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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-24

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
L. s. SHIPPING

IF any appreciate percentage of all the
Il charges against American merchant ma
rine subsidy practices be true, the situation
demands review and reform almost as badly
as the Teapot Dome mess did.
It is not merely that we have the old ia
miliar charges Of dishonesty and inefhciency;
not merely that our governments effort to
protect the lives Of American travellers at sea
is reported to have broken down; more than
this, we seem to be defeating the very purposes
for which the subsidy law was passed.
The whole idea Of the subsidy. Of course,
was to build up our merchant marine.
Under the law, government loans are made
for ship construction, government moneys are
paid to ship operators in the guise of mail
contract fees, and government-built ships
are sold 10 private operators far below cost.
This was justified on the theory that it was
the best way to build up a merchant ma
rine service which would be of commercial
value in peacetime and Of great military value
IN time of war.
And yet one Of the charges made by the
special Senate investigating committee is that
all of this has been useless. This committee
asserts that, in spite Of all these subsidies. the
merchant marine is steadily declining.
II declares that even with the best possible
administration, the present subsidy plan could
not succeed in rebuilding our commercial fleets.
A subsidy plan is, in the very nature of
things, open to abuses.
When you have the government Smelling
out huge sums to private concerns, you open
the way for all kinds Of trouble. Under any
Administration and in any field of business,
this will be true.
Some official is bound to weaken under
pressure; some business man is bound to I'M
sheath his chisel and start using it.
It takes the strictest kind of oversight to
keep such evils at minimum; where the
overseeing is not strict, the evils will multi
ply like mushrooms.
That is what we let ourselves in for with
the subsidy plan. Now if. on top of all that,
the plan doesn't do what we hoped it would
do. the argument for some new method Of
conserving our merchant marine becomes
overwhelming.
The Senate committee suggests two alter
natives; outright government ownership and
operation, or government ownership with pri-
vate operation.
Whether a third scheme could be worked
out. and which of these two would be prefer
able. if that should be possible, are things
vet to be determined Enough has already
been revealed, however, to make it clear that
something pretty drastic in the way of reform
is imperative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
GREAT NEED FOR HOUSING

4 MERICAS boast Of its high standard Of
living is dealt terrific blow in the PWA
report that lists 100000 of the nations
homes as definitely in the slum class.
If a third of the countrys population is
dwelling in houses and neighborhoods Of a
character ito injure the health and endan-
ger the safety and morals and interfere with
normal lives" then our boast is a hollow
mockery.
Whether or not the time has come, as the
report insists, for private enterprise to
abandon an impossible task and let the COM
munity take it over" conditions call for i'm
mediate action on a huge scale, whatever
agency is chosen.
With thousands Of building craftsmen
idle with material business at low tide, with
thousands Of householders willing to borrow
money If reasonable credit terms can be OBJ
tanned. and with surveys showing a growing
shortage OF good rental property, it seems
that concentration on this problem would do
more than anything else to help relieve de-
preston and alleviate misery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

that those who have the most should
pay the most for government. Again,
as a matter of ethics, in view of The
present economic system, no man
can amass even a reasonably sized
fortune without having oppressed
fellow human beings.
1t is a cause for wonder that
Franklin D. Roosevelt, one Of the
rich, has come forward with such
a program as ne has. Could it be
possible that the program is insin-
cere-that it is a makeshift to lull
the dumb working class, and post
pone for a little time more the in
evitable day when every man and
woman who works shall receive the
full social benefit Of their toll? That
is something to think about.
The late lamented NRA, with its
starvation wage levels, looked good
to many when it first appeared. But
in practical use, it tended to pull
down wages. Given a little more
time to become entrenched, its
S1450 a week minimum wage would
have become the maximum.
Not until the profit motive is dead
shall there be such thing as real
economic justice. So long as thou
sands Of men toll for long hours
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
SOUTHERN SENATORS RAPED
AS DELAYERS OF BONUS
By Bernard Warren.

