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MORE TRAFFIC LIGHTS 'T'HE city can offend no one by addins? traffic lights. That is one activity which will win the approval ot all There are too many unprotected corners wlrre the pedestrian is in danger. Many sharp angles at intersections add to the danger and to the engineer’s difficulty in placing the lights. The width of the streets creates a timing situation. A longer interval between green and red, in favor of the pedestrian, is needed. A voluntary co-operative state-wide newspaper effort to reduce accidents is under way. The press is supporting safety boards and works departments in their moves to make highways and streets safer. If the courts will inflict the proper penalties the arndent rate will drop. A drunken driver who killed two little girls last week had a record of several ottrr arrests for drunken driving. There is need for revoking licenses of operators guilty of that offense. FRANCE ANI) PEACE | AST night’s victory of Premier Pierre Laval of Prance is a victory for common sense and democracy over large-scale folly and absolutism of the variety familiar to Rome. Berlin and Moscow. Threatened by Fascists of the extreme right, and the Communist-Socialist combinations of the extreme left, the Laval government was seriously menaced at. yesterday's opening of parliament. A cabinet upset at thus time would be a grave matter. Seldom has France faced a more difficult situation at home and abroad. Franco-Italian relations are in the balance. Nazi Germany is causing uneasiness. A "league w'ar” against Rome, over Ethiopia, is a possibility. The budget is unbalanced, the franc is in danger, the gold supply is taking wings, business is bad. taxes high, trade-balances unfavorab’e and popular unrest widespread. Premier Laval is far from being out of the woods. Hi.s foes have not abandoned the fight. His victory of yesterday was merely a respite. He faces serious difficulties every inch of the way—especially as he plans to disarm the "private armies” which have grown up since the World War. It is very much to be hoped that France can escape serious political upset, at least until the European crisis growing out, of II Duce’s African adventure is past. Not only is the tranquillity of France involved, but the peace of Europe. AN UNSUNG HERO first commercial flight of the China Clipper 1 has forced national recognition on modest Capt. Edwin C. Musick. The top-ranking pilot in his field, he never had the headlines which tell the storiest ot explorers and stunt fliers. But by his exactness. hir insistence on safety and his expertness, he has given more to passenger aviation than many more famous. Charting a regular air service to the Orient w'as largely possible on account of Capt. Musick’s presence with Pan-American. Since 1927 be has been steadily extending the possibilities of air travel as the engineers produced bigger and better ships. To command one of these new air cruisers is a great honor. As the tale of the China Clipper unfolds the character and ability of the skipper will become widely known, as they should have been long ago had he not shunned publicity. GIVE HIM A HAND THE Commerce Department is reported engaged in a secret campaign to force American ship operators to remodel their vessels to insure safety for passengers. Secret or not. we are for it, though we think the department would commit no impropriety by shouting it from the bridge of every ship. It was estimated this year, shortly after a Senate committee named a group of experts to study safety at sea, that 160 ships flying the American flag were as unsafe as the General Slocum which took 1021 lives to the bottom of the East River in 1904. It also was estimated that 1500 were without wireless equipment. It is said that some of the operators have proved unpleasantly stubborn with the department in this matter. The proper answer to such an attitude is what Joseph B. Weaver, chief of the United States Bureau of Navigation, is said to have told one of them—that he would stand at the gangplank and warn every passenger that the ship was unsafe. Every citizen interested in preventing another Morro Castle disaster should stand at Mr. Weaver’s elbow and urge him on. DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVE IN a newspaper before us are two articles, published appropriately side by side. The first, under a Wilmington (Del.) dateline, tells of a billion-dollar utility holding company, following the lead of other giant holding concerns, filing a suit to enjoin the enforcement of the Federal Holding Company Act. The second, under a Memphis dateline, tells o f that city signing a 20-vear contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority, whereby the latter tgrees to build a transmission line to the city limits and provide wholesale electric power to be distributed retail through a city-owned distribution system. There probably would never have been a TV A. had not the public-be-damned attitude of a large segment of the utility business inspired protective government competition. Nor would there have been a Federal holding company regulatory act had not private utilities invented spurious corporate devices to nullify state regulation. But apparently those who control the country's big private utility systems have learned nothing. Rather than subscribe to the moderate terms of the regulatory act passed by the last Congress, the holding company managers are filing multiple suits against the government in courts throughout the land. The litigation will be costly both to utility investors and taxpayers. If th‘-y succeed in finally having the Supreme Court rule the law unconstitutional, what then? Eminent constitutional lawyers, including Senator Borah, predict they will not succeed. But if they do? The probable result, we believe, would be mere and more government competition plus an attack

