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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE “GREATEST GAMBLE” HEN a prize fight or any other big sporting event is to be held outdoors, the promoter usually hedges his risk by taking out insurance against rain. He does this because he knows that a heavy rain means a light gate and a light gate means heavy losses, Yet in the greatest of all outdoor industries, farming, the principle of insurance has never been adequately applied as an offset to the extreme risks incurred. No other enterprise, conducted either in or out of doors, has greater hazards.

A fight promoter may be rained out and recoup all losses in a successful bout a few weeks later. But a farmer who loses all when nature frowns has to wait a whole year before he gets another chance.

He fertilizes and prepares his land in the winter, sows his seed in the spring, tills his crop through

* the summer. But any one of a variety of visitations

may rob him of the reward which a fall harvest

: should bring for his year’s toil. This year it was a month-long drought in Indiana |

and other states of the Mississippi basin. Before the drought was broken by rain this week, the farmer saw his crops damaged or destroyed, shriveled up by too little rain and too much sunshine, Meanwhile, as he waits for the next spring and the new chance, he must keep right on paying his taxes, meeting his mortgage, feeding his livestock, clothing and (schooling his children, and thinking how to finance that next planting.

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Fro time to time, private companies have tried | half-baked schemes to insure the farmer's in- |

come against the hazards of nature. Lacking ade-

quate actuarial data and ability to spread the risks cver a wide enough territory, they were doomed to failure. Some states in the Northwest have tried hail insurance with varying success.

Obviously, if crop insurance is ever to be evolved

cn a satisfactory basis, it will have to be done on a nation-wide scale and under the supervision of the Federal government itself.

Already, and with a fair degree of success, the government has intervened to provide the farmer with a certain amount of income insurance.

But it is desirable and should be feasible to work

out a sound system by which the farmer can insure

himself from the losses from crops destroyed by the elements over which he has no control. . 2 % =a : ; ; T= Addhinistration has reaognized this need, but wisely has not attempted to meet it in heedless haste, Experts in the Agriculture Department have been directed to assemble and analyze data already available. These include exhaustive records of the AAA on the production of individual farms over the last six years, production by states ranging back over several decades, and records of rainfall going back as far as 100 years.

A sound crop insurance plan, which is the only

~ kind the people will permit their government to

undertake, means one that will be self-supporting, and will graduate the premiums in proportion to the hazards in the area where the individual farm

is situated.

A .plan which will meet those spevifisations : will be beneficial not only to the farmers of the country, but also to those who dwell in cities and produce things which the farmers buy. If any of our nonfarming readers seem inclined to disagree, let them look at any chart of national prosperity and see how it rises and falls with farm purchasing power. Or, easier still, let them read in today’s newspaper

of the millions of dollars of their tax money which

the government is pouring into that distressed

! —dgought belt.

“NOT PROGRESSIVE” DEcuseme the Cleveland platform of the Republican Party as “certainly not progressive,” the Texas Weekly says,

who do not like the New Deal may be induced ‘to support it.” : The Texas Weekly sees the declaration against the reciprocal trade agreements as blasting much of the Republicans’ hope for “substantial co-operation” from anti-New Deal Democrats. The “narrowly nationalistic platform” is attacked on the war debt declaration with: “It was the enactment of the Hawley-Smoot tariff law that made the Hoover moratorium on war debts inevitable, and it was the Johnson Act, which defined a partial payment as an absolute default, that made universal default inevitable. . . . “And yet they expect Democrats, whose chief objection to the New Deal has been that the program of the planners was one of narrow economic nationalism, to support this platform!”

RIVERSIDE FORESTS ! I= action of 20 men who met this week and to work for a series of state-owned strip forests along White River, is far-sighted and com“THe program was termed a “plan to save the out-of-doors for the youngsters.” These men know the “wholesome effect of outdoor life on growing boys and girls. To enhance these benefits, the sportsmen, ‘nature Jovers, physicians, industrialists, conservationists and others ‘who attended the meeting mapped

~ & long-range plan of riverside forest strips that

It is their hope that the movement, starting in

Marion County, will spread over Indiana and other ~ states. The plan would help check erosion and

pollution, and offer more accessible pleasure

“These men are not thinking of themselves. Most

“an amusing feature of the “platform is its naive assumption that Democrats

the 2000 C. M. T. C. candidates who are checking in at’ Fort Harrison today from all parts of the Fifth Corps Area; to the rookies who are dividing attention between their new tent city and an imposing stagk of rules and regulations, and ihe old timers who make for the Post Exchange; to all the civilians ffém Indiana, Ohio, West Virgmia ahd Kentucky who—as the first of two contingents of summer campers—help make the twelfth Citizens Military Training Camp at the local Army post, one

| of the largest in' America—

Welcome to Indianapolis!

