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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1, 1936

HAPPIER NEW YEAR

'T'HE infant 1936, born at midnight in the midst •*- of all that clatter, is a right ruddy and husky specimen, and if all goes well should become a credit to old Father Time. But we should be careful that this lad be not allowed to grow Topsy-wise or fall into the hands of reckless or scheming nursemaids, as so many of his brothers have done. With due modesty, therefore, we propose on this day of hopefulness a few resolutions in behalf of a happier New Year for Americans. Let us resolve— That we will be a good neighbor to other nations, co-operate in every honest peace move, try to rebuild the ruins of international trade, and rebuke our home-grown jingoes and sword-rattlers. And we will be drawn into no neighborhood quarrels whether in Europe, Africa, or Asia, or America, and we will allow no one to turn us from our will to wage peace. That, we will also seek peace at home by blocking all attempts to confiscate our hard-won civil liberties; by making it unhealthy for would-be Fascists, race-haters and mobsters; by upholding government plans for orderly bargaining between labor and capital; by seeking to protect constitutional processes of law-making from the schemes of injunction judges; by lieansing the coming campaign of as much of fear, hate and lying as is possible; by making America safe for democracy That we will also strive for that without which political democracy is impossible—economic democracy. Refusing to be led afield by crackpots or imimidated by pressure groups, we vill continue the fight against unemployment, insecurity, preventable poverty, child labor, slums, disease, ignorance and other sins of society. There can be no breathing spell for serial progress. That we will avoid financial pitfalls. The easy wavs of government through wars or inflation must be shunned like plagues. Now that we are emerging from one depression we must beware an uncontrolled boom that would land us in another. That we will war on waste. Economic planning of industry and the orderly use of natural wealth are thoroughly compatible with our system. Indeed. without them we would wreck our system. Most of these, doubtless, will go the way of other resolutions born today of penitence and hope. To the degree they are kept, however, we believe our • country will be a better home for all of us. THE MILK PROBLEM HT'HE milk controversy settled here by a price increase is an old story in many states. Control boards try to fix a price to the producer that will give him a profit and enable him to maintain his dairy according to standards insuring health. That price affects the costs of the distributor, who asks permission to raise the retail price. Then there is the factor of the over-the-counter sale in groceries, for which a differential is allowed. And finally there is the consumer, who objects to price increases. Next to a plentiful supply of pure water, nothing is so important to the weffare of a city’s population as a plentiful supply of milk. It is logical, then, to consider the price to the dairyman. It should be high enough to justify modern, sanitary handling and inspected herds. If state milk control is to mean anything it must mean state inspection and the ruling out of bootleg milk. So pricecutting among distributors sometimes can defeat the purpose of milk control. The hearings show that milk control in Indiana is incomplete. It fixes the price to the farmer but it does not guarantee the product or prevent the entry to Indianapolis homes of sub-standard milk. THANKS TO THE DONORS TN the Hoosier Forum today are to be found letters ■*- which will interest donors to Clothe-a-Child. They were sent The Times by charitable organizations. thanking us for raising lunds for the clothing of destitute children. But we only furnished the machinery for the campaign; the good people of Indianapolis gave the money. So we pass along to the donors these letters telling the good their gifts did. CORRECTION TN our editorial of Dec. 30, "Building and Loan Progress.” we stated that in the boom period some Indiana building and loan associations ‘‘lent too heavily on second mortgages.” That is an error. Building and loan associations have been prevented boih by policy and by law from lending on second mortgages except in unusual and limited circumstances. BRAINS IN GOVERNMENT TT has never sounded smart or funny to hear men like ex-President Hoover. Gen. Jphnson and other supposedly elder statesmen sneering at the young men the New Deal has called to the government service. And we are glad that Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School has spoken out in rebuke of this shallow ridicule. "With its modern tasks,” writes Prof. Frankfurter in January Fortune, ‘‘government will need even better talent than that which private enterprise enlists. For with us, not until individual initiative ha* proved its inability to manage enterprise does government take it over.” More and more private enterprise has turned to the government for help. At the same time private enterprise has led the cry for lower taxes, forcing the government to pay salaries too low to attract men of exceptional ability. It is a matter sot congratulation, not for derision, that publicspirited leaders like Dr. Frankfurter can persuade young men to work for the government at salaries lower than they could command in the business world. If these young men are “happy hot dogs.” it is because they have an idealism of which the country should be proud. Democracy can not survive in this complicated era if government lacks brain power. We should seek high-grade administrators, economists, legal counsel and other specialists for permanent service with cities, states and Federal government and pay them enough to keep them. Next, through the Civil Service, we should make the routine work of governing proof against the raids of party spoilsmen.

