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Congress and their wives. Tea will be
served in the garden, weather permit
ting.
Representative and Mrs. John J.
Dockweiler of Los Angeles entertained
at the dinner dance last evening at the
Shoreham in honor of their house
guests, Mr.. and Mrs Hooper D. Churchill
and Mrs. William K. Young. sister of
Representative Dockweiler, all of Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall. widow
OF the late Vice President, will be the
guest in whose honor Mrs. Edwards
Shouse will entertain at tea tomorrow
afternoon.
Mrs. Marshall will be the guest of
honor at supper this evening of Mrs.
Daniel C. Stapleton.
Mrs William N. Doak. wife Of the
former Secretary of Labor, will enter
tain at tea tomorrow afternoon, when
her guests will be the group of women
interested in the new farm Women's
activities movement.
DR.. and Mrs. James Alexander Lyon
will entertain about 60 of their close
friends at a dinner this evening in
celebration of their tenth wedding an
niversary. Characteristic of Mrs. Lyon,
who Is generously endowed with orig
inality, many novel and unique features
have been included in the arrange
ments for the event.
Mrs. Robert E. Lee was hostess at
dinner last evening at the Chevy Chase
Club, entertaining in compliment to
Count de Blackmere.
Rippon Lodge, the charming estate
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis, ~ miles
from Washington on the Richmond
Highway. was the setting for a delight
ful alfresco reception yesterday, when
the guests were members of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society of Washington, of
which Mr.. Ellis is president.
This afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis
Will entertain informally at tea at Rip
pom Lodge.
Prof. and Mrs. Thornton Jett enter
tanned at party Wednesday evening
at the Showcase on Connecticut ave-
nue., in celebration of Mrs. Frank
Ontrich'S birthday anniversary. A pro-
gram OF music was given by an orches-
ira, Mr.. Ted Stanford conducting. and
Mr.. Wilmer Jett sang, accompanied by
the orchestra. The table had an at
tractive arrangement of flowers, and a
huge cake in the center with green and
white decorations.
Among the other guests were Mr.. Frank
Ontrich, Mr.. and Mrs. Mccarthy, Mr..
and Mrs. Higgins, DR.. and Mrs. Robert
Fain, Mrs. Cumberland, Mrs. Lula
Ward, Miss Evelyn Logan, Miss Evelyn
Remsen, Miss Elise England. Miss May
Wheeler, Miss Ida Ruth Wheeler, Miss
Marcia L. Lindler. Mr.. Haswood Creek
more, Mr.. Floyd Smith, Mr.. Frank
Fitzsimmons. Mr.. Jack Needs, Mr..
William Allen, Mr.. Ralph Weeks, Mr..
Howard Mortors and Mr.. Milton G.
Jett, son Of the host and hostess.
Miss Pauline Yates Long has as her
guest for the week end Mrs. Lingurn
Hinde Burkhead of Baltimore, Md. Miss
Long entertained at the Political Study
Club Breakfast for her guest and had
in the party Miss Marguerite Atchiscn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-05
THE RED MENACE"

IF you're inclined to worry about the danger
of Communism in this country, you might
consider the following rather significant fact
In Cleveland, typical American manu-
featuring city which has suffered from the
depression about as much as any place has,
the Communists made big plans for May
day celebration. They climaxed their celebra-
ton with parade and lot of speeches.
About 1900 people marched in their pa
rade; between 5000 and 5000 came to hear the
speeches.
AT the same hour in the same city there
was an American League baseball game-just
a run-of-mine game one Of the 154 OF the
regular season. 1t drew some 5000 fans
through the turnstiles
When an ordinary ball game can draw as
we'll as Red May day demonstration-in an
industrial city hit by four years of depression
the country isn't in any very great danger
of going Communist
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-05
SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES

THE present moment is an excellent time
for all of us to keep in mind the re-
mark with which Mr.. Roosevelt stepped into
the White House-that the only thing we
really have to fear these days is fear itself
On the surface, the state of the nation
right now is ominous enough to scare almost
any one. Both the domestic and foreign hori-
IONS are dark with clouds Any man who
wanted to argue that the end of all things
was about at hand could find plenty of ma
terial for his thesis
But it would be very easy for us to con-
centrate on our troubles so thoroughly that we
failed to see how much real progress actually
has been made.
Banks may be reopened at much slower
rate than We had hoped but the dreadful era
of doubt and uncertainty at least is passed
and the banking problem today is not so much
matter of stopping a slide downhill as of
accelerating climb upward
Unemployment and factory production fig
ures still may be distressingly low; but such
basic industries as steel and automobile
manufacturing are showing better than sea-
Sonal up-trends, and there are signs that the
rise In commodity and security prices are not
entirely due to the talk of imitation.
The turmoil in Iowa testifies abundantly
that agricultural discomfort is still with us:
but farm prices have turned upward, and the
purchasing power of the farmer has been in
creaSing ever since the middle of the winter
The pendulum swings slowly, of course
The effects of four years of disaster can not
be wiped out overnight. But there are good
reasons for believing that the swing back in
the right direction actually has commenced,
and that if We are not yet out of the woods,
at least We are getting to the point where a
little more sunlight filters down through the
branches overhead
If we can just keep from getting jittery we
ought to make out all right. There is no
sense of course, in denying that some things
look very diScomforting.
But unless we permit ourselves to get
scared out of our senses, we ought to be able
to find the right road and stay on it.
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NJ.

