Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1936 — Page 9

It Seems to Me KEVM BROUN IHOPE “Liberty at the Crossroads" goes on the air again and next time over a network. All Democrats, progressives and radicals should join me In that wish, because it turns out that Mr. Fletcher's first campaign show is a sort of Republican “Shoot the Works " And that, is putting it mildly. The Democrats, who have been experiencing a tough tine lately, can afford to laugh at last. Their attitude toward their adversaries ought to be “Just give them enough radio ’’ It is easy to imagine

voters all over the country muttering to themselves “If that’s the Republican idea of radio ‘entertainment’ I wonder what in heaven’s name they mean by farm relief.” Possibly you didn’t hear “Liberty at the Crossroads’’ or have access to a script. If so, I’d like to give an indication of the nature of the sketches. tt a tt Stop Me if You've Heard It FIRST Voice—Let’s go to a marriage license bureau. (Music.) Two typical young Americans are

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just coming through the door. John (low)—Is this the right office, d’ye s’pose, Mary? Mary (low)—It said “License Bureau” on the door. Ask that man back of the desk. John—Well, here goes! (Loud.) I—er—excuse me —please Clerk—Full name, please. John—Why— a—we wanted a Is this the place where you get Clerk —A marriage license? John (delighted)—Yes! Mary—Yes! Clerk—What's your full name, please? . Mary—Mary Phoebe Clerk-Groom first, please. Mary (giggling)—Groom? Oh, that's you, John. John—Huh? Me? Mary (helpfully)—His name is John Albert ClerK—Can’t vou speak for yourself, Johnny? John—Huh? Sure. My name's John Albert Smith. Clerk—Where do you live? John—Thirteen Elm-st. Clerk—And your name is Mary Phoebe Mary—Jones. Mary Phoebe Jones. Clerk—Where do you live, Mary? Mary—l live at 13 Elm-st, too. Clerk—What? John—Oh, no! It's a big apartment house. a a tt Back to the Buggy Age IF you don’t mind my shutting off that damn radio for a minute I must say that although I had heard it would be a dirty campaign, I had no idea it would come to this. Clerk (fading up)—And now, Mr. Smith and Miss Jones, before I grant this license to marry I must know: Are you in a position to carry the burden of the head of an American family? John—Burden? Mary—Burden? Why, why, oh! Mother's not going to live with us. She Clerk —I don’t mean the mother-in-law burden. Have you any money, John? Now that, I think, ought to be about all. Turn those dials and get me any amateur hour. Get me Uncle Don. Even get me a child soprano singing “The Music Goes ’Round and Around.” When “Liberty at the Crossroads” is done again I have just the right snapper for a final fadeout. Clerk—Who was that statesman I saw you walking down the street with? John—That was no statesman, you dope. That was a Republican presidential candidate. (Copyright, 1936 1 War Probe Doomed by Wilson Attack BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Young Senator Nye’s investigation of munitions, J. P. Morgan, and what caused the war, is practically dead. Its soul may go marching on. But everything else is about to go off the Senate pay roll. The committee has only S4OO left and Senate leaders have passed the word that no more funds are to be voted. This investigation is being choked off in the name of Woodrow Wilson. Senator Nye’s offense, in addition to being young

and earnest, was simply this: He read from papers and memoirs of Lansing. Col. House, Lord Balfour and Lloyd George testimony that in the spring cf 1917, immediately after we entered the war, Wilson was informed of the secret treaties among the Allies which prevented them from accepting American ideas as to what the peace settlement ought to be. Then Nye tactlessly read from Wilson’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after the war. In answer

