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“Track Stars Expected to Make History
One Brother Harried Don Lash While Other Took Bowl Race.
(Joe Williams Is on Vacation)
By C. E. PARKER Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—“What do you know about the Rideout twins?” asked Paul Pilgrim, now busy with the business of arranging the pro- - gram of the annual New York A. C. track and field games. : “Do‘you think the time made in the Sugar Bowl two-mile was on the level?” inquired Mel Sheppard, of the Milrose A. A. “What can you tell me about the Rideouts?” Well, when substantially the same question occurs to two track meet managers the subject must be of more than casual interest, so we called up an insurance man for enlightenment. He probably is the only insurance man qualified to furnish it. His name is Joseph P. . McCluskey, who was the Joe McCluskey of Fordham’s track team a few years ago; the Joe McCluskey of the American Olympic team last summer, and the Joe McCluskey who participated in the recent Sugar Bowl meet in New Orleans, where the Rideout twins, one by worrying the record-holding Don Lash, Indiana University sprinter, for most of the distance and the other by sprinting by Lash to victory, registered one of the greatest surprises as well as one of the swiftest two-mile races in American athletic history.
4 “What About Those Twins?”
what about those Rideout twins?’ we asked Joe. Whereupon he made us wonder whether newspaper work rather than insurance was not his natural vocation. He came up with enough names, dates and places co satisfy the most exacting editor. _ Perhaps the fact that the Rideouts are twins made Joe unusually inquisitive during his brief association with them. Track athletics have known twins before, yet not so very often. In the old days there were the Sherman twins of the Brooklyn A. A. so nearly identical in appearance that stories persisted that one would start a cross-country run and the other would step into the race well along its course to win, with ‘no one the wiser. Later came the Shields twins of Penn State, Larry and George, specialists in the mile. and two-mile with Larry becoming an I. C. 4-A champion and a member of the 1920 Olympic team. Remember Buker Twins:
Then the Buker twins of Bates College, Ray and Ralph, who divided the: New England intercollegiate one-mile and two-mile championships for three years and his the cross-country tape with arms locked in dead heat victories. And of more recent date, were the McNell twins of the Glencoe A. C. and the New York A. C. Tom and Sam, who were better than average two-milers, :.nd the Hables twins of Stanford, who ran with Ben Eastman on a recordPreaking relay team. According to McCluskey, the Rideouts are headed for athletic achieve‘ments which will surpass those of any previous pair of brothers with a. common birthday. In one of these they will team with another set of twins in setting a. distance medley relay record. . “Their names are Wayne and Blaine Rideout,” Joe stated in answering our query. “They were horn in Tuscola, Ill, on Oct. 10, .1916. They are tall and sinewy, Wayne being just under 5 feet 11 inches and weighing 142 pounds and Blaine being just over 5 feet 11 and weighing 146. They have ruddy complexions, wear glasses, are reserved and quiet, do not drink, smoke or eat candy, and have been so shy of girls that they never had so much as a dance date until last year, and then only one.
Study for M. A. Degrees
“They are studying for M. A. degrees at North Texas Teachers College in Dentggs Tex. after having started . acade®®¢ courses in two other institutions. They first matriculated at the University of Illinois, but said so little attention was paid them and their athletic ambitions that they resigned following their. freshman year and enrolled at Alabama. There they found expenses a bit too much for their pocketbooks, so, upon learning the semester fee at North Texas Teachers was a mere $32.50 and that offcampus jobs paying $25 were available, they packed their grips and moved to Denton last fall. “You couldn’t miss them on the day of the Sugar Bowl meet,” Joe went on. “They were rigged in the most vivid green sweat clothes you ever saw, and they were circulating around with fountain pens and autograph books, timidly seeking the signatures of the better known and record-breaking athletes from whom they shortly were to steal the show. | Intended Half-Mile Race
“And a funny thing about it all was that they originally intended to enter the half-mile run instead of the two-mile. Each. has done better than 1:55 for the half, while Wayne has a mile mark of 4:15 and Blaine a mile mark of 4:18. The best two-mile time either had scored in competition before the Sugar Bowl race was 9:41. But after working for six weeks at the 880 they decided to switch to the two-mile and see what could be done about beating Don Lash, the record-holder for that distance. What they did was plenty. Wayne won in 9:03.5 (Lash’s native record is 8:58.3), and his victory was possible because Blaine, repeatedly challenging and continually pressing the pace-setting Lash, not only forced the fast early pace but so worried and ‘harried the recordholder that he was unable to match Wayne's drive.”
