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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935. JOBS IN INDIANA r I 'HE latest figures from the Indianapolis Employment Review bear out what is being said of the nation—there is a slight gain in pay rolls while the numbers employed still show a lag. Those who read the report may have gained irom it the impression that, while stock market rises and employment bulges in steel and automobiles are gratifying, they do not constitute recovery. The figures tie in with what Clarence Manion told the League of Women Voters recently. The state director of the Emergency Council pointed out that social planning is going to be necessary for a long time. The people are not going to recover from this economic illness in a night. A rise of 4 4 per cent in employment in manufacturing since the same date a year ago is not to be discounted. Yet it indicates that the battle is not won. The fight to get the people back on their feet must go on.

DR. BRYAN’S APPEAL BRYAN of Indiana University should ■*- be praised by alumni, faculty and friends for his public appeal against drinking at the football game with Purdue tomorrow. At some of the more Important games this season there have been disgraceful scenes in the stands and around the grounds, especially late in the game when the drinkers have become drunk. After one game in New York last season men were actually lying in the st eel and thousands of others, from appearances and actions, were only a shade more fortunate. Many of the offenders evidently were not connected with either of the contending universities. They were the synthetic graduates who compose such a large part of football crowds. A number of schools, among them Wisconsin, have organized crews of former athletes to suppress drinking in the stands. It is hardly to be expected that in places the size of Bloomington, Madison and other collrge centers, enough policemen would be available to prevent disorderly conduct. Perhaps to combine appeals to the public with teams of exfull backs is at least a partial remedy. 4 CHILDREN TO BENEFIT r | 'HE Will Rogers Memorial Fund will be used for the benefit of handicapped children. The national committee could not have decided better. Its acceptance also of the actors’ hospital at Saranac, N. Y„ from the National Variety Artists and a maintenance fund from a group of motion picture producers looks good. The hospital will bear the name of Will Rogers. Will Rogers would wish underprivileged children to be the beneficiaries. Announcement of the object of the fund should spur last-minute contributions. MATERNITY DEATH RATE r T''HE protest voiced by Dr. C. O. McCormick A against the maternity death rate in Marion County revealed a deep concern for motherhood. His lecture to women representing 87 parent-teacher associations was more than a medical discussion. He outlined society’s duty to women, a duty which certainly is not being performed as it should be. His comment that wards of the Florence Crittenton home have a better chance than the average woman of escaping death in childbirth was revealing. Naturally the community can not improve the situation at once: but through the parent-teacher associations and other organizations it can start reforms. Education would help much, as the doctor pointed out. THE TWO-CENT STAMP ■|3 EP. LOUIS LUDLOW of Indiana thinks the Administration should hail the arrival of better times by restoring 2-cent postage. At the last session of Congress he introduced a bill to that end, but it was halted in committee when Postmaster General James Farley protested. The Postoffice Department contends that to abandon the 3-cent rate would cost it $100,000,000 a year, but Mr. Ludlow is unconvinced. He is now in a position to press the matter, for he has been promoted t/o the chairmanship of the House subcommittee on Postoffice and Treasury expenditures. He has called his committee to meet Dec. 2 for hearings on the Postoffice budget. ‘ These hearings,” he said, “will develop in detail what the actual effect would be on revenues if the 2- stamp were restored. ‘T have letters from numerous business concerns which say they have had to abandon the postal service for circulars and the like because of the 3- rate.” SENTENCING THEMSELVES? ITS to be war, the utilities have decided. United Gas Improvement Cos., with all the prestige and resources of the Morgan interests back of it. will not only exercise its right to challenge the holding company act in the courts but will defy the United States government while awaiting a decision. Its lead is almost certain to be followed by its lesser brethren. For the next three years the holding company act provides nothing but regulation. Regulation, the utilities said piously when the act was pending, was perfectly all right. They welcomed it. All they objected to was the ‘'death sentence.” But refusal to register while the courts are passing on tht act can only mean that the utilities weren't sincere about regulation and that they will fight to the death even the mildest attempts to safeguard the public in.crest against piratical profit-taking. A sentence of economic death may indeed be the outcome of the fight. If so, it will be because the holding companies reject the reasonable, lenient provisions of the new law, a law which permits them to dispose slowly and advantageously of their properties. The holding company act, because of this stubbornness, may prove to be a sort of last gesture of grace toward the utilities. Public patience has worn increasingly thin as utilities have defeated one at*

