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Words The American people, crying for bread, are given bunk. Words, words, words, amplified by lungs and loud speakers—only words came forth from the national convention that has adjourned. Words about the pilot on the ship of state; about bulwarks; about catastrophes averted and victories earned; about militant enthusiasm and “doctrines hammered out on the anvil of experience” f about gales weathered and supreme tests met and tried principles and intrepid leadership. Words by the thousand, In the “keynote'’ speech, the perrr-ancnt chairman's speech, and the platform —the sf ne olf* words that have soothed the confidences of sweating politicians since the fatty degeneration of the Grand Old Party set in. In normal times those dusty, moth-eaten deceptions were a bit funny. In times like these they are cruel. For today we see the American people—desperately desiring leadership, yearning for a solution, and, if not a solution, at least a sincere effort for one —played for suckers by the ones on whom they should be able to depend. So much for what the Republicans have done. Ten days from now the Democratic party also will assemble in national convention. Will it, too, produce only words and deception and evasion? Or will it rise to its opportunity and its responsibility? Never in all the history of government was a responsibility more impressive, or an opportunity greater. If, from the Democrats, there come only more words, more eyasions, more deceptions, then God help the United States. * • • Prohibition was not the only issue straddled. Many Important national questions were ignored completely or evaded. They apparently were afraid even to mention the cash bonus. They had nothing to say, despite all their words, on future policy of war debts. The Philippine problem was too hot to handle. The platform makers apparently never heard of the Russian trade and recognition issue. Muscle Shoals was not worth mentioning. Child labor, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, anti-labor injunctions, and most of the other concerns of labor were passed by without a word. Even on the surefire subjects that had to be mentioned, the platform managed to get on both sides of the fence or flatly contradict itself. It urged prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditures—failing to mention any specific cuts, but going on to support the big items of federal expense, such as farm and ship subsidies and a large army and navy. ' Even on the tariff, one issue at least on which the protectionist party might have been frank, the planks were laid in opposite directions. One advocated more and higher tariffs. But another plank pledged the party to “the freeing of (foreign) commerce from unnecessary impediments.” Words, words —and more words.

The Wright Law Infamy Repeal of the Wright bone dry law, now favored by the Republican party, should be demanded at once by the Democratic party. The extreme and impossible provisions of the law might be forgiven and yet the law would stand as the most ' infamous document in the state. One provision was inserted to provide funds for the Anti-Saloon League lawyers. It places the enforcement of the law upon the auction block and introduces into the machinery of government the worst possible principle and precedent. Under the Wright law a special fee of $25 is given to prosecutors for convictions. There is a much larger fee for obtaining injunctions under the nuisance section. Any law that gives the prosecutor an extra fee for convictions invites injustice. It can not help but result in tyrannies. It makes the greed the basis of government. Under this law, the Anti-Saloon League demanded the appointment of its own attorneys as special assistants to prosecutors. At one time two special prosecutors in this county “earned” about $15,000 a year each, for obtaining convictions of drunks in Indianapolis. Arthur Gilliom, when attorney-general, ended the practice. No prosecutor who has a financial interest in the conviction of any person can be fair and impartial. That is one reason for a strict fee basis for prosecutors all over the state. That is one reason the Wright law should be repealed. It puts that law on a different basis from other laws—an infamous basis that smacks of the middle ages. ... Dale and Chicago George Dale, mayor of Muncie, was prosecuted on a charge of having conspired t 9 bring liquor to a hotel room in Indianapolis during a Democratic convention two years ago. True, it was not proved. But he standi convicted on that count. At the national convention in Chicago, press reports stated that liquor was sold openly across the street from the convention hall. It is safe to say that it was present in the hotel rooms of some delegates from every state in the union. The same administration which has placed Dale in the shadow of a prison is proposed for re-election. If only to save his own self-respect, the attorney - general should at once order his Indianapolis vassals to apologize to Dale, instead of continuing their persecution. An Anniversary Arrives Two years ago today Herbert Hoover started the world o~ to a wild spree of nationalistic selfishness. He signed the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. That monstrosity, bom of vote-trading, was certain to cause retaliation by competing countries in the world market. It has done just that. It has aggravated the depression by reducing the volume of both exports and imports, in quantity as well as in value, and consequently has reduced the number of workers in this country* and others. It has stimulated bad feeling, and brought embargoes and near-embargoes against American goods by many of this country’s best customers. It has helped to bring movements for customs unions in South America and Europe, designed to make those regions further independent of this country’s products. These things are well known. A move to correct the situation well might be expected now. Instead, four new embargo-tariffs, against foreign copper, oil, coal, and lumber— All of which we export as well as import—will go into effect next Tuesday. Adopted by congress by more flagrant vote-trading

