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THURSDAY DECEMBER 12. 1935.

OX-CAKT G<)\ EKNMENT OIIALL ox-cart government be preserved? That is toe question raised by the convention oi township and county officers, meeting here to oppose simplification. Home ime for home affairs is their argument. That argument at first appears to have considerable force. Hut tile multitude of minor offices raises the local lax bids and keeps so many parsons attend.ng to the public s business that the movement toward a county unit has gained strength. Tins convention, oi more tnau 2000 local officers from the various counties and townships, has poht.ca. unt - t.nat it does \vli have a manted eilcct on the Legislature, The general trend is t0c.... c.... mm effimuanun oi offices wmen overlap a..u duplicate. Gi,, eminent costs snouid be reouced and every public office sneuid stanu on its merit as a required public service. me office holders in convention can themselves show an attitude of co-operation for the improvement of government in Indiana. TIIE SCHOOL BUILDING REPORT J_jj ruxi bCnuUs housing in lucuanapuiis is not * keeping pace wi.h enrollment and must be lmpiovcd ii the city is to do its duty by the pupiLs. That is the essence oi a report by a building committee to thr Hoard oi School Commissioners. Tor some reason, enrollment in elementary schools is not increasing at the same rate as enrollment in high schools. The demand here, as it is in many cities, is lor modern school buildings for tlic.-i vmose education may end at the twehui grade. 'me commitce thinks the board should build a new school m Irvington, replace the portables at Aiseiiai Technical, and erect additions to Ueuige \Vjoiniigeon and Crispus Auucks. Two millions vvoii.d pay ior these and S2UO,OJO would relieve bad conditions in the elementary schools. The report oi the building committee includes an estimate oi the load on tne senool plant up to 1941. It rings with tacts. It tells the people that unless something is done immediately the cost of bringing the buildings up to the city's needs will be infinitely greater. It is to be hoped that at least a portion of the program can be put into operation. The city can not aliord to neglect its schools. PLEASE OMIT FLOWERS SAMUEL 110AR.E, British foreign secretary, has sold the League of Nations down the river in oilciing half of Ethiopia to Italy, it was charged in the House of Commons. His apologists say Sir Samuel was ill, and in a hurry to get to a Swiss resort to recover. Haile Selassie was reported as well as could be expected. THE NEW PROFESSION r 'jj million dollars go to Harvard for a graduate A school in the science of government. The donor is Lucius Littauer of New York. In accepting the gift, President Conant asks President Dodds of Princeton to head a committee to learn how the school may best be set up. This is indeed a patriotic and wise gift. If our young men are to make careers of government service they must be trained by scholars who have studied the past and who are able to guide for the future. Such schools open anew profession. The historic method oi casual appointment of political friends to offices requiring exact knowledge is on the way out. The country needs trained men and women. Such benefactions as Mr. Littauer's are in line with the best thought in philanthropy and government. DOWN WITH SLUMS CENATOR WAGNER of New York will press before the next Congress his bill to co-ordinate all government housing activities and set up an $803,000.000 revolving fund for low-interest, long-term loans and grants to cities for razing slums and building cheap, modern dwellings for workers’ families. And Senator Bankhead of Alabama will again urge passage of his bill authorizing a $1,103,000,000 fund—sloo,ooo,ooo of which would be subscribed by the government and the rest through sale of govern-ment-guaranteed bonds—to be used for low-interest loans to tenant farmers and sharecroppers to buy and equip farms. Compared to the magnitude of the problems of city and rural slums these sums are small. But, we believe, they are too large until the government learns first how to do the job. None of its multiple housing agencies has yet worked out the formula for providing city homes at rentals which low-paid workers’ families can afford. Loans to limited-dividend corporations have been tried. Also the Federal government has entered directly into the business of rehousing. This program at. present includes 50 projects, to accommodate 25.00 families, and doubtless will be valuable for demonstration purposes. But surely the answer is not to be found in the government itself becoming the landlord to millions of families. Tne Wagner bill plan of subsidizing cities with grants and loans, permitting each city to tackle its own slum problem, seems a more rational approach. But shouldn’t this plan be tested first on a small scale? • • npHE New Deal's Subsistence Homesteads Division and later its Resettlement Administration have tried to make freeholders out of dispossessed farmers. In these efforts the government appears also to have failed in evolving inadequate answer. Senator Bankhead's plan of providing loans for farmers who can offer evidence of their ability to make the grade is well worth trying. But hardly on a billior.