tempt after another to regulate them fairly and reasonably. Federal action came only after it was obvious that without Federal help state regulation was becoming a futile joke. If there is to be no regulation, public ownership of this public service is inevitable. If it comes, the utilities will have only themselves to blame. PROSPERITY, BY G. O. P.! CHAIRMAN FLETCHER of the Republican National Committee has appointed 16 big industrialists and corporation lawyers to raise a G. O. P. war chest for the 1936 campaign. ' Most of them,” Mr. Fletcher said, “have never before participated actively in politics.” Thai may be true, but we seem to remember having seen some of their names on the front pages before. There is, for instance, the war chest chairman, Mr. William B. Bell of New York, whose American Cyanamid Cos. tried to grab control of Muscle Shoals :n the Hoover Administration but was frustrated by Senator Norris. And there are Charles Francis Adams of Boston and Silas H. Strawn of Chicago, the former Cabinet member and the latter an adviser of the Hoover Administration, both of whose names appeared on the famous House of Morgan preferred lists. And there is Ernest T. Weir, last heard of in the Weirton Steel Cos. collective bargaining case. There are others less well remembered, but all are well known in circles of finance and industry whose interests the Roosevelt Administration has not husbanded as tenderly as did other Administrations in the good old days. "They are outstanding men of achievement, vitally concerned over the welfare of the country,” said Mr. Fletcher. n tt a "nrHEy believe in a government of laws, not of men,” said Mr. Fletcher. He didn't say what they thought of the use of tear gas and bayonets to disperse the peaceable assemblage of the bonus army nor of Mr. Hoover's declaring a war debt moratorium first and getting the consent of Congress later. ‘‘They believe in preserving for the younger and future generations the same opportunities for advancement which they themselves enjoyed,” said Mr. Fletcher. He didn't bother to recall the “opportunities” that knocked at the doors of the high school and college graduating classes of 1930, ’3l and ’32. “They believe . . . there must be both a recovery of basic industrial activity and a revival of agricultural income, on the basis of plenty—not on the basis of scarcity,” said Mr. Fletcher. He didn’t reconcile that “belief” with the decade of agricultural depression and the final collapse of both agriculture and industry under Republican rule. tt tt a nUT let nothing we have said about these gentlemen, their lack of disinterestedness of their beliefs, be interpreted as meaning that we discount their ability as war chest committeemen. On the contrary, we believe that Mr. Fletcher has done a superb job of finding men who know where and how to get the sinews of political warfare. Some commentators, we notice, predict they will do the job as well as It was done in the days of Mark Hanna. We think that is a belittling forecast. Mark Hanna, in his palmiest days, never had a Republican setup as ideal as the present one. With hatred of the Roosevelt Administration a fixation in Wall Street, with the “non-partisan” and well-heeled American Liberty League making a flank attack, with men like J. P. Morgan and E. F. Hutton atrembls lest lvgh taxes whittle them down to their last yacht, raising a slush fund to drive the New Dealers from the temple will be no job at all—it *lll be a pushover. THE CANDID FRIEND WHEN Disraeli criticised Sir Robert Peel quite in the spirit of friendly frankness, Sir Robert countered by quoting these lines from the Poet Canning: “Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, Thy wrath can send, Save, save, O save me from the candid friend!” President Roosevelt, ovcrblessed with candid friends like General Johnson, Bainbridge Colby, Father Coughlin, Lewis Douglas and James P. Warburg, doubtless would like to utter a similar prayer.

