Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1936 — Page 10

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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1938. WILLIAM B. WHEELOCK SYDNEY A. SULLIVAN TWO men who for yea; ? have been influential in the business and social life of Indianapolis are dead today and the city mourns them. They are William B. Wheelock and Sydney A. Sullivan, both executives of L. S. Ayres & Cos. Mr. Wheelock was first vice president and Mr. Sullivan publicity director. Mr. Wheelock had been identified with the life of this city since 1893. and he brought to it experience gathered in other part*, of the country before that. Mr. Sullivan came to Indianapolis in 1922 and in the intervening years won and held many good friends. Their deaths are a great loss to the community. They contributed much to the city's progress. THE ROAD TO WAR QENATOR KEY PITTMAN takes the public partly into his confidence concerning what is being done to the neutrality bill behind the closed doors of his Foreign Relations Committee. And the story he tells is somewhat disappointing to those of us who had hoped that a positive and well-rounded policy would be defined in this session of Congress. The members of his committee, the Senator indicates, have about decided to pass a bill containing only provisions about which there is practically no controversy, thereby avoiding extended debate and making it possible for Congress to adjourn by May 1. Ke predicts that the expiring neutrality law, with its embargo of war implement exports and disapproval of Americans traveling in war zones or on belligerent vessels, will be extended for another year. And probably, he says, a ban on war credits will be added. Os course, such an incomplete law would be better that none at all. And it might suffice to keep us at peace with the rest of the world for another year, if meanwhile nothing breaks out more serious than the thus-far isolated Italio-Ethiopian conflict. But, we believe, it will prove a pitifully inadequate policy if the guns of any two great powers start barking. We need only think of what might have happened a few months ago when Britain’s navy bnstled in the Mediterranean, the League of Nations talked seriously of drastic sanctions and the Italian high command countered with the threat that II Duce’s death squadron of the air was prepared for the worst, and when—this is especially significant—American business men, their appetties whetted by the prospect of expansive war markets, were defiantly claiming the right to sell their goods and take their profits. If some unfortunate incident in the Mediterranean in those tense days had exploded over Europe, we might even now be cabling protests about the sinking of American vessels and considering ways of advancing credit so that belligerents could continue purchases necessary to maintain a false war prosperity in this country. We might be once more on that treacherous road to war.

\\ THAT a futile political gesture it is to forbid ** credits, and neglect to restrain those things which make credits inescapable.* In the early days of the World War, the State Department was adamant against floating of war loans in this country. But when the Wilson Administration had to choose between that neutrality policy and collapse of our war boom, it yielded. And when the market for private credits had been milked dry, expediency triumphed again. Our government itself then supplied the Allies with the credit needed to shore up the boom, and sent more than a million young men into Europe's front lines. Some of those young men—and nearly all of that credit—never came back. If we are even to try to keep “disentangled and free'' from the next holocaust, the least we can do is to erect safeguards against repetition of mistakes which we know contributed to our entanglement in the last one. Yet men like Senator Hiram Johnson rant about freedom of the seas, and demand that our Navy protect American trade wherever it goes. And others in Congress insist that no restrictions be placed on the products of their districts. And Administration leaders like Senator Pittman wilt before this short-sighted bellicosity. They shrink before the threat of a Senate filibuster. They want to adjourn and go home by May 1. The weather is uncomfortable in Washington in the summer time. PORTENT? TS it a sign of the times or merely of spring that ■“* Jimmy Walker should steal the show at the big New York dinner to James A. Farley? Anyway, he did it Saturday night. Not on the program and seated not at the speakers' table but down “among those also present.” he was discovered at the psychological moment, cheered like a conqueror through many minutes of valuable radio time, and finally called to the dais for one of his characteristic speeches. Thus, as the wheel of time turns, the man who was shown the way out by Gov. Franklin Roosevelt gets an ovation at an affair given in honor of a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet. Stock markets are up, New York spirits rise and fall with that barometer, and New York wearies of sackcloth and ashes. The headache that followed the great debauch is fading. Are we on our way back to ticker tape, channel swimmers and scrolls for visiting celebrities, and is Walker's reappearance a symptom? For the sake of a nation still suffering from the boom which Walker more than any other man symbolizes, we hope not. But we have fears. HANGING REVIVAL A CURRENT attempt by Senator VanNuys to ***■ amend the so-called ‘G-Man Murder Act” of 1935 directs attention to the fact that this statute baa reinstated hanging in states which long ago abandoned it. The law provides that any person convicted of killing a government agent shall be hanged on Federal property at the scene of the conviction. Here in Senator VanNuys’ home city <c will bring back hanging to the Marion County Jail for the first