to questions from Borah and Hiram Johnson, Wilson said he did not know of the secret treaties until ne arrived in Paris for the peace conference. At this point, Nye, who hasn’t learned that there are times when you are supposed to shrink at drawing conclusions from your facts, said this was evidence that Wilson falsified to the Senate committee about the secret treaties. a a tt WILSON Democrats in the Senate denounced that as a ghoulish attack on the late President. Aided by others who. while not particularly interested in Wilson, have other equally impelling reasons. they appear to have the votes to end the Nye investigation. In fact, it would not surprise some if the pending neutrality legislation might not be vigorously opposed in further tribute to Woodrow Wilson. a a a The irony of the Senate debate over the secret treaties was that it occurred just after the bonus bill was called up. War veterans in the galleries, who had come to see the Senate vote the bonus, remained to hear from the memoirs of the statesmen who pulled the strings that a number of things were involved besides making the world safe for democracy. a a a\ The government is considering asking the Supreme Court for p rehearing of the rice millers’ case in w’hich the District Ccfurt was ordered to enjoin collection of processing taxes. Justice Department attorneys say this order conflicts with a statute of 1872 forbidding any court f rom restraining the assessment or collection of taxes. In the case of Bailey vs. George, James M. Beck, then solicitor general, won a decision that an allegation of unconstitutionality was not sufficient ground for waiving this prohibition. a a a G* OVERNMENT attorneys realize that such a r motion probably would be a futile gesture but they are tempted to do it to bring forcibly to attention the situation which threatens collections of revenues. If lower courts are to be permitted generally to enjoin collection of taxes under laws which hold to be unconstitutional, the government fears worse confusion than has already developed. For instance, some banks are now said to be paying their federal deposit insurance assessments ‘under protest" to clear the way for a possible court test. An epidemic of this kind would ph-y havoc with Federal revenues. Hence the Administration’s concern. The new Administration ‘‘soil conservation" program looks suspiciously like AAA in false whiskers. But when any one suggests the Administration i resorting to subterfuge to get around the Supreme Court decision, the answer of one prominent official is: ’ The court has forced us to resort to expediency to get anything dene."

“When ecrlh’s last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two, Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.” —L’ENVOI \yEAK eyes made a poet of a man who might have been a great general. Rudyard Kipling, equally noted for his prose and poetry, was destined for the army. His extreme shortsightedness was responsible for producing one of the world’s greatest writers. Yet, his undoubted greatness, as well as his valuable services to Great Britain through his patriotic writings and verse, failed to win for him the highest poetic award in the Empire, but the English Empire mourned his death today with as much grief as it has ever bestowed on a man of letters. Queen Victoria, herself, it is reported, vetoed a proposal to appoint Mr. Kipling to succeed Tennyson as Poet Laureate. It was thought that she was antagonized by his poetic references to her as “The Widow of Windsor” in his “Bar-rack-room Ballads.”

Mr. Kipling was born in Bombay, on Dec. 30, 1865. His father was an artist, the director of the Lahore museum. His crusading zeal, if not his war-time instincts, he may have derived from his grandfathers, who on both sides were Methodist preachers. After attending a military school in Eng’and, young Kipling returned to India, where the Duke of Connaught gave him the freedom of the Northwest district, allowing him to mix with the soldiers and study the native hill people. a a IT was here he learned to know and portray the character and actions of the British “Tommy” as none had before or since. For “Departmental Ditties” which he had published when he was 21, Mr. Kipling received an initial payment of 500 rupees (about $185). The work subsequently earned

TTTASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—In- ’ * side word is that four members of the present Federal Reserve Board will be renamed by the President to the new board that becomes operative Feb. 1. They are Gov. Marriner S. Eccles, who will head the new body, Charles S. Hamlin and Adolph C. Miller, personal friends of the President who have been on the board since its creation in 1914; and M. S. Szymczak, the youngest member. Heading the list of new men to be appointed is Joseph A. Broderick, former New York •> superintendent of banks . . . J. P. Morgan attends all hearings of the Senate munitions investigation attired in a wing collar, specially made for him in England. On the small finger of his left hand the international banker wears a large signet ring and hanging from his vest a heavy gold chain, both inherited from his father. Morgan smokes his frequent cigars in a short ivory holder embellished with a broad gold band. Model of understatement by Senator John H. Bankhead: “I have come to the well-considered judgment that the Bankhead cotton act (of which he is the author) will be held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court." In his majority decision baning the AAA Justice Roberts characterized the Bankhead law as an example of illegal legislation . . . Reports reached Washington that the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, which h&s been waging a fierce battle to gain recognition from plantation owners, has become so significant politically that Harry Malcolm, deputy state labor commissioner of Arkansas, addressed its recent second annual convention in Little Rock . . . Southern California’s Democratic Representative Charles J. Colden, newlyappointed chairman of the House Committee for the disposition of executive papers, has named his daughter to the $2700-a-year post as secretary of the body. a a a Judicial Caution PRESIDENTIAL advisers are warning Roosevelt to be extremely careful about all appointments to the judiciary, even in the lower courts. At present a vacancy exists in the Federal judiciary hi New York and Gov. Lehman has

