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TUESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1936

THE AAA DECISION ‘ITW'E are right back where we started from. The * farm problem is with us again. The puzzle with which every Administration has wrestled since the World War ended is now as unsolved as it was when it first appeared in the crash of prices that followed the close of the great conflict. Agricultural prices may stay steady or even rise for a while, or they may drop sharply. If they drop, the problem becomes immediately acute. If they stay steady or rise, that will mean eventually an Increased and uncontrolled acreage and hence "the surplus,” seat of the infection that has caused economic illness to some 40 million of our population, directly, and a remoter though njne the less real malady to the rest of the nation, because of the farmers’ inability to buy what the industries of the cities produce. There will be cheers for a while from the Republican side. The decision will first be seen ip the light of its effect on the 1936 campaign. But those cheers will soon die down. For this problem isn't the exclusive property of any one political party. It is broader than that and longer than 1936. It’s the same hairshirt that plagued Harding, pestered Coolidge, bedeviled Hoover. n u THE net of the Supreme Court majority decision is that the farm problem is a state and not a national one. As to this exercise of judicial power we personally like the comment of Justice Stone of the minority when he says: “For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books, appeal lies not to the courts, but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government. . . . Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern. . . . Interpretation of our great charter. . . . Which proceeds on any assumption that the responsibility for the preservation of our institutions i: the exclusive concern of any one of the three branches of government, or that it alone can save them from destruction, is far more likely, in the long run, ‘to obliterate the constituent members’ of ‘an indestructible states’ than the frank recognition that language, even of a Constitution, may mean what it says: That the power to tax and spend includes the power to relieve a nation-wide economic maladjustment ..." But after all, that was language of the minority. And in court affairs, the majority rules. So the situation as it now stands is that AAA is out, and the farm problem is ‘‘in again." Where do we go from here? Too early to say. Probably, first, an attempt to make a law that will fit the views of the Supreme Court. If that fails, then there is just one other route. If the problem must be handled, as we believe it must, as a national one, that route is a constitutional amendment. Should that finally prove necessary, we predict both Republicans and Democrats will be found joining in support. We believe the farm problem can not be solved along state lines and that it will continue to plague Administrations of whatever political faith until it is settled on a country-wide scale. XXX —AND THE BUDGET WE had intended today to write a lot in praise and criticism of the President's new budget, But now it is merely of academic interest that the budget abandoned the double-entry’ system condemned by the President’s cntics, brought all New Deal activities such as AAA and CCC and public works into one single budget along with the older departments of government and the still newer social security board, and made provision for financing everything—work-relief alone excepted—on a pay-as-you-go basis. This is no longer important because the AAA decision, read in the Supreme Court at the same time the President's budget message was read in Congress, made that budget worth less than the paper it is printed on. How that startling decision will affect that more Important budget—the economic budget of the people as a whole —we do not claim prophetic powers to foretell. We hope it won’t unbalance it as much as we fear it may. Which brings us back to that new government budget and the reasons why it now seems a document more suitable for the miscellaneous file in the archives than for serious study by Congress. XXX THE AAA decision not only knocks in the head the half billion dollars estimated revenue from processing taxes, unbalancing the fiscal year 1937 budget, and deprives the government of the 200 million In court-impounded processing taxes, further unbalancing the current year’s budget. It not only exposes the government to suits for refunds of the one billion dollars of processing taxes already collected and paid out to farmers, threatening thereby a one billion increase in the public debt and correspondingly enlarging the debt items in this year’s budget, and next year’s, and the next and the next and the next. It not only knocks out the farm recovery expenditure items. * It also raises doubts as to the validity of expense and tax items affecting the Social Security Law, the Coal Control Law, the CCC. the WPA, and a multitude of much older governmental activities long accepted as proper promotions of the general welfare. Moreover it makes all estimates of t\x receipts. Including income and excise levies, the rankest sort of guesswork. For the estimates that in 1937 the government would reap the second greatest revenue harvest in his to: y were based on the assumption that the national income and purchasing power, greatly improved by achievement of a better balance between agriculture and industry, would continue to mount and to be productive of mounting revenue and declining relief burdens. XXX taking away from the farmers the in- *** strumentality which has helped to increase farm income from around four billion dollars to nearly seven billion dollars will not cause a slump in their purchasing power. Maybe even if ft shrinks —that purchasing power which economists say has been responsible for 40 per cent of the nation’s total business recovery--maybe even then the rolls of the • Industrial unemployed wtu not swell, calling the

