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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21. 1936

A WISE KING PASSES ENUINELY sharing her sorrow. America and the whole civilized world today stand with Britannia beside the bier of King George V. England has had her share of great monarchs, but never a wiser one. Nor a more democratic. H?, more than any other or his day, sensed the passing of the era of rule by divine right. He, to an extraordinary degree, appreciated the fact that the people of Britain—as fully as the people of the United States or any other republic—hold the real power, and that he was merely a symbol. Not only did he understand this, but he was proud of it. He was proud that his empire was composed of many self-governing units; that the humblest with the highest, the poorest with the richest, by their ballots decided its course; that the tie binding them was not force, but a gossamer thread of sentiment anchored to his crown. Never did the King interfere with the elected representatives of his subjects. There came a time in England, for example, when many die-hards were convinced the sky would sunder because Ramsay MacDonald, the “radical” Socialist-Labor leader, won the right to premiership through the victory of his party at the polls. Some even wondered whether the King would send for Mr. MacDonald and ask him to form a cabinet. But none who knew the King doubted what he would do. Socialist, Liberal or Conservative, they were all the same to him. The thing that really mattered was the will of England. His was merely the duty of consecrating such will by acknowledgment. The only time he ever stepped out of this rigid role—if it could be called that—was when he pleaded for family unity in times of threatened discord. tt a u 'T'HIS “family” trait, this feeling that he was just the father of a very large family, was exceedingly strong in King George and accounted for much in his reign. “In whatever part of the world you may be,” he said in his 1934 Christmas broadcast to his farflung realm, "I would like to think that you who are listening to me now are bound to me, and to one another, by the spirit of one great family. “And may I very simply and sincerely add that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign now nearing five-and-twenty years. ’ It is said the King himself wrote that message, not someone at the home office or in Downing Street. Small wonder, then, that the Archbishop of Canterbury, in opening the King's silver jubilee last May, said the British ruler embodied the unity of the empire and had become “not only King but tlie father of his people To loyalty,” he said, “had been added warmth and love.” How different the reign of King George, the wise, from the flamboyant, swashbuckling gestures of some of his more glittering contemporaries, now gone. Foolishly these built on sand, depending lor their security on bayonets and the divine right of kings. He, blessed with more wisdom, built his citadel in the hearts of his people. To his successor—nay, even to rulers everywhere —we can think of no better advice than to go and do likewise. For those with eyes to see, there is a tremendous lesson in this wise King’s reign. MARTIAL LAW A LL Indiana hopes that the labor disputes which have brought about martial law by National Guardsmen in Floyd and Clark counties ■will be cleared up quickly. Martial law is a dangerous weapon. If misused, It can do much more harm than good. Indiana’s troops are commanded on the whole by Intelligent officers. They must use their heads in this case. National Guardsmen are not called out to play favorites as between strikers and employers. It is their job to prevent lawlessness —and that covers the protection not only of property rights but of human rights. Labor troubles can not be solved by force. THE PHILIPPINES one thing would prevent Japan from seizing a completely independent Philippines, and that would be Japan’s failure to include the islands in its plan to conquer and dominate the Far East, Senator Minton (D„ Ind.) declared today. The Senator came to this conclusion on his trip to the Orient as a member of the congressional party attending the Philippine presidential inauguration. The party visited Japan and China. “It is silly to suppose that without aid from some great power, an independent Philippines could withstand an assault by Japan,” he asserted. “During the present 10-year interim period, Filipinos and Americans should make up their minds as to the future. The former may desire to return to the status of a possession, if they find their new liberties both futile and dangerous and we may decide to let them do so if we want to stay in the markets of the Far East. Japan or no Japan. “I agree with Roy W. Howard’s diagnosis. The Philippines can not go it alone. “Os course if our decision is to turn upon a purely nationalist economy, we will leave the Philippines to their own fate after the 10 years expire.” Senator Minton said that he was amazed ?.t Japan's industrial development. “Every one is working there with apparently little thought of either hours or wages,” he said. “Here is a nation regimented to work by tradition and where the individual counts for less than under any scheme, either dictatorial or democratic, in the westtern world. “Everything is for the family and the state. “The Japanese are the greatest farmers in the woild, work the longest hours, get the lowest prices and pay the highest taxes with the least complaint. “There is no birth control. Tire streets are swarming with children, and women about to be mothers are still carrying their last baby on their back. “These children go to schools in droves and it may be that what they are learning there will cause Mm? of them to decide that there should be leisure a* well as work for the mass of the people. • JNow it is all work and no play. In both Japan fe*,. . - - - . . x i

