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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06

Our big Army and Navy could defend us
from attack, could enable US to fight better
war after we were in, and might even hasten
our entrance into war because Of our armed
strength But our big Army and Navy-even
II twice the size--can not in themselves keep
us out of world war if it comes.
Only positive peace policy of or govern
ment, backed by public opinion can keep us
out. A positive peace policy means the delib-
crate removal, in so far as possible, of the
causes of friction.
In the case Of Japan that means, among
other things, removal OF the immigration dis
elimination insult. and aloofness from Far
Eastern commitments for which we are not
willing to fight.
In the case of Europe it means settlement
Of the old war debts dispute and non-interfer-
ence in the new balance of-power struggle
precipitated by Germany. In general, it
means that we cease the economic aggression
OF tariff war; monetary war, and war for
special interests of American capital abroad
the economic warfare which is the basic calse
of military war.
TT means that we remove the vested interest
u of certain American groups in war by ma
tionalization of the munitions industry, that
we make war Improbable for all by heavy tax
alton, that we ban war shipments and war
loans, that we realistically relinquish the free
seas policy which we can not enforce without
war and which is not worth war in which
all lose.
OF course, all of these ideas are in the air
on this eighteenth war anniversary. The
American people are educating themselves in
this, and the Roosevelt Administration is feel
ing its way toward clothing these ideas In
actual policies and definite laws.
But it may be a race with time. World
war may be avoided abroad or delayed, but
when it comes it comes suddenly. Safety for
us is in moving swiftly toward our prepared
ness for peace.
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ISOLATION'S LIMIT

GEORGE wASHINGTONS advice to his
" countrymen included the warning, IN
time of peace. prepare for war" The cur
rent idea at the capital seems to be 10 re-
wise this to read. In time Of peace, prepare
to stay out of war"
one of the most interesting things now
under consideration hv he Administration Is
new kind of fc ,gr policy designed TO keep
this country clear Of any scraps in winch
foreign nations may indulge
state Department Senate Munitions Com
mittee. and the White House have been con-
s;derinp the outlines of this policy with the
notion that a nation which plays its cards
carefully can't be forced into any conflict IN
which its own vital interests are not m
volved.
It is proposed. for instance, to empower
the President, in case of war among foreign
nations. to halt the issuance of passports 10
Americans DESTROYS of travelling through the
war zone. unless their business is SO urgent
that they are willing to go at their own risk.
Another proposal is that the President be
empowered to withdraw United States pro-
lection from all American ships which enter
war zones American exporters 1uight trade
with warning nations if they wished, but the
risk would be strictly their own II they uio So
These two proposals are long steps in the
direction OF that national isolation which
seems to be growing popular these days.
But the isolation they propose is isolation OF
an intelligent kind; an isolation which quite
properly would place the national desire for
ueace above the desire of individuals TO pront
by foreign conflict.
It is pretty clear that If we should repeat
our 1914 kind of neutrality in a new Euro
pean war. our chances of staying out of the
war would be little better than they were the
last time.
We insisted that American ships and Amer
lean travellers had an inalienable right to go
through the war zones and to do business in
any market they could find; our ilsistence
on that right finally compelled us to uphold
it by force of arms-and a war which seemed
very remote. when it started, at last came to
our own doorstep.
Wouldn't it be good deal smarter Of us
To waive that right? We might miss some
very profitable business, to be sure. War or
ders meant big dividends to American in
vestors in 1915 and 1915.
But in the end that trade landed us in the
war-and, thereby, proved about the most ex-
pensive kind Of business we ever had
Plans now being matured at Washington
point in the right direction. II We are going
to follow a policy of isolation in foreign af-
fairs. we might as we'll carry it to its logical
conclusion.
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THE absent-minded professor of song and
story seems to have rival in the field
of forgetfulness- absent minded investor
1t is announced at Washington that the
Treasury has $780, 100000 due to holders of
matured United States Treasury Bonds The
holders of these bonds. who paid out their
hard-earned money over a period of years.
seem to have forgotten all about them.
Perhaps some Of them labored under the
delusion that in buying the bonds they were
making outright contributions to their gov
eminent. At any rate, Treasury officials say
that only q very small percentage of this
money will ever be claimed.
Forgetfulness which costs the forgettors
upward of slOo.ooO,oOO is a form of absent
mindedness which makes the legendary pro-
fessor look like an exponent of the most rigid
efficiency.
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LIKE FROG IN THE WELL

