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senting vote. A new deaP was expected from
President Roosevelt Nothing Of the sort
came. Essentially the same conditions pro-
viding for American financial dominion in the
interest Of American investment bankers, were
embodied in an executive agreement. In this
form it did not need to be submitted to the
Haitian congress. It could be signed by the
minister of foreign affairs.
The financial clauses virtually are identi-
cal with those Of the rejected treaty. They
provide that a fiscal representative, who
doubtless will be the same one now in control
Of Haitian finances with employees and assist
ants not to exceed eighteen, shall have con-
troll Of the customs service. Again the service
on the loan is the first charge. Again the ex-
penses Of the American collectors become the
second charge. Again Haitian affairs come
last. Again the government Of Haiti is forbid
den to reduce its tariff or modify it's taxes
without the consent of the fiscal represent
tative"
It has been stated that State Secretary
Hull has not favored the investment bankers
in his policies. President Roosevelt certainly
has encouraged the exposure Of their methods
in our domestic economy. Therefore, Mr..
Herring is quite logical when, in commenting
upon our recent policy in Haiti, he says:
ct is amazing to see the administration
that repeatedly has denounced the money
changers playing the game of the National
City bank and it's hondholders in this help
less country At home the United States SEN
ate, presumably with the consent of the adj
ministration, is disclosing how the bankers
have mulcted the American people. New legis-
lation is designed to prevent more of the same
kind of footing. But in Haiti nothing is
changed. The chicanery of the past is re-
enacted soemnly. That say the Haitians Is
all the new deal amounts to-"
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CHRISTMAS SEALS

NEEDLESS suffering and death is probably
the most cruel thing in our existence.
That is why the annual appeal for funds
with which to fight tuberculosis tugs at so
many heartstrings. For tuberculosis can be
fought Well established means of prevention
have been worked out and also means of ar
resting the disease in its earlier stages. If the
appeal is disregarded and thousands of chill
dren waste away for lack of little care it is
we who must bear the responsibility now, not
providence or fate.
berculosis never has been greater than at this
time when lack of proper food has weakened
the resistance Of so many persons.
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TUESDAY. DEC. 10. 1888.
COMPANY UNIONS

EHRIENDS Of ordered industry will watch
with interest the court contest between
the national labor board and the Weirton
Steel Company testing the governments right
to supervise an election in which the workers
choose between a union and a company union.
The issue is fundamental to the purpose Of
the recovery act. The core of the MIRA phil
osophy is that free industry and free labor,
with the help of government, shall cooperate
in the creation Of a planned, decent and in
telligent industrial order.
Section IA Of the law states that labor may
choose its own spokesman unfettered by COM
pany domination.
New figures gathered by the national in
dustral conference board indicate how I'M
founded are the cries of employers that union
labor is lettering industry. Studies of 1914
manufacturing and mining concerns, employ
ing 1855, TAO wage earners reveal that 45.7 per
cent of the workers still deal with their en-
ployers individually; 45 per cent through COM
pany plans for employe representation only
e.3 per cent through labor unions.
That the recovery act has failed to stinu-
late labor unionization as much company
unions is shown also by the report Of 400 en-
ploye representation plans formed since June
10, 1888, and only 174 union labor agreements.
Employers eager to speed recovery by real
cooperation between capital and labor will
hope for victory Of the labor board in the
Weirton case and better showing from labor
unionismein the nation.
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Tor the second time since depression gripped
= the world, Italy will be subjected to a
sweeping reduction of prices and wages. This
is made necessary by the slump in export trade,
according to Mussolini and his advisers They
find it impossible to compete with countries
which have deprecated money or abandoned the
gold standard. Instead of joining the imitation
parade, however, they propose to go to the other
extreme.
Every person under the Fascist government
will be affected directly or indirectly. Rents will
be cut as well as wages, and the price of cleo
tricity as we'll as that of food and clothing
While the rest of the world puts money down
in order to put wages and prices up, Mussolini
puts wages and prices down in order to keep
money up
There is not a great deal of difference be-
tween these two methods as they affect con-
ditions within country Provided the average
earning capacity exceeds the average expense
for those necessities and IuxurieS which go with
a reasonably high living standard the theoretical
value Of money is Of no great consequence.
DUT it is no longer possible to rely on con-
~ dtions within country. International
trade has come to play vital part in the lives
of all civilized people. Economic policies can
not be framed on the theory Of isolation with
People dwelling in a country where wages
are low and money is high might get along all
right with regard to purely domestic needs.
When they undertake to travel or buy things
abroad however, they find that their surplus
does not mean much.
People dwelling in a country where wages are
high and money is low enjoy a distinct adj
vantage when it comes to buying things or
travelling abroad, while they are under no dis
advantage in the export trade.
4 MOTHER thing: Low wages and high
n money tend to depress the living standard,
while high wages and low money tend to elevate
it, more because of the psychological effect than
from anything we can prove mathematically.
Mussolini's program is the antithesis of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's program. The question Of which
is better would lend itself to a more evenly
balanced argument if Mussolini had not been ex-
perimenting with his hypothesis for more than
three years.
His first attempt to build up Ttaly's export
trade through a general wage and price reduc-
ton, was made in 1880. 1t didn't work. If it
had. he would not be trying it again. Italy's
export trade has shown a marked decline, espec-
ialy during the last twelve months.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
STRONG WOMEN