-dollar scale until the plan has proved its worth. In principle we agree with these two socially minded senators that city slums and squalid tenant huts must give way to decent dwellings if ours is to be come again a land where equality of opportunity is something more than a chat phrase. Government experts estimate that at least six million families live in “substandard” town and city hemes, and five million more live in farm homes that are "definitely substandard.” Substandard

homes are those that lack ample, pure running water, sanitary plumbing and a bath for each family. We can not abide a condition in which 11 million American homes, or 36 per cent of ail homes# lack these primary provisions for health and decency. Disease, dependency, crime, destructive radicalism and despair thrive in these city and rural places of blight and misery. A constructive, statesmanlike program aimed at their elimination should pay rich social dividends. But let us not spend more billions .or experimentation. The emergency rehousing services have not lacked money. They have lacked experience. In evolving long-term programs we should make haste slowly, and use the government's emergency experience to light the path. “ROAD TO WAR” A MERICAN missionaries in Ethiopia yesterday presented a signed protest to the United States charge d'affaires in Addis Ababa, saying, in part: “There was never a more deliberate insult to the American flag than Italy's bombardment of the American Mission Hospital property at Dessye and the consequent endangering of American lives . . . ihe first bombs were dropped on American property adjoining the Red Cross encampment. Forty struck the compound and five the hospital, marked by a large American flag and Red Cross. "This wholesale bombardment of an area which is far removed from the main town of Dessye obviously could not have been accidental. For years the Italian authorities have known the exact location and other particulars of this property. “Claims that munitions are stored there are ridiculous. "We, the undersigned, hope this brutal and insulting act will open the eyes of the few remaining Americans at home who may still be defending Italy in its present attempt to conquer Ethiopia.” a a 'IY7E “Americans at home” are naturally sym- ’ * pathetic toward any of our countrymen when they are under attack in any foreign land. But we "Americans at home” should also be realistic enough to understand that it is of such incidents as this that our wars are made—whether the Americans be missionaries in Ethiopia or passengers on a Lusitania. And in the further interest of realism we recall right now that: Last July, while the rainy season was still on and long before a single Italian soldier or tank or plane had passed over the Ethiopian border, the United States State Department advised all Americans in that land, missionaries included, to come home. That advice had but one purpose—to minimize the possibility of any incident which might conceivably inflame American public opinion and thereby propel us into another war across the seas. We “Americans at home,” at the time, heartily indorsed that purpose. But many Americans In Ethiopia did not take the advice of our State Department. One of them, T. A. Lambie, head of the Sudan Interior mission, announced that American missionaries would remain at their posts and do their duty as they saw fit “regardless of whatever happens.” "We put our faith in God,” he said at that time, “and do not expect consular protection.” Mr. Lambie's name Is listed as one of the signers of yesterday's protest to the United States charge d'affaires. THEY CALLED IT “VIEWING” ONCE TUST as further proof that history does repeat ** we quote from a letter from a friend who likes to read history: “I was re-reading the life of Aaron Burr (the one by Wandel and Minningerode) last night, and I ran across a paragraph which rather startled me. I had thought these innovations, brain trusters and agriculturists, were original, and that the idea of plowing up one-third of the wheat, corn or cotton seemed to bear the stamp of inventive genius. This outstanding paragraph in the Burr biography clearly indicates that there is 'nothing new under the sun': “ 'Through her mother, Theodosia was even more conspicuously connected with the history of the colonies. Her great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Stillwell, had come from Surrey to be one of the earliest tobacco planters at Yorktown, in Virginia; and in 1639, when in order to curb the excessive cultivation of the plant it was decreed that crops should be 'viewed’ and one-half of each crop burned, Nicholas was chosen as a ‘viewer’ being of ‘experience and dignity.’ ” A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON story of Old Jules is told in a book of the same name by his daughter, Marl Sandoz, who got the Atlantic Monthly prize for it. Courage and severe truth are in its pages; otherwise no daughter could give the public such a pitiless portrait of her father. Old Jules, the man, is no stranger to those whose parents helped to settle the Middle West. There are many of his kind fn*m Canada to Texas; tough shoots from European trees who fastened themselves in American soil and transplanted the Old World ideal of male supremacy in every section of our land. Jules wanted freedom and growth for himself but not for his women. Those he made into dray horses, forgetting that the wide lands which called to his ambitions also had room for the mounting wings of feminine aspiration. The pioneer life was so hard that only the strongest could survive. The weak soon perished and their bones still fertilize our prairies. Every civilization marches forward over women's crushed hearts, and ours is no exception. Worn out by hard work, worry, poor food and child-bearing, most of the wives died young, or went insane, as animals will when tortured beyond endurance. Reading of the ones who were harried by Old Jules, your stomach will turn over now and then, but when you finally put down the book, I wonder whether the same question will creep into your mind that came to mine. It is a question so traitorous to all we believe in that I almost fear to put it to you, as I fear to look at it myself. Here it is: Is it so dreadful to have lived as those pioneer women did—fully, deeply, even desperately, reaching both the heights and the depths of existence? Was their fate worse than that of millions of modern women who drag through a long procession of empty days, frustrated maternally, with nothing for their hands to make, with countless idle hours to fill, and with an awful feeling of uselessness weighing them down? None of us, I daresay, would want to trade places with Mary, the only one of the four women who lived through the ordeal of pioneering with Old Jules. We are much too soft. But let's not be soft enough to pity her too much. If our youngsters think that they can produce a better document tthan the Constitution), by all means let them try.—Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant. Criminal cases never improve with age—S. J. Mauhs, special assistant attorney.'general, New York. _ > ’ j

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Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

T HAVE before me the December number of "The Hoosier Equestrian.” which I understand to be the house organ of the Indiana Saddle Horse Association. The revival of horseback riding in the United States is something that deserves the attention of all students ot cur folk ways. The present upsurge is really the end product of something which began about 10 years ago. Here and there stables were opened; here ana there whipcord breeches and hard hats were stocked by the more : courageous merchants. a a a j f'vNE of the better movie critics in the state at that time was ; Carolyn Jacks, now the wife of Everett Holies of the United Press. Carolyn, very smart, very pretty and very much up to date, decided she would have her daily dozen on a noise. Arrayed in the last word in habits she scaled out through the park ret asiue ior horseback riders. Just when she was in that healthful g.ow that conies from exercise and a clear conscience the livery stable plug she was aboard decided to lie down. Carolyn was able to get off before the debacle and remain uninjured. But her conscience would not permit her to leave portable and valuable goods in the public way. So she took the saddle and bridle off the animal and tramped back to the stable. Returning the leather to the .ctendant, she told him where he awaid find his charger and called a ab. a a a A STABLE, my agents Inform me, is a device by which the wealthy compensate for the fact that the poor can own cars. At one time automobiles were for the privileged few. But now', what with instalment buying, the little fellow can turn out in a chariot as good looking as that of his rich neighbor. But he can not possess a horse, for a horse requires fodder and a place to sleep. Also it requires leisure in which he may be ridden. My knowledge of horses is limited. I recall through the mists of the years a creature my father bought, against the wishes of my mother, whose call name was “Admiral Dewey.” That places him in regard to age. Father bought him on the sly and a colored man in the plot brought him