BY Bernard Warren.
In the opinion of war veterans,
their families and friends, there are
about six Southern Senators who are
always among the first to block the
soldiers bonus. One Of these Sen
ators. who is chairman of the SEN
ate Finance Committee, had the
nerve to offer a bonus bill that
would have paid the veteran only
$3.50 on a $500 debt. Does this SEN
ator think the veterans are dumb?
A news dispatch reports this same
Senator held secret conference
with the Secretary Of the Treasury
and urged him to use his influence
to not raise the tax issue at this seS-
sion. because it would be impossi-
bic to prevent bonus rider being
attached to the bill, and yet they say
they are trying to get bonus bill
passed at this session Of Congress.
The Democratic speakers bureau
should assign these gentlemen up
North, East and West for speaking
dates during the 1886 campaign
where they will find the veterans
and their friends just as mentally
and physically able as any of them
and where they will find the senti-
ment was for the payment in 1885.
After the 1886 elections these
same Senators power will be in the
minority and they will assume their
old familiar positions as figure
heads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
LINDBERGH. SCIENTIST

NEWS from the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research-that heart. kidney.
thyroid. spleen and other whole organs from
;he body have been made to grow in test
tubes-.s thrilling because 1t may mean the
eventual understanding and conquest Of
gland disorders and dread organic diseases.
perhaps even some kinds OF cancer.
The magic name OF Lindbergh is not needed
to make the news worthy Of the front page
Yet We find Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as the
collsborator OF famous DR.. Alexis Carrel en-
gagged in one OF the most intricate and ad-
yanced pieces OF medical experimentation.
Is27-LindbeTgh flies the Atlantic alone.
1as5-Carrel and Lin6bergh publish The
Culture CT Whole Organs" In eight years the
Lone Eagle has evolved into the scientist.
AS scientist he Is no dilettante. He has
worked I'VE years with only two previous hints
as 70 what DR.. Carren and he have been doing
4 hundred years from now at least. its pos
solicitation may forget Lindbergh while
MEDICINE remembers him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
A LESSON LEARNED TOO LATE

ONE lesson. at least, the German militarists
~ seem to have learned from the World
War: it is bad policy for any European power
to enter a naval building race with Great
Britain.
However much they may differ on some
matters statesmen of England and Germany
are now in agreement on naval policies. Ger
many willingly accepts a program by which
her total naval tonnage can not exceed IS per
cent of the British strength, and the program
is embodied in a two-power treaty which Is
valid regardless of the naval programs of
other powers
one can not help thinking how different
world history might have been if such agree
rnent could have been reached, say, in 1910.
Fear of Germany's naval ambitions was
the one great motive that drove England into
the entente. Between 1914 and 1918 German
statesmen learned once and for all that Ger
many's way to greatness does not lie in
naval program. That much, at least, can be
written down as definite and positive fruit of
the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
4 VOTE ON WAR

xrFTI.F debate increases on the advisability
w Of amending the Constitution to cope
with pressing economic problems. congress
sionaI subcommittee hears arguments on an
other proposed amendment Of great potential
Importance
II is the Ludlow amendment providing Tor
g plebiscfte on war and for taking the profits
out Of future conflicts. It would require ref
erendum on United States entry into any war
except in the case Of defense to repel in
vasion."
Back to democracy lies the belief that the
peoDle are capable Of self-government. and in
no other governmental activity can the peo-
pie be more directly interested than in send
inr their youth 10 spill blood on foreign SOIL
on a question Of entering a foreign war,
the people back home may be better quail
fed to decide than are the politicians IN
Washington,s artificial environment DR.. Mary
wilhelmine williams professor Of history at
Goucher College. told the committee.
I do not hold that the voice Of the people
IS the voice Of God" she said. but do have
considerable faith in the common sense Of
the common man and woman.
They are likely TO be more practlcal ana
70 60 straight to the main point, rather than
have their vision warped by theory as at times
happens to people in public Office.
This clearer vision is commonly due TO
possession Of only the larger facts in connec-
ton with the question. Government officers
who are more fully informed as regards de-
tails at time are confused by them and are.
so to speak. unable to see the woods for the
trees"
Remembering the devious diplomacy and
the then unseen influences that led us into
the World War. We hear in her words the
ring OF truth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
So They Say

