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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-11
KING GEORGE AND REASON

MOT the least instructive event Of the year
1895 is the great jubilee celebration which
the British people are holding on the twenty
fifth anniversary Of King Georges accession
to the throne.
The affair is notable for its contrasts
When George V came to the throne he was
just one among many great monarchs There
were Nicholas II in Russia, Wilhelm II in Ger
many and Francis Joseph in Austria Hungary,
for instance, all Of them reigning over great
empires and all Of them, to all outward indi-
cations, occupying thrones that were quite as
secure as his.
But today, as enormous crowds throng Lon
dons streets to cheer the British king, where
are these others? Francis Joseph is dead, his
empire is in fragments, and his dynasty is
broken.
Wilhelm is in Holland, chopping wood while
man who would not have been allowed in
tee palace at a Hohenzollern reception rules
Germany with a tighter rein than Wilhelm
ever dreamed Of using.
And Nicholas lies underground somewhere
in a Russian forest one Of the first victims of
the catastrophe that swept his country.
these three monarchs and what happened to
George V of England is amazing, and it is not
The result of mere chance. 1t is not even the
result of the difference between winning and
losing a great war.
The fundamental reason why 100000 peo-
pie stayed up all night in London to hail the
opening of their kings jubilee, while the other
three realms are broken and kingless, can be
found in the different ways in which the ruling
classes Of these countries met change
In Russia, in GermanA and in Austria
Hungary there was only = blind infexibility,
The hammering of war and social discomfort
could not bend the rulers of those lands so,
finally, it broke them completely The ruling
classes there could learn nothing, not even in
the face Of catastrophe, and so they were swept
away.
In England on the other hand. there was
feXibllity. The war and its aftermath brought
far-reaching changes; instead of resisting
them blindly. the nations rulers-from the
king on down to the industrial magnates and
the politicians-had the sense to meet them
hallway adapt themselves to them, and help
the nation follow new course.
As a result, George still has his throne,
and his twenty-fifth anniversary finds tire
mendous outpouring of national enthusiasm
for his person and for the things which he
represents.
At time when change is upon the whole
world, this study in contrasts is a useful and
instructive thing
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NOT so DUMB

TIIPPANT and serious proposals to subject
L Americas legislators TO intelligence tests
are made without benefit Of research. says
Henry ". Toll. former Colorado state Senator
and now director Of the American Legislators
Association
After plumbing the brain pans Of the legiS-
lators OF Is states. Mr.. Toll answers the cur
rent SANDER with counter charge that the
LEGISLATORS are not nearly 50 dumb as the folks
Who employ them. He finds that. while only
FIVE out Of every 100 -the-miu Amer
leans graduate from college, "a out Of every
Toe legislators get their degrees. If college
training has a relation to I @ tests. the aver
ace legislator would seem 10 have it on the
average American by about 10 1.
Mr. Toll finds that Of all the 1900 lEw-
makers Of the states - per cent are farmers
and the same number are lawyers. tn other
professions account for per cent. the rest
are business men. retired and miscellaneous.
None it seems. belongs 70 the 5 per cent OF
our population that can neither read nor write.
Another proof OF the superior intelligence
Of the lawmakers is that they have persuaded
the general public to support them-or is it?
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A FAIR TEST DEMANDED

CENATOR NORRIS still leads the fight he
- started shortly after the war when private
interests tried to take over Muscle Shoals He
saved that wartime plant for the people, and
after long years persuaded Congress to create
the Tennessee Valley Authority to conduct
government experiment in the manufacture
and distribution of cheap electrical power. Now
he fights % insure fair test for that expert
ment.
For special and selfish reasons. certain pri-
waite interests which failed to gain physical
possession Of the Tennessee River hydro-elec-
tric system, want this government experiment
to fail. And it will fail unless steps are taken
to overcome the Alabama Federal Courts rul-
ing which tied the hands of the IVA.
The Norris NIcSwain amendments to the
IVA Act. for which the Nebraska Senator is
now pleading would make possible unfettered
operation of the IVA experiment. They should
be passed
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THEY put society on trial in the high school
= building at Orange y. J.. the other day.
accusing II Of falling 10 give youth square
deal. and after a great deal Of talk they found
II guilty as charged.
They were some $500 adults drawn 10 the
building by agencies Of the Welfare Federation
and civic societies; and this odd trial took
place because a number OF groups Of young
people had recently drawn up a series Of
charges against society.
Society. said the youngsters. fails youth
because il makes it hard for youth 10 get
JOBS. makes proper marriage difficult, fails 10
provide institutions for the furthering Of
friendship. offers many moral pitfalls in the
shape OF erotic literature. gambling joints. and
gin-mills. and fails to teach youth how 10 use
It's leisure time to best advantage.
This vas the indictment that drew the
grown folks Of Orange into their high school
auditorium for a general discussion; aud It
would be highly useful thing II the same SOFT
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PRESS IMITATION
The Deadly Parallel

