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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938

- ABUNDANCE IN WHEAT RIVATE crop experts in Chicago yesterday estimated ! that this year’s wheat harvest will be about 936, 000,000 : bushels,—the largest in seven’ years. Prices quoted at milling ‘and grain storage centers ~ since the beginning of the harvest season indicate’ that this year’s average price to the farmers will be: about 60-cents a bushel. At that price, the wheat farmers’ cash income will be about $561,600,000. Last year America’s wheat farmers harvested only ~ 874,000,000 bushels, but prices prevailing over the market-

“ing season gave last year’s crop a cash value of more

than $800,000,000. Here is another of those instances where the abundance

economy isn’t working out so well for those who are : producing the abundance. The worst of it is that such - a lush harvest can’t be liquidated at the lower prices and forgotten. For this year’s abundance will mean a larger © carryover to depress the wheat market next season. It is because instances of price-depressing surpluses have recurred time and again in our country’s agricultural history that we continue to be sympathetic with the AAA's efforts to work out a system of balanced production. If the farmers can’t obtain A balanced income with which to buy the things they need, how can we who live in the cities hope to obtain a balanced condition of employment in manufacturing and distributing the things the farmers buy?

THE FOURTH IS OVER, BUT— UGUST may seem an inept time to devote any thought to fireworks, usually associated with the Fourth of July. The subject was considered important enough in Mishawaka, however, to warrant passage this week of an ordinance prohibiting the use of fireworks except at public exhibitions. The measure, believed to be the first of its kind in this state though fairly common elsewhere, was passed unanimously by the City Council and approved by the Mayor and Fire Chief. The deaths of three children, injured . fatally by fireworks this year in South Bend, spurred : action on the ordinance. | . We still believe Indianapolis needs a similar ban. And

~ we hope we won’t have to wait until after a fatal accident Eg

_ debt problem. That is why Secretary of Agriculture

3 for its consideration.

2 TWO WAGE DISPUTES * /"HE Maytag Co., makers of washing machines, decided for business reasons that it should cut wages. It put * through a 10 per cent cut. The newly organized C. I. O. union at the Maytag plant went on a strike. The strike brought on violence and violence brought on martial law, developing a bitter controversy between the Federal Government and the State of Iowa over whether the National Labor Relations Board could conduct hearings on labor’s complaints against the Maytag Co. As this is written the situation is still very much up in the air, the only things certain being that the Maytag plant is closed, not producing any new washing machines and not earning -any income, and that Maytag workers are not getting any wages. Now let’s examine the progress of another wage ~ dispute: The railroads of the country decided for business reasons that they had to cut wages 15 per cent. The . managers notified the railroad labor unions. A conference was called. : . In hotel rooms in Chicago the conferees representing management and the conferees representing the unions belabored each other with statistics and social and economic arguments. Yesterday that conference ended, in a deadlock—both sides agreeing that they couldn’t get together without outside help. So they have called in the Federal Mediation Board, which will try to find a formula for a meeting of minds. : If mediation fails, the two sides will be asked to accept “arbitration. If they accept arbitration, the dispute will be settled by an arbitration board’s decision. If either side refuses arbitration, then the President of the United States will appoint a fact-finding committee; and at the end of 30 days publish that committee’s findings—a last resort to bring public opinion to bear to force a settlement. Meanwhile the trains continue to run, carrying freight and passengers and earning some income for the railroads. ~ And as many workers as are needed to keep the transportation system going are still on the payrolis—sat the same rate of pay. - - Meanwhile, also, catloaliars have increased and rail business prospects have begun to look brighter. Here are two typical American methods of handling the same type of employer-employee dispute. Which do you think is the better?

RESTORATION AT REIMS

THE bells of Reims Cathedral ‘ring again, after 24 years:

of silence. The mighty structure, built six centuries and more ago, has been restored and reopened. Few traces remain of the damage done by 287 German shells that struck the cathedral during the World War. It was fitting that Church and State should lay aside "their differences, as they did, and join in celebration of this restoration. ,~ Here, surely, is an achievement for which civilization ha a right to be happy, and: we are glad that American money, given by John D. Rockefeller, made ‘possible’ the work which removed the schrs of war from one of humanity’s most noted and most beautiful structures. Ah, but civilization on be proud indeed if now it could be said

that the grea cathedral is safe for six centuries more—if

there were ssurance that next month, next year,

ty, 3 cents a copy; deliv-

Fair Enough ~~

By Westbrook Pegler

You'll Get Them and You Can Cash |

Them,' Says Prof. Oscar Bush of

His Coupons to Be Used for Money. |

EW YORK, Aug. 4—Out of Los Angeles, that

promissory land which ‘produced the plans of

Upton Sinclair and Dr. Townsend, there comes at.last

. | a proposal combining the kernels, as it were, of both .

