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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1935. TO THE LADIES ONGRATULATIONS again to women making their way onward and upward in aviation. Jean Batten's solo flight across the South Atlantic is valuable in encouraging women to do and dare. In the last five years many women have had to do and dare when their husbands’ or fathers’ fortunes went awry. And in many notable cases they emerged with credit. Whatever value to science Miss Batten's flight has, the success of the young New Zealander will give women more confidence. And confidence is one need of the times. WITHER OR NOT 'T'HE speech Herbert Hoover will deliver in New York Saturday night before the Ohio State Society, according to rumor, will be a withering indictment of the New Deal. But we are sure it is an idle rumor and that he won’t go in for withering, lor when he was President, Mr. Hoover stoutly condemned "destructive” criticism, maintaining the “outs” should hold their tongues unless they had something “constructive” to offer. Confident that if Mr. Hoover even mentions the New Deal it will be in a constructive way, we offer a few suggestions and invite him to help himself. His listeners will include other Ohio state societies meeting in other cities that same night of Nov. 16. Wherefore, Mr. Hoover should strum the home sweet home refrain; carrying their thoughts back to Ohio’s good old days. Back, say, to Nov. 16, 1932. From the files of Ohio newspapers he can find all the material he needs. True, the newspapers that week were giving most of their space to the late returns of the Roosevelt landslide. But there was some news characteristic of the Hoover era, including the following: Hunger marchers were passing through Ohio en route to Washington to demand relief. Cincinnati was feeding 100,000 out of its 450,000 population. The Ohio Municipal League, meeting in Columbus, heard reports that in some cities and towns half the population was destitute. Ohio teachers’ salaries had been slashed 20 to 40 per cent, many teachers were unpaid, school terms had been shortened because of mounting tax delinquencies. Toledo and Dayton had just voted special taxes for poor relief, and Columbus faced a $749,000 shortage in operating income, on top of a $400,000 deficit for the preceding year. The Ohio Farm Bureau attacked the 7 per cent interest rates charged farmers by Mr. Hoover’s RFC. The A. F. of L. executive committee, meeting in Cincinnati, reported one-half of the United States population slowly starving to death. a a a for his statistics, Mr. Hoover can submit A the following Columbus market quotations: Nov. 16, 1932 Nov. 1, 1935 Wheat, No. 2 $0.45 $0.89 Corn, white 22 .52 Oats 15 .30 Hogs 3.50 to 3.60 9.00 Cattle 1.25 to 6.50 4.00 to 8.50 Lambs . 5.25 8.50 Since other citizens besides Ohioans may be listening Mr. Hoover can lay a few more statistics end on end to show how much better off was the nation as a whole before the New Deal robbed the people of their heritage. Here are a few business indices, comparing November, 1932, with November, 1935: Index of stock market prices, then 45.4, now 90; bond prices, then 69.2, now 90.4; production, then 65, now 90; employment, then 61, now 83; factory pay rolls, then 42, now 75; department stores sales, then 63, now 85; steel production, then 63, now 85; automobile production, then 25, now 111.3. In 1932, America’s farmers had a cash income of 3.5 billion dollars. This year, their income will be about 6.8 billions. And how fared the nation’s financial institutions when Mr. Hoover's sound policies prevailed? In 1930, 1352 banks closed. In 1931, 2294 more, and in 1932, another 145 ff. And on March 4, 1933, the day Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt rode together down Pennsylvania-av, and Mr. Roosevelt rode back alone, all the rest of the banks had folded. We could furnish more material. But Mr. Hoover will not want to speak too long. The great unseen audience might begin to wither and yawn. THE PURDUE CONFERENCE \ N event of importance both to science and to education in Indiana is the first annual conference on aeronautics at Purdue University today and tomorrow. The presence of Amelia Earhart as a lecturer gives the conference distinction. In addition a number of men of achievement in flying are giving the engineering students the benefit of their experience. Great industries provide research fellowships at Purdue, enabling the scientists there to increase human knowledge,while, at the same time, solving problems of manufacturing. Aviation