home. The only trouble with the Admiral was that when they came to lead him into the stable the clearance was too low' and he would not go in. The Biological Survey and the State Conservation Department may correct me if I am wrong, but I understand a horse will not duck. The entrance must be high enough or he will stay out all night. a a a /~\NE thing I like about the horseback movement is that it involves the hunt breakfast. I always have wanted to eat breakfast standing up in the English manner. The menu should include “Toad-fn-the Hole,” which is a kidney baked inside an onion, or vice versa. I should imagine that any breakfast taken after a run with the hounds should be taken standing up. Off the mantel, as it were. At that, this increased interest in horses and how to ride them is an excellent thing. It has revived an ancient and honorable pastime known as the hay ride. I note that people have gone into the hay ride business and will give a hay ride, including a wiener roast, at from 50 cents to a dollar a person, depending on the hour of the day or night. It was the hay ride that made many of the matches that produced our present civilization, if you want to call it that. And a return of the hay ride as a pastime is not to be sneered at. a a a 'T'HE only objection to the saddleA horse craze is that it is a little hard on the apartment house dweller. Just as he has solved the problem of keeping a Scottie or some other breed of pooch in an efficiency, he is confronted by boarding a horse. But maybe the architects and the realtors will crack the question. OTHER OPINION Fads About Food [La Porte Herald-Argus] Most of us use the accredited implements at the table, the knife, fork and spoon, and refrain from tearing our food in our fists and conveying it to our mouths in our fingers. We think of ourselves as civilized j creatures who have table manners. But unfortunately most of us have : not advanced very far along the road to complete intelligence in our ! eating. i What we take into our stomachs, how often and how much, are problems that we have not met and 1 mastered. And we are continually I grasping at fads which we think 1 will give us better digestions or keep ■ our weight down. We do this in a manner of desperation when our eating habits have brought us to difficulties. We grasp at fads when we should have the gumption to rearrange our whole eating program.

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ITimes readers are invited to express tlicir views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reuuest.) a a a PUBLICITY’ ON DRIVE IS APPRECIATED By James M. Ogden, President, Christian Laymen’s League of Indianapolis On behalf of the Christian Laymen's League of Indianapolis, I wish to thank you and your management for the splendid publicity given our recent Go-to-Church campaign through The Times. From reports we are receiving we feel that our community has been benefited and much of the credit for this is due the newspapers for their fine co-operation. a a a ROOSEVELT S WORK IS AN INSPIRATION By C. H. G. Throwing aside party pride and prejudice, I am casting my ballot for a man who has acted in every emergency, demonstrated his every ability, and given his loyal support to every worth-while humanitarian effort. His opponents have nothing to offer. On questions of vital political significance, their answers are vague, evasive, vacillating, indecisive. They are like men on a rudderless ship. They are grasping everything in sight for a rudder, but using a smokestack mostly, where nothing but hot air is emanating. No party plea can pull me. I am voting for the man—Franklin D. Roosevelt. And I sincerely believe when he steps down from his presidential chair, after 8 years of doing his best, he will say, "My friends, I have fought a good fight against the depression. I have kept the faith of my democratic forefathers. I have finished my course, therefore I give my best w’ishes to my successor. May he continue the good work.” a a a THEODORA HOME PRAISED FOR WORK By Mae C. Mattox I wonder who knows just what the Theodora Home really is and what it is for? Only those who go there seem to know’, and my stay there has prompted me to write this article, because I know too. Theodora' Home is a truly Christian home for folk who need a place to stay until jobs can be found, or until they can make further arrangements to go on. Devotional services are held every morning and all are invited to attend. kindness is shown by the matron who looks after each one. Because of the prayerful life that