A WOMAN S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON AT this time of year, activity which almost amounts to riot goes on in our house. It’s the Lord and Master making ready for the Hunt. Days of painful preparation are required. We have to buy the licenses, the tax stamps, the tinned meats, the odd-looking garments with pockets, the belts for shells, the high boots of rubber and leather, the caps, the goggles and the gloves. This year we even had to ‘get the guns plugged to a three-shell limit in order to conform with the newest law, designed to kec*. both the duck and the hope of the hunter alive. Once ready to start on the annual enterprise, a strange transformation comes over my favorite Ferguson. From the customary non-conforming male, who growls at carrying a small parcel three blocks from the grocery store, the hunter will appear before the family laden with clothing, ammunition and implements, much in the manner of a prospector's burro. The livelong day he plods over the countryside, up hill and down, carrying his burdren patiently and making no more moan than a caravan camel. He has a natural dislike for rising before 7:30 any day, yet he's up at 3 a. m. during the shooting season, and greets the dawn with a song. Although he's the type who mutters curses when dragged to lectures or concerts, or other places where he must sit still for a while, he will crouch*Tor hours m a blind, rigid as a statue, while his nose slowly freezes and his body grows stiff in the icy wind. For one who insists upon his comforts at home, his behavior is amazing, for no weather is too foul, no landscape too dreary, no physical ordeal too cruel for him to endure with what appears to be enjoyment. I am told by other women that all hunter husbands display the same inconsistencies. But what I'd like to know is this—why will the man who waits for hours on a duck go into a rage when he has to wait 10 minutes on a wife? Does any one think that war between great nations can be a limited war and that meanwhile we can trade with both sides in prosperous neutrality? We can not bolt ourselves in an armed citadel and survive.—Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Well, you can just say we'll make all we can sell and sell all we can make.—Henry Ford, answering interviewer's question regarding his 1936 production plans. Radio is not a medium for a busy persofi. One can listen to music, and work or think at the same time, but voices distract. Broadcasting is for the old, the infirm, the country people, and those who enjoy home life.—Leslie Howard, actor.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES'

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

THE interest in this IndianaPurdue game tomorrow is amazing. It seems to be the local Battle-of-the-Century. I was introduced to a woman today and the first thing she asked was who was going to win and what I thought the odds should be. I haven’t seen Indiana play since Pat Herron was coach, but it looks as if I were going to. Anybody who bets on football in this cock-eyed season is just plain silly. It’s going to take Eddie Ash, Dick Miller and Joe Williams months to explain all the fine details of what happened in the autumn of 1935. a it it fj-'HE new man in the Statehouse, A Francis Bowser, has a formidable title. When you've got through saying Public Counselor to the Public Service Commission you’ve said something. Francis has the dignity to sustain it, however. He’s one of the Hoosiers who took their law at Harvard and when you add one to the other you get a pretty good result. tt it tt /~\N second thought, it is a good thing the powers-that-be are looking out for men with good records. Before Virginia Mannon’s League of Women Voters personnel campaign is over they’ll all wish they had. u tt tt 'T'HANK heaven, all of this talk about driving hazards does not keep me awake. Long ago I decided that it had been a mistake for me to learn to drive and so I turned the wheel over to my wife for keeps. That decision had two good results. It relieved me of all anxiety, for she is an extraordinary driver, and it settled for all time this backing-and-forthing between husband and wife when she wants to drive and he won’t let her. I am one who believes that women tend to be better drivers than men. tt a tt 'THHE more one sees of men in high places the more he respects their secretaries. Modern business could not get along without these keen young women who know what the score is every minute of the day. tt tt tt ENE PULLIAM, over in Lebanon, has a secretary who answers to the name of N. G. Mason. I have been trying to find out what the initials stand for. Certainly not for what N. G. usually means, considering the way she looks after Gene's myriad affairs. tt tt tt /'ASCAR FOELLINGER, the Fort Wayne publisher, and one of the Republican pillars, is a man who takes deep pride in his newspaper property. The lovely Colonial building which houses the News-Sentinel is one of the best examples of early American in the state. When you meet Oscar you are impressed by his excellent physical condition. Newspapermen are not distinguished by rigid attention io health. Perhaps that is why you notice Oscar's wholesome appearance. The News-Sentinel finds little to admire in the New Deal but Oscar admitted when he was in town the other day that things weren't so bad in Fort Wayne. tt tt a TiyHEN the history of Indiana ' v journalism is written there must be a chapter on Bob Tucker. He came to Indianapolis some—l almost wrote many—years ago and has done pretty well by himself as a correspondent for a lot of papers. In the early days he was the roommate of the late Ray Long when the famous magazine editor was just learning his way around newspapers. Bob Tucker has had several chances to be an editor but prefers to remain a good reporter. Better a good reporter than a poor editor. In fact, the irreverent Gene Fowler once said that when a fellow fails as a reporter they make an editorial writer out of him.