these panaceas, but without their faults. It is the

invention of Prof. Oscar Bush, World-Wide Congress--

man, who asks a mandate from the citizens of the 14th California District as their representative in a

lesser body, the Congress of the United States. : - A pioneer, as he admits, in new age thinking, the |.

professor celebrates impromptu, and one day he discovered afloat in the springs of his intellect a method of causing money to be and of distributing the same without taxation or other inconvenience. He has com-

‘municated his plan to. President Roosevelt, and,

though he may be overwishful, he perceives Presiden-

1 tial favor, if not indorsement, in the fact that within

three days Mr. Marvin McIntyre, the President's No. 3 mai, thanked hima 70f Bis eostesy 4) SUNtHing Bis suggestions.

= -. = ‘Mr. Roosevelt's own Ponzi plan, Prof. Oscar Bush's system entails no bothersome problems of interest, ‘or ultimate corhe-uppance. It is a miracle. “He is new age minded,” Prof. Bush says of him-

self, using the third person the better to extol a genius

of his own discovery and avoid immodest seeming. “He receives messages from the ether and is a medium through which these messages are transcribed to humanity. “About a year ago his latest message about created money came while sitting in a small church waiting to be called as the speaker of the evening. He gave them a talk on created money, a thing he knew nothing about five minutes before. He showed how money can be created without taxation, without confiscation and no printing press money. He spoke of a system of coupons. He said you will get them and you may cash them. “These coupons are distributed fo each person. You can cash them for money and-the coupon is canceled, hence the slogan ‘Free Money.” 2 ® 8 will be seen at a glance that Prof. Bush has eliminated the fatal fault in the plan of the Good Mahatma Sinclair, who made toil a condition for the success of his idea. He has conquered also the cruel discrimination against orphans, the flaw which condemned the Townsend plan. When it became apparent that persons below the age of 60 without living parents to whom they could look for support would be excluded from the benefits of $200 a month public opinion crushed the doctor’s fallacy. Prof. Bush’s five-minute plan plainly substitutes created money for toil and removes the harsh inequality which Dr. Townsend imposed on orphans. When one book of coupons has been exhausted the Governmeént will issue another, and so on, honoring the coupons with money voted by Congress in the form of dividends upon the national wealth. . It were unkind to advise Prof. Oscar Bush that he is not the first explorer to stumble, blinded by the

glare of golden streets and 2 spires into the El Dorado

of the ether.

Business By John T. Flynn Wallace Forgets the National Debt

Sar t Be Liquidated by, Default. 41t is plain tHat the adh

i

istration is getting fittery about the national

Wallace recently told Towa farmers that our debt position now is better than it was in 1932 or 1930. The reasons given by Mr. Wallace for this have a significance completely overlooked’ by him. That significance attaches to the question which is con-

tually asked—how much more public debt can we"

stand? In answering that question we are referred to Great Britain. England has a public debt of 33 billion dollars. Ours is now $37,100,000,000. As our population is three times that of England, it is argued that before our public debt can equal that of England ‘it would have to be around 100 billion. These figures are subject to some correction. England’s national and local government debts (they must be combined to make a fair comparison) are 40 billion. Ours are 54 billion. Therefore our national, state and local debts would have to be 120 billion before they equal Britain’s. From this it is concluded that we can safely go up to 120 billion of national and local debts before we

are as bad off as England. But do we want to be as’

bad off as England? But Mr. Wallace in his argument; about comparing the debt burden of the United States in 1938 with its

burden in 1932 makes the following argument. He

insisis that the total debt of the nation is less now than it was in 1932 because while thé national debt has increased, private debts have decreased. ‘And as all debts must be serviced out of the same till we are actually better off than in 1932.

