Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1934 — Page 14

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TUESDAY. JUNE 5. 1934.

THE OXNAM CASE THE TIMES has been a consistent admirer of Dr., G. Bromley Oxnam’s brilliant and powerful personality, but it has questioned his judgment in several matters of university administration. For instance, it felt that his dismissal of Professor Ralph W. Hufferd was based more upon Professor Hufferd's attitude toward national defense than upon his ability as a member of the De Pauw faculty. .. . We do not question Dr. Oxnam's right to hold any opinion on military preparedness that may seem to him to be wise. This is his privilege. But by the same token members of his faculty have a right to opposing opinions. He should not seek to penalize them if they do not agree with him. The American Association of University Professors has reported that Dr. Oxnam has jeopardized academic freedom at De Pauw. That is a serious charge, particularly in these times when education is of such grave importance. , Frankly, Dr. Oxnam has puzzled us. Here is a man with a fine mind, liberal ideas and an impressive character, whose actions have tended to bely these splendid qualities. While apparently talking and thinking tolerantly his behavior has been intolerant. The Association of University Professors points out that since Dr. Oxnam became president of De Pauw in 1928, there have been 144 persons on the faculty of whom sixty have resigned, failed of appointment or been dismissed. Such an enormous turnover in personnel is a serious indictment of the president's executive ability. The organization of professors also directs attention to the fact that Dr. Oxnam’s,academic experience had been limited before he assumed the presidency of De Pauw. The : trustees of educational institutions some time ;; will learn that the administration of a university is a highly specialized job for which only thoroughly seasoned executives should be chosen. It is a hard thing for any human being to take such stinging criticism as the association of university professors has directed at De Pauw's president. Yet it is to be hoped, for the good of one of Indiana's outstanding institutions, that both Dr. Oxnam and the : trustees will accept the professors’ report as a • challenge for a reappraisal and'revamping of the whole administrative technique of the - university. , STREAM POLLUTION AGAIN “■fIfATER unfit for drinking probably is ’ ’ equally unfit for bathing.” This statement of Dr. Morris Fishbein sounds rather extreme yet a little thought will show that it is not. Unpleasant as the idea may be, swimmers do swallow quantities of water while they are disporting themselves. In addition, water gets into the swimmer’s ears and, through his nose, into his sinus and his antrums. Can there be a definite connection between the prevalence of mastoiditis and sinus infections and the unspeakably polluted streams of Indiana? With summer once more upon us the problem of stream pollution becomes acute. While people are seeking relief in clean streams from the intense heat they should give a little thought to the reasons why most of Indiana’s waters are open sewers unfit even for fishing. Our municipalities have for many years been in control of ignorant and selfish bosses. They have not been interested in whether little children were infected by polluted water. All they have cared about is votes and patronage. Decent and civilized sewage disposal plants are worth few votes and the jobs they offer make patronage pickings mighty slim. During the last winter the federal government has offered the communities of this state millions of dollars for disposal plants. Few cities have taken advantage of the situation. Another heavy polluter of Indiana’s streams is industry. Through unholy alliances with political organizations factory owners have been allowed to pour poison and filth for years into the rivers which belong to everybody. Be it said to their credit that they have shown more disposition to remedy this evil than the communities themselves. For years one of the worst stream polluters in the state was the Morgan Packing Company. Last year Mr. Ivan Morgan, head of the corporation, made a personal study of pollution and promptly remedied his particular situation. More industrialists would do well to follow Mr. Morgan’s example. Stream pollution is mighty poor advertising. The whole question of infected rivers is merely another example of the grip which special privilege has had upon Indiana. Favors can not be extended to a minority without damaging the interests of the majority. It is going to take a long time to make the beautiful waters of this state something of which Indiana can once more be proud, but it can be done if the citizens demand it of their elected officials. CHARLES B. (CHIC) JACKSON INDIANAPOLIS mourns the passing of one of its most outstanding citizens. Indian- , apolis, in her mourning, is bereaved over the death of a man who devoted his years to bringing smiles and chuckles into the daily grind. Charlea B. (Chic) Jackson, famed cartoonist of the Indianapolis Srar, died Sunday. His comic strip of Roger Bean established Mr. Jackson in this midwestern community as one of its most noted artists and humorists.