I believe that if there is to be
any enduring peace, international
measures must be taken to improve
condition of the maSSes.-Kemal
Ataturk, president of Turkey.
We are not going to let Huey Long
continue to use the Senate as a
medium for making himself the
Fascist dictator of America.-Sena-
tor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Wash
ington.
The stage will stay dead because
we are raising a generation of young
people who don't even know what
the legitimate theater is-George
JesSel, famed actor.
There never has been nor never
will be freedom when powers of
government are lodged in a man or
in a group Of men.-Herbert Hoover.
The wisdom and strength of the
Constitution explain our persistence
as a going concern in a world where
almost all other democracies have
failed.-Bainbridge Colby, one-time
Secretary Of State.
I believe the days Of letting people
live in misery of being rock-bottom
destitute, of children being hungry.
of moralizing about rugged in
dividualism in the light of modern
facts, are over in America.-Relief
Director Harry Hopkins.
Children need less coddling and
more lickings. The woodshed may
be gone, but we have the garage,
and it is used too little for chas-
tisement of the erring child.-The
Re-. j. B. Hubbard, addressing Wom-
ans club inSChicago.
Conquest of the last element, the
air, seems to me the only major task
of our generation-The late T. E.
Shaw Lawrence Of Arabia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
SATURDAY. JUNE p. 1898.
FLEXIBLE FARM CONTROL

THE AAA amendments nov before the
Senate carry the New Deals farm crop
controls much further than did the emergency
act OF 1888. Yet they are logical If America
proposes to deal with its basic industry on
long-range basis and embrace the bulk Of its
six and one-half million farmers.
Triple A has worked more than tolerably
well as a brake on agricultural over-produc-
ton. Last year IL retired 90 million acres Of
surplus crops from production. Farm income
has increased S2.7f9 100000 Of which 30 per
cent was independent Of benefit payments.
But as AAA Administrator Chester Davis says,
restricted production VIII not be the focal
point Of a permanent policy for agriculture"
A permanent policy must reckon with the
vhims OF nature. The amendments would
forestau danger OF crop shortages by permit
ting the Secretary OF Agriculture to use rental
and benefit payments to increase as well as
ourtail crops. They also provide storage
device which Secretary Wallace calls "the
ceremonial grarary." This modern JOsephs
scheme permits the government to acquire non
perishable food, feed and fbres (such as cot
tom as pledged security for loans 70 farm
ers. These commodities would be sealed on the
farms or in warehouses and returned later to
producers TO cooperate in the adjustment
program. II this plan works the government
can maintain ample reserves without being
forced to dump as it did its wheat under the
Hoover scheme.
Finally. the amendments recognize that al
most forgotten aid to agriculture, foreign
trade
Calculating that the farm population is 30
per cen. OF all of us. the amendments pro-
pose that 30 per cent Of all gross customs re-
csiDts. approximately s1OOOOOOO0, be used to
encourage farm experts. Or it can be used
in expanding home markets through pur-
chases Of relief food. the buying Of submarginal
farms. or otherwise fitting production to con-
sumption. The export subsidy experiment, re-
calling the debenture plan, may or may not
work in spreading tariff benefits to the
hinterlands.
We trust these amendments meet the eX-
actions Of the Supreme Court and work to-
ward higher living standards on the nations
farms-without which cities can not prosper
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

pend on the companys income. workers and
management have reached an agreement as
to the percentage Of each dollars income
which IS to 20 to pay checks, and fixed
proportion Of profits will be set aside and
distributed as a bonus when business is good.
Here seems TO be a healthy step in the
direction Of the assured annual income. The
workers pay may drop pretty low. at times,
under such a plan-but at least it will keep
on coming through.
Il ought TO be an excellent scheme for
cushioning the wage-earner against depres-
sions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
Disdqrees With Anti War Move

