Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1936 — Page 11

It Seems to Me HEYMD BROUN 'IirASHniCTON. Feb. 11. I went upon my ’ * roundr yesterday with a youne woman who is anxious to Irani about our government and what makes it work the way It does. She is starting from the ground up but learns I fear, too rapidly. We werl first to the viators' gallery in the House, where Rep. Oiffotr' of Massachusetts was eulogizing M. "Now let me get this straight," said my guest. "Those people down there are. Congressmen and they

make the laws, and then the Senators look at them and the Supreme Court threw them out. 1 ’ Although this is promising for a single lesson. I fear the young visitor will have to come back from the ireshman class again to get a little more background and a few additional details. Indeed. 1 wonder if some of the economic ills to which the nation is heir might not be mitigated by sending Senators, Representatives, judges and journalists back to night school. For instance, one of the most effective curbs which could be put upon the Supreme Court

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would be to place it under civil service requirements. No man should be allowed to ascend the high bench until he has passed a simple examination of the sort which many undergraduates take on ‘‘general information.” The test ought to include such mnle questions as: “What is collective bargaining? ■What is an industrial union? A craft union? Describe the structure and general purpose of a company union. Define a ‘yellow dog’ contract. Tell what you know of soil erosion. Discuss the relation of cheap power to dairy farming. nan And Here Arc Some More "✓"MVK a solution of the unemployment problem guns or mass starvation. Define states’ rights as they affect the farmer under AAA and as they affect the Gieat Northern Railroad under the North Dakota tax ease. A1 Smith has described the ConstiUtution as the civil Bible of t.hp United States. Do you believe in the separation of church and state?” Now, that seems to me not too difficult an examination paper to present to any one whose name is mentioned for the Supreme Court. And yet I think that some of the present members of the bench would not be able to pass. I venture this guess because only yesterday I was talking to a congressman from a farm state who rates very high in the liberal group. Somebqdy in the newspaper crowd mentioned John L. Lewis, and the political leader asked: "Tewis is trying to establish the one big union, just like the I. W. W„ isn’t he?" A reporter replied that John L. Lewis would proablv'be shocked to hear that and that the con- * stitution of the United Mine Workers of America still bars "wabblies" from membership. "Well, then.” inquired the congressman, "the horizontal union is the one that has everybody in the same industry organized together regardless of his particular trade, isn't it?” Another newspaper man set him right. 8 8 8 An One to Guide Them BUT, unfortunately, Supreme Court justices don't talk to newspaper men except on things like hunting and fishing and "Have you heard this one?” There is nobody to set them right. To be sure, one of them, Mr. Chief Justice Hughes, did leave the monastery high in the hills and went down to the plains to mingle and to run for the presidency, Moreover, lie came back again. Naturally, he didn't tell ihe other ascetics that he had been dabbling in They would have shrunk from him as from one unclean. And so today down among the peoples of the plain the signal fires burn and there is the throb of drums. The death watch has been set. The swarming people of the plain wait, for some word from the mountain top. They want to send up to the high places someone of their qwn to join in judgment. They want to send someone ilho has lived among them wfco knows in his marrow their dire and vital necessities. (Copyright,, lONS' Court Strikes Blow for Press Freedom RV RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The Supreme Court has stepped in to thwart an attempt by the late Huey Long to punish hostile newspapers. It has thrown out the Louisiana law which would have placed a special punitive tax on the larger newspapers opposed to the late Kingfish. - The court held this was an infringement upon the freedom of the press. Justice Sutherland delivered a long opinion, tracing the fight for liberty of the press from the days of John Milion. The court, was unanimous.

This reveals much progress in five years. In 1931, another law aimed at freedom of the press was up the Minnesota newspaper gag law. That statute also was thrown out, but by a hare margin of one vote—in a 5-to-4 decision. Justice Sutherland. who speaks so eloquently lor freedom of the press now, joined in a minority dissent then with Justices Butler, Vandevanter and Mcßeynolds, and defended the Minnesota gag law.