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than even the Hawley-Smoot bill was, President Hoover signed the new bill without a word of protest. Now the people will pay the higher rates, as they deliberate whether to vote for the high-tariff Republicans who want to isolate the country entirely, or the low tariff Democrats, so many of whom, in recent months, have forgotten their party principles. A Real Skeleton in the Closet The skeleton of a famous figure of a century ago was brought to a banquet in London the other day. It was the bones of Jeremy Bentham. London scholars were celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his death. He ordered in his will that “my skeleton will be caused to be put together in such a manner as that the whole figure may be seated in the chair usually occupied by me when living, in the attitude in which I was sitting when engaged in thought.” He also directed that his skeleton should be brought out whenever his friends were celebrating his life or deeds. Bentham’s skeleton should remind us sharply of our failure to meet successfully the challenge which he set forth in his life and doctrines. He taught for more than sixty years that we must foster social invention as well as mechanical progress. Otherwise, an advanced material civilization would turn out to be a liability to the race. If our machines outrun our capacity to control their social effects, then they only will serve to drag the race down to ultimate destruction. This was Bentham’s basic message to mankind. A century after his death, we have ample proof of the truth of his words. With a mechanical capacity to serve society with high efficiency, many lack clothing and other necessities of life. Tens of millions of able-bodied men are idle when they crave work and a self-supporting existence. Our grain elevators, storehouses, mills, and cold storage plants are bulging with supplies, but millions of men, women, and children are hungry, many of them literally starving. Our banks are filled with money, but it is difficult to get credit to support legitimate enterprise. We 6pend Dillions annually on schools, colleges and universities. yet few obtain a useful or relevant education. War has brought civilization to its knees, but we prepare merrily for more carnage on a grander scale, eulogize our dead military and naval heroes beyond all others, and denounce those who work manfully for peace. High finance has been primarily responsible for the economic slump in which we find ourselves, but we seek salvation through financial leadership. Such is the spectacle which Bentham would face if he were to return today. 1 Bentham had more than a benevolent wish for mankind. He proposed innumerable reforms designed to increase social efficiency and human happiness. He carried about model constitutions for most of the states of his day. He worked out the first scientific poor relief scheme of modern times and it was embodied in the famous poor law of 1834. He devised the first comprehensive scheme for city sanitation and public health. He was a leading figure in the reform of the savage English criminal code and suggested most of the advances in prison administration which have been adopted by the scientific penology of our day. He recommended savings banks, especially for the working classes. What the world needs right now is another Bentham. But we are net likely to get one so long as society stands ready to grab off eagerly every discovery of science and engineering, while it derides leaders of social reform and even threatens our social prophets with the hoosegow. An Ohio politician is advocating that horse racing be placed under state control. What is the jnan thinking about? He must want to destroy the last vestige of confidence in the honesty of the tracks. •A naturalist says that many fish can travel faster than an express train. And, he forgot to add, many others think they can. Four Russian towns have been named after Stalin. Evidently, a dictator is without modesty in his own country. An editor says congress would be all right if it had some convictions and some courage. Maybe if we could get a few convictions the others wouldn’t need so much courage. The idea that money makes money brought on speculation and the depression, an economist says. And the idea that nothing will make money keeps the depression here. At that, business hasn’t gotten to the point where John D. Rockefeller is giving away stocks instead of dimes.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

EVER since I can remember, I have heard that women were mysterious creatures, entirely beyond man’s understanding. I used to believe it. I even enjoyed the idea of belonging to a sex that was deep and baffling, but so wise it could read the male as if he were an open book. We were schooled in the conviction that all men were simple, guileless, childlike beings, while we were Mona Lisas, confounding them with our mutability and elusion. Then I grew up. I suddenly realized one day that all this kind of talk was merely another of man’s beautiful excuses to avoid the responsibilities of love and life. There is only one reason why men can not understand women. They never have tried. Women, on the contrary, anticipate masculine behavior so well because they have done little else for centuries. Since the start of civilization, woman has been preoccupied with one subject—man. We have studied his whims to ingratiate ourselves into his good graces, since he was the arbiter of our destiny and happiness. m *• A WIFE, therefore, would blush with shame if she thought she did not know her husband’s frailties after a few years of marriage. And I am sure that any office girl or stenographer is able to understand her employer’s personality and disposition completely at the end of a few weeks in his service. She dees this, not because she possesses any marvelous intuitive powers, but because she observes well, uses her common sense, and gives some attention to her job. I do not consider it at all flattering to me to assume that they are unable to comprehend women, especially when you consider that for so long we were supposed to have very weak and shallow intellects. At any rate, to those gentlemen who do not understand us, let me point out that here is a fine new field for their attention—the ffcld of the feminine mind. We invite investigation, p