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she lives, much is accomplished that is good. There is a scripture verse which reads, "The poor you will have with you always.” It is true, a lot of us who come to the Theodora Home are poor, but spiritually we are made rich with blessings that are sent to us from God who knows our needs. He lives with us always at the Theodora Home. a a a NOMINATES AIR COMMENTATOR FOR PRESIDENCY By R. L. Morgan. Bloomington Since the season is now open and it is lawful to commence looking around for presidential possibilities and campaign issues and slogans, why not turn our attention to the old Quaker State of Pennsylvania and give serious consideration to that intellectual wizard and Roman of them all, Boake Carter, whose charming and commanding voice comes to us every evening over the air commenting on the news of the day? I do not know what this man’s religion is, or what his politics are, or whether he is wet or dry (and care little). But, after listening for more than a year to his musical flow of rhetoric and rapid machine-gun fire of wit, sarcasm, logic, common sense and humor, and noting that the source of his ammunition is inexhaustible and that his range is unlimited and aim accurate, I do know that he is the biggest presidential possibility now making a noise in Uncle Sam’s political game reserve. It isn't necessary to say that this great commentator and seed sower and broadcaster of the air is the giant oak of the forest whose sturdy branches tower above all for light and wisdom and whose falling acorns, or gems of thought, feed and quench the thirst for truth and knowledge. This you all know, who have heard him. Like Shakespeare, he has surveyed and fathomed the whole ocean of thought and stored in his masterful mind only the kernels, and those who come after must of necessity be gleaners of chaff. With his amazing vocabulary, cutting sarcasm and keen and humorous wit, coupled with his sound punches of logic and sudden blasts and flashes of oratory, he aims steady and shoots straight at his chosen target and never fails with his glib and lashing tongue to ring the bell of conviction in the minds of his audience. After hearing all of the political harangue and ranting, propaganda and hypocrisy which daily crowd the air and choke our dials, and after reading the many partisan and misleading editorials and conflicting and confusing expert opinions found in the columns of our press which befuddle instead of enlighten, it is with great satisfaction to our beclouded and hungry minds

Q —Have all the kings of Great Britain from the time of George I been of German descent? A—Yes. Q —Should a widow use her own name or that of her deceased husband on visiting cards? A—The name of her deceased husband. Q—From what picture is the song, “Rose in I er Hair,” and who sang It? A—Dick Powell sang it in “Broadway Gondolier.” Q—How many persons in the United States own their own homes, and how many are renters? A—ln 1930, 14,032.074 families owned their homes; 15,319,317 rented. and for 582,772 the tenure was unknown. Q —What is the name of the book written by Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh? A—“ North to the Orient.” Q—ls irregardless a legitimate word? A — The dictionary gives it as an erroneous word fo* regardless.

to know that we have a man who, at tne close of tne Day, while seateci near the nations birtnpiace ana cradle, Tiidepenuence Han, win train nis batteries and heavy artillery upon the current events and wunout tear or lavor lut the masks and rip and tear away the veils and weDs oi deception whicn the politicians and propagandists have, throughout the uay, attempted to weave and spin around puonc questions. In tins hour ol impending international danger let us be serious anu sensiDie wuen consiuenng presidential timber. Let us stop joking aim forget aoout tne Hoovers, Lindoerghs and "Teddy Juniors.” Let us uraft Boake Carter, who is sound in both body and mind and big enough to guide our ship of state at name and abroad. With him as our candidate the issue will be brains and statesmanship versus politics and politicians and the campaign slogan will be "Cheery-O.” Well, in his words, be this as it may, it Is something ior “Johnny Q. Public” to think about. QUESTION BY’ HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK When will I learn, through bitterness, To take the trickle of the days. And taste each moment for itself? When will I learn that sorrow flays Forever those who walk the path Where many feet have trod before? Where danger lurks to strike again? Where premonition guards the core? I who would take my life and spend The present planning for an hour When fruit of labor will be plucked, As luscious as a passion flower. I who would live for future day Can never know the bread of peace. Always will death be leering close. Never will I know cool surcease. So when will I, through bitterness, Learn to tip the wine of now To eager lips and drain the dregs? Tomorrow death may not allow. DAILY THOUGHTS For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. —Psalms 73:3. THE most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.—Rochefoucauld.