The great appeal of his strip was that it was typically Hoosier and typically family. Chic Jackson had a real understanding of human nature. Daily, in his work and pleasures, he carried that understanding and a keen sense of humor with him. Never was Chic Jackson ill humored or narrow minded. He was a man with thousands of friends and no enemies, and that asset, too, reflected itself in his daily cartoon strips. Every newspaper man, newspaper reader and friend will miss Chic Jackson. He has left behind a memory that we will truly cherish. THANKS TO KINGAN’S it’s hot, but Indianapolis has one thing to be thankful for. Remember last year, and the year before, and the year before that, the full-blown odor that was wafted over the business district by the Kingan packing plant? Remember how visitors used to embarrass us by questions about that “awful odor”? It did no good to explain to them that the smell was a perfectly clean and sanitary one—merely frying fat. They did not like it and went away to their home towns branding Indianapolis as the city with the big smell. Despite the extreme heat, there has been no smell this year. And there are assurances that the smell, if it is ever present at all, will be a mere miniature of its former self. The present situation has bqen brought about entirely by the generosity and public spirit of the management of Kingan’s. Voluntarily the plant last fall installed equipment to cut down the smell. It did this without court action or any other duress. The community, we believe, owes Kingan’s a hearty vote of thanks. May the packing plant enjoy growing prosperity and continue to be a good Indianapolis neighbor for years to come. - JAPAN AND PHILIPPINES TJ ESULTS of our cocoanut oil tax folly alAv rea dy are becoming evident. In Manila, the Japanese consul-general proposes establishment of free trade between Japan and the Philippines after the latter achieves independence and loses free access to the American market. Free trade between the United States and the Philippines for the last quarter century has proved a blessing both to the states and the Islands. Alert Japanese bid for that blessing. It is not now possible to forecast how the Filipinos will react to the proposal. But it is to be expected that the Filipinos will take whatever steps are necessary to find a satisfactory outside market for their raw products. The question that presents itself to us is— Where would we be if such a compact were consummated? The answer is—We would lose our best customer in the far east and be cut off from a profitable market built up by decades of close commercial relationships. The blindness of certain interests in this country that have the ear of congress is inviting this calamity. These interests apparently have shown themselves more powerful than the President in that they have prevailed upon the ways and means committee to pigeon-hole the administration-sponsored McDuffie resolution to suspend the cocoanut oil tax-embargo. One-fourth of the Filipino people depend for existence upon the cocoanut this tax would all but destroy. The tax, to our shame, was imposed nine days after the Filipino legislature ratified congress’ law which guaranteed duty-free entry of 200,000 tons of Philippine cocoanut oil into the United States each year until the commonwealth government evolves into an Independent nation. The President, in line with his vigorous message on this subject, should insist that congressional leaders permit this vote to re-estab-lish our good faith with the Filipino people and restore the reputation of the United States in the Pacific. The senate proved that it could move with alacrity on a matter of foreign policy when it ratified the Cuban treaty. Suspension of the cocoanut oil tax is as essential to the success of our peace policy in the Pacific as the Cban treaty is to the success of our Pan-American policy. TOOR PSYCHOLOGY /"VNE lone Civil war veteran marched in the Memorial day parade this year in the city of Cleveland —one old man in a blue coat, white-haired and stooped, valiantly stepping along to honor his departed comrades. And a little group of Communists, standing on the curb, booed him as he marched by. In that incident you have the main reason why Communism has failed to make headway in the United States. Its adherents simply fail to understand the American spirit. The Civil war veteran, whether he wears blue or gray, occupies a peculiarly tender and holy spot in American hearts. The man who fails to understand that fails to understand everything. So long as Communism is in the hands of men who can boo the last of the Civil war veterans, no one needs to worry about it. Men so abysmally ignorant of American psychology can never convert many Americans. THE SAME ENDING more humanly revealing story has come over the cables in many months than the one telling how Bertrand Russell. English mathematician and philosopher, has been sued for divorce, on the ground of infidelity, by Dora Russell. •; Here were the people who, perhaps more than any one else, impressed on the modern generation the necessity for a sophisticated and “enlightened” attitude toward love and marriage. They made speeches and wrote magazine articles about it; Mrs. Russell declared bravely, “I would noi, insist upon absolute faithfulness after marriage.” Well, it was all clear-sighted and intelligent, no doubt; but the .marriage seems to be ending precisely as thousands of others have ended, for all these fine words. And the whole business is an enlightening commentary on the way in which human emotions refuse to be bound by the slogans of modern sophistication. England was so perturbed over the shooting of a London policeman, not seriously, that they tracked down the criminal in two days. In this country we’d hardly give it a second thought. • . , ,