Progressing from a 5-to-4 voire five years ago to a unanimous one now. the court upholds with increased emphasis the freedom of the press to function in its adopted role as a guardian of the public interest. Perhaps in time the court also will grant the same right to the elected representatives of the people when thev want to deal with problems of agriculture, industry and labor. a a a A REVEALING index of public sentiment toward the Supreme Court and constitutional change Is reflected in the latest poll by the American Institute of Public Opinion. Fifty-seven per cent of those polled were against giving the Federal government power to regulate agriculture and industry. Fiftythree per cent said the Supreme Court ought not declare laws unconstitutional by 5-to-4 decisions. n a a The Townsend plan is slipping if some of the weather-vanes are not fooling us. Recently Gomer j Smith, vice president of the Townsend organization, , was considering running sot the Democratic senatorial nomination in Oklahoma against Senator Gore. | blind veteran. Now word comes from Oklahoma that j the Townsend plan is losing its shine there and that ! Mr. Smith is doubtful about running. Gov. E. W. Mariand, the former oil man. is said to have itching feet and he may step in as a New Dealer to reach for Senator Gore's job. a a a FREE speech is a great American institution. But when a chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee stands up in the Senate and maks a speech about Japan being determined to shut us out of China even if she has to go to war to do it, you can t help wishing that foreign nations had a better understanding of this great American institution. If they understood us better, they would know that one of the rights we cherish more than any other is the right to stand up and say foolish things. Science has been unable to produce light without heat, but we have nothing in our Constitution which prevents a public man, on occasion, from giving off heat without light. V a a a Not long ago. the late Charles Curtis, once a Kansas jockey and an Inveterate race fan. was discussing the economical tendencies of Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. “Alf,” said Mr. Curtis, ‘ is as close as tfcdead heat.”

Fred Davis Now Tells the World How He Takes All Those Pictures

When the Dionne quintuplet* were three day* old, Fred Davis, Toronto photographer, made pictures of the babies. Two months later, when an “official” and exclusive photographer was chosen for the babies, Fred Davis got the job. Since then, he has made all those delightful NEA Service pictures and with such an uncqualcd opportunity for being with the babies, Mr. Davis' observations are of unusual inteiVsl. Here they are, in the first of three intimate stories made up of jottings from a famous photographer's notebook. RY FRED DAVIS NEA Service Staff Photographer YVONNE is my pet. My reasons are highly mercenary. Yvonne gives the best pictures. It was Yvonne l got, so beautifully asleep in her little chair. It was Yvonne 1 got with the straw hat on, and the flower in her hand. Yvonne is the one who greets me the most gaily when I go into their sanctum in my white surgeon's gown. And in the groups, Yvonne is the one who claps, who crows, who opens her eyes widest, shows her tiny teeth best, sticks one ridiculous little foot up in the air. Emilie, however, is the nosey one. Emilie wants to know what is in my camera. Never mind the outside. What’s inside? What is it that, I Keep looking into, down the hood? If I left my camera on the ground half a second, it would be Emilie who would take it apart to see the wheels go ’round. 8 8 8 BUT, now, Annette; there's Annette, for instance. It is Annette who reaches me first, whether crawling or staggering, and tries to climb up me. And Annette, with her large, speculatives eyes, has yet to figure out, who I am and what I am doing in her curious world, so filled with nurses and doctors, and crowds milling around at a polite distance. Who am I. to be admitted, periodically, into her presence? Ah, in about 18 years, Annette, when you see the family album, you will understand. Cecile. the favorite of the parish priest, has a devout look. Marie, the little one, has given us all the jitters we ever had, and no doubt that is why she is Dr. Dafoe’s favorite. The more trouble, the better they like them. Doctors are funny that way. And mothers. nun MAMA DIONNE, despite anything that has been written or said, has exhibited the greatest delight and excitement whenever I have given her—as I invariably do—copies of the choicest pictures I shoot. She likes groups best. And it is uncanny the wav she identifies her babies. It is the mother instinct. From the start, and no matter how they were arranged in the picture. Mrs. Dionne names them, and names them exactly. This is more than I can do with certainty. Dr. Dafoe, who admits it’s hard to tel] the quins apart in the nursery, has said he doesn’t see how any one can identify them in a photograph. The nurses, of course, can tell them perfectly. But why not? They are with them daily, hourly. 8 8 8 THE people who have actually touched the Dionne quins are few and far between, the parents, the doctor, and the midwives, during those first weird hours of May, 1934. when the stork alighted five times on the Dionne stovepipe. Maybe a few neighbors also picked them up. 1 don’t know. But since that morning. 20 months ago, when the lid came down with a bang on that suddenly world-famous little home in the backwoods, the nurses, the doctor and I, and the parents on their visits, are the sole contacts. In making the pictures, the nurses do most of the posing for me. Until a couple of months ago, it was not so great a trick to pose the babies. Set them on a table and dingle a little bell. That was my act. 8 8 8 AND mark you. ladies and gengentlemen. that look of wonder and interest in those wide eyes is not for you. It is for me. Yes'm. I'm the guy. Dingling a little bell with one hand and trying to focus a big press camera with the other. Standing on my head, lying on the floor, looking through my legs, balancing on one ear. I hate to tell how many thousand photographic plates I have fired at those babies. It would make all the regular cameramen snort with derision. But I am only a poor wandering minstrel. With a little bell. Or a bright ribbon. Or a snap of the fingers. I am goggle-eyed from trying to focus on five pairs of eyes at once, trying to watch 50 toes, 50 fingers.