along lines recently prophesied by Rep. Rayburn, a co-euthor of the disputed law. He said: I would warn the utility die-hards that if this act. prepared with care and discrimination to safeguard the interests of the investor, the consumer and the industry, were to be declared unconstitutional, it wou’d be an empty victory for them. If the constitutional theory on which this act is drawn is not sound, then there is no constitutional basis on which any effective regulation of the holding company evil can rest. No free government can tolerate the holding company evil. And if the Supreme Court should deny the power of Congress to effectively regulate thp holding company, the Congress would, I am convinced. tax the holding company out of existence. Tne tax cn intercorporate dividends in the new tax bill ought to be example and warning enough to those who rashly think they can persuade the Supreme Court that the American people must be gouged, and bullied and lobbied forever.” ANOTHER VICTORY? T AST summer, following reactionary leadership, Pennsylvania voted down proposed revision of the state Constitution. Now the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court has ruled that the untampered Constitution made illegal the state s new graduateu income tax-a law passed by the last Legislature to raise, on a basis of ability to pay, about 15 million dollars annually for school purposes, and to lighten correspondingly the tax burden on real estate. Shall we chalk up another victory for the established order? BARGAINS IN DELEGATES TJ'OR those 10 or 12 men who aspire to head the ■*- Republican national ticket in 1936. the Christmas shopping season offers the best bargains in delegates to be had in years. One hundred and eignty-four Southern Republican delegates to the national convention are available. In every presidential year since the Wilson Administration, Republican Presidents have had a first lien on these delegates, either for themselves or for their political heirs. But this time the Southern delegates are there for any one who can get them. Bargaining probably will begin when the Republican National Committee meets in Washington v/ithin the next six weeks. National committeemen from the Southern states for the most part decide what delegates shall go from those states to the Republican convention. They will be sounded out by scouts for the various candidates. But the scramble for Southern delegates probably will not end until the roll is called for the last time at the convention next summer. In 1916. when the Republican patronage machine had pretty well broken down after four years of Democratic rule. Southern delegates scattered their votes all over the field of 11 candidates for the first two ballots, then finally concentrated on Charles Evans Hughes, who won the nomination. In 1920. after eight years of Democratic rule, the situation was even more uncertain; delegations were bought and rebought and so much attention was attracted to the possibilities of manipulating nominations by means of Southern delegates that a reform move was launched. Promises were made that in the future no delegates would be admitted from districts casting less than 2500 Republican votes in a presidential election. This promise was set aside before the next nominating convention. a a a IF Herbert Hoover finally should capture the Republican nomination with the aid of Southern delegates he would have to thank the failure of a move he started soon after his 1928 election. At that time he announced that he favored “lily-white” delegations from the Southern states in place of the black-and-tans who have sat in Republican conventions from the time of the carpetbaggers. He encountered opposition from other party chiefs, and by 1932 the movement almost had been forgotten. The Republican National Committee that year, in charge of Hoover men, seated Negro delegations in every contested state, though the convention itself later rejected that from South Carolina. This year, cyriical observers are saying, delegations probably will go at bargain prices, since the Republican nomination is regarded widely as worth less than it was in 1916 or 1920. So far none of the candidates, with the possible exception of Hoover, has much money to spend. The Southern delegate situation probably will be well shaped up before Republican primaries start in the 15 or so states in which they are still fixtures. The first is in New Hampshire in March, the last in Ohio in May. Primaries are expected to scatter their votes among favorite sons. Thus any one who is able to capture a sectional bloc of delegates will be in a position of strategic advantage. There will be 996 Republican delegates to the ’36 convention. In general the industrial East will have 300 votes, the Middle West 200, border states 84. Western states from the Mississippi to the coast, 219. A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson \ FRIEND from a distant city has just gone after a week's visit in our home. We had what is known as a very gay time. First, according to local custom, I gave a party for her; then, one by one, other friends did the same. There was a continuous round of luncheons, teas and dinners. Now that it's over. I suddenly realize that she and I did not have a visit after all. There was no time for sitting down to say all those things which we very much wished to say to each other. Why have we built up such a false id 2a of hospitality—so false it separates instead of uniting friends? Let me cite another example. Occasionally I go with my husband to a city where we used to live. There I run into acquaintances who say, "Why don't you call me up when you're in town? I'd love to see you. Just telephone me any time." They are sincere and I would like nothing better, jnlv I seldom do call them because I am afraid they will not be honest with me about their plans. If, when I called, they had some pressing duty to perform. or a previous engagement to keep, would they tell me so frankly or would they, for fear of hurting my feelings, upset their plans and so allow me to be a nuisance? We gi.e our friends welcome in many foolish ways. With taxis so cheap, we dash to meet their trains or to pick them up alter errands, and once arrived we arrange a social schedule for them which would break down any but the hardiest feminine physique. Might it not be well to revise our habits of hospitality by putting into them a little less energy and money and a little more sincerity? frhe meaning of hospitality has become lost amid all the rules we have set up for dispensing it. I do not believe the American people wish struggles on the battlefield to be prolonged because of profits accruing-to a comparatively small number of American citizen*.—President Roosevelt.