OTHER OPINION On Low-Cost Housing [A. R. Clas, Director of PWA Housing! T FORESEE a day when our cities, like those of England, Holland, Austria, Germany and the Scandanavian count-.es, will have municipa! housing authorities which will no longer countenance the construction of the foul tenements and shoddy shacks which disgrace every city in this land. They will not tolerate the degeneration of huge urban areas until they become drab and pestilential dump heaps on which the step-children of society are tossed to exist as best they may. Instead, they will see to it that, for the welfare of the whole country. every man, woman and child shall be entitled to a home which at least approaches the much vaunted, if infrequently seen, American standard of living. IFort Wayne Ncw^-Scntine!] Amusing are Democratic fears that old Republican factionalism may be revived in the coming campaign. Os course, the Democratic Party is blessed now with heavenly harmony. Brothers Smith, Roosevelt, Raskob, Farley, McNutt, Peters and VanNuys are all one happy family. Says who? You're right—nobody!

STOP! YOU ARE BREAKING OUR HEARTS!

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

(Times rcmlcrs are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to £SO words or less. Your letter must he signed, hut names will be withheld on rcouest.l tt tt tt POWER MUST LIVE UP TO RESPONSIBILITIES By Morton Kominers The only dictatorship that can permanently endure is that of an educated and enlightened public opinion. Whether pow'er is acquired by inheritance, personal initiative or public choice, it can be retained only as long as it measures up to its social responsibilities. Where the class struggle is carried on with mutual intelligence, understanding and respect, it can achieve its goal of happiness and plentivude for all. Those who preach bloody revclution are as bad as those who preach bloody tyranny, and both are as bad as those w'ho preach war. tt a a WAKE UP, REPUBLICANS, WRITER PLEADS By L. J. F. The ministers that had the courage and backbone to write to the President surely should be commended. They have expressed the sentiment of millions of true Christians. The President, as a father, should reprimand his sons and keep them before the public as model men, not law breakers. The President might have done a lot of good that I don't know' much about, but he sure has made a lot of mistakes also. Slaughtering pigs with millions hungry was certainly wrong. Where are the Republicans? They always had a good man before, why not find a good one now and get this mess cleaned up before it goes too far? Wake up, Republicans. Why don’t Republicans vote Republican instead of Democratic. May be they have enough now and will go back to their party. tt a tt DEFENDS RELIEF SPENDING BY ADMINISTRATION By Julius Berta Let me add my voice to those who are defending the Roosevelt Administration. Let this be an open letter to those who would criticize President Roosevelt for his abnormal expenditures on relief, CCC, PWA and the rest of his getting-the-country-out-of-depression measures. The industrial corporations endeavor constantly to reduce labor for competitive and profit motives without due regard about the future of those whom they throw out of employment. As human ingenuity always finds a way to do more and more of the labor with machinery, more and more men are getting thrown out of