and China they work constantly in order to live very meagerly. Yet, I will say they appear to be the happiest people in the world. ‘ The only person in China I saw who didn’t appear happy was a professional mourner at a funeral and he was being paid for his anguish.” THE WALSH BILL SUBSTANTIAL support among industrialists for k ‘“' restoration of wage and hour standards was disclosed today in responses to questionnaires distributed by a House subcommittee that is studying the proposal to apply labor principles of the defunct NRA to government contracts. Rep. Healey (D„ Mass.), chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee scrutinizing the Walsh bill passed by the Senate last August, estimated that about half of the replies to inquiries sent to 4000 large and small industries favored predetermined standards of wages and hours as a means of stabilizing business. The responses were regarded as surprising in view of the resentful opposition which has met other suggestions for government regulation of industry, resentment which was typified by the refusal of most large industrial groups to participate in the conference called recently by Major George Berry, President Roosevelt's co-ordinator for industrial co-opera-tion. Meanwhile, a separate study conducted by NRA disclosed a drift toward longer hours and lower wages since the Supreme Court invalidated the codes. Dir - solution of NRA has left the report uncompleted; Rep. Healey’s subcommittee had hopea to utilize the findings in connection with the Walsh bill. NRA studied the effect of the Blue Eagle’s demise In about 8000 firms doing business with the government. Work was discontinued before the results were compiled, but officials said they discovered instances where working hours were increased to as high as 72 a week after the Schec'nter decision. Rep. Healey said efforts would be made to have the study completed for the committee’s use. All employes of the NRA division in charge of the study were dismissed recently except Director Frank Healey and one assistant. The committee’s questionnaire showed almost unanimous support for prohibiting child labor and prison labor in government contracts. The questionnaire also asked industrialists whether predetermined labor standards would equalize opportunities among competitors and result in more general bidding and whether requirements should be confined to fixed wages and hours or follow the principle of the Bacon-Davis law, which stipulates the payment of prevailing wages in building construction. The Walsh bill, according to its author, Senator Walsh (D. Mass.), is intended to “end the paradoxical and unfair situation in which the government urges employers to maintain fair wage standards and, on the other hand, gives vast orders for supplies and construction to the lowest bidder, often a contractor or manufacturer who does not sympathize with and fights hardest against labor and social welfare policies.” The bill would apply wage and hour provision of the., defunct codes to all government contracts, which advocates of the measure believe would serve to raise labsr standards generally. VANNUYS ON LYNCHING SENATOR VANNUYS is seeking a Senate investigation of lynchings that occurred in 1935, and hopes thereby to give impetus to the Costigan-Wag-ner anti-lyncliing bill. As chairman of a subcommittee, Senator VanNuys redrafted the Costigan-Wagner bill and obtained its approval last session by the full Judiciary Committee. Southern Senators, threatening a filibuster, prevented a vote in the Senate. In announcing that he would introduce a resolution to investigate “the 14 lynchings which have occurred since May 1, 1935,” Mr VanNuys said: “During the debate on the motion to consider the Costigan-Wagner bill, various Senators made statements to the effect that Federal legislation is unnecessary as the states can and will prevent lynching and punish those responsible for this mob violence. “Yet, despite these statements, there have occurred in the United States, since the close of the debate on May 1, at least 14 lynchings. “My resolution is designed to have the Senate authorize the Committee on Judiciary, or any subcommittee thereof, to investigate fully the facts and circumstances surrounding the 14 lynchings, including the relationship of these acts of violence to other crimes and a consequent depreciation in the maintenance of law and order.” According to Tuskegee Institute, there were 20 lynchings in the United States in 1935, compared with 15 in 1934. All occurred in the South except one in California. Mississippi had 7, Louisiana 4, Georgia, Florida and Texas 2 each, and North Carolina and Tennessee 1 each. Two of the victims were white and 18 Negro. There were 28 lynchings in 1933 and 8 in 1932. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson THE blurbs say that Nancy Pope's book, “We Three; the Care and Feeding of Parents,” is witty, gay, entrancing. It is that. You'll be in stitches for pages, because it’s about the kind of happy-go-lucky people who are so delightful to meet in books and so bothersome in real life. They react on us as the genius does —we like to listen to him; we hate to live with him. For instance, if the ordinary husband came home late to dinner as Nancy’s father did, to see his wife toss tablecloth, dishes and food out the dining room window, would he laugh heart ily and grab the little woman for a big hug? Probably not. She’d likely get the old-fashioned spanking she deserved. And while I loathe stiff parties, informality is certainly carried too far when guests juggle eggs all over the kitchen. No housewife would really enjoy that—especially if it were her kitchen. Most of us have witnessed the lively antics of some members of our family whose behavior tallies with that of Nancy Pope’s household. They're a mighty drawback to the orderly life, too. But, I hear you ask, who wants an orderly life? Most every one does, after the effervescent state of adolescence. What Miss Pope argues for, of course, is a sense of humor with which to battle life. The Lord knows all of us are in. favor of that. “The light touch,” she calls it—the touch which turns despair into fun. the gay manner of taking trouble round the waist and doing a little dance. Individuals who have that light touch and use it with reasonable restraint are the grandest folk on earth—and the world would be a drab, smug place without them. The swellest part of Nancy Pope’s story, however, is the way she portrays the happiness of a home where the family lives together in love and harmony. Life might indeed be a long lark if parents and children could achieve the same friendly companionship the Popes had. f

