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Carrollton Avenue Reformed-The Rev.
2. G. Homrighausen. pastor. Morning
theme. "Christ. Our Religion"
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Results Yesterday
Eleven Innings)

Kansas City 900. 100 600 0l0 90 ? 8 0
Milwaukee ...... 600 l0l 600 OIL II 0
Fullerton and Brenzel. Crandan Polli
and Renss.
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THE AMERICAN WAY

II CAN'T see millions of people on direct re-
lief" said Relief Administrator Harry Hop
kins. Il don't think that is the American way"
But unfortunately, it has been the Amer
lean way up until now.
Years ago Bismarck for Germany, Lloyd
George for Britain, leaders for other industrial
nations abandoned charity doles and set up
systems of insurance against industrial injury,
sickness. widowhood, old age unemployment,
and other social hazards. It has taken the
United States five years of degrading does,
now costing the federal government upward
of billion dollars year. to learn the costs
of industrial unpreparedness.
There are thirteen other countries in which
unemployment insurance is compulsory, ten
in which it is voluntary. Recently Wisconsin
put into effect our first state unemployment
insurance system.
More than one-third of the worlds popula-
ton now are covered by some governmental
system for old age protection. People of China,
India and the U. S. A. still have none. OF
the twenty-eight states that have old age pen
sions about twenty have adequate systems.
Some twenty-five countries, with a total
pOpulallOu OF more bIdu OOO,OOO,UOU people,
have compulsory systems of health insurance
for all or part of their workers China, India
and the U. S. A. have none.
At last, however, we are on our way. The
President has started a summer of investiga-
lions under a cabinet committee headed by
Secretary of Labor Perkins This committee
will gather facts hold hearings and prepare
broad program to be presented to the next
congress. This will cover what the President
calls the security of the home, the security
of livelihood and the security of social in
surance."
We are about to abandon the cruel old ways
of chance and neglect, of grudging minimum
handouts and poor farms, of fear and despair.
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AN OLD PROPHECY

NOTHING is much more interesting than
= to look back at the prophecies of the
past. One of these, just revealed by publ
cation at Moscow of old documents in the
ex-czar's foreign Office, is especially interest
ing to Americans.
In 1898, while the Spanish American war
was at its height, the Russian ambassador at
washington wrote size-up of the situation
for his home government. He recognized
the fact that a new world power was being
born, and he saw also that America was max
ing a complete break with its past, and he
said:
Not so long ago there occurred COM
plete revolution in the ideas and political
principles of this country. Not satisfied with
the past, upon which she has built up her
wealth, happiness, and prosperity, she strives
to discover a future which in all probability
will hold innumerable disappointments and
serious trouble for her"
Considering the fact that the World war
and its accompanying troubles were among
the things that we Numbered into thereafter,
it looks as If this czarist ambassador was
pretty good prophet.
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THE BLINDNESS OF WAR

IT viii be long time before the last human
l. echoes OF the World war finally die out.
Every so often we hear one Of them-some
little. long-forgotten fragment OF personal
tragedy tossed of by the great catastrophe
and when We 90. We begin to understand why
the old Romans and Greeks symbolized war
as n personality. a God. Mars or Ares, a clumsy
and heavy-footed brute who tramped along
needless OF the people he stepped on.
4 French military court Just the other day
made final disposal Of the cases Of five soldiers
WHO we're shot in 1915 for mutiny.
These soldiers were members Of noted
detachment OF shock troops-the fifth COM
pSny OF the sixty-third infantry regiment.
famous for its fighting qualities. But in the
spring Of 1915 things had gone badly with
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them, and they we're pretty well fed up on
the var
The outfit had been in the st. Mihiel sector,
and had gone through long, hard engage
ment that left it racked almost to exhaustion.
It was drawn out. the ranks were rehlled with
raw recruits-and then, instead Of getting a
breathing space, in which morale and dis
cipine could be renewed, it was sent right
back into action.
The reason was simple. The situation at
the front was bad; shock troops could not be
spared. So the war-weary sixty-third went
back into the line, to face a bombardment
even worse than the one from which it had
Just emerged.
The veterans lost their energy; the recruits
we're stunned, almost paralyzed with fear.
Orders came for a charge-and the fifth
company refused to move. So the military
machine moved to punish it for mutiny. The
company officers ordered one man chosen by
lot from each squad to pay the penalty. Five
soldiers were chosen, marched of to a military
court-and executed by a firing squad.
Nineteen years later widows of two of these
men got the case reviewed. And the French
army command decided that an injustice had
been done. 1t held that the 1915 court should
have been lenent, and that it was unfair to
make five men, chosen by lot, suffer for the
whole company. So the dead men, at last,
have been exonerated.
To be eXonerated nineteen years after you
have been executed must be pretty cold COM
fort. The whole story is a revealing COM
mentary-not on the blindness of any particu-
lar set Of officers, but on the ruthless and i'm
personal way in which any war machine must,
occasionally, trample justice and personal
rights under foot
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SATURDAY. JULY :. 1924.
THE DOCKERS' STRIKE

