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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04
Liberal Side
by
HARRY ELMER BARNES
(Heywood Broun Is on VacatiOn.)

IF any one is fearful lest there be Fascism
in the United States, one practical way
of lessening the danger is to give firm as
sistance to all movements designed to frus-
trate the attacks now being made on our
civil liberties by reactionary groups and
irresponsible publishers.
The American Civil Liberties Union has, there
fore, done smart thing in sending out to its men,
bers and friends list Of the more important Federal
measures which touch closely upon civil liberties
some are designed to curb liberties and others to
protect us in our constitutional rights
First among those which threaten our liberties
are the proposed gag bills. The Kramer sedition
bill would punish the advocacy of the overthrow of
government by force and violence Under it, most
OF the men who sat in Federal Constitutional
Convention in 1887 would be liable to punishment.
Then there is the Tydngs-McDuffie military
disaffection bill, modelled after the gag law that
England passed a couple of years back. This would
punish severely anybody who, by word or publica-
ton, said anything which might possibly incite a
soldier or sailor to disobey orders. How serious this
might be is seen by the effect in England There,
very important publishing firm refused to print
childrens Christmas book which recommended
peace on earth and good will among men. Senator
Tydings and Secretary of War Dern have withdrawn
their support from the bill.
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spade return was won by South's
last spade.
The queen of diamonds seemed
to be indicated in East's hand. So
South played the king and one
heart, and cashed the last heart
in dummy, discarding the four of
clubs.
To protect himself against
twice-guarded queen in East's
hand, as he believed. South now
played the jack of diamonds. East
and South both played low and,
much to South's amazement,
West won the trick with the
queen of diamonds, South having
definitely placed West with the
ace of clubs as his re-entry, and
not the queen of diamonds.
Only four cards were left in
each hand at this time, declarer
holding the ace-nine or diamonds
and the king-six of clubs. West
held small club, the seven of
diamonds and two good spades,
which he now proceeded to cash.
On the first of these, declarer
discarded the nine of diamonds,
but on the second spade trick he
was squeezed. Any discard he
made would give the opponents
the remainder of the tricks.
Copyright, 1896. by NEA Service, Incl
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Washington. After testifying in
the impeachment, Sewall will push
a 100000 PWA loan for the
erection of a permanent Pan
American Exposition in Miami.
II
FOLLOWING Roosevelt's rever-
L sal Of his order to close sew
eral hundred camps, the CCC has
launched a drive to recruit 10000
new members. Director Fechner
expects to have the corps
strength up to $4,000 by May l.
-. Experimental flights across
the Atlantic in preparation for the
establishment of regular airmail
services between the United States
and Europe are being planned for
this summer by Great Britain,
France, Germany and the United
States. In England fleet of high
speed mail planes is being con-
structed especially for the test
flights. i. Latest invention of
ingenious IVA engineers seeking
new uses for surplus Tennessee
electricity is a charged fly screen
that electrocutes insects when
they touch the screen. Other de-
vices include an electric hay-dryer
and an electric hay hoist. . +. If
the Senate concurs in a House
amendment extending Title l of
the Federal Housing AdminiStra-
ton, there should be a big boom
in church modernization this
year. The provision would permit
the FILA to guarantee loans up
to $4,000 for this purpose. Under
existing laws it could not insure
loans for church renovation. :.
Two hundred thousand copies of
Morris L. Cookies remarkable
booklet, Little Waters" have
been ordered from the govern
ment printing Office by a Phila-
delpllian, for free distribution to
libraries and schools over the
country. The publication. which
the President sent to Congress
with a special message, stresses
the vital Importance of tributary
streams in causing floods.
Washington news women stag
ing a charity party caused a
furry in White House circles by
their methods of soliciting gifts.
Some girls seeking donations from
liquor dealers mentioned the name
of Mrs. Roosevelt as a patron.
Copyright 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc9
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Ads May Haze Influence