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HOOSIER hospitality. There is a term with a meaning. I was reminded of it when, contemplating a bleak Thanksgiving Day by reason of temporary absence from my family, I was rescued by a telephone call and asked out to dinner. I might have known it was coming. This is the capital of that j lovely thing known as friendship, j The day after Thanksgiving seems ; the right time to make a note ! of it. an a Genuine, sincere people. People, like strapping Isaac Kane Parks, the state inheritance tax collector. For years I have thought he could walk on the stage as the typical Middle Western lawyer. One ot the least assuming of men. he follows the fortunes, or misfortunes, of his friends as a kind of hobby. He makes me think of Otto Knoblock, a Hoosier who keeps a directory of the birthdays of his friends and writes each a letter every year, timed to arrive on the birthday. a a a MR. KNOBLOCK has an interesting hobby. He collects the privately printed books, the little obscure novels and works of verse v hich professional publishers reject. The books which the authors themseves finance. Curiously many of them are quite good. Only by some mismanagement or failure to offer them in the right place have they missed fire. They come out, a few hundred in each edition, paid for by the writer, and circulated among his friends. It is the only collection of the kind I ever heard of. a u ts Book collecting stands rather high in Indiana. Woodson Carlisle of St. Joseph County, I believe, has the best collection of Galsworthy’s first editions in America. He even has the trial books which Galsworthy wrote under another name to find out if he could write. Woodson once packed all his Galsworthy up and took the collection to England, where the great man autographed the volumes for him. Woodson also owns a large number of Dickens’ items in the original parts as issued—those pamphlets in which the novels were serialized before book publication. nan * I 'HE holiday shopping period is usually a busy time in the book trade. Talking with Roark Bradford the other day when he stopped off here I had an opportunity to thank him for my favorite Christmas story. It is the charming little Negro fable called "How Come Chris-mus?” A number of years ago Harpers issued it in a speciil Christmas volume, an "airplane” edition on thin paper, and sent it! around to uu ,ue of their friends. Authors must be disappointing when their fans meet them. Most of ihem are rather rough-and-ready looking fellows. Bradford is like that. And Carl Sandburg, who was here this week, much more so. a a e XATANY Indiana folk have been interested in Carl's home in the northern dunes, where Mrs. Sandburg builds cottages for summer residents and sells them. She ! is the business man of the family,! for Carl is one of the most absentminded men in the writing profession and probably would lose most of his earnings by leaving them in hotel rooms if his wife did not keep a close check on him. OTHER OPINION Enferce the Traffic Laws (Greenfield Reporter) Os al lthe weapons being used to combat motor traffic accidents, enforcement is ultimately the most important. This is not to minimize the vital ' need for such primary measures as education and engineering, for ed- ! ucation is a great hope and only through it can we achieve the ideal of self-enforcement. Traffic engineering is a fast developing science which can and motorist better habits and proper ability of motor accidents caused by faults in street and highway design and construction. Nevertheless, until education teaches the motorist better habits and a prop-respect for the added advantages given by traffic engineering safety, enforcement must assume the practical leadership in accident reduction. Taxing Government Housing Projects [A. R. Cits. PWA Director of Housing] Suppose we did impose full taxes !on these projects. What would be the consequences? First—we would slam their doors in the very face of those whom we' j seek to help. To demand full taxes would increase rentals from SI to $3 per room per month, and automatically exclude slum dwellers from consideration. Second —the projects would necessarily be occupied by persons able to pay an economic rent. Since hey are attractive and have amenities often unheard of in the average community, they would naturally draw* tenants from now occupied j dwellings. This would create va- ■ eancies, would disrupt the normal real estate market and the tax structure, to say nothing of leaving a large number of slum dwellers on the street.

