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THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1935

THE HOLIDAY RISK T)F,TWEEN now and New Year s there is going to be the greatest danger from reckless driving the city has experienced. The holiday spirit invites recklessness. It is safe to say there will be a leap In drunken driving, with consequent peril to pedestrians and to people who take their driving responsibility seriously. It is hardly any use to hope that advice and policing will curb the hardened violators, though the police should be extra vigilant and seven. Every person who values his life and property will use caution, especially during storms and at night. The real hope is in education. Berg's cartoon today puts a point on one valuable piece of education—the classes in automobile driving in the New Jersey schools—lndiana and other states could well afford to copy. RADIO IN CRIME WAVE 1) ADIO again proved itself a dependable guardian of the public when it brought about the capture of four heavily armed transients west of the city. That, and the vigilance of Ralph Metcalf, anew state policeman, were highlights of a dramatic incident. The men, accused of robbing an armory in Texas, had in their car enough pistols and submachine guns to arm a large part of gangland. Metcalf is to be congratulated in his alertness and the Intelligent way in which he went after his quarry. DR. HENSHAW’S ORDEAL 'T'HE sympathy of city and state goes out to Dr. Frederic R. Henshaw, dean of the Indiana University Dental School, in the death on Christmas Day of his son Frederic. Young Mr. Hrnshaw’s record in school, college and war was that of an Indiana citizen whose life would have been fruitful had not tuberculosis ended it prematurely. This ordeal is the more difficult for Dr. Henshaw because he is the only survivor. CLOTHE-A-CHILI) A SUCCESS CLOI HE-A-CHILD and Mile-of-Dimes donors deserve the thanks of the city. They took care of 1241 children in need of new winter clothing—a record. When $16,000 is given in a drive of this kind it moans many persons have been touched by human suffering. The Times takes no credit for the gratifying response. The job was done by its readers. We hope, however, that during the weeks of the fund-rais-ing many gave thought to removing conditions which make such efforts necessary. The war to end the depression should be continued as a war to eliminate illness, broken homes, vicious housing and poverty. The Christmas funds are ways of treating the symptoms of a disease. The crusade of the future should get at the disease itself. Meanwhi’e we thank all the contributors. BIG WARS FOR LITTLE? THE European explosion, which so many feared might come as a result of the Italian-Ethiopian conflict, is now far too grim a possibility for comfort To be blind to that is to be blind indeed. The resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare. British foreign minister, and the cabinet crises of London and Paris, are mere surface ripples beneath which international cross-currents and undertows are running violently. When Sir Samuel told the House of Commons that fear of anew world war, beginning with a collision between Italy and Britain, lay behind the Anglo-French peace proposals, he was using no figure of speech. Nor was he merely dangling a bugaboo before his hearers to bolster up his own defense. We certainly hold no brief for his now famous peace plan. It smacked unpleasantly of bribes to an nggressor. But. a widespread impression to the contrary notwithstanding, it was prepared by a duly authorized committee of the League of Nations and, as such, could not bo used for anything save a basis for discussion. Good or bad. it first had to win the assent of Emperor Haile Selassie, Benito Mussolini and the League. At the worst, as was plainly intimated at London and Paris, it was a bad dose concocted to cure a loathsome disease. But that, apparently, is water over the dam. The p’an stands discarded. Europe, the League and Ethiopia today are exactly where they were beforehand. Italy is still at war in Africa and the League Is still trying to defeat her there . . . make her withdraw, lock, stcck and barrel, from the last inch of Ethiopian soil. Small wonder that Sir Samuel warned the House of Commons that ‘'Europe is now entering a much more dangerous phase of anew chapter of the war.” To under-estimate that fact is folly. II Duce is battling not only for his own life but for the life of his regime, and those who know him best agree that if he must die, he will elect to go out in a blaze. a a a GERMANY, arming day and night, is watching even’ move in Paris. London, Rome and Geneva. She awaits only a favorable opportunity to make her next bid for “a place in the sun.” Austria and Hungary are in the balance. The Balkans are astir. The Soviet Union is uneasily watching two frontiers 5000 miles apart, while dispatches from the Far East make it only too evident that Japan is already on the move, prepared to the last shce