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The Washington times., 1933-04-10
Trade Volume Index
Continues Uptrend

Ever since July, 1882, when the
low for the depression was reached,
the trade volume index prepared
by the Alexander Hamilton Insti-
tute has shown a steady upward
trend.
The current trade volume index
is 1853 as compared with 75.2 the
previous month, TAI a year ago,
and the low of 67.O in July, 1882.
The Washington times., 1933-04-10
Chicken Boxes PrOUe
Extremely Popular

Mother Froman, at 1108 Ninth
st. N. w., specializes in chicken
boxes which have become ex'
tremely popular.
Whole fried chicken and whole
roast chicken are prepared with
trimmings" and delivered with
out additional cost from 9 q. m.
until midnight.
The Washington times., 1933-04-10
DOLLAR STRONG
IN DULL TRADE

NEW YORK, April 10 G.N.SD. i.
The foreign exchange market was
dull in the resumption of trading
today with the dollar holding
strong against major European
currencieS.
Sterling eased 3-16 of a cent to
$3.41 11-16. Francs were fraction
ally higher at $685. cents, but
belgas, Swiss francs and guilders
eased slightly. German marks lost
2 points at 23.40 cents, but the rate
was well above last weeks low.
The Canadian dollar slipped off
1-16 of cent to 81 SIG cents.
japanese yen lost 1-16 to 21R
cents.
The Washington times., 1933-04-10
WOOL MARKET

quiet, domestic fleece unwashed, Ohio
and Pennsylvania. 10000; domestic
pulled secured. basis, SS@41c: domestic
Texas, clean basis, S5@45c; domestic
territory, clean basis, 32@46c.
The Washington times., 1933-04-10
Weather Report

For the District of mbia-Partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday, showers
Tuesday night, little change in tenn
perature; gentle to moderate northeast
or east winds.
For Maryland-Partly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday, showers Tuesday night
and possibly in extreme west portions
in afternoon; little change in tenn
For virginia-Fair tonight; Tues
day partly cloudy, followed by show
ers Tuesday night and in extreme
west portion in afternoon; little change
:" LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yesterday Today
4 p. m........ SO 4 a. m........ $?
8 p. m........ Sc a. m........ 53
Midnight ...... Sc Noon .......... 6S
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January /, 1898, 453.
Excess of temperature since April
Accumulated deficiency of precipita-
tion since January 1, 1888, 0.S9.
Excess of precipitation since April l.
1888, 0.5S.
Today-High tides 7:45 a. m. and
500 p. M; low tides 1857 a. m. and
Tomorrow-High tides s:2S-a a. m. and
1855 p. H.; low tides 2:4O a. m. and
''- SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today $40 a. m.
and sets $40 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow 5:Ss a. m.
The moon rises today 7:14 p. m.
and sets 5:22 a. m.
The moon rises tomorrow s:33 p. m.
and a0ts 6:S2 q. m.
The Washington times., 1933-04-10
HIGH COURT CHALLENGED

Authority to the Supreme Court
to compel Illinois to spend $685.
100000 a year to end diversion
of water from Lake Michigan at
Chicago was challenged in a
brief filed today by Attorney Cen
eral Otto Kerner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
BANKERS FORESIGHT

TINE New Republic for April contains a
Il little item that congresses column
length editorial into a few lines
This item points out that last spring when
the senate committee was just beginning its
search for banking abuses, the Hartman Ma
tionaI bank in New York decided to voice
protest against such impudence. An advertise
ment inserted in a New York paper by the
bank contained this statement:
Washington is il-equipped to investigate
important matters of commerce and finance
affecting the public welfare; and, in the pres
ent instance, there is no certainty that it will
not uncover things much better left sealed
1t is the Hartman bank, you remember,
which was unable to reopen when the bank
holiday ended, and whose chairman is now
under arrest. Who says our bankers have
no foresight?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
SELF-SUSTAINING FARMERS