A BOUT the only social value the sanguin-
n ary strike Of Pacific coast dockmen seems
70 have is as a warning.
This protracted and violent affair teaches
the lesson the Orientals have learned. that hui
mans sometimes will fight even harder to save
their faces than to gain an economic ad-
vantage.
Since May 9, when the dockmen went out
in demand for union recognition and better
hours and wages. both strikers and employers
have been playing a face-sawng game. Sew
eral times during the negotiations the belliger-
ents have been on the point OF patching their
differences. Pride always has interviewed, and
with each failure mutual agreement has be-
come more difficult. The shippers have been
paying for their pride in millions Of dollars in
losses. The unionists may pay in loss of their
strike. The climax to the long-draWn-Out
quarrel is the very thing that neither side
wanted the Intervention Of state militiamen
to reopen the ports. Now. instead of reasoned
negotiation, passion is loosed along with tear
gas and gunhre.
The public should have been in the affair
as peacemaker, instead OF a strike-breaker,
armed with policemen's clubs and troopers
bayonets. The federal government several
times has profered its services in mediation to
no avail But now the public is in the busi-
ness it should do It's policing with minimum
show OF force. There is no excuse for orders
to shoot with bullets and kill with bayonets.
Such orders breed more hate, spread disorder,
prolong the warfare, and tend to make Of the
strikers and their sympathizers radical and
embittered enemies of society.
Under the Presidents new labor boards
there should be less Of this senseless blood
letting. It Will be the governments business
to see that strikers do not reach the stage of
blind unreason and to provide forum for or
DERBY adjustment of labor disputes. The gov
ernments new mediation machinery is the
publics substitute for just such bitter wars as
this
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CENSORS THROTTLE EUROPE

D UTHLESS dictatorship creeping from
country to country has strangled free
dom of the press and thought among three
fourths of the people of Europe.
The condition abroad offers a remarkable
contrast TO the freedom of thought and con-
science and the freedom of the press which
the American people have preserved through
out the present world affection.
Three hundred million people in ten coun-
tries are victims Of iron-heeled censorship.
Sixty millions in six countries are being
dragged under it.
Albin E. johnson, in an article in Editor
and Publisher. declares from Geneva:
Less than 26 per cent of Europes popula-
ton enjoys anything that remotely resembles
personal liberty and freedom of expression
and conscience"
In a map accompanying the article, black,
indicating absolute censorship and shading.
indicating limited censorship, cover all of
Europe except France, the British Isles, Den
mark Norway and Sweden and Czecho-
slovakia. 1t is as if a giant pail had been laid
thwart a continent.
The people are told what it is thought
good for them to know" by the likes of Hitler
and Goebels. When public support lags the
dictators give the people a shot in the arm"
-anger-stirring lies such as were fed the war
time nations.
Newspapers have died away like flies-5OO
in a year in Germany. Readers have disap-
peared, turning to foreign newspapers which
in turn are being barred and even censored.
"A new generation says Mr.. johnson. is
growing into youth and manhood beyond the
Alps almost entirely ignorant of what is hap
pening politically beyond their frontiers" And
in Germany. given time, the Nazis will develop
their system to a point where when three or
four Germans are gathered together all will
loudly praise Der Fuerhrer, because none has
confidence in the others"
BY contrast. in this nation the press speech,
thought remain free. The value in this
hereditary right Of the American people is
seldom specifically considered by the average
person. 1t is so universally taken for granted.
But a poison OF censorship which. propa-
gated at home and abroad by dictators has
afflicted 100000. or three-fourths of the
people Of Europe. completely destroying their
freedom Of press and other civil liberties. is a
threat in times ike these to even the freest
people on earth.
Censorship breeds in economic misery,
father Of relationships. A free press and free
watched with the greatest vigilance by the
American people in their effort to Danish
misery by democratic methods.
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Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABELL