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KIPLING REACHES ROAD’S END a a a a a a u u m a a u a a a England Mourns Man Who Might Have Been a Great General

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around SIOO,OOO for author and publishers. Following a tour of the United States, the poet offered his impressions of America to the San Francisco Examiner, but Editor F. H. L. Noble rejected them as being too flippant. All Kipling asked for them was S2O for two columns. Mr. Noble, however, later published “Plain Tales From the Hills,” which started Mr. Kipling’s popularity in the United States. While on his tour, Mr. Kipling met Caroline Starr Balestier, a Vermont girl, and they were married. The couple returned to England, where Rudyard settled down to the writing of consistent bestsellers. His output increased, and the publication of one of his works came to be regarded as an event in the world of literature. French universities have used his works as textbooks. a a a KIPLING did not look the type who could write so graphically of adventure, war and romance. His scantily-covered scalp, thick

selected Saul S. Streit, a New York assemblyman unknown outside the state and of untested ability. Usually Lehman’s recommendation is as good as gold with his friend Roosevelt, but this time there may be opposition . . Capitol policemen cn night shift spend their time trapping rats in the sub-base-ment vault once used as the first tomb of George Washington . . . PWA theatrical projects are putting on a series of "living newspapers” in which unemployed newspaper men and actors act out the news. Unemployed circus clowns are being used to act cartoons. One of the first news stories being performed is on the Ethiopian situation . . . Bachelor Justice McReynolds, who seldom speaks to some of his colleagues cn the Supreme Court, hates tobacco smoke. Ladies attending his famous Sunday morning breakfasts are not permitted to light cigarets. a a a Witness on Spot TF Bolivian Consul General Wal- * ter Decker declines to testify before a New York grand jury regarding four bombing planes alleged to have been smuggled out by a Curtiss-Wright subsidiary, the Senate munitions committee is prepared to turn on the heat. Senators are aching for a chance to give Bolivia more arms-smuggling publicity than it would get before the grand jury. . . . Three first ladies of the land were together under one roof the other day when Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended Mrs. Townsend’s musicale. . . . Jimmy Roosevelt and family are now living in the President's New York house .which the Roosevelts for some time have been trying to sell. . . . When the Supreme Couit shoved the AAA off the constitutional standard, 1100 night workers who send checks to farmers wired the President a message of confidence signed. “The Night Workers of the AAA.” They received a reply from Roosevelt which read: “The ardours of the day’s work are lightened by the message of loyalty and goodwill sent, me by the Night Workers of the AAA.” a a a Heavy Booking FEW sessions have had as heavy a booking of important senatorial investigations as the

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glasses and drooping mustache belied the creative fire and intense imperialism which glowed within. So fiery were his writings during the Boer War that he became known as a confirmed “Jingo.” His extreme nationalism, however, did not prevent him receiving the Noble prize for

