Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1935 — Page 22

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935. INDIANA AND WPA TA TORE than $6,000,000 worth of WPA projects are '*■*■*' approved for Indiana and soon will be under way. Added to those already moving, these will keep the state in the top list of those which have taken advantage of Federal aid for public improvements. The state has been outstanding in trying to employ men and women and at the same time obtain works of permanent value. The administration of the projects has beer, vigorous. In reclaiming destitute hill country folk from their pathetic cabins in the southern part of the state, the men working toward permanent social improvement are doing a notable task. The people at large know little about this work. We understand motion pictures are being taken to be shown in commercial theaters and school halls. That will be a worthy piece of public education. ADELAIDE S. BAYLOR NATIVE of Wabash, Indiana, Adelaide Steele Baylor was one of the leading pioneers in proving that women can hold high executive positions in education. Her death in Washington, where for 6ome years she had filled the post of chief of the Home Economics Education Service, closes a career which was a model for women in education. Ur. Baylor was the first woman superintendent of schools in Indiana. As such, she became the president of the City and Towns Superintendents Association when she w r as the only woman member. Women, and especially women in education, owe much to Dr. Baylor for blazing the trail. She showed what women of determination can do in competition with men. PRESIDENT BENES Europe and the world will applaud the elevation of Foreign Minister Edouard Benes to the presidency of Czechoslovakia. Now that country’s grand old man, the retiring, 85-year-old President Thomas G. Masaryk, can withdraw to private life with the knowledge that the plans of few mortals have worked out so well as his. Founder of the republic, and its president for 17 years, Dr. Masaryk has lived to hear it spoken of as “the biggest little country in Europe.” Its influence Is out of all proportion to its size. Naturally he does not wish to see this prestige diminished after his death by a political scramble for his mantle. Accordingly he purposely resigned so that, in effect, he might help name his successor His choice was Dr. Benes, his right-hand man throughout his entire term in office. Nor was this choice merely personal. On the contrary, had he put It to a vote of all outside Europe, the brainy little foreign minister would have won, hands dowm. Czechoslovakia is to be congratulated. LONG DISTANCE ANY person who has learned the comfort of a telephone call to his family at a distance will applaud the Bell Telephone Cos. for making the present reduced night tolls effective for all day Sunday. The situation with regard to general telephone service differs in the various states, but this concession to public convenience and service is to be made effective throughout the country. In Indiana it awaits the consent of the Public Service Commission. Recently telegraph companies put on the market a series of form telegrams, anyone of which could be sent to any part of the United States for 25 cents. Here was recognition of the need for more consideration oi the customer. The list of changes in the rate structure for telephone service in Indiana, as placed before the commission, suggest that utilities are conscious of the pressure of public opinion and are anxious to do something to reduce that pressure. Whether they can succeed remains to be seen. At any rate, if the commission consents, a great many Indiana people will use the long distance telephone more freely after Jan. 15. DETECTIVE QUINNETTE ANOTHER officer has met death at the hands of criminals. Detective Sergeant Quinnette of the Indianapolis police force is the latest victim. To call him a hero, or a sacrifice to the public welfare, is to give small comfort to his widow. The city should give her all the consolation it can—but then what? It is evident that we are in the midst of another defiant crime epidemic. One of the largest gangs of automobile theft suspects to be arrested was captured this week* The ramifications of that case may be many. State and city police and county authorities 6eem to be doing a good job. What more can be done? First, bend every effort, share every co-operative movement with the Federal government and other states for more scientific and efficient law enforcement. Next, relieve social and economic conditions which produce criminals. SPEAKING OF EXPENSE Tyj"ANY business men spend a great deal of their time complaining about the expense of government, especially the Federal government under the New Deal. Yet the principal law officer of the Federal government, Attorney General Cummings, has to go into court and argue against an attempt of one group of business operators to force the government to spend unnecessarily a whole lot of tax money which government officials do not want to spend. Utility interests have filed 50 separate suits challenging the constitutionality of the holding company law—filed them, the Attorney General said, in a way calculated to "harass and overwhelm” the Justice Department, which has more than enough to do handling other litigation respecting other laws. It is, of course, impossible for the government to defend every one of these cases, without slighting other important work and hiring more lawyers. Likewise these multiple suits are an unnecessary burden on the courts themselves, whose dockets are already overcrowded. The government properly asks that those superfluous proceedings be halted* The government seems eager to test the consti-