THE Fourth of July found New Dealers and
l. Old Dealers, diplomats and government
officials, residential society and service officers
scattered far and wide.
The state department was deserted.
Secretary of State Hull wearing white linen
trousers and blue coat, was on motor tour
through Virginia. Elegant Undersecretary Of
State Phillips was in Beverly, Mass, a trifle
bored with the heat wave.
Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles,
who has been hopping his lofty brow with
monogrammed handkerchiefs, relaxed in his
swimming pool at his country estate at OXon
Hill. Nd.
Poppy little Ambassador Augusta Rosso of
Italy sailed for Rome to reSt-and see Musso-
lini.
The Swedish minister, cherubic Mr.. Bos-
from, suffering from the heat very visibly, found
that Swedish messages and cold tubs couldn't
help him. He's off for Sweden.
GONE people think Ambassador Patek of Po-
- land doesn't know summer is here. He wore
his fur overcoat until May. Recently he was
in Atlantic City-but now he's back, bravely
enduring the heat, no one knows why. His
post long has been known as one of the diplo-
matte sinecureS.
Ambassador Saito of Japan is en- route to
Toxic.
The British ambassador, Sir Ronald Lind
say, is in England and Lady Lindsay is in Seal
Harbor Me. The Lindsays never spend the
summer together.
Harry Hopkins, FERA administrator, hoped
off for Europe, after quick press conference
in which he spoke of studying housing prob
lens abroad and seemed in great hurry. He
barely caught his train
Navy Secretary Swanson, his long mus
tachioS trailing in delicious breeze, sailed
iown the Potomac on board the Sequoia. Miss
Swanson and a party Of friends accompanied
him.
The minister of Persia and his WIFE, the ex-
otto silva Djalal, went to Long Island to visit
Colonel Robert Guggenheim at his Babylon
estate.
THE attorney general and Mrs. Homer S.
Il Cummings followed the lead of Swanson
and cruised down the Potomac on friends
boat
One diplomat who was working was Min
lister Enrique Finot of Bolivia. He is handling
the Bolivian negotiations for war material con-
tracts. The Bolivians claim they placed large
orders here before President Roosevelt de-
clared an arms embargo-and the Q. 5. is ex-
pected to allow certain shipments to go through
French Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye is
in France-and reports are that he won't be
back
Secretary Of War George Dern has sailed for
Panama with Mrs Dern and daughter, Betsy.
They'll be away month.
Jonkheer van Haersman de With, the new
Dutch envoy, sent back word from Newport
! that he's remaining there another week. He
| loves the place.
| Jovial Michael MacWhite, minister OF the
| Irish Free State, is on a motor trip through
| the Catskills. Il want to visit Lake Mahotac,
he said with a twinkling smile before leaving
1T sounds like the name Of an Irish WHISKY.
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city Of this size does not even know
the traffic laws, then it is hard to
expect the public to observe them.
To prove my statement, 7 refer to
a statement by Chief Morrissey
published in local paper the day
before the Speedway race in which
he stated that pedestrians had the
right of way at intersections.
would like to inform the chief
that pedestrians do not have the
right of way at intersections. The
traffic light is meant for them just
the same as for motorists.
If a pedestrian should be walking
south, for instance, on Meridian
street and crossed an intersection
against the red light and should
be injured by a car going east or
west, he would have no cause for
legal action against the driver Of
the car.
I formerly lived in city in an
adjoining state and will say that
we would not have thirty-four vio-
lations in whole week. That is,
at one particular intersection. We
wonder at the increase in traffc
deaths. I wonder there are not
more.
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NEW TEST OF POWER