Liberal Viewpoint —BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES—

THESE are times of rapid change—in the opinions of mankind as well as in our material civilization and our political experiments. Men who once stood in the vanguard of advanced opinion have been outdistanced by the progress of events and find themselves stragglers in the rear of the social procession. They manfully invoke the spirit of Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner, those arch prophets of extreme individualism. In spite of the well-nigh complete collapse of the individualistic system in both economics and politics, they would stem the tide of the new deal and turn back to the leaders and policies that brought us to the abyss of March 3. 1933. Perhaps the most conspicuous example of this renunciation of leadership and progressive perspective has been offered by Mr. H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, long distinguished as an intellectual radical through his editorship of the Smart Set and American Mercury, and through his own iconoclastic writings. tt n u FINDING it necessary recently to kill a few moments of time, I turned to a stack of old copies of Life. Picking up the issue of Feb. 2, 1928, I came across a heading entitled “Americana (1945).” Mencken in 1928 was in the heyday of his radical bombardment of the political boobs and economic “hyenas.’But the writer of this column in Life predicted that in 1945 Mencken would be the oracle of the conventional and conservative camp. He submitted the following tributes hypothetically rendered in 1945 to the soundness of Mr. Mencken’s observations: “ ‘H. L. Mencken is the greatest American thinker since Elbert H. Hubbard.’ —Extract from a radio speech by the illustrious Fred B. Windhorst of the New Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. “‘The voice of H. L. Mencken is the voice of the American that William Jennings Bryan carried in his dreams.’—From a sermon by Pastor Homer Maxson Gidley, First Zion Baptist church, Biloxi, Miss. , “ ‘H. L. Mencken is not only America’s greatest political mind since Theodore Roosevelt, he is also one of the keenest business men in historyt’_From an editorial in the eminent Hibbing (Minn.) Herald. “ ‘H. L. Mencken ranks with Dr. Frank Crane as one of the profoundest philosophers the nation has ever produced.’—From a speech by Miss Gussie Y. Fambringham, vice-president of the Dahlonega (Ga.) branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution. . “ ‘Show me a man, woman or child who reads the American Mercury and I will show you a man woman or child who reveres the Ten Commandments.’—From a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Hubertis Blodgett Oxenham. Second Presbyterian church, Punsatawney, Pa. tt tt tt .< rpHE people of America could do far worse A than elect H. L. Mencken to the Presidency of the United States.’—From a speech by the Hon. Orley K. Twillit, congressman from the Twenty-second district, Alabama. In all probability, the writer of thus squib hardly imagined that his prophecy would be fulfilled even in 1945. It presumably was intended as a feat of humorous writing rather than a contribution to serious social prediction. Yet this satirical prognostication that Mencken would become the fair-haired boy of the American reactionaries has actually been borne out eleven years before 1945. During the last year of his editorship of the American Mercury Mencken penned diatribes against Soviet Russia which would have made Hamilton Fish blush for fear of dogmatic excess. After having mercilessly piloried the practical politicians for nearly a generation, while he demanded the dominion of the intellectually elite, Mencken immediately jumped into the lists against the new deal with a ferocity exceeding that of any Republican national committeeman. tt tt THE BRAIN TRUST, which was almost an answer from heaven to Mencken's old prayer for an intellectual aristocracy in the halls of government, particularly enraged him. His recent and much discussed radio address —as only one instance among many of his recent blasts against the Roosevelt administration and the Brain Trust. In the last six months or so, I have had occasion to talk with many industrialists who were perfect patterns of the type which Mencken used to lambast as “Babbits.” More than half of them referred with almost hushed reverence to Mr. Mencken’s onslaughts on the new deal and no other American was even a close runner-up in their esteem. If Mencken is not already the darling of the American Bourbons, he is certainly well on his way toward edging Ham Fish, Ralph Easley and Ogden Mills out of the love nest.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