DRILLS PARK PLAYERS Clifford Courtney, Park School
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BY JOHN W.
Indiana-Purdue Game Is Taking on Box Office Aspects of
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Movie Thriller; Local High Schools Are ‘Doped’ by Writer. NE thing that sports writer has to be able to do is
answer the telephone.
Of course it’s fairly im-
portant, also, what he says into it. Right now most of the calls are concerning the Indiana-Purdue basketball game, Jan. 16, at Bloomington, an event which is rapidly taking :on a box office aspect rivalling the Army-Navy football game or a
Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire musical. Everything ‘is being done to make this affair one of top-notch
theatrical fineness.
About the only thing that could be added is a
curtain-raiser between Northwestern and Ball State. If you are among the unhappy thousands who are not going to be able to get within earshot of the game on the 16th, then there is only one thing for you to do. That is to try and squeeze into the Jefferson High School gym at Lafayette on Feb. 27 when the second chapter of the thrilling serial, “Who’s Who in Indiana Basketball,”
is to be played.
Contrary to rumors, the second Indiana-Purdue game is not to be played in the new Purdue Fieldhouse, now under construction. The fieldhouse will not be completed until next fall, and perhaps not until after the start of the basketball season. So remember that there are only 3500 seats in the Jeff high gym, and Lad-ees, and Gentleme-e-n, it’s the greatest show on earth.
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LTHOUGH it would almost come under the heading of unfair to try and classify any Hoosier high school basketball team right
now (except of course, Frankfort),
the local schools have been getting
along. Those unreliable things, the dread Statistics, have reared their
ugly heads to show what's what.
As usual, the Big Three, Shortridge, Washington and Tech, are fairly close, any way you want to take them. The Blue Devils have lost but one game, to Tech Saturday night. They have won six, from Southport, Greenfield, Noblesville, Greencastle, Shelbyville and Bloomington. Their total score has been 169 points to their opponents’ 138, for an average score per game of about
28 points. :
Washington, high scorer in the city league, has won four and lost one. The victories were at the expense of Broad Ripple, Danville, Mooresville and Beech Grove. The loss was to Southport. The Continentals Mave scored 188 points to their opponents’ 91, for an average
per game of about 37 points.
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notable that the Green and White aggregation has played stiffer competition. They have won three from Newcastle, Kokomo and Shortridge and have lost to Frankfort, Columbus and Richmond. The Tech total score has been 160 to opponents’ 157, for an average
per game of about 26 points. Manual’s 1936 city champions
have dropped all but one of their
games this season, losing to Ben Davis, Greenfield, Warren Central, St. Paul and Mooresville. The victory was over Broad Ripple. Two of Manual’s losses have been by one point. Their total score has been 120 points while their opponents have made 161. : Broad Ripple’s five, under Frank Baird, has won one and lost
five.
The victory was from Park School and the losses to Wash-
ington, Decatur Central, Center Grove, Manual and Westfield. Their total points amount to 152 while their opponents have made 192. So you see—well, you don’t see much difference between the
first three.
But for those who feel badly about the showing their
teams have made so far I have saved a little something. Take it for what it’s worth. The total number of points made by all five of the local teams is 789 while their 30 opponents have made only 739. As long as we|can win by a margin like that, what's a game or two
. among friends?