XX7ELL the strong woman WINS Might
w makes right-or at least votes Brains
are nice to have. Of course. That is, If there's
a treaty to be drawn up or a new law TO be
enacted But when it comes down to the real
business of government that of conducting
bigger and better wars. nothing can compare
with a strong right arml
At least that is the attitude which the Nazis
are adopting. They have had their doubts
about women all along. But they couldn't
deliberately take the vote away from them.
Women are smart you see They used their
mental powers to wrest the suffrage from the
dominating male element. There was chance
that they might exert mental power to keep
the ground they had won.
But German men are little smarter, Wen
have to admit, than the fraus and the frau
leins. They held meeting. They began
plans to abolish woman suffrage by limiting
the vote to the persons who bear arms.
Cripples old men, and women are nicely re-
moved from the polls. Anybody who can't
fight can't vote. It's gun for a ballot along
the German Rhine.
But if a woman is a strong woman-if her
strength is as the strength of ten because she
has developed her arms over the washboard
or behind the plow-and she wants to go
to war and shoot at other women's husbands,
weIl-we wonder what the third reich will do
about it.
Yes, it would seem that modern women had
better look to their shooting. Their political
equality depends on their technique with arms.
If they can't pull the trigger, they can't cast
ballot.
1t has taken centuries for women to reach
the stage where men recognize their thinking
prowess. Now, when the gentlemen are finally
convinced that women are mentally capable of
doing more than ordering the milk for break
fast and the children'S wooden underwear, the
privilege is being taken away because the
women aren't strong enough physically
1t is pathetically astounding that women
must take step backward because their hus-
bands and fathers have taken dozen steps
in the medieval direction Physical force has
little to do with the great battles of the world.
1t doesn't paint pictures write books or
sonatas, or send tall buildings starward
Women have made contributions to the cul-
tural and humanitarian sides of life. But be-
cause Iney cant nIC SIedge MANNERS ana near
the bell when the blow comes down, they
aren't worthy of voting in the land of the
liverwurst. But a moron, who gets four when
he adds two and three, may make laws-for
he can carry gun!
There are foul means and fair of accom-
plishing good and i'll in the world. If the
Nazis want to keep their women out of poll
tics, why don't they admit that they are walk
ing backward and let it go?
The roundabout means of basing the vote
on the arms is rather juvenile. Unless, of
course, they thought that the women couldn't
see through it. Then, too, there is a fallacy
Weak men are out, and strong women are in!
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HAITI AND MONTEVIDEO