government to have to spend many more billions for relief than it had anticipated spending. Maybe. We don’t know. We wish the Supreme Court could assure us it won’t. THE REPUBLICAN OFFENSIVE VITHOM will the Indiana Republicans nominate for Governor? That question becomes more acute since the Supreme Court s decision outlawing the AAA. There has been talk of bringing Everett Sanders back from Washington, where he practices law. Mr. Sanders, former congressman and President Coolidge’s chief secretary, is held in high esteem by the elders of the Republican Party, Another Republican mentioned is Eli F. Seebirt, of St. Joseph County. He happens to be the law partner of the Third District chairman. The reason we refer to the Republican possibilities is this: The G. O. P., from all indications, is going to put up the best man for Governor it can find. That, apparently, is true of the presidency. The idea of setting up a straw man, on the theory that the election is “in the bag” for the Democrats, seems to have been discarded since the various Supreme Court rulings. Therefore, the selection of a Democratic state ticket takes on a more serious aspect. Recently the Democrats have shown signs of their characteristic tendency to divide within the party. With the Republicans definitely on the offensive, the party in power may realize the dangers of divisions. THE OLD DISORDER PASSES TNDUSTRIAL employers, whose high-priced lawyers are using injunction judges to bind the government’s hands from enforcing the Labor Relations Act, should read what a similar Federal law is doing to prevent, strikes and disorders on the country’s far-flung railroads. The record will be found in the annual report of the National Mediation Board. Herein it is recorded that since 1926, when the Railway Labor Act was passed, there has been ‘‘almost an unbroken record of peaceful settlement of labor disputes on the railroads.” The act recognizes the right of free and ”oluntary collective bargaining, and sets up machinery for making and administering agreements between the carriers and railmen’s crafts. There are now’ more than 3000 such agreements. These contracts have the effect of laws governing industrial relations between the men and management. There have been plenty of disputes, but they seldom reach the point of strikes. Those who recall the years of interrupted railroad traffic, public inconvenience, economic loss and human suffering that marked the old disorder will admit that this law’ has brought a great boon to America. Wisely Congress has adopted a similar program for the rest of interstate industry. Instead of fighting such a program other employers should welcome a reign of law in their relationship with the workers. LONG-TERM HOME LOANS INDIANA is gradually benefiting from a wholesome policy of the Federal Housing Administration. Where necessary it is departing from the old custom of fixing a short term for mortgages. For years the rule was to write a mortgage for three or five years. Beth buyer and financier knew that in a majority of cases the loan would not be paid in that period and would have to be renewed. Banks used to carry these. loans as overdue paper rather than take new mortgages. The Federal housing organization is now holding what it calls clinics, to determine the ability of a heme purchaser to pay and what term of years is best suited to his financial status. This sounds sensible and humane. Many families could pay out in 10 years. Being worried by the necessity—and sometimes the impossibility—of paying in a short term, many in the past got into difficulties with their obligations. Since a home is thought of as a permanent thing, long-term financing not only applies but will also encourage more and more families to undertake a purchase. A BOOM IN BAND INSTRUMENTS INDIANA, the center of the band instrument business, is enjoying the fruits of the radio, night club, talking picture and theatrical upturn. Manufacture of instruments is concentrated in Elkhart, W’here 11 companies turn out all kinds of horns. Employment in one of the companies is up 30 per cent over 1935. The increase in high school bands and orchestras, in college and university bands, and the hope of fond parents that their children will reach and make good on the air, stage and screen, are factors in helping the instrument trade. The industry is one of which the state should be proud. No other state equals Indiana in the number of band instruments manufactured. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson NEWSPAPER reading may make the full mind but it can also make the heavy heart. Our facilities for getting information are so numerous and powerful these days, and so much of the information is sensational, bizarre or morbid, it’s a wonder we have any shred of faith in humanity left. When this form of universal blues grabs you, it’s a good idea to narrow your vision. Take your eyes off the world scene to focus them upon the neighborhood. For the closeup view of men and women is usually pleasing; where human behavior is concerned, distance does not lend enchantment. There’s Mrs. B who lives across the street—and what a sweet somebody she is! With her own children grown and gone, she’s bringing up two orphans, yet has time to run over now and then with a bit of freshly baked cake, or a little poem whose message she wants to bring to me. Next door to the light is a young couple of great charm who lost their money three years ago. Lately the wife has taken a job. so that their* home, nearly paid for, will not be lost. The way her little chin has gone up after ill fortune's every blow has been an inspiration to all who know her. A widower with three children lives on our left. He is breadwinner, and mother as well as father to his youngsters. Making no great stir in the world, he’s doing something much more valuable in keeping a home against tremendous odds. So it goes. This year I wrote New Year letters to my friends, trying to put into words what I most admired in each. This task has two advantages. It forces you to make a list of the people you know best and to look directly at their admirable qualities. The results leave you with a lightened heart. Suddenly you see that, bad as civilization's plight may be, it will not be desperate so long as you can look in any direction at the rooftops of so many brave, steadfast and honest Perhaps, after •* it ... . i Vi. ?.'

