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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1935, AUTOMOBILE INSPECTION r T'HE automobile death rate in Indiana this month has been fantastic. Especially in the northern tier the slaughter has been unbelievable. While it may be harping on one string, the newspapers have “ganged up" editorially and are urging campaigns of many kinds in order to get the cars slowed down and the accident rate cut. The fact that an operator’s license may be obtained without an examination is worthy of consideration by the Legislature. Indiana some time will come to periodic compulsory inspection of motor vehicles. Granted that it would take some antiques off the highways and streets, compulsory inspection has the merit of enforcing repairs to brakes, lamps, steering mechanism, rear vision mirrors and other mechanical details which are involved in safe driving. The final enforcement step probably will be a mandatory adjustment of all motors making excessive speed impassible. In the meantime, the press and safety organizations will continue efforts to publicize the extravagant accident rate in the hope that, the drivers themselves will slow down a bit and thus save a few lives. WARSAW’S BLACKLIST i''ROM Warsaw comes the news of the first liquor * blacklist. It is to include the names of those who drink to excess, squander their earnings, abuse their families. In such apparently minor beginnings is the root of anew temperance movement. Dealers would do well to manage their places so that no blacklist would be necessary. The small cities and towns of Indiana are said by competent observers to be drv in sentiment. Letters to The Times indicate resistance to abuses of the state alcohol law in a number of the smaller communities. The Warsaw blacklist is a warning to the liquor trade. MAYORS NOT SO STOUT-HEARTED r T'HE Mayors of a hundred cities yesterday in Washington elected New York's stout-hearted little La Guardia as their chief and then passed a half-dozen resolutions that were not so stouthearted. Instead of resolving to take over more of their own burdens, they asked for more help from the Federal government and the states. They asked for amendments to the Social Security Act to pension municipal employes, for revival of Federal transient camps, for new congressional appropriations for relief aid and "proper steps” to insure adequate relief contributions from their own states. The cities doubtless will need such help for some time. President’ Roosevelt has assured them that the government "does not propose to let people starve after the first of July any more than during the past few years. ’ But eventually the local governments must resume th°ir normal functions of providing for their own parks and streets, caring for their own needy, and budgeting adequately for health, recreation and other social services. If the Federal government is ever to solve its own budget problem, cities and other local units of government will have to get off the Federal dole. ADMIRAL JELLICOE '"T'HE life of Admiral Jellicoe was throughout in A the best tradition of the sea. He became a master of his calling, and in danger won the admiration of his men. There are few professions as different as the navy. Naval officers can never stand still. Their lives are a long series of obstacles to be surmounted by study. They are obliged to show themselves physically fit or be retired. This British commander seems to have done everything ably. His biography would inspire all young officers. MORE BUSINESS REGULATION 'T'HE Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion has •*- elaborated its Schechter decision on NRA by pointing the way for more extensive state regulation of business, some lawyers believe. Justice Brandeis, foe of bigness in industry and government, wrote the decision, which upholds an Oregon law and regulations specifying size and design for strawberry and raspberry crates. In addition to rejecting arguments that the specification burdens interstate commerce and sets up a monopoly, Brandeis said significantly: "The power of a state to prescribe standard containers in order to facilitate trading, to preserve the condition of the merchandise, to protect buyers from deception, or to prevent unfair competition is conceded. “Such regulation of trade is a part of the inspection laws; was among the earliest exertions of the police power in America; has been persistent; and has been widely applied to merchandise commonly sold in containers. Latterly, with the broadening of the field of distribution and the growing use of containers in the retail trade, the scope of the regulation has been much extended." a a a 'T'HE importance of this statement lies in the A tremendous emphasis which NRA laid on just such objectives as are embraced in Brandeis’ words to facilitate trading" and “to prevent unfair eompetition." Brandeis flatly rejects the argument that such regulation violates the "due process" requirement of the Constitution. But he was speaking here only of state regulation, so the critical point raised by the Schechter and other cases—creation of a .ludge-made no man's land" in which neither Federal nor state governments have been able to regulate industry—is not clarified much. Also deemed significant was Brandeis' emphasis that questions of policy were entirely up to the state Legislature. "With the wisdom of such a regulation we have, of course, ro concern," he said for the court. "We may inquire only whether it is arbitrary or capricious.” The court also used the case as occasion to correct some of the current hullabaloo over "delegation of power,” a phrase widely used against the New Deal since the NRA and oil decisions of the court. This contention, raised against the box regula-