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Fied Davis (left! made all those appealing photographs of the Dionne quintuplets (except, of course, this one.) He’s shown with Dr. Dafoe during one of Mr. Davis’ many visits to the nursery, clad In th? sterilized surgical robe which is the approved costume for calling on quintuplets. Mr, Davis has had a better opportunity than any one except the doctor and nurses to observe the famous babies, shown here as they looked more than a year ago at their first Christmas celebration.

FORTY-FIVE minutes to afi hour is not out of the way to make one baby picture. Ask any baby-portrait photographer. But you can’t—the doctor won't let you—strain these babies by posing them even for a minute or two. Not even for you and you, not even for all the millions who love to see these pictures, will they let me get cranky and say, “Hey, sit still, will you!” No, I have to pose them as follows: After their, bath, the nurse sets them in a. row. I am ready. I have been ready for an hour. All set. Distance perfect. Light marvelous. Background unexcelled. UNTIL they passed their first year, I had maybe 17 4-5 seconds to get them before they moved. Today. I have 2-5 of a second. And that means with the bell, too. Because Emilie is already leading the stampede on me. She wants to look in the camera. Any of you who have ever tried to take a snapshot of one baby, pity me. I don’t have to take one baby five times, or five babies once. I have to jake five babies forever and ever, amen. NEXT—Fred Davis tells how the quins broke a window and played hob with SlflO worth of fine necklaces.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— William Edgar Borah has one of the toughest hides, politically, in the Senate. But it was a basketball of cabbages hurled in his direction which finally goaded him into entering the Ohio primary. A few weeks ago Senator Borah passed out the word that he would stay out of Ohio. To enter meant a categorical announcement that his hat was in the ring. For Ohio is the only state in the Union where a candidate must sign his own filing papers. Mr. . Borah’s negative decision brought forth considerable kidding. The Senator from Idaho was accused of “being too old." of “having cold feet,” of “not being a serious contender," of “never going through with what he started.” This is old stuff to Senator Borah. But this time it got under his usually indifferent skin. He sent word to Ohio backers that he had changed his mind. Later. Mr. Borah encountered a newspaper man who remarked: “Well, Senator. I see you finally have decided to become a candidate.” “What do you mean, ‘finally decided to become a candidate ?” shot back Mr. Borah. “I’ve been a candidate all along. I guess I'll have to wear a sign on mv back saying ‘I Am a Candidate!’ " x x x Crack Down THE Securities and Exchange Commission is secretly preparing to crack jail sentences on the heads of promoters attempting to register deceptive statements in selling securities. The law provides a jail sentence up to five years. Hitherto ihe SEC has been lenient, has been content to send misleading financial statements back to promoters, giving them a chance for corrections. But now when flagrant attempts to deceive the public are sub-

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

mitted. B. B. Bane, forthright chief of the Registration Division, proposed to move for criminal prosecution immediately. Note—Two such cases are pending now. x x x Like Father TJERE is* one told by members of the Roosevelt family on their father. Young John Roosevelt was home from Cambridge on a brief vacation. Arrayed in a necktie which outdid the crimson of Harvard and with socks to match, he went in to see his father. “Good heavens!” wailed the President: “Where did you get that terrible color combination? Take them back to Moscow!” A few minutes later Mrs. Roosevelt came in, eyed her youngestborn. and perhaps remembering the debonair Harvard days of his father when she first fell in love with him, remarked: “Well John, you’re getting more like your father every day.” XXX Inflation Worries IF you are worried about currency inflation during this session of Congress, here are two fairly positive trends to keep in mind. 1. Some kind of a greenback bill is almost sure to pass the House and probably will get by the Senate. 2. Almost any kind of an inflationary measure will be vetoed by the President. His veto will be sustained. Therefore, since one from one still leaves zero—even in these topsy-turvy days of the New Deal —there will be no inflation. This does not mean, however, that it will not be debated back and forth perhaps more than any other question. The Frazier-Lemke greenback bill, for refinancing three cool bil-