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

*IT7TSE men who know about such j ’’ things say that Indiana this year will be visited by the 17-year locust. Its scientific name of ‘‘cicada septendecim” is based on its life cycle. There is a superstition that because they have a “W” on their wings the reappearance of the locusts is a portent of war. I did not know this. I gathered it from the January number of “Outdoor Indiana,” the magazine of the Conservation Department. Another interesting article in the journal announces preparations for the third annual crow shooting contest. More than 500 conservation clubs will compete for cash prizes awarded to the clubs accounting for the largest number of crows. Every month the clubs send their crow feet to the Department of Conservation, where they are counted. Then a check goes forward to the club sending the most. Official crow feet counter, it seems to me, is one of the most unusual of state positions. XXX XT THEN the broadcasters set up in the nation’s Capitol for the opening of Congress and the presidential speech they have so many microphones that many asides go over the air, not a part of the formal program. One of the most amusing, following President Roosevelt's speech the other night, was one which normally would be ruled off the air and which can not be printed in a good family newspaper. But it revealed some unidentified Senator or Representative distinctly off-guard. And it suggested, also, that there will be an election campaign this year. XXX 'T'HE annual hullabaloo over new license plates is dying down. I wonder why, with all the improvements being made in automobiles, some genius does not invent a license plate attachment that will permit easy and speedy replacement. There is no domestic task more maddening than trying to loosen the rusted nuts and bolts that hold the license plates fore and aft. We Americans can build stream-lined, articulated trains and turret-top cars but so far we have been unable to prevent the misery of a fellow who comes home from the office and tackles the plate-change with the pliers from under the car seat. XXX /”\F ALL the automobile experiences, I like to recall the debates between husbands and wives as to whether the side-curtains should be put on against an approaching squall. One pair, in particular, who drove an open car some years ago, would furnish their guests with grand entertainment by their quarrels over the curtains. The husband—he was a well-known Indiana judge—did not believe in any unnecessary labor and always contended that the rain would pass over. The wife, believing in preparedness, always wanted him to stop and battle with the curtains as soon as the sun passed behind a cloud. xxu T USED to wonder which was the better system for husbands and wives to have their quarrels, get them over, and forget them, or to suffer in silence and harbor bot-tled-up resentment? The couple I refer to are living in peace and amity after 25 years of wedlock, have two fine sons in college and are prospering. But their road arguments used to promise divorce. So, I suppose, the technique of each telling the other what for is the better of the two methods of procedure. XXX A N Indianapolis woman firmly believes that animals think. That is rather disturbing, if it is true. It makes a fellow wonder what his Scottie thinks of him. OTHER OPINION [C. E. M. Jead in “Return to Philosophy."] If two men leave Manchester for Betty-Coed and the one drives so gently that not a single speck of dust on a pedestrian’s shoe is disturbed, while the other drives so vigorously that he leaves a trail of frightened humanity along the whole route, what margin separates the pair at their journey’s end in Wales? Fifteen minutes! And how does the speed devotee spend that quarter of an hour which he has stolen from the clasp of inexorable Time? He lounges, all liver and no legs, in the bar a little longer before he feeds, consumes an extra cocktail, toys with a few stale magazines, grumbles that his food is not ready, brags a little about his driving. .. The world suffers through his speed; and it suffers to no noble purpose. XXX ON THE AAA [Profesaor frank D. Graham, .'“rineetoii] However much its (AAA s) progenitors would have liked an economy of balanced abundance, they were forced to choose between an abundance without the balance or a balance without the abundance. In the light of the comparative failure (for which they were in no way responsible) of the efforts to stimulate manufacturing production and thus provide markets for farm products, it would be churlish to i cnarge men* w}m tue wrong cnoice.

