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Evening star., 1933-04-04

tary attainments, he successfully di-
rected the training of 4,500 Engineer
officers and 10000 enlisted men, thereby
rendering services of great value to our
Government in positions of great re-
spcnsibility.
AS lieutenant colonel, Corps of En-
gineers, he serves in the Army War Col
lege in Washington and resides at 1905
S street northwest.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
TUNNEL BILL HELP UP
Of sarnia-Port Huron

incorporation Of sarnia- Port Huron
vehicular Company Delayed.
OTTAWA, April ( R.-Frther
progress Of the bill to incorporate the
Sarnia-Port Huron vehicular Tunnel
Co. was held up in the House of Com
mons yesterday by Prime Minister Ben
nett.
Mr.. Bennett said certain provisions of
the bill maintained its examination by
officers Of the Judge Department and
the Department of External Affairs. 1t
will probably be proceeded with next
Thursday or Friday.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON c.

out. In the opinion Of of1cials, It will
rebound to the benefit Of workers. Thus
far. however. no concrete suggestions
have been put forward
The present system was set up by
the Bureau of Efficiency IL years ago.
The ratings are made annually and
must be ready by May Is.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

Get, EIlSHlCct JIM
GERS Trai n / n 6
Camp, at Camp Lee,
Va, from April to
August, 1918, and
director of train
ing at Camp Hum
phreys, Va, until
october. 1918, he
displayed marked
fores / g h t, rare
ability and sound
judgment in the
reorganization and
Standardization Of
the instruction for
Engineer troops.
BY his organizing
and training ability,
indefatigable ef-
forts and high mill
Evening star., 1933-04-04
Mongrel Hero Dies in Blaze.

After arousing the neighborhood In
Mount Vernon. South Africa. Skebenga.
mongrel watchdog stuck to his post
and died in the flames. Skebenga slept
in box in the store and always refused
to leave until morning When the blaze
started he barked until fire fighters ar
rived, then returned to his post to re-
main until dawn.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

actress. owes Mrs. Clara Decan. ga
year-old widow. $4,000 for injuries
Mrs. Ocean received last August n
when she was struck by Mis-. Me sss y.
motor car
The car was driven by the actress
Japanese chauffeur.
Mrs. Ocean asked damages Of $l03,-
600.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
Districts Heroes
in the
World War
Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel.

A 8 recorded in the official cita-
~ ton, Virgil L. Peterson, colonel.
~ Corps of Engineers, United
4 States Army. was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal
for exceptionally meritorious and dis
tinguished services in a position OF
great responsibility. AS commanding on
Evening star., 1933-04-04
MRS. NORTON INTRODUCES
OLD-AGE PENSION BILL
% Per Week to Needy Residents
Of District Over 90 Is
Provided.

A bill to provide old-age security for
persons over 60 residing in the District
was introduced In the House yesterday
by Chairman Norton Of the House Dis
trict Committee
The measure Is identical to the Cap
per old-age pension bill which died in
the last Congress. 1t would provide a
maximum income of 50 a week to all
needy persons over 60 who have lived
in the District continuously for 10
years or more.
The pensions would be administered
by an old-age security board, composed
of the three District Commissioners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
EASTMAN'S EXAMPLE

