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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1035. 388,936 KILLED AS the wai god stalks through Ethiopia we might remind ourselves that his rival is abroad in our oun peaceful land. In fact, automobiles have killed and injured more Americans than wars! Records of America’s seven wars reveal a loss of 244,357 killed in action or deaa of wounds. Census figures reveal that between 1920 and 1935 automobile accidents killed 383.936. Thus, the auto killed 143,679 more Americans in 15 years than war killed in 159 years. Last year the automobile took 36,000 lives, permanently disabled 105,000, and temporarily disabled 1,150,000. The economic loss from these deaihs and Injuries is estimated at $1,530,000,000. Some idea of the extent of carnage on the highways and streets of tin country may be gained by recalling that the ocad and injured in auto accidents last year equaled the combined populations of Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Imagine the terror that would sweep the land if some foreign foe penetrated the We t and in one year killed or injured all the people of four states. Just as war can be conquered so can this domestic foe. A study by the National Safety Council chows that those states with standard auto license laws have reduced their motor vehicle deaths more than 20 per cent since 1926, while states lacking such laws suffered increases ranging from 11 to 40 per cent. Gov Hoffman of New Jersey recently called upon the delegates to the National Safety Council in Louisville to work for a 35 per cent reduction in motor vehicle deaths in their states by 1940. Standardized laws, strict enforcement of them and an awakened public opinion can accomplish this. Speed maniacs, drunken drivers, jaywalkers and day-dreamers must be taught that streets and highways are not theirs to turn into shambles. They belong to the public, and they must be made safe for the public. MAENNERCHOR STANDARDS TNDIANAPOLIS radio listeners were interested in ■* the recent broadcast from Berlin by Dusolina Giannini, soprano, who sang here last winter on an Indianapolis Maennerchor program. Miss Giannini, American-born singer of Italian parentage, won notable acclaim. Singing the title mle of “Carmen” in Berlin, she responded to 14 curtain calls. That would be a noteworthy accomplishment for any singer, and it was especially creditable for the Italian-American soprano because of her youth. Berlin's acceptance of Miss Giannini attests the fine musical judgment of those who choose the Rlaennerchor's guest artists.' Few if any musical centers in Europe are harder to please than Berlin. The Maennerchor, city’s oldest musical organization. will open its 1935-1936 season on Dec. 16. Karl Oscar Reckzeh, veteran director, again will guide the male chorus of nearly 100 voices. LAWS, ECONOMICS AND . . . TGNORING the fact that the Liberty League’s ‘ Kangaroo Court” had already assumed jurisdiction in such matters, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review two major New Deal laws which go deep into our economic and legal system. It should hand down its decision in the Ashwander TV A case and the Hoosac AAA processing-tax case before Congress meets in January. With the Roosevelt power and farm programs thus pending, we may only remark that the principal strain on the Constitution just now is that to which this illustrious document is being subjected by lawyers and judges—pulling in all directions. The Washbum-Crosby case, involving the validity of the processing taxes imposed since enactment of the new AAA law Aug. 24, just has been filed to complete the farm program test. And Gov. Talmadge’s state of Georgia, as owner of 160 acres of cotton land, has come in to ask permission to sue for annulment of the Bankhead Cotton Act. Angrily, Georgia asserts the imminence of “irreparable damage” from this compulsory law. Since the Supreme Court already has on its docket a case challenging this act, and in the light of Gov. Talmadge's recent anti-New Deal fulminations, this suit appears to have been prompted more by political tnan constitutional considerations. While the nine high justices were opening the court to tests of New Deal policies which may fix the tenor of the next political campaign, they kept the doors closed to two cases raising the issue of personal liberties. Which brings our discussion to the plight of ... . HUMAN BEINGS THE high court's refusal to entertain Tom Mooney's second plea for a habeas corpus writ means that his counsel must spend more dreary weeks in the absurdly irregular and wordy performance in San Francisco. The hearings before the California Supreme Court are unfair in that the judges have delegated testimony-taking to an elderly civil lawyer with powers little above those of a justice of the peace. Much more eloquent than a witness’ printed words Is his actual appearance on the stand. Neither the California high court nor one of its members nor a qualified outside judge will see Mooney, Billings or any other witnesses as they testify. In this case, however, the record Itself is so convincing that proof of perjury, guilty knowledge cf the state In this perjury and suppression of material evidence will not be lacking when, or if, the case goes again in a last resort to Washington's marble palace of justice. The court’s refusal to entertain anew plea for justice under the Constitution by Angelo Herndon is more serious. This Negro was condemned under an old, unused Georgia sedition statute for attempting to enlarge the Communist Party, a legal political party in Georgia. Without Federal intervention, he probably will spend his life in jail under the 18 to 20year sentence. Last May, on the technicality that his lawyers failed to file their plea in time, the Supreme Court's majority turned him down. But three dissenting Justices—Cardozo, Stone and Brandeis—thought “the cause is rightly held.” , Now, it appears, he is denied the right to prove