City Rinmen
Prepare for
Fountain Square Event
By BERNARD HARMON
The sixth annual Fountain Square 1020 Scratch Classic is the next important tournament in line for local bowlers, The tourney, one of the most popular of local five-man events, is to be held at the Fountain Alleys Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 16 and 17. Oscar Behrens, who has taken over the operation of the various alley tournaments in the absence of City Secretary Norman Hamilton, announced last night that 50 quintets had alrdady applied for reservations. Hi As in other team events scheduled during the season, 80 per cent handicap is to be allowed the team. Handicaps will be based on averages up to and including Jan. 9, and is limited to individuals who have participated in 12 or more games in their respective leagues. Twelve Squads Scheduled Only members of sanctioned leagues are eligible to participate and each individual can coinpete with only one team. One prize will be paid for each seven entries with a top award of $200 being guaranteed in event 77 or more teams participate. - Teams are -to draw for alleys before the start of each squad. Squads are scheduled at 10 a. m,, 12:15 p. m, 2:30 p. m, 4:45 p. m,, 7 p. m. and 9:15 p. m. Saturday and at. 8 a. m, 10:15 a. m, 12:45 p. m,, 3 p.m, 5:15 p. m, 7:30 p. m. Sunday. For reservations and further
.information call Oscar Behrens or
Paul Crosier at the Fountain Square Alleys, Drexel 2150. The entry fee is $10, including the cost of bowling. : Hunt Takes Honors Jack Hunt opened his 1937 League activities with a 681 to top all soloists in action in local league play last night. He garnered the top count on games of 223, 257 and 201 in the Patrick Henry Beer League at the. Pritchett Alleys. Five additional individuals of the circuit passed the 600 mark, Tedrowe having a 649, Champ 628, Krause 622, Pfeiffer 618 and Weimer 613. Bottles featured a 1001 middie game in totaling 2848, which was good for team honors. The nip-and-tuck race among the first division teams became closer as the result of last night's matches. Beers, the leaders, in dropping two games to Warehouse, now share. first place with Salesmen, which nabbed a double victory over Office. Kegs shutout: over Half & Half boosted that aggregation from fourth place to third, one game ahead of the Office.
Yager Leads Commercial
Frank Yager's 677 in the Commercial loop’s matches: at the Illi-
nois and Jim Flanders’ 665 in the
Community circuit at the Uptown were good for the place and show positions of last night's individual race. Yager tossed games of 241, 220 and 216, while Flanders flanked a 264 with counts of 223 and 178 for his big series. Yager’s big series, coupled with “Rutch” McAllen’s’ 618 gave Spencer House Cafe a 2862 and team honors. “Red” Mount’s 623 and Geo. Aikinson’s 607 were other leading individual totals. Although no outstanding individual totals emerged from the St.
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a 247 middle game, Les Cox had a 620, Butch Zix 619, Charlie Stich 606, Tom Casserly 603, Leo Foley -602, Johnny Murphy 601 and Chuck Harbison 600. In the team clashes, Tenpin Inn and ‘Cook’s Goldblume registered shutouts over Beck Coal & Coke and Lieber’s Beer.
Mac Kinnon Tops Rivals
Ernie Mac Kinnon outdistanced Pennsylvania Recreation rivals with a 623, his nearest competitors being Grady with 614, Coleman with 613 and Brooks with 606. Triple winners of the session were Old Gold Cigarets, who featured the team
scoring with a 1025 middle game, and Berghoff Beer. The usual heavy scoring of the Hoosier Athletic Club League failed to develop in last night’s matches at the Pritchett Alleys, only two members posting 600s. Don Johnson had 622 and Watts 609. Odd-game decisions decided the three team clashes. A 255 middle game netted Allison a 607 total and scoring honors of the Rotary Club gathering at the Indiana Alleys. He was the loop’s lone 600 shooter. The Ford quintet was the only team to escape defeat. Others Near 600 Joe Danna Jr. halted seven pins short of the 600 mark, but his 593 easily won him the solo honors of the Rotary Men’s Employs circuit, also bowling at the Indiana. Bernie Burch also neared the 600 in topping rivals of the U. S. Tire loop at the Pennsylvania with a 590. Leaders of other leagues in action were: Auto Transportation (Central) Olsen, 589; Indianapolis Power & Light Co. (Fountain Square) A. Mueller, 576; Tuesday Night Ladies (Pritchett’s) Gardner, 573; Indianapolis Water Co. (Pritchett’s) Riggs and McCreery, 563s;
Gray, Gribben & Gray Ladies (Ant- |
lers) Thomas, 563; and South Side Recreation (Fountain Square) Condit, 541.