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

! Considering What the Republicans Did for Them With Their White-Livered Prohibition Plank, It Is Hard to See How the Democrats Can Lose. YORK, June 17.—President Hoover was renominated after beating the Republican convention into premature labor and causing it to bring forth a weasel. If he takes the weasel for an elephant, that xs his hard luck. The tragedy occurred at quarter past 1 Thursday morning. Administration rpokesmen had warned delegates to beware of a dry bolt, unless the yellow', transparent straddle on prohibition, sponsored by President Hoover, were adopted. Delegates would have been wise to heed the booing of the galleries. Instead, they obeyed orders and gave the Democrats more than an even chance to carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio in November. Militancy has passed from drys to wets. The former are too confused and demoralized for aggressive action. The latter are inspired by the prospect of triumph as well as by a belief that they are working for something of constructive value.

Everyone Is Disgusted PRESIDENT HOOVER and his pussyfooting advisers have won a Pyrrhic victory, have succeeded in placating the drys only to disgust everybody. The prohibition plank which they forced their party to adopt satisfies no one. It promises the drys that, no matter what happens, enough of the eighteenth amendment will be saved to insure federal control of the liquor traffic. It promises the wets that states can vote to re-establish the sale of liquor, but only under conditions prescribed by the federal government. It promises the army of dry agents now employed that some way will be found to keep them on the pay roll. It promises politicians that the problem will remain unsettled. It promises grafters, bootleggers, and racketeers that the conflict between state and federal authority will continue to furnish them a good field of operations. It promises hypocrites a chance to go right on strutting their stuff. The only people it promises nothing are those who believe in plain words and common honesty, but such people still constitute a distinct majority. It’s Foremost "Problem CONSIDERING what the Republicans did for them by the adoption of this white-livered prohibition plank, it is hard to see how the Democrats can lose the national election. They can, however, by pursuing the same kind of tactics toward a question which, whatever its merits may be, has become the all-impor-tant issue in this campaign. You can say that prohibition is of far less consequence than unemployment, or the business slump. You can say that it ought not to be presented from a partisan standpoint, because both parties are split on it. You can say that talking about it does a lot of harm, because we ought to be giving attention to other things. But when you have said all that, you have to admit that more people are interested in it and want to vote on it than in, or on, any other question.

Chance Is Here PEOPLE are worried over prohibition, not only because of its bearing on liquor, but because of its effect on the administration of justice and attitude toward government. People are alarmed by what has occurred in this country during the last twelve years to weaken law enforcement in all respects, to corrupt politics, promote organized crime, and make life miserable for those who want nothing but to be let alone. People see little sense in trying to patch up an experiment which is wrong in principle. What they desire is to wipe the slate clean and start over again. Their quarrel is not with temperance, but with the damage that has been done to the structure of their government. Provided they are reasonably sensible with regard to a few other matters, and reasonably careful in selecting a candidate, the Democrats need do little more than take a straightforward stand for repeal of the eighteenth amendment to insure success. Will they do it?

M TODAY 4$ / WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARV

AUSTRIANS CHECKED June 17.

ON June 17, 1918, a strong force of British and Italian allies massed in the regions of Asiago and Monte Grappa and succeeded in checking a determined Austrian advance on this front. Many Austrian prisoners were taken. West of vhe Piave river, however, opposite San Donn di Piave, Austrians extended their positions and captured Capo Sile. French troops between the Oise and Aisne, near Hautebraye, on the western front, improved their positions. American troops were subjected to one of the heaviest gas attacks they had received during the war. Finland announced, contrary to an earlier report, that it would annex Carelia. Os what race are Mexicans? They are of mixed Spanish and Indian blood. If Spanish blood largely predominates, they are of the white race, and if Indian blood predominates, they are of the red or Indian race. What two countries of the world produce the largest amount of poultry? The United States first and China second. What is the religion of Governor Ritchie of Maryland. Episcopalian.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Slap Child on Back If He Is Choking

