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SATURDAY. JANUARY 4, 1936. THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH “qnHEY seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street.” In exactly 25 words Franklin D. Roosevelt sums up his case. Swinging from an attack on autocracy abroad he describes what he conceives as the danger of a revived autocracy at home-the autocracy of a ‘‘powerseeking minority”; ‘‘domination of government by financial and industrial groups, numerically small, but politically dominant in the 12 years that succeeded the World War.” The 12 years that led us to the precipice of 1933. In short, those who were driven out of the temple are trying to get back in. So: ‘They steal the livery of great national constitutional ideais to serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders they wrongfully seek to carry the property and interests intrusted to them into the area of partisan politics. They seek—this minority in business and finance -to control and often do control and use for their own purposes legitimate and highly honored business associations; they engage in vast propaganda to spread fear and discord among the people—they would ‘gang up’ against the people’s liberties.” You don’t have to stop and tell the story of the one-eyed man in the poker game to indicate who the President of these United States is talking about. And then having stated the case, comes the challenge. “TF these gentlemen believe, as they say they beA lieve, that the measures adopted by this Congress and its predecessor, and carried out by this Administration, have hindered rather than promoted recovery, let them be consistent. Let them propose to this Congress the complete repeal of these measures. The way is open to such a proposal. Let action be positive and not negative. ‘‘Shall we say that values are restored and that the Congress will therefore repeal the laws under which we have been bringing them back? Shall we. say that because national income has grown with rising prosperity, we shall repeal existing taxes and thereby put off the day of approaching a balanced budget and starting to reduce the national debt? “Shall we abandon the reasonable support and regulation of banking? Shall we restore the dollar to its former gold content? “Shall we say to the farmer—“ The prices for your products are in part restored, now go and hoe your own row?’ Shall we say to the home owners and the debtors—‘We have reduced your rates of interest —we have no further concern with how you keep your home or what you pay for your money; that is your affair?’ “Shall we say to the farmer—‘The prices for your ployed citizens who face the very problem of existence—of getting enough to eat—‘We will withdraw from giving you work, we will turn you back to the charity of your communities and to those men of selfish power who tell you that perhaps they will employ you if the government leaves them strictly alone?’ tt tt t “QHALL we say to the children who have worked all day—‘Child labor is a local issue and so are your starvation wages; something to be solved or left unsolved by the jurisdictions of 48 stales?’ “Shall we say to the laborer—‘Your right to organize* your relations with your employer have nothing to do with the public interest; if your employer will not even meet with you to discuss your problems and his, that is none of our affair?’ “Shall we say to the unemployed and the agedsocial security lies not within the province of the Federal government, you must seek relief elsewhere?’ “Shall we say to the men and women who live in conditions of squalor in country and in city—‘The health and the happiness of you and yourchildnen are no concern of ours?’ “Shall we expose our population once more by the repeal of laws to protect them against the loss of their honest investments and against the manipulations of dishonest speculators?” In that manner are the lines of 1936 drawn, the issues described, the opponents and the weapons named. And, speaking of breathing spells, sc far as the “old order” is concerned there’ll be little relaxed respiration from now until November. A WISE SCHOOL POLICY HT'HE State Board of Education is to be commended for placing in the high school courses of the state lessons in safe driving. This enlightened move is in accord with driving courses in the schools of other states, notably New Jersey. We note that the board contemplates driving tests for students as they reach the age for licensing. That is wise. At present Indiana does not require examinations for drivers’ licenses, as it should. If the high school students are given tests, examinations for all first licenses will soon follow'. THE TWIN CITIES A YEAR before the murder of Walter Liggett, Minneapolis editor, Attorney General Cummings, in discussing crime conditions, named Minneapolis and St. Paui as two of the three cities where a cleanup was needed most urgently. In the controversy and investigation which followed, different officials involved suggested differ- | ent explanation. One of them recalled that years ago St. Paul had a chief of police who let it be known in the underworld that he would pay little attention to the presence of criminals in St. Paul if the criminals would behave while there. Orders were passed along in the underworld that stick-ups, burglaries and other depredations were not to be committed In St. Paul.' In return, it was charged, police officials paid little attention to tire presence of underworld characters in the city, even though they were known to be wanted for crimes committed elsewhere. A> a result, It was said, men and women committing crimes in Chicago came to look on St. Paul as a logical hide-out, and gradually its reputation spread farther. The proximity of Minneapolis provided an opportunity to change quickly from one

