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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
YOUTHS VIEW OF WAR

THE Intercollegiate Disarmament Council
4 recently polled more than 81 900 American
college students on the attitude they would
take if the United States should get into
another war.
Nearly SO per cent of the students who
replied asserted that they never would
participate in any war slightly smaller
number said that they would fight only if the
United States actually were invaded
AS evidence of a changing attitude on the
part Of youth toward war, this is extremely
interesting. Probably, however, it does not
represent as much Of pacifistic tendency as
appears on the surface.
Youth is impetuous vulnerable to strong
emotional appeals; it is a safe bet that good
many Of these lads who insist they never will
fight would find their way to a recruiting
station pretty promptly if we actually went
to war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
REDUCING OUR FLEET

IF one cared to be uper-patriotic, it would
be fairly easy to work up good bit of
excitement over the fact that one-third of the
entire United States fleet is to be placed in
reserve commission on July l. with a reduction
of more than 1000 men in the navy's enlisted
personnel.
That this reduces the fighting efficiency of
the feet goes without saying. A navy which
must pull third of its ships out of dock-yards
and find crews for them at the recruiting
stations III the event of sudden trouble
undeniably is below the standard which its
paper strength gives it.
But there doesn't seem to be much real
ground for worry even so. Troubled as the
world is, moderately competent craftsmanship
at Washington ought TO bring us through the
next few years without letting us get into
war
A war right now would be calamity for
US, anyway even if our feet were twice its
present size.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
DIR. BUTLER'S INTERVIEW

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS pronouncement
on world disarmament gains much by the
prompt and enthusiastic support of Dr. Mich
oas Murray Butler one of the worlds leaders
of the peace movement. president of the Car
negie Endowment for International Peace, and
intimately known and highly respected as
peace advocate throughout Europe and the
world
The president of Columbia university called
dent Roosevelt addressed to ffty-four nations
an epoch-making document-"a historical
event of the utmost Importance"
He touched the vital spark in the declara-
ton when he said that no human document
ever had so widespread an immediate hearing.
The genius of President Roosevelt for
democratic leadership" he declared, is dem
onstrated in his appeal to the people through
their heads of the state rather than through
their government. The President aimed
at the sound judgment of the people and not
at the temporary administrators of their af-
fairs"
DR.. Butler visualized the remarkable state
ment, going not through diplomatic channels
secretly incased in code, but to the people of
all classes everywhere, appearing Immediately
in their newspapers. He said:
1T is brief enough to be published in full;
sufficiently clear and simple to be understood
by all men. I can see them reading tin Bel
grade, in Warsaw. in French hamlets, in
Africa; in cafes, on tramways in homes
This is diplomacy as it should be. 1t is
difficult to see how diplomacy in the future
can remain underground and strut secretly in
the chancelleries of the world in gold braid
and pompouSneSs.
The people fight wars; the people should be
addressed directly regarding means and move
ments aimed toward elimination of wars
DR.. Butler commented further upon the
effects of President Roosevelts statement in
ending Americas isolation
He pictured the United States of America
as now a world citizen, world leader, COM
mitted to open-and- above-board efforts to
make all the people OF the word realize their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
WHO SHOULD BE TAXED?

IT is fair that those who actually are earning
money these days should be required to pay
little more in income taxes to the federal
government so it may try to revive industry
and put the iobless back to work.
For this reason we favor the first three
of the four alternative tax suggestions made
by the President through Budget Director
Lewis Douglas to the house ways and means
committee.
1t is true that, in increasing the normal
tax rates, great as well small incomes are
touched; but the Roosevelt Douglas plan
should be amended to provide for higher sur
taxes and corporation taxes, as we'll.
Douglas likewise suggested the general sales
emptions As before. this newspaper opposes
the principle of the sales tax. 1t is too easy
to levy, too hard to repeal; it's burden is an
insidious one, hidden but sure. The invisible
tax is bad tax
Perhaps in this emergency it will be neces-
sary to levy general sales tax If it comes
to final choice between putting men to work
by reason of a sales tax, or keeping them idle
by killing a sales tax, we would choose the
former course.
But sales tax should not be resorted to
until other rich sources of revenue have been
tapped.
President Roosevelt must have had the
same idea, and Budget Director Douglas as
well. For their first three out of four Sugges-
tons were for higher income levies.
The President, in all fairness, has put the
troubling tax question up to congress to solve,
with the announcement that if it does not
select the new levies by the first of the week."
he will recommend his own. He thus clearly
has shown against his belief that this indus
trial recovery bill, taxes and all, must be en-
acted quickly.
Speed is an extreme necessity in the situa-
ton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
SPLENDID ISOLATION