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. REG ARDLESS of how ’ dareful mothers are, young children always are apt to get things in the throat and choke on them. When this happens, the average mother is overcome so completely by fear that she becomes frantic, yells for help, frightens the child needlessly, and is almost helpless to do anything about it. When a child chokes, there is no time to call a doctor. Here is one case where a mother must act for herself, and promptly. The most satisfactory method is to hold the child in the air by its feet, head downward, and vigorously slap its back. This method usually will produce the desired results and is the easiest to apply. In cases where breathing is not blocked entirely, and there is no

IT SEEMS TO ME

CHICAGO, June 17.—Herbert Hoover was not only renominated Thursday, but promoted. During the course of the Republican convention, many speakers felt moved upon to call attention to the extraordinary similarity which exists between him and Abraham Lincoln. But the high spot was reached during the last session, when an Illinois delegate named Roscoe Conkling Simmons, declared that the party’s standard bearer had, in his own right, duplicated the familiar and the ancient miracle of quelling the tempest and quieting the waves. I must admit that my religious feeling is such that for a moment this oratorical flight left me not only shocked, but amazed. But then I remembered that the speaker was using the figure in a political sense, and that he quite properly might have gone on to say that during the platform fight the President also displayed considerable skill in walking on the water. It is a pity that he has not done more in the matter of the loaves and fishes and the feeding of the multitude.

Scott Goes Far Back WITH the end of the convention in sight, the speakers began to take in much more territory. Some brand new issues were raised. Joseph L. Scott of Los Angeles, in placing Herbert Clark Hoover in nomination, boldly took up problems upon which many national conventions, even Republican ones, have been silent. But this, as he pointed out, was too proud a gathering to equivocate. And so Joseph L. Scott swept the stars down from the sky with his right hand and courageously announced for all the world and a national hookup: “Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition—and succumbed.’’ “That’s telling him, big boy," shouted a delegate from lowa. And it is true that not even the Democrats can say that the party of Mr. Hoover does not stand four square on the issue of Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome. Some of the captious may complin that the failure to mention Gomorrah was a straddle, but Gomorrah, according to the steering committee, constitutes a local issue. * 9 U Great for Farmers IT is to be hoped that in the coming election the citizens will take to heait the sad fate of those ancient peoples who wallowed in material prosperity. It ought to be a great lesson for the fanners. Nor was ancient Rome allowed to escape with merely one line of denunciation. Joseph L. Scott of Los Angeles, Cal., returned to the attack, saying, “The men and women and children thrown to the beasts at the column for a Roman holi-

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immediate danger, the child should be taken at once to a physician foi an examination, when the object can not be removed by the above method. An important point to remember is that in many instances there is no evidence of choking for some hours after the object has been swallowed. Parents must not let this mislead them. Another thing to remember is that to try to remove any object lodged in your. child’s throat by crude methods is dangerous and should be resorted to only in extreme cases. Frequently this method will lodge the object more firmly in place and needlessly will endanger the child’s life. Objects in the throat usually may be removed by physicians equipped with bronoscopes and esophagoscopes, which are slender instruments resembling gun barrels.

day gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rules the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories.” It looks very much as if the Republican party intends to come out against light lions and bear. And you may well believe that after this exposition of the problems which confront us the delegates went wild when J. L. Scott came to his final phrases and sent tumbling out to the eager multitude “humblest toiler in the land,” “head unbowed,” “homespun American,” “Divine Providence” and “Californian.” He was talking about Herbert Hoover. nun Oh, Yes, an American BY a happy coincidence, it turned out that Charles Curtis is an American and that he wus “a sturdy youth,” “a prosecuting attorney,” and “a swarthy, black-eyed boy.” Mr. Curtis, the speaker alleged, is the Vice-President of the United States. But in spite of this fact which ob-

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Either of the old political parties easily could find a foothold on the following platform, which 1 offer to both national conventions: We admit there is a depression, but regret we can not do anything about it and hold our jobs. We believe and indorse free wheeling, cornbread, turnip greens, and our party. We recognize the fact that while Wilson almost kept us out of war, Hoover has moved us up close to the poorhouse. We also deplore this. We are convinced thoroughly that Thomas Jefferson would not recognize the Democratic party if he met it in a speakie. We firmly believe that while the G. O. P. is some seventy-five years old, it can not help looking and acting like Methuselah. We are firmly convinced that the lower the wages, the happier the worker and the more prosperity. We believe the booze racket is being run in the ground, or somewhere or maybe anywhere. We believe that taxes are things to collect. We don’t care who pays them. We believe it is o. k. to feed the Turks, Rumanians, Hottentots and Eskimoes, but a waste of jack to feed American soldiers who did nothing but fight some hot battles. Didn’t the soldiers get a lot of souvenirs in Europe? We believe in getting all the votes we can; that the voter is a great guy until after election, and after that a fool. We affirm our former stand and believe the planks of our platform are pretty good—and rotten,. j C. S. G.

