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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19. 1936 PRIVATE BUSINESS—AND TV A TJERHAPS the most significant thing about the TV A decision is the fact that it did not cause thie bottom to drop out of utility stocks. And there was no panic in the offices of the power companies operating in the Tennessee Valley. The ominous warnings of utility lawyers—who earn their living by being ominous—had made it appear that the republic could not stand in the face of such a finding; that the rising sun of the morning after would witness the downfall of the profit system and ruin for all. Os course no such thing happened. The decision was accompanied by the usual speculative flurry in the stock market—and nothing more. For the fact of the matter is that utility profits lr. the Tennessee Valley have* been mounting steadily since the TVA started work there. The power companies didn’t expect it and they won't admit it out loud. They still view with alarm when rate reductions are mentioned, but they are being hurt by those reductions just the way Henry Ford vas hurt when he decided to sell his cars at a price that would stimulate demand rather than return him first costs. The Tennessee Electric Power Cos., forced by TVA to reduce its rates, recovered the entire amount of the reduction within five months. Since then revenues have been larger than before the reduction. ana nPENNESSEE ELECTRIC, Georgia Power and Alabama Power, the three companies in whose territory TVA operate..;, had larger net incomes in 1935 than in 1934—substantially larger. And Tennessee Electric, even in 1934, won the Edison Institute award for “one of the most, if not the most, remarkable sales increases in residential, commercial, and industrial power in the history of the electrical industry.’’ This was no accident. Georgia Power Cos., largest utility in TVA territory, now ranks first among all companies east of the Rocky Mountains in kilowatt hour sales per customer, and its yearly average is 60 per cent ahead of the national average. As for the electrical equipment business, it is obvious that lower rates mean increased volume of electricity used and a broadened market sils. Accordingly Tennessee Electric led the entire country in the total number of electric ranges sold in the first year of the rate reduction and Georgia Power was second, in spite of the fact that these companies rank thirtieth and twenty-third respectively in size as measured by the number of residential consumers they serve. Georgia Power sold more electric refrigerators that year than any other company in the United States, and Tennessee was second. Georgia Power led the country in sales of ranges and Tennessee Electric was third. a a a r I ''HE figures are even more impressive put another way. In the first year after the rate reductions Georgia Power increased its sales of refrigerators 176 per cent, of ranges 576 per cent, and of water heaters 1472 per cent. Tennessee Electric increased refrigerator sales 329 per cent, ranges 374 per cent, and water heaters 774 per cent. This was no temporary gain, lor percentages are even higher in the second year of reductions. Dealers are prospering in similar manner. Tentative figures indicate total actual sales of electrical appliances averaging about SIOO a residential customer in the TVA territory. For the country as a whole, power company sales averaged around $4.83 a customer and appliance manufacturers’ sales S3O a customer. And this isn’t all. Builders and companies selling home furnishings of all kinds are finding increased business in the TVA country. A shiny new electric range in the kitchen, running water and electric lights are inspiring other improvements. Seven per cent of the homes to which electricity has been brought in one Alabama county have been thoroughly remodeled or replaced with new structures. In short, thp TVa low--ate yardstick is turning out to be a high-profit yardstick that any utility in the country may use to its own gain. Companies and regulating commissions have been afraid to trust the theory that reduced rates will increase business and pet income. TVA proved it would work. The TY’lf decision may yet go down in history as one of the great victories of all time for business, private as well as public. HIGH WAGE—LOW PAY T TIGH hourly wages and restrictive craft practices ’*■ *■ of union labor oftentimes ere scored roundly In the building industry. Since such criticism, on the surface, appears so manifestly just, it is well to look beneath and discover how the things complained about came into being ar.d what is necessary to remedy the situation without destroying labor gains. Jose T. Hadley, who represented consumers in formulating the NRA code for the construction industry, explores this problem in The Consumer, a Labor Department publication. He finds: “The present level of building-trades wages was obtained after years of struggle for some protection against the irregularity of employment. “Even in so-called ‘normal years.’ because of the aeascn&i factor in the industry, building-trades employment is more uncertain than with almost any other group of workers. In the last few years, - workers have, of course, suffered with .the collapse of building activities. “The dtfiy wage rates, high as they appear, will not be given up because they represent, in a disorganized industry, the only defense of a minimum Standard of living. “There is too much evidence, moreover, to discount the theory that restrictions in wages increase the volume of employment. If the approach could be from the reverse—if, in other words, continuity of employment could be assured—an adjustment in wages might be both reasonable and tolerable. “High hourly wages are the result of too few bom’s’ work.” ; , And as to restrictive craft practices: •• -“Restrictive craft practices and the jealous personation of archaic methods reflect the fear ofjtw-