WHEN President Roosevelt addressed
himself to the people Of the world on
disarmament Americas famous tradition of
splendid isolation" went topping over into
the dust, and it seems probabl that it will
stay there.
AS matter of fact of course, this splendid
isolation toppled years ago. But the tradition
remained, and that was what caused trouble.
We had a tradition to which we gave almost
unanimous support, and it failed to jibe with
the facts To support it meant that We had to
shut our eyes to the realities.
We were fond of talking-and acting-as if
the Atlantic ocean were just as wide now as
century ago. We laid our international course
on charts drawn up in the days of sailing ships
and stage coaches; and when we steered
ourselves into trouble we wondered, plaintively,
why fate was being so unkind
Nineteen years ago Europe got into war.
and before it was over we got into it also
although we're still trying to figure out Just
what we gained by it.
Since the war Europe has packed a century
Of troubles into decade and a half; and a
good many of them have Stopped over the
edges and spilled right on us.
The Bolshevism of Russia, the rivalry
between France and Germany, the tangled
finances of Europe as wole, the trade wars
growing out Of the postwar mixup, the need of
foreign nations for American money and. later
tehir inability to pay that money back-alI
these things have had tremendous direct
effect on the conditions of life for each one
Of US.
In the face Of those uncomfortable facts.
our tradition of isolation has had thin time
of it,
We are as close to Europe today as the
England of Pitt was to the France of NAPOLEON
Not only is it impossible for us to remain aloof
from European quarrels; We can not even
restore our own internal prosperity as we
would wish to until Europes most pressing
problems are settled.
We have, when you get right down to it,
about as much real isolation as traffic COD on
a busy corner.
Well, then-so what? Won't it be a good
thing If at last we accept the realities of tho
situation and do what we can to set things
right?
II We must make commitments overseas
let us make them and be done with it However,
1t turns out, we shall at least be looking the
facts in the face
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
M. E.TracySays:

ERMANY under Hitler promises to be a
" stumbling block in the path of disarma-
ment, but this fact should not be taken to mean
that the allies are blameless
Germany under Hitler is a logical result of
allied laundering Of the Treaty of Versailles of
the stubborn attempt to hold nation in
servitude
Sooner or later the Versailles treaty must be
modified. Its provisions are incompatible with
European peace. 1t was formulated in a spirit
of vengeance and contains sanctions at variance
with the first principles Of equity
Europe can not have peace as long as it is
guided by the animosities of war.
The very presence of Nazism furnishes a vivid
illustration of where these animosities lead No
group Of nations can presume to dominate the
policy of a neighboring nation without fostering
just such a reaction.
Signing of the Versailles treaty foredoomed
Germany to Nazism, Communism or some other
exaggerated movement to express her bitterness
Of feeling.
TINE idea that a healthy republic could be
l. established in Germany under such restric-
lions as the allies imposed was just one more
absurd illusonment born of victory.
If a revival of the war spirit succeeds in
crushing Hitlerism, it will only be to make room
for some other party devoted to Germany's
emancipation.
Statesmen are dealing with elemental emo
tons, rather than a calm naturalization of pub
lie interests and public problems. The more they
scratch and irritate old wounds the more diff
culties they will have to overcome in laying the
foundations for peace.
Permanent peace presupposes a parity of
armies and navies. The very thought that on
country must be held back because of what
happened fifteen or twenty years ago is irrecon-
cilable with the major purpose Nations have no
choice but to trust one another or revert to the
old order.
Such factors as the Versailles treaty, the non
recognition of Russia, the insistence of France
that she must be protected against further de-
cline OF the dollar will have to be eliminated.
THE civilized world faces no choice but
Il abandonment Of certain old conceptions if it
would establish new order Those growing out
of the among the first that should be
abandoned because they represent the latest and
most powerful source of discord.
The failure to make better progress thus far
can be traced definitely to the insincerty of
leaders who imagined that they could arrange
new agreements without abrogating old ones
that they could retain the prestige and spoil of
victory and still enjoy the whole hearted CO.
operation of their beaten enemies
The time has come to admit that such atti-
tude Is impossible, impractical, and unavoidable
that it not only perpetuates antagonism between
and among nations but constantly threatens the
development OF revolution within nations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
NON-AGGRESSION BY MARINES