it. Here is a serious blow to civil rights and equality before the law. Justice under the Constitution can not safely be denied the humblest of Americans no matter what his color or poetical creed. The effect may be to "enlarge the Communist Party.” . Strangely enough, on the same day, in another case, the court recognized that the rights of humble humans are more precious than legal technicalities. For it agreed to review the convicition of three illiterate Mississippi Negroes who were tortured into confessing a murder—despite the failure of the Negroes’ lawyer to object formally to the torture at the time of the trial. Thus does Justice weave her whimsical web. TAXES, TAXES, TAXES r jT'WO prominent Republicans have recently denounced the spread and overlapping of invisible taxes. Said Herbert Hoover in a speech at Oakland. Cal.: “If it fthe Federal deficit) is paid by taxes, those taxes must fall on the so-called economic middle class and the poor. The poor will pay out of indirect taxes, hidden in the rent and everything they buy. And when the price of the necessaries of life to those who have but a living wage is advanced by hidden taxes, those people are not sharing a suiplus with the government. They have no surplus. . .. “The economic middle class—whether they be farmers or workers at the bench or the desk, professional or business men—produce 80 per cent of the national income. They, like the poor, will pay by indirect taxes in the cost of living and in addition, they will pay again and again in direct taxes. “No matter where you place taxes, the bulk of them must come from those who work and produce.” Said Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to Senator Borah, discussing Republican strategy: “Approximately 30 taxes are paid by a pair of shoes and some 40 or more taxes find their way in a greater or lesser degree into the cost of a loaf of bread. “We must explain to the people in clear terms that every article they use in their daily life carries in its cost a multitude of indirect taxes), for a large per cent of the price of bread, meat and clothes represents not merely necessary government functions but the extravagance and follies of government.” tt tt tt 'T'HE sentiments here expressed we hope will often be repeated. For there is need of a greater tax consciousness in our country, where the Federal government derives two-thirds of its revenue from hidden excises, where state Legislatures last year passed 1400 new tax laws, where countless local units lap one levy over another, where tax gatherers get in each other’s way and devour more and more of the substance of the people. Every state has its own problems, and so has each of the multitude of local units, but all along the line are opportunities to cut down the horde of tax collectors and simplify the tax structure. So far as the Federal government is concerned, we believe, the cause of economy and simplicity can best be served by eliminating the so-called painless sales and nuisance taxes and substituting direct levies which the people see and feel. All of the needed revenue lost by abolition of these hidden excises could be obtained by broadening the base of income taxation, adding millions of middle-class persons to the income tax roiis, and graduating the levy from a small tax on small incomes to a very large tax on very large incomes. The same reform could well be applied to inheritance and gift taxation. Such a tax system would take a much smaller portion of small incomes than is now taken by the multiplicity of invisible taxes. It would be taxation on the basis of ability to pay. And its painfulness and visibility would act as an automatic brake on government extravagance. DUCK’S VISION—I 927 AND NOW TV/TORE significant perhaps than anything said recently by Mussolini or his spokesman, Baron Aloisi, is what Mussolini declared in May, 1927—significant in that it shows the scope of his dream of empire and the time which he forecast for that dream to come true. Speaking then before the Chamber of Deputies in an appeal for an increase in Italian birth rate, saying if we d&crease in numbers we will never create an empire but become a colony,” Mussolini concluded with an expression of his vision in the following language: ' Hence we must, at a given moment, be able to mobilize 5,000.000 men thoroughly armed, we must strengthen our navy, while aviation must be on such a large scale and so powerful that the noise of its motors must surpass any other noise and the area of the wings of our airplanes must obscure the sun from our land. THEN BETWEEN 1935 and 1940, WHEN WE SHALL REACH THE CRUCIAL POINT IN EUROPEAN HISTORY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE OUR VOICE HEARD AND SEE AT LAST OUR RIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGED. This preparation requires some years more.”