Perry in Pro . Debut Tonight
By United Press : . NEW YORK, Jan. 6—Fred Perry of England makes his professional tennis debut tonight against Elisworth Vines, king of the paid performers. Upwards of 15,000 spectators at Madison Square Garden are expected to produce an American record tennis gate of $50,000. Scaled from $1.10 to $9.90 for choice locations, the gate already surpasses the $30,000 take of the Bill Tilden-Herni Cochet duel. Vines 1s the favorite. The Californian, former winner of the All-England title at Wimbledon and the American crown at Forest Hills, is rated by all the experts, including Tilden, as playing the best tennis of his life. Speed, strategy, finesse and experience all are on his side. The one factor favoring the rangy Englishman is his ability to score when the chips are piled the high-
Rascher Wins From O'Toole In Headliner
Indiana University Wrestler Shows Promise; Zaharias
Wins Decision.
By EDDIE ASH
Given more time than last week, when he went to a 30-minute deadlock with Tommy O'Toole, Am Rascher, the former Indiana University grappler of Cedar Lake, Td, finished out in front over his Aric | zona rival in the final match at the Armory last night. It was a rough bout at times. The first fall went to Rascher
after 27 minutes when he caught O'Toole coming off the ropes and applied a body slam after wrapping his arms around Tommy's neck. The Arizona heavyweight came right back, however, and exchanged holds and punches until he made a double leg lock stick and annexed the second fall in 14 minutes. Coming out for the third fall both men employed a mixture of boxing and wrestling followed by football tactics. Rascher outmatched O'Toole in speed and durability during the melee and captured the victory fall in five minutes by means of a slam.
Looks Like Comer
It was the show’s end and approximately 2500 customers decided. that although Rascher is short on showmanship he gives promise of going places in the mat sport. In other words, O'Toole supplied the wheezing while the Hoosier fol-| lowed straight wrestling except on a few occasions when he took up fisticuffs. In the other featured attraction Babe Zaharias of Colorado and Eddie Newman of New York entertained the crowd with a tussle that was loaded with aggressiveness. Zaharias won the decision by taking two straight falls after dropping the first. Newman connected with a kiek to the chin followed by a body press to bump off the Babe in 11 minutes, but the Rocky Mountain husky showed no signs of falling behind the parade and fought his way to victory in the second fall after eight minutes. The action during this period of the clash resembled football with a “bowl” invitation at stake. - Third Fall Is Fast
With the count one fall apiece, there was no let-up in the stormy going and in the scramble Zaharias out-punched Newman and in no time at all grabbed a face lock and ended the encounter in two minutes. In: the opening match George Hagen, the ex-Marine of Brooklyn, prevailed over Whitey Hewitt of Memphis in 18 minutes of give and take. It was no ordinary preliminary affair and the big fellows sold themselves to the fans like a corner lot in Florida during the 1eal estate boom. Hagen used an arm lock to win, It was an all-heavyweight program staged by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter of the Hercules A. C.
Favorites Pace * ° Florida Tennis By United Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. Jan. 6.— Competition increased today in the Miami Biltmore Tennis Tournament as third-round matches brought the select of the starting field to opposite sides of the net. Favorites thus far have advaneed without trouble. One of the best of today’s matches presented. Frankie Parker, No. 2 nationally, and Lewis Duff, Canadian junior champion. Parker yesterday blanked Jack Kirkham, New Britain, Conn., 6-0, 6-0, and exhibited an improved forehand stroke. Duff advanced over Searle Barnett, Chicago, 6-1, 6-0.
LOU SPIVEY WINS IN CUE TOURNEY
Lou Spivey, turning inf the best run in the state three-cushion billiard tourney, defeated Al Roche, 50 to 38 in 62 innings last night. Spivey ran up a cluster of eight, and piled up a 41-to-18 margin in the first 41 innings. Roche made 18 points in the last 11 frames, and had a high run of four. Larry Shapiro, defending champion, is to play Al Greenberger at 8 p. m. toay.