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Jurisdiction to another, and the wild lake country nearby provided an even more secure hide-out when this became necessary. Through successive city administrations the same policy was pursued and the reputation of the Twin Cities as a refuge became firmly established, even for men wanted cn the other side of the continent. When the Urschel kidnapers were on trial, the chief of police of Minneapolis went to Oklahoma to testify as a character witness for two of them. In no other city in the country, it was said, has the original St. Paul policy of a bargain with the underworld been followed. The nearest approach to it was the old understanding in New York of a deadline around Wall Street within which known criminals would be arrested on sight. In recent years the St. Paul country has been the first place where law enforcement officers looked for public enemies. John Dillingcr and other members of his gang were pursued through the lake country and in and out of the Twin Cities. Nearly ,/ery kidnaping case of recent years has had a Twin City angle. TIGHTENING LIQUOR CONTROL A N attempt is to be made in Congress to sever the Federal Alcohol Administration from the Treasury Department, where it was placed last session after considerable controversy, and set it up as an independent bureau. The reasons are three-fold: First, because Congress neglected, at the last session, to repeal certain internal revenue statutes of long standing which conflict with FA A statutes; second, because it is held that an independent commission, with its attention solely devoted to the liquor problem, can better administer the laws, and third, because such an independent commission can co-operate better with the states in promoting temperance. The President was reported to be in favor of an independent commission when the liquor bill was before Congress last session. Because of the bitter fight over bulk sales in kegs and barrels, which Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau opposed, a compromise was necessary which resulted in prohibition of bulk sales, but transferred the FAA to the Treasury, as originally provided in the House bill. Promotion of temperance is the earnest desire of President Roosevelt, and the FAA, and henceforth will become an increasingly important phase of policy. Old-line drys again are becoming active and are pointing to excesses here and there. In some cases they have singled out admitted evils of which the FAA is conscious and which it is endeavoring to root out. Those who advocate an independent commission to facilitate the promotion of temperance point out that the Treasury, naturally, is interested rather in the collection of revenue than in the temperance phase. State liquor control boards, themselves, are increasingly aware of the necessity of promoting temperance and have organized a commission for cooperation with the FAA. The commission is headed by R. McC. Buffington, chairman of the Virginia liquor control board, and includes Mrs. John R. Sheppard of New York, Mrs. Edith McClure Patterson of Ohio and W. J. Lindberg of Washington State. Since liquor control now is largely a matter for the states, the initiative must come from the states in applying social controls. But it is felt that the Federal government can be of material assistance, through co-operation, and that an independent commission would be the most effective agency. THE PROBLEM OF PAROLE two more parolees from Indiana penal * " institutions arrested in Chicago on the same day for major felonies our citizens should be pondering again the crime question. In the newspaper crime reports of the last three years the repetition of Indiana’s name is monotonous. Parole laws designed to give young first offenders a second chance are humane in theory. They operate well in many cases, according to reports of parole officers. Bui too many of the young men released from Indiana institutions have gone directly into a career of banditry, declaring war on society. We can see some underlying causes—poverty, slums, inability to get work, drink and drugs. However, for the good of the state, a further study of parole would be justified. Indiana does not have to continue to appear in so many stories of public enemies captured in other states. THAT REMINDS US T OOKING at the business and industrial reviews and reading the anti-Administration views of business leaders whose formerly depressed enterprises are again flourishing, we are reminded of that old story dramatizing ingratitude. It is about a young man hero who leaped into icy waters and rescued a little boy who had fallen from a pier. He returned the lad safely to his father, only to be rewarded with the irate inquiry: “Well, where is his cap?” A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “ r F' HE onJ y way we can stem the tide of radicalism in this country,” said a business man, “is to have another war. Fighting takes the minds of the people off their domestic troubles.” From the look of tilings, it is precisely what we plan. And in the event of another big fracas a great many noisy idealists are sure to be killed. You can count on them to volunteer first for any cause while the practical individual such as Mr. Business Man, who knows liow to look after No. 1, is left to pick up the pieces. In Current Controversy magazine A. J. Liebling offers a suggestion to parents. We must raise our boys to be soldiers, says he, if we wish them to be comparatively safe in a world whose major business is the manufacture of armaments. Excellent logic, too, since arms today is the only profession which offers reasonable security for a man’s present and his future. Certainly the civilian is not going to be sitting pretty in the next war. With such an eminent peace lover as Uncle Sam ordering more and more fighting planes, the prospect for universal death is lively. When our expensive merchandise is ready for use, about the safest place to cower will be in the frontline dugouts which are constructed to resist such attacks. Non-combatants in their flimsy homes will have no chance. So far, the common man—the wretch who does the actual fighting—seems to have little say-so in this important business. The war departments always decide what he shall spend for guns. The generals make out his military budget and any feeble protests he puts up are unheard in the clangor of munition manufacturing. In short, the farmer, the working man, all who produce the wherewithal to support the soldier, have ever been the soldier’s slaves. Today they are perhaps less free than ever from such bondage. Yet how servilely do they kiss the hands that slay them!