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T COMMEND to all husbands the excellent advice of the Alabama man who lately celebrated his fiftieth wedding anniversary. "If you want married happiness, let the woman have her way,” he said. No philosopher ever spoke wiser or subtler words. Probably none believes them to be wholly true, but there is enough sense in them to merit our serious consideration. This man, I would guess, made a habit of letting his wife have her way in all unimportant matters. It is on this foundation stone that happy marriage rests, although it is equally vital that when great decisions are to be made the man must make them. Few women want their judgment to be the deciding factor when big events are faced. But they most certainly do like to have the sayso about how meals shall be served and houses furnished and when the fall cleaning is to be done. They demand a certain amount of authority in the social plans for the family, as well as supreme control over recreational and domestic affairs. Here is the little snag over which the average man trips oftenest. He has heard that women like to be bossed, that they prefer masterful men, so he proceeds to be masterful, and sometimes loses a good wife while he's at it. Women do prefer masterful men; there's music to them in the stamp of the masculine foot when it orders them to pack up their duds and follow to a new business position. When the master's voice booms at them that there's no use talking, we cant afford anew car this year, they subside. Or when Junior’s welfare is at stake they welcome a dominant note in father's comments. But they do not like—they will not have—too many orders about shopping, nor any bossy attempts on their social activities, nor will they tolerate snooping into those minor matters sacred to the housewife. Every husband would do well to listen to those rare souls who have weathered 50 years of living with one woman, for they have succeeded in a field in which entirely too many modem men fail.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relipioas controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 2.’0 words or less. Your letter must he sinned, but names will be withheld on rcouest.l a a a WELL, IT MAKES US GLAD, TOO By John V. Hurley, Cutler Nearly all the large publications are controlled by interests that would make peasants out of American agriculturists and deny the American citizens the right to amend their Constitution. Word is being passed around among the ruralites to keep those publications out of the mail boxes. Farmers can not support their enemies. Soon the boast of increased circulations will be a thing of the past. I am glad to say that The Indianapolis Times is not listed among the publications that oppose the farmer. a a a RILEY’S “AUNT MARY” WAS HIS GRANDMOTHER By Q. M. Bixler I notice in your issue of Oct. 6 an article “ ‘Aunt Mary’ of Poem Called a Composite.” I believe I can enlighten you as to who she was. George and Mary Bixler emigrated in an early day from Ohio to Indiana and were Amish, sometimes called Dunkards, of Dutch or German extraction and sometimes called "Hook and Eye Dutch.” They are my grandparents on my father's side and were close neighbors for many years in Greenfield. My grandfather’s house was just across the street from Judge Riley's house. Their social and neighborly lives were entwined for a number of years. The Aunt Mary of Riley's poems was none other than my grandmother. She loved children, was a good cook and always had some good cookies on hand to hand out to them and they all knew when her cooking day was and that was when they would go down to Aunt Mary’s. The Noah Bixler that is mentioned so many times in Riley’s poems was my uncle, my father's youngest brother. He was a few years older than Jim and Jim kind'er looked up to him; thought he was a wonder and a genius and he was. In Riley’s poem book called “The Child's World” there is a lot about "Noahy.” When the Civil War broke out, Judge Riley organized a regiment of which he was colonel. Noah wanted to enlist and grandfather was opposed to it. The Dunkards,

