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FRIDAY. MAY *. 1936. LABOR, 1936 TJECAUSE it was felt that it could best serve its interests thereby, organized labor in America traditionally has remained nonpartisan, forcing the two major political parties to bid against each other lor the working men’s votes. By and large, through the years, the Republicans have done the better job of political bidding for such votes, even before the days when the ingenious Mark Hanna linked the “full dinner pail" slogan to the protective tariff. But Republican leadership has lost its cunning. The passage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff, with the subsequent and consequent deepening of the depression and growth of unemployment, disclosed the "full dinner pail" as a "fool's dinner pail,” and Republican leaders have not thought up a -substitute slogan or promise or program to lure workers back to the G. O. P. ticket. -*• In 1932, although organized labor, as such, remained neutral, the Republicans got very few workers’ votes. And now, with the 1936 election date nearing, the Republicans seem destined to get even less labor support. ana XITHY is this? Why is it that the majority of ’ * the rank and file of American workers already are aboard the Roosevelt re-election bandwagon and organized labor’s leaders are fast climbing aboard? It is an unprecedented situation. True, in 1924 organized labor abandoned nonpartisanship to support the presidential candidacy of the Progressive Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. But in 1924 organized labor did not turn partisan until after it had despaired of gaining any worthwhile reforms from either the Republicans or the Democrats, waiting until both parties had drafted conservative platforms and the former had nominated the reactionary Coolidge and the latter the equally blg-busi-ness-minded John W. Da\ts. But today labor is not waiting for the Republicans to nominate and draft a platform. Labor already is on its way to the polls. The march started last January when the United Mine Workers, under the leadership of former Republican John L. Lewis, whooped through convention a unanimous resolution for Roosevelt’s re-election. The march was a mass movement by the time A. F. of L. President William Green a few days ago voiced his feeble protest in favor of the traditional nonpartisan jir.licy. It became a stampede within the last week, with Roosevelt indorsements popping up out of industrial, high-tariff Pennsylvania’s State Federation of Hoisery Workers, the United Automobile Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing ’Workers’ general executive board. And yesterday William Green himself fell into step. After all a leader can’t lead unless he goes in the same direction as his followers. a a a T TAS this amazing rank and file movement come * about because the workers of the country are completely sold on Roosevelt and the New Deal, and are confident they will get what they want in the 1936 Democratic platform? We don’t think so. There are many things about the New Deal which workers do not like—higher cost of living, failure to solve the unemployment problem, subsistence workrelief wages, to mention a few. No, the answer can be found in the sort of Republican leadership which has permitted such axgrinding organizations as the American Liberty League and the National Association of Manufacturers to set the tenor of the. G. O. P.s New Deal opposition. Anything the man in the White House favored was wrong. The cry was back to the old order, bag and baggage. Bitterness blinded Republican leaders to what workers believe to be the merits of NRA's efforts to raise wages and reduce hours of employment, unemployment and old-age security legislation, collective bargaining legislation, and the minimum requirements of relief. True at least to one American political tradition, American workers are getting ready not to vote for somebody or something, but to vote against. They are going to vote against that kind of leadership.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN about a month the men and women of the seventy-fourth Congress will fold their tents and deploy to the home town hustings, there to engage In the important business of getting re-elected. In their haste to be gone they will do well not to neglect the things yet to be done, lest the ghost of unfinished business haunt them through their campaigns. First, is the tax bill. Whether this turns out to be an intelligent and intelligible revenue-raiser or a hash of confusion depends on the statesmanship of the Senate. The House has begotten a fiscal nightmare. Then they have to replenish the government's empty chest for its continued war on hunger. It may be too late to implement the big work-relief program with all the needed safeguards against unwise spending. It is not too late to provide for a future scientific, long-range relief program. Let this be the last of cur all-too-costly relief improvisations. The rehousing of the country's city and rural slum dwellers is indicated as the next step in social reconstruction. Labor is urging passage this session of the Wagner-Ellenbogen slum-abatement bill, a sound, sensible and moderate approach to the problem. Since the costs would be distributed over four years and much of it returned to the Federal government by the localities there is no reason for delay. Similarly, the Bankhead bill for aid to sharecroppers and tenant farmers has been modified by the House Agriculture Committee into a less ambitious program under a proposed Farmers’ Home Corp. But this measure has not yet been subjected to the public scrutiny which should be given to any long-range program to help landless farmers. The new rural electrification program is winning its way through Congress on pure merit. Civil liberties should be protected against espionage and Fascist schemes. A broad, well-financed and country-wide investigation into current violations of free teaching, the collective-bargaining guaranties of labor, and other invasions of personal rights, including th e of government agencies, is needed. To do this the La Follette resolution should