TINE department of agriculture predicts that
Il American farmers during the coming year
will produce far higher proportion Of their
own foodstuffs than has been the case for
many years.
An ever-increasing percentage Of farmers,
the department has found are grinding their
own flour, keeping more eggs and milk for
home use, canning and preserving more fruits
and vegetables and slaughtering more animals
for their own consumption.
Although this development was brought
about by hard times, it probably represents a
healthy trend The one-crop farmer who buys
all his food at the village grocery and turns
his farm into kind of factory for the pro-
duction of one staple commodity, is especially
vulnerable to any depression.
The farmer who raises his own food at least
is sure that he never will go hungry. And
that. in times like those through which we
have been passing, is an assurance worth
having.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
THE LAST OF LIFE

ITO the seventeen states that had substi-
tuted old-age pensions for poorhouses
five more have been added by the legislatures
meeting this year. These five-Oregon, North
Dakota, Arizona, Indiana and Washington
bring the total to twenty-five. At least three
more states are expected to join before their
legislatures adjourn.
These twenty commemorative are not
allowing themselves merely the luxury of be-
ing humane; they are showing good hard
sense. OId-age pensions have proved far
cheaper than poorhouse maintenance In
times when states counties and cities must
count their pennies, why continue an institu
ton that is both costly and wretchedly cruel?
Pensions also will remove from the glutted
labor market competition from elderly folks,
whose desperation causes them to work for
wages far below standard.
Pending before congress is the Dill-COn-
merry bill for federal aid to old-age pension
states. It's passage now would bring all states
into the pension picture and liberate from the
fear of want million aged poor
President Roosevelt, who has been urged
to make this bill subject for a special mes
sage, not only advocates the pension plan,
but is backed by party that has made it a
party plank
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10

R-101; going back little farther we can re-
member the destruction Of the Roma, the
zR-2, and others.
Each ship, when launched, was the "last
word" in aerial safety and comfort each
came, inexpAcably and suddenly, to disaster.
Is the giant dirigible an invention which
can not, in the very nature Of things, be made
safe and reliable? Is this triumph Of the in
ventor and the engineer development which,
having been experimental with at great cost
in lives and money, must be abandoned?
Must the conquest of the air depend hence
forth solely on the airplane?
Right now probably most Of US would an
swer all Of those questions in the affirmative.
And yet, even now, we might be wise TO
delay rendering final verdict. Herr Eckener
and the Graf Zeppelin stand as cogent argu-
ments on the other side Of the case. Lieuten-
ant Commander Wiley fresh from the wreck
age of the Akron, urges that development
Of the dirigible be continued.
The new Macon is yet to be tested, and
the navy contains plenty of men ready to
stake their lives on her soundness
Meanwhile we can only sorrow over the
loss of the men who died in the Akron. Their
deaths, and not the destruction OF the dirigible,
constitute our greatest loss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
When You Can't Lose

L VEN so, nevertheless and not
IL Withstanding, I am not so sure
that Mr. Connolly and the prince
haven't been at least a step and a
half ahead Of the citizens for a
number of years, and particularly
SO In the very recent years.
BY substituting Incidence for en-
terprise and waste for thrift. thew
succeeded in accommodating precisely
nothing, and as a consequence when
the economic clouds broke, drench-
ing the just and the MitcheIIs alike,
the COnnollys, the ROmanOffs and
others Of their slothful ilk were able
to yawn and mockingly say: Good
ness gracious me, isn't it all lust too
depressing?"
Our government has taken a very
determined stand against the evil
practice Of thrift as is shown in
various withdrawing bills, the sit
uatlon having taken on such grav-
ity that if you are found to have rs
much as 500 in gold stuffed between
the mattress and the bed springs you
are liable to a fine of $4,000 and a
ten-year jail sentence.
Not only is it a criminal offense
to lay up little gold dust for a
moist afternoon, but if you have
money in the bank and do not put
it in circulation by one means or
another, you are not entitled TO
consider yourself a patriot. Boo
If that frightened you it served
you right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
THE INDIANAPOLIS. TIMES