Private business and politics too often are at war against good government. Each seeks special favors. The former often thinks it thrives when city, state and Federal Administrations are lazy, inefficient or venal. The latter is out to seize the offices with which to reward the party's f nthful. Friends of democracy should cease fighting a defensive fight for the merit system. They should take an aggressive stand in behalf of honest, intelligent and courageous government. EATING CAKE AND HAVING IT ■pvOES a state officer or employe have a right to a leave of absence for the purpose of campaigning for the 1936 primary? The Governor says “No,” and thoughtful citizens will agree with him. Granted it takes time, money and effort to form 3n organization and line up delegates to the state convention, the implication of a salaried state position is that the appointee or elected officer will devote himself to the state's business. Os course, this ruling by the Governor will embarrass all who expected to shed their state duties during the early months of the new year so they could make a canvass and operate headquarters. On the other hand, if state employes and officers could leave their jobs for a preprimary campaign, the Governor would have to admit that their services were not necessary and he could be asked why he appointed them in the first place. Looking at it coldly, taxpayers would have to say that employes can not eat their cake and have it, too. If they choose to campaign for themselves they should give up their jobs. “LITTLE WASHINGTONS” THERE is nothing startling ir. the proposal by the National Resources Committee that “ten or twelve” cities be selected as regional or sub-national centers for the administration of some 100 Federal functions. It simply means that instead of scattering the offices of these agencies about willy-nilly they would be centered in more natural regional “capitals.” The republic seems to fall into a dozen such regions. Such a grouping would not Balkanize the United States. It would work, first, for Federal economy, and next, it would, we hope, pave the way for a permanent administrative framework based upon regions and fitted to the economic facts of our country. By nature the United States divides into regions, not states. Each region has its common economic problems, needs and standards. The West, for instance, is interested in irrigation, reclamation, grazing control, oil and forest conservation. The Midwest and industrial New England have different and unique problems, often at variance with these Western needs. Since such problems can not be met by each state working alone and since Federal action often is blocked in Congress by opposing regional pressures, the regions are left ip a No Man’s Land of sterile inaction. Attempts have been made along four lines to meet the regions’ needs. The first was the Hoover interstate compact on disposal of the waters of the Colorado River. Then came the Federal corporate scheme of regional development under TVA. Then the Federally financed developments of the Northwest at Bonneville and Grand Coulee. Finally, there has come the interesting movement in New England, of a purely voluntary Regional Planning Commission. Which of these methods is to survive depends upon which most effectively meets the regional needs. The regions which are economic entities must also have political entities. Either the Federal government must be given more power through a constitutional amendment or the regions must be permitted to set up governmental machinery. The American body economic can not longer be straitjacketed into the narrow confines of 48 states. LIEUT. GEN. LIGGETT HPHE affection of his men is the highest achievement for a military commander. Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, who has just died, had that affection. He distinguished himself in the World War as much as any commander under Gen. Pershing but it was his humane treatment of his troops that all his biogrtipneio stress. As long as we have wars we shall have to have generals ani as long as the Hunter Liggetts set the example our men under arms will be well cared for. He was an officer of which the United States Army was rightfully proud. NEW DEALS FAULT? "INDUSTRIAL corporations, banks and brokerage A offices resumed payments of substantial Christmas bonuses this year while many others restored pay cuts. In one instance a furniture factory distributed SIOO,OOO among its 130 employes. Is this part of that destruction Mr. Hoover attributes to the Roosevelt Administration? A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson TkTY first New Year’s resolution is not to make IYI. New Year's resolutions. Yet if I actually were tempted to follow the custom, I could think up a list as long as a lawyer's brief, reforms which would without doubt improve me, and which I never could keep. I like to fancy, however, that Heaven also is paved with our good intentions and that perhaps we may get credit for all the worthy deeds we wanted so much to do, and yet never found sufficient moral strength for their accomplishment. I am resolved, therefore, during 1936, to make no attempt to alter my husband or to regulate his behavior. since experience has taught me the effort will be futile. To steel myself against the loving wiles of my children so they may not have their way with me often. To cultivate sales resistance. To obtain instruction about the technique of the game so I shall not leave the football field as if I had taken part in a slaughter. To talk less. To be more tolerant with the Dames of the D. A. R. To fight twice as hard for pacifism as I have ever done before. Never to speak slightingly of dogs, especially to dog lovers. To resist with all my strength the power of mob opinion. To try to remember that crooners are human. To begin no series of exercises designed to make me look younger than I am, because the effort will be sure to peter out by the end of the week. To strive for the clear vision which discloses how fine is ail noble endeavor and how senseless our social striving. To keep a budget, of my time as well as my money. * To be less slavish to the telephone by letting the darned thing ring sometimes without answering it. (There it goes now.) To hold fast to my faith in life ami the essential goodness of people.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

