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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1335.

ROOSEVELT AT ATLANTA TT is an interesting coincidence that Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his go-ahead message on the same day that the National Association of Manufacturers cried “cease and desist.” The two declarations fairly well lay the lines for the contest of 1933. The net effect of the 14 points presented by the manufacturers is either to halt everything or do everything differently than it is being done. The tone of the document is dolorous. Jeremiah might have prepared it—or that other great prophet who predicted grass for the asphalt. The tone of the Roosevelt declaration is, on the other hand, buoyant, cheerful, full of the zest of victories accomplished and more victories to come. So it will be up to the reader and the voter about a year from now to pay his money and take his choice. And one thing is certain—he'll pay his money in either event. a tt a TT has often been said before a salesman can sell -*• other people he must first sell himself. A reading of the A* lanta speech gives the answer to Roosevelt’s power as a campaigner: Roosevelt thoroughly sold on Roosevelt. Not a note of doubt; not a flicker of defeatism; not a hairshirt in his wardrobe. Instead, highly sustained confidence m what he has done, is doing, and will do. The words of a man who believes in himself, and believes also that you must believe in him. They may beat Roosevelt in 1936 but they'll never do it with pessimism. Dire predictions and tidings of disaster won't turn the trick. If the contest boils down to pointing with pride against viewing with alarm, optimism will win. All the world is waiting for the sunrise, and this nation particularly, after what it has gone through, isn't scanning the dim horizon for more bad news. a a a \ S a piece of argumentation the Atlanta speech ■U*-was compact and powerful. It drew upon that most potent of material—your own memory. It recalled the “prosperity” of that time to which so many, nowadays, forgetting what time brought forth, are inclined to turn with longing recollections —the “Twenties." “Those are years to remember,” he said. “Those fools paradise years before the crash came. In that orgy of ‘prosperity’ the poorest vied with the richest in throwing their earnings and savings into a cauldron of land and stock speculation. In that orgy of ‘prosperity’ sluni conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule instead of the exception. Mammon ruled America.” tt tt tt \ FTER massing the picture that preceded the crash he came to the present, but not defen-, sively; always on the aggressive, with such human interest material as this: “National surveys prove that the average of our citizenship lives today on what would be called by the medical fraternity a third-class diet. If the country lived on a second-class diet we would need to put many more acres than we use today back into the production of foodstuffs for domestic consumption. If the nation lived on a first-class diet we would have to put more acres than we have ever cultivated into the production of an additional supply of things for Americans to eat. “Why, speaking in broad terms in following up this particular illustration, are we living on a thirdclass diet? For the very simple reason that masses of the American people have not got the purchasing power to eat more and better food.” And this—- “ When some of the people of a great and wealthy country are suffering from stryvation, an honest government has no choice." And this—“l can realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of government and the suffering that they are going through because the government is spending money for work-relief. I wish I could take some of these men out on the battle line of human necessity and show them the facts that we in the government are facing.” a a a A ND the part which told how the bankers back in 1933 when e\et\body was yelling to the government for help estimated for Roosevelt 55 to 70 billions as the debt load the nation could stand without serious danger to the national credit—the same bankers who now are crying bankruptcy at 30 billions. And then a conclusion such as this: “But recovery means something more than getting the country back into the black. You and I do not want just to go back to the past. We want to face the future in the belief that human beings can enjoy more of the good things in life, under better conditions, than human beings ever enjoyed in the pa si.” _ es ‘ F urel - V as a Problem in practical campaigning, it s going to be a tough job to go up against such buoyancy as that with a long face and a flock of figures. GOOD FOR YOUNG MEN W* have been attracted by the interest in and •be large attendance at the games of the city's two amateur football leagues. Playing on grounds furnished by the Park Board and financed for equipment by collections