CONGRESS is not abdicating but merely
~ granting the President power to meet
emergencies as, if and when they arise.
Such action is necessary to meet an uncer-
tain and constantly changing situation
The government must be clothed with au-
thority to act quickly and effectively In no
other way can it protect public interest, either
from the moves and demands of foreign nations.
or from manipulated trade and finance at home.
The idea that congress should set up rigid
rules for accomplishing this or that particular
purpose to display its stuff is ridiculous.
There comes time when the various de-
partments of this government must yield to the
necessity of cooperation
In war we do not quarrel about granting the
President unusual power. 1t is taken for granted
that armed efficiency calls for unified control
and flexibility of movement
The present emergency is akin to war AS a
matter of record, it already has caused the
American people greater losses than the World
war. Furthermore it has been aggravated by
adverse action on the part of other countries
such as arbitrary depreciation of money, the
boosting of tariffs and limitation of trade by
various means
THE President is trying to arrange certain
Il agreements whereby the general situation
will be eased. He can not do this successfully
without bargain and compromise. He can not
bargain and compromise effectively if his hands
are tied.
He must have power to take drastic meas
ures, and he must be given it in such way that
those who sit across the table know that he
has it.
The thought that our chief executive couldn't
do very much without referring everything to
congress- and that congress could be influenced
by clever propaganda has played an important
part in all this European Stalling, hedging and
maneuvering
France, England, and other European coun-
tries have proceeded on the assumption that no
matter how brazenly they undermined our mar
kets abroad by cheapening their money, we could
be depended on to stand pat, because the PreSi-
dent could not do much by way of retaliation
and congress would not
ERENCH leaders profess to be terribly unset
l. by our temporary abandonment of the gold
standard proclaiming that France will stay
with it, regardless
That's only some more sophistry The gold
content of the franc is only one-f1fth of what
it formerly was. which makes the President S
power to lower that of the dollar bv no more
than one-half look rather mild
1t may be necessary for the President to
exercise that power in full to bring European
governments into accord. On the other hand, it
may be possible for him to make only partial use
of it.
He should be left free to use his discretion
when the time for action arrives. No one wants
to go further than the exigency requires.
No one can tell how far that will be- Under
such circumstances, congress is doing the nation
real service in granting the President adequate
authority.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-05
SPIRIT OF THE NAVY

WHATEVER may be said about the dirigi-
bles used by the United States navy
there doesn't seem to be anything in particu
lar wrong with the young men who make up
their crews.
Moody E. Erwin, one of the Akrons three
survivors, went to his home in Memphis
Tenn, for months furlough not long ago
Reporters naturally enough, asked him a lot
OF questions about his experience: among
other things they asked him if he had been
scared by the crash.
'Scared?" he replied. Were you ever in
an auto crash? Did you have time to get
scared? Did it get my nerve? Say, man,
that's what the navy's for. It takes nerves
out of you'
And so, in line with this talk. the voyng
sailor already has applied for assignment to
the crew of the new Macon.
Ii that sort of spirit is general the navy
yet may make go of it's big dirigibles.
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Science Gains Despite World Depression
by DAVID DIETZ .

effect that the sound Of each in
strument seemed to originate on
the stage in Washington at spot
corresponding exactly to the actual
seat of each particular musician in
Philadelphia.
1t was possible for Leopold Sto-
kowski, conductor of the orchestra,
by turning the application con-
trolls in his box in the Washington
auditorium to increase the sound of
the orchestra until it sounded like
twenty orchestras all in one and
until the roll of the kettle drums
sounded like a salute fired by a
battleship.
The concert was a dramatic dem
onstration of the fact that there
is no depression in scientific ad-
vance.
While the world is battling to
stave off economic chaos, science is
moving forward at the greatest
speed it has ever attained in the
history Of civilization,
Despite the fact that laboratories
in all parts of the world have felt
the economic depression and are
working on curtailed funds, the adj
vance of science is going on just
the same.
A good example of this is the
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LITTLE RHODY