lace, to make the most of Europe’s turmoil. Already, too, Europe is dividing over the efficacy of economic sanctions. Few believe that they alone will prove effective against the armed might of Rome. And if economic sanctions fail, what then? Will the League go to war against Italy? If so, who will do the fighting? Great Britain? France? “Not a ship, not a machine and not a man has been moved by another member of the League," the unfortunate Sir Samuel complained to .. -’lament. Nor is that all. Observers across tht channel predict tha* should France join in a war against Italy, over Ethiopia, there would be serious trouble, perhaps revolution, at home. For, contrary to the popular notion, France is not fundamentally militaristic and the only call to arms to which her citizens would respond without grumbling would be against invasion. Europe, then, faces a very real crisis. In the words of the Biblical James, we strongly feei.,that in

this hour of peril she should “be swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrath.” She should listen to catch timid peace's faintest murmurings, be slow to turn a deaf ear, and slow to plunge the world into a new and bigger war to check the small one now on. The world has never found it difficult, without the League, to spread a conflagration. The test of Geneva today is its ability to do just the reverse. FORWARD WITH NORMALCY A NEW YEAR resolution all of us should make is to resolve to remember that “now is normal” and 1936 is an election year in the United States. So, based on the philosophy that whatever is today is normal for today, we must not forget that certain things are normal for election years that are not so commonplace in others. In election years it is normal for the opposition party to "view with alarm” while the party in power “points with pride.” It is normal at any time for the outs to want to get in, but during an election year it is normal for them to become very vociferous about it. In the United States it is normal for a conservative party to pose as liberal, if that is the way the popular wind blows, and for candidates to confuse issues by trying to be all*things to all men. It is normal for reactionaries to encourage impassible economic policies on the left with the hope of restoring themselves (radicals of the right) to power. Sad to relate, for American democracy at least, it is normal during a campaign year to whisper all sorts of poisonous and preposterous lies about opponents. But if we remember that these are the normal things we can weigh them properly. It was the late President Harding who advised a “return to normalcy.” Instead of going back to that vague estate of Never-Never Land, we moved forward to new nonsense, called it Ccolidge prosperity, and wound up in the Hoover crash. All of which was normal for that day and time. However, we should have learned this—we can be normal and still be progressive. At least we ought to be intelligent enough to learn from experience. If so, 1936 should be a successfully normal yeas. THE “LONG HALL” PURPOSE OF TV A “npODAY all the Southern rivers are muddy. But our early explorers recorded how clean and beautiful the rivers were.” That, from an article on TVA by Ernie Pyle, is the key to the main idea of that vast plan. In terms of the long haul, TVA is a project in soil conservation. Because of the bitter fight between TVA proponents and the private utilities, it has become distorted in the public mind as a power project only. Power, though important, is a mere incident in the larger scheme. Before the white man, the land was covered with trees and shrubs that held the soil. Then came “civilization,” and planting of crops without deep roots, the changing of the face of the earth from what nature had set up for the earth’s self-protection. And, as Mr. Pyle continues: “Rain is washing millions of freight train loads of soil away every year, and it goes on down and makes the rivers muddy, and is finally carried out to sea, wasted forever.” The same devastating process under different mechanics is that which is going on in the West, where the grass roots that held the soil on millions of acres were ravished to raise “wheat and more wheat” for the armies “over there.” In the Tennessee Valley it's the rain; in the West, the wind; but in both places the forces of tragic erosion are at work. And so the greatest importance to the nation of TVA runs to the future. The Gobi desert was once as fertile as is Illinois today. Our land is in danger, as was that, many centuries ago. And what you are seeing in the Tennessee Valley is an attempt by the public to save the most basic of all its resources—the soil from which the people eat. If you want to get a vivid picture of our land conservation problem, read a recent book called “Deserts on the March,” by Prof. Paul B. Sears (University of Oklahoma Press). If you want an effective description of the TVA sector read the series byMr. Pyle. SAVED FROM THE BURNING 'T"'HE candles on your Christmas tree should have ■*- burned brighter this year in gratitude for all the tree’s little brethren saved this year from the burning. Reports from the Agriculture Department show that the acreage of forests burned over during the past season was only about 38 per cent of that devastated in 1934. The forest fire record in the West is lowest in five years, and second only to that of 1930, the “banner year.” Weather conditions, of course, must be given chief credit for this good news. But sharing the laurels is that busy and efficient army of young woodsmen, the CCC. When the story of the Roosevelt Administration is written this conservation work will bulk large among its triumphs. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “"JV/fARRIAGE, sir,” once said the smooth-tongued Dr. Johnson to his faithful Boswell, “is much more necessary to a man than to a woman, for he is less able to supply himself with domestic comforts.” I quote the passage in reply to a correspondent who thinks modern man's reluctance to marry is a major mystery. She thinks it is stubbornness, an anti-social attitude, or maybe proof of our moral degeneracy. I can not agree. If, as she says, men are stepping less willingly to the altar, it is probably because, as bachelors, they do not lack those creature comforts to which Dr. Johnson referred. When the philosopher was alive, men married to obtain cooks, housekeepers and laundresses, quite as much as they did to supply themselves with fireside companions and soulmates. They needed women to dress their meat, to keep their fires glowing, to mend their clothes, even more than they needed them to bear their children, to tend them in illness and to listen to their conversation. Marriage was an economic necessity for the average fcov of the time. During the eighteenth century girls made and trimmed candles and later cleaned and filled lamps. Now a man need only turn on a switch. No fires have to be banked in his house. He lights the gas, or lives in an apartment where the janitor looks after the furnace. As for meals—he can get quite good ones anywhere in the block, while for a few cents a day his rooms can be cleaned for him. Most important of all, he is almost constantly in the company of women. From early morning until late at night he is. jostled by hordes of them. They stampede him during the lunch hour and he sees hundreds of them adjust their hats and put on fresh lipstick several times a day. Modern women are not glamorous or mysterious beings to men; they are always under foot. That's why it takes mighty passion to move one of them to matrimony these days, whereas in Dr. Johnson's time the least fillip of excitement sent him running in that direction. In the old days, marriage for a girl was only a domestic evolution; she merely moved from one kitchen into another. It's now a triumph oi heart over head, which makes it twice as romantic.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

TT seems to me a piece about j Christmas the day after Christ - | mas is something new. The red and ' green paper wrappings have been carried down to the cellar or burned lin the fireplace. Presents have been praised openly and some perhaps secretly despised. Plans have been j made for exchanges. Mother is looking anxiously at the children and wondering if they have a temperature. Father, fortunate soul, has gone back to work. There is nothing like an office as a refuge ; after a holiday. b b a TNDIANAPOLIS had home its most distinguished literary citizen for Christmas. While Mr. Tarkington lives in Maine most of the time he gets back here for occasions, and Christmas is one of them. Some energetic publisher should get out a book composed of essays j by writers Mr. Tarkington has in- ! spired. I suspect that at least a score of authors now producing were led I to persevere by the earlier novels; of this Indiana genius. One told me I not long ago that it was “Alice Adams” which cha lenged him. That iis a book to be challenged by. I I have always thought it was the fin- : est work Mr. Tarkington ever did. BUB nnHE question after Christmas is when to take the tree down. A more important question is what to do with it. There is no more forlorn sight than the skeleton of a Christmas tree flung on a rubbish heap or i riding d:wn the street atop a trash ! cart. The decent thing to do w r ith it, after it has served its usefulness, is to saw it into sections and burn; them in the open fire or the furnace, j j Thus it passes into nothingness; | with none of the disrespect of being | tossed out the back door. B B B TT'ROM conversation and glancing i A here end there at the society columns, I gather that these holi- j : days have brought more family re- j unions than for some years. People j j have more money for travel and i families have undoubled, have more j J capacious living quarters and are j abler to entertain. You hear less complaint of the presence of inlaws and more hospitable invitations. It is all a part of the return of better times—less