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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1536. AL SMITH S SPEECH A L SMITH is still the super-showman—the nation’s most entertaining public speaker; master of the phrase and the inflection and the pause. Believe with him or against him, you can't help concluding that in this land of free speech it is healthy to have him and his picturesque language and his vivid point of view. Long may he live, and more frequently may he appear. As for the immediate occasion, if ever a billiondollar audience got its money's worth, that starched and bejeweled gathering did. They heard what they had come to hear, and no East Side assemblage could have been noisier with its catcalls and its whistles and its stomnings. Many a white tie quivered and many a shirt bosom creaked as cries of “pour it on 'em” reverberated into the chandeliers. The environment was a strange one for Al. Most of those present were of the sort that eight years ago thought Al lived on the wrong side of the tracks. Now, as the wheel of politics has turned, he is their hero. That all seemed symbolized somehow by the fact that for the first time he pronounced it “radio,” not “raddio.” Al had moved up town. The brown derby was no more. u a FROM the political point of view the speech was of undoubted importance in that it expressed out loud the feeling of a lot of Democrats to whom Roosevelt has been too strong meat. The subject matter covered was not especially convincing to those not already convinced. Though picturesquely presented it lacked the element of surprise. It got over quite the same ground, no more and no less, as that already trod by Smith’s ancient enemy, Hearst, by Hoover, by Fletcher, by Hastings and by Talmadge. Al just did it more entertainingly, that’s all. What he expressed will tend to strengthen those who are prone to bolt. His threat to “take a walk” if the 1936 platform doesn't suit him lacked any large quantity of shock because he gave the pedometer a considerable workout in 1932, and failure to call Franklin “Old Potato” this year won’t cause much of a sensation. Some unquestionably will join him in the stroll, if he decides to take it. How many, no one can say. It is a fact, however, that our party system of government develops great adhesive qualities from nomination to election, as witness Smith’s own delayed and reluctant support of Roosevelt in ’32. tt tt tt THE strongest part of his speech, it seemed to us, was when he hit at that undoubtedly weak spot in the Roosevelt armor—his reference to Roosevelt’s night message to Congress wherein the President referred to newly set up instruments of public power and the danger therein if that power were placed in improper hands. “Now’, I interpret that,” said Smith, “to mean that if you are going to have an autocrat, take me. . . . We don't want autocrats. We wouldn’t even take a good one. To us the least convincing part was when he resorted to his familiar and usually effective device of “looking at tire record.” If what happened between the writing of the platform in June, 1932, and inauguration day in March, 1933, could be wiped out, that attack would have been devastating. But an emergency unforeseen in June, 1933, did occur. The newly elected President had to meet it. The whole nation demanded that he act as the emergency required. He did act. The wisdom or unwisdom of his action is proper subject for debate and criticism now. But that he acted in accordance with the size of the emergency is not, it seems to us, a point that will much impress the American people. We doubt whether Smith or Hoover or any one else would have been thumbing through any party rule book in those dark and dangerous days. a tt tt BUT most of all, without attempting in this space to deal with every phase of the speech, we get back to the queer company in which this man from the lower East Side now finds himself—the Liberty League. Karl Marx in the Union League Club would seem no more fantastic. As we look into our memory of the Smith that was; the Smith who now attacks the New Deal as socialistic; the Smith who said in 1928: "The cry of Socialism has been patented by the powerful interests that desire to put a damper on progressive legislation. Failing to meet arguments fairly and squarely, ‘special interest’ falls back on the old stock phrases of Socialism. ... To refer to the remedies for all these evils as state Socialism is not constructive statesmanship, it is not leadership; and leadership is what this country is hungry for today.” MUNITIONS REACTION UNUSUAL pressure from “the folks back home” is credited with inspiring the unanimous vote of the Senate Munitions Committee to seek further funds to complete the inquiry into how and why the United States entered the World War. Hundreds of letters have been received by various members of the committee: other hundreds have come to non-members of both House and Senate with many of the writers sending copies to Senators Carter Glass <D„ Va.) and Tom Connally (D., Tex.), leaders of the fight against the committee. Several thousand communications have been received. Most carry the plea to keep the United States out of war and continue the investigation to “expose, regardless of where the chips may fall, the steps that led us into the World War.” Many expressed intense bitterness toward Senators Glass and Connally. particularly those from veterans who, in numerous, cases, told of having sons of their own now who must be protected from going through the fighting experience their fathers had. Even members of Congress wrote Committee Chairman Nye (R.. N. D ), urging the committee to make a fight to conclude the hearings. A nationally known former Governor wrote: “I was delighted with your statement this morning and thought perhaps you would not mind my writing to say so. More power to your elbow. I don't believe they can stop you.” In many cases Senators. Nye and Clark (D. Mo.) war* urged to “take the fight to the country” and