looks to the university, with its unusual laboratory and field equipment, to help its advance. Already the home of important aviation projects, Indiana can look forward to more, which should increase employment and add to the state’s prestige. Fortunately Purdue has seen, ahead. OF CHEESE WE SING TN the midst of party strife. America today will A pause to salute a great 1250-pound Wisconsin Cheddar, being presented with appropriate pomp to Fresident Roosevelt as a monument to National Cheese Week. Let pageantry 7 launch its floats of buxom beauties. Let press-agentry invoke the shade of Lucillus. Let the Republican wags pun their worst. The big cheese stands, like rocks and rills and templed hills, a symbol of a nation one and undivided. Cheese knows no party. Back in 1802 a gigantic curd of the same size was presented by the Republican ladies of Cheshire, Mass, to the Republican President of that day. Thomas Jefferson. The Rev. John Inland had conceived the idea, so from his •pulpit one Sunday he invited each of his flock to send in one day’s milking to Capt. John Brown’s cider mid, there to be made into the New World’s biggest cheese. He blessed it with a the

j ladies .sent it on its way by sleigh 500 miles to the ■ Federal city. At the White House, festivity reigned. 1 Jefferson called all members of Congress to eat of the j cheese and wash it down with good old American porter. Party quarrels were forgotten. “We are all Federalists—we are all Republicans,” wrote the editor of a Washington paper on that occa- | sion. So today we sing of cheese. We have only one consuming sentiment: We are all Republicans—we are all Democrats. And to anybody inclined to squawk, we say, “Cheese it!” INDIANA’S MOTOR ACCIDENTS \I7HAT can be said of the shocking motor wreck * ’ in Mishawaka which took the lives of four promising young people and maimed several others? It involved the happiness and fortunes of a halfdozen families. Men and women do not die to themselves; their deaths have meanings that last for generations. The Mishawaka tragedy was just one of many reported the same day in Indiana. It was emphasized because four were killed and three cars were reduced to junk. Is it not time that the state undertook in earnest a safe-driving campaign? In some states where press and people have gone about it seriously, accidents have been reduced. In one Eastern city the automobile insurance rates were forced so high by the accident ratio that owning a car became unnecessarily costly. Dealers were complaining. The whole city became convinced something must be done. The result was a sort of informal agreement that accidents could be prevented if drivers would take their time and make safe driving their personal objective. It is absurd to accept the present high accident rate as a necessary evil. It can be reduced. The drivers can reduce it themselves, once they realize the widespread woe that follows a crash. * Perhaps drivers have become calloused to news of highway deaths. Appreciating what they really mean, people would take their responsibility at the wheel with the seriousness it demands. That is what happened in the city where the people themselves acted in their own behalf. ONE COUNTY STEPS OUT /'OHIO'S largest urban countv, in which Cleveland is situated, has decided co see what it can do to improve on the outmoded system of county government laid down for it more than a century ago in the constitutional convention at Chillicothe. then the state capital. For more than 20 years progressive leaders in Cuyahoga County have been fighting for authority to do something about the expensive, overlapping, anachronistic system W’hich yearly costs the taxpayers needless hundreds of thousands of dollars. For almost as many years they have been thwarted by the rural legislators who seemed to look upon any projected change as the devil’s invention. The eld commissioner-coroner-sheriff-prosecutor setup was good enough for their grandfathers and it was good'enough for them. Two years ago the advocates of change adopted new tactics. They sponsored a constitutional amendment which would permit any county which so desired to change its form of government. The amendment carried in the state Legislature. The next hurdle—and it was a big one—was the combined strength of the two old line party machines, which resolved to to the last ditch anything that threatened their control over the county patronage and contracts. ana 'TnHE idea struck the people, however, in the spot where they are most vulnerable —in the pocketbook. In the November