other corporations do likewise, in ratio to their increased earnings. Farmers’ cash income has Increased 86 per cent and rural retail sales have advanced 93 per cent since the spring of 1933. United States’ exports in November were 22 per cent larger than in October, and 38 per cent larger than in November of last year. In New England, business volume was from 10 to 15 per cent above last fall. December retail sales are running nearly a half billion dollars above sales of December, 1934, and nearly a billion above sales of December, 1933. November building construction was 89 per cent better than the same month last year, and residential construction was up 129 per cent. The number of jobs filled by workers rose In the year from 38,703,000 to 40,000,000. Wages and salaries rose correspondingly. Stock dividends increased about $250,000,000, and the value of stocks held by investors rose 11 billions. People with savings deposits possess about a billion dollars more than last year. And last, but not least—a break for youth. Private industry, for the first time in five years, is sending scouts to the campuses to hire bright college graduates, to replenish "executive reservoirs.” THE “COMMON” COLD "\TINE colds a year is the average for the average family, a Harvard research expert has decided. And he also gives out the news that infection, by germs too minute for isolation, is the cause of colds running through a family. Those who live in proximity to each other distribute these germs—and there you are. Certainly the industrial and personal loss from the acute disease known as the cold is far too great. Seme of the large insurance companies spend thousands of dollars on advertising designed to make people wareful of colds. The climate of central Indiana is not necessarily conducive to colds, though some people think it is. The point is, a cold deserves respect and should not be taken lightly. The Harvard scientist says that whether or not a cold gets a person down depends on the treatment in the first 48 hours. Too many victims risk pneumonia by not taking the on-rush of the so-called “common cold” seriously. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT kij Mrs. Walter Ferguson TJEFORE taking her own life, a college girl wrote a note in which she explained that losing the love of her sweetheart made existence meaningless. She died by her own hand because she believed the future held nothing for her. A great many boys and girls are moved by the same ignorance. Unless they are given help during these emotional crises, they often commit rash and sometimes tragic deeds. Having no sense of the past, they are unable to imagine a future. Yet youth must never despair. Perhaps a personal memory of my own can best illustrate the reason why tins is so. When I was a little girl, family solidarity was much greater than it is today. The only danger which menaced our harmonious home was the possible breaking up of the intimate little circle by death. Any other method would at that time have been unthinkable, but the child of a doctor learnedvery early about death. So I used to pray most fervently to the God of my childhood that if catastrophe should overtake any mem.berof our group, it might wipe us all out at once. I was utterly unable to conceive an existence without my parents and sisters. Well, suppose God had answered my foolish prayers? I would have missed all the richness of my mature life, the love of husband and children, the joys of another family circle in which I had the role of parent. If life changes tomorrow, and tragedy descends, is there need to say that everything is over? Os course not. Remembering the poignancy of our childish fears, how can we believe that what appears to be the finality of death is really the end for us? On that subject we are all children, unable to imagine a future in which we are aliens from our present environment. *