ONE reason the United States never has
achieved much in it's crusades to make
the world safe for democracy or Christian
NY or any other goal, is its failures to prac-
tlce at home what it breaches abroad. Es-
peclally in the matter of world ,eace and
non aggression pacts, this has been q bar
rier
When we told the Japanese that thew
should not send troops into China in viola
ton of treaties, they at once replied that
they merely were following our example in
Latin America. They justified their policy
of aggression by calling it a Monroe doctrine
for Asia.
The comparison was not exact The
Monroe doctrine does not apply to United
States intervention in Latin America against
Latin American country, but merely for
United States protection of Latin American
countries against foreign intervention.
Nor has our military Intervention in Latin
America been in violation of specific treaties,
While the fact that Japan has violated her
treaties is the chief count against her
Nevertheless apart from technicalities and
LOCALITIES, there was much to be said for the
spirit of japanese and other foreign criticism
of our hypocrisy in sending marines to oc-
cupy weaker countries.
Therefore, one of the chief virtues of the
new Roosevelt doctrine, as laid down in his
world peace declaration Tuesday. is the Presi-
dents application of the mona aggression policy
to the United States intervention in Latin
America.
Both the President and the secretary Of
state have made it clear that the proposed
non aggression pact, in which the nations
would agree not to send troops across from
tier, would prevent American marine occu-
patton of the Vera Cruz and Nicaraguan type
American marines now are in Haiti and
in China, but under specific treaty rights. It
is to be hoped that even those troops will be
withdrawn soon. But, in any event. it is
essential that the United States hereafter re-
frain from foreign intervention in violation
not only of the letter, but of the spirit Of
anti-war and non-aggression treaties.
otherwise our attempt at world leadership
for peace is likely to prove as futile as it is
hypocritical
President Roosevelt has faced this issue
honestly. The Roosevelt policy will increase
our own self-respect improve our relations
with Latin America, and heighten our pres
tige throughout the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
SATURDAY. NAY %. 1893
THE SHOALS INQUIRY
PAGE a

MORE impressive than the denials of the
1VA power companies and the army engineer
officers is the demand for prompt investigation
OF the charges Of misuse Of government equip
ment at Muscle Shoals
The public VIII not De disposed to pre-
judge the facts. Nevertheless, it is easy to
understand the general concern over these
charges Senator George w. Norris, Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold l.. Ickes and Louis
r Claws who made the preliminary investi-
gallon for the government, are names that
carry weight. When they fear something is
seriously wrong, it is time to act.
That apparently is the attitude of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He has assigned Huston
Thompson, former federal trade commits
sioner and government counsel in the New
River power casesto continue the probe
Washington is even more concerned over
the possibility that this military property may
have been damaged than over the loss Of fed
eral money through alleged improper use of
plant facilities by the Alabama Power Com
pany.
The VIGOROUSLY unfriendly attitude Of the
Hoover administration and certain army en-
gineer officers to government operation OF
Muscle Shoals has fed ugly reports in Wash
ington
In justice to all concerned, the govern
ment speedily should bring these charges into
the open and give the accused a fair chance
to defend themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
A Woman's Viewpoint ::

COMETIMES we regard as unim-
- portant facts that are tragic
enough for tears. I give you an
instance which comes in letter
from a 28-year-old school teacher.
Where" she asks, docs a girl
in my position meet attractive and
eligible men and how should she
go about it?"
I only wish I could give her a
satisfactory answer. The suppressed
though natural longing for mascu-
line companionship, and for the
same happy recreations that other
people enjoy, seems to be the Bit
ter heritage of the American woman
teacher.
For her profession, one of the first
to open its doors to girls, offers the
poorest matrimonial opportunities.
That this should be so destroys the
highest purpose of education and
condemns as fools those of us who
profess to believe in that purpose.
Only girls inspired by more than
ordinary ambition and possessing
ability above the average go in for
permanent teaching. And they are
engaged in work that stands next
in importance to motherhood itself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
4 Word for Cutters
WAR is possible. War is prob.

WAR is possible. War is prob
w able. But inevitable" is a
word which never should be used bv
any man until he has lowered his
hands and watched the towel tumble
across the ropes.
You who have sons. are you going
to say, 1T is inevitable that they
shall be ripped by machine guns
and shattered under ShellS?'
Are you going TO give your flesh
and the flesh of your flesh to be
burned? No man who ever has seen
a war has the right to say, You
may fire when you are ready. II
must not be.
But what can I do? One of the
simplest things IS to stop doing
here and now many of the things
Of which we have all been guilty
in recent weeks and months. The
man or woman who sat in little
group last Thursday, let us say,
and remarked, OF course, there's
going to be another war for all the
signs point to it, probably VIII not
be stigmatized as the sole author
Of the conflict
But when millions begin to take
the same attitude Of bending their
necks to what they think is newt
able, it does mass up to the making
Of world psychology for preserya-
ton and PRONUNCIATION Of war.
Throw enough pebbles into a pond
and you can create a tidal wave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN -

NEW YORK, May 20.-"Thev will
~ send no armed force of what
sOever nature across their frontiers
Franklin D. Roosevelt. President
Of the United States, has offered to
the world principle upon which
there oughcto be an internationally
united front And yet I am afraid
the message viii not escape crit
iCism. There VIII be thunder on the
left and grumbling from the right.
We viii be told that war is in
evitabie under our economic sys.
tenn or that you can't change human
nature.
1t is quite true that any man
would be a fool if he undertook I'd
declare that there can not be ana
other war. But We can say, There
must not be-"
The air is filed with fumes.
LatheS turn. Metal sizzles in its
mouldS When the wind is right. you
can hear the distant roll of drums,
the tramping of the feet. Men in
high office rattle sabers and talk of
blood and iron.
But, worst of all. we sit at home
on porcheS and in back rooms and
say: It's bound to happen. There's
no getting away from it. OF course
it's terrible. but what can anybody
do about it? It's inevitable"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN

