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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-26

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT called
Senator Pat Harrison Of Mississippi
to the White House for a conference
concerning the veterans bonus bill,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-26

MAYHEM the administrations great
wv work relief program gets under
way one Of the most Important parts
Of It, the purchase Of material supplies,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-26

busy with the problem, and the result
was the Introduction In congress of a
compromise bill which 1t was believed
the President would accept If 1t were
passed. =
This measure would make bonus Ger.
tifcates mature In 1888, instead of
1916. They could be converted imme.
diately into 8 per cent bonds. Vet.
Grams who wanted cash righr away
could sell the bonds losing only the
interest they otherwise could obtain
until 1898. Harrison said this would
cost $5OO.OOO,0O0 more than the pres.
ent bonus law. but far less than the
Patman bin, passed by the house, 10
pay the bonus with $2,5OO.OOO,OOO In
new money. III.
Milo Warner. vice commander OF the
American Legion. said this bill was
absolutely not acceptable" to that or.
ganization. Heads Of veterans organ.
izations and various others were in.
vited to testify at committee hearings
on the bill. ..;s atn. 4s.{5
-u -H - q TIbs III -
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-26

CIR OSWALD MOsLEY. chief of the
British Fascists, has committed his
organization to a policy Of anti-semit.
ism fully as severe as that Of the Hit.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-26

Army and navy officers are terribly
concerned yer the bill just passed by
the house. and soon to be considered in
the senate, for taking the profit out of
wal. They assure everyone who will
listen to them, in private, that It will
also take national defense out Of war,
which might be very serious indeed to
the nation In the event Of a conflict.
The pacifists hail the bin as:
"A bill to keep the United States out
OF war By providing In advance that
there will be ~ profits for none, and
(2) ~confiscatory taxes for all, so that
1t will be to every Americans interest
to keep the United States at peace"
Army and navy experts say that it
should be called:
"A bill az to transfer the war mu-
nitions industry now in the United
States, and which might be started
here. to foreign soil. t2) to provide. for
m~urderous delay in preparation In case
a war II forced on this country, tS) to
conscript soldiers and employers but
not workmen. and az to repeal the
oldest law Of military strategy that
the best offense is a vigorous often.
sive."
Goaded By q 100000 bonus to
Eugene g. Grace. BY creams OF the
p~aci6sts, BY complaints OF soldier bonus
lobbyists that "these boys fought and
risked their lives while profiteers were
making millions,n the house voted
down every qualifying amendment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
ASSURE PEACE!

An onest-to-goOdness bill to take the
~ profits out OF war might turn out 10 &c -
excellent means OF keeping the nation out Of
war altogether.
Take a look at the plan now being oonsid-
cred BY the Senate Munitions Committee. This
plan. submitted by John T. Flynn, New York
financial writer. is reported TO bear a certain
amount Of White House approval; and whether
IL does = not. il al least suggests a new way
OF keeping the country at peace.
This bill would take the profits out Of war
with a vengeance. Under It's provisions. the
government would take so per cent Of the first
6 per cent profits OF corporations, and 100 per
cent OF all over that in excess profits.
It would limit all individual incomes TO
$4,000, taking everything over that for Uncle
sam. It would slap income taxes on every one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
AFTER THE LITTLE FELLOWS

THE Federal government continues its drive
against the "hangers-on" of gangland. A
Chicagoan who Joined up with John Dillinger
just before that worthy was rubbed oft is SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment; two girl friends
of Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell draw five
year terms in Miami, Fla; in San Francisco,
persons accused of supplying the late Baby
Face Nelson with guns are brought to trial.
Il needs to be emphasized that this kind of
work is fully as important as the task of crack
ing down on the ringleaders themselves. No
criminal gang can exist in a vacuum. 1t has
to have its small-fry satellites-the hangers-on
who make its existence easy and comfortable.
Such persons are really as dangerous to
society as the big shots they serve. One of the
most encouraging signs of the current anti
crime campaign is the fact that they are at
last getting energetic attention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
TO THE