tutlonality of the law. Its suit to compel compliance on the pm of the Electric Bond and Share Corp., a far-flung holding company with many subsidiaries, should serve that purpose adequately and expeditiously. Pending court determination, the government has given every assurance that it will refrain from actions against the utility interests. It has been the history of utilities that they have had the upper hand over the regulatory bodies because. for one reason, they have spared no expense in hiring the best legal talent that money could buy, and taken advantage of every conceivable technicality. But apparently the utilities are still up to their old tricks. As much is charged by Roger W. Babson, not a New Dealer nor a Crusader, but an economist, business man, large stockholder and director in the utility industry. In an open letter to President Roosevelt Mr. Batson expresses the opinion that in refusing to register with the SEC, as the holding company law provides, the utilities were employing “tactics more worthy of gangsters.” Monopolies rest on the patience of the people. Some day the people may decide that all attempts to regulate privately owned monopolies are futile and too expensive. HATE, HUMOR, AND 1936 a FEW days ago we asked the question whether '**• 1936 will see a campaign of reason, or just plain hate. We believe the answer will depend largely on whether the stress of the times has been so great as td cause America to lose her sense of humor, that trait which Rudyard Kipiing once said was our most conspicuous national characteristic. Hate and humor don’t mix. And evidences at the moment point to a humorless start. For example, that declaration from Clinton L. Bardo, president of the National Association of Manufacturers—"lndustry, much against its will, has been forced in sheer self-defense to enter the political arena.” Implying that, up to now, industry has held coldly aloof from all things Washington. If one’s mood is possessed to the slightest capacity for seeing the funny side of things, that is certainly to laugh. For we can not help recalling that it was none other than the National Association of Manufacturers itself which steered into being those two prize political documents, the Fordney-McCum-ber and Hawley-Smoot tariff acts. Nor can we forget that it was Mr. Bardo himself who back in 1933 did 6uch yeoman service against a government loan to a prospective competitor of the New York Shipbuilding Cos. of which he was then the head. A prospectus of the proposed competitive yard had been filed with the RFC and speedily reached the attention of Mr. Bardo. That brought action. Without repeating all of the somewhat involved detail of the story, which is told in full in the records of the Senate Munitions Committee, let it be said that the proposed shipyard was never built. It is impossible to scan the tale the record tells without sensing that no high board fence of will has to be scaled in order for industry to land in the arenS" of politics. And when we view the Washington scene and sight the industrial pressure groups that grace the nation’s capital with their presence it is indeed a commentary on the too-serious turn the campaign is already taking—the bankers, the brokers, the utilities, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, the Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation, not to mention the A. F. of L., the railway brotherhoods, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, each knowing exactly what it wants and “industriously” trying to get it. Remember Jimmy Gerard’s “59 men who rule America,” that list published back in the days when times were still fairly lush and the superman could still hold up his head? The list that included Insull but left out the President of the United States? Well, we think that, though time has considerably tarnished the list itself, one remark made by the author still stands the test of truth. “They (the list),” said Mr. Gerard, “are too busy to hold political office but they determine who shall.” There isn’t any particular moral to this piece, except to express the hope that the American people don’t go through the campaign of 1936 with a cracked iip. *

HE PAID HIS DEBT TN Spokane, Wash., a man of 60 has squared his debt with society. This man battled against adversity for months, but finally had to apply for relief, He swore he’d repay every cent when his ship came in. The other day his ship came in. Mining stock he thought was worthless came back. He sold it as soon as possible and hurried to the relief office with the cash. "Now,” he said, “I can look the world in the face.” This story is not told as a reproof to those who leceive aid they can not repay. It is told as just another answer to the libel that public relief robs the needy of character. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson TpCONOMY as it is extolled by the average husA - / band is one thing; it is quite another as practiced by him. The other day a couple of them were holding forth about general domestic extravagance, while their wives—l was one of them—sat with heads meekly bowed beneath the half-serious, half-jocular tirade. Feminine trends in spending were soundly lambasted. We waste too much on clothes, it seems. Isn’t it obviously ridiculous to spend 50 or 25, or even 15 dollr.rs, on a dress when you are always wanting anew one the day after tomorrow? Then we clutter up our houses with all sorts of costly gimcracks; end tables, footstools and whatnots. We know absolutely nothing about the value of money, and the Lord only knows what would become of us if the men weren’t around to put down the heavy hand occasionally and save us from our folly. After which the bosom friends drove off in an extra-expensive car—cars being the hobby of one of them—for a week-end fishing and hunting trip —hunting and fishing being hobbies of both. Before their departure they had come home with the most outlandish lot of truck you ever saw. Fishing rods that cost an unbelievable sum; newfangled flies, special food for the hunting dogs. From the looks of their luggage they had bought out the sporting goods department, and certainly budgeting had been remote from their thoughts while doing so. Husbands are like that, and wives, too. For extravagance and economy, to most of us. mean exactly this: Whatever I want is sensible; whatever you want is foolish. Most men, I’ve noticed, no matter how cautious they are about giving up their money, have what they like within the limits of their incomes. A case of Scotch, for instance, doesn’t strike the fellow who likes a highball as extravagant, although it may seem sheer wastefulness to his nonthinking wife.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