MANUAL FORWARD INJURES KNEE
Robert Loeper, veteran forward on Manual High School’s basketball team, is treating an injured knee, recelved when he collided with a teammate in Monday’s scrimmage. He was forced to miss practice yesterday but is expected to be in shape for Friday's game with Cathedral at the Irish gym. A fullgame scrimmage with Manual Reserves and a short foul-shooting drill marked yesterday’s practice.
Reserves’ Coach Drills Cathedral
Jack Leahy, Cathedral reserve coach, has been putting the varsity basketball team through its paces in the absence of Coach Joe Dienhart, who is treating a severe cold. The Irish are to meet Manual Friday night and then journey to Danville'Saturday. A scrimmage against’ the Reserves, and foul shooting marked yesterday's drill.
Rosenblum Winner In Close Decision By United Press
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By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.— The text of President Roosevelt’s annual message to Con--gress on the state of the nation follows: :
.To the Congress of the United States: For the first time in our national history a President delivers his annual message to a new Congress within a fortnight of the expiration of his term of office, . While there is no change in the Presidency this year, change will occur in future years. It is my belief that under this new Constitutional practice, the President should in every fourth year, insofar as seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems leaving specific recommendations * for
tfuture legislation to be made by tha
President about to be inaugurated. At this time, however, circumstances of the moment compel me to ask your immediate consideration of: First, measures extending the life of certain authorizations and powers which, under present statutes, expire within a few weeks; second, an addition to the existing neutrality act to cover specific points raised by the unfortunate civil strife in Spain; and, third, a deficiency appropria-" tion bill for which I shall submit estimates this week. In March, 1933, the problems which faced our nation and which only our national Government had the resources to meet, were more serious even than appeared on the surface. It was not only that the visible mechanism of economic life had broken down. More disturbing was the fact that long neglect of the needs of the underprivileged had brought too many of cur people to the verge of doubt as to the successful adaptation of our historic traditions to the complex modern world. In that, lay a challenge to our democratic form of government iself.
WE MET CHALLENGE
Ours was the task to prove that democracy could -be made to function in the world of today as effectively as in the simpler world of a hundred years ago. Ours was the task to do more than to argue a theory. The times required the con-
‘fident answer of performance to
those whose instinctive faith in humanity made them want to believe ‘that in the long run democracy would prove superior to more extreme forms of government as a process of getting action when action was wisdom, without the spiritual sacrifices which those other forms of government exact. That challenge we met. To meet it required unprecedented activities under Federal leadership—to end abuses—to restore a large measure of material prosperity—to give new faith to millions of our citizens who had been traditionally taught to expect that democracy would provide: continuously wider opportunity and continuously greater security in a world where science was continuously making material riches more available to man. In the many methods of, attack with which we met these problems, you and I, by mutual understanding and by determination to co-operate, helped to make democracy succeed by refusing to permit unnecessary disagreement to arise between two cf our branches of government. That spirit of co-operation was able
to solve difficulties of extraordinary ‘magnitude and ramification with
few important errors, and at a cost cheap when measured by the immediate necessities and the eventual results. rT ‘I look forward to a continuance of that co-operation in the next fcur years. I look forward also to a continuance of the basis of that co-operation—mutual respect for each other’s proper sphere of functioning in .a democracy which is working well, and a common-sense realization of the need for play in the joints of the machine. On that basis it is within the right of the Congress to determine which of the many new activities shall be continued or abandoned, increased or curtailed. : On that same basis, the President alone has the responsibility for their administration. I find that this task of executive management has reached the, point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling. I shall, therefore, shortly address the Congress more fully in regard to modernizing and improving the executive branch of the Government. That co-operation of the past four years between the Congress and the President has aimed at the fulfillment of a two-fold policy —first, economic recovery through many kinds of assistagce to agriculture, industry and banking; and, second, deliberate improvement in the personal security and opportunity of the great mass of our people. The recovery we sought was not to be merely temporary. It was to be a recovery protected from the causes of previous disasters. With that aim in view—to prevent a future similar crisis—you and I joined in a serfes of enactments—safe banking and sound currency, the guarantee of bank deposits, protection for the investor in securities, the removal of the threat of agricultural surpluses, insistence -on collective bargaining, the outlawing of sweat shops, child labor and unfair trade practices, and the beginnings of security for the aged and the worker. Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery. It is important, of course, that every man and woman in the country be able to find work, that every factory run, that business as a whole earn profits. Buz government in a democratic nation does not exist solely, or even primarily, for that purpose.
PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT
{ “It is not enough that the wheels urn. They must carry us in the direction of a greater satisfaction in life for the average man. The deeper purpose of democratic government is to assist as many of its possible — especially
tc, pursue :the happiness which ct mes with security and an opportu aity for recreation and’ culture. fven with our present recovery wi; are far from the goal of that di per purpose. There are farre iching problems still with us for w ich domecracy must find solutii ns if it is to consider itself succe sful. “or example, many millions of Ainericans still live in habitations wi ich not only fail to provide the pl vsical benefits of modern civilizatic n, but breed disease and impair thi: health of future generations. T! = menace exists not only in the slim areas of the very large cities, bu’ in many smaller cities as well. It exists on tens of thousands of fai ms, in varying degrees, in every pa t of the country. Another example is the prevalence of an un-American type of tenant fe ming. I do not suggest that evry farm family has the capacity tc earn a satisfactory living on its ow farm. But many thousands of tel ant farmers—indeed most of thi m—with some financial assistan ie and with some advice and tra ining, can be made self-support-in| on land which can eventually bel ng to them. The nation would be ‘wise to offer them that chance ini/ead of permitting them to go alq'ig as they do now, year after yeir, with neither future security as tenants nor hope of ownership of | ‘heir homes nor expectations of bet ering .the lot of their children. Another national problem is the in elligent development of our soci:'l security system, the broadenin; of the services it renders, and pr ictical improvement in its operation. In many nations where sth laws are in effect, success in meting the expectations of the co nmunity has come through frequ ‘nt amendment of the original st: jute. : £ 1d, of course, the most farreat hing and the most inclusive pro: iem of all is that of unemploymer ; and the lack of economic balanc: of which unemployment is at onc. thé result and the symptom. The immediate question of adequate reli¢{ for the needy unemployed who are capable of performing useful work, I shall discuss with the Con ress during the conting months. The broader task of preventing unemp oyment is a matter of longrang? evolutionary policy. To that we | aust continue to give our best thot zht and effort. We cannot assu ne that immediate industrial and 'ommercial activity which mitigate! present pressures justifies the natit hal Government at this time in p acing the unemployment problem n a filing cabinet ‘of finished busi? =ss. Fl tcuation in employment are tied | io all other wasteful fluctuations 'in our mechanism of production | ind distribution. One of these wasti 5s is speculation. In securities or cd mmodities, the larger the volume’ of speculation, the wider become ‘the upward and downward swing and the more certain the result {hatin the long run there will be r ore losses than gains in the unde lying wealth of the community. i
THREE EVIL SISTERS
An: , as is now well known to all of us the same net loss to society come: from reckless overproduction and monopolistic underproduction of ne ural and manufactured commodi es. Ove production, underproduction ands; eculation are three evil sisters who ¢ still the troubles of unsound inflat! ’n~%¥nd disastrous, deflation. It is | o the interest of the nation to hare government help private enter ‘ise to gain sound general price ' levels and to protect those levels from wide perilous fluctuations. We know now that if early in 192 government had taken the steps which were taken two and three years later, the depression would’ ' never have reached the depths of the beginning of 1933. Sob: r second thought confirms most (if us in the belief that the broad objectives of the National Recovi ty Act were sound. We know now ti at its difficulties arose from