LIVERY American can think of plenty of
- reasons for opposing a dictatorship. One
Of the most cogent is the fact that the natural
tendency to glorify the d~ictators personality
eventually is carried so far that it turns into
something very like outright idolatry-and
when that happens the government becomes
irresponsible. in the sense that it is quite be-
yOnd the control of any one but the man al
the very peak.
This tendency is amply illustrated by recent
dispatches from Russia. An American CORE
spondent in Moscow undertook to tabulate
references to Stain in speeches by party work
ers. He found that every speech contained
someth'r like Our dearly beloved leader"
on darling Stain" Our best of all, Our
r ding star" and so on.
Such fUlsome phrases are nothing less thar
ridiculous. But they are simply the logical
outcome of a tendency inherent in any kind
Of one-man rule
Hand things over to a dictator, ard you
have to glorify him-even if it gags you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
n OF LONG DISPUTE

GALE by the Soviet government of the his
y toric Chinese Eastern Railway to the gov
eminent of Manchukuo removes one of the
most potent sources of international friction
in the Far East. When the Soviet ambassa-
dor accepted a check for 2 100000 yen Slight
" more than $4,000, OOO) for Russia's interest
in the road, ne brought to an end a danger
Gus quarrel 40 years old.
Construction of this railway marked the
beginning of Russia's great drive to the Pa
cifc. 1t helped to bring on the great Rus
sian-JsPanese wal of 80 years ago; in recent
years disputes over its ownership kept Rus
SIAN japanese a%ntagonism alive.
There was always the danger that one of
these disputes might boil over into a new
war.
The sale probably marks the end Of Rus
sia's efforts to omina the Manchurian
plain. The number of reasons for trouble
in that harassed region has been reduced by
one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
MR.. SCHWAB'S ALARUM

CHARLES NJ. SCHWAB returns home from
- his rest cure abroad, in a decidedly bill
ious state of mind.
don't seem to be progressing much"
Mr.. Schwab said as he came ashore. In fact,
if the stock market is an indication of public
sentiment, we've gone backward since I left
New York some weeks ago"
There was q time when Nj Schwab
shrugged at the stock market barometer.
BE not afraid" he said in December, 1929.
The stock market can not stop or stem the
prosperity that extends throughout this great
country Of ours"
In July, 1880, he declared that after a
severe test American industry was emerging
triumphant from the depression. In october,
1880. he fcreSaw the end Of all unemployment.
And in December. 1880, he gazed into his horo-
scope and predicted 10 years of prosperity
ahead.
May Mr.. schwab's latest prophecy prove
as inaccurate as his others!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01

earning more than $1,000 a year. and the rates
would be stiff.
Furthermore. it would draft general officers
OF all corporations into the military forces, and
in case OF need these gentlemen could be put
under the same sort OF control and pay scales
that apply to army offc- 5. It would close all
commodity exchanges, forbid speculation in
commodities, license industries and, where
necessary, tx prices. and commander for the
government all essential industries and serv-
ices.
The whole business is drastic enough to
take your breath away. But that it would do
what It sets out to do-remove the profits from
war-there is not the shadow Of a doubt.
Declaration Of war would mean the begin
ming Of a dreary and irksome interval for bust
ness and industry. under this scheme; further
more. the government should be able to pay
all war expenses out Of income, and the stu
pendous bond issues Of past wars would be
unknown.
But beyond all that, it is highly probable
that such a law would be a powerful force to
make the nation keep the peace.
one Of the chief dangers nowadays is the
fact that war Goes at least provide a great, if
temporary, squirt of prosperity. Enormous
profits are TO be made.
That fact sticks in the back Of every ones
head. It helps make US ready to accept the idea
Of war; for We can never forget that however
trying the war period may be, it will at least
be a time Of high earnings.
Wed get a different attitude if this Flynn
plan were law. The advent of war would mean
fewer profits. not greater ones. No one would
have any hnancial incentive for welcoming
war.
Passing such a bill might prove an excellent
means Of keeping the nation at peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
A NEW ELEPHANT?

