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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1930

WE ARE ASKED FOR A REST .-“JPROM a reader: “You are always talking about the danger

of currency inflation. - You have been doing it now |

. for several years, and nothing has happened. Give us a ~_- rest.—Ham-and-Egger.” : ~~ Reply by editor: “We recall the same complaint in "approximately the same language not more than four months ago, saying we werk always talking about the danger of another European war. It also asked for a rest.”

- SIMPLE HORSE SENSE ON Oct. 28 a man was injured in a tavern here. Believed to be more intoxicated than injured, he was placed _ in Cjty Jail. On Saturday the man was removed to City Hospital “where he died Sunday after an operation to rémove pressure on the brain. His skull had been fractured. It is not the fault of the police that they did mot | detect the injury. It takes a trained physician to find out | ¥._.those things. But it is the fault of the Police Department <- or the Safety Board in not insisting on some method of medical service at City Jail to discover such injuries. Hundreds of men with fractured skulls have died in fe jails over the land because no such medical check - was =. provided. To the casual glance of an officer, a man.with ~ "a cracked skull frequently behaves like an intoxicated individual. And, because he looks and acts like any. other drunk, he is tossed in jail to sleep it off. Too many times it turns out to be the eternal sleep. Sn

If the City of Indianapolis had provided stand-by medical service at the jail, the life of this man might have | been saved the other night. A simple, medical check of every man brought in for intoxication might save not one

"| but several lives a year.

.. “PEACE ORDERS” PAY BEST =r BERLIN and Moscow seem much more certain than Wall Street and Washington that repeal of the arms embargo - ‘means a war beom in the United States. The Nazi Foreign Office mouthpiece sounded off yesterday against ‘that group of (American) war profiteers who want to buy profits with the blood and prosperity of other __ nations.” And Foreign Commissar Molotov, opening the - three-day celebration of the Bolshevik revolution’s 22d anni- _ versary, charged that “the American burgeoisie is interested in intensifying the war so that its uncrowned munitions kings can reap huge profits.” :

But the belavior of the stock market since ‘the em}

- bargo was lifted indicates no great expectations there. It .;.+is generally accepted that Britain and France will buy in _ this country all the airplanes they can get under the controls ~ imposed yesterday by the War and Navy Departments. Beyond that, however, the effect of war buying is ‘still con- ~ sidered unpredictable. : . And, most hopefully significant, there is almost no evi- == dence of eagerness for the arrival of a great flood of war ‘orders. Instead, leaders of business and Government are “counseling caution, emphasizing the dangers. a war boom would bring and pointing out that America’s real oppor- | “¥* tunity is to keep domestic recovery going steadily ahead “and prevent it from being warped and eventually: wrecked ~ by the influence of war. Sound domestic recovery calls for ‘increasing consumption -here at home by holding prices down. 2

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{THEY FEAR CHRISTIANITY : ROM the first the Russian and German dictatorships have ~~ sought to extirpate Christianity. The Communists have ¥ offered atheism as a substitute; their Nazi comrades, paganism. : : B . : So we should not be surprised to learn that the | & Japanese dictatorship, in its effort to hold its conquests in : g: China, is likewise” moving ‘against the religion which has g- taken such deep root there. f § Why Christianity should be recognized as an’ arch %- enemy by the military ‘dictatorships is no mystery. ® Christianity teaches the infinite worth—even the eternal Zworth—of every person, even: the humblest and - most . & handicapped. It led an English Livingstone to live in the =: fevered jungle that he might help the natives; a’'Japanese “Kagawa to live in the foul slums; a German Niemoller to suffer imprisonment in a concentration camp; an American ‘Washington to forego monarchial power or a third. term. | Sometimes the source, it ‘is’ always "the inspiration of "democracy. In Christianity, the state serves Man, not Man the state. In this hour of democracy’s need, the religion of the uncompromising and courageous Man of Galilee is . not at its end, but at a new beginning.