"carry your appeal to the people: they are behind you 100 per cent.” Many sent money in various sums up to $5 hoping that their contributions would raise a fund large enough to complete the inquiry. ATTACKING THE COURT r pHE HOosac decision of the Supreme Court, smashing AAA, was “a shining and warning example of judicial supremacy at its worst,” in the opinion of Howard Lee Mcßain, Columbia University graduate dean and professor of constitutional law. An article by Prof. Mcßain in the New York Times, expressing this and other views critical of the court's action, has provoked wide discussion in Washington and elsewhere. Curiously, the Liberty League simultaneously was issuing a “white list” of lawyers critical of the New Deal, in which Mr. Mcßain was quoted as saying that the most serious charge against President Roosevelt was that in a crisis giving wide opportunity for reform “he has chosen for personal and party interests to play the usual game of putrid party politics.” Os the Hoosac decision, Mr. Mcßain WTitfs that “an unbiased mind can hardly escape the cor fiusion that the court was determined to kill this law no matter what sacrifice of logic and reasoning was necessary in the process of torturing the Constitution to the end.” The article also interprets the extreme language of the three dissenting justices as a “challenge” of the motives of the six majority justices, and a “charge” that they “stepped outside their proper function as guardians of the Constitution and usurped the role of arbiters of legislative policy.” Justice Roberts’ statement for the majority that the court was passing only on the law and not on legislative policy is dismissed by Mr. Mcßain as “a sort of whistling in the moral dark in the final dread hour of a law’s execution.” His major criticism is that the court sidestepped the power of Congress to impose taxes for the “general welfare” and rejected AAA as an invasion of the reserved powers of the states. tt tt tt “TTTHO ever heard of a state’s exercising any such * ▼ right to control farm productions?” he asked. “A more ludicrous policy for any state to attempt on i*-s own could scarcely be imagined. It would be difficult to discover a more inappropriate subject of law as a text for the court’s spread-eagle remarks on the danger of destroying the local self-government of the states and ‘obliterating the constituent members of the Union.’ ” An unoiased mind, he said, “is driven almost in spite of itself to suspect that the court was not prompted and governed, as it should have been, solely by the desire and purpose to apply to the law a rational interpretation of the Constitution. This suspicion would be justified even if the dissenting justices had been less accusatory in their implications.” “Why was the general welfare clause Avoided?” he asks, and then answers: “Possibly because it would have been palpably absurd to declare that nationwide relief for the distress of agriculture was not for the general welfare, but possibly also because of the magnitude of the implications of such a doctrine as applied to numerous other laws of Congress, involving both in retrospect and prospect untold billions of dollars.” Mr. Mcßain believes that because the tide is running against the New Deal there will be no reprisal immediately against the court, but he warns ominously that the decision will rise to “torment the defenders of judicial supremacy long after the issue of farmers’ relief has become a historical episode.” “It may ultimately have more profound effect upon American institutional development than all of the New Deal experiments rolled into one.” FRANK SIMONDS THIS country has produced few journalists of the caliber of Frank Herbert Simonds who died in the national capital. In his own field—international politics—he had no superior. He knew history. He knew peoples of the world, their leaders, their national aspirations, their virtues and their foibles. Putting these raw materials inio the crucible of his mind, and bringing to bear his power of analysis, he could and did, time and again, tell what Was bound to happen under a given set of circumstances. Clearer than most statesmen, whose job it was to foresee events, he saw the World War approaching. He saw that the United States inevitably would be involved if that war lasted. And he foretold the consequences of the great peace which was to follow. To him the Balkanization of the world came as no surprise. This was the more remarkable when one considers that when he first began to analyze its foreign affairs, this country felt itself as remote as the moon from the rest of the world. And this sense of isolation was almost as complete in our statesmen as it was in cur people. Abroad, as here, Frank Simpnds was a familiar figure. And wherever he went he was loved. With a mischievous twinkle in his eyes, and a smile on his lips, he wielded his wit, like d’Artagnan his swerd, enjoying his thrusts as they were enjoyed by others. His friends, his colleagues, American journalism and the millions who followed his writings will miss him sorely.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON “T WISH you could make it clear to me why women have such a passion for managing men,” asks a correspondent, evidently 'harried. “Where husbands are concerned, it amounts to fanaticism. They never seem happy unless they can be ordering us about.” Now that's something I've thought about a lot, good sir. You see, women nearly always fall in love with men who have the endearing vices of small boys—who never actually grow up. Now and then they marry the other much rarer type—the strong dependable, upright sort, but they never love them to distraction. If my correspondent is honest with himself he will admit that the average husband behaves as if he were stili in krickers. He raids the ice box and eats up all the goodies just before the company is to arrive. He won’t wipe his feet at the front door in muddy weather and has such a passion for disorder that the house is in perpetual confusion, when he's in it. Evasive when questioned as to his whereabouts. he wears the air of a restive horse ready to jump over the pasture fence the minute a feminine halter appears. He throws his money away foolishly, and howls with anger when asked to dress up for parties. Although his sox, handkerchefs, and shirts may have lain in the same place in the same dresser for years, he can never find anything he hunts for. He refuses to eat the food that is good for him and has to be coaxed to the dentist and doctor. If he's been naughty, he invariably comes bearing gifts. That's why, although he may be a hard-boiled business man at the office, or a Chamber of Commerce president, or a great corporation executive, to his wife he’s just a little boy without the gumption to take care of himself. Believe me, sir, when ’".omen cease wanting to manage their husbands, they will have ceased to love them.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