be broadened and adopted. Congress should enact tha Kerr-Uoolidge bill to humanize and rationalise alien deportations. It should halt the outrages of murderous mobs by passing the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill. An adequate ship-subsidy act is needed. With government financial aid should go also strong provisions to protect passengers’ safety at sea and marine labor from exploitation. Flood control legislation should be passed while the lessons of the March disasters are remembered. In this Congress should be guided by the larger soil and forest conservation aspects of flood control, and not by selfish attempts to turn the program into a huge Federal pork raid. Among the reforms that can not for want of time be adequately considered this session are: The textile industry's "Little NRA”; the nationalization of the munitions industry; transient aid; Mississippi Valley Authority; railroad consolidations; commodity exchange regulation; the Robinson-Patman chain store bill. Among the things which we believe Congress shoud forget are: The inflationary Frazier-Lemke and Townsend schemes, and the vicious Kramer anti-sedition and McCormack military disaffection bills. ’ 1899—1936 THE gay nineties were blending into the dawn of anew century of greatness. America had conquered Spain and had emerged on the international horizon as anew world power. America was embarked on a campaign of imperialism and glory. The Stars and Stripes had been planted over remote lands, to rule over alien peoples. America's trade and culture and civilization were to follow the flag. It was an era of happy and adolescent buoyancy. America had a "destiny” to fulfill. Now, thirty-odd years later, a sadder and wiser America has learned that responsibility and trouble and expense and resentment also follow a flag which is hoisted over peoples who have neither the background nor the desire to be "civilized” according to an imposed pattern. Hence it is that now we find ourselves trying to liquidate our “victory” over Spain. Already we have started the Philippines on their road to independence, still uncertain whether they will make the grade alone or will cling to us for protection. Already we have abandoned the Platt Amendment which we. used as a club over Cuba’s internal affairs. Already we have done an about-face on the use of the Marines in other Latin American countries, where once we pursued the policy of making the flag follow trade and investments. ana T ATEST maneuver in our sensible retreat from foolish and costly imperialism is the Adminis-tration-sponsored Tydings bill to submit to the Puerto Rican people the question of whether they wish to cut loose from the United States and go their own way was a sovereign and independent republic. A large segment of the Puerto Rican population looks upon the United States as an oppressor. The extreme nationalists, whose terrorism was responsible for the recent assassination of American Police Chief Francis Riggs, refused even to admit United States sovereignty. The liberals, largest political group in the island, long have advocated independence. The Republican-Socialist coalitionists, nowin control of the territorial Legislature, complain of the administration of relief and rehabilitation policies in the island—most of their bitterness apparently springing from the inability of their own politicians to get their fingers on the money. In fact, no group in Puerto Rico seems to regard America’s guardianship as a blessing. A showdown has been long overdue. Puerto Rico should choose. The United States does not propose to cast her adrift. But if she wishes to go her own way, that’s her business. In justice to American taxpiyers, whose money is now being spent in large chuncs for relief and economic reconstruction in Puerto Rico, the issue should be settled. nan QOME Puerto Ricans complain that the Tydings bill is unfair, that it offers political indepndenece, but not economic independenece. They argue that until the United States-fostered system of absentee landlordism has been liquidated, the people of that pauperized island can not possibly become self-supporting a troubled and tariff-ridden world. Congress should weigh their suggestions, do whatever is necessary honorably to rectify mistakes of the past, and do so in the spirit of the good neighbor, which now happily animates our Latin American relations.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson "DIG business is perturbed over the new tax Men who have been too busy making money to give much thought to what goes on in state or national Legislatures now are deploring government expenditures. While they’ve got their eyes open I wish they'd glance at the Army and Navy budgets. They’d soon And out where a mighty big bunch of their money goes, for the same Congress which has power to tax corporations has just approved the biggest naval appropriation ever voted during peace. Super-super-super battleships are to be started immediately. Every time news comes over the cables that England or Germany, Italy or France is about to vote for another dreadnaught our admirals go into a huddle and present demands to Congress for a bigger and better one for us. Why should the United States have a Navy “second to none”? Especially when its advocates insist we must also live in splendid isolation from the rest of the world. Listen, Friends: If the countries of Europe, Asia and Africa ever unite to lick us, no navy will be big enough to stop them. But it won't matter, for in that event civilisation will be buried under the shrapnel, and the battleships will be at the bottom of the sea. Nobody will be able to remember who had the biggest navy. It's a wonder business men can’t scrape up enough realism to face the facts on this subject. It is the most important before them. War eats up their profits, ruins investments, closes markets, and in the long run will take the last copper out of their tills. Some little flurry of prosperity may precede it, perhaps a few men will get rich, but inevitably in the end there is disaster for everybody. Unless business sees this before long and sets itself against a policy which promotes destruction, it will pay bigger taxes and like it. A great campaign for social security by Congress, which so far has not lifted a finger to help the cause of world peace, is a farce anyway. What's the use of saving people only to sacrifice them to a folly more stupid than that of economic mismanagement? HEARD IN CONGRESS Rep. STACK CD., la.): The publie as a whole is sick and tired of gag rule and gang rule and the manipulation of national legislation by a handful of “rubber stamp” leaders who take orders from higher-ups.