For a Girl BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK She who is lovely as old lace; Who holds the willow’s slender grace. Who has fer heart a shadowed cup Os rapture filled, to offer up. W*hose hair is spun of coppered brown, Above her forehead, like a crown. Whose eyes are guarded, dark with pain, That love can live and wax and wane. Who wears old jewels with gracioius air. And tucks white roses in her hair. She who is lovely as twilight When crimson sun takes purple flight. She who is lovely as a song, Can never lack a love for long,

A WELCOME ANNUAL INVASION

Stimson Sees a

From a letter by Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover, to the New York Tlines. It now is becoming clear that the action which it (our neutrality law limiting embargo to actual munitions of war) provides may be entirely ineffective to accomplish our main purpose of avoiding danger of being embroiled in the animosities of the war. The class of supplies which under this narrow resolution will be prevented from reaching the belligerents does not include many kinds which are quite as indispensable as arms and ammunition to a fighting nation. It does not include raw materials which are used to make arms and ammunition. It does not include food supplies which keep armies in the field. It does not include material for the clothing, feeding and transport of troops. For example, it docs not include cotton, meat or many other kinds of products which go directly to the use of armies and which may become contraband of war. The situation which is soon likely to confront us is apparent. The nations of the League whose representatives now are assembled at Geneva now are considering what they shall do to terminate this war and prevent it from spreading into a world war. They are considering the very same sort of action which was embodied in our resolution, but they may and probably will consider much more effective economic steps than the narrow' and ineffective steps which we have taken. When we read that they are discussing economic sanctions, it inclclues the possibility or even probability that they will impose a limitation of their exports which will be really thorough and prevent all war supplies from reach-

like the Quakers, were opposed to war and fighting. Grandfather was afraid that Noah would run off and join somewhere else, so he went to Judge Riley and talked to him about it. The judge said let him come in his regiment and he would look

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“Road to War”

ing Italy, the aggressor. If they do, what will be the inevitable result? There will at once be a demand from Italy for the purchase of supplies and material which are not forbidden by our resolution but which are forbidden by those of the other nations. The door will be at once open for a profitable trade in such supplies and many of our citizens anxious for the high profits thus obtainable will try to embark in such a trade. We do not have to imagine this. The signs of it are already appearing. Selfish voices are already heard complaining that even the naiTOw step w'hich the President has been able to take is too broad and that he has gone too far. Export executives are being quoted as saying that orders placed here by Italian or Ethiopian buyers will be accepted in spite of the Presidential neutrality proclamation. Thus, we have before our eyes already an example of how traditional neutrality leads to war; for it takes no prophet to foresee the animosity and disgust which will be inspired in a great many other nations directed at this country if they see that the results of their well-meant efforts in restraining their own exports are being thwarted by the lust and greed of American traders. Stronger and stronger efforts to make their embargoes effective will be demanded by those other nations until there is likely to come a clash between their attempt to prevent trade and our citizens’ attempt to monopolize it. I for one do not believe that these sordid attempts by Americans to profit out of the bloodshed and horrors of war represent the true feelings of the American people. If they do, God help us.

after him and see that nothing happened to him. So grandfather let him go, then when he was sick he was put on guard duty. WTien they came to relieve him they found him on the ground unconscious. They took him back to

—mostly Spanish—43 per cent are of mixed race, and 38 per cent are Indian, descendants of the ancient inhabitants. Q —What w’ere the locofocos? A—The term was used to denote a group of voters who seceded from the Tammany organization in New York because of scandals that resulted from the purchase of bank charters in Albany. Q —What is a fire of brimstone? A—lgnited sulphur. Q—Where is the island of Mohegan? Is it inhabited? A—lt is an island off the coast of Maine, which contains a lighthouse and a small village. Q —What is a sea-puss? A—A dangerous undertow, like a whirlpool, caused by the combined effect of several breakers; also an undertow setting along the shore. Q —Who is the author of the poem, “O Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud”? A—William Knox. fe