crankiness and fewer jagged nerves. B B B ■pUTTING “A Christmas Carol” on the air in a dramatic version, with Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge was a high point of yesterday's fare. Next year, if some sponsor wants a gooa niimber for a similar hour he might examine Roark Bradford’s Negro story, “How Come Christmas?” This is : one of the most illuminating I Christmas stories ever written. Some years ago Harper & Brothi ers got out a special edition, one ! of those little, light airplane books, and sent it around to a number of i their friends as a Christmas gift. It would make an excellent radio play if well adapted and well acted. B B B CAY what you please about the custom of giving father socks for Christmas, it has its points. Father is in need of wearing about three pairs at a time in such weather underfoot as we have had this week. Nor am I one to complain about the necktie habit. The average recalcitrant male will not keep himself properly supplied and if turned loose at a necktie counter will usually come away with a far more lurid assortment than his wife and daughters buy for him. B B B A ND so, with a slab of cold turkey, cold stuffing, and some cranberry sauce, farewell to this Christmas. OTHER OPINION A Merchant Approves [E A. Filene, Boston Merchant] The New Deal seeks to revive business by enabling the masses to purchase its products, and therefore gives first attention to the welfare of the masses. The Old Deal places all emphasis on retaining and reviving the traditional rights and privileges of wealth. It is not opposed necessarily to the masses becoming prosperous; but insists that they can do so only if we resume the course which led first to the depression and then to the crisis of 1933. It is not an issue, then, between labor and capital; for whichever I method leads to lasting recovery is best for capital and for labor, too. Nor is it an issue between agriculture and industry;’ for if either agriculture or industry is depressed, the other is bound to become depressed. The issue is one of how to achieve recovery'. On California Technic [Bruce Bliven, in The New Republic] The booklet about California distributed free to all passengers on west-bound trains is a masterpiece ; of misrepresentation by means of j the camera. The photographers have managed to make California seem like a ! densely overgrown tropical jungle, inhabited almost entirely by unclad chorus girls, lying about in languorous attitudes. I understand there is a high annual mortality among elderly gentlemen who, after perusing these booklets, get off and run ahead of the train in the endeavor to arrive a little sooner.

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

ITimes readers are United to express their vines in these columns, reliuious controversies excluded. Moke uour letters short so all can have a chance. Limit tlfem to S.iO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt B B PRAISES TRUSTEE FOR RELIEF WORK By a Lover of Fair Flay There have been so many complaints sent in by disgruntled recipients of trustee aid, that I feel I must add my bit. It is not a “knock,” but a word of praise. Being a widow with children and having exhausted all other resources I was forced to apply for relief. It was with fear that I entered the building on Senate-av, having heard some terrifying tales of how rudely applicants were treated. The man at the information table directed me courteously to the application room where I was given a blank to be filled out and notarized. Then I went to another department where a pleasant lady asked numerous questions. The next day the investigator called at our home and within 24 hours I received my first grocery order. With the withdrawal of Federal aid, the routine has been changed but at no time have I ever been treated except as a lady. My visitor has always been very fair and nice and the supervisor has been very square always. I have stood in line, sometimes quite a while, but it was only fair to await my turn. I did answer numerous questions but that was no more than any one asking financial aid from any organization would have to do. At no time was I made to feel inferior or humiliated. As far as I can see, every one is treated fair and. square. There always seems to be a good reason for all aid given or withheld. It’s hard to feed three people on our $2.20 weekly, but with the surplus commodities, we manage and neither of my children is underweight. No, I did not have any pull, being a stranger to all. My case was decided on its merits alone. So I say, “More bouquets and fewer brick- : bats.” BUB BLAMES MR. HOOVER FOR UNBALANCED BUDGETS By Perry Rule, Bringhurst Under the Hoover Administration, the United States experienced the most destructive depression in their history. Mr. Hoover and his advisers were largely responsible for conditions ensuing after his inauguration. Unbalanced budgets resulted in all governmental units. The budgets of industries and individuals