WE STUDY THE “C0-OPS”

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has named three investigators to make a study of the co-operatives of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Britain, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and other nations of

The President is said to be keenly interested in such movements, especially those of Sweden where “a royal family, a socialist government and a cooperative system all work well together.” It is'a perfectly héalthy curiosity. The Indlanapolis Times recently published a series of articles highlighting the Swedish system. And it appears to have many excellent points to recommend fit. Needless to say such movements are like trees and flowers. They are not always transplantable. Civilization, however, would be a sorry thing if knowledge were not cumulative. Government or organized society, the object of which is human advancement and happiness with the greatest good to the greatest number, is the most backward of all the sciences. Is it because we are loath to learn from one another? Are statesmen blinder, or more stupid than other technicians? Or what? | The Scandinavians, British, Swiss, French and the Czechs are among the most enlightened peoples of Europe and of the world. Moreover, they are conservative, little given, on the whole, to taking wild leaps in the dark. Whether we can get much good out of them for ourselves or not'is a question; but whether or not, their institutions are at least’ very much worth our study.

IS CHINA DOOMED?

AILY the situation in China is becoming more acute. A country of 450,000,000 people is facing progressive dismemberment, and we the closing of the open door.

In 1900, Cathay boasted an area 50 per cent larger than the United States. Today she actually controls a region less than half the size of this country. Mongolia has become independent. Inner Mongolia: has declared its independence and placed itself under Japanese domination. Sinkiang is disaffected. Manchuria and Jehol are Japanese. Tibet is under British tutelage. South China is now at war, or on the verge of war, with the central government, and western China is more or less in the hands of native Communists.

‘Taking advantage of this situation, Japan, great opportunist that she is, is extending her control fanwise south of the Great Wall into provinces whose nominal native rulers already take their orders from Tokyo rather than Nanking. Soon the open door may. be a thing of the past. Theoretically Japan leaves the door open after she enters. In fact, however, she contrives to lock and bar it. She makes the rules under which the trade game is played and stacks the cards for her ° nationals. . Americans, British and others. generally have to move out when she moves in as they are having to do from Manchuria. » ” » ’ HERE are three things the United States can do about it. First, it can insist upon the open door pid be prepared to use a battleship, if need be, to keep it open. So that is out. \ Second, it can do nothing, as at present. Which, like it or not, is preferable to war. China's trade, present and future, is not worth that. Third, it can co-operate with the British Empire and other important powers in an effort to convince Nippon that it would be against her own interests in the long run to push her presept course to extremes. America is Japan’s best customer. She takes ‘about 30 per cent of Nippon’s exports. The British empire is her second best customer, taking almost as much. America and Britain, too, are the world’s principal money markets. Without their friendship Japan might eventually find overexpansion too heavy a burden and invite collapse from within, War with Japan is ‘utterly unthinkable. It would be so even if the whole world combined against her as it did against the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Yet diplomacy ought to be able to find a way, in collaboration with Nippon herself, to save China and free access to her trade from threatening destruction.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

CERTAIN Federal judge has worked himself into a dreadful state over the Sob Sisters and the harm they are doing in the land. Now such a “charge might come with good grace from any layman, but when a member of the judiciary gets off on a tirade I always want to bite nails.

The harm done by soft-hearted women in tHe matter of protecting criminals is a mere drop in the bucket compared with the encouragement they receive from members of the Bar Association themselves.

The Sob Sisters can at least plead altruistic motives, which is more than the gentlemen of the courts may say for their kind. Most campaigning against what is known as “womanly sentimentalism” has all the appearance of camouflage. In a good many instances, too, it turns the trick by calling the attention of a long-suffering public to the sniveling sisterhood, thereby taking it away from the members of the legal profession who maintain themselves by defending i ing and thug who can show a pocketful of Our crime problem would be quite simple in fact, if, along with all the “Crybabies” we could get rid Shite siysief JNYCES WHO POOL Mls 1m ae to defend the split fees and keep up improper contacts the criminal classes.

