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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
Looking at America
BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON :

NTASHINGTON, April 6.-The New Deal is
w in nutcracker One jaw is the Long
Coughln 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 foolshly appointed a so-called
heavy goods committee to suggest improvements
in NFA. Their proposal was to cut its throat
They are now a lobby to assure the cutting. In
this they are in accord with much that Senators
Nye and Huey Long advocate. Aiding both are
men in the Federal Trade Commission, under
which this vast sweep toward monopoly went
on for the II 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
psint 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 NE2A 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
declaration by Congress that human labor is
not commodity of commerce. Never, until the
enactment of NRA did Congress ever do any,
thing to make that declaration good The hours
anc 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 monopolsts is to restore
practices which for a decade wiped out COM
petitors by the thousands every year. While
not their object 1t is a 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
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 no.
kun of protecting the little fellow and prevent
ing monopoly.
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MONEY AWAITS MANY

THE absent-nsinded professor of song and
l. story seems to have rival in the field
of forgetfulneSs-the absent-minded investor.
1t is announced at Washington that the
Treasury has 1os.oOo.OOo oue to holders of
matured United States Treasury Bonds. The
holders of these bonds, who paid out .neir
hard-earned money over 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 a 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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CECRETARY HULL singled out one of the
~ worst offenders when he announced that
France must straighten out her trade relations
import quotas and two-coumn tariff schedule,
France has Disseminated against American
goods, while enjoying equal treatment with
other nations in American markets
Fortunately the showdown on our most
characterization policy is to come with power
full nation. France and America stand as
equals in the international game of give and
take.
That we sell 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 a
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 Hull's announcement is notice
that henceforth We hew to trade policy Of
enlightened selfishness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06

ON this eighteenth anniversary Of Americas
~ entrance into the World War there is in
creasing danger Of another World War. No
one denies that. And Americans virtually with
one accord. want to keep out Of it If it comes.
No one denies that. either.
But keep out. how?
There is no easy way. Perhaps we might
be drawn into 1t inevitably If there we're
world war and It lasted long enough. Certainly
the hopes Of isolation are shaky at best, in the
light of our history.
Realizing that there Is no such thing as
absolute safety for us in a warning world, we
have tried in recent years to cooperate with
other nations in building an international
peace system as a substitute for war. Though
we declined formal membership in the League
Of Nations, which was dominated by European
powers and concerned chiefly with European
problems we did make important contributions
to the peace structure. We tried to lead toward
joint disarmament. first at the successful
Washington conference and later at the unsuc-
cessful Geneva and London conferences We
were chiefly responsible for the Kellogg pact,
and for the regional Pacific treaties.
Today, through little or no fault or our
own disarmament Is blocked and the Kellogg
and Pacific treaties lie violated and valueless.
We can not ignore that fact. We can and
should continue to cooperate for peace with
any and all willing nations. But we dare not
ignore the possibility even the probability, that
world war forces are stronger than world peace
forces.
GO tie President and Congress are intent
~ upon rushing to completion the largest
peace-time naval and military establishment
in our history. That is not enough. 1t is not
enough because the danger of a territorial
invasion causing war is infinitesimal COM
pared with the danger of external causes drag
ging us into war abroad-as 10 years ago
today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
PEACEMAKER

JAMES MULLENBACH, who died the other
- day in Chicago, was one of this country's
pioneering industrial arbitrator.
former minister. he was called to the
battlefelds 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 persueS;veness 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 result of overwork.
Surely among the blessed these days are
the psacemakers of industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
intelligence IN Presidents
By Julian Bamberger.

By Julian Bamberger.
I read with interest an article
in your Message Center, headed
"Baruch Has Done Poor Job of
Advising" written by Mrs. L. F.
Kunkel, in which she pirates 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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The Anniversary of War
An Editorial.

Our big Army and Navy could defend us
from attack, could enable US to fight better
war after We we're in, and might even hasten
our entrance into war because OF our armed
strength. But our big Army and Nsvy-even
If twice the size-can not in themselves keep
us out OF a world war If it comes.
Only positive peace policy Of our govern
ment, backed by public opinion, can keep is
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, 1t
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 cause
of military war.
TT means that we remove the vested interest
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 a 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 It's way toward clothing these ideas in
actual policies and definite laws.
But it may be 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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
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 Coughlin 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 who 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 Coughlins program and
organization is no more of a menace
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
revolution or war, is deliberate,
malicious, dirty lie, conceived by
low mud-slinging dish-rag that has
been passed over every political
greasy pan and pot since the World
war.
Johnson would not make sue
cess 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 we'll 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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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 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,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
LIKE FROG IN THE WELL