ECONOMIC recovery in the United States
Lis evidently progressing in series Of waves.
The hollows between the crests represent re-
trogressions from temporary high points; but
they also represent slow. but definite, advances
over the extreme low Of the winter Of 1928.
Just now. business is in its third New Deal
slump.
One business advance began with Presi-
dent Roosevelts Inauguration in the spring
OF 1888, and collapsed in July Of that year.
The next began in November. 1888. and lasted
six months. TO be followed by another de-
cline. Last September a third advance be-
gan: and now it. too. is shading of.
The encouraging point, however. is that
each decline seems to be less precipitous
than those before. The Federal Reserve in
dsx Of industrial production stood at 50 n
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
NEW DEAL POLICIES ARE
ROUTINE GOVERNMENT DUTY
By Robert Keating.

BY Robert Heating.
v. E. boldly takes up the torch for
Mr.. Blume and defends Mr.. Blume's
vaguenesS by being even more vague.
He fearleSsly answers question No l
to himself. Then he very bravely
explains questions 2, 8 and by not
explaining them. v. E. thus spoke
his mind-all of it, I suppose.
meant that Mr.. Blume's ques-
tions in themselves do not involve
controversy. MAINTAIN that both
New Dealers and Old Dealers can
give the same answers to those
questions. Who says that one group
of men is doing the thinking for
the individual business man and
labor? Didn't some business men
and laborers recently indorse the
New Deal at the polls? Where they
not thinking when they did it? I
do not believe in ore man or in one
group of men doing the thinking for
the entire nation. Neither DO I be-
lieve that any such thing is happen
ing under the present Administra-
ton.
AS to governmental interior
ence? Government should not be a
thing apart like another man who
can 90 his own way while each one
of us goes our own way. 1t should
be the natural outgrowth Of our
necessities, desires. thoughts. ac-
TORS and circumstances. AS such.
its functions must be to administer
and regulate 50 that every one en-
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Looking at America
by GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON

WASHINGTON April 6.-The New Deal is
w in nutcracker One jaw is the Long
Coughlin lot who say it doesn't go far enough,
the other is the Old Guard which says it goes
too far. Between them they bid fair to crush it..
BY "Old Guard" I mean the most reactionary
element of American business which wants to
go straight back to Hooverism tomorrow. The
bowling joke is that both sides say that NRA
brushes the little fellow and makes for monopoly.
On the Old Guard side, this comes from the
mouths of men who sponsored a system which,
between 1919 and 1880 saw more than 1900 mer-
gers wipe out more than 5000 little fellows, and
that is just one record of authenticated cases
which probably does not tell half the story.
Most of business wants to see NRA con-
tinued. That part which does not is the most
monopolistic and anti-social group in this coun-
try.
year ago foolishly appointed a so-called
heavy goods committee to suggest improvements
in NRA. Their proposal was to cut its throat.
They are now lobby to assure the cutting. In
this they are in accord with much that Senators
Nye and Hney Long advocate. Aiding both are
men in the Federal Trade Commission under
which this vast sweep toward monopoly went
on for the IL years before Roosevelt.
Can you beat it? Extreme radicals extreme
monopoliSts, and yet men from the governments
official but ineffective trust-busting machine
all in the same bed together.
TINE truth is that all but an insignificant part
IL not per cent-of the little fellow COM
plant is from some small employers who say
they can't stay in business if they have to pay
code wages for code hours. Minimum code wages
are so low that anything less would be sweating
labor The whole false front of the charges
that NESA fosters monopoly and Expresses the
little fellow is set up to defeat the principal
purpose of NRA which was to take the hours
and wages of labor out of the shambles of mer-
CHESS competition.
For 40 years there has stood in the statutes
e. declaration by Congress that human labor is
not a commodity of commerce. Never, until the
enactment of NRA, did Congress ever do any,
thing to make that declaration good. The hours
anG wage provisions of the codes finally did it.
They are in danger of deStruction-not by direct
attack-but by assertion that they Cypress the
little fellow in business.
The object of the monopolists is to restore
practices which for a decade wiped out COM
petitorS by the thousands every year While
not their object, it is matter of indifference
to them that this means the return Of the sweat
shop, of child labor, and of every abuse that
existed before NRA. If they now persuade
Congress to throw hours and wages back into
the savage cockpit of competition, that is the
affair of Congress.
I insist that, in doing it, they step into the
light, take full responsibility for what they pro-
pose, and not conceal it behind the greasy ho-
KUN of protecting the little fellow and prevent
ing monopoly.
Copyright 1885, by United Feature Syndicate Inc. All
rights reserved. Reproduction in whole
part forbidden)
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PEACEMAKER