time in 50 year* if George Barrett, moonshiner who shot a G-man, is put to death March 24 as scheduled. United States Marshal Charles James of Indianapolis went to Washington to ask the Senator's aid in finding a gallows. The Senator, as a result, drafted his amendment providing that the Federal death sentences be carried out in whatever manner the state provides. This would mean, in Indiana and 20 other states, the electric chair. It wouid mean lethal gas in four. In 16 states where hanging is still the custom the Federal prisoner would be hanged at the state prison or whatever place the state law provides. But in seven states which have abolished the death penalty altogether, the 1935 law's provision for hanging at the scene of conviction would stand. These states are Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. Utah also permits shooting as a substitute for hanging. Lethal gas is used in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, In North Dakota, Rhode Island, and some other states where life imprisonment is the only penalty for murder, death by hanging is inflicted if a prisoner kills somebody while serving a life term. INDIANA AND THE COURT nPHE United States Supreme Court, currently cracking down on state regulatory laws, now is confronted by a unique Indiana law governing financing charges on installment sales of automobiles, furniture and other goods. The state has appealed from a decision by a threejudge Federal court holding the law unconstitutional, as a price-fixing statute which violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Many lawyers believe the Supreme Court’s majority decisions, most of them by 6-3 votes, are creating a great No Man's Land in which neither the Federal nor the state governments can regulate business. So far, in this term alone, the court has invalidated: 1. Vermont’s income-tax pr vision granting lower rates on income from money lent inside the state at 5 per cent or less, a law designed to retain money In the state and keep down interest rates. 2. Louisiana’s law to equalize the pay-offs to building and loan shareholders who wish to withdraw their deposits in full all at once. 3. North Dakota's tax assessment against the Great Northern Railroad, the ground being that the assessment was too high. Filling of the Indiana appeal recalls that this state produced a case in 1931 in which a 5-4 decision —the opinion was written by Justice Roberts with Chief Justice Hughes and the three liberals concurring—upheld one of the most sweeping instances of state regulation. This was the chain-store tax case,in which Justice Roberts said in upholding the state tax power: “The power of taxation is fundamental to the very existence of the states ... It is not the function of this court in cases like the present to consider the propriety or justness of the tax, to seek for motives or to criticise the public policy which prompted the adoption of the legislation.” Justice Roberts has more recently voted consistently with the four conservatives who in ’3l attacked the chain-store tax as unconstitutional. The financing-charge law is somewhat of a parallel case except that it involves regulation instead of taxation. The law authorized the executive branch of government to fix a maximum financing charge on all retail sales made on the installment plan, where the goods involved had a cash price of SISOO or less. The General Motors Acceptance Corp. and the McHenry Chevrolet Cos. attacked the law as pricefixing, and disputed the state’s contention that it was similar to usury laws. They also said, that the 5-4 Supreme Court decision in the Nebbia case, in which Justice Roberts wrote an opinion upholding New York's milk price-fixing law, does not apply here because the Indiana law covers all commodities. The three-judge court granted a permanent injunction against enforcement of the law, which was enacted in 1935.