to distinguish between bleaching
and blood.
Suppose the country were caught
up in one OF those familiar war
propaganda waves such as I'M
dermined the country's morale
from 1915-1917? Suppose a refer
endum such as Mr.. Ludlow pro-
poses would produce a result such
as the election of 1916 produced
what then? In such a close issue
it is conceivable that another
Civil War and not the "Wiping
out" of war would be the harvest!
Furthermore, what would be the
part of the newspapers? No, Mr..
Ludlow unwittingly forgot to
mention the paper bullets" that
are so essential to stir the masses
into a fighting mood. One look at
the American front page Of the
last II years is enough to show
how Germany, Russia (and now
Japan and italy, have been
thrown out of their historical per-
spectives, and made to look silly
in American readers eyes. Not
until Hitler had fought his way
to the top, and, with a united
Germany behind him, had thrown
the gauntlet down to the Allies
and called their bluflng insin-
ceritv, did the American press
BEGIN to give the man his dues!
Mr.. Editor, the press believes IN
fighting, in war, in defending
ones self with a strong arm! So
do manly men! Why do you hand
out such ill-conceiyed, inconsis-
tent. misleading editorials as
wipe Out WARP" Or, do you
think people will find their way"
as well in the dark?
The Kellogg pact outlawed war
long ago-during a very unevent-
full Coolidge campaign; 1t may
be that Rep. Ludlow is thinking
of the next Congressional cam
paign! His resolution is worded
very guardedly! We're going to
vote about entering a war hence
forth. just as we did in 1916l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

thing. In other words, they will
never approve such action and will
fight to the last ditch to prevent it.
Organized greed never, never
Yields. If we can't play in their
back yard unless we play just as
they say we had best give up play
ing for the time and determine once
for all who is who.
The President certainly knows his
Henry George. George dwells at
considerable length on the increased
increment; from whence it comes
and to whom it belongs and should
90. He does not lay down the prin-
ciple in discussing corporations but
elsewhere. I wish every one who IS
not familiar with the teachings OF
Henry George would go to their
library or buy a copy of his
progress and Poverty" and not
only read it but assimilate it. 1t
will only prove how helpless our
case might be if it were not for
men like Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
is not afraid and can not be in
Inundated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
EQUALITY IN PIONEERING

IT is interesting to note that the very first
acts considered by the pioneers who went
I'D into the MatanuSka Valley in Alaska con-
cerned the health Of me colony.
The question Of garbage disposal. the con-
troll Of stray dogs and the distribution Of
milk for the children became the first sub
jects Of Importance 10 the colonists, and the
council Of Is delegates from the nine camps
made rapid progress Tor the benefit of the
zoo families settled there.
But even more Interesting than this is the
fact that the Is persons forming the first
council in this pioreer colony included nine
men and nine women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
SOnnetS of a
SOjourner
BY RERTRAM DAY

Across the sea! Such words quite
thrill my soul,
I want to sail away and go some
where,
To seek a change and find another
goal,
To travel on and on without care.
I want to roam away from every
thing,
To wander over hills Of unknown
lands,
To walk where'er my fancy may
take wing,
To ride a camers back across the
sands.
I would acquaint myself with tabled
streams
And learn Of customs different from
ours,
I long to prove the fabric Of my
dreams
And gaze on foreign castles many
hours.
Such musings feed my heart with
happy glee,
And set my long-imprisoned spirit
1reas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
BY Woodrow Wilson Man.
Even editors err