ANSWERING THE A. F. OF L.

THE indictment in Pittsburgh of-58 electrical contractors, = corporations and individuals on charges of conspiring “to defraud the Federal Government through collusion and bid-rigging on PWA projects is a complete answer to the unfounded charges which American Federation of Labor officials have been making against the Government’s investigation of building costs in large cities. : A recext statement by the A. F. of L.'said: ; & “A new trust-busting’ campaign is under way in this country. In Teddy Roosevelt's day the Government’ started Eto shake the big stick at corporations. This time the ~ Department of Justice is cracking down on labor unions.” ‘But only three of the 58 Pittsburgh. indictments are: against officials ‘of the Electrical Workers’ Union, while, 13 are against ; corporations and 42 against individual elec

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§ If the Department of Justice succeeds in- its drive i against practices which have impeded the construction industry and needlessly increased the cost of building— - whether those responsible are corporations or union officials both—it will mean moré jobs for union workers and more. sperity for the country. x peo.

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By Westbrook Pegler oi ina

C. I. O. May Think H-Has Out’ in| Recall Section of Ham-and-Eqggs, but | - Analysis Shows This to'Be a Fallacy. a 0S ANGELES, Nov. T.—The only cause that has|' peen offered for the indorsemient of the anti-

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strike provision and the other dictatorial clauses of |“

the Ham-'n’-Eggs plans by the California C. I. O.; is

a section which provides for the recall of the dictator

hy the usual method. For a fact, that makes it fun-| I. nier, and it is likely that one of the brothers in the|

mutually suspicious band of promoters who dreamed i

up this weird disturbance inserted ‘the. recall clause asa precaution. It might be used to remind Mr. Roy Owens, the nominee for dictator, of his obligations Ham-'n’-Eggs business and curb any. tendency on part to deny them the rewards’ of selfless service to the cause. , Fe

ficult to conceive, however, inasmuch as another proanother empowers him to interpret the intent and

spirit of the act, subject to no review:or ‘superior authority, and still another forbids all persons to curtail

any capaclty to produce goods, services, conveniences

or comforts. ; : 2 8 = : (FER powers, Brother Owens obviously might decide that his associates—the brothers Allen, for instance—were unlawfully ¢ their capacity to produce, and, by the words of their own amendment, they would have no case for recall against him on that score.

On the contrary, Brother Owens would be doing |’

no more than his duty under the “command” of the people of California and the Brothers Allen, who are toiling so loyally to clothe him with these powers, and this boundless discretion would have no redress short

of personal revolution, which always causes ill health

or worse in the revolutionary order under dictatorial government. The C. I. O. however, which indorsed the antistrike and other dictatorial proposals, forbids itself the comfort of the recall as an exception to anti-labor measures. If Brother Owens. should forbid and suppress a strike of C. I. O. longshoremen, he would only

‘| be doing the very thing that the C.I.O. has approved

in its indorsement of the plan as a whole. The Communists could not ask his recall on such grounds, for they have said that they believe it would be a

good thing to empower one man to suppress strikes. |,

That power is plainly provided in the clause against the curtailment of production and so forth, and the C. I. O. has plainly approved the idea. ® ea ¢ TT Communists meaning of this provision, for they are very

‘bright at reading the plain ‘meanings of all sorts of

proposals and detecting hidden meanings, t00. For that matter, under dictatorial government, the Communists, including those of the California C. I. O., seriously disapprove of strikes, a fact that is borne out by reference to the news from Russia, which has revealed no strike since the workers were liberated. It is only under capitalism that the workers enjoy the right to strike. Therefore, under Brother Owens of the Ham-'n’-Eggs plan, if he should do his stuff thoroughly and avoid weakness in his administration the California C. I. O. would have no reason to ask his recall. On the contrary they would be obliged to resist any movement to recall him.

Business By John T. Flynn 'Ham-and-Eggs' Shows No Limit on Things That Can Not Happ n Flere.