ONE of the most important cases that will
~ face the United States supreme court,
when it convenes next fall, will be the one
dealing with the Iron Mountain Railroad and
its thirty-year gold bonds.
Some thirty years ago this railroad now
part Of the Missouri Pacihc) issued bonds
which contained promise to pay in gold
coin of the present standard of weight and
fineneSS" When time for payment came along,
the nation had abandoned its old gold stand
ard and congress took the gold clause out of
all public and private bonds
The present lawsuit over these railroad
bonds constitutes a test of congress power to
take such action.
The federal court Of st. Louis has upheld
congress. ruling that these old gold clauses
are unenforceable. So now-what will the
supreme court 90? If it rules the other way,
big monkey wrench will land right in the mid
die Of the New Deals chief cogwheels.
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SEES WIDESPREAD
TRAFFIC VIOLATION

By An Ex-Claim Adjuster.
1 think it is about time for some
one to call a halt to traffic law VIC
lations in this city.
live in an apartment overlook
ing the intersection of Massachu-
sets avenue and Noble street, di-
rectly opposite the traffic light at
the southwest entrance to the inter-
section. In all my experience, I
never have seen such disregard,
such wholesale violations of the
traffic laws as practiced in this
city.
Last Saturday night between S
and s I sat in my window and re-
corded thirty-four violations at this
point.
Here are some of them:
Forming double line of traffic in
safety zone approaching intersec-
ton, passing other cars on the
right, two cars abreast going
through intersection, running red
light, running ambec light and cut
ting through safety zone en6 pass
ing traffic light on the left.
Only cars or trucks belonging to
the fire department, police cars or
ambulances are permitted to pass
traffic light to the left.
But when the chief Of police Of
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REFERS NEW DEALERS
TO CONSTITUTION

BY E. B. Payne.
In your editorial Of July 3 on
Mr.. Fletcher's appeal to the public
to reread the declaration, you very
properly quoted the heart of the
document and commented very per-
tinently thereon.
May I suggest that while we are
rereading the declaration, we brush
up a little on the Constitution and
find out what the second section
of Article 3, particularly the Sec
ond paragraph and more particu-
larly the last twelve words of this
paragraph means, if anything.
To me it seems that in the face
of the threat of powerful opponents
of the New Deal to have the whole
program declared unconstitutional,
this innocent appearing paragraph
is the complete answer to the pray
ers of the New Dealers, if they only
have the intelligence and courage to
use the teeth this paragraph car
ries.
I am not quoting the paragraph
I refer to because I believe the
point will sink deeper if curiosity
incites the reader to do little
digging" for himself in order to
find out what it is all about.
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most important part Of the or
dinance.
If the younger generation is to be
rescued" one Of the first steps in
this direction is to keep our boys and
girls as far away as possible from
such evil places as bars, saloons
and taprooms.
Doubtless, the management Of
some of these places think their
sales mount higher If a pretty bar
maid is on hand to serve the per-
nicious connections. They only
think of how much money they take
in and never consider the harmful
effect on our girls morals.
I certainly hope another or
dinance will be passed to remedy
this dreadful situation.
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PLEASED BY ACTION
IN CLEANER MOVIES
Iv = Movie Fan 1Fother