IF Haiti is represented intellgently at the
u Seventh Pan-American Congress now as
sembled at Montevideo, it can make the oc-
casion rather embarrassing for State Secretary
Hull.
The Roosevelt administration announced a
"new deal" with respect to our Imperialism
In Latin America comparable to the new deal
which it proposes for American induStrialism.
In many cases, the President has made good
his pretention. Particularly has this been so
in his policy with regard to Cuba and in his
part in forwarding the exposure of the inter-
national bankers who played the dominant
role in our Latin American financial penetra-
ton
IN Haiti however, the administration has,
consciously or not, perpetuated without any
notable change one of the most indefensible
examples of American imperialism in Latin
America.
1t might have been expected that Haiti
would have been one of the first places in
which the Roosevelt administration would
have applied it's new deal in foreign policy.
The constitution of Haiti, which was forced
upon the island by the United States in 1917,
was drawn up under the direction of President
Roosevelt, who was at that time an imperial
istically inclined assistant secretary Of the
navy.
1t would have been supposed that he would
move with special celebrity in the effort to undo
the damage associated with his activities in
the period when he entertained opinions on
our foreign policy quite different from those
which he has enunciated during the last year.
This has not, however, been the case. There
Is an excellent summary of the Roosevelt pol
icy in Haiti to date in a report by Hubert
Herring in the Nation. Mr.. Herring is one
OF our leading authorities on Latin America
and stopped in Haiti on his way to Monte
video Therefore, his account is both authori
tative and thoroughly up-to-date.
Every effort was made to induce President
Hoover to terminate the American military
and financial occupation of Haiti. But it was
unsuccessful In 1882, Mr. Hoover submitted
Q new treaty to Haiti 1t made show of
concessions to Haiti in providing that the
marines should be withdrawn in 1886. But,
according to the treaty of 1916, they had no
right TO stay beyond May /. 1886 The Hoover
treaty Q6IndIlOSQ IldG the American
financial control be extended during the life
of the National City Bank loan, namely until
1852:
For that period, according to this new
treaty, American officials would collect the
customs and internal revenues making the
service of the loan the first charge and their
own expenses of salaries and supervision the
next Haiti and its interests, its schools its
government salaries its national lfe-these all
came after.
During the life Of the loan the treaty pro-
vided that American officials appointed by the
President of the United States should have
control of the budget. Moreover. Haiti could
not modify its taxes or tariff without the
permission Of the American financial control
Indignation reached a new high pitch in
Haiti.
when the Haitian congress met 1t re-
jected thu Hoover treaty without single dis
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A YOUNG lady from Santa Fe
N sends word that even though
this column considers nobody a
bore there are plenty Of bores in
her neck Of the woods. Gracious
sakes, and that's where all the poets
and artists hang out. too!
So mad she almost sputterS, this
girl filings in my face woman she
knows who is always talking about
her operation. Does that woman
live down there, too? I thought her
home was up my street. I suspect
she is omnipresent and lives Just
around the corner from all of us.
1t is a nuisance to have to hear
about that operation, especially
since all the rest Of us are just
aching to talk about our own oper-
atoms, or cur automobiles, or our
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= q
Freedom of the Press

IT'S there any other qualification
i which a man must prove be-
yond his ability to support a paper
financially in order to enjoy the
freedom of the press in your coun-
try?"
I have been quoting him not lit
orally, you understand, but in sub
stance.
About that time the phone rang
and it was Rome on the wire with
the Instructions to tbs Journalists
in chains in the Neapolitan dun
geon. The editor clapped a head
set over his ears and took the sched-
ule down. Then he put his pages
together There IVES surprisingly
little stuff to be dumped into the
hell box for his experience under
censorship had taught him just
about what he might use and what
he mightn't.
We went around the corner to a
little al-night place for sandwiches
and wine and my friend, with leer
on his mouth which I tell you was
almost personal, raised his glass to
me and said, Come, my colleague.
Drink. The freedom of the press"
copyright, 1888 by United Features
syndicate, Incl
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10, 1893
Fair
Enough
by wEsTBRooK PEGLER-

A COUPLE Of years ago I hap
L n pened to be in Naples. No,
that's not honest.
I didn't happen to be in Naples.
got to Naples after a lot of saw
ing and planning and, on my first
night in town. being something Of
a hack-driver and a visiting fireman
at heart. went around to the office
Of the morning paper TO meet thu
journalists and talk a little shop.
For a city Of such size the news
paper plant was a grubby little den,
equipped with primitive and rickety
machinery. But would not dwell
on that for beautiful buildings and
expensive apparatus might be bought
with the wages Of sin, and rags are
royal raiment under certain condi-
tons.
The journalists around the shop
seemed TO be waiting for something
and when I asked them why they
didn't sing out to the printers to
take it away, they said they hadn't
yet received their wire from Rome
telling them just what pieces they
were to play that morning and
which to throw away and what to
use on page one and under what
sort Of heads.
7 exclaimed, What" meaning. Of
course, to strut before these fettered
slaves the freedom which We enjoy
in the newspaper business in this
country, and one editor said sure,
that in Italy the press was edited
and censored entirely out of Rome.
And that any editor who felt an at
tack of journalistic independence
and ran a story or refused to run
one contrary to Instructions would,
to phrase it in AmericaneSe, get
slapped in the boob for a term of
wears
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The OWner'S Right

NON-r you nave any censorship
~ at all in the United States?"
he asked, and 1 said, carelessly and
with perhaps a tone of superiority,
mo. they wouldn't stand for that in
the United States"
But the owner of the paper, :"
said my friend the Italian journal
iSt, HE can order the editor to leave
articles out of the paper can't he?
Or he can order the editor to pub
fish certain article if he wants it
printed, I suppose"
"Oh, sure" I said. THE owner is
the owner He can print what he
wants in his own paper"
Il don't suppose though" the
Italian said. that an owner of a
newspaper would ever wish to pub
lish an article or suppress one for
some reason of his own, would he?
If he happened to be in favor of
some law or some policy of the gov
eminent which happened to favor
some property in which he was in
terested financially, he wouldn't
permit that fact to affect his news
! Judgment would he?
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I'VE have a bore" Because, after all,
the intellectual is as great a bore
to a moron as a moron could ever
be to an intellectual.
Hence it strikes me that the
woman who talks too much about
her children, for instance, only is
behaving like a human being and is
breaking no particular rule OF eti-
quette since she perpetually will be
lencountering other people who will
want to talk TO her about their
projects, peeves and principles.
A similarity Of interests is the
only real basis for enjoyable con-
versation, and even then we can get
mighty tired Of the other person
having the floor. For most Of US,
then, a bore is a person who insists
upon talking when we want to talk.
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A Confession