TEW YORK, Nov. T—It is getting to be a very serious question what the limit is on the things that “cannot happen here.” As yet the pension plum schemes have not managed to get on the statute books. But the number and audacity of such schemes continues to expand. : And what is’more remarkable is the audacity of those who propose them., ' °.- p Out in California. today the voters are being asked once more to pass on the “ham and eggs” scheme for $30 every ‘Thursday. And this is $30 every Thursday for everybody over 50. As one argument is that this is going to add to the prosperity of California, it is not at all improbable that someone will presently suggest that the prosperity of the state can be still further enhanced by giving ham and eggs to everyone over: 40. But the chief feature of this proposed plan is its’ arrangement for the naming of its own leaders as the - official ‘state dictators of the plan after it is adopted. For unadulterated cheek nothing in American political

‘history equals this.

If the pPoposal is adopted by the voters this approval will include a clause in the law which requires that the administrator of the system must be “either Roy G. Owens, residing at 139 N. Oxford St., Los Angeles, or Will H. Kindig, residing at 4125 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles.” There will be no election as no one is or can run against them. And they will have put into their hands under the law powers which amount almost to a dictatorship over labor, industry and the

Government. :

Maybe It Would Be Helpful

Of course this has not yet been adopted into law. But the state has voted into power a Governor and & United States Senator on this proposition. And some of the most powerful organizations in the state have either declared for it, or have feared to declare against it. ro

The whole drift of the times is toward this kind of

thing, It is as inevitable as time, Either men of sense’

must find a way out of the depression by sound means or men of no sense—quacks—will lead the people out of it on the wings of some crazy economic bird of prey. At first we started out with a demand for pensions for people of 70. That'was soon reduced—and properly—to 65. Then it was cut to people of 60. Now the

Ham and Eggers have cut it to 50, . :

Perhaps the best thing that could happen to the

country would be the adoption of one of these schemes.

And if California wants to volunteer to: be the guinea pig—why, it ought to be all right with the other 47

states. But she is going to have to undergo a terrible

operation and she ought to know it in advance.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

HIS column has received a fing letter from May S. Young of Redwood City, Cal., which contains the following sentence: “The attitude that an intelligent

woman is too big to be wasted on mere home and |

family matters seems very stupid tome.” :

We'll agree that‘ when carried to extreme it is far | - :

from wise. And it lacks sense—why?. Because we profess to believe bringing up children is the most important work to be carried on in any good society. Certainly feminine ‘intelligence is best employed when occupied with the job, although we display equal stupidity if we assume that rearing children can be done

“It can’t. This is a task demanding the co-operation

| of men, and by;the same token the making of a world | decent enough for children to live in requires woman's |

assistance. All important: enterprises connected with

creating. & civilization are those which men and wom- |

en-together must share. The great:

women are expected to use their hearts and their inthe ethical foundation upon which the former stands

and the creeds those children are later forced to fol- |

‘low are created by men—and very often are ‘neither constructive nor sensible. : vi © It's all very well to shout that mothers must manage their homes intelligently, but what's to do when

those homes are constantly imperiled by the foolish | |”

antics of outsiders who seem bent upon destroying

everything that might give them permanent; security? |

:. It is more evident every day that the Christianized intelligence which every good mother tries'to use in the manag her home is badly needed

the management. of her hor places before we can feel confident W

On what grounds Owens could be. recalled it is dif-

vision forbids any interference with the administra-| : tion of the Ham-n’-Eggs plan, even by the courts; |

could not have averlooked the

Suble seems to lie in the fact that while | ces to make happy homes and useful citizens,’

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. x Sy ® : r= ’ The Hoosier Forum - oT I wholly disagree with what you say, but will ; defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,