They are lighted and when ihe physician locates the object, he seizes it with forceps in the tubes and removes it without even a great amount of pain to the patient. Your family physician usually will refer you to the proper man to perform this slight, but very necessary operation. In no case should a child be allowed to go longer than absolutely necessary with an object stuck in its throat, even in cases where it' does not interfere with breathing. In less than 2 per cent of the cases will the object be removed harmlessly by natural means. It goes without saying that young children should not be given objects to play with which may be swallowed and cause choking. Coins, chunky pieces of food, fruit without the pits removed, hard candy, peanuts, popcorn, and small parts of toys may cause choking.

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viously will save expense in the manner of buttons, banners, campaign literature, and possibly even moving van charges, the convention did not take Charles Curtis forthwith. Several other condidates were placed in nomination, including Colonel B. (Boob) MacNider, as he affectionately is called by his friends; General Harbord, who, as far as I know*, is called General Harbord, and a man named Fuller from Massachusetts. There were several others, but it hardly can matter much now or in a hundred years. For a time it seemed as if Charles Curtis might have some trouble in getting his renomination, but before the roll call was complete Pennsylvania changed its vote and swung over to him and that gave him a clear majority. It was said that at the last minute Washington put in a word in his behalf. That is natural enough. It is surprising that Herbert Hoover did not take action sooner. After all, Charles Curtis adds great strength to the ticket. Charle's renomination makes it possible for Mr. Hoover to point with pride at one man who has not yet lost his job in spite of the depression. (Convrisht, 1932. bv The Times)

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JUNE 17,1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Engineers Say Their Advice Is Needed by Investors in Foreign Loans. A MERICANS investing their money abroad need the advice of engineers as well as that of bankers, according to the American Institute of Consulting Engineers. This organization, one of thirty engineering organizations in the American Engineering Council, sets forth its views upon the subject in a letter to the finance committee of the United States senate. As investors will at once understand, the letter is inspired by the unfortunate experience which many investors have had with some foreign securities. “If the investors of the United States are asked to loan money to any foreign government, to be usee wholly or in pert for carrying out public works,” the institute holds, “the investor should have the assurance that such public works are necessary and desirable, that the work of construction efficiently be carried out, and that they be administered Droperly during the life of the loan.”

' British Custom 'T'HE institute does not pretend to suggest that the employment of engineering advice will prove a guarantee against the effects of a world-wide depression, and it points out that the legal form of a contract is of little avail when economic conditions prevent their fulfillment. “The institute believes, however,” the letter continues, “that if the advice of responsible, well-informed engineers had Been obtained uniformly, it practically is sure that some of the foreign investments would not have been made during the last ten years, and that much of the work u r ould have been carried out more efficiently. “The institute believes that when our people are given to understand that their money is to be used to build railroads in Bolivia, irrigation works in Peru, or highways in Colombia, that, in addition to the assurance of the bankers, who are the intermediaries, finances of these countries warrant the loan, and the assurance of attorneys that the legal requirements have been met, they should have also the assurance of reputable engineers that the works are feasible and W’ell designed and that the construction will be carried out efficiently. “The British long ago learned all these things and London banks have required, in connection with foreign development enterprises, that there be named not only attorneys, but also auditors and engineers satisfactory to the bankers before making a public issue of- securities and almost always requiring the retention of these experts to make annual inspections and reports of the operations of the properties for benefit of security holders.”

Issues in Default A RECENT investigation by the Latin - American Bondholders’ Association indicates that of some sixty issues to five countries of Latin America, most of which are now in default, which total some $930,000,000, about $140,000,000 were definitely allocated to public works, and some $530,000,000 were stated to be allocated in part for public works,” the letter goes on. “So far as publicly is known also, there has been an ahnest complete absence of competent reports by independent engineers on these projects, and little, if any, supervision by such engineers of expenditure of the funds. “The institute believes, in order that the investor may have some protection, that not only should there have been comprehensive engineering reports precedent to the making of these bonds, but also adequate engineering supervision of expenditure of this money. “There is every evidence that these public works, and especially the development of transportation—on which all other development depends—have not been planned wisely or executed efficiently and that this is responsible, at least in part, for losses from which the investors are suffering.”

Daily Thought

Let them that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that be may have to give to him that needeth.— Ephesians 4:28. Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which Nature never pardons.—Emerson.