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Toot! Toot! All aboard! Here goes the first trip of the quinmobile, the strange home-made device contrived by a California admirer and sent to the Dionne babies. Annette, at the wheel, looks fully capable as pilot, while Marie, Yvonne, Cecile and Emilie (left to right) all are braced for a fast ride.

lions in farm mortgages, has 214 signatures on a discharge petition to take it out of the- Ways and Means Committee, where it has been gathering dust, and make it a red-hot issue on the floor of the House. Only four more signatures are necessary. Actually 235 members have signed, but under pressure from Speaker Byrns 19 have withdrawn their names. If the Frazier-Lemke Bill comes to a vote in the House it is certain to pass. Its fate in the Senate is less sure. However, it is certain that neither it nor the Patman proposal to pay the bonus with greenbacks can override the President’s veto. XXX Critical Diplomats 'P'OREIGN diplomats are still critical of Cordel Hull for giving a left-handed apology to the Persian Minister, who was handcuffed by Maryland police for speeding. They say that the Secretary of State, a most God-fearing and upright gentleman, should cast the mote from his own eye before criticising foreign diplomats regarding their driving. Shortly before the Persian Minister was arrested for speeding, the automobile used by George A. Gordon, counselor of the Ameriman Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, ran over and killed a Brazilian physician. Mr. Gordon was not in the car when the accident happened, the car being driven by his chauffeur. But, suggests the Diplomatic Corps, the Persian Minister’s car also was driven by a chauffeur. Instead of handcuffing Mr. Gordon, the Brazilian government suppressed newspaper accounts of the story, and shortly afterward he was promoted to the American Minister to Haiti.

SPEECH BY WALLACE IS OPEN TO PUBLIC Secretary of Agriculture Is to Appear at Fairground. The Indiana Farm Bureau Federation extended an invitation today to the public to hear the address of Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, tomorrow afternoon in the Manufacturers’ Building at the Indiana State Fairground. Mr. Wallace, appearing here under the auspices of the bureau, is to speak on “Federal Responsibility to Agriculture.” ’ An effort is being made to have the speech broadcast on a nationwide radio hookup. Arrangements have been made to seat 7009 persons, Lewis Taylor, president, said. The Jackson County Farm Bureau band is to play. 1400 ATTEND CLASSES AT I. U. CENTER HERE Report on Opening Week Made by Executive Secretary. Class attendance during the opening week of the Indiana University extension center here was more than 1400. it was announced today by Miss Mary B. Orvis, executive secretary. Most popular classes were human biotbgy. applied psychology, elementary economics, sociology, English composition and vocabulary study, accounting and income tax reports, interior decoration and world classics. FUNDS REPORTED SHORT Property Owners Sign Bond of Warrick County Clerk. By United Pren* BOONVILLE, Ir.d., Feb. 11.— Twenty-seven property owners today signed a SIO,COO bond for Robert Merrill Jr., Warrick County i clerk, whose accounts are alleged to be short $2400. The personal bond was signed by j citizens when an Evansville com-! pany withdrew as surety. The alleged shortage was reported by State Board of Accounts examiners.

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Entered as ?ernnd-C! Matter at Poxtnffjre. Indianapnli*. Ind.

Fair Enough MROMIfR T ONDON, Feb. 11.—At Simpson's in the Strand. the restaurant where the man with the roast beef complexion comes around to cut your slice of meat off a hunk half the size of an ox. there was a little fellow sitting in one of the booths who was a very hard man to catch up with 20 years ago. That funny little cotton mustache and that glaring mane of white hair identified him as David Lloyd George. He is a member of parliament now, which is no job at all so far as the pay is concerned. But these

British statesmen have a shrewd habit of saving up old documents and memoranda during their time, in office and converting state secrets and personal experiences into money in after years. Mr. Lloyd George has been doing a brisk trade in words and phrases ever since the English public paid him off and his private office down near Westminster is crowded with a store of documents and correspondence the like of which will not be found anywhere in the world outside the official archives.

