Heywood Broun, Physician and Surgeon
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PAGE &PRIL 27, 1935 THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES 7 It Seems to Me WAR-AND ‘THE DOLLARS OF DEATH’ Fair Enough U. S. Urged to Pay as It Fights and Put Halt to Profiteering flnanria’ of and present le£ilative attempt* to take the nmin BROUN Th* hut* burden war new and sedate Babe Ruth who stays home HEYWOOD in sermons and editorials and interviews I profit* out of mar are dencrihed three penef’atinc article* which John T. for t ”*dianapoli* evenings doing the cross-word puzzle, FROMRather that there is a growing body of opinion Flvnn, America* foremost iournali^t-economf*t. has written The THISin the which holds that marriage in America is suffering Times and NLA Service. This is the second article. saves his money, and keeps out of trouble with Judge u B U said that young tt r B from an excess of freedom. And it is BY JOHN T. FLYNN Landis and the police is not much like the young '- people thh gi •• c -*ep too lightly. I dl Inc.) are taking (Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. man of the same name who was trying to swallow sent in my diagnosis. Marriage is still maned chiefly T_¥ERE In 1793 the bite 10 15 years ago. They say he is by those who take it too seriously. There is small is a strange story of human folly. life at one or 1 hope of happiness for any young man and young French cut off the head of their king. Then they the same Babe, now grown frugal, conservative and woman who gaze at each other mournfully, and say responsible, but. if that is so. may he be forgiven before they embark upon the adventure. ' This is a threatened to send their armies into Belguim. England his humdrum habits and grave deportment out of was no terrible responsibility.” Mind you, I was as terrified at the “reds” of that day seizing Flanders consideration for an uproarious past. He am making happiness my test of quiet, suburban neighbor then and. the success or failure of any given fields as she was when the Germans of 1914 overran them. for every night that he is to be marriage. Communities grow en- against In the nine found safe at home these days, She joined in the war France. bridge thusiastically sentimental everv $1,400,000,000 pulling taffy cr playing nnw- and then about some dear old years after 1793, England borrowed nearly with mother and the girls, witnesses couple who are about to celebrate a —a huge sum in the values of that day. That was 142 for the defense can testify to half a golden wedding. I do not think the dozen nights in the years of his rM in 1914 when that there should be public dancing years ago. But that debt was still due youth when home was the last in the streets over the anniversary, Europe. Os course, in appearance place that any one would have Great War broke over on unless there is reason to believe substituting old. looked for him and the last stop that the dear old lady and the dear it was paid, but merely by new bonds for his rounds. old gentleman have achieved some- Eng- Frugal now*, is he? A saving ' In those 142 years something on thing more than a feat of infinite which the country. Mr. man who puts aside j more cursed month Ileywood patience. land has fought many Baruch concluded that the first and fifteenth every therefore to a dollar with Westbrook Broun I think a certain reckless gusto wars against Napoleon, the prices caused the inflation. and has ask for marriage. buy his hot dogs and beer becomes Romeo and America in Therefore, the way to check the wh'ch to Tcgler Juliet. I should say. made a success of theirs, al- against 1812, inflation and its profits and and his can of snuff when he leaves war baseball though thev never did reach so much as a wooden Russia, against is to check the the house to pull on his overalls at the plant. against the maladjustments remember when big. burly wedding. Their only anniversary was moonlight, prices. The way to check Well, if so. he can a long years of high name who was which is to all spiritual intents more weighty than Boers. In the the prices is to forbid them. young ballplayer of the of Ruth League with crumpled wood. Not even the wisest of the world can tell how comparative peace from tt tt tt tearing around the American any marriage beginning of coarse money in his pants pockets and will end. but thr is with- in the BARUCH is quite right in wads in the of those who voyage. And so 1815 to 1855 and then checks of all colors stuffed away in his clothes, some fashioning believing govern- let. thr first stage without that the of them to be forgotten until the presser frisked them make of the journey 41 years following the Rus- MR. control misgivings, good resolutions and heavy ment must exercise some them; how he ever computed his income tax in those vows. But after all the gov- sian War, England kept over prices. days is a matter between him and the collector. In particular, vows are clumsy luggage and they ernment can not work miracles. split grow yearly large Maybe they each thought of a number and the are not apt to lighter. A young man and a paying off It tried to check prices in 1917. young woman are pretty sure to promise ea"h other difference. sums on those debts. But the prices went up just the n b u a of things which arc be number not likely to kept. best she could do was same, and the government had to No great harm is done by that. of any But the Life People her bills for old wars from acquiesce in the rises—even issue Ah, That B ns the shrewdness know that there are moments men to settle when 1768—over 110 years before —down orders authorizing them. there was a spell there during his and women are ready to promise anything. as to 1793. In other words, in 1914 The high prices, of course, years or so with the New York Yankees —old new school CERTAINLYfirst two an a about the last war she had paid any economist or when he had no more idea how much he was col- —can tell you, do not produce the It's Nobody's business for was the American Revolution lecting, or from whom, or for wr hat, and what be- In 1914 she owed over $3,00C.- inflation. It is the inflation which came of it than the bewildered young woman who prices, the think it monstrous that the community 000.000—almost every penny of -t produces the high high was then his wife. There were checks for his work the high wages. ' '. IDOshould sit in on the exchange of vows and be contracted to fight battles/all over profits, '.I as an absentee author, an actor in the silent drama, ready in later years to shake accusing fingers at the the world during the preceding And what produces the infla- and for indorsements of .... The Boom. for appearances The inflation is caused by War Biggest personal two who broke them. Properly speaking, marriage 120 years. Then in 1914 she began tion? various articles of masculine frippery. the sudden unloosing into the is nobodv's business except that of the two people to pile upon that another He was a nobed weight-lifter in those days, often vast of pur- the In prices when starts—pro- concerned and, incidentally, of the minister or mag- THIRTY-FOUR BILLION DOL- market of new floods You might as well keep on war. view of the enormous the war up the bill for all-night song-service in chasing power. The instant war had already taken any prices from rising at picking an istrate. If there must be an additional witness he LAR debt. In the last 15 years pouring water into a bowl and rise which hibiting some little parlor which would have the of easy all unless specifically strained ought to be blind and dumb. she has paid off some of these is declared millions men arc then try to keep the bowl from place, it should have been permitted generosity the half-wit scion of an industrial em- government thus of In so far as it Is marriage charges. But she still owes $32.- summoned into the armed forces. overflowing by regulation and to check the rise, if such process by the doing The Ruth who is under discussion knew only possible, should be is the away with control. peror. kept, for the first year any even 000.000,000. How long before that There at a stroke biggest making rules. The way to prevent were feasible at all. price this about money: That it was good to spend and secret a<. rate. Or business. But these However, the Nye bill propo- if it isn’t secret, on earth does every- century-old career of war and kind of big the bowl from overflowing is not But the prices continued to there was where that came from. precisely why three four million men can not nents there is but one way that more body for miles around have know about it? And conquest will be paid for? or to pour the water in.