elections of 1934 they chose a committee of 14 (including Harold H. Burton, this year elected “reform” mayor of Cleveland) to draft a proposed charter to be submitted at this year’s election. On Nov. 5 the charter, as drafted, carried by 166,181 to 148,308. It becomes effective in January, 1937. There are still a few more hurdles, though. The chief one is a legal question raised by County Prosecutor Frank T. Cullitan, who stands to lose his job if the charter is employed. It is his opinion that, to be valid, the charter had to win a majority of the total vote in the county, a majority of the total vote of every municipality in the county, and a majority of the total vote outside the municipalities. There is some legal opinion supporting this view, but the consensus is the vote was a clear mandate of the people which will have to be obeyed. The charter provides for election of a council of nine members who will choose a county manager. The county manager will appoint the officials whose jobs are now elective. It has been estimated that more than $200,000 yearly will be saved in administrative costs alone.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson \ YOUNG man would like to know whether it is wiser to marry a business girl or a home-body. Everything depends on the individual, of course, and both these types have plenty to be said in their favor. If the home girl knows anything about housework, she may be the better bet, although I regret to confess that many a one these days is as ignorant as a Hottentot on the subject. On the dance floor she may be a great success and yet do a flop act in the kitchen. She may know all the tricks for dressing herself and never be able to dress a roast or a chicken that is fit to eat, for home environment unfortunately does not always make the good housekeeper. On the other hand, the girl who has worked at a trade all her life, and with no actual training as a home-maker, can become an expert. Sometimes the discipline she gets at the office, the habits she learns there of promptness, attention to detail and the budgeting of income, may make her a valuable asset in any home. There’s this to be said about housekeeping, too. Any woman with an ounce of brains .ar> learn it. All she needs is average intelligence, a willingness to improve herself and the desire to make good. Some of the best home-makers I’ve known got their first education in a business office. It is a regrettable fact these days that so many of the girls who do stay at home never do much around the house; this, however, must not be taken as any real argument against them, for with a minimum cf common sense they too can learn. I should say the one place where the business girl has the edge on her competitor is in the matter of understanding a husband’s problems. Only when you have felt in some measure the weariness, the doubt, the occasional hopelessness of the wage earner do you have any comprehension of the kind of help a man must get at home if he is to succeed. International law as we know it today is the law of the wolfpack. With all these peace organizations and palavering lip service to peace, no nation has agreed to oppose the law of conquest.—Senator Henrik Ships tead, Minnesota.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

T AWYERS fascinate me. If I I could trade my disorderly mind for one from some other profession ! I think I would look for it in the | law. | I was reminded of this the other day when I spent some time with Arthur Gilliom. Art and I once lived across the street from each j other and I saw a lot of him. Since then he has been attorney general and now I find him a prominent capital attorney. There is a comfortable folksiness j about Indiana lawyers which is characteristic and pleasing. For instance, they often refer to their profession as “the law business.” Lenn Oare, who is one of the state examiners, was the first person I ever heard use the expression. I learn that it does not mean the counsellors hold their calling lightly. It is just an informal, easy way of speaking. a a a r T'HE valuable thing about the -*• law, as it concerns me, is that it compels its men to think every problem through. So strong is the habit that a lawyer will take 15 minutes to study a bill-of-fare. He doesn’t want to make a mistake. In ordinary conversation he is conservative and cautious. He does not want to be wrong even in a trivial observation. He reminds me of the conservative farmer who went blind. Afterward, following the plow, he would address the horse thus: “Giddap, Charlie—l think.”