| 'T'HE maid in the Robert C. Balt- ! zell household (he’s Federal I judge for the Southern Indiana i District) was in the drug store of their hotel the other night, discussing with some people how difficult it is to estimate some persons’ ages by their appearances. Someone said: “For instance, Judge Baltzell doesn’t look more than 35.” The maid mulled it over, conceded it true, and added, a bit sadly, this pearl of worldly wisdom: “But he goes to bed every night at 9 o’clock, so what difference does it make.” tt it tt Judge Baltzell does not go to bed at 9 every night. On wrestling match nights he is at the ringside, getting a great kick out of the “grunt and groan boys.” There are unconfirmed rumors abroad that the wrestling industry is not strictly on the level, but that there is a sort of schedule between the lads as to wlio is to win the next bout and why. These rumors are unconfirmed largely because the wrestlers themselves, sensitive fellows, claim that it is a case of may the best man win and that they’d like to get their hands on the party or parties who intimate anything else. One would think a judge would look speculatively on such a business. Even so, Judge Baltzell goes to almost every bout, and occasionally can be caught discussing the relative merits of different wrestlers with court attaches he has spied through the smoke of the Armory now and then. u tt tt TUDGE BALTZELL is very pop- ** ular with newspaper men who know him and cover hearings in his court. Many times pure law and legal fights between attorneys don’t make a paragraph of news in an hour of hearing, and the reporters may get bored. Eut they can’t get bored to the extent of not listening at all, because they might miss something. It is always news, of course, when the court itself gets impatient and reprimands an attorney. The judge has said that a law suit is not a battle of wits, but an attempt to get at the facts, and he wants counsel to hew to that line. Newspaper men who know Judge Baltzell know when this is about to happen. As he gets impatient with a stubborn or stupid attorney, he wrinkles his nose. The more impatient, the more wrinkles. When he can’t put another wrinkle in it, he is just about ready to sail into someone and the pencils poise for action. tt tt tt npHE other day a Negro that X Judge Baltzell had sentenced to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, 0., had to be returned to testify in a case. Judge Baltzell, who has a certain fatherliness about sentencing a man that makes you think he has made the man’s problem his own, saw the Negro in the hallway. “How are they treating you down there?” he asked. The Negro looked tickled to death, as though he had seen an old friend and wanted to make things as pleasant as possible. "Just fine, Your Honor,” he said with an ear-to-ear grin. “We see movies every so often, and hear the radio. I like it lots better than the CCC camp I went to.” The judge looked pleased! OTHER OPINION New Under the Sun IThe Vincennes Postl What has been happening in Kentucky? Gov. Chandler, since assuming office on Dec. 10 ; has dismissed more than 500 office holders. But, you say, such things simply aren’t done. Nevertheless, the news dispatches say they have been an accomplished fact in our sister state in the last month. The miracle seems regarded as all the more miraculous happening just at Christmas time. Being devoted to the horse, perhaps Kentucky is now attempting j to revive an affection fer the buggy, too. At least it appears her Governor has nailed to the masthead of his administration the old-fashioned “efficiency and economy in office.” The state's floating debt had increased to $21,000,000 —a deficit in the form of warrants bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent—and the Governor felt the state’s ex- ! pense leaks needed looking after I accordingly. The people of Ken- | tucky call him Happy, and such a course will surely bring that commonwealth into a happier state of finance. Os course, the first month may : no more make an administration i than the first robin makes a | spring. Or, since Kentucky is the i state involved, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say the first swallow. Anyhow, efficiency and economy in government are encouraging anywhere and Kentuckians should be more than happy if Happy Chandler hits the public economy ball with a real carry through.