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES'

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

A BOOTBLACK in the Lincoln Hotel shines my shoes with assorted clicks of the brush and snaps of the rag. He clicks the | brush by cupping the palm of his j hand so that when the top of the I brush strikes it the noise happens. But he doesn't do it for every one. Time was, he said, when a bootblack wasn’t worth his salt unless he had a bag of sound tricks. It gave snap to the job. But during the depression, with people all jumpy and everything, the noises got on nerves. A couple of people actually complained to the management that noise with their shines was just more than they could stand. So he only does it now when the client looks rugged and sort of nerveless. a tt WHEN Grant Wood, the lowa artist, was here recently for Town Hall lecture, he was having breakfast, in the Columbia Club. He stoppec in the middle of one of his careful sentences, looked up from his winking fried egg, and said gravely to the person across the table from him: “Can you tell me whether I ever have spoken in Indianapolis before? I’m so damned absent-minded about those things.” He hadn’t. He had been on the jury that last year judged the Herron exhibit. tt tt tt A PROFESSIONAL gentleman at City Hospital was talking the other day about the current controversy over the right of a person suffering from an incurable disease to ask for death. He pointed out that a glance at the vital statistics tables of these times would lead you to believe that the medical profession is losing its fight against cancer. More die from it now. But his theory is that medicine has succeeded in extending the life span to such a degree that more people live to be attacked by the disease. The weak, he said, who in the middle ages would have been carried off by the first epidemic, live now to haunt modern hospitals because there are few epidemics. It’s just another social problem with no answer in the back of the book! tt tt tt MEMBERS of various Audubon societies may be interested in the reaction of a 3-year-old Indianapriis boy who last spring was awakened by the singing of a great many birds and thus had his attention focused on their music for the first time. “Mother,” he called, “mother, the birds are veiling!” OTHER OPINION Support fer the Squire [From speech bv Rep. David J. Lewis <D., Md.)] “A justice of the peace was trying a commercial traveler from some other state for violation of a Maryland law. He concluded that the Maryland law violated the Federal Constitution, and actually held the Maryland law void. The case went to a Maryland Circuit Court, where the justice of the peace was promptly reversed. The commercial traveler carried his case to tne Court of Appeals of Maryland, and the justice of the peace was reversed again. The case at length reached the Supreme Court. That court reversed our Court of Appeals and Circuit Court and affirmed the squire.” On Inquisitorial Senators [Arthur Krock of the New York Timesl Senator Nye said that President Wilson lied to the Foreign Relations Committee in 1919. It may be that he did. There are lies forced upon statesmen by patriotic duty which are writ in letters of gold in the books of the Recording Angel. History is full of them. Journalism and history abound with senatorial lies, but the ink on them is usually black with the cast of selfishness or fear. On Refunding AAA Taxes [V.'all Street Journal] THAT the vast preponderance of the taxes actually paid to the Treasury almost $1,000,000,000 were in fact paid by the consumer admits of no doubt whatever. If in such circumstances the processor taxpayers could recover this money, it would constitute an enormous bonus for them. Asa matter of fact return of escrowed taxes will be such a bonus to the extent that processed goods have been actually sold from the material upon which the tax has been paid. This state of things contravenes the common law principle that damages for tort must be proved. There are no damages from payment of taxes if the taxes have been paid by someone else. Bouquet for VanNuys [ConnersviUe News-Examiner] Frederick VanNuys, senior Senator from Indiana, is to be commended for his sturdy opposition to government participation in private enterprise. Most recently Mr. VanNuys has attacked the Federal flan to establish a furniture manufacturing plant in the prison at Norfolk, Mass., asserting that such a project would compete unfairly with the furniture industry in this state and elsewhere in the nation, and his protest, made to Harry L. Hopkins, New Deal relief director, is certainly worthy of every possible bit of publicity.