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With .McCREADY BXSTON

THE night before Christmas. This column will not be \ read by as many as usual this evening. Its friends will be trimming trees. They will be getting ready to go to early communion. They will he in the evening spell which only Christmas casts. This is the most important eve in the year. None other approaches it in effect on people’s minds. Have you noticed that people who like noisy parties on New Year's eve are always quiet on the night before Christmas. Excitement, except the excitement of children, seems a violation. The night before Christmas. May all Times readers have at least a share of the benediction. tt tt tt T met for the first time a man I -*• had long heard of—Edmund IL Bingham. His grandfather was the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in Indiana. Ed, as his familiars ! call him, was one of the active newspaper men of the city for many years. He was the city’s first sports editor. That is, he was the first man to assemble all the sport news on one page. He is full of interesting anecdotes of the nineties. What drew me to Ed chiefly was the fact that he is a brother of George Upfold Bingham. The Upfold is for the churchman grandfather. And the connection in my mind is Christmas eve. After living in Indianapolis for many years, serving as deputy state auditor, George Bingham joined Rome C. Stephenson, of Rochester, Ind., in going to South Bend to operate a bank. Mr. Stephenson having died, Mr. Bingham is now president. tt tt >t npHE bank, however, was not Mr. -®- Bingham’s first concern. He devoted himself to the church, serving as its treasurer. The church had hard sledding. Episcopalians are not numerous in the northern sector and not many of them are rich. Due to Mr. Bingham's hard and faithful work, that of the late Bishop White and the present Bishop Gray, as well as that of Rectors Francis and Ferguson, the church became a power in the community. George Bingham might serve as the ideal layman. When his bank closed during the panic he was almost crushed. Ha seemed to take It as a personal responsibility. And since the church’s money was impounded, he seemed, for a time, to shrink from meeting people. But his sterling character asserted itself and, as the government came to the rescue and the banking situation was straightened out, he became his old self again. tt tt tt npONIGHT, in the church he has served so nobly, there will be a midnight service, with the holy calm of Christmas eve spreading its healing and consoling magic over the hearts of hundreds. And if it hadn’t been for the work of this Indiana man, George Bingham, the church probably would not be open. tt tt u COME Christmas presents will be on hand tomorrow because an intelligent Indianapolis woman has been shopping for her men friends. Seeing their bewilderment in the face of crowds and the multitude of gifts, she volunteered to make the choices, see t© the sending, the charging and all the details. Her offer was gratefully accepted by more than one anxious husband. Although she did it without a commercial thought and does not expect to make a business of it, the thing has possibilities. The average man is embarrassed and hesitant when buying gifts for his wife and family. He needs the aid and advice of a competent woman. This woman is called blessed tonight by some Indianapolis men. OTHER OPINION A True Picture [Hartford City News! Those persons in Indiana who have a sincere and genuine interest in affairs of their state, unbiased and not directed by political favor or ambitions, realize that a true picture in Indiana today shows this state well on the road to recovery and prosperity, says the Bloomington Star. They point with real pride to the accomplishments of this state during the administration of Gov. Paul V. McNutt, and after viewing the dire plight of many other states, are grateful they can share in this new Hoosier happiness. The cost of government in Indiana, despite the troublesome period through which the state has passed, has been lightened. On Reciprocal Trade Pacts (Henry F. Grady). The history of trade agreements up to date, I think, demonstrates that a great deal can be done in developing our foreign trade without impairing domestic interests. Business interests during the past 25 years have frequently expressed themselves strongly on the matter of taking the tariff out of politics. The trade agreements program not only does this, but it does it by making possible the development of anew commercial policy which competent students of our affairs have felt for some time to be necessary.

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The Hoosier Forum

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliyious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less. Your letter must he stoned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) tt tt a FINDS ARTICLES BY PICKFORD HELP By E. J. Unruh I have just \read the installment of “My Rendezvous With Life” by Mary Pickford. It is a simple, thought-provoking autobiography of Miss Pickford's j spiritual life. The Times is doing’ the people of Indiana a great service through its pages by the publication of such helpful features. tt jt tt HOPES SAFETY {DRIVE WILL SUCCEED By “Safety First” It is to be hoped the campaign for safer conditions on the highway will bear good fruit. The chief offenders* are Jerry Jag, Johnny Speed, Jay Whiker and U. R. Careless. Some of ’these can be reached by legislation and some by education and experience. Changes in the construction of automobiles and highways will also help. Propei* signs and removal of obstructions will aid very much. A safety conscience will cause men to make an effort to prevent accidents. A man who respects the; rights of others will sto’ lock and listen when it is nee sary to present accidents and wi . use proper care at all times. t; tt tt SUGGESTS NEW WAY TO COLLECT WAR DEBTS > By World War Veteran England, France and other nations that owe this country vast sums of war debts, claim they can only pay in goods. They well know these can not be accepted when this country now has a surplus of the commodities which they are willing to supp’y. There is one method by which they could pay that has evidently been overlooked by our able statesmen. It is an acknowledged fact that 1 this nation is sadly in need of de-! fensive weapons, particularly air-* planes of the bomber type, submarines, anti-aircraft and machine guns, coast defense guns, cruisers and destroyers. Why not require these nations to furnish these articles or any other supplies of this nature, to liquidate their long-over-due war debts? It is well understood that the ship builders and munitions manufacturers would howl their heads off, but let them howl. Why deny this country these needed articles and allow defaulting nations to continue their obligations indefinitely just to satisfy these racketeers? It is believed their patriotism was well