THEY also fall eagerly for their very childish
- moving picture publicity. but this may be due
to the fact that they have in mind the revenus
from movie advertising, which was naturally sug-
gested few days ago when feature writer smeared
half a page with writing about the glamorous
Dietrich, bangup against a big display ADVERTISE
ment of a Marlene Dietrich picture.
noticed also that of the popular Sunday
papers, which carries great lineage in advertise
mentS from the promoters of football pools printed
reSounding editorial denouncng attempts to abol-
iSh or regulate the pools, which are VIGOROUSLY
crooked
AT home we have the equivalent of the British
football pool in the baseball pool and the number
racket, but not even our worst newspapers accept
advertisements to promote the frauds
The English popular press seems to have abso-
lutey ethics conscience in regard to ADVERTISE
ments for fake cures for cancer, rheumatism, dia-
betes and other scourgeS. This sort of advertising
gets an enormous display and presumably yields
enormous revenues to the publisher
1t has been Is years at least since the patent
medicine faker kicked out of the majority of the
American papers or compelled to honey up his copy
with Notwithstanding preteXt.
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has vacated the scorner's seat and
gone off to North Carolina to play
golf. Principal occupant of
that seat is Senator Vandenberg.
=. The principal of the Boons-
boro (Md) High School punished
a truant the other day by handing
him a volume of the Congressional
Record and requiring that he read
the entire Huey Long filibuster
which (Which required five hours
to deliver), and write a 1000-word
essay on it. Members of the
Senate Agriculture Committee
manifest no interest in Senator
Cotton Ed Smiths current inves-
tigation of the cotton market.
During the long, dreary hearings,
Smith sits alone, infrequently re-
lieved by Mrs. Hattie Caraway.
Mrs. Huey Long finds the SEN
ate roll call amusing Frequently
when her name is called, she an
swers with little laugh.
nR. FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND
~ is reported to be indorsing a
digestion pill that he uses person.
ally. The ex-Iowa country doctor
always carries box of the tablets
with him, uses them before each
meal. The forthcoming report
by the Securities and Exchange
Commission on the operations of
so-called Stockholders Protective
Committee" covers 1900 pages of
sensational disclosures involving a
number of leading banks.
Short, rotund Louis Ward, Wash
ington lobbyist for the Rev.
Charles Coughlin, has departed
from the Capital. being succeeded
by Fred Collins, former advertis-
ing and publicity man associated
with ward. Labor Secretary
Frances Perkins is embroiled in
another row with congressman.
She favors the appointment of
DR.. John Lapp of Chicago as the
S10,000-a-year impartial chairman
of the Coal Labor Board. Since
several congressman oppose. Lapp,
the important post continues un-
filled. Miami's Mayor E. G.
Sewall. summoned as a witness in
the impeachment trial of Judge
Halstead L. Ridder, plans to kill
two birds with one stone while in
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the dust from their fields is blow
ing over on adjoining farms,
causing damage to land and crops
there.
II
WE are advising such owners
w to take immediate steps
themselves after getting informa-
ton from the county agent. If
they do not follow our advice, we
will do the work and charge the
expense to them. 1t will run
from Is to so cents an acre"
More than 500 Texas farm
owners are getting that kind of
notice this year. But, of course,
most of the work is done by CO.
operation with farmers on
the ground.
j. G. Wilcox, young Federal soil
engineer, showed us the methods
being used here. Chief among
them is contour blowing.
That means simply that, instead
of blowing straight burrows east
and west or north and south, the
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LubOr's Interests InUOIUed