ADVICE FROM A VICTIM

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I Times read ere are invited to express their views in these columns, reliuious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short so all cun have a chance. Limit them to 2.>0 words or less. Your letter must he shined. but names will be withheld, on reauest.) an* EXPLAINS POSITION ON FLAG ARGUMENT By J. T. Ball It seems the main point in the flag saluting controversy has been missed by some. The United States flag stands for freedom in any reasonable sense of that word, if it stands for anything. It is the world’s emblem of liberty within liberty's best meaning. Freedom from political persecution, freedom of opinion, freedom of utterance. The essential meaning of such an emblem is immediately destroyed when those in authority under it attempt to use their authority to compel formal submission to the emblem itself. Those hawkers of patriotism and mongers of "loyalty to the flag,” (Yes, "mongers” for they are trying to sell loyalty to the flag for personal political gain) will always be found to be those who have most desecrated the flag, as for instance, those whose influence put the United States into the World War. Behind those hawkers and patriotism monger* are always the vested interests and special privilege groups whom the national emblem was never designed to protect. "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” Let the Scoundrels cease desecrating the flag by seeking to destroy the best that it stands for—freedom. Any emblem that stands for such compulsory formalities as are now being advocated toward our flag of freedom is no emblem of freedom. Such an emblem is not the Stars and Stripes. it a a TAKING AN ISSUE WITH THE ‘CRUSADER’ CHIEF Bv E'Ctaire I am a radio listener of both Mr. Clark of the "Crusaders” and the Rev. Charles Coughlin. Both give some clear facts and good phraseology. naturally, to cover up their real aims and objectives; to undermine American principles and government and sell America short. Admittedly, England is no angel, but Father Coughlin would love to stir up prejudice between America and England in favor of Italy and her un-Christian and barbarous conquest of the helpless Ethiopians. Mr. Clark condemns Communism and says all alien Communists on relief should be deported, and American Communists removed also. Mr. Clark may be partially correct, as I too believe native Americans should be cared for first. But, perhaps. Mr. Clark, some of us 100 per cent Americans would I have something to say. There are j other aliens here that should be de- ; ported first, aliens more danerous 1 to American government than Com-