THE forthcoming Kansas City convention
i OF NHdwestcrn Republicans may live up
N Senator Vandenbergs description-"s grass
ro'ts meeting" But the healthy skepticism
OF the more ruggedly progressive Republicans
is understandable.
There was the i~nauSpiciOuS timing OF The
csu-On the heels OF ex-PreSident Hoovers I'M
convincing appeal 10 the youth Of the land
There is the strangely unanimous approval Of
the meeting given BY such Old Guard stall
warts as Republican Chairman Fletcher. Rep
resenrative wadsworth and that Hoover key
uorcr. Senator Dickinson Of Iowa These cir
eums,ances seem 10 indicate that some old
dealers VIII be found on hand to try to shuttle
the same old deck.
True. there is a vibrant ring 10 the ultima
tum Of William Allen White that the Repub-
i.ran party must turn away from the prop
ertv-minded leadership which has dominated it
most Of the time for 2O'years."
The party. Mr.. White declares. should not
be content with denouncing the faults Of
Roosevelt but should sponsor tangible guar
antics TO the common man. including eco
o security. which means insurance against
the uncertainties OF III health. the degradation
or unemployment and poverty in old age
The old Republican elephant needs some
thing more than a sectional white-wasning.
We hope Nj. White. and those who share his
desire Tor real reform Of the party, succeed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
KEEP HI SCHOOLS OPEN

THE Cutting amendment to the works-re-
l. lief bill. setting aside 100000 to keep
open the schools for the remainder Of this
school year. should be favorably considered by
the House and Senate conference. All Of this
sum may not be needed. But there is no doubt
that many Of the states must have help.
Commissioner John W. Studebaker Of the
United States Office Of Education estimates
that 81 states have total deficits of S37,OO0,000,
out Of which s24.5OO,OOO is needed to pay teach
ers' back salaries. Some 1900 schools in IS
states are faced with immediate closing or
ders. and 100000 teachers with loss of income.
In view Of their meager salaries, loss OF in
come would mean restitution for many
teachers.
AS FERA Administrator Hopkins says:
Teachers should not be identified With re-
lief" The Cutting amendment viii keep
TEACHERS of the relief rolls. keer the schools
open until June. and keep obldrer of the
streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01

MEETING IN MOSCOW

GREAT BRTTAINs youngest diplomat
- and Rlssia's foreign commissar have
revived hopes Of European peace after a
fortnight OF fright over Herr Hitler's mill
tary threat. Meeting IN Moscow. the youth
fully daring Capt. Eden and the persistent
LItvinov have worked out an Anglo-Soyiet
agreement which NAV stop Naziism in its
tracks. This agreement, If 1t holds. viii link
into Russis's peace alliance with France and
force an eastern European security pact.
Then tho dictator in Berlin can step back into
hne-or take the consequences Of political
and military isolation.
Although the young Briton in the Bond
Street clothes and tho clever commissar Of
the Kremlin deserve credit for this dipio-
matte coup. Herr Hitler made it easy for
them. The German dictator. intoxicated by
the bcdIam Of his mimic bOmbers and his
Goose-steppIng troops. treated the British
with too much rough stuff. This is the kick
back.
Hitler had his chance when the British
foreign minister. Sir John Simon. went to
Berlin last week. II the timorous Sir John
could have taken back to London any reason
able Hitler proposal. he might have won over
the doubling Macdonald and Baldwin 10 a
German compromise. But when Sir John
limped home. burdcned with Nazi threats. the
British Cabinet wired Capt. Eden to make the
most Of il in Moscow. He did. As a result,
Europe may get peace. and ne may be re-
vardcd soon with Sir Johns job as British
foreign minister.
Herr Hitler III his negotiations with the
British gambled all on the Red DOGGY. He
said TO them in effect: If YOU let me kick over
the treaties and build the largest war ma
chine in Europe. I vii wipe out the Soviet
menace and save Western civilization
But the British have decided-as the French
and Italians decided before them-that the
menace is not Russia but Nazi militarism.
Indeed the British now are beginning to
look to the proletarian government Of Russia
as the main prop Of peace. There can be no
other Interpretation Of that remarkable joint
announcement by Capt. Eden and Mr.. Lit
vinov that:
There is at present no conflict of interests
between the two governments on any Of the
main issues Of international policy ... friendly
cooperation Of the two countries in the gen
eral work for the collective organization Of
peace and security is Of primary importance
for the furtherance Of international efforts 10
this end"
II the British government will carry on
with France. Italy and Russia for the p~reserva-
ton OF a League Of Nations peace, Hitler may
quickly quiet down. Germany has a case, and
a good one. for revision OF the unjust treaty.
She could be able to win that case peace
ably within the league. She can not win 1t
bv b.uHing or fighting all OF the other Eu-
ropcan powers.
France and Italy, and now Great Britain,
have come together with Russia not because
they love Communism. but because all OF
these four nations have a common interest IN
preserving peace. And the future Of Germany
depends no less on peace. If the tragically
futile Nazis can only be brought to under
stand that hard fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
TAXES WILL DRIVE
OUT SMALL BUSINESS