WHENCE CAME THE DARK? (From New York World-Telegram) “TJ ELIEF can come and will come provided the government will stimulate industry and promote employment by the issuance of Federal bonds sold on a wartime basis for the promotion of American prosperity. These would be used to finance necessary public improvements, both those provided for by appropriations from the general funds and those projected and designed, but for which up to date no provision has been made by the way of appropriation. “Exception to this has recently been taken in a nation-wide speech by a prominent Democrat on the theory that it is a stop-gap. Who ever said that it was anything else? It is at least better than nothing. . . —Alfred E. Smith, at the Jefferson Day dinner of the Democratic National Committee, April 13, 1932. Why does it all look so different and dark to A1 today? Was it wrong purpose? Was it WTong promotion? Was it wrong spending? Or was it mainly—wrong President? A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “T WISH my dad would make up his mind about -*■ my age.” “Just what do you mean by that, Ralph?” I asked. Being the only oldish person in the group of college freshmen, I didn't want to miss anything and at the same time I hesitated to appear dense before their bright sophistication. Ralph lighted a cigaret. “I mean just this,” he explained. “Every time I indulge in a little juvenile hoop-la, dad reminds me that an 18-year-old boy is practically grown up and should behave with dignity. “You're no child,” he tells me. “You're a man. Why not act like one? But all last summer, whenever I asked permission to take the car and stay out until after 1, he would throw a fit and harp on my inexperience and youth. I have also suggested several times, when the money question was raised, that I might leave home and try my luck at a job somewhere else. You should have heard him then. I was only about 12 when that topic came up. Whatever I do, I'm either too old or too young to be doing it.” A sigh went up from the circle. I was getting a good earful and. being somewhat self-conscious, shrank into my comer to remain inconspicuous. “I have my irk, too,” said the brown-haired babydoll type. “Nothing in the house belongs to me—ever ‘Don't ruin my chair,’ mother says, or ‘Remember that’s my table; be careful of it.' Is our home part mine, too, or am I just another possession of dad's and mother's?” One after another they recited their grievances, and I recognized them for such. I was touched, too, at the way in which they excused the parental shortcomings. Each was careful to explain how fine his father and mother were. I retired from the session a much chastened individual. After all, perhape it is an ordeal—living with parents. - MM -

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

ON March 22, 1824, the people of Indianapolis were a little jumpy over something that happened near Pendleton. Four adult Indianapolis male citizens and two boys journeyed, considerably in their cups, to the Shawnee camp and murdered two Shawnee men, three women, two girls and two boys. One Harper, leader of the homicide band, had been angered by the Shawnees' success in hunting and trapping in the Fall Creek area. He had been sitting around drinking with one Hudson, one Bridges and his son, and one Sawyer and his son, brooding over the matter. Finally he told his companions that the Shawnees were horse thieves. Their indignation knew no bounds. They all made their way to the camp, and asked three Indian men to go with them to hunt cows. a a a THE Indians did, and a short distance from the camp Harper & Cos. shot two of them dead. The third escaped. Harper & Cos. returned to the village and made it a shutout by murdering the women and children, and throwing their bodies in a pond. Then they appropriated the Indian property, an incautious step that led to their detection and arrest. They all confessed. Later they escaped, but the records don!t say from what. There were no jails at the time and people who had done wrong were merely told to stay off certain streets, much like an untamed urchm in the fourth grade is told to sti\nd in the corner to expiate his paper wads. Anyway they escaped, and Harper made for the Ohio line which turned out to be one of the best things he ever did in his own behalf. He went the 80 miles through the wilderness in 24 hours, and thereafter never so much as killed one Indian around this city.

T3 RIDGES and son and Sawyer -*■'* and son and Hudson were captured in July, again escaped, and were recaptured, when the game end id. Hudson was brought to trial ii November before Judge Wick and was convicted. He was hanged during the winter. The others were tried in May, 1825, and all but young Sawyer were convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. Yeung Sawyer was convicted of manslaughter only, and no one knows now what did happen to him. Old Bridges and Sawyer were hanged June 3. Young Eridges was led to the same scaffold some time later, and stood beside his coffin with the noose around his neck. Just when every one thought justice was about to be done, who should jump up on to the platform but Gov. Ray himself, to stop the hanging. In a speech to the assembled people he granted your? Bridges a pardon, which was legal tender and freed the young criminal. ts n n TTISTORIANS of the day say that when the murder was first discovered, the “uneasy” citizens fled to the Pendleton mills for safety. They thought there would be a border war, with Indians in their scalps and tomahawks in their necks. But the hanging of Bridges pere and Sawyer pere appeased the natives and the incident passed without further violence. It was only two years later that the Federal government negotiated a treaty with the Indians at Fort Wayne in which it agreed to furnish the natives with certain hogs, cows and wagons for certain lands. The Indians turned over the lands in the fall and the whites were to furnish them with 200 each of hogs and cattle and 10 wagons, and build them eight brick houses in Indian country in the spring. One historian disposes with the outcome of the treaty this way: "The heavy rains of the following spring prevented delivery of the wagons and stock and the savages were somewhat dissatisfied thereat.” I suppose they were a little restless, what with no old-world cultural philosophy to fall back on.