tion in this case, was based on "misconception,” Brandeis said. "Every exertion of the police power, either by the Legislature or by an administrative body, is an exertion of delegated power,” he said. “Where it is by a statute, the Legislature has acted under power delegated to it tnrough the Constitution. Where the regulation is by an order of an administrative body, that body acts under a delegation from the Legislature.” LET’S WEEP WITH MORGAN ¥} ETURNING from his annual grouse shooting in Scotland—which, he says, was unusually good this year—J. P. Morgan surveys the American scene. High taxation is the darkest cloud he sees. It's getting so, Mr. Morgan observes, that any man who makes any money to speak of has to work eight months out of the year for the government. We take it this man of finance must have been thinking of the present or the future—certainly not of 1930, '3l or '32, when the government was unable to collect any income tax from him. As his boat docked, Mr. Morgan asked for a newspaper and hurriedly scanned the latest stock market quotation, doubtless the while calculating how much his securities had increased in value while he was abroad, and how much he would have left after paying cut two-thirds of it in taxes. Whether Mr. Morgan’s remaining one-third grows more or less each year may have some bearing on the number of country homes he can support, how many clubs he can pay dues to in New York, London and elsewhere, or whether he must lay off any of the crew of the yacht Corsair. Whether his one-third is larger or smaller, however. can hardly limit the number of detective story books he buys and reads, determine whether he cruises around the world from east to west or from west to east, or affect his spiritual peace. So we grant that there is not much for Mr. Morgan to work for—little incentive for him to make his one-third larger year by year. But it occurs to us that there is some incentive to Mr. Morgan to do his best in respect to the two-thirds to be paid over to the government. The present Mr. Morgan heads the third generation of the Morgan family residing in this country. This country has been good to the Morgans. So has this country’s government. It helped the first Morgan to make his fortune, enabled him to pass it on to the second Morgan, and protected the second Morgan while he multiplied that fortune and passed it on to the present Morgan. There are many Smiths and Joneses who haven’t fared as well in this country or at the hands of the government, but who probably would gladly exchange places with Mr. Morgan and regard the eight months of working for the government as not exactly a period of servitude. THE CHINA CLIPPER 'T'ODAY the spirit of great adventure hangs over California, from whose shore the "China Clipper” will soar west-bound on the longest regular trans-oceanic commercial journey through the air, a flight of 8000 miles from San Francisco to Manila. Here is aviation’s boldest stroke in its attempt to conquer time and space. Pan-American Airways will loose its biggest ship, manned by a crew of seven and laden with mail for Honolulu, Guam and the Philippines. The great airliner will alight at only five stepping stones across the world's biggest ocean —at Honolulu, Midway and Wake Islands, Guam and Manila. Instead of three weeks this journey will take one week. And after the first of the year regular service will be opened for passengers and express be' ween the New World and the Orient. This quick air service to the Far East makes the fancies of Jules Verne seem prosaic. It, is almost certain to be followed by a regular air route across the Atlantic and thence around the world. The wcrld shrinks, continents move closer to one another, peoples become neighbors. Perhaps science and business can do what world politics has failed to do. and make an end to international war. GARY PRODUCTION INCREASES 'T'HE news from Gary is helping a lot these days. The stee] works continue to step up their production. The operating average was increased this week. Taken with similar news from other major iron and steel centers it may mean that the turn has definitely come in the heavy industries. It was in the heavy industries and the building trades that the worst lag was noted. When Ralph Snyder, Gary newspaper man, was in the city this week he expressed the conviction that the worst is over in the northwestern corner of the state. Everybody will hope that is true. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson COME letters are disturbing. Those, for instance, from women who ask about the wisdom of having babies on a small salary or late in life. Their stories are usually the same. A business girl, marrying in her early 30s, works to help her husband establish their home. Nearing 40, she is confronted with the knowledge that life is slipping by and she will soon be too old for motherhood. All honor goes to the woman who faces this problem and who seeks to act wisely in making her final decision. After consulting a physician, the wife who receives medical permission may plan to have a child or two without fear. She need, not fear she will be too old to rear them, for the modern woman does not plunge into old age at 50 or even 60. With such incentives and a balanced emotional outlook, she may remain young indefinitely. The economic aspects of the question dare not be overlooked, of course. Children are a financial responsibility—greater these days than ever before —but so are all our other possessions. The upkeep of a child is not much greater than the upkeep ot a fine wardrobe or a procession of expensive automobiles, even though it may not have the same marketable value. You pay for your babies just as you pay for all the material objects which you gather around you to make life more pleasurable and stable. And how willing we are to sacrifice for other things! Does it not seem a little cowardly that so many of us are afraid to sacrifice that we may have families? To all the wives, then, who ache to possess their own babies. I have one answer: Have them, as many as you can support. And if you can’t have any of your own. adopt some. Little as you can give, it will be sufficient for a child, whose greatest need is for love. The American people can always find money for what they want, hence education must be made so people want it.—Dr. Isaac Doughton, dean of education, Mansfield State Teachers College, Lame as It is. the League has done what has never before been done. It has made it possible for the common man in the street to read and judge the righteousness of the cause.—Newton D. Baker. t

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SOMEBODY telephoned that there should he a column on the weather. That is a heartening sign. When people begin to make suggestions about the column it means that the writer is not going to suffer so much from void fear. That is a phobia which comes from the eternal doubt of one’s ability to fill the space. As for the weather, I don’t see much wrong with it. True, the sun has not been visible often this month, but then it has a habit of hiding in other cities, too. I can not remember seeing much of it in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, even during the seasons when the young ladies like to lie in their bathing suits in the backyard to acquire that desirable tint known as sun-tan. Weather gives a lot of people pleasure if it is bad enough. b n a r T''HE printer who has the dubious pleasure of setting this column in type went over to the library the other day and dug out of the files | a gem of purest ray serene. It runs: "Great changes have taken place in the country and in the form of government. It is our duty to s d alter the Constitution as to befit it for the new state of affairs. In our proposal to amend the Constitution of the United States we do not impeach the wisdom of the men who forrped it. They made their own provisions for its alteration and the time has certainly come for a change in our fundamental law.” We do not recall that Gov. Morton was ever called ? Red, either when he said that to the G. A. R. in 1866 or at any other time. tt tt OHIRRED eggs were on the bill the other morning and I am one who can do with some well-shirred eggs. The waitress was regretful. She said the egg-shirrer had broken down. Some day I intend to penetrate the mysterious regions of that hotel kitchen and demand to be shown the egg-shirrer. I thought I knew most of the contrivances around a household but an egg-shirrer is something new to me. ana r> OACH GEORGE KEOGAN, who guides the basketball destinies of Notre Dame, is a man of true candor and sincerity. He was invited down to Indianapolis to a dinner this week and his letter of regret was a work of art. He explained at length that the President of the United States had been invited to the campus to receive an honorary degree and for that reason he would not have the use of the gymnasium for several days, which would leave him just that much short on basketball practice. So he would have to stay close to the job, It must seem to some Hoosiers that when the visits of the President begin to interfere with basketball practice it is about time to do something about the President. ana TJASKETBALL coaches as a rule take their professions with high seriousness. They almost never relax after the season opens and the rivalry among them is hotter than among football coaches. Keogan got so excited in a game last year that when he discovered the timing device had stopped he smashed the expensive instrument. His