By B. z.
A friend of mine just informed
me that we will possibly have 70
pay a sun of approximately SIS for
tax on our gasoline pumps.
I think this is unjust, and it will
just drive lots of people completely
out of business and cause hundreds
to be out of work. Can't some one
see what they're doing to the bust
ness people of this city and do
something about it? People who
have enough money to be in bust
ness also have enough to start in
business and it's a cinch they'll start
in some other city where there
aren't 20 many dumb Lawmakers.
The s~o-called big shots" aren't as
intelligent as the so-called little
fellows" because the little fellow
has enough sense to keep business
going and fight for a living, whereas
the big fellow" chisels a living out
of the working man without so
much as a dirty f%ngernail resulting.
More than so per cent Of the
profits will be paid for taxes alone,
if all these proposed taxes have to
be paid.
IN most cases, taxes are paid on
the same dollar many, many times.
There is no system at all, but every
one knows, there isn't supposed to
be any system. There should be a
motto for the public office holders,
Less system. more chiseling.'
A man from the gross income tax
| division was just out and said we
must pay about $3.50 sales. tax. Every
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
U. S. FOREST PROJECT
CONDEMNED AS UNWISE

BY 5. o. Murphy.
AS a resident of southern In
diana now visiting in your city per-
nit me to say a few words through
your Message Center in answer TO
Mr.. Watt.
Mr.. Watt said they were just buy
ing up submarginal land, but didn't
the paper say they were going to
buy all of II counties and a
portion Of several others? MI. Watt
says this forest project will put
several thousand men to work, but
what is to become Of the 100000
people now in these II counties?
Can we be removed to any other
section in the state or nation and
enjoy the advantages we now have?
I think not.
What will become of all the mer-
chants and other small-toWn bust
ness men in this section? They
can't stay in business if all the
farm land around these small towns
belongs tc the state or government.
There would be n tourists in the
winter months. Who would want 10
live near a forest full of deer hunt
erS2
Would their lives be safe? AS to
putting all these acres in forest, how
much could the average farmer get
for his timber if the government
owned 300, 900 acres of forest?
Wouldn't this put the government in
the timber business?
Where is this land we are to be
put on? We can do European style
farming. You know what that is.
Just downright %peasantry. Didn't
they encourage immigration be-
cause we had vast tracts of land
with no one on them? Now, the
country is settled; all our wild game
is gone. So why try to undo what
has been done in this way? Why
does not the government buy an au-
tomobile factory and make buggies
again?
Mr.. Watt, don't you think the
present has enough problems to take
care of without worrying about the
things 100 years in advance? For
without a present, can the future
amount to much?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
FINDS SCHOOL
GREAT STEP FOR SAFETY
By Daniel O'DonnelI.

BY Daniel O'DOnnelI.
Having been an admirer of The
Times and its policies for years, I'm
taking advantage of your Message
Center for the first time to say a
few words for the school sponsored
by the Indianapolis Times and EN-
Roe Sporting Goods Company at
the indianapolis Gun Club, and its
efficient instructor, Mr.. Adams.
1t not only teaches you the art
Of good clean sport, but gives you
a lesson in one Of our greatest
courses of today, safety.
1 think the Scripps-Howard
Newspapers would do a good deed
by carrying this school into other
cities, not only for the sporting end
of it, but for the safety part Of it,
If it only saved n life, it would
be we'll worth while.
I want to thank The Times and
Em-Roe for having had the oppor-
tunity and pleasure Of attending
this school.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
Looking at America
:BY GEN. HUGE 5. JOHNSON.