taken among the spectators. the 14 teams of the leagues have had a successful season. The Em-Roe championship was won by the English Avenue Boys' Club, while Fort Harrison is leading the Capital City League. Here are nearly 509 hundred young men with a wholesome organized outdoor recreation which makes it necessary for them to keep in condition by avoiding dissipation. Interested in them are their families and friends. Looking up to them are a legion of small boys in their neighborhoods. No wonder the games draw well in spite of the lack of seating. The more a city has of this sort of thing the farther along it will be in reducing delinquency. We were reading a comment of a New York investigator of delinquent boys recently which said that the chief cause of them being what they were was the absence of playgrounds and equipment. Development of parks and playgrounds is a part, of youth salvage. The many baseball diamoprisf P nH

football grounds which Cleveland has scattered along its lake front are good example. So are the public golf links and game grounds in Chicago. First the place, then the public interest supporting city youth at play. Then we shall begin to see a drop in crime. MARK TWAIN’S BIRTHDAY T OOKING about us we are constrained to remark, as he did once, that the report of Mark Twain's death is greatly exaggerated. The 100th anniversary of his birth today finds him one of the livest of Americans. In every city and town his admirers are pausing to pay homage to him and his immortal brain-children, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson and the rest. This is not because he was either a master craftsman or a profound philosopher. Poe was a greater artist. Washington Irving and some of our contemporaries outrank him in finished writing. Certainly Emerson was a deeper thinker. It is because he best chronicled the robust culture of his America in its lusty, youthful vesrs. Often he was prolix and boreseme and in some of his lesser works he displayed a bitter satirical strain. As Christopher Morley says, time already has bluepenciled half of his work out of existence. But never, in describing the folks he knew—as a pilot on the Mississippi, or as newspaper man in California's Mother Lode, or as a world traveler—did he play off key. He was our greatest folk writer, a sort of American Dickens. He talked the language of “river rats,” gamblers, miners, boys, backwoodsmen and the rest. And, like O. Henry and Will Rogers, he had the essential of an authentic humorist, a broad and deep understanding of the foibles that make human beings at once lovable and ridiculous. THE TEACHERS’ FEAR UTTERANCES against enemies of the New Deal which were heard by the National Council of Teachers of English here yesterday were echoes of similar statements made by professors in all parts of the country. Teachers are afraid of fascism, naziism, communism and all forms of dictatorship, which are enemies of academic freedom At the same time a number of teachers in leading universities have been accused of teaching communism. That brought a counter-attack from the forces whom the teachers consider reactionary. The professors are not the only ones involved. The same warfare goes on among students on many campuses and a number of college presidents do not know what to do about it. There is one point involved upon which all Americans should agree. That is the right of free speech. The friends of the New Deal among the teachers have a right to say what they think at public meetings. Its enemies have a like right. Whether teachers have a right to impose their opinions on the students is debatable. Their chief business is to teach facts and opinions are not facts. To mature students they might discuss any number of political theories without offense as long as they did not become dogmatic. Teachers should be disturbed by reactionaries. They rightly fear that a reaction might be followed by a dictatorship. DISTURBING FIGURES 'JT'HE Keeley Institute reports a 14 per cent increase in women patients this year, 90 per cent of whom are married. Prohibition removed drinking from the barroom to the living room, where the wives learned to drink. Now that liquor is easy to get, the ladies are at the bar along with the men. We are not suggesting a remedy—simply a deplorable fact that is ominous. The remedy may be suggested by the people. Much of the heavy drinking by women is done in public places. To cut a woman customer off when she visibly has had too much will not cure alcoholism but at least it will show that the trade desires to adhere to what has always been good practice in respectable places. It is observable that many drinking men encourage their wives to drink. They think the fun of the evening is increased if the wife joins in. Besides, if the wife drinks she has no excuse for rebuking her husband. Many husbands, no doubt, rue the day when they taught their wives to take liquor. ONE CAMPAIGN BOON A ‘ CURRENT magazine article on ghost writing makes one wonder who will be writing the speeches for the leading candidates next year. The campaign, with thousands of addresses and statements to be prepared, will be a boon to many unemployed writers. The number of able writers on relief is not known because writers have a habit of hiding their need as long as possible. It is known, however, that many have taken relief work under the Hopkins plan. Some of those will be glad to ghost for candidates too busy or unable to roll their own. Some candidate have one for the home office and one to accompany them on tours. In politics few men are gifted in the literary way as was the late Albert J. Beveridge. Since campaigning involves literary work they have to hire it done. Os course a candidate reading a speech somebody else has written should at least furnish the ideas or be willing to adopt those given him. GOOD CHRISTMAS NEWS npHE number of men employed by private indus- -*• try in the Pittsburgh district is the greatest since May, 1931. This cheering report is the result of a careful survey just concluded. It is of importance to Indiana because it indicates better times in the heavy industries where the turn for the better has been slowest to come. Operation of the heavy industries creates orders for the lighter ones. Recently similar news came from the Calumet region of Indiana, the seat of heavy industries in this state. Together the reports give the approaching Christmas a glow like old times. The process of trial should be a search for truth rather than a battle of wits in which the complexities of the law are too often used to free the guilty and trap the innocent.—A. H. McCormick, commissioner of correction. New York. They have been saying that opera should take off the high hat. We have done it, and we are going to try tr give the public what it wants in opera. Opera is not dead;* it is being reborn.—Edward Johnson, general manager, Metropolitan Opera. I know the working classes do not need big navies. It is their rulers who want them to protect iheir fives, their money and their pockets.—Oliver Baldwin, son of Britain's prime minister. There is no danger of a dictatorship from the Left; the Right is too strong; it is from the Right that the dictatorship is coming.—Oswald Garrison VUlard, noted liberal. “Low-brow arts” are genuine arts. They satisfy na)kve needs in human nature.—John Dewey, philosopher and educator. <5

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

TT ECENTLY it has been my good fortune to behold a rug in the process of being laid in the office of a certain factotum. I had forgotten that the art of rug laying required so many didoes. I go back to the days when one simply picked out a 9x12 and that was the end of it. Now it seems that to get the proper rug under the feet of a tycoon demands skilled mechanics and an architect. Before they got through I was looking for a field surveyor with a boy carrying the ax and stakes. a an But what I started to say was that a certain prominent Federal officer, one of the New Dealers, located in Indianapolis, recently required a rug befitting his high station. . Whereupon one of his mvmidons sent a requisition to Washington and in due course it was honored by the chief of the rug-buying division. After an intermidable wait, whilst the official had to endure a bare floor —with which, perhaps, he was not entirely unfamiliar—the rug arrived. It arrived in pieces, in 14 mail sacks, each weighing not more than the postal laws allow, which I understand is 50 pounds. Here were a number of strips of rug which had to be sewn together. The next thing was to put through a requisition for an FERA worker, skilted in the mystery of rug sewing. In two weeks one was found. The pieces were fastened together and the important government official is now treading a covering commensurate with his dignity, tt a tt TUST why the government could ** not have telephoned downtown to one of the qualified rug merchants and had the job dons in an hour is oen of those secrets which will be revealed only by historians of this cock-eyed age. tt a tt Rugs make me think of the test for compatibility betwixt husband * and wife propounded by an old Indianapolis friend. If the twain can set up a bedstead without coming to blows they are happily married. In the times that I have moved I have found it prudent to place in the contract a clause requiring the moving men to set up the beds. tt tt tt A NOTHER thing about rugs which has a bearing on felicity is the disinclination of the normal woman to permit her husband to lie on the couch and drop his ashes on the floor. The Wives’ Protective Association should bear in mind that the privilege of lying on the davenport, after a hard day’s work, letting the ashes fall where they may, is almost the chief boon for dutiful husbands. The only compromise is an ash tray placed on the floor, but that is a small target and not to be considered