MORE humane control of deportation is hoped for
wi through the Kerr Coolidge bill to give discre
ton in cases which would involve hardship dis
aster such as breaking up families sending rad
icals back to Fascist states.
The interests of labor involved in bills to pro-
hibit the interstate shipment of strike breakers; to
prohibit the use of Federal equipment by state troops
engaged in strike duty except with specific approval
of the Secretary of War; and to make thorough
investigation of the condition of choppers in
the South.
Friends of civil liberty will do we'll to write their
Senators and congressman to support these bills
which safeguard civil liberties and to oppose those
which head us further toward Fascism.
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average for that period is SO. So
conditions are ripe for more dam
age unless more rain comes.
On a 10,000-acre tract four
miles north of here, Wilcox
showed us land that five years
ago was productive farm. To-
day there are sand dunes a quar-
ter mile long and so to 60 feet
high ridging the land.
Between the ridges, the ground
is scraped clean by the wind,
hard and brittle as china plate.
In spots the wind has eaten away
the ground to the third subsoil.
1t is as wild and desolate-look-
ing a spot as any we saw in the
Dust Bowl. But the Soil Con-
servation Service hopes that by
it's scientific methods this can be
turned back into productive farm
land within few years.
TINE big effort is to persuade
II farmers to stop putting all
their eggs in one basket by plant
ing wheat, wheat, wheat. Sue
cess of any conservation program
can come only from persuading
them to plant part of their land
in rowcrops and grassland, aided
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Washington Merry-Go-Round

XXIASHINGTON, April 4.-Re-
w publican politicos are cred
iting Walter F. Brown, Postmas-
ter General in the Hoover Cabi-
net, and G. Bascom Slemp, secre-
tary to the late Calvin Coolidge,
with controlling a bloc of 90
southern delegates between them.
Neither has openly committed
himself to any candidate, but they
are reported to be leaning
strongly toward the Landon band
wagon. ~. William I. Myers, Fed
eral Farm Credit Governor, is
being doomed by several agricul-
tural organizations for appoint
ment as farmer representative on
the Federal Reserve Board. An
other potential nominee is j. S.
Jones, secretary of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation.
Mention of pugilist Joe Louis
brings no cheers to the lips of
Rep. George G. Sadowski, even
though they both hail from De-
troit. Louis lawyer, Charles Rox-
borough, a Negro, is running
against Sadowski, and the Brown
Flash" accompanies him when he
makes a campaign speech. He
always brings crowd. Morris
L. Cooke, Rural Identification
Administrator. dipped a glass in
the muddy Potomac during the
recent flood. A day later the water
was crystal clear, but on the bot
tom of the glass was deposit of
soil three-eighths of an inch
thick. Cooke estimates that this
years floods have carried away
more than one-quarter of a bill
lion tons of soil.
Since his "mutiny" charge
against striking seamen, Secre-
tary Dan Roper is being referred
to in labor circles as Captain
Dan Bligh of Mutiny on the
Brain"
NTHEN Senator Schwellenbach
w of Washington was asked if
he would act as Senate sponsor
for housing bill, introduced III
the HoUse by Rep. Ellenbogen Of
Pennsylvania, he said: What a
combination of names that would
be! The Schwellenbach- Ellen
bogen Bill" New Deal-bait-
ing Senator Hastings of Delaware
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by contouring and terracing, and
listing when necessary.
Throughout the Panhandle, a
''no-crop" report seems almost
certain this year. In some Sec
lions the green wheat is trying to
push its way up through the dust
blanket, and some of the farm
ers fight against fifth straight
year of failure.
Banker George Geers of Guy
mon. Okla, summed up the pros
poets thus: eff we get a lot of
moisture in March and April,
which we seldom do, and if we
don't get any wind, which we al
ways do, we might make half a
crop-on some farms
One is glad to get out of the
Dust Bowl. 1t is like being sent
back to a rest zone from the
front-line trenches. 1t is hard
enough to get the dust out of
your ears, your trhoat and your
lungs.
But it is harder to get out of
your mind the picture of once
fertile acres that are in such i'm
minent danger of becoming des-
olate desert.
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BY FRANK HOUSTON