friends love him for his very earnestness and his zeal to win. a a a Even Mr. Hoover can not deny that the $25 football ticket reappeared this year. OTHER OPINION I Fort Wayne News-Sentinel] Our public health showing leaves much to be desired. For the country as a whole, there has been 10 per cent less diphtheria and 12 per cent; less typhoid fever than last year; j but there has been an increase of i more than 100 per cent in total cases of influenza, 26,000 more cases of measles, nearly 3000 more cases of paralysis and 32,000 more cases of scarlet fever. Also, smallpox has shown an increase from 3898 to 5517 cases. On the brighter side of the picture, however, there is now an approved hospital within 20 to 30 miles of 98 per cent of the country’s population; and whereas there were only 89 hospitals able to meet standard requirements in 1918, the number is now 2523. Little by little, we shall probably solve all our health problems—pro- ; vided there is no lag in public in- ! terest. The Natural Custodians (Secretary Henry A. Wallace) TT'ARMERS are the custodians of the nation's basic natural resource, the soil. When farm prices go below certain levels, while fixed ' charges stay up. it takes more bushels of wheat and corn, more pounds of cotton per farm to pay interest and taxes, and to buy products ! whose prices are relatively rigid. To replace the fertility taken by crops, j to keep out of production fields : subject to erosion, becomes pro- j : gressively more difficult. The soil : suffers. When the soil suffers be- j yond a certain point, the people of the United States are running up! a bill which few civilizations have: ever been able to pay. i

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disapprove of what you say—and tv ill defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relictions controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to ZSO words nr less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) a a a ASKS CO-OPERATION OF BICYCLE RIDERS By J. R. B. While reading your column on Saturday, I noticed a plea for motorists to be careful and avoid accidents with bicycle riders. An excellent suggestion, and I’m sure all motorists will co-operate. Now let us call on the bicycle riders to help the motorists prevent accidents to themselves and probably others, by displaying the required head and tail lights on their bicycles when riding at night. Heretofore this matter of bicycles without lights at night has not been given much attention except by the motorist, who must swerve or stop his car on a dime to prevent an accident or another death. Then, for all his efforts and alertness the motorist receives the usual, "You crazy so-and-so, etc.” from the party with the bicycle who thinks he should have the preference of the street or highway. I mention this because I saw and overheard a similar situation on N. Meridian-st. If you ask me, Meridian-st, Massa-chusetts-av and New’ York-st are poor stree's to be riding bicycles after night without lights. Here’s hoping this matter is w’orth your trouble of printing, and that it will receive enforcement by our county and city officers in the future. a a a NOT SURPRISED BY ACTION ON ‘BREATHING SPELL’ By R. P. Cunningham. Darlington So the famous, or infamous, just as you like it, breathing spell is to become permanent. Is anybody surprised at this disclosure? The answer is: Not anybody! The only surprising thing afloat these days is the continued opposition of the G. O. P., Big Business and the Communists to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his ways and his works. Where, oh, where will the G. O. P„ the Blood Red Ones and Big Business find another to take his place? Earth can not answ’er, nor the seas that mourn. The Reds who were wont to bemoan the fact that Hoover was not given another term, and thus allowed time to pile the boat upon the rocks, and so have done with the old order. But for Roosevelt, W’ho in these latter days promises to out-Hoover Hoover, none of that persuasion has so much as a pleasant look. What more could they ask than to let Big Business have another crack at us? They should encourage the President in his determination to give the country back into the hands of its former exploiters. Such w’ould be good Communist strategy. For, in the end, this act would cause 10,000 Communists to spring up where there