JAMES MULLENBACH, who died the other
y day in Chicago was one of this country's
pioneering industrial arbitrator.
A former minister, he was called to the
battlefields of industry years ago and became
chairman of the Labor Arbitration Board OF
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer
lea. His was the course of reason. So effec-
tive was his responsiveness that when labor
strife spread widely last year, President Roose-
welt called him to Washington. He served as
member Of the oil. steel and textile labor re-
lations boards. AS in the clothing industry
on these boards he worked to prevent strikes
rather than to cure them after they had
caused waste and hatred.
He died as a result of overwork.
Surely among the blessed these days are
the peacemakers of industry.
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GIVE AND TAKE

CECRETARY HULL singled out one of the
- worst offenders when he announced that
France must straighten out her trade relations
to give American goods fair break. BY her
import quotas and two-column tariff schedule,
France has Disseminated against American
goods. while enjoying equal treatment with
other nations in American markets.
Fortunately the showdown on our most
favored-ration policy is to come with power
full nation. France and America stand as
equals in the international game of give and
take.
That we sci Twice as much to France as we
buy from her is not pertinent. If France wants
better balanced trade. the place to demand it
is over the bargaining table where our reci-
procity treaties are being drawn. The issue now
is equality of treatment.
Our fight to regain lost markets abroad is
fight of desperation. We can not afford over
night to cut our cotton acreage in half, or gear
down to domestic markets other industries
built up to produce for world consumption. We
can not add more millions to our unemploy-
ment rolls. Instead, We must restore Jobs to
those turned into the streets by the tightening
bonds of economic nationalism
True, we helped to strange ourselves. Fail
ing to recognize that the World War changed
ours into creditor nation, We were foolhardy
enough to enact the Smoot- Hawley law But
under the sane guidance of Secretary Hull. we
are again turning economically toward the rest
of the world.
Secretary Hulls announcement is notice
that henceforth we hew to trade policy OF
enlightened selfishuess.
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sATuRpAY. ApRn. .. les
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1-PHOOEY


FINANCES in the values Of the news are
~ amazing.
A year ago John Dillinger was Public
Enemy No. 1 and reams Of copy were being
written about his escapades He had escaped
from the Crown Point Jail March 3 and was
being hunted throughout the Midwest. On
April g. 1894, little news of Dillinger APP
peared in the headlines, but on April 7, car
he had been driving was wrecked near Nobles-
vile and he again had eluded the law.
This event was worth columns. His escape
from Crown Point was told in pages. He was
supposed to have used wooden gun to &C
oomplish his purpose. He said so himself
Only this week the ghost of Dillinger crossed
the front pages with reports that bank securi-
ties he had stolen were cashed here and re-
ports that federal agents ascertained he had
used a real gun to effect his escape.
But how different than in the old days.
Only few paragraphs were used to cover"
these stories.
Today news services carry short stories to
describe the capture of Raymond Hamilton
who, by degrees, was graduated to PUBIC
Enemy No. 1 since the death of Dillinger, Baby
Face Nelson and other underworld rats VINO
became big time boys as long as they had ma
chine guns to protect their hides.
The reading public of this city, state and
nation can be thankful that such changes take
place in the news.
Today the nation observes the eighteenth
anniversary of declaring war with Germany.
Today the local traffic situation is worth many
,,araoranhs-it is something that is of vital
interest to all of us The acquisition OF the
Citizens Gas Co. also is of great interest and
the prospects of another war bring real news
TO newspaper readers.
And so the world, reflected in the mirror OF
the newspaper, moves on. And for this rea-
son capture of Public Enemy No. is related
only in few short paragraphs
For the present, at least, there IS no trad
ing value on that phoney title Public Enemy
No l."
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GENERAL JOHNSON RAPED
FOR COUGHLIN ATTACK