The Hoosier Forum

fTimea readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour lettert short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 85 0 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.t tt tt tt IT WOULD MAKE AN INTERESTING CONTEST By David Horn I understand that in recent years it has been a common sport on the part of philanthropically inclined millionaires to offer prizes for essays, novels, newspaper articles or devising “plans” for keeping the United States out of war, or solving prohibition problems, etc. What seems rather a mystery to me is that I have never heard of anybody advertising a prize to somebody originating a plan which might rid the people of “depressions.” How come? Would such a venture prove contrary to the Constitution of the United States? tt tt tt ASKS BEER BE SOLD IN RURAL STORES By Rural Lunchroom Owner No wonder the excise department was unable to pay the township institutions when the state Legislature passed a law prohibiting issuance of licenses to sell alcoholic beverages outside of corporate limits. The people in the rural districts are voters and taxpayers just the same as the people in the cities, and they have a right to a neighborhood store, grocery or lunchroom where they can get beer. The empty buildings along the highways certainly do not enhance or beautify the roads leading over the state. And what about the people who own their own business place,;? Should they lose their life’s earnings fcv having their mortgage foreclosed? There simply is no business in the county. Respectable lunchrooms in the counties certainly deserved licenses. We can’t all leave and run to the city, and, furthermore, does it look well to have two taverns in every block in the city? Are these all run so respectably? Give licenses to the rural neighborhood stores and the excise department will have enough money to pay the townships their estimated budget. tt tt tt CALLS ON FARMERS TO PROTECT SELVES By J. Fred Harris, Reelsville In Mr. Hoover’s address at Lincoln. Neb., he made this important statement, “Farmers as a group are least able to pass the tax on to the consumer.” That was the first time to my notice such an admission has come from a spokesman of the industrial

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LET FREEDOM RING!