BY ANDREW DICKSON WHITE.
published by d. Appleton-Century CompanyJ

fCopvrizht4
Il ARLY in 1889 the French nation found itself
L in deep financial embarrassment: There
was heavy debt and serious deficit.
The vast reforms Of that period, though a
lasting blessing politically were a temporary
evil financially. There was general want of
confidence in business circles: capital had shown
It's proverbal timidity by retiring out Of sight
as far as possible; throughout the land was stag
nation
There was general search for some short
road TO prosperity; ere long the idea was set
a1oat that the great want Of the country was
more Of the circulating medium, and this was
speedily followed by calls for an issue Of paper
money.
Remembrance Of the ruin which had come
from an earlier day we're still vivid Yet the
pressure grew stronger and stronger.
1t would be a great mistake to suppose that
the statesmen Of France, or the French people,
were ignorant of the dangers in issuing ire
deemable paper money No matter how skill
fully the bright side of such a currency was ex-
hibitcd all thoughtful men in France remem-
ne-ed its dark side They knew too well, from
that ruinous experience, 10 years before, in John
Laws time the difficulties and dangers Of cur
rency not we'll based and controlled.
THEY had then learned how easy it is to issue
Il it; how difficult it is to check its overissue;
how Seductivey it leads to the absorption OF the
means Of the WOrKlngman ana men OF small
fortunes; how heavily it falls on all those living
on fixed incomes, salaries or wages; how securely
it creates on the ruins of the prosperity Of all
men Of nlaager means a class Of debauched spec
ulators, the most injurious class that a nation
can harbor; how it stimulates oVerprOduction at
first and leaves every industry aaccid afterward :;
how it breaks down thrift and develops political
and social immortality. All this France had been
thoroughly taught by experience.
It was no mere attempt at theatrical display,
but natural impulse, which led a thoughtful
statesman during the debate, to hold up piece
of that old paper money and to declare that 1t
was sustained with the blood and tears Of their
fathers
But the current toward paper money had
become irresistible.
Oratory prevailed over experience. In April,
1890 came the final decree to issue four hundred
millions Of livres in paper money.
AS speedily as possible the notes were put into
circulation. Unlike those issued in John Laws
time. they we're engraved in the best style of the
art To stimulate loyalty the portrait Of the
king was placed in the center.
All this caused great JOY
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KILLING THE PATIENT

TTNI ESS the President moves in rapid. 10
- save NRA. it Is as good as dead now. The
Senate Democratic conference yesterday de-
cided to accept the Clark resolution, which
would emasculate NRA and extend it IN that
morbund state until next April From the
beginning that has been the strategy Of the
enemies of NPA. They know they can not
kill 1t outright, so they hope to dismembel 1t
and lot 1t die in that way.
ortunateIy. however. the President IS
friend 81 NRA He understands the fun sig
n:7-ancc Of the Senate maneuver and has dis
sociatcd himself from it,
Whether he will be able to force his own
marty leaders back into line with AdministIa-
tion policy is a question. But certainly Leader
Robinson. who tried to give the impression
yesterday that the Clark resolution was &C
ceptabIe to the President. should have lot
of explaining to do at the White House. These
conservative leaders also may have TO explain
why the party conference was held while sew
eral liberia Democrats, including Wagner OF
New York. the author of NRA were absent
from Washington attending Senator Bronson
Cuttings funeral.
NRA compliance and enforcement now are
VIGOROUSLY bad Company chiseling and court
decisions have left NRA in mid-sir. NRA can
not really begin 70 function again until its
old provisions are clarified and new provisions
added 10 strengthen it. That is why its enc
mics are 50 anxious to pass the Clark nine
month extension resolution. That IS why the
President is So anxious to pass the Admins
trations stronger two-year measure. The
Clark resolution is particularly bad because Of
its ambiguous exemption Of all interstate bust
ness from codes. and its deliberate failure to
strengthen the unenforceable Section IA
II the Senate ceases hlibustering and con-
centratcs on must" legislation. 1t VIII have
plenty Of time to pass real NF2A law.
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SATURDAY s935
THE DEADLY PARALLEL