Os course, we newspaper people, if we are badly taught, have the feeling that we can correct our mistakes the next day. The lawyer and the doctor do not have that advantage, if it is one. One of the fine things about Art Gilliom is his ability to raise boys. “Rear” may be the proper word but raise has a good Hoosier sound. There are four Gilliom sons, one studying law at Michigan, another preparing for medicine at Indiana, and two in high school. They are all promising and Elbert, the eldest, is one of the governors of the Law Club at Ann Arbor, which is a high student honor. a a a WE went out and had dinner with George Marott in his unusual hotel. To me, Mr. Marott is one of the most interesting men in Indianapolis. While he had no training in the law, his mind works like a lawyer’s, and in his conversation with Art he expressed opinions which made me think he had studied law’. If ever a man expressed his personality in his own creation, Mr. Marott did it when he built the hotel. It is different from any hotel I have ever seen. It was our George Marott who helped the now famous Ralph Hitz to get started in the hotel business. Anybody knows who has ever stopped at one of the Hitz hotels that his also are different. They express the personality of the man who created them. The story of the rise of Ralph Hitz, as told by Mr. Marott —who takes no credit to himself—is almost the perfect success story. a a a \ PERSON I miss around town is my old friend Mary Rose Himler, now the wife of Roark Bradford. When she was at BobbsMerrill I used to think she had the most amusing conversation of any woman in the publishing business. She used to help organize and conduct the writers’ rodeos which were once so common. The ones up at Culver, where Gen. Gignilliat would round up the authors to parade them before the cadets, often show’ed the touch of Mary Rose. The general was pretty successful at getting writers to come to his party, partly because he put on such a grand show. George Ade, Meredith Nicholson, Walter Greenough, Elmer Davis, Kate Milner Rabb and Ed Scoggins usually could be found there. a a a TP the New’ Deal has done nothing else it has introduced frankness. For example, Pleas Greenlee calls himself the Governor's patronage secretary. In other words, why beat about the plum tree? OTHER OPINION [Fort Wayne News-Sentinel] WITH the ‘spud-control” lawoperating to increase retail potato costs, declines in potato-con-sumption will very likely resuit, leaving anew sur'*'"' problem to be solved. The AAA itself points out that when pocato production greatly exceeds consumption, “potatoes not only waste in the fields and in storage on the farm but also waste after they move into the hands of jobbers, wholesalers and retailers. The waste in the hands of these marketing agencies makes necessary a wider margin of profit, which is eventually paid by the consumer.” One of the ablest arguments against the “spud-control” law has been presented by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, who expects at the next session of Congress to find measures offered to bring carrots, cabbages, letture, tomatoes and other vegetables under similarly restrictive provisions.

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<Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to £SO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) ana SAYS NEW DEAL OPPONENTS LACK COMMON SENSE By Ferry Rule, Bringhurst At the close of the Hoover regime every spot of our beloved America was overrun with oppression, the result of the breakdown of the old deal. Freedom from it was sought in vain by old deal methods. With it, prosperity could not be found around any corner; and business men and citizens generaly were without hope. We read in sacred rite that they that are without hope are of all most miserable. . Prosperity had departed so long that she was regarded as a stranger. When she came back dressed in the New Deal those who lacked common sense could not recognize her and apparently continued to remain blind to her presence. Common sense teaches us that chaotic conditions call for unusual methods, heroically applied. This was done in a common sense manner, resulting in the return of prosperity. A few, afflicted with intellectual laziness, do not appreciate or do not understand, indicate that they prefer the misery prevalent ensuing with the collapse of the old deal. Paul w r rote his brethren at Corinth who could not understand, saying, “Does not common sense teach you something?” Common sense teaches us that w 7 e are on our way out and that the cost of it is much less than the loss would have been had we remained in the slough of perpetual loss, despondency and depression. a a a DID DEPRESSION TEACH US ANYTHING? By M. H. R., Anderson From all available sources it becomes apparent that the depression is on the w'ane, that business and the prosperity it fosters is in ascendency. And while on this transitional threshold I wish to ask a simple question: Have