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also were out of balance in the sums of approximately $100,000,000. The present unbalanced United States budget is a direct result of the Hoover policies. The Hoover condition required the unbalancing of the Federal budget to establish economic recovery. Because of this the budgets of industry, agriculture and local governmental units are now largely balanced. President Roosevelt’s task was to bring order out or chaos and establish prosperity. This the President has done with business out of the red and the earnings of industry and individuals improved. The national budget can and will be balanced. Eight years of Roosevelt and every platform pledge will be fulfilled. B B B RECALLS THAT MR. HOOVER NOURISHED “PANIC BABY” By W. C. L., Bloomington We note that the Chicago Tribune says that Hoover and Roosevelt “share about equally” responsibility for the so-called depression (or panic). Maybe so, but it will be remembered Mr. Roosevelt inherited his portion of the baby, while Mr. Hoover nourished and developed it into a strong, rollicking youngster and tossed it into the arms of the New Deal. B B B SEES HOOVER AS HUMAN, LESS THAN HONEST By C. M. F. Herbert Hoover entered the presidency with promises to end poverty. He and his “gang” left the White House four years later with the financial structure of our nation on the verge of collapse. Business was nearly prostrate, riots and revolution threatened. Measured by its events Hoover’s Administration was the most tragic failure in the history of the presidency. Mr. Hoover would be less than human if he did not try to defend himself against a history which leaves him so sore a case. If he could set up an alibi that would stick, then he could live out his years in better humor with himself. Some time ago in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Hoover's appeal from i.he verdict of events were presented at length by his former secretary, Mr. Newton. In elaborate detail he tried to show that of all the men in the world, Mr. Hoover was less responsible for the troubles of his time and reign. In view of the superman which Mr. Hoover was proclaimed to be before his election, this plea has a humiliating side. Only a weak man could have been as impotent a President as Mr. Hoover’s defense makes himself out to be. It was in keeping with this cause

they do so only for- special purposes. Usually they hide in dense cover by day and roam for prey at night. Q—Which vitamins are in pineapple juice? A —lt is a good source of vitamins A, B and C. Q—When was the last partial eclipse of the sun visible in New England? A—Feb. 3, 1935. Q—What is the title of the lullaby sung by Ruth Chatterton in “Sarah and Son”? A—“Wiegenlied,” by Johannes Brahms. Q —How long is the Champs Elysees, in Paris? A—One mile and a quarter. Q—What does the name Flinter mean? A—lt is a British patronymic name derived from a locality and means either “son of the stream,” or “of the flint-stone.” Q—What year is specified in the Veterans’ Adjusted Compensation Act for final payment of bonuses? A—The first payments are due in 1945, and thereafter in every case, 20 years after the date of issue of the certificates.

and desire that Mr. Hoover put forth at St. Louis his panic alibi. The banking debacle with which his Administration closed was not his fault, but the fault of Mr. Roosevelt. The Hoover reasoning. With Mr. Hoover defeated in November, 1932, and the New Deal on the way in, the country was convulsed by fears of what men it had elected might do. There were fears of inflation, fears of going off gold, fear of an unbalanced budget. Had Presidentelect Roosevelt followed Mr. Hoover's advice and made pledges to allay. these fears, all would have been well. What are the actual facts? Os the four years of Mr. Hoover’s regime, three cf his four budgets were unbalanced, and they were getting farther out of balance with each succeeding year. And with his unbalanced budgets he was doing nothing in taking care of the destitute. Mr. Hoover blames the flight of Great Britain from gold and later a fear of Roosevelt for ruining our banks. The British flight from gold did not ruin Canadian banks. Not one failed. No one can blame Mr. Hoover for wish to escape the blame for the worst economic debacle in modern times. But if he keeps on with such grotesque warpings of plain fact and simple sense as he has been imposing on us thus far, men of level head will wonder whether in being no more than human he isn’t being something less than honest. LIGHT AND SHADOW BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK Light and shadow fall across The brown patch of this ground, Shadows breathe so easily; Swift movement without sound. I would be the cherry-flame To bring you lovely light! I would be the shadowed room To bring you peace at night. DAILY THOUGHTS But if ye enquire anything concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. —The Acts xix, 39. LAWS are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. —Swift.