Everybody is aware that crooked lawyers, judges who can be bought, and officials who give pardons to convicts are the real menaces to law and order in the United States. “Soft-heartedness,” “mercy,” “the coddling of * work very little havoc in the land. The greatest menace is the fact that the poor man in America, no matter how just his claim

Our Town ek By ANTON SCHERRER

T gave this column a bit of a turn to receive a letter from the desk of Col. Richard Lieber the other day. To be sure, it wasnt a very long letter—at any rate, not the length of letter the colonel has been known to write on occasion— but it showed his good inténtions. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t a letter at all. It was merely a memo expressing the hope that the inclosure would amuse me. It did. It was a clipping from a London newspaper column conducted by one

{| Peter Simple, who, for all I know,

may be using that pseudonym to

hide the identity of A. P. Herbert. |

It was good enough for that, anyway, and I see no reason why I shouldn’t pass it on. That's what jokes are made for—ad captandum

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ORD CLINTON,” began Peter Simple, “has been addressing the Roads Beautifying Association on the subject of ‘The Landscape Effects of Forestry.’ “The introduction of forests into landscapes dates from the earliest days of Chinese art. It was Long

Hop, the artist sage of the Ting|

Dynasty, who laid it down that ‘He who seeth the wood has‘ no occasion to count the trees.

which an artist who desired to introduce a forest into his picture was expected to reproduce the exact number of trees that the wood actually contained. “This involved a ‘considerable ex-

penditure of time, and it is not sur-| |"

prising that, patient as were the Chinese craftsmen of that day, a good many got over. the difficulty by inserting into their landscapes some solitary objects like a pagoda, a buffalo or a fire-breathing dragon instead of the boscage that in reality occupied the scene.” # ” ” : O much for Lord Clinton. Now

listen to Peter Simple and his

ribaldry:

“Modern art,” he' continues, “has

long since discarded all such conventional shackles, so much so that nowadays it is not merely considered sufficient for a painter to indicate the presence of trees by purely impressionistic methods, but he is at perfect liberty to introduce boot-trees, family-trees, axle-trees, cross-trees or other purely symbolic trees; into his composition, or even

to paint in telegraph posts, clothesliries ‘and other allied: objects; leav--ing it to the public to infer their

spiritual relationship to the artistic whole. “There is no doubt that this peculiar habit of the artists has gravely discouraged: the Forestry Commissioners and other persons entrusted with the preservation of the English landscape. “If an artist puts clothes-props into this pictures: where we should expect to find ilex groves, how .can we complain if the Forestry Commissioners plant merchantable spruces where the public would much prefer to find oak, ash and elm? Or why should we be surprised, if it comes to that, if, when artists commit cubist spinneys to their canvases, public authorities follow suit and plank down cubic bungalows on the horizon?”

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Q—Give the lifetime major league batting averages of Babe Ruth, Bill

: Deny, Lou Gehrig and George Siser.

A—Babe Ruth, .341; Bill Terry,

342; Lou Gehrig, 343, and George

Sisler, .341. Q—What does the name Kerling mean? : A—It is a German patronymic meaning “son of Karl” (Charles—“a man”). Q—Name the Secretaries of State, the Treasury and Navy in the Cab-

{inet of President Lincoln.

A—William H. Seward of New

York was fhe Secretary of State. |s Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, William

P. Fessenden of Maine and Hugh McCulloch of Indiana served as Secretaries of the Treasury, and Gideon Welles of Connecticut was Secretary of the Navy. ‘Q—Name the Justices of the Supreme ‘ Court who. participated in the Dred Scott decision. -A—Roger B. Taney of Maryland, Chief Justice; John clean, OR James M. Wayne, onrgla; BR

Catron, Tennessee; ; Samuel Nelson, oh York; lvania;

may be, stands a mighty poor chance of beating a |apqlis,

rich one before the bar, and largely because of lawyers who want to drum up business the “decent rich

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BY ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE This roving reporier for ‘The Times goes where he: when he pleases, in search of stories about this and that.

very bold men have been goose-stepping it across the pages in front of my leisurely eyes this week. They are: Peter De Paolo, the racing driver;

John R. Brinkley, the goat ‘glénd

doctor; Haw Tabor, the fantastic

Randolph Hearst. About each of noe men 1 have read a biography. It was a experience. These four had nothe ing in common—except cept boldness, But even that one bond en close society, for boldness is squandered among us.