BY Your Reader.
May I register my protest against
the deliberate, malicious lies of our
armchair General" Johnson?
I, too, heard the broadcast of
Father Coughiin last sunday and
nothing in his speech indicated his
desire to overthrow the government
of the United States by violence, as
johnson states, but on the contrary,
he advocated the overthrow only by
constitutional means-the ballot.
This is one of the basic rights Of
an American citizen and it is evil
dent that it gals our dear friend
johnson that the poor of the land
have the right to vote out of Office
those that have betrayed their trust
and repudiated their pledges made
while campaigning for election.
Johnson'S statement that Father
Coughlin is a menace to the United
States is a cry of one who has be-
trayed his trust and is caught.
Father Coughlin'S program and or
ScA44NoGAOAA 10 III Va q 11lCA4dNC
to the United States than is either
the Republican or Democratic par
ties. Mr.. johnson further states that
Father Coughlin stated that, if he
Gather Coughlin) could not con-
troll Congress that he would start a
revolution or war, is a deliberate,
malicious, dirty lie, conceived by a
low mud-slinging diSh-rag that has
been passed over every political
greasy pan and pot since the World
War. johnson would not make a
success at anything, not even a good
failure, as paradoxical as that sounds.
He is too full of misconceptions and
falsehoods. Another statement that
is obviously untrue, and that is that
the lectures of Father Coughlin are
pro-Hitler If you think that Gen
eral" johnson is going over big and
sets well on our (the reader's) stom-
achs-well-just keep on printing
his "slush" and then watch closely
the next election. Thank God the
majority still has a chance to rule
in this country.
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uncovered and exposed? Or was
it because those five Presidents
wilfully set their hearts and their
minds against the welfare and
good of the American people? And
if Baruch deceived them, led them
astray, and gave them ill-advised
counsel. why not let us hear that
fact from their lips, whose trust
was betrayed.
Was it moral cowardice that
silenced the lips of Wilson and
Coolidge? Is it moral cowardice
that now seals the lips Of Roose-
welt, who fearlessly directed an
investigation of the House of Nor
gan, bankers vino could buy and
sell Baruch a hundred times and
never bat an eyelash? You, Mrs.
Kunkel, and those like you, who
are so gravely concerned about
the wool that Bernard Baruch is
alleged to have pulled over the
eyes Of our Presidents, through
which they could see not, but
which could not blind your pene-
trating gael beg of you, give
those Presidents some small credit
for at least possessing a tiny spark
Of intelligence and clarity of
thought.
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PRAISES TIMES EDITORIAL
ON JUSTICE TO NEGROES