WELL, how did the first day of the nice, clean new life go? Or, to paraphrase Kipling, did “the poor fool’s bandaged finger go wobbling back to the fire?” For it’s one thing to make resolutions and quite another to keep them. My New Year’s hope for all who made resolutions is that they can keep, say, a third of them. TT is going to be pretty hard for this column to get anything like the attention it deserves, with readers listening to the Rose Bowl game which, because of the difference in time comes just when evening newspapers are usually read. I am listening myself at this very minute. A broadcast of a game is usually more exciting than the game itself. Some athletic councils do not permit broadcasting, saying it invites people to stay away. Sometimes it does the opposite. For after a person has listened to Ted Husing or some other champion broadcaster in one or two games he gets so excited he decides he will attend the next one in person. tt tt A FUNNY thing happened at the recent Kirk McKinney testimonial dinner. One of the guests sat down at a table with a number of then vacant places. He discovered the appetizer had already been placed and it was something he liked—crabmeat cocktail. So he proceeded to eat his and two or three from neighboring places. And finished up by asking the waiter to bring him another. I suppose when a fellow buys a ticket for a testimonial dinner and elects to sit through it, he imagines he is entitled to fortify himself. Testi-! monials are usually rather deadly. This one wasn’t. It was about as lively as I have ever attended. n n tt THERE’S a motion picture man here making some reels of New Deal projects in the state for educational purposes and he complains of the murky atmosphere slowing up his work. Something ought to be done about that. Why not a government grant to unemployed scientists to study air-condi-tioning for the so-called great outdoors. I don’t know that Indianapolis is worse than some other places. Philadelphia is bathed in pea-soup fog much of the time and frequently one can't see more than a block ahead in Pittsburgh. tt n tt SPEAKING of Philadelphia, they have a localism there that has much charm. When friends are i parting they are likely to say “Goodbye now.” It sounds strange at first but one grows to like it. Os course it means, “Goodbye for the present; we shall be meeting again soon.” They tell me it has always been used in that locality. I have never heard it here. But I have heard the greeting which everybody is- overworking. That is “Hi!” tt tt tt TT EADING the state papers I notice that in all the predictions for 1936 the outlook is cheerful. We get the papers from most of the cities and towns and they’ve all been giving facts and figures to show that things are on the mend. And they are almost unanimous in stressing tl\at the greatest need is housing. That is a favorable sign. If we get a housing movement going many industries will pick up in a hurry. People will not build Normandy chatteaux, Italian castles or Spanish places with patios again for some years to come. They got fed up with that when the crash came. But they will build what the country needs most—the eight-room house for the average family with modest income. tt u n TF I wished every one such a place in the Happy New ifear I probably would be aiming at the desires of the majority. OTHER OPINION Real Estate Taxss [South Bend Tribune] Among the objects of tax reform •in Indiana is establishment of a system of just levies on real estate. In the current bulletin of the Indiana League of Civic Associations, Inc., the need of such a system is graphically portrayed. Buildings located in “the same downtown block in a northern Indiana city” are the “horrible examples.’’ On one of them, a one-story occupied bidding, the levy for 1935 is $645 or 35. per cent of the owner’s gross income from the property. On another, also one-story and occupied, the levy is $720 or 48 per cent of the owner’s gross income. On the Constitution [Attorney General Cummings] The Constitution is supreme simply because it expressed the ultimate will of the people. The people are, accordingly the masters of the Constitution and their mastery is expressed in the power of amendment which, it must not be forgotten. is as much a part of the Constitution as any other provision. This power has been exerted three times in our history for the deliberate purpose of overriding a previous decision of the Supreme Court, j