GONE glIideposts Of history may give optional
y directions. But that of printing-press in
naton points only one way That way is ruin.
It's the same wherever YOU read IL. whether
# BE- the story Of the franc. the mark, ne
continental. the kronen. or the mulberry tree
money Of Kukla Khan.
We hope that every one who reads this VII
also read on this same page and under the
same title as this editorial. the account OF what
happened 70 France as written many years
aro bv Andrew Dickson White. noted historian,
once ambassador to Germany and president
o. Cornell University.
The very fact that his description Of the
currency dcbauch which led into the reign Of
terror and worse. was not prepared IN present
times 10 meet present issue makes 1t all the
more effective. You viii recognize in it all the
present day Probabilities Of those who today
say that our situation is different"
You will spy the tracks of the Coughlins
and The Brisbanes the Patmans, the Thomases,
and Tho rest Of that long line Of wish-thinkers,
who in their well-meaning optimism led ma
ton over the cliff a century and half ago.
Through the courtesy OF D. Appleton-Cen-
turv Publishers this is being published in
scrpps-HAvard newspapers in the hope that
r. may increase public resistance to what We
believe 10 be the most dangerous development
OF the whole depression.
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HeraldS Another Depression

the property. Existing law gives
capital bonus Of eight million
dollars, all of which must be
earned by the sweat of workers
who produce new wealth.
7. The supposed plan is not
new; it has been used successfully
in the British Isles; Henry Ford
has suggested its use here, but of
course Mayor Kern can do nothing
under existing laws, and the laws
will not be changed until people
learn to think.
8. Because of fixed interest
charges on production, capital is
given the right to liquidate and
destroy railroads, utilities, factories,
stores and farms; it destroys lead
erS and managers able and willing
to employ the producers of wealth
who make prosperity possible. 1t
would be as consistent to destroy
thorough bred racing sires to i'm
prove the racing game.
g. Capitalism as we know 1t has
IdllPO mere, JiltI Z anu tFtA ~ Att4 -
Keen observers like Gen. john
son. Lewis Douglass, Babson, DR..
Charles A. Beard. and many 9TH
ers predict war. revolution and
dictators; the drift is toward So
cialism and communism.
10. All that is good in capitalism
can be saved. if capital is COM
PEELED to take profits on part1ci-
pating basis: not as fixed charge
Gnterest. Bad managers would
be fired" but no business should
be liquidated except for obsoles-
ence Of plant or product.
II. Socialism is a beautiful the
ory. but the individual with MS
initiative and his acquisitlveneSs'
are the spurs to progress.
y. The President hopes to
achieve recovery by superficial re-
form: he may ease the pain but
his remedy will not cure the dis
ease. A bigger depression is in
the making.
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DOUBTS IF CONSTITUTION
FLEA WILL ELECT

By George W. Curtis.
During our next election, viii it
De possible for senatorial and con-
greSsiOnal candidates to dance back
to Washington on the Constitution
as the proper yardstick for The needs
Of the people?
Again the dominant opinion of
The people is crushed and it is ac-
companied by greater distress than
existed during any war
The same Constitutional body
which passed the pension act could
declare war.
Theodore Roosevelt believed in
the recall of such babies
Jefferson said a little revolution
sometimes is a good thing for
country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said The
dominant opinion Of the people is
the controlling factor
Chief Justice Hughes said we
are under a Constitution. but the
Constitution is what the judges say
it is"
You don't always tear he old
house down to add a bathroom vet
installing a 1895 engine in a 1916
wagon might cause Chief Justice
Hughes to hesitate.
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EDITORIAL PAGES OF TIMES
GIVEN HIGH PRAISE
Rv a Times READER