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Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON OOD people of Boone County NJ had a fox drive the other day, caught three and saw four escape. Three thousand persons surrounded a 10,000-acre expanse and closed in simultaneously. The foxes, it is understood will become the property of hunt clubs, to be liberated for the chase at the right time. The demand of various hunts in all part? of the country for foxes is so keen that I wonder somebody does not go into the business of raising red foxes for the red-coats. Perhaps somebody has. Anyhow, fox-hunt-ing reached its highest pitch in the United States during the depression and the arnica business boomed. Some chronicler some day may explain that. u u tt /"AN the same day one reads about the fox-hunters, members of clubs able to support horses for pleasure, one also reads about a family on work-relief whose house burned down during the holidays. Father, mother, six children, with all their furniture, bedding, everything they had, destroyed. The contrasts in the papers are what settle the arguments as to whether social security efforts by state and nation should or should not continue. tt tt tt T WAS glad to hear that Stanford A had finally won a Rose Bowl game. Not that I had anything against Southern Methodist. But Tiny Thornhill has had such illluck in the New Year’s Day game and he is such a fine fellow that it seemed about time for him to come out ahead. Thornhill played football under Glenn Warner ana succeeded him at Stanford when Warner went to Temple. He is one of the best men in the coaching profession, which is one that requires the best in any man. tt tt tt r T"'HE American Association of University Professors has lifted its ban from De Pauw. This means that the members of the association may accept appointment there without forfeiting membership in the association. This is a good thing for De Pauw, but the university probably would have continued to do good work in any case. The association stands for tenure of office for university and college teachers; for permanent tenure after a teacher has proved his worth. Opposed to its policy are a number of university administrations which claim the right to make staff changes as indicated by year-to-year needs and conditions. In some universities it has been charged that professors were dismissed because their so-called liberal teachings and speeches conflicted with the more conservative views of trustees. This is why the tenure question has been pressed. De Pauw, having a liberal president, has less difficulty meeting the standards of the association than some others, against which accusations have been made. tt tt tt r I "'ODAY just about rang down the curtain on the winter holidays. Look around and you will find nearly everybody glad to get back into the normal routine. Families will be breathing sighs of relief as they see sons and daughters off to school at the railroad station. Fathers and mothers will welcome the reopening of the public schools. People who have been losing sleep and eating too much party food will turn gratefully to the simple life. Probably the chief value of the holidays is that they make people appreciate the wholesomeness of the everyday life with its alternating work and rest. tt tt tt T SEE by Mrs. Roosevelt’s column *• in The Times that she served eggnog New Year’s eve. That admission shows she is not holding anything back in describing her day-by-day life in the white House. OTHER OPINION Increasing Revenues [Newcastle Courier-Timesl Indiana’s gross income tax revenue should to considerably increased by revocation of a temporary regulation allowing Indiana residents to defer the reporting for taxation of income received from sources outside of the state. The Supreme Court has upheld the law and now a tax must be paid, on this income. Principal groups affected are: Persons living in Indiana who have received income from employment in other states; persons who have received dividends from stocks of out-of-state corporations or interest from bonds and other securities from out-of-state companies; persons who have sold or received rentals from tangible property in other states; persons receiving alimony paid by residents of this state or other states regardless of whether the alimony was awarded by Indiana courts or courts in other states. Consumer Pays [FrankUn Evening Star] After all, it is the consumer who pays, and usually the poorer a man is, the greater consumer he usually | turns out to be, in proportion to his income. It is easy to talk about being generous with other people’s money, but in the case of public spending, the other people happen to be all of us. i