Where Winston Churchill and the rest of them saved papers relating to one or two departments of the British government during the interesting days of the big war. Lloyd George was filling his hope chest with treasures dealing with all phases of the great military and political rough-and-tumble. and no man can dive into a pilp and corns up with as much chapter and verse as he can today. tt tt tt In the Money, Note A S prime minister he got about $25,000 a year, but the income tax took about S7OOO of that, and the remaining SIB,OOO wasn’t all velvet, either, for a man in that job is often called upon to throw a pound of steak and a spot of rum into the visiting firemen from over the seas. But Mr. Lloyd George has been collecting ever since. He has written several books containing information which no other writer could dig out of the files, and if you move up to him today and ask him for fifteen hundred words of literature he will look you dead in the eye and ask you a dollar a word without a blush, and accept it without blushing, either. Mr. Churchill is a better writer when he takes off his coat and tries, but he does a lot of potboiling between his serious efforts and some of the trash which he puts on paper these days for strictly commercial purposes would make any self-respecting cub reporter break down and weep. He can pick up from $750 to SISOO whenever he puts his name to a piece, so the temptation to write them fast and also loose can be understood. The last good one he wrote was a full swing at Adolf Hitler, and a turn of political events a while later turned this one into an error, for he could have moved back into the Cabinet except for that. A little later he wrote a sticky, syrupy mess about the late Lord Kitchener in which he fumbled around in his system for some reason to admire the wooden Earl, and finding none went ahead to admire him anyway. It was pretty bad copy, but it isn't, considered polite in England to challenge the grandeur of any one who has been elected to a niche in St. Paul’s Cathedral. tt tt tt Kitchener's Greatness Doubted /~VF course, beneath the surface of things there are doubts about Kitchener's greatness and a feeling that his death coming when it did and amid such heroic mystery was a fortunate break for the British empire. Hannen Swaffer, the Socialist writer, who is also a royalist and thus a creature which Americans will not be able to understand, was talking on the phone to Lord Northcliffe when the flash came into the office of the Daily Mail that Kitchener had been lost. “Ah,” said Northcliffe, "now perhaps we can get on with the war! What were you saying about the women’s page?” Mr. Lloyd George, who was so hard to find that only one journalist was able to interview him during the war, is less elusive now. The way to open him up is to say that you are thinking of writing something about his books. But now that he is easily had it is not important to reach him.

Gen, Johnson Says—

"ITWASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—This column discussed ▼ ▼ a few days ago the paradox of the automobile industry as an opponent of the New Deal—seeing that the New Deal has saved and restored it to plethoric earnings. But that is no greater wonder than why Mr. Hearst should get out his snickersnee. One great prop to the Hearst fortunes is the Homestaku Mine—the greatest gold mine in the world. If you were a manufacturer producing widgets on a competitive basis at 20 cents per widget and one day some good fairy told you that, from the next day onward, she would pay 35 cents each for all the widgets you could make by running night and day. you wouldn’t feel impelled to singe her wings, batter out her brains with a bludgeon, or use any other form of uncontrolled mayhem—would you? But that is exactly what this Administration did for Mr. Hearst when it devalued the gold dollar. It increased his income from that mine by an amount hard to measure, but very great, and it lifted the capital value of his investment there as if by magic and to a fantastical degree. It probably saved a large part of his fortune. Nobody can trace this magic to something that happened not because of the New Deal but in spite of it. It traces directly to the New Deal exactly as the prosperity of the automobile industry does. If the comeback is: ‘‘Regardless of these great benefits, we oppose the New Deal on principle rather than for profit,” the appropriate answer is inelegantly but quite accurately: “Horses ea thers.” (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.l

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UNDER the somewhat imposing title “The History of the Philosophy of Medicine,” Dr. Louis Alvin Turley of the University cf Oklahoma Medical School has produced a brochure published by the university's press at Norman, Okla. In it he traces the difficulties mankind has faced in development of medicine to its present status and blames retardation on the failure to divorce pathology from religious influences. He doesn't go into the divorce of specialization from ethics which has brought high fees and made the medical profession as disliked by some persons as the old family doctor was formerly loved. a a a DR TURLEY admires the early Greeks and their open-minded approach to medical problems. as he despises the early Christians and Jews for appealing to God to help in these matters. Pointing out that the pagan Greek hospitals were better than those in the so-called Dark Ages, the author traces the revival of learning and medicine. through the Church, to the Renaissance and down to today. The highlight of the doctor's philosophy is the warning he gives of the recurring danger of being dogmatic in fields that can never be closed to new knowledge.

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