CHILLICOTHE, Ill, April IA threat hangs
~ in the sky over Kansas Citys inland empire.
The air is dark with dust which is the ashes Of
The burnt high wheat lands. The damage is
bad enough. but the fear is of what yet may
come. There is a sort of suppressed terror in
the talk of people from the plains country. Parts
to the West have been literally skinned of the
top layer which produces the wheat. It is a dis
aster and unless soaking rains come soon, it may
be a major catastrophe.
A curious sidelight is that this rich dust and
volcanic ash IS sitting fertilizer on other areas.
People ask why this never happened before.
The answer is-there was Buffalo grass and there
we're no tractors, combines and wheat land plows.
When I was a boy this country was covered
with a thick. low, crisp, curly mat Of Buffalo
grass. 1t made the greatest grazing in the world.
It resisted drought. 1t literally anchored the
fertile top to the subsoll. 1t is gone as completely
as The laundering here's from which it took its
name.
Wheat raising, except in this stricken area
and one or two others, is a hard job. Even with
a gang pillow and a tractor you can only pillow
three burrows. There are seven other separate
operations, narrowing, seeding, cutting and bind
ing, shocking, curling, stacking and threSnlng.
They require much time, money and labor.
TTERE where tn. soil was light and fertile,
II and the air at harvest dry, We thought we
had worked a modern mechanical miracle. The
wheatland pillow is a row Of revolving discs. In
this loose soil it will easily rip up a wake II feet
wide. With a powerful tractor some men hook
harrows and even a grain drill on behind the
pillow. That reduces three operations to one and
speeds that one.
The header-cOmbine saves even more IN har-
vesting. It reduces four operations to one. 1t
cuts a 12-foot swath. 1t takes off only the
heads and it threshes them and bags the wheat
as it moves. All this requires only a few days
work to make a crop. These improvements put
vast areas under cultivation. To the destruction
OF tie old anchoring cover-mat, much OF that
country was soon exposed and pulverized. When
enough drought and wind came, it simply blew
away.
Some people out here call it the vengeance
Of God for crop reduction. Of course, 1t is only
the folly Of man.
our usual vast annual wheat surplus de-
stroved prices. Both extremes of politics agreed
that production should be reduced to the point
of profitable marketing. The New Deal tired
what the old deal recommended, but wouldn't try.
The plan worked. A freak of nature that
never happened before and made it work TOO
we'll. should not condemn a principle so PLAIN
that both Hoover and Roosevelt can agree on II.
The outstanding lesson is the need for national
planning of the use of land.
Copyright. 1885. by United Feature syndicate. Inc. AL
rights reserved. Reproduction in whole
or in part forbidden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
Pleads for Peace
BY Mrs. Roy A. Putnam.

BY Mrs. Roy A. Putnam.
I would like to answer M. Ru-
dolph Kuehn, who had an article
in The Times on March %.
You are very anxious to have
another war. Well, evidently you
were too young or for some reason
didn't get to go the other time.
If you had been there and had
seen what the boys went through
and those who came back without
an arm or leg or both, some blind
and others gaSsed, you would
probably change your mind.
If you could just see the graves
in France where many husbands,
fathers and sons lie, whose rela-
tives can not even visit their
graves. These men who died for
their country we're very dear to
their loved ones left at home, but
they had to die because of war.
Many families in the United
States were left dependent on
charity because of the war.
Oh, you think it is a great
thing to fight. Well, I only hope
if we have another war, you will
be in the midst of it, where you
car go without food for several
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
SEEKS OF
ALL GAS RATES
"a nanieI B. Lnten.

BY Daniel Is. Luten.
The article by Vincent Lyons in
the March % issue bearing the title
Municipal Gas Plants Rates Aver
age Lower" is limited to rates for
1000 GU. #. or less.
One of the criticisms Of municipal
ownership of plants for manufactur-
ing a and electricity is that the
charge for the small user is reduced
at the expense Of the large user in
order to encourage votes in support
Of such ownership.
Hence the article by Mr.. Lyons,
by limiting itself to the advantages
gained by the small user, seems 10
Justify the criticism. 1t would be
we'll worth while to present the
comparison for all rates.
AT a time like the present when
10 million workers are unemployed
and five million families are reduced
TO lower than. sweat shop conditions