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
I've really never seen a pine
linked in against a sunset glow,
Or standing lone upon a Interest,
Or massed in shady glades below.
A few I've seen, tall, dark and Old,
Gnarled and ragged, windtossed
and windtorn,
Black sreen in sparSely foliaged
spots,
Unloved, unlovely aid outworn.
But can praise them, I know
AS long as I can read or hear
For friends and poets tell me true
And I can love pine trees by ear!
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Very Fortunate

a LTHOUGH, of course" he
L n said, ''in a country where
anybody with capital to do so has a
right to run newspaper ) lSt as he
pleases I should think some men
would buy newspapers just to pro-
mote their interests with propagan-
da, or might it be that some man
who happened to own newspaper,
would be willing to sell his support
for some law or tax or politician
just to make money? Or oppose
something for the same reason?
ANY kind Of man might make
money enough to buy a newspaper.
You must be very fortunate in the
United States if it has just hap
pened that the only men who have
bought them are men Of the highest
ethical type who will permit their
own papers to oppose their own
business and political interests in
the interests Of truth and Journals
tic integrity.
Here We have neither privilege
nor obligation but of course where
a paper has complete freedom from
censorship or government control
the owner must realize that this
freedom also entails an obligation
to strike at his own private inter-
ests if those interests conflict with
the public interests. That would be
curious situation, wouldn't it? A
publisher, in his newspaper, prints
articles day after day denouncing
some company in which he had in
vested a great fortune. Or he at
tacks some statesman for promoting
legislation which would help that
company to make money.
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Is This TrMe2

By J. w.
AS a visitor at the Marion
County home, do not think there
is an institution in the state that
is SO badly managed as this.
There is a superintendent needed
very badly to direct the work that
should be carried on in this insti-
tuition and attendants who should
do their work are needed.
The Marion County home has
been in bad condition for more
than two years and it seems to
me that the taxpayers of Marion
county should get their eyes
opened before long. Through in
terviewing the inmates, there
seems to be two classes, and the
Marion County home should be a
home for one and all alike, as all
who are admitted are on an
equality.
wish to state that am a sub
scriber Of this paper and have
been for four years.
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:: A Woman'S Viewpoint
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON


sweethearts, or our jobs, or our
theories about NRA.
Well never be able to remove this
subject of uninteresting people from
the realm Of the personal. A bore
is always somebody who doesn't in
terest US, but he may, nevertheless,
be an enthralling personality for
other souls who are Of his tempera-
ment and tastes.
=
I'VE known lots of men and
4 women who found evangelists
entertaining; and think Of all the
really intelligent individuals who
enjoy reading books on contract
bridge.
So long as there's no accounting
for tastes, you can't put your finger
down on any person and say Here
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Samuel insult has been asked to leave
Greece. If he knew what's good for him, he
will return to the United States and enjoy
perfect freedom while his attorneys keep him
out of Jail.
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Movie couple got married again on their
first wedding anniversary After a whole year
together, they had to go through some such
ceremony, or get a divorce.
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Don't let Wall Street fool YOU The Amer
lean dollar is just as sound as ever-although
you buy less for it now than you used to.
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Agriculture Secretary Wallace reports a
billion-dollar gain in income of United States
farmers. Don't forget to report your share
in your next income tax returns
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BY A. v. H.
So many people criticised Chief
Morrissey for arresting of people at
the Walkathon. Don't you folks
know the chief isn't his own boss?
True enough, he has thousands Of
men who know him as boss, but
he has many bosses. The business
men and theater owners put up sucn
a squawk that there was nothing
else to do.
We have a good chief and if the
people of this city would only help
him and abide by the law and every
one do his or her part, we wouldn't
have anything to complain Of
so you folk who are down on
Chief Mike Morrissey stop and
think that he did only as he was
ordered, and perhaps not as he
wished.
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Senator Tess of Ohio says Roosevelt's brain
trust is suffering from delayed adolescence.
Well, that isn't as bad as decayed adolescence.
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The practice Of initiating names of new
deal organizations may become so general that
F U G NE thing like this, B able 2
decipher it.