SIDE GLANCES Bv George Clark

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DEC. 26, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Don’t jump to hasty conclusions about this Borah “candidacy” for Ure G. O. P. presidential nomination. It is not all it appears to be on the surface. Mr. Borah's decision to go after convention delegates in the Wisconsin. Ohio and other state primaries, docs NOT mean he has made up his mind he wants the nomination. The paradox proves the truth of that old axiom: “In politics, two and two do not necessarily add up to four.” The real inside on the situation is this: Mr. Borah is apDroaching 71. His senatorial term expires next year. He has been in the Senate 23 years, is dean of the chamber in length of service. He is virtually certain of re-election. Furthermore, continued public life is as necessary to Mr. Borah as is light and air. That is one set of controlling factors. There is also another. Mr. Borah, privately, is very doubtful of the present possibilities of defeating Roosevelt. Four months later, the situation may be different. But right now he considers Mr. Roosevelt far in the lead. At the same time Mr. Borah is deeply and bitterly hostile to Mr. Hoover. To a lesser degree, but still strongly, he disapproves of Knox, Landon, Vandenberg and the herd of “favorite son” aspirants. Regardless of what he may think of the chances of licking Mr. Roosevelt next June, Senator Borah is determined to do two things: (1> Leave no stone unturned to prevent the nomination of Mr. Hoover; (2) have a big say in the writing of the Republican platform and the selection of the candidate. This, in brief, sums up the be-hind-the-scenes picture. On the one hand is Mr. Borah's Senate seat, prized by him almost as much as his own life. On the other hand is the heady lure of the presidency, his current secret doubt of the value of the Republican nomination, his deep hatred of Mr. Hoover and grim determination to be the “big gun” of the Cleveland nomination. a a a SENATE colleagues are saying jocularly of Mr. Borah that he , is quaking in his boots for fear he actually will get the Republicannomination. There is much truth in the jest. The Idahoan is laps ahead of any other Republican runner. He has j tremendous popular support ! throughout the Republican Party, | not merely in the West. Eastern Old Guard leaders are against him, ! but among the rank and file, even" in the East, Mr. Borah is “tops” by a wide margin. Os the 14 states that hold preferential primaries he is a sure winner in 11, and would have an evetj.. chance of carrying the other three j should he decide to take on the “favorite son” candidates. Faced with a popular mandate of this magnitude, the Cleveland convention would have a difficult time defeating Mr. Borah—if by that time he will have made up his mind that the chances of beating Roosevelt are worth risking his sure Sen-, ate seat. Will this inner doubt be dis--solvcd sufficiently by next June so he can grasp the prize that has so long eluded him? Or, after all these years, will he still be so uncertain ori i victory that, with the nomination's his for the taking, he will not dare hazard his Senate toga? "To be or not to be?” With Senator Borah that is the burning ; question. ts tt tt HOMESTEADERS’ Christ mas dinners were more bountiful in West Virginia yesterday because | Mrs. Roosevelt put her foot in. A week before Christmas the First Lady heard that homesteaders in her pet projects—Reedsville and Elkins—had been unpaid for four weeks. So she picked up the telephone and called Resettlement Ad-' ministrator Rex Tugwell. Homesteaders raised an extra cheer when they looked at the checks. In many cases, they were paid double —two checks to one man. This, they thought, was a Christmas bonus, unaware that the Audit Division soon will catch the mis- . take. Ii Copyright. 1935. by United Feature 1 Syndicate. Inc.)