ECONOMIC recovery in the United States
LIS evidently progressing in a 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 Rnosevelts Inauguration in the siding
OF 1888. and collapsed in July of that year.
The next began in November. 1883. and lasted
six months. 10 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
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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 ewhose 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 who 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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SATURDAY. APRIL 8. i0as.
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1-PHOOEY

PUBLIC ENEm1 NJ. II hOOEA
FINANCES in the values Of the news are
~ amazing.
A wear ago John Dillinger was Public
Enemy No. / and reams Of copy were being
written about his escapades. He had escaped
from the Crown Point Jail March and was
being hunted throughout the Midwest. On
April 6. 1894, little news OF Dilhnger ap-
neared in the headlines, but on April T. car
he had been driving was wrecked near Nc5ies-
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 a wooden gun TO ac-
eonplsh his purpose. He said so himself.
ONLY this week the ghost Of Dillinger crossed
the front pages with reports that bank securi-
tics he had stolen were cashed here ana re-
ports that federal agents ascertained he had
used real gun to effect his escape
But how different than in the old days
Only a 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
Fnenv No since the death of Dillinger, BABY
Face Nelson and other underworld rats who
became big time boys as long as they had ma
chine guns to protect their hides.
The reading public of this city, state ana
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
paragraphs-it is something that Is OF vital
interest to all of us. The acquisition OF the
Citizens Gas Co., also is of great interest ana
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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GEN. JOHNSON PUT ON
GRIDDLE BY READER
Bw a Subscriber.

Bw Subscriber.
do 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 1 am not mis-
taken, Gen. johnson made his great
name during the World War, by
making the sons of poor men join
the Army. At 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 generall And you put
him up as a 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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AUTO CONTROL SHOULD
BE BASED ON LICENSE
BY q Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
With all the present talk and ex-
element about automobile acct
dents, I 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 undiGturbed I'M
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 filed be-
fore 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
state trooper come up and cour-
teously ask to see his driving license.
The frequency of these requests does
not encourage driving without a
license.
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 year and have not read
of any such suggestion.
I 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 ] felt 50 unsafe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06
PRAISES TIMES EDITORIAL
ON JUSTICE TO NEGROES

By Rev. E. o. Price.
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 I
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 few clippings which I
think are worthwhile within the last
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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APRIL 6, 1895

forgotten about the thousands of
people who are now making $l4.50
week who formerly worked for 81
or Sc during Hoovers administra-
ton.
At least, President Roosevelt 1
working hard and has new ideas al
the time, and that's more than W
can say for Hoover, who did prao
tically nothing to overcome the d.
preston.
You should feel ashamed to speak
of our loyal President as you have
it surely shows you have anything
but a genuine patriotic spiritI
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as on the streets and roads in and
about Indianapolis.
Your paper has held my admira-
ton since purchased my first copy,
because 1 wanted to read Broun and
Lippmann. I think you have &C
complished a great deal in the ad-
vancement of progress. 1 wish you
would put your paper behind a cam
paign for safer driving as you did
for prevention of stream pollution.
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ROOSEVELT MAKING
PROGRESS, HE SAYS
By Roosevelt Follower.

BY Roosevelt Follower.
In referring to the article by r.
r. G. in The Times on April 2,
can tel by the way you speak of
our President Roosevelt that you are
just another one Of those hot
headed Republicans" who just can't
seem to get over that Landslide of
1892" when our famous President,
Hoover you might call him ia
mousD, was so badly beaten. Re-
member. you are just one Of many
thousands of votersl And the public
preferred our faithful and intelli-
gent Roosevelt
You spoke very unsatisfactory
Of the NRA. The reason why the
NRA isn't going over so big" nog is
because the business men are not
standing back Of it like they should.
From what you state. it didn Z, aelp
in the least-I suppose you hVe
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the spring of 1888. At the start of last Sep
TENDERS advance it was IL; today, we find
that the average for the first eight months
of the current fiscal year is 79.
All this may be rather cold comfort. But
1t does reveal SLOW steady progress toward
economic health.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are tnDited to cypress
their Views In these columns. MGke your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 4oiH
be 1oithheId at request Of the letter
4sriter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-06

Experts agree it viii be difficult to keep
the United States frcm belng dragged into the
next war. For one thing. there's that natural
eagerness Of our citizens to get overseas and
away from the auto menace.