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

interests. Notice the confession: Industrial groups are able to pass the tax (income tax, protective tariff markup, etc.) on to the consumer. The farmer pays his own share of the tax as well as the part that is shifted to him unjustly by others. So why this intensive drive against the agricultural group now? The cat is out of the bag. Heavy taxes are coming. Someone must pay them. The industrial group would make the agricultural group pay if it can. It will, too, unless farmers get and hold the power to control their products’ price, so they may pass back that part of the tax burden that has been shifted to them unjustly. Let them shriek against scarcity economy. If the shoe fits us, it has fit them for lo these many years. We don’t ask advantage. We ask equality. tt tt tt HAUPTMANN CONVICTION TERMED UNJUST By E’Claire Will Hauptmann die? This one question foremost in the news today. I’d like to ask: Will there never be any justice in our American courts? We teach school children that all men shall receive justice under the law and that all men are innocent until proved guilty. How can the courts kill' a man on circumstantial evidence (very weak at that)? Just why did Col. Lindbergh refuse search of his gruonds the night of the kidnaping? I would like to know why the G-men didn’t arrest him then and search anyway? Why has the “heat” made a man of his caliber leave the country? Why didn’t Dr. Condon have the man arrested when he saw him on the bus? Pretty thin alibi to say he “thought it was none of his business.” “Heat” waves must be unbearable in America, because he also had to leave the country. Let’s peruse some American justice: 1— Sacco-Vanzetti case. Electrocuted'. Innocent. 2 Dago Frank. Hanged. Innocent. 3 Mooney-Billings. Life. Innocent beyond a doubt. Is this a country of justice for all or is the underdog always to be the scapegoat? Hauptmann must not die if America seeks justice. tt tt tt SUPREME COURT HAS DEFENDER HERE By John G. Vetter. McCordsvllle I am taking this means of protesting a letter published in your

of the camp for unemployed girls and women established in New York State through the efforts of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? A—Camp Tera, at Bear Mountain, N. Y. Q —What was the estimated number of persons unemployed in the the United States in August, 1934, compared with August, 1935? A—The National Industrial Conference Board estimated 10,223,000 for August. 1934, and i',901,000 for August, 1935. Q —Give the number of service pensioners and dependents of men who served in the Civil War now on the pension rolls. A—Service men, 12,708; widows and dependents, 98,657. Q —Are James Cagney and Pat O’Brien licensed air pilots? A—No. All scenes showing them in the air in “Devil Dogs of the Air" were processed, and neither was actually in the air. Q —Did more persons attend the World's Fair in Chicago in 1934 than attended in 1933? A—The attendance in 1933 was 22,320,456, a daily average of 131,297, and in 1934 it was 16,314,480, a daily average of 102,606.

paper Jan. 16 by George Goff, who takes exception to the Supreme Court’s decision in regard to the AAA. I wonder where Mr. Goff got the idea that the jurists are “nine old men, whose brains have gone haywire, and who hold prejudice against all common people.” What would happen to our 120,000,000 people if we did not have a few sane, unbiased minds to police and interpret the laws, or rather proposals, that some power-seek-ing political organization tries ro force on an unsuspecting public? Some persons have the idea that the court is composed of old men with warped minds. In answer to that I would like to ask just what does our so-called Congress consist of? The six judges said ”no” to the AAA because the correct interpretation of our Constitution said it was wrong and not because of supposed connections with big corporations. The depression was not caused by the nine old men who make up the Supreme Court, but by an overanxious people who are living in an age of speed and consequently can not wait for delivery of anything they purchase. This greed for speed brought on the greatest evil that ever hit any country. It is called mass production. If the AAA could reduce this evil I would propose it as an amendment to the Constitution, but I can not see where curtailment of crops, making farmers pay processing taxes which now will be returned to the packers to divide among their stockholders, can help us out of the position we are now in. SUNSET BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK We rode into the sunset, With dusk dropping purple folds. The sun was a rose-taupe water wheel, With spokes of tawny gold. Leaped into loveliness. Before us the road, a gray slim band Behind us the twilight, deepening, Brought peace and rest. DAILY THOUGHT Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.—St. Matthew xix, 1&. ''pHE voice of parents is the X voice of gods, for to their children they are Heaven's lieutenants. —Shakespeare.