By a Times Reader.
Your editorial page on Saturday,
May 4, was superb The editorial
on the PHILIPPINE tariff on coconut
oil demonstrates how closely the
whole world is tied together eco
nomically; that no remote region as
even the interior Of the PHILIPPINES
can afford to be separated from the
rest Of civilization and world trade.
What fool this makes of Legisla-
tors who make tariffs and trade
barriers.
Your editorials on "a Great
Folly concerning chain letter dime
prosperity and on The Voices of
Business" were exceptionally keen.
Business men without purchasers
for their goods are not so independ-
ent as many Of them have dreamed
they were. Maybe the United
States Chamber of Commerce could
tell the President that from now on
he need not provide further relief
for them that they will accept re-
SponSibility Immediately of employ
ing all those whom they have dis
employed and will distribute the
goods they make, so that none shall
want hencefOrth.
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EDITORIAL PAGES OFTEN
REFLECT HYPOCRISY

By H. L.
Who was the man who said, you
can shoot men. but you can't shoot
ideals?" The truth lives, it is ever
strong.
I always think Of this as I read
the falsehoods in the editorials OF
another indianapolis newspaper.
Reactionary Republicans steadily
lose ground by printing untruth.
The yarns which We find on that
editorial page are an insult to the
intelligence Of any person with the
education to know that fairy tales
and Hooverism are not true.
These editorial writer's must en-
dure unspeakable anguish in wit
Messing how truth is spreading be-
yond their control. The editorials
of The Times, the Radio, the pull
DIT and every other instrument OF
truth are continually exposing by
pocrisy and selflshness.
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Of trial could be held In many other cities,
because It helps to open our eyes to the
responsibility which We owe TO the young
people who viii be the adults Of tomorrow
Il isn't SO very much that these Jersey
youngsters are asking when you stop to think
about IT, Just chance to earn a living.
chance 70 found a home without too many Of
those delays and trials that take the heart
out Of a person. a chance to grow W to decent
manhood and vomanhood, and a fairly even
break in the age-old struggle for ordinary
happiness.
That isn't much-it's about the minimum
that could be asked.
And yet youth seems to feel-if this case
can be taken as fair sample-that society is
Il that is true then We are falling youth about
as miserably as any society could fail.
We are rather fond Of talking about the
folies AMI the wildness Of our younger gen.
Grafton. Grown people have been doing that
since the days Of job, and they'll probably keep
1t up to endless time
But We mead TO realize that youth is very
often more sir.ned against than SHINING.
The indictment returned by these young
people in New Jersey is measure Of the i'm
projections Of modern society. Modern society
is what We, the older generation, have made it.
Until We can meet this criticism, and make
our society the kind OF place in which youth
gets the break it is looking for we have small
reason to talk about youths own shortcomings.
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ID INGLING BROTHERS BARNUM &
IN BAILEY CIRCUS had living skeleton
but he is skeleton no more
During the winter months he went on Fed
eral relief down in Florida and got 50 fat he
can't hold his job.
II is a good story-whether put out as
circus advertising or TO set a laugh on Federal
aid
But many a business that was a living
skeleton a few months back is comparatively
fat and rosy today. In fact some OF the bust
ness leaders who were so keen on Federal aid
a few months ago now are boisterously bark
ing against the Roosevelt Administration that
put them on their feet
They are fat skeletons biting the hand that
fed them
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CHAIN LETTERS ATTACKED
BY TIMES READER