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r | "HIS is as good a time as any to A tell about Clifton Wheeler’s calling on Gertrude Stein. He called twice, once in Florence in 1907 and once in Paris in 1910. Gertrude was 33 years old at the time of the first meeting and Mr. Wheeler had cast his first vote for Theodore Roosevelt. Besides, it was springtime in Florence. In Florence, Gertrude wore a kimono, long hair and sandals. Sure, bare feet. Mr. Wheeler doesn’t remember what she wore in Paris, because by that time, he says, he was more interested in other things. Mr. Wheeler remembers, however, that Gertrude was somewhat heavier in Paris and that she had her hair bobbed. Also, that she had a dog by this time. Mr. Wheeler insists on dragging the dog into the story because the dog was responsible for Gertrude’s literary style. *he rhythm of the dog's waterdrinking, Gertrude told Mr. Wheeler, taught her the difference between sentences and paragraphs, that paragraphs are emotional and that sentences are not. a a a 'T'HAT particular dog died, but A Gertrude has never been without a dog since. She calls her present gone “Basket.” It’s a poodle. (We pick our pronouns cautiously even if Gertrude doesn't.) Mr. Wheeler always insists that he called on Gertrude hoping that she would introduce him to Matisse. The fact that Matisse owned a house right around the corner in Florence lends luster to Mr. Wheeler’s story, but the fact that Matisse spent the whole year of 1907 on the Riviera leaves a lot to be explained. Mr. Wheeler did meet Matisse in Paris, however. Seems Matisse moved with Gertrude. Mr. Wheeler reports that he had a whole day with Matisse exchanging trade secrets. There is no record that Mr. Wheeler ever made use of any of Matisse’s secrets. Neither did Matisse, as far as anybody knows, use any of Mr. Wheeler's secrets. ana reason Matisse keeps horning into our story is because Gertrude discovered him before anybody else wanted to. She said a bell within her rang when this happened. The bell rang again when Picasso, Whitehead and our own Ernest Hemingway turned up. Gertrude insisted on acting as godmother for Hemingway’s first child. Which is more than she did for Mr. Wheeler or anybody else, for that matter. Mr. Wheeler remembers Gertrude as a charming hostess on both occasions. (We are back in Florence and Paris and not at the Hemingway baptism.) On both occasions she produced a tray of tea things and cakes almost immediately, which is coming to the point mighty fast for Gertrude, says Mr. Wheeler. She made the cakes herself, she confessed, and they Were mighty good. They were exactly like those you get around Allegheny, Pa., which, if you don’t happen to know, is where Gertrude was born. That's the remarkable thing about Gertrude, says Mr. Wheeler. She doesn’t change a traditional recipe by as much as a punctuation point. In culinary matters says Mr. Wheeler, she’s as sound as a nut.