SIDE GLANCES

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“Oh, he’s much funnier when his wife isn’t around.”

-JAN. 27, 1936

Your... Health By dr. morris fishbein

T TERE is a weekly grocery order for a family of three or four, modified to include merely the eatables that your family simply must have to remain healthy: Milk—lo to 14 quarts. Bread—l 4 to 18 loaves. Eggs—6. Rice, macaroni, other cereals—3 to 6 pounds. Potatoes—ls to 20 pounds. Beans and peas—l or 2 pounds. Other vegetables—4 to 7 pounds. Fruit—3 pounds. Tomatoes (canned)— 2 to 3 pounds. Fresh fruit, prunes, dried fruits —Occasionally. Meat, fish and cheese—l to 5 pounds. Butter, lard and oleomargarine—2 pounds. Sugar, sweets, seasoning and cocoa —3 pounds. Notice that there is no allowance of coffee. Coffee is not an essential substance in the diet, but it helps one to greet the new day with warmth and inspiration, and those who are used to it may well have it. Incidentally, no one has ever shown that moderate indulgence in tea, coffee, or tobacco in any way appreciably shortens life. A diet of this kind can be made as attractive to the appetite as one which is much more varied, depending on the ways in which the food is prepared. tt tt tt USE of crackers with the soup, or raisins with the rice pudding, of a slice of lemon with the fish, or of a small piece of cheese with pie will do much to make any diet more interesting and appetizing. Moreover, the foods listed are ail easily digested and not likely to bother anybody except those who happen to be sensitive to some cf these food substances. However, sensitivity Is a very special subject that I shall take up in later articles in this series. When you are planning a diet on an economic basis from a limited number of foods, you might follow these simple rules, worked out by a prominent diet authority. 1. Consider the whole day, rather than the individual meal, as a unit. If breakfast is meager, serve a heavier lunch and dinner. Plan so shortcomings of one meal are met by the other two. 2. Use seme raw food, fruit, or vegetable at least once a day. 3. Serve at each meal some concentrated food, either as a main dish, a soup, beverage, or dessert. Usually at least one hot dish is desirable. 4. Alternate foods of different flavors and textures. Thus a highly seasoned food may be served with or following a bland food, or a soft food may follow a crisp one. 5. Sizes of portions served vary with richness of food and number of courses. The richer the food and the greater the number of courses, the smaller the portions served.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ THIS year the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Cos. celebrates its golden jubilee. The company, incorporated on Jan. 8. 1886, began operations the following March in a small factory building in downtown Pittsburgh. The first pay roll contained 200 names. How the company—and America —has grown, is attested by the fact that today Westinghouse has 19 plants, employs normally about 40,000 people, and maintains a world-wide sales organization. Its annual sales amount to about SIBO,000,000, making it one of the largest electrical companies in the world. A comparison of its original catalog with its present catalogs tells the story of the progress of the electrical industry and the progress of modern civilization. The first catalog listed 13 items for sale. At present, the company sells hundreds of thousands of items, ranging from electric curling irons to Diesel-electric locomotives. tt an ONE of the proud boasts of the Westinghouse organization is that it pioneered in the development of the alternating current system, now almost universally employed. The company was one of the first to recognize the limitations of the direct current system which was ir; vcgue in the early days of the electrical industry. In November, 1886, the company installed the first commercial alternating current system at Buffalo, N. Y.

By George Clark