Believes This Sound Statement

Now this I believe to be a perfectly sound statement.: But if this is a fair method of comparing the debt of the United States in 1832 and 1938, it is also a fair means of comparing the debt of the United States with the debt of England. If the private and public debts of England could be combined and ascertained they would be found to

be very markedly inferior to. the private and public |

debts of this country proportionately measured. And it is because we have this immense private debt load, that we dare not impose so vast a public debt upon our people as England. There is one other point Mr. Wallace overlooks. Private debts, he points out, have declined, while the national debt has risen. This is true. He "thinks the former has shrunk more than the latter have expanded. What he ignores, however; is that private debts may: be Hqwidated Ryo Sefauls, But the national Set cannot be. ;

A Woman’ S Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N Johnstown, Pa., 30 married women received notices from the School ‘Board asking for their

resignations as teachers, the’ notice carrying the fol-

ing comments:

“Many other qualified persons, who are waiting for an opportunity to teach, gre being thwarted by your presence in the profession. - “Your continuance as a teacher is detrimental to the teaching profession in general. “By your venture mariage) you:have taken the

position of one assuming a dual responsibili board feels that it is paying for ene phd

and has the moral and legal right to expect as

much.”

These are strange words, gentlemen. The statement | women out of jobs |:

that married women keep single: is a foregone conclusion, although it makes very little sense in & capitalistic system, where the need for a position has never been counted any

fication for a worker and where men do not aie]

other businesses or professions in such an. altruistic

manner. ’ > Are married women. deteipental fo the teaching #

profession?’ On the contrary, it has been d

efinitely | i they make the best teachers and are of inestimable a

help tb the children. No less a person-

F. Myers, professor of education of the New York | University, has said 80, basing Bis pivol Wpun. the 7

Sndings, of

The

~The Hoosier Forum

«. 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will. - defend to the- death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

ASKS CITY TO REMEDY CONDITION AT BEACH By H. K. ; I read where the 26th St. beath 15 ordered closed immediately because of impure water because it is “feared” sewage is entering the river

ing incredible filth into the river at

grounds. It has been doing this constantly with the full knowledge of the city and state board of health and -the officers of the city. It has continued because the conservation department, and both the city and state health boards refuse to da anything. ‘The ‘cause is pennypinching by the city which refuses to appropriate the few necessary ollars required to operate the pumps at Meridian St. and Westfield Drive which would carry this

fevage lo the epoca plamtiheB |

Let's quit beating around the bush and “fearing” things that we all know about. How about it, Mayor Boetcher? Mayor Kern remedied this situation last summer; can’t you do same now? And as a reminder, copstruction of a sewer in Warfleigh will add to this condition as it also will empty through this outlet when the pumps are not operating. 3 a8» CLAIMS WATER TRUCK OPERATORS THREATENED HIM By William A. Glass Recently I wrote The Times a letter concerning an incident that took place at Meridian and Ohio Sts. which was published in the July 20 issue, In it I described in detail | how the operators of City Water Truck 72 drenched an elderly man at the intersection mentioned and how a friend and I narrowly escaped the same fate because I made some remark about it. : Now, one week later, Saturday. night; July 23, at almost the same time and place the operators of 72 pulled alongside and threatened ta “get” me some night for writing that letter. I'm wondering where they think they live—in Italy or Russia? | They evidently are guilty of the act: I accused them of or they wouldn't

defending themselves instead of threatening me

Labor must ve. scarce when ‘men like that are hired Wo serve the City | of Indianapolis.

NOTE—Fred K. 'K. Eisenhut, Indian-

the follo reply:

“The Street Department makes every effort to flush downtown streets at night when auto and pedestrian traffic is at a um.

strict orders to be careful in their]

north of the beach. What a farce! |. There is a five-foot sewer empty- |

a point near the Riviera Club]

hive remembered me and would be]

apolis Street Commissioner, made]

The operators of these flushers have | .

(Times readers are invited on express their views in these columns, religious controyersies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a:chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on racuest)

DEFENDS. TEACHERS WORKING IN SUMMER By Elinda ~ To those criticizing “fat-salaried” teachers "for taking summer posions: Before my husband succumbed to the idealisms of the teaching profession he was earning $1400 per year ut a job that required no previous training. He then spent four years of hard work, skimping and sacrific3 say nothing of the ctistomary for tuition, living * expenses, books, fees, etc., and the $1400 per year for each: of those four years he might have been earning had he remained in his former occupation. Since graduating, he has been teaching three years and ives the staggering sum of $1300 per year for his services. These criticizing laymen certainly do not criticize the scores in other

THE JAP AND THE BEAR By RUTH SHELTON Said the Little Jap to ue Russiah Bear,

“Get off my hill”; Said the Russian Bear with a coldey “Your hill is nil.”