A MOTHER thing to add to Mays new
"A tangled mirth is the news from Rhode
Island
Little Rhody last Monday elected delegates
to its May repeal convention. Its voters fair
IL shouted for repeal by electing wet delegates
in a seven TO one landslide.
S The Rhode Island election was significant
in the fervency of the fight staged by the drys.
In more than 100 churches on Sunday, minis
ters argued for the dry ticket. They charged
that the legislature, in legalizing the beer
saloon, had betrayed the public. The public
took its betrayal manfully.
) This Rhode Island dry army apparently
was mostly generals condition that seems to
he common TO the prohibition legions in all
the states In Indianapolis recently, the Rev.
William r. Bell told Methodist district con-
ference that congregations are refusing to fol-
low the pastors into the dry battles.
~ "Ow church is not with us" he said. We
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-05
A BUSINESS MAN SEES LIGHT

IMITATION, farm relief. mortgage reduction,
banking control and the like are common
dable, but they are likely to fail miserably
unless they become integral parts of compre-
hensive scheme of social planning.
Our present complicated urban and in
dustrial world order can not exist without
planning. Either capitalism must plan or
Socialism will step in to pick up the pieces
and apply the plan
Scholars and theorists already have become
converted to planning in large numbers, but
it is desirable that such proposals also come
from practical business leaders.
Hence, we may with satisfaction call at
tenton to the article on Planning for Pur-
chasing Power" by Samuel S. Fels in the Sur
vey Graphic.
Fels takes as his point of departure the all
important fact long emphasized by Prof.
Simon N. Patten namely, that in the last
four or five hundred years, civilization has
passed from a deficit to surplus economy.
1t no longer is question of producing
enough to meet our elementary needs, but
IdIIleI one Ol distributing
While recognizing the justice of the meas
ure, FEELS makes it clear that mere negative
attack upon greedy capitalists through higher
income taxes will not solve our problems.
The only way out is intelligent planning
This requires, first of all, definite conception
of purpose and goal Fels is clear upon this
point.
More work and higher wages; balanced
production and new security for earnings and
the providing power they stand for; expanded
consumption and higher standards of living;
a real share in the fortunes of America for
the rank and file of our people, and their
participation in the business of bringing such
things about-theSe to my mind should be the
practical detectives of planning
FelS would establish federal trade sys-
tenn, presided over by seven outstanding men.
This board of seven would segregate and or
ganize each of the major industrial operations
of the country in an association called guild.
First task of this board would be that of
investigation. 1t also would make the widest
use of publicity, exposing corporations whose
operation is characterized by excessive profits,
high prices, and low wages. 1t would control
working time, with the aim of reducing the
working period without corresponding reduc-
tions in earnings.
1t would formulate and enforce minimum
wage laws 1t would regulate profits, keeping
them at a point which would assure an ade-
quate fund for high wages and permanent
purchasing power.
Speculative enterprise would be eliminated
in those products which are unmistakable
essentials of human life.
good principal to follow would be that
introduced by Justice BrandeiS into the MaSsa-
chusetts law governing public service corpora
lions; namely that dividends can go up only
when rates to consumers go down.
The main point upon which Fels seems
lamentably out of touch with reality is his
personnel of such a governing board for in
dustry. He mentions the name of some men
who have played conspicuous part in cutting
our economic order
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-05
OUR GOLD AND OUR WAR DEBTS

COLD bonds outstanding in the United
~ States total in round numbers Sc billions,
divided as follows:
Domestic corporations, At billions
Federal 81
State, county, municipal, 10.
All the gold in the world is IL billions.
Obviously So can't be paid with IL, even if
we had all the gold, which we don't.
War debts, likewise, are payable in gold.
But they, too amount to more than all the
sold.
The restrictions on gold, with which we are
all becoming familiar through personal expert
ence and observation, are teaching us lesson,
especially those who are holders of gold bonds
and who now for the first time are reading
what the fine type says
The lesson is that the war debt question
involves something more than they hired the
money. didn't they?"
The bondholder is discovering that, so far
as what is written in his bond is concerned,
his position is very similar to that of the ma
ton toward It's foreign debtors. If all the gold
bondholders insist on gold, there just isn't
enough to go around. And that's all there is
to it,
8 SO long as the United States called for gold
according to the letter of the contract mora
toria or reputation was the only answer
merely matter of figures.
Only as means of payment other than
gold are considered can settlement be reached.
That goes for war debts. domestic debts. or
any other form of debt, for the simple and in
escapable and mathematical reason that you
can't get blood out of a turnip.
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second polar year." now in prog
ress. The nations of the world find
themselves divided upon many DO
litical and economic issues. War
clouds hung over half -dozen areas.
But the scientists of the world
are in agreement upon this impor-
tant cooperative study of weather
conditions, the earth's magnetism.
the effect of solar radiation, cosmic
rays and other influences upon the
earth, and related subjects.
In the opinion of many observers.
the big need of the world today is
for the social sciences to catch I'D
to the physical sciences.
And many scientists, turning from
their own specialties to view the al
fairs of the world at large. are hop
ing that the same courage, toler-
ance and unselfishness which makes
possible the progress of science can
be brought to bear upon social af-
fairs.
They hope that the world can
achieve the same sort of co-opera-
ton to prevent wars that is achieved
by the scientists OF the different ma
tons when they unite their efforts
to track down a disease germ, iso-
late new chemical element, or
analyze the effect of the moons
gravitationa pull upon the earth.
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FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1888.
THE PRESIDENTS DECLARATION
q sCRIPPs-HOWARD NEMsPAPER1