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Leg; 1 and medical 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 —Name the countries that are ruled by dictators. A—Soviet Russia. Germany, Italy, Albania, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey and Persia. Q —Wbat is the address of the Pan-American Union? A—Constitution-av and 17th-st, N. W., Washington, D. C. Q —When and in what opera did Nino Martini make his debut with the Metropolitan Opera? A—Dec. 28, 1933, as the Duke in “Rigoletto." Q —What causes the iridescence in soap bubbles? A—lnterference of the film, according to its thickness to the different wave lengths of the colors comprising the white light that strikes it. With any change of the angle from which an oil film is viewed the# thickness of the film through which the light must pass

employment and onto relief rolls. This condition will continue to get worse and w'orse because the number and the kind of labor-saving machinery will increase and engulf every line of industry even into the domestic life. Therefore, the cutting out of therelief or to even reduce it will be out of the question. Will you objectors let those people that have not the means to pay their way starve to death? Do you think that they will docilely submit to starvation? i sure would not submit to it if I were in their place! I w’ould take a gun first. The best w'ay out w'ould be to cut out the profit motive and competition. Produce for human use and consumption and pay for it with your share of the work in ratio to the amount you use of the goods. tt tt a GAS COMPANY CRITICISED FOR ATTITUDE Bv H. W. Tiaack* When the municipality took over the Citizens Gas Cos., W'e as citizens and patrons, had every reason to believe that the new setup, in spite of some of the peculiarities of the process of obtaining same, would at least be an improvement. But my recent experience belies that belief. On Nov. 12, I received a notice of delinquency that w r as dated the 9th instant, and on Nov. 14 a representative of the gas company called and stated his intention of cutting off my gas supply. This in spite of the fact that ail my gas bills, excepting the current bill, with discount date of Nov. 19, 1935, were paid and I held receipts to that extent. The writer believes that one of I the greatest assets of any success-i ful business is the good-will of the j patrons of that business, and that j the City of Indianapolis is not large j enough to sacrifice that good-will j by permitting such errors to creep j in, even occasionally. Stimulating the sale of electric stoves and appliances to take the place of gas is not going to solve the problems of disposition of the heavy burden assumed by the city in its acquisition of the gas plant. a tt tt BELIEVES COMMERCE CHAMBER SHOULD CHANGE TOLICY By W. A. B. Newspaper reports tell of the activities of the United States Chamber of Commerce against the New Deal. What these reports fail to mention is that this so-called rep - j resentative business group is controlled by a small coterie of reac- ! tionary industrialists, a group of; worshippers of an outmoded pseudo- ! economic code w'hich praises the divine right of the speculators, the manipulators and the financiers and completely ignores the social needs of our nation. Yes. these reports fail to mention that this body sniped at even the

in coming to the observer changes also, and hence the color changes. Q —ls Ginger Rogers the real name of the actress? A—Her full name is Virginia Katherine McMath. She took her mother's maiden name of Rogers when she went on the stage. Q —Wher. was the League of Nations formally launched and who drafted the original Constitution? A—lt was formally launched Jan. 10. 1920, when the Treaty of Versailles came into force. The plan for a constitution of the League which was proposed by Gen. Jan Smuts of the South African delegation. was selected as the framework of the document. The final draft was adopted unanimously by the committee of the peace conference on the League of Nations. Q —Has “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.’’ by Washington Irving, been filmed? A—Yes; in 1922 under the title "The Headless Horseman.” The late Will Rogers played the role of Ichabod Crane. Q —When were United States nickel 5-cent pieces with the Arabic numeral 5 instead of the Roman numeral V coined? * A—From 1866 through 1883.