by men who have weighty problems to solve. tt tt tt Os course, the whole problem can bs solved by using scatter rugs, with nice little ilsands of maple here and there. For the ashes won’t hurt the maple and can be whisked under the cofich in a jiffy when unexpected callers arrive. tt tt t: II7E see by the papers that the * ’ first test of the National Labor Relations Board is to be made right here on the good old Koosier sod. At South Bend, to be accurate. The employer involved is Vincent Bendix. Mr. Bendix is an amiable man who from time to time gives parties at his home with various celebrities as his guests. Once he had Gibert K. Chesterton and Jimmy Walker under the same roof. An unregenerate newspaper man who was there was told that a certain beauty was a paid entertainer and slapped her on the back, requesting a dance. It was only Irene Castle. tt tt a One of my friends turned up at the office after Thanksgiving all dressed up in his best clothes. The explanation was simple. The morning after a holiday the natural thing for a man to do is to reach for the nearest clothes, which usually are the ones he tossed off the night before. Then there is the thrifty fashion of wanting to get two wearings out of a collar. 7)th eroiTm o>T [Fort Wayne News Sentinel] Florida and California may temporary benefit from an enlargement of the Canadian market for citrus fruits. But what is going to be the final effect upon California and Florida when the markets for citrus fruits dwindle in a number of American states? The imports of Canadian potatoes will injure Idaho growers. Tire imports of Canadian lumber and timber will seriously damage a great industry in Washington and Oregon. Wisconsin will lose through lowered duties on Canadian cheese and cream. And so on. Various American industries dependent upon tariff protection for their very existence have very much more at stake in this matter than the Canadian market. If they acquiesce in reductions for other products, they must remember that it may be their turn next to take a cut.

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tTimes readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relioious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short so all can have a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less. Your letter must be si<med. but names will be withheld on reauest.i tt tt tt ACTS TO HELP CONVICTED “CURFEW GIRL” By Josephine Fenbere I wish to compliment Mrs. Helen Lindsay on the article in The Times of Nov. 22 regarding the “curfew girl.” I have been very much interested in this particular case; have sympathy for the girl and the life she led. She evidently is a good girl in many ways or she could not have been a school teacher. I think the Governor of that state should act, and feel if all Federation Clubs of America would act at once they could bring a square deal for Iter. Asa business woman. I feel I have a right to write the Governor, which I am doing today, asking him to take a little interest in this case. I hope others will do the same, for I really think the whole United States is interested. a a tt THANKS, MR. FOUST. IT WAS A PLEASURE By Edmond C. Foust. Editor The Hoosier Farmer This is to acknowledge the spiendid co-operation given by your paper in publicizing the Annual Convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. tt tt tt SEES STUBBORN UNION LEADERS AS ENEMIES By Tom Berlins The local building trades are getting all hot and bothered about jurisdictional disputes. I would not attempt to explain to anybody the meaning of jurisdictional disputes. It just can not be done. They are wrong, silly, senseless, disgraceful and a nuisance all the way round. It is the one question about unionism for which I have no explanation and very little patience. These disputes have been going on for 20 years and are further away from any settlement based on reason and justice than they ever were. I can only take it for granted that somewhere in the setup of international officers of the building trade group there must be one or two exceptionally bull-headed, blind, selfish, egotistical, domineering men. They must be men who could perhaps serve their organizations better if they would take a kit of tools and go back to work at their trade. If any or all of these gentlemen have a feeling that they personally, or the craft they represent, are more important than the welfare of the building trades as a whole, it is time for them to wake up. You international men are paid good salaries and it is not too much for your members to expect you to make friends for the organizations