By Woodrow Wilson Man.
Even editors err
In Tuesdays Times the editor
tops his column with the slogan,
Wipe Out War;" Rep. Ludlow's
Anti-War Bill, H. j. Res. 167," is
made the text for another lauda-
tory gesture about "the one bright
spot in a chaotic world" And,
"even without passage one of
IndianaS outstanding contribu-
lions to American statecraft," the
editor of The Times tells us.
With all due respect to the edi-
tors Sincerity. it must be pointed
out that Rep. Ludlow is wander
ing up the wrong road on the war
problem. And The Times edi-
tor, evidently believing to pick a
hat full of wild strawberries, is
following close behind.
To begin with, Mr.. Editor, can't
you see that joker in the first
sentence? In fact, the first word,
except" reveals how futile if not
silly this widely advertised inten-
ton to wipe out war" is going
to be. Rep. Ludlow turns out to
be as shallow in his thinking as
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
was months ago in an article in
Liberty Magazine on How to
Bankrupt the God of War" It's
pitifully PLAIN. Each of these foes
of bloodshed has gadget for
stopping the war game, but on
close examination the gadget
turns out to be a gun in disguise.
Each Of these gentlemen insists
on certain rights and each is
aware that in the very inSiStence
lies the moral obligation to war.
And yet, they get all hot and
bothered about a resolution whose
only accomplishment is a million
dollars worth Of free advertising
in the home statei
Ward politicians can be forgiven
for playing such a game with the
masses. But an editor of a
Scripps-Howar paper should be
both sufficiently honest and able
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
PROFIT MOTIVE STILL
IN ROOSEVELT PROGRAM

By a Worker.
The clowns Of today become the
statesmen of tomorrow.
Witness the new economic pro-
gram of President Roosevelt which
steals the thunder Of that master
exponent of buffonery, Senator Huey
P. Long.
Huey's share-the-w wealth program
is founded on the principle Of soak
the rich" which is an admirable
theory whether propounded by the
Kingfsh or President Roosevelt.
Ethically, at least. it seems right
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
ROOSEVELT NOT AFRAID
TO FACE CRISIS
Bv Reader.

BY keader.
President Roosevelt's reasonings
in connection with his proposal to
lay heavier taxes on big corpora
tions. ETC., are sound to the core.
The apparent resignation Of the big
ones affected to the proposal but
doubt the feasibility Of attempting
it at this time because it will, as
they say, hamper business and re-
tard recovery. should fool no one
We know if this reason were not
given there would be some other
reason why it should not be done
reason. There viii never be time
when they viii not offer some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
PRESIDENT RATES ACE HIGH
WITH THIS CONTRIBUTOR

BY Geneva Bogdon.
Well, 1 see where they blame Mr..
Roosevelt for the bank panic. I
knew we had those kind of people
in the world, people who blame the
innocent, but little did know they
were getting this bad.
am not bit surprised at Wal
ter H. Newton for saying such
things. You remember he was once
secretary to Herbert Hoover. 1 guess
that accounts for it. They accuse
Mr.. Roosevelt of wrecking the re-
covery that they say had begun be-
fore the 1882 election. Well, have
several years over my head and
that's the first or any one else
knew about it. I think I know why
they kept it a secret all the time.
They must be afraid Of the outcome
in 1886, so they are starting in
plenty of time.
Do you folk believe all that? Well,
here's one who doesn't care a whoop
what they accuse Mr.. Roosevelt Of.
I still say it isn't so, no matter
what comes or goes.
Three cheers for Mr.. Roosevelt in
1886 and first lady of the land. Long
may she live.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
Daily Thought

Open We the gates, that tine right
eouS nation which keepeth the truth
may enter in-Isaiah 1852.
ITO all appearances, fiction is the
l. native dialect of mankind, and
the truth an esoteric language as
yet but imperfectly learned and
little loyed.-Carl Van Doren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

at meager wages to enrich a few,
and are thrown on the scrap heap
when age slows them down, eco
nomic injustice is in the saddle.
Keep this in mind-the new
Roosevelt program does not kill the
profit motive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
NEW WAGE PLAN

IT is an interesting Plan which the Num-
l. Bush shoe factory OF Milwaukee has es-
tahnshed for its 100 workers. Prom now on.
these workers will draw 50 pay checks
year. regardless OF whether business IS good
or bad
The size Of the checks. Of course. viii de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22

In new device which initiates the suns
motion. one gear turns once in every l12soO
years. The inventor probably thought of it
while in the family cur trying to get to work
on time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-22
The Message Center

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