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(Time ß readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letter j short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE FARM ACTION By L. M. The nation is faced with a crisis. The responsible agencies for meeting that crisis are the legislative and executive branches of the government. Action must be immediate. These two agencies base their action on their intimate knowledge of all factors involved, on their close contact with the humans involved — under pressure of every interest affected. What they do comes as close to approximating the wall of the )eople as it is possible to determine \t under this form of government. For two years and a half the government functions. Then one day the third branch of the government—which until this moment has been silent—expresses itself. A lawsuit has reached the Supreme Court, which makes a decision. It does not decide merely whether or not a law has been obeyed or violated; it does not decide whether the law has been fairly or properly administered. It decides that it never was a law in the first place, notwithstanding that it has affected the lives and fortunes of the nation’s whole population. And that becomes the fact. You don’t know about these matters, says the court to the Congress; you are empowered by the Constitution to write laws and to declare the national policy, it is true, but —regardless of the Constitution—we do not trust your judgment as to what is a good law or what is good national policy. We declare your law no law; we declare your policy is not the policy of the government. What then to do? The court does not suggest. The court has no power to suggest. The court, in other words, makes of itself simply a wrecking machine. It destroys; it does not build. % As one looks upon the wreckage, as one sees the two branches of the government struggling once again with the tremendous emergency which still faces this half-employed country, we come to this conclusion: If this actually is our form of

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government, a less effectual form scarcely could be devised. tt tt tt URGES FEDERAL BACKING OF FLYING RESERVES By F. E. Barkhaus Future safety depends on the airmen. From the earliest recorded history of the human race, the highlights of that history are the records of mass homicide, sometimes between nations and more often between groups of nations, and at the present time we have two undeclared wars in progress, either of which may involve the entire civilized world. Now, as in the past, the stage is being set for another large-scale conflict and as could be expected, ah nations, including our own peace-loving nation, are re-arming at full speed. Yet with all the huge expenditures this nation has been making for armed defense, we as a nation are pitifully weak in the only arm of defense which has a possibility of repelling any and all invaders—the airplane. It is true that Congress has increased the appropriations for airplanes and at least one Senator advocates the purchase of 8000 airplanes immediately. That is the first step, but even if Congress should authorize such a program, who would fly them? We have no such reservoir of reserve aviators as the Russian government has provided, nor are we equal in reserve strength to England, France, Germany or Italy. My eldest son is a member of the Air Cadet Corps, maintained by the Air Defense League of this city along with scores of other young men, where they are learning aviation, but neither they, the Army, or the Navy can train enough fliers without full public support. In foreign countries, it is common practice for the governments to support and encourage young men to learn to fly. Senator McSwain suggests a government-backed Junior Air Corps, of course not compulsory, and such an organization would insure a future supply of aviators, both corpmercial and military. With a reserve Air Corps of many thousands, no nation would take a chance on offending this nation. My hat’s off to Senator McSwain. We have the richest country on the face of the earth and the least with which to defend it—and sooner or later we will have to defend it.

States in the late nineteenth century, which is characterized by broad humor and slapstick presentation. At first it consisted of a musical travesty, but later it was made up of short turns as songs, ballet dancing and caricatures of well-known actors or plays. It is considered legitimate entertainment, like musical comedies and revues, but it is not considered legitimate drama. Q—What kind of containers are used to store radium in hospitals? A—A glass tube in a lead case that is smaller than a lead pencil. Radium can not be handled directly, because, although it does not seem to bum at once, the effect is a gradual destruction of the tissues. Radium is handled only by experts. Q —Who wrote the Spanish song, “La Paioma”? A—Sebastian Yradier. Q—What does the name Neubaum mean? A—lt is a German family name deriver’ from a locality, and means livin t ihe new tree. Q- v. ve ,he Bible reference to the “sin of Ona:i.” A—Genes s 38:8-10. Q—Where is the United States steamship Constitution t-dw? A—At the Boston Navy yard. Q —Give a few reasons why the metric system should be adopted by all countries of the world. A—Some of the reasons advance are: Uniformity in the use cf weights and measures throughout the world; reduction of labor in the trades because of the decimal sys-i tem and its simplicity. J