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which you represent. You certainly are failing in this. Some of you perhaps might do better in the political arena. I would vote for you just to get r’d of you and have team work and harmony on the job. I San not approve of jurisdictional disputes tying up government work and ruthlessly snatching the comforts of life from the hands of men, women and children. I resent it when your bull-headed disputes mar the good fellowship of craftsmen. Certainly any man who, from the refuge of his power and position, refuses to submit these disputed questions to a disinterested and fair board of arbitration is an enemy of organized labor and the craft he represents. tt tt a A LOOK INTO THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE? By a Richmond Reader The air-torpedoing of the big Pan-American Airways liner early Monday recalls a warning I gave 39 years ago. I was just entering high school and what I knew of the World War I had learned from my father. He wrote the article, and I mailed it in away back in 1935. I have other copies of The Times of those days in which appeared similar articles from my father’s pen. If Times readers will visit the library they can see for themselves that what was foretold away back there in 1935 has come to pass in this year of grace. 1974! At that time the Ethiopian War was kicking up a little dust. Franklin D. Roosevelt was President. One Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of murdering the baby of Charles Lindbergh, the noted air pilot of those days, was still alive, waiting to be electrocuted. But I’m getting away from my story. And yet I’m not. In the year I mention the President started anew kind of “neutrality” policy. He was widely applauded for it. As my father explained it to me, the United States had been “taken for a ride” in 1917. The European nations did everything possible to get the United States into their “League of Nations,” but Congress refused to bite. As soon as the Italian-Ethiopian-League scrap started, the President announced anew neutrality. Americans were warned that they would “travel at their own risk.” It was “traveling at the risk of a million lives” that got the United States into the World War of 1914-IS 18. So the people got the idea that everything was well and swell. But my father had taken a deep interest in anew and rather strange development in the Pacific. He wrote article after article to The Times in which he asked why the United States was going 2400 miles out of its way to look for trouble. All sorts of stunt flights and naval maneuvers and air-armada flights were staged to make the nation “Pacific-conscious.” A private commercial airline to China was put through. A subtle campaign was waged to make Hawaii the “fortyninth state in the Union” and look

A—Webster’s distionary defines it as United States slang, meaning a partner or assistant. Q—What is the speed of the aircraft carriers “Lexington” and “Saratoga?” A—Thirty-three to thirty-five knots per hour. Q—ls there any difference between fish flesh and meat? A—There is no characteristic difference. The bulk of both is protein and water, and pound for pound there ig nearly, if not quite, as much protein in fish meat as in beefsteak. Q—What is a Novena? A—A nine days’ devotion to any religious object. Q —What is the area of Philadelphia? A—lt covers 129'-i square miles and extends about 22 miles north and south, and from 6 to 10 miles east and west. Q —ls there a maximum and minimum limit for salaries of major league baseball players? A—No. Each player is under contract which names the amount of his salary.

where we have our ‘forty-ninth state” today! A British-Japanese war is on, and 2100 miles of free salt water lies between California and the forty-ninth state. Didn’t my father warn about this way back there in 1935? He warned about the “gang-plank into the British empire”—one branch to China and the other to Australia. He was for private initiative all right, but he warned about Uncle Sam’s buying a lot 60 miles out in the swamps and putting his nice 200-acre farm down on a mortgage. Now that it is too late, I ask, why did the people of those days allow that? To quote my father, “They didn't give a damn.” tt tt a A LITTLE URGING FOR MUNICIPAL POWER By Walter Smith, Cambudge City New York state has a law that any county, city, town or village can own its orvn light or telephone plants. We need a law like that in Indiana. If the Mayor or other authorized official, as the Mayor of Huntington, in our state, is too persistent in his demands for municipal ownership, we put him in jail. Indiana’s present light and power law, dated March 8, 1933, says in case a city should lose its fight for municipal ownership, two years must pass before they can have another election. And if this act is repealed or annulled, the plant stays with the utility interests for at least five years. You will find this on Page 945 of the 1933 acts. All municipally owned plants in Indiana make their electricity for less than 1 cent per kilowatt hour. Last year Richmond paid $160,000 into the city treasury to help lighten taxes. The budget for 1936 rails for a rate of 5 cents and $310,000 to go to the city treasury. This is a strong $lO per capita. If the Governor of Indiana will call a special session he can save the people of this state between 40 and 50 million dollars a year, and a great deal of crime in the way of grafting officials. THE SONG OF ALL POETS BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY As long as I manage to live, My humble songs I will give, And all that I hope, is when I die. One remembering heart—will sigh. DAILY THOUGHTS Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better.