Seventy-fourth Congress. Immediately after the munitions probe, now holding the footlights, the Senate lobby inquiry will reopen its show with an all-star cast of utility moguls, on whom it has been gathering secret material for months. And when it rings down the curtain, Senator Burt Wheeler will take the boards with his investigation into the inner mysteries of railroad financing. . . . Latest congressional comment on the Townsent plan, voiced in the House by Massachusetts’ Republican Rep. Gifford: “Patrick Henrj s famous cry, ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ can now be paraphrased, ‘Give me liberty or give me death—but anyhow, gimme’.” .. . Prominent at the Jackson Day dinner in the capital were Chairman Charles H. March of the Federal Trade Commission, a Republican originally appointed by Calvin Collidge; and President Bill Green of the A. F. of L., attired in white tie, tails and a silk topper. a a tt London on Spot NEW DEALERS are charging Gov. Alf Landon with refusing to call a special session of the Kansas Legislature to enact a social security law in compliance with the Federal act, because of fear of a showdown on the wet-and-dry issue. Prohibitionists in the state plan to offer a bone-dry bill if a special session is called, thus forcing Landon to declare himself on the dynamite-loaded question. . . . Cyril Upham, assistant to Secretary Mongenthau, on Federal business in Birmingham, Ala., got his first news of the Supreme Court's decision on the AAA from a newsboy as follows: “Extra, extra, New Deal farm law goes out like a light.” . . . Presidential appointments sent to the Senate for confirmation last year numbered 7715 as compared with 4684 for the entire preceding Seventy-third Congress. . . Among the latest gifts to the Library of Congress is a book entitled, “A Handful of Sand,” translated from the works of Takuboku Ishikawa by Shio Sakanishi, Ph. D., with a foreword by His Excellency Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador to the United States. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

literature in 1907, while many British and foreign universities awarded him honorary degrees. A “Kipling Society,” formed in London to spread appreciation of his works, repeatedly sent him greetings. But such his hatred of sham and adulation, that he never answered. Up to the beginning of the

Wales Takes Instant of By United Press LONDON, Jan. 18.—When King ' George of England dies, the Prince of Wales at the moment of death will become an already constituted monarch. This has been recognized as a constitutional principle since the RENT SLASH DENIED EASTERN AIRLINES City May Consider Plea at Renewal Time. After testifying that Eastern Airlines loses more than $20,000 every month, company officials hoped today that the Works Board eventually would reduce the SIOO monthly rental charge for operating facilities at the Municipal Airport. The board refused the company’s petition for a reduction yesterday, but said that wnen new contracts were drawn with all companies, this organization would get consideration. It was explained that, at present, the city has contracts with other airlines which specify that all organizations shall pay a uniform rental charge. George E. Gardner, Eastern Airlines divisional superintendent, explained the request by saying his company landed only two planes here daily. ARMY FLIERS RENEW HUNT FOR LOST CHILD Boy, 4, Strayed From Arizona Ranch Wednesday; Mishap Feared. By United Press DOUGLAS, Ariz., Jan. 18.—Army planes from Fort Huaehuca today renewed search over the rugged “Geronimo Trail” district for 4-year-old Roy Rogers, lost since Wednesday. More than 100 soldiers from the fort also made a detailed ground check. The child wandered away from a ranch Wednesday and was believed to have gone into the Guadaloupe Mountains. Freezing temperatures in the territory once used by hostile Indians as a hiding place led searchers to fear for the child’s safety.

Great War. Kipling produced at least one book a year. The “Jungle Books” were written for his son John, who was later killed in the trenches. tt St tt KIPLING was admittedly supreme as the great national patriotic writer during the war. He did much propaganda work, and wrote several books on modern warfare. Considerable American hostility against Mr. Kipling was aroused shortly after the war. He was reported by the old New York World to have declared that the United States had entered the war too late, and had forced the allies to agree to peace before the Germans were properly punished. While he never directly denied the charge, Mr. Kipling declared he had not known he was talking for publication. Monetary considerations certainly did not influence his work, although his books were nearly all money-makers. He once refused to write an article for which he was offered $1.25 a word. On another occasion, when some joking undergraduate, hearing h’ received a shilling a word, wired him a shilling and saying, “Please send us one of your words.” Mr. Kipling answered, “Thanks.” HIS famous poem, “If,” is known to millions throughout the English-speaking world. If that had been his sole contribution to literature, he would still be remembered by posterity as long as the presses could turn out the printed word. Always a trenchant writer, Kipling had no mercy for national “weaknesses,” and despite the furore for his “Absent-Minded Beggar” poem at the outbreak of the South African War, he actually made himself most unpopular among sporting Britishers by his allegedly sneering references to the national games of cricket and football in a powerful poem urging national effort to end the war. His scathing references to “flanneled fools at the wicket.” and “muddled oafs at the goal,” were, he explained, in no sense derogatory to the national sports, but merely poetic license in the effort to emphasize the necessity of a nation shelving all forms of amusement in order to end a war quickly and successfully.