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DEC. 12, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and . ROBERT S. ALLEN. TTTASHINGTON. Dec. 12 —Tne * League has weathered some hazardous tests m recent months, . but perhaps its hardest conies when ! the question of an oil embargo arises today. If tiie committee of eighteen votes to bar oil from Italy immediately, u means either that Mussolini is finished or else that in desperation he plunges all Europe into 1 war. , For oil is the life-blood of the Italian military machine. Without it Italian naval vessels ! could not carry troop* ana supplies ;to East Africa Italian tanks could neither advance nor retreat on the Ethiopian front. And Mussolini's crack air corps, wmch has been breaking up Ethiopian troop concentrations, would oe grounded. No wonder Mussolini threatened' war against the world. Latest official prognostications re- ! ceived here, however, indicate the League will uot.ge the issue. The ; committee oi eighteen will vote sanctions, but ue.ay application until arcunci Jan. 1. Puolic excuse will be the desire to know wnetner the American Congress will vote an emoargo on oii. Present prospects are that if Geneva waits lur Congress, Mussolini should not have niucn to worry about. Legislation now being drafted by Senator Bone, who forced the present neutrality act on the White House—calls for no embargo on oil. Other Senators indicate an oii embargo will be difficult. If passed, at all, certainly it will ! r.ot come until late January, or even i February. a a a 'T'HE most conservative and rei calcitrant member of the Suj preme Court today undoubtedly is ; Justice James Clark Mcßeynolds. His voting record has been 100 per cent against all New Deai measures, i 100 per cent for big business, j Wuen the court, by a scant 5-4 j vote, decided to uphold the gold deJ cision, Mr. Mcßeynolds delivered a I scathing denunciation lrom the 1 Dench, virtually branding the dc- | cision a miscarriage of justice. However, it was not always thus. Asa young lawyer in 190?, Mr. ‘ Mcßeynolds was with the famous ; New York law firm of Cravath, | Henderson and de Gersdorff. He re-/ ! signed, however, in order to proseI cute the Tobacco Trust, one of the j firm's most important clients. a a a CHARLES R. GAY, head ot the New York Stock Exchange, is J telling the following story in conj neccion with current business con- | ditions: A business man rushed into the office of ms partner with the jubilant cry: “Jim, I’ve just checked over our book* and we are out of the ltd at last!” “Great! I'll buy a bottle of black | ink when I go out for lunch.” "No, no! Don't do that," was the ! excited answer. "The price of a 1 bottle of ink will put us back in the j red again.” a a a EVER hear of Federal Prison Industries, Inc.? It is a government-owned and operated corporation which does a nourishing business in goods manufactured m Federal prisons. Last | year the company turned into tne ! Treasury a net profit of $226,000 j out of a sales volume of $1,606,uQ0. This year with prison rolls at n j record nigh it expects to do even* | better. Inere are now over 15,000 ! inmates m Federal penitentiaries, of whom only 15 per cent are employed in the workshops. Products made in Federal "pens” are sold only to the government and jat market prices. T hey include I shoes, uniforms, underwear, cotton S textiles, rubber goods, furniture, cast | iron goods, brooms. I Only inmates with good-behavior i records are employed, and long- | term prisoners get the preference. | The work is limited to a maximum : of 40 hours. During the NRA, code I hour regulations were followed. Pay is on a low piece-W'ork basis, with most of the salary sent monthly to the families or dependents of the workers. Most of the big prisons specialize in one type or product. Atlanta, for example, has a large textile mill that J makes canvas fer mail bags, cotton j duck for uniforms, sheeting and ! mattresses. Last year the plant's ; sales in thes’ commodities amount;ed to $652,000. . (Copyright. 1635. by United Featurs Syndicate. Inc.l