few small concessions made by the Hoover Administration to labor and the farmer. We are told how this selfish group has so long and loudly clamored for mergers and the centralization of power in Wall Street, and how detrimental this has been to small business and the country generally. Not mentioned is the consistent cry of “Socialism! Communism!” that has been hurled by these laissez-faire advocates at labor unions, old-age pensions, the proposed child labor amendment, and practically all proposed social reform. Conspicuously silent are the news reports about an attack against a great religious organization for its courage in attacking some of our industrial evils, as made in the current issue* of the national chamber's official organ, and of the remarks made therein on the “dangerous” doctrines of human rights as expressed by the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. What the papers will have to tell, sooner or later, will be the loss of prestige the C. of C. is going to suffer unless it radically changes its policy of indifference to the small business man, its hostility to social betterment and security and its unwarranted criticism of our three great religious faiths for their courageous and humane stand. •November “Nation's Business" Paste 29. "Render Unto Caesar." bv S. Wells Utlev president Detroit Steel Casting Company. REALISM BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY Full of ugliness and sorrow is this life; Disappointment, crime, poverty and strife. Those whom w r e hold dear, tomorrow may die. ’Tis full of deceit, lust and hypocrisy. Oh! so many things on this earth there are To make life miserable, a glass of vinegar. And, the one thing that baffles me is this: The Idealists overlook all and find bliss; While the Realist, the fool, Dives into the center of the pool. DAILY THOUGHTS Asa jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. Proverbs 11:22. A SOUND discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.—Bovee.

SIDE GLANCES

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jnOV. 22, 1935

Washington Merrv-Go-Round

by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 On* of the last two remaining members of the famous original Brain Trust is now definitely on the way out. Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under-Secretary of Agriculture and Resettlement Administrator, expects to resign. He has a chance to become American observer at Geneva, possibly with the rank of ambassador. He may spurn this, however, and return to his old professorial chair at Columbia. In any event* he is determined to get out. And with Tugwcll's passing, passes a unique and in manv ways most tragic experiment of the New Deal—the Brain Trust. When the history of the Roosevelt Administration is written, the Brain Trust probably will be given more credit than discredit for the achievements of the New Deal. Some of the m r st important Roosevelt policies, some of his most important campaign speeches, were the creation of the Brain Trust. But it. had two great and glar- : ing defects—in personal equilibrium i under the spotlight of public office j and in practical executive ability to !carry out ideas.

17EW men in the Administration arp closer to the President than Rex Tugwell. Tugwcll’s departure is self-elimination. He feels that he has become a liability rather than an asset. And he is right. The tragedy from Tugwell* viewpoint—is that he became a liability fighting fervently for the New Deal cause. He was carrying out orders. His ehief trouble was in getting himself too far out in front. First tactical error was w’hen ha authored the Pure Food and Drug Act. He wrote the bill at the President’s direct command. The President wanted a revolutionary bill, and Tugwell gave it to him. His reward was a storm of criticism such as few officials have ever received and still remained in office. Tugwell did not consider this an error. Friends who remonstrated that he was making himself a target got this reply: “Well, somebody's got to be the fall guy. That's what some of us are here for. The Skipper can’t come out and sponsor this bill publicly. He can’t afford to be defeated. But I can.” tt tt i '["'OR a time the firing was so heavy that the President sent Rex to Europe during the 1934 congressional campaign, to get him out of the public eye. But Rex came back immediately after elections with a new' idea which was to put him back in a more dazzling spotlight than ever. In Italy he had .seen Mussolini’s resettlement projects. In Germany he had inspected the work colonies of Hitler. The President fell for the idea. tt tt tt [7ROM this there evolved the most unwieldy, idealistic, heterogeneous agency ever spawned by the New Deal. At present Tugw T ell is employing a staff of 12.089 to put 5012 people to work. They draw salaries of $1,750,000 monthly while workers on the projects get $300,000. It should be noted, of course, that originally Tugwell was saddled with a staff of 18.000 taken over from other agencies. Also, much of his work is planning for the future. It was known in advance that many of his projects could not get started for one or two years. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Tugwell’s Resettlement Administration is one of the most notoriously inefficient in the New Deal. Glaring example was the establishment of a model settlement at Beltsville, Md., only a few miles from the nation's Capital. It was Tugwell's pet project. Finally. Beltsville was selected. Maps were made, streets laid out. a school, theater, community house blue-printed—but all on paper. The advance charts cost several hundred dollars. Then someone thought of going down to look at the area. They had not seen it before. Unfortunately, they found it virgin forest. So the model village was moved three miles farther on, and all the blue-prints had to be done over again. (Copvriehs. 1935, hy United Feature Syndicate, Inc t

By George Clark