Throne at King's Death days of King Henry VIII. It makes certain that there shall be no interval, or interregnum, between two monarchs. The line of succession to the throne at present is as follows: 1. Prince of Wales, who is 41. 2. The Duke of York, the second son, who is 40. 3. Princess Elizabeth, older daughter of the duke, who is 9%. 4. Princess Margaret Rose, who is 5%. 5. The Duke of Gloucester, the third son, who is 34. 6. The Duke of Kent, the fourth son, who is 33. 7. The duke’s son. Prince Edward, who is 3 months old. 8. Princess Mary, the sing’s only daughter. Following her come her children, Viscount Lascelles, nearly 13, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 11%. If the Prince of Wales marries and has children, they will take precedence over the Duke of York, the sons first, then daughters. Most people believe the prince will not marry, and the Duke of York’s younger daughter is 5%. Hence many believe there is more than even chance that Princess Elizabeth will be queen some day. If the duke had a son, however, he would take precedence over the daughters, ever, though they would be older. CITES DIFFERENCES IN 2 ORGANIZATIONS Perry Township Taxpayers’ Head Makes Explanation. The Perry Township Civic League, Inc., which is to meet at 8 Monday in University Heights School, is a different organization from the Perry Township Taxpayers Association, George Hacker, president of the latter group, pointed out today. The taxpayers association was locked out of Southport High School after the organization became embroiled in a fight with Leonard A. Hohlt, township trustee. WPA DIRECTOR TO TALK Recreation Plans to Be Described to Relief Agency Heads. Description of the recreation program of the Works Progress Administration is to be given by Garrett G. Eppley, state director, at the weekly luncheon of Federal relief agency directors in the Washington Wednesday, Clarence Manion, state director of the National Emergency Council, announced today.

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Fair Enough WESDROORMR PARIS. Jan. 18.—The American nobility in Franca has been considerably reduced in numbers since the great panic of 1929, but that is not to say that the colony has been wiped out. There are still enough of them to make a showing in Paris and along the Riviera, where, like Aga Khan of Bombay, they are maintained in great comfort by their subjects back home. The method of obtaining contributions differs, but the effect is about the same. The Aga Khan, being the God of five million Moham-

medans, receives tithes from the faithful, but American nobility get theirs in dividends or royalties. In the long run. however, the income of Americans of this class is produced by the labor of countless impersonal subjects in mines, mills, factories and fields and is transmitted to France, where it is spent on villas, horses, gowns, jewelry and other necessities of life of the nobility. The Aga Khan can hardly be expected to have a personal acquaintance with each of his five million faithful followers, and.