THINKS WORLD LACKS ECONOMIC WISDOM By E. R. Egan : Critics of repeal of the arms embargo, in which “fools’ gold” is the pet phrase, are not convincing in their oratory, considering we have so much gold already here that might so be characterized—and more coming. By the same token, there does not seem to be much economic wisdom anywhere—as the World War, the Wall Street boom and depression, together with the possibility of another World War at hand, are convincing evidence. . . . From the post war loans which helped stabilize currencies and prevented social upheavals, to the tariffs we and other countries imposed and which’ operated’ to prevent any possible payment of either reparations or debts,; to the Wall Street boom and subsequent depression’ which drained funds all over the world and produced an enormous deflationary effect on every country with - its ‘exchange control,

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‘quotas, ‘etc., down to the present war

the effect has been to curtail commerce: drastically’ and thus reduce employment, : and all this despite the greatest hoards of gold in the history of the world. . .. This nation. with representatives of all races comes- the nearest to a practical political standard with the highest: degree of personal prosper ity and liberty. . . . - The turn of events, the acid test of political - economy, has vindicated these attempts which are in a fair way of hecoming a reality, not the least of which will be an equable distribution of resources and the encouragement of commerce without the destruction of every generation’s efforts and the unspeakable misery war entails.

® = = CLAIMS RIGHT TO STUDY

AND EMBRACE LEFT WING By Curious, Bloomington, Ind. I used to have a wrestling coach who was recognized as a World Champion. He stressed the importance of studying and being intimately familiar with all the science and tactics of an opponent that were possibly available. Un-American activities is a rather ambiguous phrase, It would be very interesting to me to know if Westbrook Pegler or. Martin Dies have ever read and studied the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. I doubt that they

have ever seen it. I have. There are|

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

no two ways about that thing; it comes right to the point. If I am to fight this extreme Left Wing stuff I want to “know all the holds” that dt expects to use. Upon becoming. intimately acquainted skilled wrestlers are usually friends. If I study pure Left Wing and agree with it who is going to call me unAmerican? That is my American privilege. Is Left Wing un-Amer-ican? : x ” » ” 1 SOUTHPORT READER ASKS SOME QUESTIONS By Paul Davis, Southport, Ind. Why ‘does’a - chicken cross. the road? ‘Why. does anybody join. the Masons, K..of C., Elks or any other lodge? ° Why are you sticking in your two cents? ‘Why doesn’t someone use your head for firewood? Why don’t the Board of Safety and other politicians pay fines for law violations? Why isn’t Quinn thrown out of office? Why don’t they toss the 2 per cent graft out? Why don’t you put this in the Forum?

” 2 » SYMPATHY EXPRESSED FOR “HELPLESS” RUSSIANS By Robert H. Tam ih

The mere thought of those 160 million peace loving, helpless Russians being threatened by anyone

moves me to pity. But for the mili-

thirsty, howling Finns to go bearing down upon Moscow, would be a terrific blow at civilization itself. In ‘all sincerity, I.suggest that President Roosevelt invite all the governments of the Western Hemisphere to join with him in addressing an appeal to the Finnish Government, imploring it, in the name of humanity, not to attack or violate the independence of the U. 8. 8. R. Such an appeal might just possibly bring the Russians to a full realization of the absurdity of a situation.” which they themselves have created. In any event it would serve as a pronouncement of worldwide opinion which could hardly be ignored. : ’ 2s . » » 2 WHY COMMUNISTS LOST A MEMBER By G. M, ' : I am a firm believer in the. general principles of communism, although I am not a member of the Communist Party, - I had intended joining the Communist Party until I learned that it had espoused the cause of the Townsend Old-Age Pension Plan. And that plan proposes to ‘continue the present capitalist system. : While I regard the present -capitalist system with its unrestricted private profits as the - curse of civilization and while I regard, the

a certain means of extinguishing any capitalist system, yet such is my aversion to deceit and hypocrisy that I would rather suffer defeat: than secure success by such devious and

underhanded means.