we learned anything? Has adversity taught us anything? It is nothing that we learned to appreciate the tougher cuts of meat; it is nothing that we discovered the economy of the smaller cars; it is nothing that we went to one movie a week instead of three; it is nothing that we coarsened our taste on the viler liquors; it is nothing that we found four rooms gratifying instead of seven; it is nothing because we again learned the art of caring for our household without the aid of servants; etc. If these things be nothing, then what is something? It is something if we learned that we are but tiny leaves in the whirling, swirling wind; it is something if we discovered in ourselves a kindlier feeling for our fellow beings; it is something if we learned that it is not necessary to duplicate a pleasure many times in order to satiate our craving for it; it is a great something if we learned that it is not quantity or quality that makes us c ontent, but the manner in which

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stat.'D for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to Tht Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Legal and nedical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, Frederick M. Kerby, Director, 1013 Thirteenth-st, N. W., Washington. D. C. Q —Did Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants ever pitch a no-hit norun game against the Pittsburgh Pirates? A—Yes; May 8, 1929. The score was 11 to 0. Q —What is the life-span of canaries? Do old birds sing? A—The average life span is between 12 and 15 years, although some birds have been known to

we utilize that which .is at our disposal. Now, may I ask, again: Have you learned anything? a a a BANKS BLAMED FOR POOR RELIEF By H. L. S. At the Indiana State Conference on Social Work, Charles B. Marshall sounded the warning of serious relief problems that confront counties in which the limit of “bonded indebtedness” has been reached, and property valuation is inadequate to meet through taxation the burden of poor relief. This problem ultimately will become the problem of all of the counties; not only in Indiana, but of all of the states. Relief has become the largest single industry in America. Yet all of it is so unnecessary, foolish and downright silly. The whole problem of relief is the result of an unprecedented colossal stupidity in the conduct of our social industrial program. Industry today is prevented from reaching the high point in productive capacity because of an archaic financial structure, which is still in the candlelight era. To free industry from the chains of this fossilized financial structure, anew system must be established, which will make the creation of money a “sovereign function” to prevent it from being created by a private corporation such as the Federal Reserve Bank is, and to stop the sale of money as a commodity by abolishing all interest as usury. Our financial institutions lend credit to the tune of 10 to 1 for the volume of money in existence. They are only required to back this credit with a 10 per cent volume of real money, forcing tribute thereby on all industry through the toll they charge for money that does not exist. Here is short selling in the nth degree. The bank panic of 1933 was due to this rubber money system. You can not sell blue sky in our money medium indefinitely. Relief is but the result of this fossilized “blue sky money” system. Shall we change it or sink with the ship? The next Congress will be elected on that issue, if the present incumbents fail to heed the handwriting on the wall. We are going to have 100 per cent money or bust. We will stop our banks from causing not only their own trouble, but ours, ana COMES TO DEFENSE OF MONUMENT By Tom Berlins A more or less eminent historian, enjoying the hospitality of Indianapolis, so far forgot his manners as to cell our Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument one of the biggest and ugliest of its kind. Such a statement arouses a feeling of mild resentment in the oldtime resident. It is a pleasure to ! live a long time in one place and remember, as you pass along, that grandpa's wagon shop was here, uncle met you here at the station with a horse and buggy and here mother held you high so yoa could see the elephants. The monument is not only the center of activity in Indianapolis, but is a thing of rare beauty. It is first and last a work of art dedicated

live 40 years. Canaries that have not been paired, live longer than those that are allowed to breed, and females have shorter lives than males. The time they will sing depends on the individual bird. Q —How long has John L. Lewis been president of the United Mine Workers of Am:rica? A—Since 1920. Q—How many Indians are in North Carolina, and to what tribe do they belong? A—There are 3254, mostly Cherokees. Q —Do porpoises and sharks inhabit the same waters? A—Yes. Q —What is the capital of Bolivia? A—Sucre is the capital, but the actual seat of government is La Paz.