TODAY’S SCIENCE By Science Service

WASHINGTON, May B.—The subterranean atom-smasher proposed by Dr. M. A. Tuve of the Department of Terrestial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institute of Washington will do for atomic study what the Mount Wilson 100-inch telescope did for astronomy. That is the opinion of Dr. J. A. Fleming, director of the department, who hopes to start work on the atomic disintegrator as soon as the necessary funds can be obtained. Dr. Tuve’s design calls for a 15,000,000-volt generator, three times as powerful as any now in existence. This would be mounted in a steel ball 60 feet in diameter, into which air would be pumped under high pressure. The tremendous current produced by the generator would be released through a tube pointed into the ground and the atom-smashing experiments themselves would take place in a laboratory 40 feet tinder ground. “When the 100-inch telescope was built by the Carnegie institution at Mount Wilson,” Dr. Fleming told me. “astronomy was on the verge of many great discoveries, but found itself baffled by the lack of a sufficiently powerful glass. “The 100-inch telescope, because of its great power, enabled astronomers to settle many problems concerning the constitution of stars, the structure of the galaxy, the nature of the distant nebulae, the expanding universe and so on. “In the study of the atom, the problem is to pentrate deeper and deeper into the interior of the atom. The deeper one goes into the nucleus of the atom, the greater the electrical forces appear to grow. Hence, there is need for higher voltages in atom-smashing experiments.” DAILY THOUGHT For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?—Revelation 6:17. FOOLISH men imagine that, because judgment for an evil ! thing is delayed, there is no justice, but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many tames delayed some day or two, some century or tw<f, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death!—Carlyle.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relinious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 350 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reuuest.) ana RADIUM FUND COMMITTEE THANKS SUPPORTERS By Mrs. John F. Engeike, chairman; Mrs. William A. Eshbach, Mrs. Albert J. Hueber, Mrs. Tilden F. Greer. Radium. Committee, Seventh District, Indiana Federation of Clubs. The radium committee of the Seventh District, Indiana Federation of wishes to thank you for the fine publicity given during the radium campaign. To all citizens, organizations and clubs who gave so generously of their money and time, and to all of the radio speakers who helped in the educational program, and to the boys of the Indianapolis Salvation Army for the appropriation, we extend our deepest and most sincere appreciation for this splendid cooperation. The radium is at the City Hospital ready for service and it will be handled by skilled operators. The Seventh District has established “The Radium Fund, Inc.” thus making it possible to receive gifts of money which will be used for radium as the need increases. For information, inquiries may be made to the superintendent of the hospital, Dr. C. W. Myers. The General Federation of Clubs is making cancer control a national study in the program for the coming year. ana PRESS SHOWS FAITH BY ACTIONS HE SAYS By Hiram Lackey “Whoever thinks, let him speak. He would muzzle another, let him

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THE Dionne quintuplets are a splendid example of normal growth among infants. Their development can be emulated by any other children who are watched carefully and are guided by their parents through every stage of progress. A baby of 9 to 18 months of age begins to creep, to pull itself up by a chair, and then to walk. At 15 months, the child can climb upstairs by holding to the banister and creeping on all fours, and it can come downstairs by sitting down and sliding one step at a time. At 18 months, the baby can go upstairs in an upright position by holding to the banister. There are record;; of children who have walked at 9 months, and occasionally there is one who can walk at 7 months. Forty per cent of children walk at 12 months, and 67 per cent walK at 11 to 14 months. Some children, who are otherwise normal, may not walk before they are 18 to 20 months old, because of physical illness or lack of practice. Babies have to learn to walk. They have to learn to co-ordinate and strengthen the muscles used for walking. When the baby does begin to walk, it has the thrill of accomplishing something.