THIS time of year there is always the tendency to shove monthly bills, insurance premium notices and such little annoyances under the desk blotter so you will have enough money for Christmas. That is way every man should have a stern secretary, trained in an efficient school, to take him by the ear and lead him to a bad halfhour of check-signing. tt n tt I have scanned the Indiana journalistic humorists rather carefully and have come across only one Christmas necktie quip. This is a violation of the humorists’ union rules. They require each fellcw to write at least two necktie and two cigar gags every Christmas season. u a a To the friend who sent in a copy of Gaar Williams’ “Among the Folks in History,” thanks. Gaar and I were friends. His pictures of the gay nineties were classics. I am glad this collection has been made, giving Gaar a chance to be among the folks in history for those who have grown up since his untimely death. , tt u u A NOTHER friend writes in to ask what has become of Mitzi Hajos, the little musical comedy star. How should I know? Let me ask him one. Where is Emma Trentini? a a tt Spies report the corn licker industry in Brown County is thriving. The sentence would be correct if the words “in Brown County” were omitted. a tt Somebody has sent in' a book, printed in Indianapolis, called “Just a Touch of Lavender.” A cursory glance reveals that it is not “Lavender and Old Lace.” A WOMAN friend, M. L. D., is giving a friend a diary for Christmas. That gives me a twinge of conscience. I have always intended to keep a diary but never got around to it. People should keep diaries if only because they are a check on bad conduct. If a feflow has to write down all he does every day, fear of exposure will make him keep himself in line. Diaries are like New Year resolutions; alwayS intended, seldom kept. We start the New Year right and then go on leaving undone the things we ought to do and doing the things we ought not to do until, as the Prayer Book says, “there is no health in us.” For instance, I have always intended to learn to bowl. My reason is that I have observed that most bowlers are persons of good character and steady habits. They seem to draw their inspiration out of the bowling instead of the bowl. tt tt tt I MET a wise man the other day and we got to talking about what makes the best Christmas gift. He said that if only somebody could give another person the gift of good judgment that would make the best gift of all. I thought I’d just pass it on. He is an Indianapolis lawyer who gets weary of trying to pull people out of messes into which they have gotten themselves, not through bad intention, but through bad judgment. Most of the unhappiness springs from wrong choices by otherwise excellent people.

OTHER OPINION New Dealing [South Bend Tribune] Now that the best Christmas business since 1929 is being recorded attempts are being made to add it to the New Dealers’ accomplishments. “You report better business in your news columns and criticise the Roosevelt Administration in your editorial columns” is the gist of a letter to newspapers that is assuming a chain-like appearance. When did business sentiment become better? Soon after the Supreme Court of the United States killed the NRA. Destruction of that bureaucratic agency, New Dealers had predicted, would be “disastrous” for business. It was a national tonic. Unfortunately, the New Dealers took it in bad grace and continued on their regimentation course. Responsible Americans, however, are less fearful of them, thanks to the Supreme Court. Change in Primary [Hartford City News.] The change in the primary law, compelling candidates to file petitions signed by one-half of 1 per cent of the votes cast for secretary of state in order to get their names on the ballot, was apparently designed to make fewer candidates, but it may not necessarily work out that way because the required number of signatures is not suflicinetly large to deter those with a yen for office. Some voters may not want to thus publicly commit themselves, but the task of securing the required number of signers should not be very difficult. Those who seek office at the urging of their friends will have a chance to see how strong the urging is.