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-eent stamp tor reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Legal 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. Kerbs. Director. 1013 Thirteenth-st. N. W.. Washington. D. C. Q —What is the difference in meaning between expedite and •rush? A—Expedite means to hasten the movement or progress of; advance, especially by removing impediments. Rush means to drive or push with violent swiftness; cause to move with speed; also to put through, force, to perform with great haste or with precipitation; hurry. Q —Where are the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police? A—Ottawa, Canada. Q—ls William Green still tne president of the American Federation of Labor? A—Yes; he recently was reelected. Q—What is the real name of Marion Davies, the actress? A—Marion Dour as. i

munism ever could be. I don’t believe in strikes and violence, but I don't see why you condemn Communists w r ho fight the battles for the working people in favor of our professional sellout artists and labor racketeers, the A. F. of L. I've failed to see a strike not sold out. with the government and the National Guard and the American Legion acting as strike breakers against the workers in favor of capital. Some time ago you stated that at no time, not even during the war, did American money barons make more than 10 per cent profit. I’ll admit that Roosevelt is outHoovering Hoover, but who are you trying to out-Hoover to get Americans to believe such bunk? No. Mr. Clark, you condemn Communism, trying to blind Americans to the facts and get them to hold still while you and your organization fasten the iron ring of Fascism around our necks. I believe your: organization to be another "Republican Plan Organization” of the Ku-Klux Klan days, because it looks and smells like it and it’s going to take different music to trap us old “kluxers” again. Anyway, Mr. Clark, who finances your radio circus? Father Coughlin's goal is the same as yours, but on a different road. No, Mr. Clark and Father Coughlin, we are not all sheep and my motto is like George Washington's, ' Put only Americans on guard.” Don’t condemn anything unless you have something better to take its place. ana DERIDES SOUTH S CHIVALRY AS SHOWN IN VIRGINIA Bv L. E. Blacketor Chivalry in the great Southland, like our own Hoosier hospitality, is a proverbial thing, far-famed and widely sung. And just recently have the gallant sons of the South shown the world their finest example of this most commendable trait, the subject of their reverence being one of their own fair daughters of the South. She was only a mountain girl of the backlands of Virginia, hedged about with all the restrictions of a stern mountain code. Violation means a beating. This, of course, is chivalry. Yes, that’s right. And as Edith Maxwell, on occasion, had violated the code, her father, drawing on his chivalrous instincts, quite naturally had beaten her. Sometimes he'd beat her with his big hard fists while at other times he’d beat her with only a chunk of wood. Nice gentle people, these mountain fathers. But Edith didn’t mind—much. That is, she didn’t when Trigg Maxwell was sober. But like as not he'd be drunk and then she was afraidafraid he’d kill her. One night during the summer. Edith went to Wise with a boy 'friend. It was fun. and Edith was

Q—What is the proper pronunciation of Addis Ababa? A—The English pronunciation is ah’-dis ah'-ba-ba. and the native pronunciation is ah'-dis ah’-wa-wa. Q —ls it proper to call a member of the United States Senate a Congressman? A —A Congressman is defined as a member of the Congress of the United States; especially a member of the House of Representatives. Thus, although a Senator is technically a “Congressman,'’ custom limits the title Congressman to members of the House. Q —What is a funded debt? A—One that is permanent or runs for a fixed period of time, usually several years, and bears regular interest and, in the case of bonds, the principal also is payable at a certain fixed time. Q —Name the Canadian Consul in New’ York City. A—Canada has no consuls in the United States. The British Consulate General. 25 Broadway, New York City, acts for the Canadian government in that district. Q—How many bees would a seven-quart swarm contain? A—About 25,000.

awfully happy. She planned to go blackberrying the next day. Gee! But Edith got heme late. And old Trigg was drunk, and what was worse, in bad temper. And, of course, as a chivalrous father should, he gave it to her good and plenty. * He beat her, cursed her, tore her clothes nearly off, and struggled with her from one room to another. Trigg Maxwell was so outraged by his daughter's waywardness that, like a man possessed, he grasped her by the hair and. dragging her to the kitchen, vowed he'd break her damned neck. He grabbed a handy butcher knife and threatened to kill her. Edith became afraid for her life. What chance had she against this drunken maniac who brandished a butcher knife? Somehow she got hold of a slipper, and, fighting for her life, and against desperate odds, she let him have it. Good and hard, too. He fell, striking his head against something hard and lay still at Edith's feet. .Trigg Maxwell was dead. Os course Edith was arrested. They threw her into jail and charged her with murder. And in the first degree! So Edith didn't go blackberrying the next day as she had planned, instead she pined away in a cold, bleak cell. Oh, yes, they gave her a trial. My, my, yes. One shouldn’t forget that in the great Southland chivalry yet lives. Yes, it does. The jury pronounced Edith guilty and a murmur of chivalrous approval ran through the crowded courtroom. And now the mountain girl won't go blackberrying again for a long, long time, for they’re going to take her away and put her in a big walled prison and keep her there for 25 years. Thus we behold the choicest fruits of chivalry as displayed by the gallant sons of the South. THE COSMOS BY MARY WARD Only a millioneth part of life I know— Only a glimpse of sunlight do I see— Swiftly, yet timelessly the seasons go And come through space—l only know, gloriously! DAILY THOUGHTS But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified; for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by And by. ‘ —St. Luke 21:9. RASH, fruitless war. from wanton glory waged, is only splendid murder.—Thomson.