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stay his hand. Bring on the opposition. Let it be heard. Then we will have a full play of all forces.” That is Americanism. It is the spirit of Jeffersonian democracy. It is the soul of our Constitution. Washington fought for its glory. Webster sang of its future. Lincoln died for its principle. It is for us to join Dean Russell in giving it immortality. We are justly jealous of our rich inheritance. We keep a watchful eye on all newspapers. They are the guardians of our liberty—purchased by our fathers’ blood. The educated people of Indiana know the newspapers that are faithful and those that are faithless. We believe the faithful. We doubt the sincerity of any newspaper that refuses to allow an enlightened, militantly honest citizen to have a voice in its columns. Where is the man who is so ignorant that he does not know that, when a newspaper denies any honest character his American rights, the newspaper in question betrays the supreme trust that American citizens place in the press? a a a TOBACCO COMPANIES HIT IN LETTER By G. A. Stark If sin is not here, why the army of fallen girls on their march to disgrace? And be assured of this, that where there is a fallen girl there is also a fallen man. If sin is not here, why the prisons, asylums, detention homes, hospitals, graveyards, booze, the cigarets, wrecked homes, broken hearts and blighted human wrecks on very side? Can one rest at ease with this immoral malady infesting your bosom? You would shun smallpox, diphtheria, cancer and any dreaded diseases that prey on

IF the child cries too much, or if it is afraid of falls and bumps, it will learn to walk slowly. Fears which it develops at this time mayaffect its entire existence. Some chillren are delayed in walking because they weigh too much, because they have rickets, or because their nutrition is insufficient and they can not trust the strength of their muscles. Or it may be because they are kept in a limited space, particularly in a pen that its too small. Sometimes the floors are too slippery or too dirty. If conditions are such that the child can not practice walking easily, it will be slow in walking. Other children fail to walk at the proper time because they are kept in dresses that are too long and shoes that are too soft. In a few ’nstances the children's minds do not develop rapidly enough. A mother should not be disturbed if her baby fails to walk at 15 months of age, merely because Aunt Susie walked when she was 10 months old. When a baby is born, its brain is a well-developed structure, capable of learning, but the tissues have to develop sufficiently to carry the weight, and the muscle action must be co-ordinated before the child can walk.

| 3 per cent iron oxide, 2 per cent magnesia. 624 per cent lime, and a trace of sulphur. Q —What happens to the balance if the President does not spend the whole of his annual allowance of 325.000 for travel and official enter- ; tainments? A—Any unexpended portion is reI turned to the general funds of the | Treasury. i Q—Exclusive of the Great I.akes, which are the two largest fresh water lakes that lie entirely within the United States? A—Lake Okechobee. Florida. 733 square miles, and Red Lake, Minnesota, 484 square miles.

the physical body. Well might you covet cancer or leprosy rather than the fleeting pleasures of the sinner. Just note the sallow, sickly complexion of the cigaret smoker; the smoker’s blood-stream becomes poisoned and the senses dulled. The un-American tobacco companies are getting their victims by the thousands. a a a PREDICTS DIRE FUTURE FOR TWO DEMOCRATS By Mike Ritchey, Attie* The irrevocable past and uncertain political future resulting from their political machinations has transformed at least two Democratic state celebrities into unscrupulous enemies of the state and national Administration, all to the detriment of their political ambitions and the welfare of their party. This loud pageantry cf intrusive accusations that those individuals are passing before the public eye will not have the effect that the perpetrators desired it to have. It will brand them with the invidious stigma of selfishness and their memory of it will bring them melancholy political days filled with defeat and monotonous despair. a a a WRITES IN BEHALF OF SCHOOL JANITORS By a Friend of a Janitor We see that the school teachers got their raise. What about the poor janitor that worked from 18 to 24 hours during the winter without any extra pay. They say the janitors are more important than the teachers. If that is the case, why don’t they give them their cut back and the one week of their vacation that they took away from them? These men are human and should be treated that way. ONE APRIL DAY BY MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Outside the sky lay cold and grey, Soft raindrops fell throughout the day. W T ithin dwells warmth and tenderness— Your acts and words all these express. 4 As time drifts by—as time will do, This day I know. I’ll oft review Within a frame of memory bright. Remembering, dear, I wave good- j night. v I