OTHER OPINION •Doctored’ News [NEA Service) Foreign newspaper correspondents returning from Germany complain that it is becoming increasingly difficult to squeeze real news of the day out of Nazi Germany. One American correspondent who had to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, to file his dispatch, remarks that “newspaper men are feeling more and more the clutch of the kid glove of terror.” He reveals that 12 members of the Association of Foreign Correspondents. and many others who were not members, have been expeded from Germany, on the ground chat their articles “were misleading and poisoned the international atmosphere.” It is a strangle hold, strong-arm system possible only under a dictatorship. Americans have cause to be thankful that no such conditions exist here. Our freedom of the press becomes increasingly valuable as we view life in countries without i U

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(Timet readier 3 are invited to express' their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must be sianed, but names will be withheld on rcauest.) a a a SUGGESTS FEENEY FOR PUBLIC OFFICE By “For A1 Feeney” In a recent edition, Charles T. Riddle stated that the farmers think A1 Feeney should get a public hearing as to why he was fired. Mr. Riddle also said A1 was trying to give the farmers and the consumers an equal break. A1 Feeney was doing what he thought best with the milk problem, but he was prying into some crookedness. What were the results? He was fired, just the same as he was from the State Police Department. There seems to be no place any more for an honest man in politics. I am not of Mr. Feeney’s political party but I would like to see him in an office, such as Governor, because I believe he would bring about a great change in many ways. And I would like to help to put him in that office.

FLYNN WRONG ON OARP, WRITER SAYS By Joseph M. Taylor It is with some temerity that I undertake to reply to an article that appeared in The Times Jan. 24 byJohn T. Flynn who presented a “starching analysis of the merits and faults of the Townsend program.” But he made statements that are so misleading they should have attention. I remember distinctly the paragraph about the coat. He bought a coat for S3O, then sold it to a freind for S4O Thus the transactions totaled S7O. Os course there was S7O in the two deals, but no one was out S7O, the seller got his money back in the S4O for which he sold the coat. In this entire deal there was a tax of 2 per cent on the S3O and another of 2 per cent on the S4O. “It is. of course, worse than that,” says Mr. Flynn, “because the taxes start with the wool on the sheep, and the total transactions on a S4O suit may be $250.” And it may not. I do not know the amount of wool in a suit of clothes, nor the cost. I asked two Indianapolis tailors and they could not tell me. So, we will say the shipper bought SSOO worth of wool and it went through the regular change of hands, which is five times, before it got to the back of the wearer. Now 2 per cent on SSOO for these transactions would be $51.83. Divide that with the number of suits SSOO worth of wool will make, and you will have the per cent cost of one suit. The suit would cast, you far less than $250, the amount Mr. Flynn says it would. The worst statement made by Mr. Flynn and the farthest from the truth is “the great bulk (of the 2 per cent tax) would be paid by the wage earners of the nation.” That is not true. For doctors, lawyers,

Questions and Answers

Inclose 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q—Name the astronomical observatories in and around New York City. A—Columbia University Observatory, New York City; the Yale Observatory, New Haven, Conn.; the Von Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University. Middletown, Conn.; the Vassar College Observatory. Poughkeepsie. N. Y.; the Ladd Observatory. Brown University, Providence, R. I.; Mr. Seagrave’s Observatory, Providence, R. I. Q —What is the geologic foundation of New York City that makes tall buildings possible? A—At varying depths for the length of Manhattan Island lies Mica schist, which is the geologist's name for bed rock. In midtown where the Chrysler Building stands, the schist in places is but five feet below the surface. In lower