SIDE GLANCES

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NOV. 29, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON. Nov. 29 Inside advisers admit that Roosevelts smooth-running neutrality policy struck a definite snag when the British postponed an embargo on oil. And the insiders are worried about it. Privately they know that the neutrality policy is not neutral at all, but throws the full weight ot the United States against Italy and with the League of Nations. In fact, the United States invariably has been one step ahead of the League, and has had to wait for it to catch up. The policy received wide acclaim as long as the League always caught uo but in the case of oil it hasn’t. What is not generally knowm is that all of these moves have oeen discussed in great detail between the State Department and the British. The Ickes-Hull declaration against the sale of oil to Italy was no exception. The British wanted to know from us. in advance, w’hat we would do if they embargoed oil. They didn't want to be in the position of diverting Italian purchases to thp United States. Mr. Hull showed his good faith, and now finds himself dangling awkwardly from a limb, with some embarrassing questions sure to be asked when Congress convenes. n tt n THE Saturday midnight deadline for registration of holding companies finds the government and the $15,000,000,000 power industry locked in one of the fiercest struggles in the history of utility regulation. The outcome of the titanic battle not only will determine the fate of the Holding Company Act. but will have far-reaching political and economic reverberations. If the government wins, many of the most powerful utility moguls in the country will lose their corporation scalps. If it loses, the utility issue is certain to be a major battle cry in next year's campaign, and the movement to curb judicial pow - ers will receive tremendous impetus. a a a THE behind-the-scenes strategy of the two combatants is now j clearly defined. The aim of the utilities is to over- ; w helm the government with a tidal wave of legal actions. Their object is twofold: First, to [wear down the government by constantly hammering on a hundred i different fronts: second, to enrage | government leaders into committing j a provocative act which can be : seized by the utilities in order to sway public opinion. This program is behind thp Balti- , more suit and other tests to which J the government is not a party. It ! underlies the secret reversal of policy within the industry not to file any I registrations. a a a THE government’s strategy is a combination of offensive-de-fensive tactics. For the time being, the government is giving the utilities free rein to force the fighting. It is adopting a peaceful and reassuring attitude. This is behind the conciliatory ! statement of SEC Chairman Jim Landis and the order of Atty. Gen. Cummings "to refrain from bring- ; mg criminal proceedings” against recalcitrant utilities. Cummings and Landis had two ideas in mind: First, to put the onus of aggression on the utilities, let the idea sink home with the public that the utilities are resisting regulation, defying the government; second, to maneuver the utilities into making the same mistake into which they are trying to jockey the government —an overt act which would swing public opinion against them. That some of the infuriated utility barons are capable of such a blunder is shown by the “let's gang the government” statement of Edward F. Hutton. This free-tonguing brought jubilant smiles to the lips of New Dea'ers. It was a stroke of luck, and they are planning to make much use of it. Meanwhile government lawyers are preparing a sensational legal counter-attack. For weeks a hand-picked group of the best legal talent of the Justice Department, SEC. Federal Power Commission, Interior Department and RFC have been burning the midnight oil preparing briefs, arguments and assembling precedents. When finally they open fire, some real surprises are in store for the opposition. (Copyright. 1335 by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i

By George Clark