Said the Little Jap » the Rus. sian Bear,

“I'm awful tough”; : Said ihe Russian Bruin, “1 don’t

I call ‘your bluff.” Said the Little Jap to the Little Jap, “Do. you” suppose I out hav shaken wy fist, mayNeath the wrong guy’s nose”? The Russian Bear has not yet beSa keeps her

place . “The Little Jap Tooks 8 bit absurd Can ‘he. save his face

its bets, : AS the’ ald world will, 3 jas 10 Whether the Bear or eT he Jap gets he. worth-war hill.

DAILY THOUGHT

For he that is dead is freed from sin.—Romans 6:7.

EATH ‘has mo ‘nothing terrible which life has not made so. A faithful n life in this

work. But I will call in. this oper-| ator am vestigate. gy

world’ is. the -best preparation ' for the next, Tryon Edwards.

The whole world ogles and. makes

work who, with no previous training, no grind of four long years, are regularly earning: $1300 and, in the majority of cases, considerably more. We. shall welcome with open arms the critic who can show us. how, without summer work, we can live in a decent home, provide respectable clothing, essential foods, physicians’ and deniists’ services, maintain memberships in the many teacher organizations (many of these being more or less compulsory) and have enough Teft over to enable my husband to pay the tuition fees for the | graduate work he must continue to | take'in order to remain among the best in his profession. All this without stinting our infant daughter’s needs of good milk, orange juice, cod liver oil, ete. Those of you who are so ready to

the subject a little deeper than the spinster up your: street who has no dependents, ‘who has been teaching|. (and accumulating) - for years and) ‘years and who runs off to the four | corners of the world every summer. 2 » 2 HOLDS LAG NOT DUE TO CAPITAL'S STRIKE By V. B. IL Is it any wonder that business. today distrusts ‘the Administration? Who can forget the recent farce of the little businessman’s souvention at Washington? Regardless guilt, general threats of a prosecutions are now being heard. Taxes, red tape reports, NLRB de-f cisions—all have shaken business confidence to its foundations. As soon as markets appear less favorable, various income groups either can’t or won’t buy. This lag in purchasing power is in no way attributable to corporations themselves. The lack of it decreases employment, lowers wages and creates ll feeling generally. Business (capitalism) gets the blame because the consumer either can’t or won’t buy. This, I maintain, is more to the point than saying that the current depression is being caused by a sitdown strike of capital. There may be additional causes, but it certainly is not that one, : : ® 2 2 | SUGGESTS FOUR POINTS

TO END UNEMPLOYMENT By E. S. To solve the unemplo, lem: 1. Pass a law to allow no married woman to work, -unl she be a widow or her husband disabled. 2. Pass .a law giving all aliens two years’ time to -apply for citizenship and charge them a fee of .$50. If they fail to do so, deport them. 3. Pass- a law to pension every man and woman, regardless of age, with 25 years’ service and give | them a decent pension, say $100 a month. 4. Pass a law that anyone receiv-

ent prob-

ing a pension cannot go out and take another job.

HE

LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT Eowaxp WiGGAM

i E STORY OF HEREDITY

it has broken many a promising love

of affair—even Engagement;

BRITTLENESS of bones has béen recognized as an inherited

‘|trait in families for a hundred). years. In such families babies’

bones are often broken during birth —even before birth. C.-B. Daven-

- | port, biologist, collected numerous

cases and thought possibly the tendenty was “dominant” like brown

IT IS LIKELY to be pretty true. students rate each other on 10 dif-

erativeness, etc. had over] 50,000 ratings and found that the

condemn teachers, please look info|°

Henry Foster Adams had his|

AY, AUC. : 19mm,

Gen. Johnson Says—

We Have Some of the Best itary Officers in the World, but Our Trouble Is We Don't Have Enough. ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 4—The 198th Coast