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The Hoosier Forum

<Times readers are invited to express their vieics in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reoucst.) xxx PREDICTS THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT By R. S. VanNuys, Frankfort All the hullabaloo by Republican leaders about President Roosevelt broadcasting his night message to Congress makes it appear they are afraid to have the people hear it. In all probability, that is what rankles them. I find many Republicans who disapprove of such tactics deploring the action and anticof Chairman Fletcher. Certainly, no better advertisement of the event could have been otherwise obtained. The Republican leaders appear to deplore what they term the political phase oi the event; yet, none have done more than they to inject the political phase into every legislative and administrative act. The see nothing but politics, and in their eager desire to get into the fray opened the campaign approximately a year ago. Now, as they are on a hot spot let them sit on the blister. They can blame no one but themselves. Acting like a chicken with its head off will get them nowhere. Probably they already realize that, and are proceeding on the theory that they have all to gain and nothing to lose. With platforms like “Beat Roosevelt” and ‘‘Turn the Rascals Out,” they show plainly their sole objective. They offer nothing and I never knew of any party getting anywhere with nothing more to stand upon. They realize too well that Mr. Roosevelt is able to take care of himself and that he proposes to do that very thing. It is safe bet that we will never see another Republican president; that Franklin D. Roosevelt is likely to serve not only a second but a third term. Smoke that in your pipe Mr. ‘erbie ’oover. xxx TERMS PRITCHETT WRONG ON TOWNSEND PLAN By Raymond Mote. Kokomo My dear Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett: In reply to your attack on the Townsend Plan Dec. 28, in The Indianapolis Times, I wish to state for the benefit of those not informed as to the Townsend Plan principle, that, if they use the horse sense you refer to, they may easily see that the Townsend Plan will be one of the greatest steps in civilization's advancement. You say the Townsend Plan is

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not based on facts. Well, Dr. Pritchett, your attack on the plan was not based on facts either; in several instances you relied on false statements, or else are ignorant of the true facts. You said that 2000 followers of Dr. Townsend at Chicago a few weeks ago were earnest and wistful. Why, did you not give the true figures, and say the eight or nine thousand delegates representing from 30 to 40 million people who are also followers of Dr. Townsend? Did you aim to mislead someone? Or had you been misinformed as to the true facts? You said in your attack that there would be 10 Vs million old folks over 60 years old get the S2OO per month which would cost the United States government 25 billions of dollars a year, increasing as the population increases. But to use some horse sense, it is a fact that all of those eligible would not apply for the Townsend annuity because they already have an income of more than S2OO per month. Statisticians say that the population of the United States will increase to 200 million in the year 2000, and will then stand still. The Townsend Plan, being flexible, would easily take care of the raise. You say every person will have to pay 2 per cent tax to support the plan. Any person not willing to pay 2 per cent of his wages to make himself secure in the future, and know by so doing that his poor parents were being cared for like human beings, would be a mighty poor sport. You also say that the income of the United States last year was 40 billion dollars. Why did you not say that the Townsend Plan aims to tax the turnover of the dollar, which was 1200 billions of dollars. (You can take the Federal Reserve Bank figures for this.) So you see, Dr. Pitchett. that 2 per cent on 1200 billion dollars not only would pay the old folks a pension but would, if need be, help pay the national debt. Why did you not say that a man who earned $2400 a year would pay only S4B a year to support the Townsend Plan? You also say it will take one half of the pensioners’ $2400 per year to .support the Townsend Plan. Any one with horse sense can figure that 2 per cent of $2400 is S4B. Do you think S4B is half of $2400, or did you aim to mislead someone? Dr. Pritchett, you say that the politicians who flirt with the Townsend Plan are playing-with fire. Maybe that is the reason those who do are burning up you people who try to ridicule the Townsend Plan with false facts and figures.

Q —How many universities were represented in the Western (Big Ten) Football Conference when it was founded, and which ones are now included? A—lt was founded in 1896 with seven members. In 1899 Indiana and lowa were added, making it the ‘Big Nine.” In 1905 Michigan resigned from the Conference, leaving eight members. Ohio State was admitted in 1913 and Michigan returned in 1917, when it became the "Big Ten.” Present members are Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue, Illinois, Ohio State, Northwestern, lowa, Indiana and Michigan. Q—Do the stars change color? A—The United States Naval Observatory says that the stars twinkle and cause people to think that they see them change colors. There is a slight change due to atmospheric conditions surrounding the observer, but most of the assumed chqpge is psychological. Q—Who was Lady Teazle? A—A character in Richard Sheridans play, “The School for Scan-