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/Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliaious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25 0 words or less. Your letter must be sianed, but names will be withheld on reauest.) tt tt tt THANKS THE TIMES FOR CLOTHE-A-CHILD By C. H. Winders, Flanner House I want you to know how deeply and sincerely we appreciate your generous contribution of clothing to the children of this section of the city. We were able to clothe, as you know, either in part or in whole, a very large number of children. Unless you knew the destitution of these children, you can not know the joy you were able to bring to them. This is a great work you are doing, the value of which will last for many months. This institution has had a great Christmas filled with joy and satisfaction in being able to help by reason of your generosity and that of many other friends, a large number of children and many families as well. Be assured that all these are grateful and that your generous help is appreciated by the entire force of Flanner House workers. tt tt tt THE REV. A. R. FUSSENEGGER SENDS HIS THANKS By the Rev. August R. Fussenegger, Director, Catholic Community Center Kindly accept our expression of appreciation in behalf of the many children of our organization made happy by your Clothe-a-Child campaign. With every good wish for the New Year. tt tt tt „. APPRECIATES CLOTHING GIVEN TO CHILDREN By H. Joseph Hyman, Executive Director, the Jewish Family Service Society The board of directors of the Jewish Family Service Society desires me to convey to you and to The Indianapolis Times the grateful appreciation of the Jewish community for the gift made to our society enabling us to clothe 27 children of our needy familes. In this unusually cold winter it is gratifying to know that through your fund so many of the Indianapolis children will be warmly clothed and will , 'have received the thrill of having been able to shop and select clothing which they need and which gave them so much joy. May I add my best wishes to yourself and to the staff of The Indianapolis Times for a very happy and prosperous New Year. it tt tt ASKS FOR SHARE OF WORK AT BEECH GROVE SHOPS By a Reader In regard to a piece 1 read in the Hoosier Forum in regard to the house shortage in Beech Grove.

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A WELCOME ARRIVAL

That would be very handy indeed for those men who are working six days a week. But what I want to know is what they intend to do with these Beech Grove shop men who were laid off in 1934? If we fellows could get back to work we wouldn’t complain about where we lived or how far or long it took us to get to work. The biggest majority of the men who were laid off in 1534 had from 12 to 15 years and more service out there. We men were under the impression that when business picked up we would be called back to work. I understand they are working night and day out there. Do you call that fair to these men who have spent their young lives out there to learn a trade, married, with families, who have lost Vheir homes and everything they have worked for? I think .these fellows were done an unjust deed. If business has picked up on the railroads, as the papers say, and they can work these men six days a week, what’s the reason we unemployed men can’t be called in? If you talk to the men who are working they say it isn’t their fault they haven’t called the men back to work as they don’t want all the work. They say they’d rather divide the work and let all have some work. Well, why not let these unemployed men work two weeks out of the month and lay off the men that have worked steady for the two weeks. What’s the matter with the union out there? Why does one belong to a union for years, pay his money in and then get a dirty deal like this? My slogan is share the work. s tt tt THINKS AMERICANS DELUDE THEMSELVES By a Reader The political pot already Is on fire. The smart thing for the Presi dent to do would be to copy Calvin Coolidge with, “I do not choose to run in 1936.” It does not matter v'hich party is elected or who the next President is, the result will be the same. The only difference will be which party will control the dispensing of political pie, and which one will be compelled to eat off relief, if any. We Americans have a happy faculty of kiddinf ourselves into believing that our politics controls our economic status, while in reality our politics is controlled by our economic pressure groups. We want to believe that we solved our troubles when we swallowed Mr. Hooyear’s depression panacea of shoving Federal credit under our excessive private debt structure, through the R. F. C. So we enlarg'd on Hoover's folly by adding other government props through corn, "itton, home, farm and bank loans ,o stop the excessive debt structure from finding its natural level through liquidation, as it had done in all previous depressions. We merely have postponed the

Q —What is the source of the quotation: “A fool and his money are soon parted?” A—lt is attributed to George Buchanan, tutor to James VI of Scotland. He is reported to have said it to a courtier after winning a bet. Q —To whom does history give credit for the invention of electric | lights? A—To Sir Humphry Davy, an j Englishman, who in 1810 observed the electric arc and produced the incandescence of a fine platinum wire in connection with his famous experiments with a 2,000 cell batj tery. Q —How many new automobiles were sold in the United States in the first eight months of 1935? A—Reports for the first eight i months of 1935 for the entire United j States plus 32 states for September 1935, show that deliveries of new cars in 1935 have reached 2.085,743. Q —What language is spoken in the Virgin Islands? A—The official language is English, which, with Danish, is largely spoken in the portu, but the chief language is a Spanish dialect.