ATTACKS REFUNDS TO PROCESSORS By Andrew Ilcath The Supreme Court, to my way of thinking, has erred in its decision against the AAA. This is one of the most unjust decisions handed down by the Supreme Court to date. As every one knows, at the time the AAA became effective the processors gave this excuse for hiking prices to the consumer. They explained at the time such a rise in prices was justified, inasmuch as they (the processors) had been compelled to pay the Federal government a stipulated amount on meats, flour and all other foodstuffs affected by AAA codes. The consumer paid this added tax willingly because he was understanding of such a condition. The Federal government in turn passed this money on to the farmers in the way of allotments apportioned according to the extent of their efforts toward curtailment of such items as were affected by AAA codes. Now the Supreme Court has seen fit to rule against the AAA, stipulating these impounded process taxes to the extent of 200 million dollars must again be paid to the processors, without recommendation to the processors to show whether or not the processors had passed this tax down to the consumer. Such action should be resented by the consumer and immediate action taken to prevent such a distribution. To my way of thinking, the processors have already been paid and I for one can see no reason why they should be paid again. IGNORED BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY My thoughts of you have all been bright And shining like a star, And as countless in round numbers As with stars the heavens are. Yet you, it seems, can walk abroad On any star lit night Immune to realization That stars are anywhere in sight. DAILY THOUGHTS Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise up against me.—Psalms iii, 1. tt tt tt DID a person but know the value of an enemy, he would purchase him with pure gold.—Raunci.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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JAN. 21,1936

Your. Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

YOU who regularly throw away your green beet and turnip tops undoubtedly will be surprised to learn that, weight for weight, they are twice as rich as eggs in one valuable vitamin. This is vitamin B 2 or G. important in treatment of pellagra. In this serious disease, the skin, particularly those parts exposed to the sun, becomes red. The vongue is soft and irritated, and the bowels loose. In many instances, the body becomes extremely thin, and even the mind may be affected. Whether deficiency of vitamin B 2 or G is the only or even the outstanding factor, it certainly is regularly associated with pellagra. Besides green tops, a diet rich in milk, meat, yeast, and egg yolk will prevent the appearance of pellagra; in early cases, it has been well established, a cure may be effected. a tt a VITAMIN G is found in the same foods as vitamin 81, with one exception. That is the white of egg. which contains vitamin 81, but not vitamin 82. Incidentally, vitamin B 2 is not destroyed by heat and may be found in canned foods as well as in fresh ones. If you are healthy, and are eating the essentials of an adequate diet, don't worry about any deficiency of vitamin 82. A shortage of this vitamin will, however, check the growth of children, and gradually inju-e the health of a human being at any age. When it is absent, even for any considerable length of time, there are digestive disturbances, general weakness, and an unhealthy condition of the skin. When it is present, the nutrition improves, and the person is likely to have better than average health and vitality. This doesn’t mean, however, that you should, take this vitamin in excess, because there is no evidence that an over-supply of the substance will bring about extraordinary improvement.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

ion content of the air is a subject you will be hearing much more about in the next five years. Students of air conditioning are beginning to realize that temperature, humidity, pressure and cleanliness do not tell the whole story. An important factor which is just beginning to come in for investigation in connection with air conditioning, is the state of electrification of the air. Os course, the subject of atmospheric electricity has been studied by scientists for some time. An electrified atom is known as an ion. The electrical state of the atmosphere depends upon the number of ions present. Hence the interest in the ion content. Dr. L. R. Koller of the research laboratories of the General Electric Cos. points out that in every cubic inch of ordinary air there are from 10,000 to 20,000 ions. (A cubic inch of air contains something like 200 quadrillion atoms.) It will be seen, therefore, that while the number of ions in a cubic inch of air seems large, it is small by comparison to the total number of atoms present. These ions are responsible for the so-called atmospheric electricity. Dr. Koller says that it would take a cubic mile of air to furnish enough ions to supply an amount of electricity equivalent to that which flows through a 50-watt incandescent lamp in one second. tt it tt BUT while the amount of electricity in a cubic mile of air is small, there are a great many million cubic miles of air and so the subject of atmospheric electricity becomes important. How important is spectacularly demonstrated in a summer thunderstorm when the lightning flashes and crackles. “Some of the consequences of the presence of the ions in the air are interesting,” Dr. Koller says. “There is a drop in electrical potential between the air and the earth which results in a constant flow of current to the earth. This amounts to 1000 amperes for its whole surface. “Another interesting consequence is that when a person stands at the surface of the earth there is a potential difference of more than 100 volts between his head and his feet, while the difference in potential between the top and bottom of a 50-foot flagpole may be more than 1000 volts.”