THE INTERLOPER

preachers, bankers, retired persons, millionaires and every person in the government would pay 2 per cent on every dollar he spends. Mr. Flynn winds up his diatribe with this: “There can be no doubt that the plan would not aid the economic society. That being so it would not help the aged, for since the money must come out of the producing element of society, and since the producing element can not pay it out of the present purchasing power and since the plan will not increase purchasing power, it would break down altogether.” v In contrast to this, George West, a licensed accountant of Chicago, says of the Townsend plan: “In my opinion it is the most practical plan for our normal prosperity and for keeping it, ever offered to any people. Its enactment by Congress will make our country bigger, better, happier and more Christian than ever before.” an • n CITY CONGRATULATED FOR YOUTH AID By Harold E, Stolkin One particular article arrested my attention in your column the other day. The writer pointed out the ever-increasing necessity for certain organizations in the city existing for the purpose of offering the men in our community a place for good, clean, wholesome competition. My purpose in writing, however, is not to further this particular contention, but to commend the city on its generosity in affording the youth ample room in which to practice wholesome competition instead of playing in the streets and getting in with the wrong kind of company. The importance of this magnificent work will not be realized now, but later when youth gradually grows into manhood. Then, the result of the right environment in youth will be used to the best advantage. n n n URGES PUBLIC CONTROL OF PRODUCTION By H. L. Seeger Six years of industrial stagnation has not been sufficient to clear the American mind on the matter of choosing the proper course for industrial control. The liberty to own “production” property associated with an agrarian economy, on which the framework of our political structure was built, clings tenaciously in our thoughts, even though we have passed from an agrarian to an industrial economy. Even the agrarian phase of our present-day economy is bound to be industrialized. In the development of our national resources under private ownership, we have experienced periods of boom and depression. We have produced a highly efficient industrial production machine, with an exceedingly inefficient distribution mechanism. We have forced a destruction of production to meet the low consumption level due to inefficient distribution. Orderly government can not be maintained when economic forces are at war with the general wel--1 fare. To maintain the highest level

Manhattan it has been necessary in some excavating jobs to go through 40 feet of quicksand and 25 feet of hard pan (sand and gravel cemented by clay) before reaching bed rock. Q —What is the correct spelling of the present participle of the verb service? A—Servicing. Q —Does the French alphabet co- - the letter w? A—Only for foreign words. Ho French word begins with w. Q —Why did the constitutional convention provide for an equal number of United States Senators and a proportional number of Representatives from each state? A—The delegates to the constitutional convention were divided on the issue of whether there should be equal representation from all states in the Congress or whether the representation should be pro-r portional. The issue was flnaly compromised by adopting the plan of equal representation in the Senate and representation in proportion to population in the House.

of social well-being is the first objective of society. State control and regulation of industry and national control of interstate and foreign commerce is not new. Liberty within the state and between the states over industry has been restricted by law, to yield a greater liberty to the public dependent upon industry. The only question before the American people today, in regard to this .so-called liberty to own and operate “production property.” is how much control shall be left to individuals and corporations. There are two Constitutions, one on paper, the other our own physical constitution. We may accept the written Constitution as a divine oracle, or we may hail it as the charter for the liberty of our personal physical constitution, as was intended. Control of property within this republic is not an absolute right. It is dependent up>on public consent, not upon the interpretation of Liberty League lawyers. We, the people, through our government, are the judges. That private control has been successful in bringing the utmost social good may be questioned seriously, when the booms and depressions caused by such control are leveled off over the years of our history. The avenues of private initiative can still be open to the individual by personal skill and the introduction of technical improvement through invention and organization. GRE AT-GR EAT-GRAN DMOTHER BY MARY WARD She spun linen from flax she grew, Linen white from the flowers blue, And on the hearth she placed to cook Johnny-cake or venison stew. The cradle stood in the ingle-nook— Hymns of praise were the songs she knew, And lullabies, sweet dreams to woo, A hundred years ago, or two. Was she pretty? No time had she to look For that in her mirror, the brook! DAILY THOUGHT For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.—Psalms xii, 5. WHO can confess his poverty and look it in the face, destroys its sting; but a proud poor man, he is poor, indeed—L. E. Landon.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