’ Artillery Delaware National Guard is at this beach engaged in target practice. It is an antiair«

craft regiment and the practice is with machine guns

and three-inch rifles. Its equipment is not the most modern and the airplanes do not fly. at war-time heights, speeds or directions, but these part-time - soldiers hit the rapidly scooting sleeves high up in the

air with astonishing accuracy. In case of war they would have to be re-cimipped and given advanced training, but one .of the most enco aspects of our defense is the National Guard. * Naturally, it could not be expected to be as effective as regular troops, but I think it is as effective as any European second line troops and it is so much better now than before the war that there Just dsn’t. any comparison, : 8# ao » » prewar days it was supposed to be a wilitary axiom that: “It takes three years to make a private soldier.” The war rubbed out that error. Notwith standing the facts that weapons are far more technical and training more complex, modern methods have made it possible to produce a top-hole enlisted man with six months intensive training. Man for man there were no better soldiers than ours on the Western Front and some of them hadn't had six months’ drill. - These National Guardsmen, with only an hour or two a week, know their stuff, and what is more they look like soldiers. That is an indefinabie quality, bug an old soldier can spot it a block away. . It isn’t because of enlisted men that an army ean’ be improvised. It is because of officers and: none commissioned officers—especially the former. A mili tary education is-indispensable for officers—not only to the ends of victory, but also for the ‘health and mental and moral welfare of the men. Staff functions, including supply, are absolutely vital to the successful command and movement of the massed armies of modern war, just as knowledge of diet and sanitation as well as arms and tactics are vital to a commander of a company, & battalion or & regiment. ; : . = = :

1:45. Wis Atpariment that our srevs. weakness lies. We have among the best officers in the world —but pitifully too few. : . Many devoted National cunt officers give their spare time to the study of the profession and some could hold their own in any company. But the training of others is distinctly spotty and that of the large - corps of reserve officers is generally worse. ‘We don't need a big Army but we need a good one ‘that can instantly be mobilized and ready “to the last shoe-latch” to fight at its maximum effectiveness from the first day. Through no fault of our War Depart_ment, we haven't got that. There are not enough officers in reserve proficiently trained. We are woefully lacking in reserve munitions and equipment. There is insufficient provision to convert peace-time production in factories fo war-time uses. While sbme progress is being made and: the problem is recognized, this lack isn’t being remedied inst enough. It would | cost yelatively ad to I this,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Your Columnist Would Like to Get His Home Edition a Little Earlier.

TAMFORD, Conn; Aug. 4—By now I am récone ciled to the fact that nobody will ever call me a first class reporter. I wouldn't even go that far myself. But until yesterday I did think I could:feel an earthquake if I happened to be in the middle of it. According to the Rev. Father Joseph Lynch, S. J, director of Fordham's seismological observatory, the very center of the temblor lay along the line of hills

which run between Rye and Stamford. °° My manor, Well Enough, on Hunting Ridge, must have felt the full force of the impact. And yet 1 was shocked not at 5:02 a. m. but well along in the afternoon when I got the evening papers from New York. Of course, I might laugh off the delinquency by saying that I had been participating in the night life of New Canaan and that I dropped off to slume ber so oafishly that naught but Gabriel's trumpet could have roused me. The only trouble with this excuse is that there is no truth in it. . It might be just as well to make a clean breast of the whole shameful. business. Long before 5 in the moming I was up and at my typewriter: working on a novel. ae i Sila to Work, 207 bo Shane billa.cing, and the whippoorwills have ceased from troubling, Even the Srop% fn She Dana have siopped soaking their chant of “Galumph. Galumph.”

Fears He'll Be Sesoped

It must have been about this time the earthquake struck Stamford. It was thunderstorm weather. There was ligh over High Ridge and distant growling. I was poking for the right putas, and suddenly I thought I had it and hammered the words home on the machine with two fingers. he Taree writer, and even ihe table, seemed to give a little, but I niisconstrued the fact and thought the slight sway was merely an indication that I didn’t know my own strength. Along about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, the news dealer came all the way over to Potato Patch to hand me the Home Edition. “What did you think of the Republican landslide?” he asked. : “What landslide?” Ha “The earthquake,” he answered, roaring with laughter. “I was sleeping in my cot in the store, and it dumped me out. There it is on the front page of your own paper. I thought you were a reporter and maybe you sent in the item.” I had to confess I was only a columnist, and I asked if he couldn't get the afternoon papers around

a little earlier. I wouldn’t want to be scooped ( on my

own obit by 10 hours.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

n= Scandinavian countries have been able © cone trol syphilis far beyond any similar control trol that has taken place in the United States. In 1918 Sweden pease a Jaw which defined veneand a8. Jong

. | ferent traits such as dependability, | | generat. personal. dgoiam, coop ~ Peop

of & Jaton; stops coming or treatment | the: Pa eve h

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