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Home Service 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 Home Service Bureau, Frederick M. Kerby, Director, 1013 Thirteenth-st, N. W., Washington, D. C. Q —How much gold reserve has the United States and Great Britain? A—As of Sept. 30, 1935, the gold reserve of the United States was estimated at $9,368,000,000 and that of Great Britain at $1,595,000,000. Q—ls Alexandria, Egypt, the fifth largest city in the world? A—No; its population is only 573.063, whereas Berlin, Germany, the fifth city, has 4,259,000. Q —What was the date of election j day in 1896? A—Tuesday, Nov. 3. Q —How is suite, meaning a set of , furniture, pronounced? A—Sweet. Q—Where was Clark Gable born; how did he get into the movies? A—He was born in Cadiz, O.; his mother, an artist, died when Clark was 2 years old, and his father left him to fight his way in the world. At the age of 14 he worked in an oil field and later in a lumber camp. Then he joified a stock company

THE PROBLEM CHILD

I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

demonstrated recently when they tried to charge our government two or three prices for authorized ships. tt tt tt FINDS AMUSEMENT IN CALAMITY HOWLERS By Reader, Frankfort One of the amusing things about our present economic upheaval is the calamity howling of those opposed to the New Deal. It consists chiefly of opposition to the size of the public debt and the alleged disregard for the Constitution. Asa matter of fact, our so-called captains of industry are not in the least disturbed about the public debt nor the fate of the Constitution They would gladly run the public debt to S7O 000,000,000 if they knew they would restore themselves to full power. As to the Constitution and Supreme Court, they are interested in them only as a means to block and, if possible, defeat, progressive legislation. They are only clouding the issues by attempts to work on the fears of the people, hoping to work up an emotional campaign; they would have the little fellow all excited, tearing his hair over the dreadful debt and the onslaught against the alleged bulwarks of our government, the Constitution and Supreme Court. These captains of industry and the Republican Party have always worked hand in hand. The captains put up the “dough” and the Republicans deliver the goods. The real Issue is whether we are to continue under the same old protective system whereby the few profit at the expense of the many. This system, so long as its benefits were restricted to the few, worked fairly well. It came to an end when the bottom went out, thus proving its fallacy. The tariff never produced one single penny of wealth. It merely juggled the wealth from the pockets of the many to the pockets of the few. As stated, any protective system works fairly well for a considerable period so long as its beneficiaries are relatively few. Since the collapse of the whole structure it is small wonder that the question of social security comes up for attention. It is a natural sequence, and involves an extension of the protective principle which neutralizes the whole scheme of [protection through tariffs and subsidies. First, the processing tax for tl.e farmer. He didn’t profit by the tariff. Why shouldn’t he have some protection? This is declared unconstitutional, but is no more unconstitutional than the protective tariff. As the President has said, it all depends on whose baby has the measles. Now, we have something looming up which involves the extension of this protective principle farther than even Mr. Roosevelt would think of carrying it—the

| and played in Steubenville, 0., and in road shows, including a season with Jane Cowl in “Romeo and Juliet,” and later in “What Price Glory?” “Madame X,” “Lady Fredtrick,” “Chicago” and “The Last Mile.” His first attempt to become a movie actor failed. several years later he was assigned a villain role in “The Painted De; rt,” and that was followed 'by sim ar parts until a producer recogniz J his possibilities as a popular r atinee idol. Q —What is the total membership in the Congress >o the United States and of the Unl'ed States Supreme Court? A—Congress has 96 Senators and 435 Representatives, and the Supreme Court has one chief justice and eight associate justices. Q —What is the average annual snowfall in the state of Texas? Does it ever snow in Death Valley, California? A—For the whole 3tate it is about five inches, ranging from 19 inches in the northern section of the Panhandle, to scarcely any along the j coast and the lower Rio Grande. Death Valley, California, has occai sional light snows, j Q —How much bituminous coal 1 was produced and consumed in the i United States in 1934? j A—Preliminary figures \are: Projduction, 358.395,000 short tons; consumption, 346,070,000 ihort|tons.