“I wish you would explain to the waiter that they never act thig way at home.'*

-FEB. 10, 193 R

Your... Health By DR. morris fishbein

nY the time your baby U a year old, It will be taking a diet approximately as follows: 6 a. m.—Milk, 7 to 8 oz. 10 a. m.—Cereal, 4 tablespoonfuls; milk. 7 to 8 oz., some of it on cereal; 1 cracker or piece of toast. 2 p. m.—Vegetable or meat broth, 4 to 6 oz.. or, 1 egg. or. scraped or chopped meat, 2 tablespoonfuls; white vegetable (potato, rice, etc *7 2 tablespoonfuls; green vegetables, 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls; milk. 5 to 8 oz. (a smaller amount if broth is given.) 6 p. m.—Cereal, 4 tablespoonfuls; milk, 7 to 8 oz., some of it on cereal; 1 cracker or piece of toast; cooked fruit, 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls. a a a IN the second year, your child's diet should consist chiefly ofmilk, cereals, vegetables, fruit, juices, or cooked fruit, some meat and some eggs. A suitable schedule for the 2-vear-old will be about as follows: 7 to 8 a. m.—Cooked cereal, 3 to 6 tablespoonfuls, with milk and a little sugar; milk, 6 to 8 ounceSj, dry bread, toast, zwieback or cracker, plain or lightly buttered. 10 a. m.—Juice of an orange. (This may be given with one of the meals instead.) 12 to 1 p. m—Meat broth, vegetable soup, ground meat or egg; white vegetable; potato, macaroni, spaghetti, rice or hominy; green vegetable: peas, beans, beets, spinach, asparagus, onions, carrots, squash, etc. (mashed or strained), cooked fruit or banana; dried bread, swieback or toast, lightly buttered. A drink of milk or a cracker may be given in the middle of the afternoon. provided this does not disturb the appetite at meal times. 6 p. m.—Same as breakfast. In addition. soft-cooked egg, Junket, custard or some simple dessert may be given. A white vegetable (see above) may be substituted for the cereal, and soup for the milk. a a a r | ''HIS list need not be followed -I- absolutely. The child's appetite must be considered; likewise, the amount of energy that it puts out, the foods that it likes, and the other factors already mentioned.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE planet Jupiter is very much larger than the earth, and one of its moons is very close to it. In the case of this moon, the tidal effect can be observed because the pull of Jupiter on this moon is so great that in the telepscope the little moon looks egg-shaped. According to recent calculations, each planet is surrounded by what might be called a danger zone for moons. A moon approaching within this zone would be subjected to so great a gravitational pull that it would be broken to pieces. Many astronomers think that the moon under discussion will eventually drop into this danger zone, and that, as a result, it will be broken up and so eventally form a ring around Jupiter. Now, one effect of a planet’s gravitational action upon a moon is to slow it up. As its velocity decreases, it draws nearer to the plant. This means that our moon is gradually drawing nearer to the earth. ana SOME day our earth will have no moon. Instead, there will be a great ring around the earth, not unlike the rings of Saturn, composed of millions of tiny bits ot rock. Those chunks of rock will represent all that is left of our moon. The basis for this prediction is to be found in the theory now generally accepted by astronomers to account for the rings around the planet Saturn. The new theory for the formation of these rings is a tidal theory. Every one knows that great tidas are caused in the oceans of tne earth by the tidal pull of our moon. The fact has also been established in recent years that the moon likewise causes tides in the crust of the earth.' But these tides, because of the nature of the earth’s crust, are too small to be seen easily. Their existence, however, has been demonstrated by delicate scientific instruments. Now it must follow that if the moon causes tides in the earth, the earth must cause tides in the moon.