employment. They can be successfully eliminated only with the removal of that fear. “The so-called ‘construction industry’ as it stands today has no very effective answer to such challenge." JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON f r "pHE death of James Harvey Robinson removes * man American life one of the choice spirits in a long line of thinkers and writers who have enriched our civilization. Though not as well known perhaos as William James. Henry Adams and Justice Holmes, he V-longed to their fellowship. He was an American to the core. Although schooled in European universities as well as at home, his independence, freshness and informality were all of our soil. He was among the first of the historians to break from the formalism of presidential administrations and military campaigns and to introduce intellectual and social life into historical writing. His -cho!arship was ripe and profound and he counted nothing human alien to him. But his interest was not confined to scholars and to books. After he had devoted years to research ar.d writings for scholars, he became primarily ini tercsted in what he called “the humanization of knowJecge.” By lhat he meant making available to all who could read the results of the most learned inquiries. vVhile scholars may remember his work on the original and derived features of the American Constitution. millions who never heard of it will recall his “Mind in the Making,” written for the popular ! audience which he sought. Abovi all, he was a valiant fighter for liberty cl thought, press and speech. He believed that they were good in themselves and the only secure guaranty of the preservation of civilization against brute force and police tyranny. We are all poorer for his going. THE SIGHTLESS TRENDING on the House calendar in Congress 2 the Randolph bill, giving the country's blind an opportunity to earn a living. Under Rep. Randolph’s measure, permits would be issued to the blind to operate small vending stands in postoffices and other Federal buildings. Also a survey is authorized to determine what industries are open to the blind. Not all the blind are poor, but most of them are. Out of 100.000 blind Americans, fully 80.000 are dependent. Only 27 states have blind pension systems, covering about 30,000 of these unfortunates. The new Social Security Act appropriates $3,000,000 this year and a sufficient sum thereafter to help the states on a fifty-fifty basis, and by this means some 50,000 more biind can be pensioned. But if all the needy blind had pensions they would get about S3O a month. They should have some means of supplementing these small pensions with honorable work. No class’ sufferings so wring the nation’s heart as those of the blind poor. We have been generous in sympathy. The Randolph bill offers something more substantial. THE SEAWAY TREATY pREoIDENT ROOSEVELT’S political enemies will *• join with his friends to rally support for one pending New Deal measure, the St. Lawrence j treaty. Three organizations interested in development of the St. Lawrence waterway have called a conference for March 11 and 12 in Detroit to indicate to members of the Senate “the widespread urge for immediate completion of this great propect.” Gov. Alf M. Landon is a member of the executive committee of one of the three groups, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association. So are Govs. Davey of Ohio, La Follette of Wisconsin, Olson of Minnesota, Fitzgerald of Michigan and McNutt of Indiana. “It is highly desirabi’ that we now pledge our support to the President in his desire to resubmit the treaty to the Senate for ratification at the earliest opportune moment," says the call for the meeting. The treaty was one of the first measures submitted to the Senate by President Roosevelt. It failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote for ratification. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ' I ''HERE seems to be a difference of opinion about A the money madness of the sexes. Men accuse women of gold-digging; women deplore masculine preoccupation with materialistic pursuits. There are good arguments on both sides but I believe men must shou der most of the blame; in spite of all denials, they actually set the spiritual standards of nations. All history proves it, and no more | glaring examples are to be found than those now existing in Italy and Germany. Man, of course, always has used woman as an excuse for money grubbing. He complains of how his nose is kept to the grindstone so that he may supply wife and daughters with fine houses, big cars and gorgeous gowns. Somehow the tale lacks the essence of truth. Especially when you recall the many less expensive benefits we are always asking of our men which they withhold from us. We beg, for instance, for their companionship and understanding, yet it is refused us. We send out an SOS in the matter of raising the cfiildren, yet that is usually denied. American men, as a class, are so absorbed in money because they have made a gigantic game of finance. Their desire to outwit the other fellow by grabbing more dollars than he can has become a fixed habit. Now the habit itself may not be bad. Money, after ’all, is a prime necessity. It is when | money is made life's sole objective that complaints should be registered. j It also is true that men spend most of their money on women, with few refusing it. However, most of us would be happier if the men gave us less money and more of their time. Certainly the one advantage we lack in this nation of unlimited wealth, gigantic enterprise and driving ambition is d r mestic tranquillity. You can't buy that with cash. It is something husbands and wives must create together. FROM THE RECORD p EP. TREADWAY (R„ Mass.): It is my humble judgment that as a sensational notoriety seeker he (Henry A. Wallace) is far more successful than he has been as Secretary of Agriculture. Rep. Blanton (D„ Tex.): The gentleman knows that a family objects to one of its members being chastised by an outsider. I have a right to chastise Secretary Wallace, but I object to any member of the Republican Party doing it. (Laughter.) Rep. Jones (D., Tex.): If the gentleman (Mr. Treadway) will go out through the great stretches of the West, the South and the Central West, or even to the farmers of his own section, he will come to the conclusion that a lot of folks take the longrange view that through the years some magnificent work has been done by the Secretary of Agriculture. (Applause.) And that can not be destroyed by one single sentence, whether that sentence is justified or not. (Applause.)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