New Books at the Library

” I T is 2652 O. D. The Royal Society of Abyssinia has made a “find.” For while its scientists have been exploring the wastelands of that small island which once was England, they unearth a manuscript. This manuscript, the sole legacy of England and western civilization to this later world, comes to the new world as “a thin lonely cry of anguish from the gathering darkness of dying England.” . i In.Robert C. Sherriff’s new novel,

“The Hopkins Manuscript” (Macmil- s

in other doing the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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lan) we have the story of the death of western civilization as told by fussy, vain, snobbish Edgar Hopkins, a retired schoolmaster whose hobbies were poultry raising and amateur astronomy. The manuscript which he bequeaths to: the world tells how, through the pursuit of this latter hobby, he became aware of the impending disaster—that the moon was falling straight toward the earth, and that a disastrous collision ‘could’ not be averted. He tells of how, for months, the world feverishly pared for the catastrophe, and how, after all, the worst was averted, since the moon plunged into. the Atlantic Ocean, bringing in its wake nothing worse

* Ithan hurricanes, earthquakes, floods

and fires—and, most. important of all to Edgar Hopkins, the death of his prize hens. After the shock of these untoward events, the peoples of all the nations set to work bravely to rebuild civilization and to restore their homes. All went well until new and

‘lunexpected wealth was discovered Jin the fallen moon. And then, once

again, rose the old nationalist rivalries. England acquired a dictator; there came into being an English Corridor to agitate the nations; and diplomats once more went t their already familiar maneuvers.

4 The novel: is an exciting tale, * |amusing and ironical and thoughtful, with’ a rather surprising ending.

“NO WORRY, NO JOY ‘By JAMES D. ROTH Let your worries bring you joy, After trifles that annoy E Are dreams of yesterday. Sweet peace of afterwhile Brings succor and a smile - ‘That soothe your ills away.

DAILY THOUGHT Rejoice, Q ye nations, with His people; for ‘He will ‘avenge the blood of His servants, -and will

tary might of three million blood-|

Townseind Old-Age Pension Plan as|

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Says— . i ne New Neutrality Act : an Experiment “Worth Trying From “Humanitarian

EW YORK, Nov. 7.—The new Neutrality Act is an experiment. Only once before did any nation get off the ocean simply because it was unwilling to take the chance of having to maintain its clear legal rights

; by force, . :

- Its actual effect can’t be measured because there is no precedent except our own Embatgo Act of over a century ago. Those circumstances were so different and the actual effects are in so much dispute that they don’t tell us much. ; nt We were a very weak nation and both the British and French, at war with each other, had practically declared us off the ocean anyway. ‘The embargo enJoined our seaborne commerce when it meant much more to us relatively than it does now. It became so generally unpopular that it had to be repealed. The present project seems much more feasible but it remains to be seen what its effects will be, first upon us and second upon the outcome of the war in Europe, » ” » ; i

I= will take from us and give to our maritime rivals the bulk of our Atlantic carrying trade to Europe— 600,000 tons of shipping—the business of 90 to 100 Jreighters. .. This is more than the combined loss of shipping by submarine and other sinkings in the war to date. But it is not yet clear that this will all be loss. If submarine and air sinkings make any such havoc as the subs did with British shipping in the World War, freighters will become the bottlenecks of Allied defense, : What we lose in carrying to combat zones, we might gain by the transfer of British shipping from safer areas to the trans-Atlantic voyage. That might be gain to us from every angle, In view of the other advantages in the direction of keeping us out of war, it is well worth trying as well from the humanitarian angle as from the hard-boiled commercial gamble, The other goal for guessing is the effect of lifting the arms embargo on the actual military contest in Europe. Except for airplanes, we have no arms to sell, Considering explosives, there is not an inch of- existing manufacturing capacity that will not be needefl by our own armament program—and not an inch of reasonably possible expansion of capacity, . a

Ax our manufacturers are aggressively adverse to - any plant extension for war business—both because it is proved to be a bad commercial venture and because none wants again to be branded in the herd of “merchants of death.” " Except for airplanes we might as well count armament out. Maybe we have 800 war planes to ship now, Maybe we could step up production to 1000 a month, This could give the Allies the edge on their enemies— both in original equipment and in replacement—if they ean be delivered in Europe, ) 4 ny can, but a single sinking of a shi with planes could be a major rin This Hp la Sed stirred up a lot of talk about self-delivery of planes— flying the Atlantic. That's an interesting possibility, But there is nothing in the Pittman Act to prevent the Germans from buying our war planes for self-delivery, Did somebody overlook a bet?