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make mour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) tt tt tt ADVISES U. S. TO KEEP OUT OF WAR By Times Reader Do you want war? Sweden’s Red Cress outfit was bombed in Ethiopia recently. The Swedish people are angry. The American flag and Americans are there too. Protecting whom? Get them out of there. This whole thing looks like a come-on. Italy could buy all of Ethiopia and save money compared to getting it by war. Let’s take the only thing we can from the last war. A lesson. Let’s get away from the war zone and stay away. It’s a sucker’s trap. Was the United States justified in entering the World War? Who did they fight for? What, if anything, did they win? Did it end all war? Did it make the world safe for Democracy? What would the world be today if they stayed neutral? The United States? Remember crime, prohibition, exports, taxes, home life must be considered with the dead, wounded, suffering, cost. Do your answers say war pays? Or the next war shall be a defensive war? We can have a war right here of our own on crime, auto accidents and for good, honest government of the people, by the people, for the people. tt tt tt ASKS LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO PRESS SAFETY DRIVE By Frank Ariin Your newspaper and the press in general are to be congratulated and thanked for the publicity you are giving to accident prevention work in an endeavor to reduce the number of people killed and injured in automobile accidents. Your first page list of those 156 Marion County residents killed in 1935 by automobile accidents should cause us to drive more safely and sanely in 1933. However, for an appreciable percentage of motorists, there is only one way to bring about “common sense” driving—that method is by drastic action, or as Theodore Roosevelt’s expression would be, by use of the “big stick.” In Marion County that power rests with four public officials, Chief Morrissey, Sheriff Ray, Judge Dewey Myers and Judge Charles Karabell. Until these public officials actually and continuously enforce the Indiana speed law which states that

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21 miles or more per hour in the closely built up business section, and 31 or more miles per hour in the residential portion of the city are prima facie evidence of speeding, we will continue to murder our fellow citizens on the public highways as we did in 1935. Let us be practical—consider mob psychology—and remember or observe that in our homes we say “you first,” but when we get out in the car with foot on the accelerator we quickly change to “me first.” Mr. Police Officer and Honorable Judge are the ones that have the authority, if they will so use it, to reduce automobile accidents by at least 50 per cent. If you can get them effectively to use the power of their offices toward safer driving by a 365-day campaign of arresting and convicting reckless and speeding motorists, thereby supplementing the fine safety campaign of the press, Marion County will greatly reduce the number killed in 1?36 by automobile accidents. tt tt tt CALLS FOR CAMPAIGN ON INTEMPERANCE By Hiram Lackey I ask the old drunken dogs to come forth. Howl of the misery of v,'recked lives. Strive to give our youth the benefit of knowledge which costs happiness and success. You who have ruined your lives, what do you say? This is a call to arms! We are drafting the strength and ability of genius whose weakness is • and always has been associated with drunkenness. Make us to see and hear and actually feel the situation as it is. And “the god of things as they are” will bless you. Long has The Times stood for education in temperance. Will The Times please give more editorial space to a crusade of enlightenment on the subject of booze? There is a greater need for us to study the curse of intemperance than for us to dwell on the evil* of Puritanism. In our condemnation we will be in less danger of inaccuracy. In all things we have a world to learn from those stanch men and women who feared God, believed each person had a mission in life, and that each citizen should be for all and that all should be for each. tt tt tt COMES TO DEFENSE OF TOWNSEND PLAN By Jack Dolan. Sbelbyville In your issue of Dec. 28 you have an article by Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett, characterized as educator, astronomer and mathematician. If you had two more like him you

ous woeden bridges over the Thames, near the site of the present London Bridge, but they were all carried away by flood or destroyed by fire. In 1176 Henry II instructed Peter, chaplain of the Church of St. Mary Cole, to construct a stone bridge at this point, but the work was not completed until 1209 in the reign of Henry’s son John. The present London Bridge, about 60 yards higher up the river than the old bridge which was removed in 1832, was designed by John Rennie, a Scottish engineer, and was begun in 1825 under the superintendance of his sons, Sir John and George Rennie. It was completed in 1831. Q—How many votes were lacking for conviction in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson? A—President Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives. In his trial, the Senate voted 35 guilty and 19 not guilty, which was less than the two-thirds .majority vote required for conviction under the Constitution, and he was acquitted. Q—Why do oil stoves explode? A—Because inflammable vapor exists in or about the stove, which comes in contact with the flame. The presence of such vapor may be due to the use of inferior oil, or to some defect in the stove. Q —Where and when is the Welsh newspaper Drych published? A—Every Thursday at 100 Lib-erty-st, Utica, N. Y.