QO Machine Gun Jack McGurn is dead! Shot in a bowling alley, of all places. And only a few months ago he was described as a happily wed suburban husband, who had quit the racket. It was no mere accident that once upon a time McGurn carried a machine gun around publicly with him, in broad daylight, concealed in a golf bag. He was then, so to speak, mixing business with pleasure. For he was an inveterate golfer. Maj. Gen. Robert Tyndall had some dealings with Machine Gun Jack McGurn. They were in Florida, when McGurn was hot and hunted. He was playing golf on one of the resort courses, in true gangland affluence. Some of the peace officers, Federal men, heard of it, and because Gen. Tyndall was with them at the time they invited him to go along. He did. a tt n HPHEY spotted McGurn on a tee far from the clubhouse and they all surrounded him and moved up. When they were, unobserved, within dealing distance, one of them walked up to McGurn, who was aiming for a 10-foot putt. “Stick them up, McGurn, you’re surrounded,” this armed Federal man commanded. McGurn was bent over, aiming for the putt. He straightened up. He looked to the right and saw three agents, all with drawn guns. He did not take his hands off the putter. He looked to the left and saw two more agents, likewise with drawn guns. He said: “All right. I’ll go. But wait until I finish this putt.” Then he put his eye back on the ball, tool' a few practice wiggles, and sunk the 10-foot putt. Then he went with them. tt tt n A NOTHER hoodlum, more flashy but scarcely less deadly, took every one off guard with a cool bit of audacity some time before he met his end under the auspices of the State of Ohio. He walked into the editorial rooms of The Indianapolis Times, that was even then printing stories of the nation-wide chase of the Dillinger gang, whose path was strewn with dead peace officers. He walked up to the young lady who is secretary to the editor and asked, politeiy, if he might see files for a certain period not far past. He talked engagingly, and was finally referred to the file room, downstairs. He lost his way to it, and asked the young lady at the phone board where it was. She later remarked that he was very pleasant. He looked at the files—containing Dillinger stories—and was gone. Gone just a shade before someone who had known him during his earlier and less jumpy residence in Indianapolis. He was Harry Pierpont, the man who police now believe was the crudest killer of a murdering lot. And the government, outraged at fiis crimes, even then had a bounty on his head. tt a tt THEN there is the story about Dillinger in Chicago which has been denied by authorities, but which nevertheless is true. Federal men, having a tip he was in a near North Side night club with Evelyn Freschette, raided it. Telling no one what it was all about, they ordered all persons to stand up against the wall in the dimly lighted room. One of the Federal men took charge. One after another he pointed to persons in the line who obviously were not Dillinger. “You may go,” he would say, “and you may go.” He thus excused about 15 of the more than 100 persons in the place. They then locked the doors and searched every one exhaustively. Evelyn was arrested and subsequently sent to prison. Dillinger was in that room when it was raided. He had on goldrimmed spectacles. And he was the last man the Federal agent excused as obviously not Dillinger, and allowed to go unmolested. tt tt tt r T~'HAT was just a lucky break. What hoodlums are more likely to do is to become preoccupied with an exaggerated sense of justice, completely out of perspective, and thus lead themselves into a trap. Witness tne eminent Foggy Dean. After he and Willie Mason had shot their way out of the People’s Motor Coach Cos. office with their loot, back in they commandeered a taxicab. They took over the operation of ( the cab personally, but took the cabby along. After they had satisfied themselv - thev were not immediately followed, they turned the cab back to the owner. Both Masor. and Dean then broke down at the injustice they might have done the cabby—cheating him out of his cab fare. And they made him take a considerable sum of money as fare. And the cabby was pretty instrumental in sending them to prison for the murder of Sergt. Lester Jones, shot by those two sentimentalists in their escape.