‘MERRY CHRISTMAS!’ ;>j|3

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) a a tt EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR CO-OPERATION By O. Hcrschel Folgcr, D. D. Just a brief note to express my appreciation, along with the other ministers, the Laymen’s League, and the laymen of all the churches, for your co-operation at the time of the Go-to-Church campaign. We very much appreciate your generosity in that undertaking. a a tt “AMERICAN SYSTEM” IS PUZZLE TO WRITER By a Subscriber I see the miners are blamed for the high price of coke and coal. Let’s look behind the scenes. The miners received an increase of nine cents per ton and coal was raised 50 cents per ton. Who gets the 41c difference? I believe the miners’ strike was forced by mine owners as an excuse to increase prices and profits for themselves. Capitalism has given labor nothing but unemployment and a few crumbs, while grabbing the best of what labor produces. I see nothing wrong in Socialism that is teaching to manufacture for use and not for profit—in other words, a co-operative commonwealth where we can Jwe economic security and peace. Just what do some of our “superpatriots” mean by “the American system” or “the American w T ay”? So far they have been as clear as mud. Do they mean such scenes as in the play “Tobacco Road,” where ignorance rules, or do they mean that the resources of this country should be for the peoples’ benefit, instead of profit to a privileged class. ASKS FREEDOM FOR U. S. BUSINESS MEN By Reader What the United States needs for recovery is reinstatement of the American business man in business with good standing. Take government interference out of his business and eliminate the union racket, and give him back faith in his ability to operate his business. The NRA took from the business owner his right to set a price for his product, his right to set his expendituies, and his right to discuss his problems with his employes. In my instance, before the era of the NRA. I was paying my employes $25 a week for a six-day week. And, by the way, my employes are not skilled workmen, and the average salary in my locality for this type of labor was $lB a week. In five years I had increased my employes from 9 to 25. my salaries from $lB to $25 weekly. The biggest racket in the United States today is the compulsory payoff by the workers to an organization which operates under the name of organized labor, hiding under section 7-A of the NRA code and shielded under the wbngs of the American Federation of Labor! For the past two years I have

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been made to swallow this medicine with the promise that it was the cure I needed to make me well, the little pellet that my employes needed to make them satisfied and happy and the dose that would make my business secure. Give us back the confidence in ourselves to run our own business and take care of our own investment which the NRA took from us. Give us the respect of the men we employ, that the unions have taken from us. Let the working people know that the American business man is not a slave-driving, browbeating King Midas, but a very necessary cog in the wheel of industry and business of the United States. a a a POLITICS? IT’S TOT CALLING KETTLE BLACK * By H. S. Bonsib The Republican party built a toboggan slide for the depression, and the Democrats finished it. The Republicans put in wet men to enforce a dry law, and the Democrats went them one better by putting in a 100 per cent wet President to finish up the wet business. He is continuing what the wet Republican party started. Under the Republican administration thousands of banks closed, and the Democrats helped finish the job. The Republicans started under Hoover’s Federal Farm Board the policy of restricting crop production, sponsored by the Republican Secretaries of Agriculture Jardine and Hyde, and wasn’t it warmly indorsed in the 1932 Republican platform? What about the Republicans blaming the Democrats for the drougth condition? Suppose the G. O. P. had been in power, what then? Have the two old parties a real issue? It is mostly the kettle calling the pot black—both old parties got us in the hole—let's quit jumping from the frying pan into the fire and vice versa. PLEADS THAT U. S. STAY NEUTRAL By James Brown I read the forceful editorial, Road to War, which appeared in The Times, Dec. 12. I agree with the writer in his opinion that American citizens in Ethiopia should have come home last July. It seems strange to me that T. A. Lambie and other American missionaries did not return when the United States State Department asked them to. Now that bombs have been dropped on the American hospital there, this same man and his followers send a protest to us “Americans at home” saying that they hope this act will “open our eyes.” What a stupid message! Our eyes should have been opened during the last gree t war. Our minds should wander back to Flanders’ fields. Our ears should catch th* echo of shrieking shells, of bursting bombs, of clashing bayonet and sword. Our spirits should go trooping through damp, insecure trenches steeped with hell itself, should see our boys, clean, eager, unafraid, and inspired by the thought that

Peale, the original of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Q —What was the amount of che players’ pool for the four games of the 1935 World Series? A—The pool amounted to $397,360.24, including $33,852.64 which represented the players’ share of the SIOO,OOO paid by the Ford Motor Cos. for the radio broadcasting privilege. Q —Has Detroit always been in the Eastern Standard Time Zone? A—lt was in the Central Standard Time Zone from 1883, when the time zones were first established, until Jan. 1, 1919. The change to E. S. T. was made by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission on Jan. 1 1919. in accordance with an Act of Congress passed in March, 1918. Q —Did Greta Garbo appear m the silent version of “Anna Karenina”? A—Yes, in 1927. The picture was titled "Love.” Q—ls the United States Public Health Service Hospital for drug addicts at Lexington, Ky., in operation? A—Yes.