to the average men and women who suffered and fought and won a war. It differs from the usual monuments in recognizing that the women who stay at home in the time of war deserve credit for their courage and fortitude. It portrays as an example of womanhood not a winged, angelic victory, but a patient, brave, normal woman whose face is filled with pathos at the parting. On the East Side is a group of rare art, for those who have creative minds and a tendency to make history instead of recording it. A fallen soldier lies on the edge and his arm and hand hang limp and inactive downward. That hand is a work of art. It is complete in every detail. It is a large, manly, competent hand. And if you will study this hand you can get the idea of the sculptor in making every detail stand out so plainly. From the cradle to the grave how important are hands chubby, grasping small ones, mischief-mak-ing caressing hands, friendly hands extended in greeting, hands drawn into clenched menacing fists and hands grasping tools and skilfully shaping the world’s work. All these things had this man’s hands experienced. And finally called to destroy instead of create, he lies still and cold with the powerless hand—a hand that will remind you of so many useful, kindly, competent hands you have seen folded peacefully. It would seem to me that a man can smoke cigarets or a pipe, chew tobacco, bend his elbow and lift a stein and still keep both feet on the ground. But when he makes a habit of crooking his fingers around a tea cup and delivering orations to women’s clubs, he is just too busy to be a competent critic of art or anything else. CHARITY BY SIDNEY HORN I do not know the reason for my existing, And yet in God’s great scheme a reason there must be. Perhaps—who knows—because I give someone a chance To spend an hour each week in sweet philanthropy. DAILY THOUGHTS For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.— Psalms 5:12. THE Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, 1 having everything to gain and noth- j ing to lose.—Byron.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

“Hang on, kids! Daddy; is going to step it up to 85, now.”

XOV. 14, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.—The President’s international experts already have predicted a sweeping victory for the Conservative government in Britain’s national elections today. Rut whichever way the vote goes, they are sure of one thing: That Britain will greatly increase her naval strength—which means, of course, increased building for the United States. They are not entirely sure, however, what tack British policy toward Italy will take after the Conservatives are swept back into power. The latter have not entirely shared the religious fervor of the Laborites and Left-Wingers for sanctions and the League of Nations. Once they have secured a safe majority in Parliament for the next seven years, it may be that the Tory government will somewhat soften its big stick attitude toward Mussolini. This is the chief question mark that the Roosevelt Administration is waiting to see answered. a a a THE political situation in Great Britain, as the nation goes to the polls, can be summarized this way: The Labor Party is an army without generals; the Liberals are a staff of generals without an army. The old leaders of the Labor Party, once among the most famous figures in the empire, are now dead, scattered or discredited. Arthur Henderson is dead. Ramsay MacDonald and Jim Thomas, who have joined the Tory ranks, are hooted and booed almost every time they appear in public. Philip Snowden lost prestige when he accepted the peerage. George Lansbury, the veteran leader, resigned from the party in a dispute over sanctions against Italy. The present leader, Clement R. Attlee, is new and untried. Among the Liberals, the old leaders still remain. Lloyd George, despite his age, is still a potent figure. Sir Herbert Samuel is considered one of the ablest men in England, while Sir John Simon, despite his failure as foreign minister, still commands prestige. But they have no one to follow them. The once-powerful Liberal j Party has dwindled to a mere handful. a a a THE State Department is more concerned about the landing of Japanese troops in Shanghai than any one officially would like to admit. Reason for the worry is confidential information which the State Department long has had before it. that the Japanese intended tc walk in on China just as soon as the British fleet was engrossed in the Mediterranean. Once before—about four weeks ago—the Japanese started to help themselves to their wealthy, helpless neighbor. This was at Swatow, just I opposite Hongkong, whence the Japanese sent one cruiser and severt destroyers on the flimsy excuse that a Japanese cargo, loaded on a Chinese junk, had been over-taxed by Chinese authorities. The incident was quickly settled, however, when the American Asiatic Keet anchored off Hongkong, replacing the British vessels which had sailed to the Mediterranean. The arrival of the American ships may have been pure coincidence. But it is significant that the British previously had sounded out the State Department as to what support they could get from the American fleet in case of trouble in the Pacific. a a a THE present landing of Japanese troops in Shanghai ostensibly arises out of the murder of a Japanese marine—presumably by Chinese. But Japanese have been murdered in Shanghai many times in the past without arousing Tokyo’s resentment. The difference today is that foreign naval forces are absent. The American fleet is far to the South. Tokyo has not said so in these exact words, but the intimation is that the British surrender their control of Shanghai, or the Japanese will take it. a a a THE Commerce Department has fixed three months as the trial period before it will permit the carrying of passengers over the new Trans-Pacific airmail route. , . . (Copyright. 1935, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)