proof that from some cause or causes it has
come about that leadership Of a poor quality
is coming to the top.
There surely has been a vast increase in
scholarship in America during these years.
But the thinking and rejecting people are
exerting a smaller influence in the determine
ton Of public affairs.
The coarser elements, despite all the edu-
cational advantages that people have had are
being thrown into positions of power
This IS no small matter If the tendency
which has been at work continues to operate,
it surely must mean the eventual failure of
the American experiment. There have been
moments Of inspiration. From time to time
great leaders have appeared
But year by year, decade by decade, the
direction of affairs has been slipping from the
hands of the we'll trained and the thoughtful.
I'VE need not, however, admit defeat We
may turn back the tide and set it going in the
other direction by heroic action The re-
sponsiblity here rests with the schools"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
NATIONAL PLANNING

TWO years ago proposals Tor natlonal eco
l. nomic planning were pushed .negligently
aside by government and business officials, who
still believed that things would take care OF
themselves if let alone.
Today, though economic planning has not
been accepted openly as the way out Of our
difficulties, it's philosophy is being incorporated
RAPIDLY into our national thought and legiSla-
ton. And none of the measures proposed for
rescuing us from economic chaos has more
promise than this.
Several years ago economists pointed out
that production could be controlled if the
government kept a watchful eye and firm
hand on new investments, preventing over
expansion and over-competition. Business
men held up their hands in horror.
But today the administration securities bill
proposes to give the Federal Trade Commission
power to bar from interstate commerce securi-
ties of any enterprise which it finds SIS not
based upon sound principles" or to bar any
securities lin the interest Of public welfare"
There is no way in which this authority
could be exercised intelligently except by
means of economic planning.
in front of economic planning-prce fixing
energies even more plainly as part of the adj
ministratons plan to restore agricultural pur-
chasing power.
With agricultural prices fixed, the need for
control of some sort over the prices of other
commodities will stand forth in glaring relief.
1t already is being discussed in connection
with the short work week legislation now be-
fore congress- If minimum wage legislation,
now for the first. time seriously proposed,
should be enacted, some form Of regulating
prices probably would follow.
National planning appears frankly in the
recommendations of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace for preservation of the nations forest
lands, and even the United States supreme
court. last stronghold against social change
recognized the need for planning and control
of industry when it invoked the welfare clause
of the Constitution to find a trade agreement
legal in spite of the antitrust laws, in the
Appalachian Goals case
The change in sentiment was forecast a few
months ago by the Hoover committee on social
trends.
1T seems inevitable that the varied eco
nomlc interests of the country will find them
selves invoking more and more the help of the
government to meet emergencies to safeguard
them against threatened dangers, to establish
standards and to aid them in extending or
defending markets" said the committee
These changes the committee viewed with
out alarm. Our property rights remain but
they undergo change" it pointed out. Eve
ti10JIo 10
but that initiative has larger possibilities,
affects others more intimately. and therefore
is subject to more public control"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10

needed twenty-five motorcycle Off
GERS. The department has more
than dozen motorcycles now q
have seen that many at one time
taking part in parades), but the
sight of a motorcycle policeman in
the residential districts now is such
a rarity that it brings the natives
running to stare.
AS result of the Information OF
the dreaded cycle cop all last winter,
motorists of the city have gotten in
the habit of running wild"
The average motorist no longer
can remember the speed limit in
the city, because it has been so long
since it has been necessary to OBJ
serve it.
Stop street signs might as well
be printed with invisible ink, for all
the good they do. 1t has gotten to
the point where it actually is dan
gerous for a driver to obey the
law and stop at stop signal, II
several cars are following him.
Brakes Squeal and cars following
swerve to the right and to the left
to dodge him, their drivers shouting
imprecations, as they shoot by the
law-obeyer, disregarding the signal.
The poor frightened motorist who
committed the offense of obeying
the law feels like a rabbit diving
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
TOO TECHNICAL