DR. JOHN GRIER HIBBEN was a man
devoted to self-dependence. At II he
drove the car which the trustees of Prince
ton gave him last June on his retirement as
president of that institution, after twenty
years of service. This assertion of self cost
him his life when his car coIlided with a
truck on Jersey highway.
DR.. Hibben was one of the last of the
school of college presidents drawn from the
ministry, his father before him having been
of that calling. But, except for four years
in active preaching, Dr. Hibben devoted his
whole active life, forty three years, to the fac
ulty of Princeton.
After his retirement he chose to live on
there in the delightfully."- bucolic surroundings
amid which, as president of Princeton and
successor to Woodrow Wilson, he had in twen-
ty years increased the universty's endowment
fund fvefold its buildings and acreage nearly
two times and its faculty and student body
by so per cent.
But the contribution on which he prided
himself was the development of student char
acter. Personally a liberal, he championed
atty, honor, self-control, service and sacrifice
virtues worth emblazoning upon the portals
Of any college and upon the intelligence of
any youth
When he was elected president of Prince
ton he was serenaded by the students, who
sang:
Here's to Hibben, we call him Jack
The whitest man in all the fac"
He believed ardently in college athletics
With support of the student council he dis
couraged the student practice of keeping auto
mobiles. He barred Buchmanism from the
campus.
He turned from a sincere dry to an oppo-
nent Of the eighteenth amendment He be-
lieved in American participation in world af-
fairs He warned of the dangers in the
activities of Germany's Hitler.
sound man, much loved, widely famed,
he died an untimely death while still living
life to the hit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
Men of Old Were Ambidextrous

He therefore protected his left
side, the side on which lies the
heart, and turned his right side to-
ward his foes
Death probably removed those
who could not make the adjustment.
Thus, right hands became domi-
nant.
Moreover, man came, more and
more, to depend on the sun, facing
the east. AS he turned to the east,
mans right hand followed his eyes,
so that the right side became the
fruition, the promising and life Civ
ing, as opposed to those things on
the left side, dark, hazardous. and
sinistral.
Moreover, it has been found of
late that attempts to cause the right
hand to dominate in child nor
mally left handed are likely to lead
to difficulties Of mental hygiene,
perhaps more serious than any dis
advantage that may inhere in the
use Of one hand or the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20

THERE are right-handed and
l. left-handed people and, though
few people realize it, also persons
with special preferences of one eye
or ear, even though both have nor
NAL ability.
From the beginning of time, left
handedness has had the idea asso-
ciated with it of evil and right
handedness of good.
In a report on the subject by
Dr. Ira S. Vile, he expressed the
view that there is abundant evi-
dence that man in the first place
was primarily ambideXtrous, that
is, could use both hands with equal
facility.
DR.. Vile points out that the great
artist, sculptor, and anatomist,
Leonardo da Vinci, had equal IA
cility with both hands, though he
drew with the left hand and paint
ed with the right
1t has been argued that the an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-20
.: The Message Center :

Times readers are inrited to cypress
their Uie'Cs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 words or Iess.)
BY w. ]. ROminger.
In your editorial of May 10, Re
peal and Revenue, you seem to
forget common sense or reason, for
you refer to President Roosevelt
with a fine sense of time, making
a diSloyal attack upon the Con-
stitution of the United States in a
message to congress. In demanding
a quick repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, the President makes
another attack upon the Con-
Stitution, in accord with your
suggestion that he could care for
public works bond issue, which
he could eliminate when repeal is
completed.
The Constitution makes provision
for all emergencies as to its safe
guarding and amendments by first
administering an oath upon all
officers. The President himself is
not allowed to attack the basic law.
So 1T seems that time sense is not
the kind of sense needful, but q
sense of his oath as the highest
officer of our land, a constitutional
sense, with just a little brains back
of it and him.
The Constitution also makes pro-
vision for money, but not for bonds
and this nation has the machinery
and laws for money, so why violate
or nullify the Constitution to pay
with bonds and favor a few with
interest to make an excuse for taxes.
While we are printing money rather
than bonds, we can print enough
for taxes and other government eX-
penses.
We also have laws for those in
clined to be traitors to our Consti-
tuition and during my life this gov
eminent has seen fit to apply that
law.
Since prohibition has been in the
Constitution, as a mechanic 1 have
received a high wage and acquired
some property, which is getting
away from me while the President