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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"It's his own fault! When they were first married, he thought it was cute of her to hang around the office all the time ”

MAY 8, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PILE

EDITOR'S NOTE—Thl* roving reporter for The Time* goes where ho ptoaeee. when be pleases, In searrh of odd stories • boat this and that. OAXACA. Mexico. May B.—Mitla and Mont* Alban are two of Mexico's most famous ruins—lndian cities put there centuries before Columbus discovered America. They aren’t at the top of the list, but they would fall among the 10 mo6t interesting. They are as different as two sets of ruins could be. I saw them both in one day. I should have spent more time. Mitla is about 25 miles from Oaxaca. We hired a car, and made the trip down in about two hours over a rough, gravel road. There is a town called Mitla. It is a drab little place, with tall cacHus fences, and much dust. It lies on a dusty, barren plain, at the foot of scorched mountains. The Mitla ruins are a couple of blocks from the town. They stand on a rise, bare and alone. I didn’t like them. They gave me a feeling of death. The desert wind sweeps lonesomely across the bleached, standing stone. It speaks, as it blows, of timelessness and futility, like the prairie winds of our own Midwest. ana MITLA was there when the Spaniards came. Spanish chroniclers described it in 1530. It wasn’t covered with earth like most of the ruins. It was a city, apparently. From its looks, I w'ould judge it to have been the capital of a kingdom, the palace of a monarch. Quite a few buildings are scattered around, buildings with patios and many rooms, all made of gray stone, all one story, all Without roofs now', their tops open to the sun. Two things stand out in the Mitla structures the mosaic work, and the immensity of the stones. The walls, both inside ad out, are done in mosaics. There are thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of small pieces of stone, about an inch thick and four or five inches long, cut with the precision of a lathe. These were then fitted on to the face of the stone wall in patterns.

IN ONE building at Mitla there is a great single piece of stone over a doorway. It is 15 feet long and 4 feet stuare. and weighs 25,000 pounds. It was cut from a quarry three miles away, and brought over, and raised into place. I have a warm and excited feeling about Monte Alban. It is alive, and still mostly undiscovered. The ruins stand on a mountain top, a thousand feet above Oaxaca. It’s six miles by car from the city, over a precipitous road. The top of the mountain is flat, and covers maybe 40 acres. There is a whole city of pyramids, laid out in formation around a plaza. I didn’t count them, but there must be 15 or 20 uncovered, and that many more still to be dug into. Whereas at Mitla the structures are all buildings as we know buildings today—straight, solid stone walls, inclosing rooms—at Monte Alban the structures are all pyramids. a a a THE pyramids are made of rough brown stones, with cement between them, the whole thing put together roughly. It is a much poorer construction job than that at Mitla. Some of the pyramids are pretty crumbly when uncovered by the scientists, and the government is rebuilding them. It was here at Monte Alban, four years ago. that the Mexican Dr. Casa bumped into Tomb No. 7 and dug out the now famous Monte Alban jewels. You can see them in the museum at Mexico City. Magnificent necklaces and masks of gold; silver work, rock crystal, obsidian. pearl, jade, turquoise and I don’t know what all. I crawled back into Tomb No. 7. It's about 15 feet long and four feet wide, and you can stand up in it by stooping a little. I thought what elation must have been Dr. Casa's when his shovel first opened the tomb, and when he saw. glistening in the dirt, the things that civilized men had hidden there centuries before we achieved a civilization of our own. And it is some such place as Monte Alban that some shovel, some day, may unearth the secret of all our mysterious past.