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used to be but one. The Reds should drop ‘‘moron” from their vocabulary. There is a good, and a legitimate, ; laugh in it, when one stops to consider the quality of the President’s opposition. And we have Heywood Broun's w’ord for it, that it should not be held against the man who has to laugh every time he looks at a banker. a a a ASSERTS U. S. LEADS IN BUSINESS RECOVERY* By Square Deal, New Albany Recovery is not lagging in the United States. It is farther advanced than in any of the foremost conutries of the world, if the business charts of the Federal Reserve Board are to be trusted. This, despite the editorials from otoher Indiana newspapers declaring that “any number of reliable business charts” reveal “the simple truth” w’hich is becked by “undeniable facts” that "genuine business recovery” began in the summer of 1932 "throughout the w’orld.” That in a "host of other nations the curve continued upward,” but in the United States "turned down again about election and continued down until March, 1933, since which time the line has been up and down, but not much net gain.” Ralph B. Wilson, vice president of the Roger Bapson statistical organization, said to the National Business Conference at Wellesley Hills, Mass., Sept. 14: "It is true that the extensity and intensity of our recovery up to the present time is not fully appreciated. The low point in the stock market was touched and a turn up began in Mr. Hoover's administration. "From these two bottoms, there has been a very substantial recovery in general and securities. The general volume of business today (Sept. 14, 1935) is 41 per cent greater than it was at the low point in 1933. It is 12 per cent over a year ago an dit is only 19 per cent under normal.” As to the assertion of the editor of the Bloomfield News that "in a host of other countries the line has -continued upward, but in the United States there has not been much net gain,” the statement of the Babson executive answers that in part, but makes no comparisons with other countries. Taking the Federal Reserve bulletin of October, which is the latest available as this is written, and comparing the trade trend indices of August,l93s, the latest month reported in that bulletin, with the March, 1933, indices as reported in bulletins of that year, here are the gains or losses shown in all indices in all countries for which comparisons are presented. Bond Prices—United States, up 35 6 per cent; England, up 9.2; France, up 2.2; Germany, up 14.1. Stock Prices —United States, up 92.8 per cent; England, up 22.1; Germany, up 35.8; France, down 14.7. Wholesale Prices—United States, up 35 per cent; England, down 10.2;

wife; also the husband of one’s sister; sometimes, inaccurately, the husband of one’s wife’s (or husband’s) sister.” Q—What will be the course of the proposed canal across Florida? A—The Atlantic Ocean terminus will be Jacksonville. The canal v/ill follow’ the St. John’s river from Jacksonville to Palatka, where it will cut over to the Oklawaha River, and will follow the latter to Silver Springs, where it will cut over to the Withaloochee River at Dunnelon, thence to Inglis, its terminus on the Gulf of Mexico. Q—What is the title of the funeral march played in the last part of the motion picture, “Annapolis Farewell?” A—“Pathetique,” by Beethoven. Q —Who was the author of “Alias Jimmy Valentine?” A—Paul Armstrong. Q —Which motion picture has earned the largest revenue for the producers? A—According to statistics compiled by the Motion Picture Almanac, "The Singing Fool” has earned $5,000,000 from film rentals, more than any other picture in screen history.

i France, down 14.7; Canada, up 12.5; | Germany, up 12; Italy, up 14.5; Japan, up 3.3; Netherlands, down 15.2. Retail Food Prices—United States, up 34 per cent; England, up 5.8; France, down. 19; Germany, up 16. Where certain countries have been omitted in comparisons above, it is because the Federal Reserve Board did not include them in these comparisons. The Federal Reserve Board indices will show that between June. 1932, and November, 1932, when the editor of the Bloomfield News says “genuine business recovery” was under way, with the exception of stocks and bonds, there were only very narrow fluctuations either way and everything was much lower than in the previous depression year, 1931. Stocks moved up 13.5 points from June to November, but bonds lost 17.8 points. Moody’s Investment Service, in its issue of the week of Nov. 11, 1935, says that extensive studies of many elections convince it that elections have little if anything to do with business trends, but the editor of the Bloomfield News hints that they do. As to why ‘‘down-turn’’—it was really the acceleration of a pace that was generally downward—came about election time, he says, "It is a very interesting study for any person who cares to figure out the reasons behind the fact.” It is indeed, if he will refer to the Federal Reserve Bulletin of January, 1933, he will find one important reason. It is that from July 1. 1932. through December. 1932, a total of 1453 banks in the LTnited States suspended operations. That might have had something to do with it. THE WHISTLER BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY I heard a whistler one dark day; Surprised I was with joy. His azure eyes were sparkling—gay, His tune was bright and coy. The whistler had no cause to know I listened to his voice; Or that his smile like golden glow Made my chilled heart rejoice. In memory now I seem to hear His lilting, glad refrain. Would a magic mirror might appear '• And wreathe his smile again. DAILY THOUGHTS Take that thine is. and go thy way; I will give unto this last, even i as unto thee.—St. Matthew 20:14. THE truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves no others, lives unblest.—Home.