could easily eliminate the funny page. Since when, doctor, was the national income forty billion dollars? It passed that mark 40 years ago, and every one engaged in useful production knows we can produce 10 times as much now as then. As for the 2000 delegates at the Chicago convention, you did not miss that quite three-fourths. There were just 6993 registered. Doctor, you are also a mathematician. It would be refreshing to have you answer the following: What creates national income? What makes it fluctuate? Why is one-half of our population on "relief and one-half our resources locked up? Incidently, what is money? If the national income has dropped more than half in the last five years what will it be in the next five years? Why does our national government limit our currency to five billion dollars when one family is worth twice that amount? For your information the national income was at one time ninetythree billion and at the same time more than half our population was underprivilaged and undernourished. If they were permitted to supply their wants the income could and would easily double or treble itself. It is astonishing that a man who poses as educated and has no solution to offer will knock the Townsend Plan. But cheer up, old timer, Dr. Townsend has the remedy. His plan will take care of all the people, including you and your dear old friend Hugh Johnson. WISH ME LUC iT BY F. F. MACDONALD Throughout 1936Just wish me luck! Won’t you, dear? I shall have such need this year For your kind wish—your word of cheer. So many storms I’ve been through— I could not start a year anew Without a cheering word from you. I ask not the smallest part Os your great, good, loving heart. Just wish me luck, dear—from the start And throughout 1936! DAILY THOUGHTS I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. St. Luke 5:32. tt tt tt TO DO so no more is the truest repentance—Luther.

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Your..: Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

bones are hard because they are made largely from calcium or lime. The average man has about four pounds of calcium in his" body, most of it in bones and teeth. While most of the body's calcium is in these structures, about onetenth of a gram is present in each quart of blood. The calcium in the blood is extremely important for body health. The average grown person requires about .45 gram of calcium every day. This is about one-sixti-eth of an ounce. Expectant mothers require more calcium, because the baby draws on the mother’s supply for the growth of its skeleton. Nursing mothers require additional calcium so the child may secure a sufficient amount in the milk. The child of from 3 to 13 years of age requires about twice as much calcium as the average adult, about one-thirtieth of an ounce each day. tt tt tt HPHE baby at birth is calciumpoor. If its bones were as hard at the time it is born as they become later, many of them would be broken during the birth process; in fact, flexibility of the bones of the child at birth makes it possible for it to be born without too many injuries. Best method of getting calcium into the body of the child is in the form of milk. The growing child requires a quart each day. If it gets less than that, it is likely to develop a calcium-poor condition, which will be reflected in its health. If the normal amount of calcium in the body is greatly reduced, disturbing symptoms appear. Among these are convulsive or spasmodic symptoms called tetany. Infants with convulsive disorders sometimes are relieved promptly by adding calcium to their diets. tt u u MILK products also provide calcium in excellent form. One and six-tenths cubic inches of American cheese contain 20 times as much calcium as four ounces of lean beef, and 12 times as much calcium as one egg yolk. Swiss cheese contains 14 times as much calcium as cottage cheese, weight for weight. American Cheddar cheese contains .71 per cent of calcium; Swiss cheese, i.05 per cent, and cottage cheese, .077 per cent. Cheese usually contains about one-third water, one-third fat, and one-third protein. Since it is milk in concentrated form, a pound of cheese represents the amount of protein and fat available in a gallon of milk. Other foods that are rich in calcium are asparagus, celery, spinach, peas, beans, cabbage, clams, carrots, and cauliflower. (Copyright, 1936. by NEA Service) TODAY’S SCIENCE BY SCIENCE SERVICE NO weather, only climate, would be the lot of the earth if the sun always poured its light and warmth forth at an even, unvarying rate. Only because the sun is a variable star, one of the innumerable celestial candles that flicker instead of shining stead.ly, do we have the sharp, sometimes violent, changes in the earth’s atmosphere which we know as weather. This is one of the ideas concerning the connection between the sun’s radiation and the earth's weather suggested by Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who is taking part in the meeting at St. Louis of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Abbot's opinion is based on a study of statistical correlations between the “flickerings,” or day-to-day variations in the amounts of light and heat given off by the sun, and the fluctuations in terrestrial temperatures in a considerable number of spots on the earth’s surface. The studies have been conducted over a considerable length of time, and represent the compilation of many thousands of individual observers. A surprising feature is the very small amount if solar variation that is often coupled with quite large changes in terrestrial temperature. For example, during certain months of the year a variation of solar radiation amounting to only one-half of 1 per cent was correlated with temperature changes of from five to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, at Washington.

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