THE reason cabinet members wore sack suits and slouch hats during the review of the United States fleet, instead of silk toppers, white spats and cutaways, is due to a hint from President Roosevelt. To give one instance: Attorney-General Cummings was sitting at his desk wondering what kind of attire he should don for the review when his phone rang. “Hello, Homer!” said the voice of Secretary of Interior Ickes. “Hello, Harold ” said Cummings. “Homer, the President says don’t worry about wearing a frock coat to New York. No cutaway—no silk hat. Just a plain sack suit and a slouch hat.” “Good!” responded Cummings “Bring your own whisky'!” added Ickes and he hung up. tt tt tt Minister ralph willliam close of the union of South Africa and silverhaired. affable Mrs. Close yesterday entertained in celebration of Union day at the legation on New Hampshire Ave. Mrs. Close was dressed in a long-sleeved gown of sapphire lace and received guests in the large Louis XVI drawing room. Scarlet, pink and white peonies decorated the legation. “Oh, how I miss those chinkerichees!” remarked a guest, mispronouncing the name of a native South African flower. The former minister of South Africa, Mr. Eric Louw, used to have them in the drawing room. They look like no flower one has ever seen in America. The nearest approximation would be dead golden-rod. But they are picturesque. tt tt tt WINTER'S formality has departed from the capital’s cocktail parties and receptions, except for brief revivals on cold days. The South African party yesterday proved that top hats and morning coats have been put away until next .season. Only four diplomats appeared in formal garb and they are ultraformal. One of them wears winged collars to informal luncheons in July. But there is no diminution in the whisky and soda consumption. Gentlemen in gray flannels in white flannels, in white linens and in seersuckers, crowded as enthusiastically as ever about the bottles of Dewar’s and Haig & Haig. Ice was at a premium. Active Eugene Scallan, South African counselor, was so busy shaking hands and directing potential whisky-bibbers toward the liquid refreshment, he couldn’t even nibble a watercress sandwich. NOTE—Missed at the South African crush was Mrs. Anne Archbold, heiress of the Standard Oil millions. She has done better than go to a South African party. She’s sailed for South Africa. A man in Alameda, Cal., sat on a load of explosives and we call him mad; European statesmen sit on a load of dynamite and we call them diplomats.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so all car, have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.J a tt a IDEALISTIC PROGRAM OFFERED FOR RUSSIA By H. Lackey. To that man of progress, Comrade Stalin, U. S. S. R., send a copy of The Times carrying this letter. Remembering that there is nothing new under the sun, may I suggest a plan which, if Comrade Stalin's scientists can work out ihe necessary elaborate technique, will people the the vast Siberian wastes with needed young Russians. It is known that a human ovary contains the essentials of thousands af eggs, each of which when fertilized by a sperm, represents all of the' potentialities of a human being. The problem is to supply the potential eggs and the resulting human beings in the making with the proper nourishment and environment. This does not look impossible in the light of what science is accomplishing in fields, such as atomic research. The magnificent sociological laboratory of Russia is an ideal place to get away from petty narrowness and really accomplish the things that are worth while. Let any one who believed that children reared in orphanages have not an equal chance of life read the life of the explorer, Stanley, w r ho was one of these. Since the resources of Russia are used for the good of all the people and not for the self-aggrandizement of a few profiteers, there will be no one to object to the practical application of socioligical idealism. u n * SALVATION ARMY’S METHODS ATTACKED By M. A. Eiseman. The industrial division of the Salvation Army, with city headquarters at 127 West Georgia street, operates at this address a rummage store and shelter for homeless men. In connection with this work, out not as a charitable institution, is the men’s hotel at 26 South Capitol avenue. The maintenance and success of this work at the Georgia street place are entirely dependent on the charitably inclined people of our city. "To this place are brought the solicited furniture, clothing, paper and rags, etc., where they are sold at a price determined by the officer in charge. The army in its surveys and reviews stresses the amount of good accomplished by this particular branch of its organization. It has dwelt on the necessity of help in caring for aged and incapacitated men. Recently, because of the age retirement of Staff Captain Salmond, there has been a change in the industrial management. Old men, beaten men, who for years have given their all in strength and loyalty, are being dismissed to the poorhouse. tt tt BETTER CARE OF STREET URGED By West Side Driver. Indianapolis Railways, Inc., can afford to purchase new street cars and trackless trolleys, but fails to repair the spaces between their tracks. There are still a few persons in Indianapolis who drive to and from town instead of throwing all their money at the street car company. For a number of years, the street railway company, I understand, professed to be “broke,” but now with all the purchases of new equipment,