by j. L. L.
From the West has come a storm.
in some respects it is worse than the
recent disastrous dust storms; it is
a human brain storm Our postal
system is being clogged with rub
Dish coming from a new type of
racket, chain letters.
These letters start with a sweet
sounding thought, This letter was
started in the hopes of bringing you
prosperity" Will it do this? Let us
iron out this query with some hard
facts. Suppose everybody in the
United States had one thin dime. AS
set forth by the chain letters, he
could invest it wisely in a chain
letter and receive roughly $4,000 in
return. Taking the population of the
United States as approximately one
hundred million, we would invest 10
million dollars and receive $50 bill
lion dollars in return. The return
would make President Roosevelt's
emergency appropriations look like
pin money.
A fine way to bring back pros
perity. But $50 billion received as
charitable CD donations minus the
10 million sent out by the donators
leaves the difference of sl49 $780,
100000 still unaccOunted for.
Surely &lere must be a catch
somewhere. Fourth grade arithme-
tic and common horse sense lay this
bare. The only ones who stand a
chance Of making any money are
the first 1000 on the chain, taking
for granted that the rest Of the
population are a group Of mental
misfts willing TO send out their
dimes.
Another point which might be in
teresting to the victim of this chain
racket is the number received when
five is raised to the twelfth power.
This is the same as IL cycles Of a
chain letter. 1t yieds the tremen-
dous sum OF $50 million. twice the
population Of the United States. If
you really wish to make some
money. start a chain with IS names
on the top and if everybody pays up
you can live on cake and caviar for
the rest Of your days; you could buy
out the 10 wealthiest men in the
country. You will have contacted
every living person on the face Of
the earth by the time your name
reaches the top.
Recently in the Message Center
letter by w. r. Gentry states that
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BEGGAR 1885
BY DOROTHY PERKINS

Mr.. Croesus. they say. has a hun
dred beds IN his country home,
While I, wanderer, must seek
each night
A resting place as best I can
Up some small lane. beneath a tree,
Or in a meadow where the hay
stacks bulk.
Protects me from the chill wind Of
the evening.
But death VIII come to balance both
iur lives
For as I lie smiling through the thin
pine board
OF my six-fOot coffin,
Feeling a pleasant oneness with the
moist brown earth,
He viii turn restlessly in his silver
casket,
Longing for the faint lavender OF
linen sheets again
and the soft luxuriance Of his spa
eious beds.
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BY Anonymous.
Suppose the laws we're different
and indianapolis could take its
gas plant purchase bonds to
Washington and get cash to pay
present owners. What would
happen?
/. Washington would have the
obligation of indianapolis to pay
the bonds according to their
terms, however the accruing inter-
est would be payable to Indian
apolis.
2. Banks under existing laws are
permitted to deposit bonds in
Washington. collect the interest
thereon, and receive without cost
the full par value of the bonds in
currency, which they lend.
3, Indianapolis, under the sup
posed" law, would deposits its
bonds in Washington, receive the
interest thereon, and receive the
full par value of the bonds in
currency with which to pay the
present owners of the gas plant
the agreed purchase price, and
operate the plant as charitable
trust"
4. The present owners of the gas
plant would receive sound money
fully as good as national bank
notes, which they would invest in
productive enterprise, thus con-
tributing their bit" to end the
depression.
5. indianapolis would sell its
credit to itself, pay interest to
itself; from taxes and operating
profits, the city would accumulate
money which would be sent to
Washington, and there exchanged
for the deposited bonds, the
money and the bonds would then
be Cancelled and destroyed, and
everything would be Jake"
6. The supposed law would
save the consumers eight million
dollars in the first 10 years. which
sum is the full purchase price of
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UPHOLDS BAKER IN
BARKER CASE

BY a Reader.
Now we find the newspapers filled
with the Barker case. The plain
facts in this case make most inter-
esting reading.
There is no doubt in my mind but
that Judge Baker is running his
court in an efficient and orderly
manner. But the operation of
court Of this type in county Of this
size is no small matter and the tax
payers can not expect Judge Baker
20 handle all details Of administra
ton.
He must. like other executives,
leave most Of the detail work for
court attaches.
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gambling dens in that sassy little
burg" on the banks Of the Ohio
He has the good will OF the law
abiding people Of the state. Mr..
Feeney has declared that slot ma
chimes will have to pass out Of the
picture. and he is right. If he can't
get the support Of the county Of
ficials Of Clarke County, I am sure
that he can have The help OF
Atty. Gen. Lutz, and his staff. No
county is bigger than the state, and
Mr.. Feeney should stand by his
guns. The people are with him.