NEA Service Special Correspondent
DALHART, Tex, April 4.
= The front-lin e
trenches in the war against
the dust demon are on a
40,000-acre tract northeast
of here. This is the chief
of a dozen such plots where
government experts are
trying out ways of fighting
dust storms and warding
off the ruin they leave be-
hind them.
On a 50-mile tour of this prof.
ect, you can actually see the re-
suits. The farm of "co-operator"
lies on one side of the road, with
the soil holding tight, protected by
terracing and contour blowing.
On the other side of the road.
not 100 feet away, you can see
where the terrific Panhandle
winds have scooped away the top
soil and piled it in huge hum
mocks only a step from the sand
dunes of worthless desert.
The government soil experts
have to fight not only the negli-
gence of a past generation and
the ruthless force of nature, but
the set minds of the odd timers"
These men declare, We've al
ways plowed straight rows and we
always got good crops until a
couple of years ago. All we need
is a little rain"
They don't like to be told how
to run their farms by the young
college graduates of the United
States Soil Conservation Service.
PUT gradually they are coming
80 around to it. And those who
won't be persuaded by Federal ex-
perts to try scientific means to
preserve their own and others
land may meet more stringent
measures from the state of
Texas.
BY new law passed this year,
Texas has given power to county
judges and county commissioners
of nine Panhandle counties to
move in and protect land against
wind erosion, and to charge the
expense to the landowner.
This law is aimed mainly at
the nonresident landowner who
doesn't realize what is happening
to his land. Judge Wilson
Cowen, of Dallam County, esti-
mates that 80 per cent of the 300
farms are owned by nonresidents.
1--WE have sent letters to 20
of these owners" Judge Cowen
said, explaining that their land
is not being farmed and that it
is suffering from wind erosion.
We are telling them, too, that
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NIh DOIIdVOIO wiz
ago today voted against war, only
Senator George Norris remains.
OF the so House members who
voted nay, only Knutson and
Lundeen are left.
1t was a different world-in
some respects. Instead of radio
as we know it, there was only the
primitive wireless which had
licked out frantic code let
ters from the sinking Titanic,
and which the military was ex-
perinenting with for short-range
field communication. There were
no talking mixtures no telenh0-
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furrow is run across the slopes,
following the contour of the earth
in such way that the entire
length of each furrow is at the
same level.
Thus, each furrow is a sort of
miniature dam, and runoff water
from sudden rain has to fill and
slop over each of the burrows in
turn. Each furrow, accordingly,
absorbs the maximum of moisture,
but runoff is checked When it
does rain here, it usually is
downpour:
MANY farmers hold back from
AVA any such blowing, feeling
that it is harder work. But the
county agents will run contours on
any farm, and they maintain it
is not much harder once you are
used to it..
"All we want is a little rain!"
cry these farmers, but since Jan.
l only .38 inch has fallen. The
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u. S. Can MOI Stay
Neutral, Many Think
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

NEW YORK, April 4-This Weekend is the an
Y nversary of our entrance into the World War.
Nineteen years ago today the Senate adopted the
war resolution On April 5, 1917 the House adopted
it and the following day President Wilson affixed
his signature.
That long time ago. Col Lindbergh was
kid in short pants, attending public school in Wash
ington where his father, Minnesota congressman
was fighting against our entrance into the war. OF
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Solution to Previous Contract
Problem
BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY

BY VIM. E. MKENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
TODAY'S hand was given to me
Il by Irving Epstein of New York
City, one of the newest and young
est stars in the bridge world. Ep-
stein was the only double winner
at the recent Eastern bridge
championship tournament, being
member of the victorious mixed
team Of four and the winning
open team of four.
We always hear of poor de-
tenders being squeezed. In this
hand, the declarer is squeezed, for
a change.
Against South's contract of three
no trump, Epstein, sitting in the
West, opened the four of spades.
This was won by East's ace and
the seven Of spades was returned,
South winning the trick.
A low heart was played to
dummy's queen and the three of
diamonds returned. South finessed
the 10 and lost to Vests clever
false-card of the king. Epstein's
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.nhZuoulh
by
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

T ONDON, April 4.-Ever since the Lind
berghs left the United States to seek
privacy in England, where they ran into a
blockade of reporters and photographers by
land and air, have been studying the style,
method and content of the English newspapers The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-04
Liquor Pension?