camp and he died there. It w r as a cold, rainy night. The colonel told my grandfather that he blamed himself for it; that he should have looked after him better. He said that boy was like one of his own. Sometimes after the war was over my grandparents visited us in lowa. I think it was in 1865. It was the first time they ever rode on a railway. When they arrived at Chicago, grandfather got out of the car and walked down to the lake to look at the boats. The train stopped there for 30 minutes, but grandfather forgot about the time until the train had gone and left him. He had to wire ahead and have them put grandmother off, then he went on and got her. When they arrived at our place she told us she “tout she would never see Fader again, and I just cried and cried.” My grandfather and grandmother both died at a very old age. I have some cousins living somewhere about Greenfield. I have only been living in Indianapolis about 18 months, at 3768 Rockville Road. I came here from Mt. Dora, N. M„ and am making my home with my son-in-law, R. D. Best. I will be 80 years old the 22d of next February. Daily Thought Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?—St. Luke 6:9. THE green oasis, the little grassy meadow in the wilderness, where, after the week-day’s journey, the pilgrim halts for refreshment and repose—Charles Reade.

SIDE GLANCES

“But doesn’t it make me look too much like an ambassador’s wife or something?”

OCT 17.1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN VITASHINGTON. Oct. 17.—There ’V are factors behind the appointment of Secretary Hull s personal assistant as American observer in Geneva which do not at first meet the naked eye. Hugh Cumming, the young man in question, was on a European honeymoon after marrying Winifred West. Washington’s most winsome widow. Ostensibly to prolong the honeymoon, Mr. Hull ordered him to remain in Geneva. There was much more to it than that. In the first place, the Bntisn had been nagging Mr. Hull to have the United States represented at the League debate on sanctions against Italy. They wanted Hull to follow the precedent of Henry L. Stimson, who placed an American observer with the Council during the debate on Japan's invasion of Manchuria. Hull's private sympathies leaned toward appointment of such an observer. But his practical political ideas leaned against it. He knew what a luscious campaign battlecry such an appointment would make for the Republicans: "New Deal risks war entanglement by sending observer to League.” a a a TN the second place, Mr. Hull -*■ knew a fierce struggle was in progress between his two regular representatives in Geneva. The American consul, Prentiss Gilbert, constantly is at cross-pur-poses with Hugh Wilson, American minister to Switzerland. The feud, one of the most sensation in the State Department, has involved the entire career service. Wilson, a career man, feels the important liaison work between the United States and the League should be accomplished by an experienced career diplomat. Gilbert, who joined the State Department after having run the New York State Fair in Rochester, N. Y., is not an adept at pink tea and protocol. So Mr. Hull decided to trust neither side, but get reports from his own man in Geneva. Note—Hugh Cumming is a sleekhaired, obsequious young man, not brilliant but willing, whose chief road to promotion has been playing croquet with the Secretary of | Slate. a a a THERE is a lot of significant eyebrow raising in the inner j circle in the direction of Gen. Hugh ; S. Johnson. The turbulent ex-cavalryman’s repeated slamming of monetary and relief policies—points on which the New Dealers are particularly sensitive—has aroused Administration resentment. Even the President displayed interest in the matter. During his trip across country be remarked to members of ihs entourage that he could not ffnderstand Johnson's hostile attitude. But not all of Johnson’s brickbatting has been public. Only a few White House intimates know it, but Johnson took a wallop at the President in connection with his San Diego Exposition visit. The exposition had set a date ! for a Johnson day. But due to lastminute changes in the President's schedule this date coincided with the day Roosevelt would speak. The exposition officials got Johnson on the telephone, asked him to postpone his appearance. This Johnson flatly refused. He insisted that the program go through as scheduled. Caught in an embarrassing dilemma, the exposition authorities finally compromised by announcing a Roosevelt-Johnson day. The President spoke at noon and Johnson at night. Various explanations are whispered to account for the ex-Blue Eagle chief’s attitude. One is that he reflects the views of Barney Baruch, who, it is claimed, is peeved at the President for ignoring him on the neutrality legislation question. An- ! other is that Johnson is sore because he did not get appointed counsel of Federal Communication Commission's A. T. and T. investigation. Finally, there is the report that Johnson harbors secret presidential ambitions for 1940. (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature I Syndicate. Ine.i

By George Clark