FORTUNATELY the emergency railroad
l. transportation act contained provisions
protecting labor from bearing the brunt of
the economies that were sought.
It was evident, as the law passed, that all
the economies proposed could not be brought
about; some high in congress even suggested
that with the provisions protecting labor re-
tanned. the coordination act might better be
abandoned.
OF course, it was not abandoned; it was
passed and signed by the President, who took
Joseph Eastman off the interstate commerce
commission temporarily and made him ad-
mnistrator of the law with the title of federal
co-ordinator of transportation.
It's time to see what Co-ordnator East
man has accomplished with this law that
some thought faulty.
He has three achievements to his credit.
First at his insstence and with his CO.
operation, the federal government finally had
moved into the steel rail price-pegging issue;
and as result, the steel companies will get
an order for more than 100000 tons of rail-
and nearly 100000 tons of fastenings, If they
will reduce prices.
Second, he has taken determined stand
to outlaw company unions
Third, he has suggested means for railroads
to standardize equipment and save money in
these purchases, and he has urged that the
carriers no longer substitute mines by paying
higher than the market price for coal If the
railroads really want to help the mines, Co
ordinator Eastman suggests, they can reduce
the freight rates on coal.
These three achievements do not mean
that o-ordinator Eastman has taken the
railroads off the federal relief rolls" They
are the outstanding results, thus far, of his
effort to help the railroads help themselves
under the guidance of the federal government
1t is not unlikely that they will result in large
savings to the carriers, if the carriers CO.
operate. They illustrate what an intelligent
professional government employee, unhindered
by partisan considerations can accomplish
May his example furnish more of them!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
WHEN TO PREPARE

EOR years liberals urged upon the country
the idea that public works program must
be planned far in advance if it is to be an
effective weapon against business depression.
Today, faced with urgent need to spend public
works, money for employment and business
revival and finding it hard to do, the country
is learning this truth.
On the face of it, spending money fast
seems an easy thing to do. AS matter OF
fact, it is not so easy, as any person who has
ever built house knows.
Getting a public works program under way,
an administration must first of all examine
projects for feasibility for economic sound
ness, for value to community, for proportion
of expenditure that will go to labor directly,
and to labor indirectly through material in
dustries and transportation
When that is done, it is necessary to draw
detailed engineering or architectural plans
for the Job That is where most time is lost.
Finally land must be acquired, legal difficult
ties ironed out and bids let
All but these last stages may be attended
to in advance under the kind of long-range
planning advocated. With such a program
ready. government construction could be useG
to check a depression at the beginning when
it would be less costly to do so. Or if this
were neglected for any reason, it would be
ready for crisis such as the present one.
Now, while the facts are clear in our
minds, this country should begin preparing
for the future by preparing in detail new
public works program. 1t even may be that
we will need to use it before we are out of the
present woods. And if we do we should not
repeat the dangerous experiment of being
unprepared.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
THE TASK AHEAD

THERE is an old adage that well begun is
Il half done" There can be no better begin
ming of a task than a clear comprehension of
what we are up against. Hence, it is we'll in
application of the MIRA to visualize what
must be done if we are to enjoy any con-
siderable period of returning prosperity within
the general framework of capitalistic society.
Waving aside other incidental matters, the
immediate and direct cause of the business
collapse in 1929 was the inability of the mass
of American farmers, workers and salaried
persons to buy the products of American in
dustry. 1t was not so much excess production
as under consumption In very few if any,
lines of production did we turn out as many
commodities as easily could have been used
by the American population had it been able
to maintain paSsably high standard of living.
The total income of these classes-the
approximately go per cent of American con-
sumers-did not rise as rapidly as prices and
profits The proportion of the national in
come going to this overwhelming majority Of
the American population was less in 1929 than
in 1919. During the last prosperous year we
s17,OOo,o0oo0o worth of goods which our peo-
pie could not buy with their existing income,
and there was little hope of selling this excess
abroad.
The MIRA must reverse this picture. 1t
must see to it that the masses get enough
income to buy effectively. AL other considera-
tons in the problem of industrial recovery are
incidental. If capitalism can not insure this
it might as well fold up. Indeed. it will do so
speedily.
Just what must we accomplish to bring
about the desired results? 1t has been stated
that we must produce return to the mass
income of 1929. Just exactly what does this
mean? 1t means that the total pay rolls in
manufacturing industry must be raised 135
per cent and farm wages more than 100 per
cent. The decline of income to workers in
other industries also has been appalling. The
pay roll losses In hituminous mining were 6s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
THE WAY TO RECOVERY