MEMBERS Of the house of representatives,
1V1 including the leaders, have done good
deal of grumbling about deflationary recon-
mendations of the new administration. They
have, nevertheless been regular" in their
support of them.
Now, however, an important inf1ationary
measure has been laid before the house-the
emergency relief bill. Instead CT greeting it
with open arms, the leaders have permitted
it to slumber in committee
Concerning the Presidents recommended
ton that $500000,000 be granted the states to
relieve human suffering, there has been no
sign of regularity" among house leaders of
his party.
Delay is being excused in the house by dis
pute over a technical point-whether a bill
such as this legally could originate in the SEN
ate The dispute is an interesting one and
may be contested for weeks.
But there is not one valid reason why it
should prevent immediate passage of the re-
lief bill substitute measure has been in
troduced in the house. If it is passed. it will
be accepted promptly by the senate, which
cares more about helping suffering people
than quarreling over precedents.
The house has demonstrated how quickly it
can act when it desires The difference in it's
behavior now will not escape the attention of
the country
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10

WHENEVER human hatred and
w crueltry become uppermoSt in
the heart, there follows the cry:
This is a Holy war"
And this cry now resounds in the
ears of the hauSfrau while the anti
Jewish movement in Germany goes
on, a movement more barbarous
than anything that has taken place
since the World war. 1t makes one
almost despair of the human race.
And because Americas skirts are
far from clean, it is an excellent
thing for us to look squarely at the
reasons for the Towering of such
racial conflicts. These events do not
spring to life overnight. They are
the result of long, slow, and eternal
ly fed growths. for which vicious
and lying propaganda furnish the
sustenance.
And behind all the camouf1age,
beyond all the nationalistic fervorS,
one monostrous evil looms-greed.
TINE desire for money always is
J. the urge that pushes men and
women to such cruelties. The Jews
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
Long Life Is Inherited Characteristic

II ONG life without reasonable
IL amount Of good health is not
necessarily blessing. 1t was found
many years ago that in a group of
people whose fathers and mothers
both had lived to 80 years there was
an average duration Of life of SGT
years, whereas in another group
whose fathers and mothers had died
before 60 there was an average du-
ration Of life of only 1913 years.
Long life is an inherited charac-
teristic. Oliver Wendell Holmes said
that the way to live long was to pick
grandparents who lived long.
In a recent survey Of old age,
DR.. L. F. Barker points out that
there are differences in the ways in
which disease attacks the aged and
the young.
Nearly half of all old people die as
a result Of some disorder Of the cir
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
MONDAY. APRIL 10. laaa.
THE SCOTTSBORO VERDICT


THE conviction of Haywood Patterson first
- of the Negro defendants in the second
trials of the scottsboro cases, will be appealed
1t should be.
Among other things prejudcial to a fair
trial, the defense attorney was able to show
that the jury law apparently was administered
to exclude Negroes from the panel for this
case. On more than one occasion during the
trial, the state attorneys conducted themselves
In such way as to prevent orderly and judicious
consideration Of evidence by the jury.
In repudiating her testimony at the earlier
trial, Ruby Bates last Thursday swore that the
other girl in the case, Victoria Price, had
framed the Negro youths Lester Carter,
white friend of the two girls, confirmed the
testimony of Ruby Bates.
To execute boys on the discredited evidence
Of woman Of Victoria Prices character, and
following a trial in which racial discrimination
seemed to operate in the jury panel, would be
unthinkable
Just as the chief justice of Alabama dis
sented from the first Scottsboro conviction
and just as the United States supreme court
threw out that conviction as a violation of the
fourteenth amendment of the Constitution
preventing states from depriving ANY person
of life, liberty, or property without due process
of law" so the Decatur verdict appears certain
to be set aside by higher court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10