French Minority Opposes U. S. Films

By Frederick L. Herron. I note in The Times of May 18 an article, “U. S. Film Ban Asked by French Producers.” You will be interested in knowing that while a certain small group of the French industry made up of French producers and distributors, and a very few exhibitors, probably not more than 5 per cent of the latter, are petitioning the government to bar the importation of American films for a number of months and even after that to make the cost of importation so high that it would be practially prohibitive; the same group is lobbying for a subsidy of 5,000,000 francs, some $330,000, from the French government to push the sale of French motion pictures in the United States. Charles Delac, who is head of the Chambre Syndicale, which body is responsible for both these movements, is interested in French production and distribution. From 90 to 95 per cent of the French industry, in other words the theaters of France, are not members of Mr. Delac’s group. In other woros, a very small minority is trying to- rule the whole industry in France, and in order to gain its end, is perfectly willing to put out of business a great mass of French motion picture theaters that are absolutely dependent upon American films to keep their doors open. The well-known French newspaper, La Depeche de Toulouse, states that this plan for subsidizing French pictures in the United States was not to be communicated to the press of the country. it seems that it must be making a little money, and why can’t it be forced to keep the' center of the street, where tracks are placed, in the best of condition? Washington street, a state highway, a national highway, Indianapolis’ main thoroughfare, and one of the two streets composing the “cross roads of a nation,” is the worst street in Indianapolis. I have lived on the west side of the city for the last eight years, and during that time have driven four times daily over Indianapolis’ main thoroughfare. At one spot on this street, between Hancock street and Tibbs avenue, a distance of only one block, there has been no pavement in the eight years mentioned. Furthermore, the street has been conditioned there only three or four times, and then with only cinders which are qickly beaten out by traffic. Many automobiles and trucks park double in the narrow space on the sides, and cars are often forced into the “rough” many times breaking springs and blowing tires, which may at some time prbve disastrous to pedestrians, or passengers in cars. The company’s program for steady improvement of its properties and facilities has been given much publicity. The company will assure residents of cooperation on these matters. tt tt a MOTOR BOAT NOISE CAUSES ANNOYANCE By River Heights Citizen. I recall your paper once ran a column under the heading of “Mr. Fixit” and judging by the comments made by those who had evidently petitioned you for support,, “Mr. Fixit” did a good job. The thought occurred to me that old man “Fixit” might help the