A N idea of the possibilities for American
N industry, which are inherent in the pres
ent effort to increase the purchasing power
of the wage-earner, can be gained from Sec
rotary of Labor Frances Perkins recent ad-
dress to the American Federation of Labor
convention.
Miss Perkins pointed out that two-thirds
of the goods disposed of in America each
year are sold to people whose incomes are
less than $4,000 year.
The moral Is obvious. The wage-earner
represents the greatest of all markets In
crease his purchasing power and you give
industry the greatest stimulus it could get
anywhere. And, by the same token, If you
decrease it, you make industrys recovery quite
impossible
The best way to induce full recovery, in
other words, is to start at the bottom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
RELIEF MUST COME

THERE is precious little sense in worrying
u about the demand for imitation unless we
also are willing to worry about the things
that caused the demand.
That we are going to have something like
a final, definite showdown in imitation this
winter is becoming obvious. The pressure
for imitation that has been put on the White
House in the last month or so is only the first
breath of gale that will break loose when
congress convenes.
And to read some Of the indignant out
cries being raised these days is to get the i'm
preston that demanding imitation is crime
against nature. We are reminded over and
over again of the doleful tAings that hap
pened to Russia and Germany when they
sent their paper up in the windstorm.
Stick a pin through your newspaper at
random and you are likely to impale an in
terview with some economist or other full Of
dark prophecies and dire forebodings.
All this pessimism may be entirely justified.
That, at the moment, is hardly the point.
The important thing is to realize that the
clamor for imitation does not arise from sheer
human perversity and wrongheadedness, but
from the contemplation Of wrongs which a
great many people have decided they are not
going to endure any longer.
If you borrow a dollar which is worth one
bushel of wheat and find when you come to
pay it back, that it is worth three bushels
you have been gyped, and no fine talk about
the sanctity of sound money is going to make
you feel any better about it.
1t is precisely that which has happened to
millions Of Americans in the last few years
Debt has turned into self-increasing snow
ball, and it has become load which is just
too heavy to be carried any farther.
Paying for a dead horse is never much
fun; when the corpse goes on rising in value
before you can get all your payments in, you
hardly can be blamed if you decide that the
rules of the game ought to be changed a little
Initiation may be the height of folly. But
an even loftier peak would be to fight against
imitation without Offering any remedy for the
wrongs which have made imitation look de-
sirable.
If we are not going to have imitation we
must have something that will whittle our
debts down to the size they were when we con-
tracted them
And it must be something that will work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
WHERE IS THE LABOR BOARD?

CENERAL JOHNSON is worried about
~ strikes He should be- The epidemic is
spreading. 1t is costing many millions of dol
lars. 1t is hurting employers and labor 1t is
delaying recovery
But what is General Johnson going to do
about it? So far he has made a speech about
1t. He told labor leaders at the American
Federation of Labor convention that strikes
should stop. He even descended to cheap talk
about subversive influences.
Such talk is futile
Labor leaders are not responsible for the
strikes-in many cases the workers have gone
over the heads of their leaders Subversive
influences are not responsible.
The NRA and the national labor board are
responsible to the extent that they have failed
to perfect efficient mediation machinery to
handle the disputes behind the strikes
Disputes between capital and labor regard
ing enforcement of the codes are inevitable
even though both capital and labor act with
the utmost good faith there will be many mis-
understandings and honest differences of
opinion. Those in turn are apt to lead to
strikes by labor or lockouts and shutdowns by
employers, unless the official mediation boards
are quickly available.
So far the administration has fallen down
on this essential part of the job. Thousands
of complaints and disputes have arisen. But
NRA has been too busy-genuinely busy--in
code making to face this situation.
The national labor board under Senator
Wagner, which was named by President
Roosevelt for the specific purpose of handling
such disputes, has been too slow and too tim
orous Doubtless there are excuses and doubt
less some of them are valid. 1t takes time
to organize such a board.
But whatever the alibis in the past, there
can not be much more delay in, the admin
istrations labor mediation machinery with
out dangerous increase in strikes.
Every day the White House let's the steel
trust and Wall Street defy the government in
the captive coal mine fight, every time NRA
ignores major code violation, every labor
dispute which the national labor board neg
lects. will encourage capital to exploit labor
and will encourage labor to strike for its legal
rights under the new deal.
Labor is too near the starvation line to
strike for the fun of striking. When there are
large strikes now it is because the workers are
convinced--rightly or wrongly-that is the
only method of self-defense.
It is for the national labor board and other
ment action that strikes are not necessary to
enforce the law. and that the government is
enforcing the law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
|M. E. Tracy Says:

ENGLAND offers to pay us 100000 pounds;
~ or about II cents on the dollar, in full
settlement of her war debts Fewer Americans
would have lost their homes and fewer Ameri-
can industries would have gone into bankruptcy
on terms like that.
Ultimately, We shall accept the settlement or
one approximating it. because we can't do any,
thing else. Afterward, we shall try to justify it
by all kinds OF spurious arguments We shall
have little difficulty in convincing ourselves or
posterity that it was unavoidable. You can't get
blood out of turnipS, though the civilized world
has been trying to make itself believe you could
ever since the war ended.
This is the most stupendouS default in hu-
man history, and We should waste no time
attempting to deceive ourselves with regard to
its true significance, because there is every
prospect that it will be peacefully arranged.
A no time since civilization began has any
L N government openly made the proposition
to reduce its debt by nearly $4,000 600 900.
And that isn't the worst of it. Every one of
the fourteen governments that owe us is going
to follow Englands example. In all likelihood,
the default will run close to $10OO0OOOO 1000
Every conceivable effort will be made to avoid
the words default, reputation and insolvency,
but that might as well be written off as just one
more phase Of the quibbling by which civiliza-
ton has tried to save its face since it went
bankrupt
Statesmen and fnanciers really imagined
that, by some hook or crook, a smashed indus
trial system could take on the burden with 90
100000 cripples to support 100000 young men
in their graves and an incalculable amount of
buildings, ships and machinery destroyed.
THE delusion accounts for the depression we
l. are in and the boom which preceded it. We
have been dealing with paper values ever since
the treaty Of Versailles was signed, with fcti-
tious securities and preposterous suggestions
That and that alone explains why forty coun-
tries have been pushed of the gold standard,
why currencies have been deprecated and why
governments have reduced or repudiated their
debts by every known method.
The most amazing feature of this whole
miserable business is the simple fact that our
supposed leaders do not seem to have had the
slightest conception of the economic morass into
which western civilization had been plunged.
They seem to have emerged from the war
without the slightest idea of the havoc it had
wrought and with the sublimest faith in hui
manity's ability to pay its bills just as though
nothing preposterous had happened
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
CRY HAVOC

ONE of the chief hopes of developing a sue
~ ceSsful campaign against war lies in the
growing resolution of the young intellectuals
to stand out against the conventional patriot
eering and "blood-and- thunder" philosophy
Beverley Nichol, a brilliant and popular
young British writer. in Cry Havoc" has pre-.
pared head-on attack upon war and the war
system which deserves to be circulated along
with Mr.. Stallings pictorial history of the
war
The keynote to Mrs Nichols book is found
in the following sentence: Il believe with every
fiber OF my being. that the hour now has
struck in the worlds history when every man
who wishes to serve his country must realize
that patriotism is the worst service he can
offer it,
He thus expresses his opinion Of the arma-
ment industry and its capitalstic supporters:
More death more dividendsl More blood
more bonuses Each shell that screams across
the sky g.. no matter over what forsaken
country that sad sky may lower . is bring
ing money into the pockets Of Armsville share
holders. Perhaps only penny or two. but
every little helps Thus may the men in Bo-
nyia, in Rumania, in Italy, or wherever the
Armsville writ may run. console themselves.
Their entrails are blown out7 Their leg Is
hanging by the kneef A portion Of the brain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

in quarrying and non-metallic mining. rs per
cent; in the production of petroleum. SO per
cent, and in canning and preserving industries,
49 per cent.
This Is staggering enough But we must
remember that the 1929 mass income was not
sufficient to provide adequate purchasing
power and to preserve prosperity in terms of
1929 prices. Especially was this true of the
farmers. Either income must be raised above
the 1929 level or prices must be kept down
considerably below that level. 1t is said to be
the governments aim to give us a 1929 income
and 1925 price level. Nothing less than this
would perpetuate prosperity even for brief
period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12