Hebrew has endured pillages and
pOgroms, he has been driven from
long established homes and suffered
the loss Of property and business,
not because the Christians have
feared so nightly the Jewish creed,
but because they have wanted that
which belonged to the Jew.
We have desired that which the
Jew spent his life in accommodating
and we have taken it in the name
Of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the
sacred cause of patriotism.
Men do not fight holy wars for
holy causes. They fight for filthy
lucre. They prosecute their fellows,
not to further high principles, but
to obtain riches for themselves.
1t would be perfectly safe, I mag
inc, to surmise that Herr Hitler
wishes to repudiate all debts owing
to Jews and intends to procure their
wealth, if possible.
So as a last vile aftermath of the
disastrous World war, We see con-
flscated the money and property OF
Herr Einstein, who is easily the
most famous of the sons Of unhappy
Germany.
But we insult God if we believe
that He is party to any such tyr
amy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
DECLINES

ME remarkable start made by President
Roosevelt indicates the great value to the
nation of cultivated, trained, and alert states
man. 1t certainly is true that Mr.. Roosevelt
is entitled to the highest credit for his nota-
BILE achievements to date
But he stands out in the nation not only
because Of what he has done, but also on
account of the lamentable absence of MANY
men of similar qualities in our national gov
eminent.
One always needs to be on his guard
against lapsing into sentimental worship of
past heroes but no student of American his
tory can fail to be impressed by the remarka-
bic contrast between the nature of our fed
eral leadership in the years following 1889
and in recent years.
This striking and challenging fact has been
set forth admirably by the American OBJ
server" journal for the current information of
teachers of history and the social sciences:
"A well-known American historian has
made study the results of which surely
must be disQuieting to those who care great
ly for American democracy.
This historian read hundreds of ad-
dresses delivered by American statesmen dur
ing the first forty years of the republic He
examined these speeches to see how many of
them gave evidence of a knowledge of history
and economics.
He then read a like number of addresses
delivered by American statesmen of first rank
during the last forty years and these, too, he
subjected to the test to see what evidence they
gave that those who delivered them were
students of history, economics, and govern
ment.
He found between three and four times
as many evidences of historical and economic
scholarship in the earlier addresses as he
found in those recently delivered.
Studies such as these-and they will
occasion no surprise to those who have fol-
lowed closely the course of American politics
are genuinely alarming. They indicate that
something has been happening during the last
century or so that has caused a deterioration
in politics.
They show that the tide is running against
democracy in this country. They furnish
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10
It Seems
to Me
BY JOE WILLIAMS
Batting for Haywood Broun)

A FEDERAL judge has sentenced
L n Prince Mike Romanoff TO
ninety days in a detention prison,
and such is the unique social posi-
ton of the gentleman in the me
tropolis that it IS a page one story
in the newspapers.
To a great number of New York
ers, the prince is what loosely is
known as picturesque character.
rare bird. and a hot sketch. To
others whose critical standards are
more severe, the prince, 1 suspect.
IS just a plain bum.
His square monicker is GerguSon.
and about as close as he ever get to
any ROYALTY was to meld kings in q
pinochle game. For as long as any
one can remember. he has been a
big dealer in smal-tlme frauds
The princes revealed adventures
range from blatant impOStue to
luIuriant larcenieS, and vet, the ewes
Of the law seldom bestowed so much
as a full glance on him. For some
reason his living room malfeaSances
we're accepted as mischieyous rather
than malicious.
1t gives me no personal satisflc-
ton to know that the bogus Ro-
manoff has been incarcerated. but I
Go not question the intelligence and
business OF surrounding him with
impressive legends of the unusual.
Personally, I should call him a One
Eye Connolly with a cane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-10

who we're confronted with an old
age full Of pain and distress.
Very few people indeed die of a
simple, gradual wearing out of liv-
ing tissues. This physiological old
age, if it occurs, takes place around
80 years.
Most people die instead from some
sudden breaking down of an organ
or tissue. Doctor Barker points out
that no human organism can live
longer than the potential period set
by the energy charge Of the fer
tilted egg cell from which it starts.
This energy charge, or inherited
vitality, gradually is worn out dur
ing life.
However, it is possible to save
energy by leading a good hygienic
existence and by avoiding accidental
death from infectious disease or
other types Of accidents like those
which occur in traffic.