In other words, Mr. Delac hopes to get his prohibition against American pictures through the government offices and at the same time push his personal interest in French production by using the government’s subsidy for publicizing French films in the United States. In another French paper, Marianne, Henri Jeanson satirizes the project as follows : “One can not sufficiently praise Delac, who, while using every influence to end the popularizing of American films in France, is trying to organize a plan for popularizing French films in the United States.” A large group of French theater owners in opposition to Mr. Delac’s plan have petitioned the government for an allowance Gs more American pictures to come into France, rather than fewer. At the present time original versions of American pictures are only allowed to be shown in fifteen theaters in France. The theater owners have petitioned to increase this number of 100. According to the French theater owners, out of 174 French films available in 1933, only twenty were considered as first-class from a commercial standpoint and only sixty-five of ordinary quality. It is hard to believe that any government in the world would be so unfair to a foreign commodity as to pass anything as drastic as the proposal by Mr. Delac and the Chambre Syndicale. The American motion picture distributors still hope that their product will not be barred from French distribution. citizens of northeast Indianapolis to get some relief from the abominable noises made by racing motor boats on White river. We of this vicinity have no fault to find with motor boats. There are probably a hundred of them on the river but only five operate without proper muffling. These are operated by young boys who evidently want to attract attention to themselves. They seem to have “Ain’t Ia daredevil” complex, and because of this ego the peace of thousands of north side citizens is greatly disturbed. The sheriff has been petitioned but apparently has done nothing. Will you help us? a >t tt URGES SUPPORT OF ANTI-LYNCHING BILL By Walter White. Will you permit us to place before your readers the critical situation regarding the Costigan-Wagner bill now pending before Congress to give authority for federal aid to states in suppressing lynching? Organizations with a total membership of more than forty million have indorsed the bill and are actively supporting it, among them being the Y. W. C. A., the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, the Woman’s Missionary Council of the M. E. Church, South, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Writers’ League Against Lynching, the National Association, for the Advance-

Daily Thought

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of com cometh in, in his season.—Job 5:26. SOME smack of age in you, some relish of the sa't-tiesa oX time. —Shakespeare.

. JUNE 5, 1934

ment of Colored People, and many others. President Roosevelt has publicly declared his wish for a vote at this session of congress. Impartial polls of the senate and the house reveal an overwhelming majority for the bill. But a very small bloc of senators are determined to keep the bill from being voted on before congress adjourns. One senator, who comes from a state which has one of the worst lynching records, is reported as saying that the bill will be voted on “only over my dead body.” Another senator, also from a state with a very bad record, has threatened a filibuster if the President’s request for a vote on the measure is complied with. What, meanwhile, are the facts bearing on the assertion that lynching should be left to the states? Last July 4 Norris Dendy, a Negro, was lynched at Clinton, for quarreling with a white man. Although eyewitnesses identified members of the mob, including officers of the law, who lynched Dendy, no indictments have yet been returned and it is exceedingly doubtful if any will be returned. Last December Cordie Cheek, a 17-year-old Negro boy, was lynched at Columbia, Tenn., after a grand" jury had refused to indict him. Vigorous efforts on the part of white and colored Tennesseeans have met with complete failure in their attempt to secure even the arrest of, the known lynchers. In California the mob murders of Holmes and Thurman walk the streets free and unmolested following the brazen defense of the lynchings by the late Governor Rolph. Ten men, against whom AttorneyGeneral Lane of Maryland obtained positive evidence that they helped lynch George Armwood on the eastern shore of Maryland last October, are symbols of the impotence of the state in the face of the mob. It will be remembered that not only were state troopers run out of the eastern shore when they sought to arrest these ten lynchers, but the mob even threatened to lynch Governor Ritchie and Mr. Lane. We Americans wax indignant whenever lynchings occur, but many of us promptly go back to sleep when no lynchings are occurring. At least fourteen lynchings have been prevented since the CostiganWagner bill was introduced because of fear that such lynchings would speed enactment of the bill. Every person who believes that the law should take its course and that lynching should be suppressed is urged to wire or write President Roosevelt urging him to insist on a vote on the bill before congress adjourns, and also to communicate with his congressmen and United States senators urging them to insist on a vote and to support the bill. An aroused public opinion, and it alone, can insure enactment of this very needed legislation. .——f No One Dares BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL No one dares to talk of grief todav; We suffer silently and hide our pain, Friends grow politely still if you display A broken heart—and do not call again. We dare not weep—we smile on bitterly, Keep up the desperate pretense that we’re gay, And no one cares to know our misery, For people do not talk of gnef today*