BY Rev. z. o. Price.
I wish to express my thanks to
you for your editorial in the issue Of
The Times Tuesday under the cap
ton of Justice"
Being one of the 100000 Ameri-
can Negroes of this great republic,
I certainly appreciate this great
article. I have cut it out and am
placing it in my Bible, which 1
carry in my brief case wherever I
go as the superintendent of mis-
sions of this great state Of Indiana
and other states which I visit. I
have just a few clippings which I
think are worthwhile within the asst
so years of my life. Your contribu-
ton goes with that few.
I feel sure that when I fall asleep
that my children and their children
will appreciate your editorial.
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AUTO CONTROL SHOULD
BE BASED ON LICENSE
By a Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
With all the present talk and ex-
element about automobile acct
dents, 1 don't understand why no
one suggests control at the source,
the issuance of driving licenses.
AS understand it, any one with
so cents can obtain a license, and
any one without the so cents can
go ahead and drive undisturbed un-
til he has an accident-when the
harm has been done.
In New York and Pennsylvania
q have lived in BOTH there are
definite requirements, both as to
ability to drive and knowledge Of
traffic laws, which must be filled be-
fore a license is obtained. And once
that license is suspended or taken
away, it is no easy matter to get
another.
Furthermore, in both sttaeS, any
one driving along the road or parked
in his car, is not surprised to have
a state trooper come up and cour-
teously ask to see his driving license.
The frequency of these requests does
not encourage driving without a
nceLse.
The check-up on speeding, care
less driving and disobedience Of
traffic signals is not spasmodic. 1t
is in constant operation, especially
outside corporate limits where the
state police operate.
Perhaps this idea has been sug-
gested here, but I have been in the
state over a year and have not read
Of any such suggestion.
have driven cars in Rochester,
N. Y; Buffalo, Syracuse, New York
City, Chicago. Milwaukee. Philadel-
phia and St. LOUIS but in none Of
these cities have I felt so unsafe
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GEN. JOHNSON PUT ON
GRIDOLE BY READER
Bw a Subscriber.

Bw q Subscriber.
I 90 not expect you to print this.
because you are getting that way
lately. But I just want to let you
know I approve very much OF the
article in the Message Center April
2 by Carl Reeves. He expresses my
views perfectly. If I am not mis-
taken, Gen. johnson made his great
name during the world War, by
making the sons of poor men join
the Army. Al that time, he had the
wealth and the courts behind him.
When he tried to strut his stride
under NRA and the wealth and
courts got after him. he turned and
ran. Some general! And you put
him up as shining star. I wonder
why.
I, like many others, have always
considered The Times a fair paper
and it has gained in circulation.
There is one thing I can give Gen.
johnson credit for. He has done
more good for the National Union
for Social Justice than any other
man could have. He has made the
people think.
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joys both its benefits and protec-
ton. 1t should represent a COM
posite of all of us. That is the New
Deal.
Does v. E. think the following
actions constitute governmental in
reference? The abolition of child
labor, outlawing slave wages and
SweatShop conditions, regulating
utilities which exist on a franchise
which primarily belongs to the peo-
pie, attempting to prevent the is
suance and sale of fraudulent Sc
curities, and putting a stop to the
practice of bleeding good operating
companies with parasitic holding
companies? Those are only few of
the things which the New Deal is
doing or trying to do. To me they
are not governmental interference,
but mere natural functions Of gov
eminent.
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Intelligence IN Presidents
By Julian Bamberger.

By Julian Bamberger.
I read with interest an article
in your Message Center, headed
'Barlich Has Done Poor Job of
Advising" written by Mrs. L. F.
Kunkel, in which she prates of
the DOGGY man, Bernard Baruch.
Among the minor evils she lays
at his doorstep is the blame for
the American depression. She
states also the idea that he has
been adviser to five Presidents is
no argument in his favor" A very
high opinion you must have, Mrs.
Kunkel, of the intelligence and
integrity of our Presidents of the
last 20 years. Republican and
Democrat alike, they sought his
counsel. Keen, intelligent, honest,
patriotic Americans they were,
yet with one accord they turned
unsuspectingly, or Intentionally,
as you would have it, to seek the
advice Of such a renegade as you
claim is Bernard Baruch.
Was it because of their stupid
ity or -wittedness that they
failed to detect and recognize the
evilneSS of his ways, which you
have so easily and unerringly
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forgotten about the thousands of
people who are now making S14.50
a week who formerly worked for 81
or Sc during Hoover's administra-
ton.
AT least. President Roosevelt is
working hard and has new ideas all
the time, and that's more than we
can say for Hoover, who did prac-
tically nothing to overcome the de-
preston.
You should feel ashamed to speak
of our loyal President as you have
it surely shows you have anything
but a genuine patriotic spirit!