Townsend plan for old-age pensions. This must give the big bug a chill up his spine. Whither or how fast this will carry us, nobody knows. Don’t let any one kid you by making you believe they can figure out the results of this because they can’t; that is impossible. Another chunk of hooey is the talk about balancing the budget. Nobody on earth will know whether the budget is ever balanced. If it is so simple, why didn’t Herbert Hoover balance it long ago? He had as good a chance as any one ever in the President’s chair. Now we are confronted with the choice of going back to the old system of limited protection (protecting the captains of industry only at the expense of the whole), or of accepting the moderate extension of this principle in a tax for the farmers’ benefit and an application of the pension system to a moderate degree. Capital hasn’t behaved itself very well in the past. Mr. Roosevelt is endeavoring to give it a chance to get on a live-and-let-live basis, but capitalists are dissatisfied; they want no government. They believe in government for the masses but not by them. As an alternative we can prepare ourselves for the Townsend plan, which is the biggest step toward communism we ever could make. No one knows just where or when we will land with that in operation. HIS COMING BY BARBARA PORTER He came to us at Christmas tide, A Baby, in a manger born; And men o’er desert waste's did ride To worship Him that Christmas morn. To shepherds, tending flocks nearby, There came a Host from God above: “A Babe in Bethlehem doth lie, A Message of Eternal Love!” And since that day so long ago, When God His only Son did give, Men worship Him, booh high and low, And in their hearts, He still doth live! DAILY THOUGHTS For I also am a man sei under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, go, and he goeth; and to another, come, and he cometh, and to my servant, do this, and he doeth it.—St. Luke vii, 8. WE are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe, and happy.—Seneca.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Oh, just a few little things I bought/ There are some kids on my route that I’d rather not pass up again today.”-

DEC. 24, 1933

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—No matter how short the President wants to make the coming session of Congress, one thing he can not avoid is a knock-down drag-out fight on the question of a ship subsidy. The big operators have given a virtual ultimatum to the Shipping Board that unless they have definite assurances either of mail contracts or a subsidy, they will transfer their tonnage to foreign flags. Undoubtedly this is partly bluff. However, it has the Commerce Department worried. It is no secret that American companies operating under foreign flags could cut expenses considerably. Andrew Mellon and his American Aluminum Cos. ships are demonstrating this right now. One of the great mysteries of the shipping world is what became of the special shipping bill concocted by Secretary Roper during the closing days of the last session. The bill was whipped Into shape when the shipping industry' began lobbying for an independent shipping agency. tt tt tt r T~'HE Shipping Board is a grand -*• pie-counter for politcal patronage. Few do any appreciable amount of work. And political patronage is dear to Roper's heart. So three Roper henchmen hurriedly drew up anew shipping bill. They were Assistant Secretary J. M. Johnson: Chester McCall, assistant to Roper, and "Admiral” J. C. Peacock, whose friendship with Roper made him chairman of the Shipping Board. None has had experience with shipping. What is in the bill nobody knows. Congress closed before it could see the light of day. But latest word is that Roper is ready to spring it on the shipping world in January, and if so, it will cause a three-ring circus among the Copeland Ship Subsidy bill, the Roper bill, and the Independent Bureau bill advocated by many shipping companies. tt tt tt 'T'HE Securities and Exchange Commission is chuckling secretly over a little joke on the Treasury. Henry Morgenthau’s boys have been advertising their Baby Bond issue with phraseology which would never get by the SEC. If a private company Issued similar financial advertising the SEC would crack down on it in short order. The SEC, however, has no Jurisdiction over Federal bonds, nor over state and municipal issues. What the Treasury is doing is getting out a prospectus. On the cover is a full-bosomed, lithograph lady, holding in one hand an American flag, in the other a baby bond. She also offers this advice: "Add one-third to your investment in ten years.” In another part of the prospectus appear these alluring words: “$25 United States Savings Bonds at $18.75.” "SIOOO United States Savings Bonds at $750, etc.” Such phrases are in violation of all SEC rules. They give to the average small investor the idea he is getting a wonderful bargain. In strict truth he is not getting a bargain, merely a 2.9 per cent compounded interest. tt tt tt THERE is anew "Little Robby” in the New Deal. Confidential secretary to Gen. Hugh Johnson and guardian of his inner office when the ex-cavalryman was boss of the Blue Eagle was Miss Frances Robinson, known far and wide as "Little Robby.” Filling the same role on the staff of Rex Tugwell is Miss Grace Falke. With her desk close to the private door of Tugwell’s sanctum the blue-eyed young lady presides over the destinies of three divisions and knows “what Rex is thinking about almost before he does.” (Copyright, 1935. by United Featurs Syndicate. Inc.)