By Scripps-HoWard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, April 4-Veterans OF Prohibition
are joining the Veterans of Future Wars in asserting
their claims on the government for pensions.
Rep. Dan McGehee Cd, MisS0 has proposed to
the House payment of $50 month to any citizen
physically incapacitated from the of Jamaica
ginger of which the alcoholic content released by the
government, was not potable without deleterious
results
To be eligible for his pension an applicant must
have become ncapactated before March 10 Of this
sseA 80
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Journalism, though excellent, is no
better than our best and their
worst worse than our own.
Careless and incomplete re-
porting and sticky writing are the
most flaring characteristics of the
popular press. English reporters
constantly ignore the rule of who,
what, when and where. Their
feature men have a bad habit of
stopping over or squeezing the old
sponge, and they are a great sue
cess for primitive tricks of pub
licity.
A few weeks ago, for example,
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These, Too, Threaten

NTHER bills which threaten the traditional
~ American liberties are one which would increase
the power of postoffce censorship, and an
other which would prohibit the of the mails to
give or obtain information relative to foreign di
vorces. number of savage bills relative to the de-
portation of aliens have been introduced in both the
House and the Senate, but none has as yet been
ported out of the committee. Bills have been in
troduced to prohibit Federal aid to schools where
they teach the overthrow of government by force
and to put Federal pressure on states to re-
quire teachers loyalty oaths.
On the other hand, there a number of bills
which would safeguard or extend our liberties. One
would prohibit contempt proceedings in Federal
in order force editors and reporters reveal
secret sources of information
Several bills contemplate the assurance of great
err freedom in radio service. They would require
radio stations to allow uncensored discussions of
ma or public issues according the treatment to
both sides of controversial topics; would instruct
radio stations to keep full record of all programs
accepted and rejected would free radio stations of
liability for libel SANDER in programs devoted to
public issues and would create special commission
investigate the present condition to free speech
over the air
More popular control of postoffce censorship
would be insured by providing jury trials in all
involving exclusion of materials from the nails.
Lynching is attacked through the proposal to insti
tute Federal prosecution of lynchers and to create
commission to investigate current facts to lynch
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THE FIGHT ON THE DUST DEMON


After a grueling 1500-miIe trip through
the Dust Bowl of the Southwest. Re-
porter Frank Houston and Cameraman
Ennis Helm tell their story of the grim
fight against the desert-creating dust
demon. This is the last of three stories.
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ture actress, broke into print with the news that
her lips had been insured for 100000 gag which
no self-respectng press agent would have the eff
frontery to offer the most gullible American news
desks.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-07-23
AUCTION SALE

Having decided to move further
north to reside on lake shore tract,
will sell at public auction the fol-
lowing personal property, as is, at my
farm located II miles straight west
of Sturgeon Lake, or 5Ea miles north
west of Denham and described as
being in Section 18-5-21 on We'd
nesday, July 20. Sale to start prompt
ly at II a. m. Free lunch at noon.
Livestock-Bessie, 1850 pound bay
mare; Rock, 1900 pound bay horse.
Iris, year old high grade Guernsey
COW, will freshen January 26, 1887;
Osa, year old high grade Guernsey
cow, was fresh April 10, bred back on
June 20; Agate, S year old high grade
Guernsey COW, was fresh April Is,
bred back on July q; Rosie, year old
high grade Guernsey COW, was fresh
IL year old high grade Guernsey
heifer, bred on July 2, 1886. Above
cattle all bred to Coronet of Long
wood No. 210497, a registered Guern-
sey bull. Three yearling heifers; one
heifer calf. All cattle T. B. and
Bangs tested.
One 3-months old pig; some leghorn
hens.
Machinery, etc.-Deering mower,
Deering rake, hay rack, farm wagon,
set heavy s1eds, disc, spike tooth,
spring-tooth, walking pillow, hand cul-
tivator, scraper, grindstone, horse col
lars and harness, No. Is DeLaval
cream separator, Galloway IN h. p.
gas engine, pump jack, hand power
washing machine, bee hive with sup
ers, some 16-foot spruce hay rack
stringers, repairs for old style Deering
mower, some lumber, cream cans and
pals, 2-wheel trailer, % cal. rifle,
1920 cal. carbine (Winchester); some
household goods, small tools such as
shovels, hoes. etc. and other articles
too numerous to mention.
Terms: All sums of $40 and under
are cash. On sums over that amount,