GIVES THANKS FOR TIMES AID By H. Joseph Hyman. Executive Director The Jewish Federation ot Indianapolis I am authorized by the Board of Governors of the Jewish Federation to thank you and The Indianapolis Times most sincerely for the gift which enabled our Jewish Family Sex vice Society to clothe 27 children during the holiday season. OUR THREE*BELOW MUST HAVE BEEN HEAT WAVE By Ferd C. Miller, Morgantown Morgantown has at last come into the limelight even If it did take a sub-zero temperature to do it. The temperature averaged from 8 below to 18 below here Dec. 30, and the Indianapolis papers stated a mean temperature of 3 above. There evidently was a -cold spot just around Morgantown as the thermometer at our store here always registers with the weather bureau at Indianapolis, and it showed 8 below. I thought that you would like to know that we had the honor of being the coldest spot in the United States. One man said that his thermometer went down as far as it could, and pulled the nail out. He found the thing laying on the ground with no red showing at all. FOLK AS THEY ARE BY C. MASTELLER “ ‘Take folk, not as you'd wish them, But taken them as they are.' This simple, homely motto Will help you travel far.” My father said these words to me When I was but a child. His face'was gravely thoughtful; His voice was low and mild. Since, I have taken study From books by learned men— Philosophers, psychologists— And I’ve discovered, then, That volumes have been written In countries near and far To teach us, merely, we should try To take folk as they are. DAILY THOUGHTS Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.—St. John 17:17. THE greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy Is prejudice and her constant companion is humility.—Colton.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark '

“I don't like to turn in such a big day’s work, but you gotta move around to keep warm anyhow."

JAN*. 7, 1936

Your... Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

XT'OUR body contains enough J iron to make five carpet tacks. That’s quite a small amount, comj pared with the other elements in | your system, but even this small quantity is an important ingredient | of the red blood cells, and a means ; for conveying oxygen through tho j body and supplying it to the tissues. As against the five carpet tacks ) of iron in the body, there is enougn phosphorous to make 8000 smail boxes of matches, and enough sulphur to make 9000 pencils. Most of this is in a mixture with about nin® to 10 gallons of water. If ycur body is conducting its chemical system in an ordinary ; manner, only a trace of iron is lost : daily during the process of digestion. exercise, breathing and similar i functions. It has been estimated that aha total wastage in loss of iron amounts to about one-fifth of a gram, or 1-75 of an ounce. That is about trva amount of iron that could be shaken easily off a rusty nail. XXX RECENTLY investigators made a special study to see how much iron the normal human body requires each day. If you are normal you require only enough to replace what you lose. The very technical studies reveal ! that the normal person loses 5-10fK) of a grain. Since there are 425 i grams in a pound, the amount lost i is very small indeed. Women may need more iron at certain intervals than at others, but even when they lose considerable blood they require only 9 1-10 millgrams of iron a day, which is about twice the usual amount. Ordinarily, there is little reason to take extra quantities of iron into the body. Children are born with an extra reserve of iron as a protection against blood loss. XXX WHILE iron in milk Is not exceedingly large in amount, authorities in nutrition believe it is exceedingly beneficial in that form. Foods vary in their iron content. Lean meat furnishes considerable iron, but not as much as liver and, lamb's kidneys. One egg will yield about one-tenth of all the iron needed by the body during the day. Dried fruits are a good source of iron; so are the leafy vegetables, such as parsley, spinach and leaf lettuce. On the other hand, celery, cabbage, and head lettuce are not exceedingly rich in phosphorus or iron. Once it was argued that raisins were a marvelous source of iron in the body, and therefore exceedingly healthful. Actually considering the amounts of raisins eaten, they are not a particularly good source of supply for this essential element. TODAY’S SCIENCE BY SCIENCE SERVICE IMREPROOF lumber —dream. of man since the Trojan hero. Aenea, in 400 B. C., suggested soaking timber in vinegar to prevent burning—is at last a reality. The laboratories of the National Board of Fire Underwriters have placed their seal of approval on chemically treated red oak and maple, which can not be burned in a practical sense and is an obstacle to the spread of fire instead of path for its travel. ‘‘Practically non-combustible and non-inflammable” is the verdict of the laboratory after months of testing in real fires and under rigidly controlled conditions. Walls and floors of the fireproof wood act as fire-stops, prevent the passage of fire and confine a conflagration to its point of origin. The approval report alscr notes that the fireproofing properties last throughout the life of the timber. The successful fireproofing is effected by a method not unlike that used in the treatment of telegraph poles, railroad ties, fence posts, etc., with creosote for protection against decay, except that incombustible salts are used in the case of the fireproof lumber. The technique of the process is exacting, as its success depends largely upon getting just the correct amouni of salts into the wood as a greater or lesser amount fails to give the desired results. Protexol Corp. c.C Kenilworth, N. J., is the manufacturer of the fireproof lumber investigated.