WAITING IN THE WINGS

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(Times realers are invited to express their views 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 sianed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt st OBJECTS TO ARTICLE ON MARINES By B. R. Reynolds, Ex-Sergeant U. S. M. C. The writer of the article, “Marines Fail to Land With Park Drill Plan,” in the Feb. 8 issue df The Times, must be a person who has never been in any branch of the service. He evidently never has had the traditions of the Marine Corps explained to him. The word, “The Marines Fail to Land” are a direct reflection and insult to any good Marine, md contrary to the traditions of that great organization which has stood for more than 100 years without blemish or reflection as to character. Please cite your reporter to Belleau Wood, the Argonne, Nicaragua, the West Indies, China, Montezuma, Tripoli and many others. The Marines have never failed to land whatever they started after. For two years a group of patriotic ex-Marines who believe in a “prepared peace” have been trying to organize a Marine Corps Reserve in Indianapolis. The shelter house is only one obstacle which has had to be overcome. I think the writer of the article in question, as a good citizen of the best city in America, should direct his efforts and influence toward the success and completion of such a worthy idea instead of filling space with the sarcastic, inane implications of which he knows nothing. I have shown this article to several ex-Marines and in every case they agree that it is a true example of imbecilic idiocy written merely to produce a laugh. The monumental traditions of the United States Marine Corps are such that they are not a laughing matter. Why not give some space and use some personal influence to put this organization over the top? It surely would make good copy. Get behind

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the movement and help make Indianapolis a better place in which to live. a tt tt 1916 CAMPAIGN ISSUES REVIVED, HE THINKS By M. R. Kuehn As in 1916, the American people’s attention in 1936 is to be diverted from the big issue of the presidential campaign. The groundwork already has been laid for another crusade to keep us out of war. Weeks ago The Times commented upon the irresponsible mouthings of Senator Pittman against Japan. Senator Pittman appears to have been selected by Maj. Farley to beat the tom-tom of a faked war between Japan and the United States. For the second time Senator Pittman unlooses a lot of war talk over a nation whose business is plainly none of ours. But Senator Pittman is the New Deal’s stool pigeon, sent out to create a sounding board against which the specially prepared campaign speeches will be thrown for effective reverberations. The depression, New Deal experiments, New Deal reverses—these things won’t go over of their own accord. Mr. Roosevelt is finding himself on the defensive as the campaign opens. He and Gen. Farley are going to take no chances. So why not try the old trick that worked so well in 1916? Give ’em a variation of the “he-kept-us-out-of-the-war” motif? If it worked in 1916 it ought to work in 1936. Months ago in The Times I said that something was being hatched up in the Pacific. It’s out in the open now. Against the panorama of a Japanese war scare, gigantic military preparations, naval maneuvers and what not will be staged, for the delight of the people who ought to be looking after their own affairs. Clearly, that’s the 1936 program for the West and the Pacific Coast. For the East, and especially for us who live here in the Middle West, another variation of the “he-kept-us-out-of-war” is going to be put on. The good neighbor policy is

United States caliber .30 Springfield (1903). The Krag-Jorgensen rifle was standard from 1692 to 1898. A number of these rifles were used for training during the World War. Q—Who was Hecate? A—A Greek goddess of undefined attributes, having power over death, heaven, and the underworld. In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” she is goddess of the infernal regions. Q —What are the German and Italian phrases for “Merry Christmas”? A—German, “froliche Weinacht”; Italian, “buon Natale.” Q —What are the Negro populations of Maryland. Virginia and the District of Columbia? A—The 1930 census enumerated 276,379 in Maryland; 650.165 in Virginia, and 132,068 in the District of Columbia. Q —What does the name Roberta mean? A—lt is the feminine form of Robert, from the Teutonic, meaning bright in fame. Q —What does the expression “Grub Street" mean? A—lt was a street near Moorfields. London, which was inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, and the name was applied to authors of cheap literary products. Employed in a disparaging sense by Andrew Marvell, it was frequently used by Pope, Swift, and other wits. The Grub Street Journal, which ended in 1737, was one of the most entertaining of tfie old newspapers, and contained contributions from the patisans of Pope attacking the Dunces. The street is now named Milton-st. Q —For whom was the United States Destroyer Manley named? A—For Capt. John Manley, born in England, who served undei George Washington duruu; the Revolutionary War. 4