BY Movie Fan Mother.
When a great public need faces
our country, it is encouraging TO
learn that persons Of varying re-
ligious beliefs can cooperate to
take care Of it. The recent action
Of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
groups in condemning moving pic
lures which undoubtedly are detri-
mental to American youth is an
outstanding example of the real ma
tional spirit OF these churches.
Though these religions differ
widely in creed, ritual and general
views of life, they are ready to
fight shoulder to shoulder against
the evil Of questionable movies.
Producers who are wise will take
this action at its proper value, ard
regulate moving pictures accorc.-
ingly.
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BY u. Js b.
An interview with Alfred P.
Sloan Jr., president of General
Motors, Where Do We Go From
Here" published in the June 16
number of Today, is we'll worth
reading because therein is set
forth by one of the ablest of the
opponents and practitioners of
rugged individualism" the argu-
ments for that philosophy.
He states:
1--WE are living in a not-yet-
finished world. The progress of
the next two million years is as
inevitable as that of the last two
million years." and Il can not help
but feel that in very short time
we are going to break loose an
other great piece of basic infor-
nation which will keep us indus
trially busy for a great many
years to come"
This leads one to these conclu-
sionS:
That our ten million unem-
ployed have only the hope for
some great piece OF basic infor-
nation to be broken loose" Gre
ating a situation such as that Gre
ated between 1914 and 1919 by the
World war and between 1920 and
1929 by the motor car industry, to
keep them from starving.
That there is nc disposition on
the part of rugged individualism"
to accept the idea that while
brains and the development of
science have wholly revolutionized
business and industry, that our
governmental and social institu-
tions are as archaic as the method
of transportation in 1888 would be
today.
That there is something unique
and sacred about our Constitu-
ton. That were it possible to ap-
ply our best brains, the scientific
method, and the accumulated ex-
perience of $50 years of our his
tory, it would be almost treason to
suggest that it would be possible
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CONDEMNS COURSE OF
LIQUOR BUSINESS

BY W. H. r.
When the millionaire brewers and
distillers were Clamoring for votes
to repeal the eighteenth amend
ment, it was loudly proclaimed that
there never would be a return to the
old time saloon.
They succeeded in fooling ma
jority of the voters and got the
amendment of the books. We have
not had a return of the saloon. Now
we have restaurants and taVerns
and beer parlors.
1t was considered a disgrace for
woman to enter saloon, but these
joints have been clothed with re-
spectability, and young boys and
girls not only enter them, but forget
to come out until they have to be
carried out
A few nights ago two men and
two women came out of one of the
most respectable of these places at
2:30 a. M All we're staggering, but
one, the youngest girl who did not
look to be more than II. She was
too drunk to stand and one of the
men lifted her into taxi and got
in beside her. Fortunately, the taxi
driver was sober, or there might
have been more to the story.
These joints, open all night, are
worse by far than the saloon ever
was and unless there is a lot of
regulating done very quickly prohi-
bition will be back into the Consti-
tuition to stay.
Have we become so depraved that
we must debauch all our sons and
daughters TO raise revenue? Must
our government tolerate, for the
sake Of revenue, a business whose
prosperity depends on the demor-
alization Of its customers, and whose
best customer is the community's
worst citizen?
The traffic is being run on a plan
that surely will bring its destruc-
ton on its own head, for surely the
ma jority of our citizens will not
want it to go on as it is now oper-
ated.
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A WISH
BY VIRGINIA

D1 H1hO1N1A
A beacon Light in storm toss'd sea
Of Doubt; of God, sometimes, when
He
Has failed to answer heav'nward
prayer
And I am doubtful He Is there,
He shines me on, to flrrner shore,
And I believe in God once more.
He like Hand that points the
way
To Better Living, but should I stray
From straighter Path to rocks below,
Lie bruised and saddened, this
know:
He'd take me up and mend my
wings,
And soothe away the Hurt Of
Things.
He's sacrificed, he's pray'd. he's tried
To give me joys that Life denied
HIM in his youth. and ere he's gone,
Let me repay him what he's done
In no small, way; let me prove I'm
glad
For Gods great gift to me. my Dad
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REPLIES TO CRITIC OF
STREET RAILWAY

BY Pete.
read in this column letter by
Daily Reader" addressed to Dear
Big Shots" and in it he said:
The indianapolis Street Railway
blows about how it is improving our
big city. But how? BY cutting men
off and using one-man cars aid
that is progress-putting people out
of work"
think that man should get out
of indianapolis and visit other
cities-large cities-such as Chicago
and New York. That might open
his eyes to our progress. Chicago
has street cars, such as we discarded,
and taxicabs I would be afraid to
ride in.
1 think Daily Reader" should
keep awake when writing.
About unemployment-did we
growl when trains took the places
of wagons and when cotton gins
came into existence? Yet each has
put men out of work.
Let Daily Reader" and all his
class think before they condemn.