liquidation date. The three hundred billion-dollar debt structure resting upon this nation’s existing property is fully 50 per cent too high to permit natural recovery. Capital claims are valid only if they are supported by consumers capable of buying the products in such volume as will insure capital of real earnings. All capital claims in excess of this natural balance are void, and automatically will be swept down when the government stops pegging debt, through loans and relief projects. Let the Hoover Republicans take it on the chin. Then come back in 1940 after the debt clothes are dry cleaned. LOOKING BACKWARD BY THOMAS E. HALSEY I shall not mourn the passing of a year Or rue the human errors I have made, For reckoning may bring a pang of fear, And life holds little for the man afraid. I shall be thankful for the lessons learned, Which broiler vision, wiser thought, may give, That future problems might be well discerned, For only living teaches how to live. The fading year shall leave no grievous tone Nor bluntly say that I am growing old. A twelve-month registers not time alone But progress on the course that I must hold. Recording further moral victories won Toward the righteous goal I would achieve— To have a heart so kind no soul would shun, A voice so honest none would disbelieve. If I toward this end am drawing near, I’ve gathered untold wealth throughout the year. DAILY THOUGHTS Arise, O Lord; O God. lift up thine hand; forget not the humble. —Psalms 10:12. IT WAS pride that changed angels into devils; it is humanity that makes men as angels.—Augustine.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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"Say, we haven’t done so badly. We’re almost exactly where we were eight years ago."

-JAN. 1, 1036

Your..: Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

(The Washington Merry-Go-Round column will be found hereafter on Pare One of the Second Section i JUST how much water each of us should drink daily to provide the best possible boddy conditions is difficult to state. A minimum of six glasses of water a day. Ir. addition to that contained in foods, is commonly recommended and is said to be sufficient to replace the fluids lost from the body during 24 hours. If you are a normal person, you probably should take one or two glasses of water at a meal and a glass between meals, and perhaps also one on arising and one on going to bed. You should remember also that it is possible to drink too much water as well as to take an insufficient amount. tt a m GOOD drinking water should be cool, but not ice cold. You should, of course, avoid contamination from drinking glasses and drinking cups. Nowadays paper cups are provided freely in most places and, where a paper cup is not available, there are usually drinking fountains so constructed as to make it possible to drink without becoming contaminated from the faucet. The best nozzles are those which project a stream of w-ater horizontally, so that, the water not taken falls to the outlet in the bowl. With the nozzle so protected, the mouth of the drinker can not come in contact with it. a tt WHEN water is absolutely pure, it has no taste and no odor, but is also flat. If air is bubbled through such water, it becomes agreeable. Presence of a definite taste in water means that mineral matter is dissolved in it. Sometimes water which tastes bad does so because of an odor brought about by the action of chemicals, vegetable matter, parasites, or germs which are in the water. This is particularly the case when previously contaminated water is heavily chlorinated. If you can t stomach the ordinary water of your community, it is always possible to get good bottled water or to arrange for filters which will take away the artificial tastes and odors.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN remained firmly entrenched in his position as the world's No. 1 scientist in 1935. The year just drawing to a close saw one more proof added to the famous theory of relativity while experiments in the field of the atom constituted further confirmation of some of his other theories. The professor stepped into the limelight also with anew preliminary theory which seeks to , unite his own theory with the quantum theory. The complete accomplishment of this would constitute an advance greater than either of these theories. It is a significant fact that each year since 1919, when the British eclipse expeditions brought Einstein into world prominence by making the first observational confirmation ! of his theory, has seen the theory of relativity become more ♦’-inly entrenched, tt tt tt THE 1935 contribution to the confirmation of the theory was made by Dr. Robert J. Trumpler of the Lick Observatory. Dr. Trumpler has confirmed the red shift in the spectrum of the massive Class O stars, the bluecolored supergiants of the galaxy. This particularly red .shift should not be confused with the one upon which the theory of the expanding universe is based. That red shift is due to motion. The one of which Einstein speaks is the result of gravitation. The red shift required by relativity results from the fact that a gravitational field slows down the vibration of light waves, thus shifting the spectrum lines toward the red or low-frequency end. It was first confirmed In an analysis of the sun’s spectrum by the late Dr. Charles E. St. John of the Mount Wilson Observatory. Subsequently it was demonstrated by Dr. Walter S. Adams, the director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, in the case of the white dwarf star which is the companion of the dogstar Sirius.