For ex mple, it was unwise to expect the sé me agency to regulate the length of working hours, minimum wages, child labor and collective bargaii ing on the one hand and the compli ated questions of unfair trade jractices and business controls: oi: the other. The statute of NRA has been outlay ed. The problems have not. They are still with us. That: decent conditions and adequate yay for labor, and just return for ai icultye,” can be secured throug! | parallel and simultaneous action )y 48 states is a proven impossibil ty. It is equally impossible to obtain curbs on monopoly, unfair trade 1 ractices and speculation by state ation alone. There are those who, sincerely or insincerely, still cling t¢ state action as a theoretical hcie. But experience with actualit 8s makes it clear that Federal lays supplementing state laws are nee led to help solve the problems wi! ich result from modern invention applied in an industrialized nation | hich conducts its business with sc: ht regard to state lines. Duri: 7 the past year there has been a growing belief that there is littl fault to be formd with the Co stitution of the U. S. as it stan s today. The vital need is not : n alteration of our fundamental law, but an increasingly enlight: hed view with reference to it. [iifficultfes have grown out of its iferpretation; but rightly conside: »d, it can be used as aninstru: nt of progress, and not as a de ice for prevention of action. : It is v rth our while to read and reread ti ¢ preamble of the Constitution, gid Article 1 thereof which
the Cong ‘ess of the U. S. It is also worth ot; while to read again the debates | n the constitutional convention ¢ | 150 years ago. From such reading, | obtain the very definite thought hat the members of that conventic 1 were fully aware that civilizatic 1 would raise problems for the prop sed new Federal Governmen wh ch they themselves could not even surmise; and that it was their de’ nite intent and expectation that a liberal interpretation in the years to come would give to the Congress | the same relative powers over new national problems as they themselvi gave to the Congress
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plained that it was the purpose “to insert essential principles only, lest the operation of government should be clogged by rendering those provisions permanent and unalterable which ought to be accommodated to times and events.” With a better understanding of our purposes, and a more intelligent recognition of our ngeds as a nation, it is not to be assumed that there will be prolonged failure to bring legislative and judicial action into closer harmony. Means must be found to adapt our legal forms and our judicial interpretation to the actual present national needs of the largest progressive democracy in the modern world.
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WORLD PROBLEMS
That thought leads to:a consideration of world problems. To go no further back than the beginning of this century, men and women everywhere were seeking conditions
of life very difterent from those which were customary before modern invention and modern industry and modern communications had come into being. The World War, for all of its tragedy, encouraged these demands, and stimulated action to fulfill these new desires. Many nétional . governments seemed unable adequately to respond; and, often with the improvident assent of the masses bf the people themselves, new forms of government were set up with oligarchy taking the place of racy. In oligarchies, milita leaped forward, while in t
racy, militarism has w I have recently visited three of our sister republics in South America. The very cordial receptions with which I was greeted were in tribute to democracy. To me, the outstanding observation of that visit was that the masses of the peoples of all the Americas are convinced that the democratic form of government can be made to succeed and do not wish to substitute for it any other form of government. They believe that democracies are best able to cope with the changing problems of modern civilization within themselves, and that democracies are best able to maintain peace among themselves. The Inter-American Conference, operating on these fundamental principles of democracy, did much to assure peace in this hemisphere. Existing peace machinery was improved. New instruments to maintain peace and eliminate causes of war were adopted. Wider protection of the interests of the American republics in the event of war outside the Western Hemisphere was provided. Respect for, and observance of, international treaties and international law wese strengthened. Principles of liberal trades policies, as effective aids to the maintenance of peace were reaffirmed. The intellectual and cultural relationships among American republics © were broadened as a part of the general peace program. - In a world unhappily thinking in terms of war, the representatives of 21 nations sat around a table, in an atmosphere of complete confidence and understanding, sincerely discussing measures for maintaining peace. Here was a great and a permanent achievement directly affecting the lives and security of the two hundred and fifty million human beings who dwell in this Western Hemisphere. Here was an example which must have a wholesome effect upon the rest of the world.