i
THE PRESIDENT told the United States
Chamber of Commerce Thursday night
what is wrong with the country 1t is lack of
mass purchasing power We can not climb out
OF the depression until buying power begins to
Eow again through pay rolls
1t is not only a question of justice for labor.
1t is the need Of industry for market
Now that initiation is in sight and commod-
ity prices have started to rise the wage prob
lem is more serious than ever
Past experience indicates that when the
price level begins to rise after a long period Of
declining commodity prices, wages which have
been curtailed previously lag behind the rise in
the price level" the President pointed out.
That result has IN the past imposed upon
those who labor an unfair burden; has pre-
vented their just and equitable share in the
profits of industry, and has limited the pur-
chasing power of the overwhelming majority
of our population"
3 Therefore, the President appealed to the
business leaders ito increase your wage scales
In conformity with and simultaneous with the
rise in the level of commodity prices in SO far
as this lies within your power"
But there is the rub 1t is not within the
power of the average employer to increase
wages without going bankrupt. The reason is
sweatshop NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in all in
dustrles.
The majority of employers are powerless
because of the short-sighted and INSCRIPTIONS
minority which destroys more purchasing
power by cutting low wages lower.
Only the federal government can save in
dustry can protect the majority of employers
from the minority. At least this is recognized
by many business leaders-men like President
Hartman of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr..
Litchfeld of the Goodyear company, and Mr.
Teagle of Standard Oil.
Here is the heart of the Roosevelt program.
The President did not stop with mere appeals
TO employers for higher wages-appeals which
they alone are powerleSS to answer. He def
nitely pledged to them Thursday night that
the government would help to stop this unfair
competition.
Il can assure YOU" he promised, that you
will have the cooperation of your government
in bringing these minorities to understand that
their unfair practices are contrary to sound
public policy"
To this end the President and secretary of
labor are fighting for the short and mini
mum-wage bill now in a house committee. To
this general principle the administration is
fundamentally committed
Whether in the specific form of this par
ticular bill, or some other the administration
knows that such a measure is necessary to save
industry from the pirates, to save labor from
coole wages or no wages, to restore mass buy
ing power. The alternative is deeper depression.
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Blood BOiIs

BY NJ E. C.
XXTHEN I read the first letter
w written by Taxpayer of
April a." I fairly boiled. In fact,
I boiled so hard 1 couldn't think
of anything to say that properly
would express my opinion of him
and to think he had the nerve to
write the second one.
I think the letter written by r.
w. Patterson expresses about the
nearest correct description of such
a thing, for it hardly coulc be a
human being. 1t certainly doesn't
have any conscience, feelings, or
anything of that sort. If it did,
it surely couldn't have ventured
out again after the roasting it
has already received.
AS to his statement that a dirty
neck is the badge of the unthrifty,
again, 1 say, it couldn't be human.
My husband has been out of en-
ployment for almost two years
and if his neck has been dirty at
times it certainly wasn't because
he didn't try to get the money to
buy soap to wash it. During
these two years he has made a
living for the four of us without
help from any relief organization.
If Taxpayer had been laid off
from work with as little cash on
hand as my husband-and I'll Ger
tainly say it wasn't much-could
he have done as we'll?
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THE world is in a race between
l. education and destruction. Time
and again during the last two weeks
I was reminded of that sentence,
first used by H. G. Wells shortly
after the World war.
1t occurred to me last week in
Philadelphia, as world famous sci
entistS gathered there for the an
nual meeting of the nations oldest
scientific organization, the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society.
I thought of it again this week in
Washington as more scientists gath
cred for the meetings of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences, the
American Geophysical Union, and
other scientific bodies.
Wells description of the state of
the world came to me with particu-
lar force during the demonstration
at Constitution hall here when an
audience which crowded the audi
forum heard the Philadelphia SYM
phony orchestra playing in Phila-
delphia.
At that moment, the triumphs
and powers of modern science stood
forth with particular emphasis.
Not only did the music come forth
from the loud speakers on the stage
with exceptional clarity and fidelity,
but with so 2 arked directional