similarly, an absentee American of noble status can not hope to know the names of all the working people at home whose little individual contributions go to create an income sufficient to maintain him or her abroad. Anyway, these subjects are always dying and being succeeded by their sons and daughters. The nobility, of course, die, too, and hand down their possessions to their sons ana daughters, who continue 'to liv® in France. a a a That’s Beside the Point THERE is a tendency among destructive critics to object to this arrangement on the ground that this class of Americans are parasites on the body of the American working class. This is an ignorant point of view, because the good works of the American nobility among the poor of France are famou* throughout the world. It may be true that this money would be more at home if used to rehabilitate some American villages in Arkansas, for example, where the condition of th® peasants never was any too good, or to provide shoes for that large group whom Miss Frances Perkins so tactlessly described as the shoeless tenth. But the point is that the American friend of France can make a much greater impression with a contribution of 5000 francs in France than with the equivalent sum of $330 at home. The 5000 francs not only buy more bricks and shoes in France but make a much more resounding figure than $330. When America was still on gold and the American working people were conscientiously at work instead of loafing and grumbling on the dole, a member of the society colony in France could do magnificent things of a charitable character with an American income and still come up with a profit on the year, thanks to difference in prices. In 1926, SIOOO bought 350,000 francs. There is no rigid scale of prices for the various grades of the French Legion of Honor, but any benefactor who gave 15,000 francs or more and did not receive a red ribbon may regard himself or herself as cheated. The higher grades naturally cost more. a a Governors, Take Notiqe IT is a distinct handicap to the American lower classes that they are not picturesque. They do not wear smocks or wooden shoes or drive oxen, and old ladies do not sit by doors on sunny days knitting lace caps. The corresponding class of Americans wears ragged overalls and no shoes at all, and they would rather drive skinny mules through cotton fields or pull the plows themselves. And old ladies sitting by doors on sunny days present a repugnant picture a3 they pole snuff around their gums or smoke their pipes, which are quite different from Parisian cigarets with a satin tip of the same color as one’s lipstick. But probably the worst handicap of the American lower classes is the lack of anything approximating the French notion of the Legion of Honor. Th® Governor of Arkansas and the Governor of Pennsylvania might wish to investigate the possibilities of profit in a state Legion of Honor. It is not to be imagined, of course, that such a decoration would attract large numbers of French nobility Ik) the United States and move them to donate dollars for the relief of American distress. Th® French are fond of decorations, but their self-control in the face of temptation when a decoration is going to cost them money is one of the wonders of the world.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. —Optimism oozed everywhere on my recent trip. If the depression is not definitely on the run, it is at least looking nervously around for the nearest exit. But employment is little better. Suffering is relieved, and some of the improvement in buying is created by the spending of large sums of taxpayers* money. Another part of increased business came from AAA “benefits.” We built a good temporary trestle under our busted business, but we have done little to replace the false work by a stone foundation. Is there anything definite in the quasi-science of economics? Under one set of urgings we are tild that the secret of our tangle is to get prices down. We are acting on that theory by our State Department’s conscientious sapping of the tariff and by many other attempted devices. At the very same moment we listen to another group which says our sole salvation is to get prices up. We acted on that theory by AAA benefits and restrictions, and by all the inflationary policies, from silver purchase to unorthodox Federal financing. It is fantastical. The truth is that although we have no fixed policy, we are not inactive. We try everything and cancel each principal effort by another in the opposite direction. Why wouldn’t it be a good thing to have a noffpoliticai field day on theories—a great national contest of Brain Trusts in a goldfish bowl? Let all these rival policies come nobly to the grapple before the public eyes, and see if we can’t get at least one common denominator of thought and action. (Copyright, 1938, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.).

Literary Notes

Captain Cohn, of the House of Books, is encouraging book collectors to collect the Pulitzer Prize novels. In his new catalogue of modern first editions he lists them all, 17 to date, and he says “some will be forgotten except as Pulitzer Prize novels, but many have already found their places in our literature. By and large they are a representative selection of the work of modem American novelists.” He doesn’t give the prices of the individual books, but prices the whole series, all first editions, at $125. Among the books by Cecil Day Lewis is listed “A Question of Proof” written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake and published this year in London. A first edition of Norman Douglas’ “South Wind” is listed at $82.50. This copy was published in England and has on the flyleaf the rubber stamp of the literary agents who placed the book in the United States. It is the file copy sent to them before the publication by Marin Seeker, the English copy. There are transposed lines on page 335. Among the autograph letters in the catalogue is one from Sherwood Anderson to John Cournos on personal and literary matters, which is worth 11.50; one from James M. Barrie dated April 26, 1896, referring tgfthe illustration of one of his books ($6.50>,

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