1t was up to our national govern
ment to relieve us of this damnable
system, and that is the poor relief
system. It is now about three years
since the South Meridian Civic Club
first began fight and adopted a
resolution against this system, and
it was the only civic club which had
the nerve to oppose that method of
feeding our poor $3.50 basket,
$1.35 worth of groceries and 671a
cents worth Of food value, and the
taxpayer pays the bill and the poor
can eat salt and corn meal and
some of the sausage they receive.
If I had a dog which I loved, I
would not have fed him the sausage,
and neither did these people eat it.
When I told them to report it, they
said they we're afraid to; they may
be cut from the basket list. When
the South Meridian Civic Club
adopted the resolution, Mr.. Book,
then secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, asked us at a central
committee meeting of south side
civic clubs to withdraw our reSolu-
ton. I told Mr.. Book what we
adopt we will not back down from.
Wake up, you civic clubs! Get
off your Stupor and oppose some Of
these things that are forced upon
us and oppose them even though
some of your members belong to
the Chamber of Commerce. Where
are you on the matter of building
houses in the slum district? Find
out who owns the ground. They say
it won't cost the taxpayers of In
dianapolis anything. True, but the
federal government will have lot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
Proper Sitting Posture Stressed

In correct sitting posture, you
should be erect. Your head should
be poised to bring the center of
gravity in the line joining the seat
bones. This posture makes mini
mum demand on energy and tends
to good posture when standing.
You also should see that your
child sits properly when reading or
writing at a desk.
Children in the higher grades in
school should have at least two
five-m minute periods during their
hours of study when they may
stand and stretch and perhaps take
a few corrective exercises. These
should be in addition to the games
played during recess.
Purposes Of the exercises are to
encourage deep breathing and to
aid circulation of the blood, to
counteract the stagnation associ-
ated with sitting long in one posi-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
THURSDAY. OCT. II. 1888.
Russell C. ROTTGER

INDIANAPOLIS can i'll afford to lose the
u unselfsh service of Russell C. Rottger. The
community is confronted with another de-
preston winter. 1t faces months that will
bring heavy problems as the city and nation
creep back along the road to recovery.
Mr.. Rottger always was ready to give him
self wholly to public service He never asked
anything for himself. Public commentator
embarrassed him. Yet his sound judgment and
good cheer invariably were back of every
altruistic municipal endeavor His reward was
in just doing things for people
He was comparatively young man. His
company, the Indiana Bell, had advanced him
rapidly to a vice-presidency. He was the
antithesis of the old-fashioned public utility
executive. 1t was his belief that public util-
ity was public trust and his mind was con-
stantly thinking over the problem of how his
company could give better and cheaper service.
The fact that he was a company official
never inflated him. He was not too self impor-
tant to go out personally on a trouble call
Thousands of telephone subscribers came to
know him in this way. 1t is pity that he now
never will have the opportunity to work out
some Of his plans for bringing telephone serv-
ice even closer than it is now to the individual
subscriber
Most of all he will be missed by his friends
He had a rare capacity for friendship Mr.
Rottger leaves behind the best of all memorials
"a life of real accomplishment for his fellow
men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
Conquest
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
What a fury the wind. is in today.
How it puffs and blows down the
street!
My curtains are doing fantastic
dances
In answer to, the mad rhythm in
his feet.
What a charging wealth of power
he has today!
How he tweaks the fame and gold
from the trees.
He has the purple asters in my
garden
Bending pale and humble 1t his
knees.
What storm of passion the wind
is brewingl
How he presses gowns to young
breasts.
I shall go out and Wrestle with
the wind.
I shall f1aunt my scarlet dressl
The arms Of the wind are roughly
eager;
How he catches me to him.
There is nothing subtle here.
I can be primitive with the wind.