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

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Story of the Harvard Murphys and One Who Didn't Need a Scholarship.

EW YORK, Nov. 7—My eye was arrested by the somewhat setartling headline “Harvard Murphys Get $360 Each.” It made me wonder whether Presie dent Conant had thought better of the Ivy pact to play only students on the football field. But ‘the dispatch, seemingly, bore no: hints of- any reaching after men of brawn. The story simply said that in 1916 a certain William Stanislaus Murphy of the Class of 85 had established an annual scholar ship for Harvard Murphys. Seemingly only five: are eligible at the moment, and one of them is a Murphey, which should not count at all. ; : However, the gift merely says the money is to

go for “the collegiate education of men of the name of Murphy.” Seemingly, all Murphys look alike to the authorities at Cambridge, no matter how they slice the name. It is a curious sort of scholarship, and if I were a Murphy I think I might resent it. No: ‘Murphy needs: a handpicked education, an ap‘pointed college or any other special favors what soever. ° As a matter of fact, in my day along the Charles my closest friend was named Lambert Murphy. Of course, we called him Pete. Lambert needed no help from any Stanislaus, but went through under his own steam. Nor was he ever in the red while at.Harvard, on account of a good singing voice and the fact that he was the luckiest Murphy who ever drew to-an inside straight. As a matter of fact, I imagine he would have scoffed at any such niggling subsidy as $360. On nights when he. could manage to work in both a concert and a poker: game he cleared more than that ina single evening. -

He Loved His Art

Pete loved his art, and even when he was at the Met he found that his singing job took him away from the game only for short stretches at a time, His favorite role was that of the Voice of a Sailor, , which, I believe, is a character in Tristan and Isolde. The part is spotted very well, since it comes around 8 o'clock, at the very ning and is sung offstage, The -standing joke: was to say to Pete as he left the nice cool gambling dive, “Don’t forget. when you get on the stage that you need Jacks to open.” As a matter of fact, he didn’t have to go on the stage, don sail pants or pencil his eyebrows. They just boosted him up on top of a& stepladder, where he emitted a few piercing notes and returned breathless to say, “I'll play these.” The last time I saw him was in a parlor car, and he told me he was teaching. But whether it was poker or singing he didn’t say. At any rate, he seemed to be doing all right. "The Murphys gene erally do.

By Jane Stafford Ni

T= way to vaccinate against tuberculosis, to . protect people from it, to checke-the spread of the disease and prevent tuberculosis deaths is by ‘education, Dr. Kendall Emerson, managing director of the National Tuberculosis Association, recently

stamp out the white plague, . When the slender, rod-shaped germ called the tubercle bacillus was discovered to' be the cause of the disease, great hope was. aroused that a vaccine could be made comparable to the. vaccine that pro

have not yet succeeded to the point where health

| authorities recommend use cf any of the preparations. - The discovery. thai tuberculosis. is caused by a

germ which can be found in the patient's sputum and seen under the- microscope did, however, give ‘medical scientists knowledge with which: to fight the spread of the disease. They know todf 4 ‘keep: tuberculosis patients from Spreading the to healthy persons, the opread o hy ; . ‘are doing this by teaching the fact pat I by education is thus protecting the patient’s family and associates. No single medicine has been discovered which will cure tuberculosis. Yet ‘proper 4reatment, with rest, imes- surgical operations, is

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