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autobiography called Smacker.”

the footsteps of his famous uncle Ralph De Palma. And he He won at Indianapolis in a Once he was qualifying t tne dianapolis just at dusk. On ox back stretch he hit it up to 143. = As he went into the turn, he ‘put a little pressure on the wheel. ‘It 2 on around in his hands. The steering gear was broken. De Paolo grabbed the bottom of his seat with both hands, and just on. He hit the wall, caromeéd off to the other wall, turned over and lid upside down for a hundred yards. He says he could look down and see

| the bricks whizzing past his nose.

The Hoosi | I disapprove of what you say—and will defend - to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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CRITICISES NEW DEAL

“DISPENSATION” By M. R. Kuehn, Richmond, Ind, Peter Erickson and Penelope, his daughter (fictitious. names), have been guests of the taxpayers. ‘They still are. They live near the In-

diana sand dunes. For them the depression is over. Peter spends much time near a New Deal supply depot. Now don’t get suspicious. He belongs there. He's Tocking, out: for himself and Penglope 1s his daughter. and hé loves elope. Penelope | has a position in a bank. She keeps quite busy, and while she doesn’t get just what her qualifica~tions entitle her to, she nevertheless manages to make both ends meet. One end is her weekly bank pay check that amounts to almost $37.50. Papa gets paid, too, but he moves in a ritzier class—he’s above the banking business; no “money changer” charges against Peter! He lives under the canopy of the New Deal dispensation! That's what a man gets if he’s lucky enough to step on the running board of an earthly millenium! It’s what one would call a position, for he gets paid not so much

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN HE vacation season is iikely to introduce into the 'ilfe of the child a good deal of moving about from place to place with its parents. The best advice regarding ‘travel for very small babies is—“Don't.” For such infants travel should be avoided as much as possible. The chief risks of travel, like those of vacations, involve the difficulty of control over tempera- | ture, food, and water; the hazards of meeting people who may be subject to infections, easily transmittable to children; and the dangers of dust and accident, if one is rayeling by motor car. In ‘general, a motor cars as good as a train for a short trip. For longer trips, the motor car introduces the extra danger of accident and the difficulty of regulating satisfactorily the temperature inside the car. If it is necessary to travel with a baby, and if the trip is to be made by train, the mother should provide a pillow on which the child may rest; also, if the infant is small enough, a large basket in which the pillow may be placed. If the train trip is short, and the b is being fed by the bottle, a icient number of bottles should be filled with the formula in advance and taken along. Porters on trains now are quite accustomed to putting such bottles in the refrigerator and bringing them out as they are

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for what he does, as for what he believes. He believes that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Messiah of the New Testament. He ought to because he gets $65.00 a week. Time came when business got so good that Peter had to ask his superior for extra clerical help.” For a reason still unknown Peter had difficulty in getting anybody who needed a job. In his dilemma; he could think of "no one but Penelope! He tried very hard at all the employment offices, with the same results—everybody working. But the thought of Penelope, his dear daughter, being near him, at least during part of the day, haunted him. He could not sleep. So he turned to the banker. for - whom. Penelope worked. When Peter emerged it had. been 3greed: that ~Penelopé could be spared from 2:30 to 4:30 each afternoon without being docked. She now received an additional honorarium of $35.00 under New Deal dispensation.