‘WE MUST CONTINUE’
In a very real sense, the conference in Buenos Aires sent forth a message on behalf of all the democracies of the world to those nations which live otherwise. Because such other governments are perhaps more spectacular, it was high time for democracy to assert itself. Because all of us believe that our democratic form of government can cope adequately with modern problems as they arise, it is patriotic as well as logical for us to prove that we can meet new national needs with new laws, consistent with an historic constitutional framework clearly intended to receive liberal and not narrow interpretation. The United States of America, within itself, must continue the task of making democracy succeed. In that task the legislative branch of our Government will, I am confident, continue to meet the demands of democracy whether they. relate to the curbing of abuses, the extension of help to those who need help, or the better balancing of our interdependent economies. - So, too, the executive branch of the Government must move forward in this task, and, at the same time, provide better management for administrative action of all kinds. The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful. We do not ask the éourts to call nonexistent powers into being, but we have a right to expect that conceded powers or thyse legitimately implied shall be made effective instruthents for the eommon good. The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government. * Your task and mine is not ending
' with the end of the depression. The
people of the United States have
made it clear that they expect us to continue our active efforts in be= half of their peaceful advancement, In that spirit of endeavor and service I greet the 75th Congress at the beginning of this auspicious new year.
CITY LIGHTING BILL $326,000
8508 Lamps Burn From Six To 12 Hours Nightly, Steeg Reports.
Indianapolis spends $326,000 ane nually to operate its street lighting system, Henry Steeg, city engineer, said today. The city is lighted by 8508 lamps,
excluding those under the ‘jurisdiction of the Park Board. They burn from six to 12 hours nightly throughout the year. <The lamps are operated manually. They are turned on one-half hour after sunset and turned off one-half hour before sunrise.
Automatic System Impractical
Although the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. experimented for nearly a year with a photo-electric cell method of operating the lamps, it was proved impractical, Mr. Steeg said. e :
Power & Light Co. engineers who experimented with the photoelectric cell reported that it could not be adjusted to permit the lamps to be turned on and off at the preper time. The cell would switch on 20 minutes earlier and shut off 15 to 20 minutes later in the morning than desired, according to the report. 7 This would require nearly 40 minutes’ longer burning time each day at an additional yearly cost of near- |
little probability that the present system will be changed for some time, officials stated.
WALLIS GROWS THIN, GLOTHES REMODELED
Dressmakers From Paris Called to Retreat at Cannes.
By United Press PARIS, Jan. 6.— Worry and emotional strain have left Mrs. Warfield Simpson worn and ‘thin, her dressmakers said today.
Since her departure from London and her separation from Edward VII, now Duke of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson is reported to have lost 10 pounds. | It has been necessary to send a : corps -of expert fitters and sewing girls from one of the largest dressmaking houses here, it is under= stood, to the Riviera to cut down Mrs. Simpson's clothes to her new weight. : It is reported that ‘the villa at ° which Mrs. Simpson is the guest at Cannes of Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Rogers of New York has been turned into a sewing establishment so that tucks and seams can be put in Mrs. Simpson's wardrobe. A luxurious ermine cape, one of the duke’s last presents, has been adjusted as well as a full length ‘coat of MWlack astrakhan, the dressmakers report. A new costume, just delivered, also has proved much foo large for the new Mrs. Simpson, it is said— .a costume in ‘danger red”’—full length tweed coat worn over a velvet gown of brilliant blue, Mrs. Simp- | on’s favorite color. A perky hat also of the danger red completes the costume. s Dressmakers are eager to get the order for Mrs. Simpson's expected wedding trousseau. It would be Mrs. Simpson’s third marriage and she was not expected to wear the traditional ivory satin with flowing tulle veil and crown of orange blossoms. It was expected that instead she would be dressed in a traveling costume, perhaps in the pale blue that both she and the Duke like. As for the honeymoon, there are rumors. that it may be spent at the. Sonnberg Castle in lower Austria of Archduke Anton of Hapsburg and his wife! Princess Ileana of Rumania.
JAMES MOODY DEAD; ASSEMBLY MEMBER
Times Special ANGOLA, Ind. Jan. 6.—Funeral arrangements were being completed today for James A. Moody, joint state Representative from Steuben and Lagrange Counties, who died in an Angola hospital yesterday. He was 69. He was a Republican. Mr. Moody was elected to the Ase sembly in 1934 and re-elected last November. He also was secretary, treasurer and manager of the First Federal Savings & Loan Associa= tion of Angola. He is survived by the wife, a son and a daughter.
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