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NOV. 21, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY BREW PEARSON ?nd ROBERT S. ALLEN. tit ASHINGTON, Nov. 21 ’ ’ Among the inner hierarchy of the Republican National Committee. two conclusions have been reached regarding Herbert Hoover: That he is definitely a candidate for the 1936 nomination. That he has a secret organization, amply supplied with funds and energetically pushing his campaign. The G. O. P. moguls—privately hostile to the ex-President —credit Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury in the Hoover Cabinet, with being master-mind and chief financial "angel” of Hoover's drive to stage a comeback. According to Republican National Committee reports. Hoover is pursuing two lines of strategy in his push for the nomination. One is to encourage rival candidates, such as Col. Frank Knox and Gov. Alf Landon. to believe that if Hoover can not get the nomination he will throw last-minute support to them. In confirmation of this it is reported that several hours before Landon made his recent Cleveland speech, he conferred over the longdistance phone with Mills. Second, in states where Hoover himself would not stand a chanco of getting delegates, “straw men" in the guise of "favorite sons" are being put into the field. This strategy is behind the recently developed presidential bee of Walter Kohler, bathroom fixtures manufacturer and ex-Governor of Wisconsin. About a year ago Kohler was on the front pages as a result of a bloody strike in his plant. When Hoover was in the White Hotis9 Kohler was one of his close friends. G. O. P. foes of the former President are now saying that Kohler has no hope of getting the nomination and that once he gets control of the Badger .state delegation he can bo swung to Hoover at the last moment. tt tt n JOB-SEEKERS still crowd into the waiting room of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. In an unbroken stream, from 9 to 5 they come, sitting patiently, staring at a sign which reads: "Please approach desk of receptionist one at a time.” Conspicuous in the crowd recently* was an oldster with a nervous manner. Across his knees he held % leather case. Protruding from the case was the butt of a double-bar-reled shotgun. The hopeful who sat next to him stared hard. After a time he said; "Pardon me—but will a shotgun help me get a job?” The armed gentleman whispered back: "I understand it takes more than this!” a a a ONE of the clergy’s letters that brought a smile when it reached the White House was from an ex-preacher in Charlotte, N. C. He had not been invited to express his opinions, but he wrote anyhow: "Recently there has crope into our mongst the notion that the party of our fathers, the one which stood for the ideals for which they fought., bled and died, has sorter disintegrated, that it has back-slidden, fallen from grace, and has becoma a sort of hybrid, or political mule. "Therefore, the brethern are not as rambunctious for it as once they were. And, Brother President, a whole passel of ’em blame you with it. They say that you have merged* with the Socialists, the Communists, and a whole heap of political mugwumps of one sort and another. ‘ They don’t like it ary bit, and they are beginning to be what these newspaper fellers call articulate, meaning that they are mouthing about it right plumb out loud. The thing is right distressing. "Iffen you want my advice, it Is this: Make haste slowly from now on.” The signature was that of Tom P. Jimison, mischievous religious editor of The Charlotte News. tt tt tt IN the Senate Office Building, the door of Senator Sheppard of Texas displays a sign reading, "This office continues to abide by NRA.” . . . The capitol's famous subway car. normally used by Senate dignitaries, is now idle mast of the day. But at 3 school children rush down in a whooping mob for a ride on “the little train.” (CopvriKht. 1935. bv United Featur* Syndicate, Inc.)

By George Clark