calling all the representatives of Central and South American republics to Washington. For , what? For nothing less than a league of nations in the Western Hemisphere. Yes, that fellow Roosevelt takes it for granted that anything he does is just the thing, and the people will stand for it. Will they? Who gave Mr. Roosevelt authority to involve the United States in another moral obligation over what happens or does not happen in any of the South American republics? It’s the old Wilson formula all over again. Tragedy has come to America because of this arrogant butting-ir., and yet Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers act and talk as though they had received a mandate to lord it over the southern republics. They have received nothing of the kind. Moreover, in the light of Mr. Roosevelt’s San Diego address last fall, the present course reveals the New Deal as insincere if not dishonest, Then, “America must remain unentangled and free.” In the spring of 1936: “Insult Japan and build a military alliance against her. Broadcast antagonism.” Is this the thing that one writer refers to as Mr. Roosevelt’s rotating duplicity? Finally, what’s The Times editorial column going to do about this latest outburst of Mr. Roosevelt’s stool pigeon? Is it going tc hush it up? Censor my article? Delete this pointed barb at Mr. Roosevelt? Or will The Times give, the people light? CONFLICT BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Is losing you a magic coat, Which wraps your absence in eternal charm? Since gone, my heart is ever smote: Yet near, you filled me with dis- , tinct alarm. Confused, I try again to guess What strange imposter has my peace maligned: But finding none, I must confess, It’s just the heart at war with mind. DAILY THOUGHT If ye abide with me. and my words abide with you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you—St. John xv, 7. FAITH is the eye that sees Him, the hand that clings to Him, the receiving power that appropriates Him.—Woodbridge.

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FEB. 19, 1936

Your... Health By DR. morris fishbein

A HIGH roughage diet la practically never recommended bydoctors in diseases of the stomach* The chief value of roughage lies in. the control of that type of constipa-u tion or lazy bowel action due co insufficient bulk in waste matter passing from the body. You can get all the roughage you. need by adding extra green vegetables and fruits to your diet. If you need still more roughage, various bran products are sometimes recommended. In correction of the type of lazy_ bowel action described above, be certain that a regular time is .established for action of the bowels. You must also take plenty of water —at ieast eight .glasses a day. : It is not wise to form the habit ot stimulating the bowel action taking cathartics or enemas dail.v.These should not be taken excepC on advise of a doctor. ; The usual roughage diet is onecontaining plenty of fruits ancf vegetables—in other words, at lease 800 grams a day. Fruits or fruitr juices may be taken before mails or before going to bed. a a HERE is a sample menu for the day which may be recomrpended for people who wish a diet with.’ extra roughage: z Breakfast Frqit, two large servings; w'hole grain cereal (if cereal is used); egg, bacon, ham or similar food; whole grain bread, butter; and hot beverages. - Luncheon Cream soup, cottage cheese, or. other protein food; vegetables, two or three servings; fruit, one large serving; whole grain bread, butter; milk. Dinner Fruit cup, grapefruit or melon;, meat, fish or fowl; potato; other: vegetables, two or tree servings > salad; fruit or any dessert made; with fruit; whole grain bread, butter; any beverage.

TODAY’S SCIENCE -BY SCIENCE SERVICE

SALVATION of the nation's railroads is to be found in scientific research, according to Dr. C. M. A. Stiae, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours co., and one of. the nation’s foremost authorities, upon industrial research. The present difficulties in which the railroads find themselves hava: been largely the result of the neglect, of scientific research, in the opinion of Dr. Stine. In urging the railroads to look to research for their future welfare, Dr. Stine is expressing a point of view which might well be applied to other industries as well. Tha' industrial supremacy of pre-war Germany was the results of its well-; organized and heavily financed financial research. How important research is to ther nation was emphasized in the report of the Science Advisory Board un-. der the chairmanship of Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Henry A. Barton, director of the American Institute of Physics, has pointed out that during the depression years the support of American science has dropped from sloo,* 000,000 a year to $50,000,000 and that the safety of the nation’s future demands that this support be restored. a tt a ; SPEAKING recently before thee. Conference on Industrial Physics at the University of I added my own voice to those who feel that the future of the nation demands a well-planned and ade rs quately supported program of scientific research. Dr. Stine took the railroads tq. task recently in an address before the Wilmington Traffic Club. Present at the meeting were represents -r tives of national transportation interests. “The most casual survey of land transportation as it developed during the nineteenth century the facts that well may have caused the railroad executives of the earltf 1900s to obey their own warning to stop, look and listen,” Dr. Stine said. “Eight great inventions stand ou£ as milestones of railroad progress; yet not one of these was originated by a railroad man."

By George Clark