” ”» . ASSAILS DEMOCRATIC REGIME FOR HIGH TAXES : By Paul Masters, Anderson, Ind. “No limitation of tax levy will cure the evils that have arisen to the unparalleled extravagance: and consequent ‘colossal expenditures made by the present-state administration. Just debts of governing units should be paid, but the way to reduce taxes is to reduce expenditures.” These epining words of the Republican state platform express the

thoughts of sound thinking - business men all over the state. ' ‘The

LITTLE DOG 5 ‘BY MARY WARD My little dog is very good. ~ - Once I may not- have ‘understood . What virtues render good dogs good, And thought that only dogs which would Retrieve, or point, or run were good. And those with watchful fortitude— But since I found my little dog, These virtues too I catalogue:

And thefe good attributes combine To show you this good dog of mine! And how his eyes bespeak the good That centers in his every mood!

tax problem is really ‘very simple

The tirelessness of friendship’s way, | True comradeship in rest or play— |

when you reduce:it down to this point. Deprived of high sounding words and trick catch) phrases this greatest of all politica] problems is summed up in a few easily understood words. Reduced expenditures mean reduced taxes. Increased expenditures mean increased taxes. The present state administra- | tion promised economy in govern-

.ment if the people would put them

in power. They raved about the waste ‘of the previous Republican administration and pledged themselves to reduce state expenditures

-and to eliminate unnecessary and

costly bureaus. -But, when the people, who had faith in their: word, intrusted these demagogues with the affairs of the state what did they do? - From the

| first day of the McNutt rule this sos

called Democratic : administration has presented the most extravagant and - wasteful governing body this state has ever known. They added thousands- to the state pay roll and increased: the number of bureaus and commissions. The leaders of the Republican Party believe that their pledges to the people are solemn vows to be kept if intrusted with public power. The issue is clear. The Repubiicans offer you reduced taxes. Which do you want? I ask you Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, can you vote the Democratic ticket this fall? Wake up, Indiana,

2 ” ” COMPLAINS OF BROKEN GLASS ON STREETS By J. F. I have been intending to write for quite a while about the broken glass in the -eity streets.

“It looks as though it would be a 1 good idea for the city police to clean

it up after an accident or whenever they happen to see it.

‘DAILY THOUGHT

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the

members of that one body, being °

many, are one body; so also is‘ CHrist.—I Corinthians xii, 12.

HE great. unity which true

science seeks is found only by with our knowledge of God, and coming .down from Him along the stream of causation to | every fact and even that affects us. —Howard Oroshy.:: :

SIDE GLANCES

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De Paolo was thrown sprawlingon to the bricks. He was battered smacked, but was out of the pital. in ’ three weeks, wanting. to drive again, What a man! : 8 8 8

R. JOHN R. BRINKLEY had & man named Clement hid

| write the story of his life,

Brinkley wanted his little boy to know the truth about his much maligned father. Brinkley has been denounced as 8 medical fraud. Last spring I happened to spend an afternoon chatting with him, and later I visited his hospital, his home and his ra dio station at Del Rio, Tex. I.lel with what I believe was | 5 ably more than an open mind ¢

™ I wish I had never read this. be I wish Brinkley had never written. I don’t know what think about him now. The oe is nauseating in its. bad taste, .

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land stone cutter. He went west in '59, the poorest of men, and became the richest in all Colorado. The story of the ‘Tabor family is the saddest story I have ever read. Haw Tabor was generous, loud, oa pansive and ambitious. oy bought him everything. HE liv outlandish luxury. i threw. about like water, and loved it. ..

laced New. England wife, and mare ried a pretty face. They called her “Baby Doe. ” ihe Tabor lost his money and

charity of a Denver political. job. He died in 1899. Augusta died bee fore him. “Baby Doe” barricaded herself. at Tabor’s worked-out silver mine in

hungry,

The book is called “Silver Dollar.” Read it, and genuinely weep v

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Hearst is interesting reading: I have just read one by Carlson and Bates. It is cold and factual. » If doesn’t go out of its way to-de-nounce Hearst. It just lays dawn ‘the documents before you.

‘Today’s Science |

BY SCIENCE ‘SERVICE

N improved system of es ; ing extremely high vol A which the equipment is

as a cheap form of apparatus, which to disrupt atoms. _. |

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Colorado metal king, and willlim

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De Paolo dreamed of following in ;

Then the car started rolling, and.

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He tired of Augusta, his icalghte -

spent " the last two years of his life in the

Leadville after his death. She lived for 30 years in a one-room shack, | ragged, with: a ‘shotgun across her knee, guarding the’'empty | ‘| mine, strange fancies in her brain.

RACTICALLY any book . about

‘ And the thing that I gather most from this book is that Hearst really .|is. not to blame. That he honestly does not know the difference bee .| tween good and bad. i

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