—Ecclesiastes 6:11. NOTHING is so credulous as vanity, or so ignorant of what becomes itself.—Shakespeare.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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NOV. 30. 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 5. ALLEN. TTTASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—ItalVV ian women, both native and foreign born, are receiving picas from relatives in the homeland to send their gold wedding rings to II Duce to help finance his African war. . . . Postal authorities admit privately that their efforts to exclude Irish sweepstake tickets from the United States are not proving successful. Although the inflow of tickets through the mails has been checked, they are pouring into the country through other channels in larger volume than before. ... A spirit of whimsy seems to have descended on the press section of the . Department of Agriculture. A recent release telling about an lowa manufacturer, fined S2OO for violation of the Food and Drug Act, bore the following caption: “Poet's Protection Powder Didn't Protect Peet.” . . . Busiest office in the government at present is the Solicitor General’s division, which handles preparation for all the cases testing New Deal measures before the Supreme Court. So overwhelmed with work is Solicitor General Stanley Reed and his assistants that lunch is served at their desks. . . . The Se-curities-Exchange Commission, now girding its loins for the epochal battle over the Holding Company Act, is having trouble finding topnotch lawyers for its legal staff. . . . Senate liberals plan to make the most of the recent refusal of ship builders to construct a merchant vessel on the ground they were overloaded with Navy contracts. The incident probably will result in a drive to expand government shipyard facilities. tt a tt PRESIDENT BILL GREENS threat of expulsion from the A. F. of L has had no effect on the militancy of the industrial union group. At a secret meeting in Washington this week, leaders of the eight unions constituting the bloc—miners, printers, smelters, textile, millinery, gas field, and garment workers —raised an initial war chest of $50,000 to finance an aggressive drive to organize industrial unions in the auto, rubber and steel industries. They also decided to pool their staffs of organizers, numbering around 1000. for the campaign. . . . Because of his flectness of foot. College Boy Alf Landon was as “Fox.” . . . Asked what had be-* come of the crime reports written by Prof. Raymond Moley, Atty. Gen. Homer Cummings replied cryptically: “You know there is such a j thing as a statute of limitations.” ... A study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that there are 175,000 units of government in the United States. These units, comprising Federal, state, county and local governments, collected a total of $12,000,000,000 in taxes last year, an increase of 174 per cent ov"” 1913. . . . The total absence of any mention of the AAA in the resolutions adopted by the New York State Farm Bureau Federation at its recent convention, has caused a lot of private eye-brow raising among Administrationites. tt tt a LATEST bulletin from the Department of Agriculture is a far cry from pigs and processing taxes. It advises mothers to dress their children in bright colors to prevent accidents on the highways. . . . Latest bulletin from the Department of Justice hangs three medals on the Middle Atlantic states. For the first nine months of the year, these states had lowest scores in burglary, larceny and auto theft. Both New York and Philadelphia fall in this area. . . . Earle J. Christenberry, secretary to the late Huey Long, will be seen in the corridors of the Capitol again next session. Reports have it that he will serve Old-Age Townsend as head of the Washington office. . . . Bitter Nazi foe is Secretary Roper's son-in-law, Frank Bohn. Son of German parents, Bohn Ls'Viational chairman of the Emergency Committee to aid Nazi refugees. . . . Negro leaders are elated that Washington’s Federation of Churches at last has admitted Negro churches to membership. ... A prominent cotton expert from Argentina, returning to Washington from a tour through nine United States cotton states, privately expresses the opinion that machine picking of cotton is inevitable. “It will throw 3,000.000 Negroes out of work, but it will come inevitably,” he says. He is Jose Castells, Governor of the Argentine Chaco. (CopyriEht, 1335. bv United Fea'ur* Syndicate. Inc >