they were saving their country, as they waded knee-deep in mud and blood. We should hear their cries as they fell under sniper’s bullets or their lives were snuffed out by deadly gases. War. War. War. There are American citizens who ignorantly believe that another one would "even up the score.” but I shall fight it forever. Why should we wreck the dreams of youth by sending them into a seething cauldron of destruction? Are we responsible for everything that happens? My answer is sincerely and positively no. And shall our own citizens in Ethiopia be the petty Pandoras to open tjbe box of foreign affairs and let escape the very Lucifer that breeds war? Is there no tradition of spirituality that will kindle deeper understanding and bring to higher light the principle of “Peace on earth, good-will to men”? Dear friends, war must not come to God’s own country. We that cherish our flag as we should will not go insane and desire that which will mar friendship, beauty, arts, and the glory of a loving Father. We must not allow the stupid insinuations of those who are itching for war to upset our happy dreams. The effect of the last war has not worn off entirely. Let us not forget the misery and despair it brought. Let us fight this devilish monster of greed, hate, and selfishness that breeds deepest sorrow. There are thousands who are blind, crippled, and otherwise impaired because of war.' This nation of ours is too strained and insecure to permit any more childish puppet shows. In the past we have been pitiful puppets in the hands of war lords and self-interest-ed rulers. Now that we can salute Old Glory in peace and solitude of spirit, someone in Ethiopia, who disobeyed his government, is asking us to be the crazy cat’s-paw and pull him out of the fire, to get our own paw severely seared. THAT CHRISTMAS EYE BY MARY WARD Were the little sheep-bells ringing, When the harbinger came bringing Tidings of the Christ child, in his lowly bed? Did shepherds in the mountain passes Kneel among dew-jeweled grasses, While shone the star of Bethlehem overhead? DAILY THOUGHTS Take heed to yourselves; if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. —St. Luke xvii, 3. \WISE man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.—Rambler.

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DEC. 19, 1936

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Detailed and confidential reports regarding the mysterious British backdown, originally accepting the Hoare-Laval peace plan, gradually have trickled back to Washington. They paint a revealing picture. Behind Britain's abject surrender to Mussolini and the sudden willingness to give away half of Ethiopia were six important factors. One was a report made by British secret agents on Mussolini’s naval concentrations and the state of mind of the Italian people. Chief purpose of this was to ascertain whether Mussolini was bluffing when he threatened European war in case of an oil embargo. The British report satisfied Downing Street that he was not bluffing. Submarines w r ere reported already concentrated secretly against English shipping. British agents concluded that the very secrecy of the ship movements belied any idea of bluff. Two was an ultimatum given Sir Samuel Hoare by Premier Laval that while he would supoprt Gceat Britain publicly, France would not and could not mobilize in case of war. o a TLJE pointed out, first, that French X X peasants would not answer a i mobilization call. Even more important, the Conscript Maritime or ! French naval reserves, who would | have to be mobilized first, would not answer a call. The British were not quite sure at first whether Laval was doublecrossing them, so checked this ; through their own agents. They found Laval was telling the truth, j This was w T hat Stanley Baldwin j meant when he announced in parliament that his "lips were sealed” regarding certain things. Three was the situation in Egypt —where anti-British riots have been advertised to the world—but also j the situation in Arabia whicn has not been advertised. There, Ibn Saud, powerful ruler of Arab tribes, has been flirting with Italy. Until recently, however, he was much more friendly to Ethiopia, due to the Koran which tells how a king of Abyssinia once gave refuge to Mohammed. But as the Mediterranean dispute broadened into a clash between Italy and Britain. Ibn Saud veered against the British, with whom he had been allied in the war in the days of Lawrence of Arabia. What he saw was a chance to conquer the British-supported country of Iraq—and oil. All this had a decidedly dampening effect on Downing Street. FOUR was a series of secret negotiations with Hitler. These were held by both the French and British ambassadors in Berlin. They got nowhere. The extent to which the French and British w r ent in trying to win over the Nazi dictator has not leaked out in Europe, and if so j would scarcely be believed. Hitler j was offered colonies, a loan, almost I anything if he would sign a non- ■ aggression pact, agree to side with them against Italy. But he flatly refused. What he said, in effect, was this: “Germany has suffered much, and public opinion would not stand for any such agreement now. For us it would be a retreat. The only thing I can definitely promise you is the Rhine. It will not be vio-* lated. Central and Eastern Europe are my field.” Five. But it is exactly central and Eastern Europe that the French and British are worried about. German strategy in regard to this area has been well known for some time. It is to take over Austria, use this as a stepping stone for annexing Czechoslovakia—which already has over three million Germans—then march into the Ukraine and Russia. This, of course, would be a blow not only to the French-inspired Little Entente, but the preliminary to war in western Europe. a a tt SIX. Therefore, imagine the consternation of the French when Mussolini suddenly transferred a large portion of his troops from the Brenner Pass to the Italo-French border. The Brenner Pass is the gateway between Italy and Austria. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature 1 Syndicate. Inc.)

By George Clark