Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1936 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936. INDIANAPOLIS STREETS TIyCAYOR KERN'S announcement that temporary repairs are to be made immediately on streets damaged by 'he subzero weather is welcome news. The depression has not played all its tricks on human beings. Some of the misfortune of the lean years has fallen on public works. Our streets are In bad condition. Probably it will be several years before Indianapolis again can boast of an up-to-date street system. Many of our highways are rutted and pitted. Probably the most important cross-town thoroughfare on the North Side is almost as difficult for automobiles to travel upon as if it were a corduroy road of colonial days. Sooner or later Indianapolis will have to extend Its plans for street improvement. The sooner the better. THE TIME HAS COME IT is reported that some of the President’s advisers ■*- are reluctant to take up ship subsidy legislation at this session of Congress. Fear of controversy in an election year is given as the reason. If complete reformation of the American merchant marine is not undertaken promptly there will be little left to reform. With Administration backing a good bill could be passed quickly. The President could then carry into his campaign a valuable accomplishment. He would not be open to attack for ignoring conditions that have forced the American merchant fleet in foreign trade to bottom place in respect to modern ships. Failure to face the issue extends a long series of deplorable abuses which the President himself has condemned. A bill approved by competent authorities has been drafted at the Capitol. Its nominal sponsor is Senator Guffey (D., Pa.). It apparently will not be introduced, however, until approved by the President. This new measure is unlike previous subsidy legislation in that it was not conceived as a means of bailing out the ship owners. It is designed to give the United States a merchant fleet necessary to carry a good proportion of American exports und imports, and to serve as an efficient naval auxiliary. It sets up a five-man board to handle all merchant marine matters, except regulation, which would be placed under the Interstate Commerce Commission. The board would lay down a long-time construction program. Private operators would be asked to build the necessary ships. If they could finance onethird of the initial investment, the government would supply the balance under strict controls to prevent excess profits and abuse of the subsidies. If the operator could not put up the money, and most mail contractors can not, the government would do the building itself in private shipyards. If no private operator would charter the new vessels, the government would operate them on essential trade routes. That, in substance, is the new bill. It faces honesty conditions as they exist in this feeble industry. WHY WE LIKE DEMOCRACY BULLETIN: “Berlin, Feb. 25.—(United Press)— The class of 1915 today was called to the colors for' •labor service.’ ” AZANA, LEADER OF SPAIN A T night Don Manuel Azana would sneak out of his refuge in the Madrid home of a foreign journalist, and go down to the jail. There he would find his friends plotting to overthrow King Alfonso and set up a Spanish republic. His friends were political prisoners of the Crown. Azana had thus far escaped. Not until the republican government was created did he find himself in a cell, and then only after he had been premier. Now, in the wake of the latest bloody elections, he is premier again, leading the Leftist group that won a general victory. In 1930. Azana was an obscure civil servant given to writing plays, a little poetry and political comment, and studying military strategy. Many years ago a friend asked why the military studies were so fascinating to him. “In 20 years,” he replied, “I will be minister of war." And it was just about 20 years later that Alfonso fled Spain and the republic began. Its first war minister was Don Manuel Azana. Alcala Zamora was premier. He had been leader of the political prisoners of 1930, when he was kicked upstairs to the presidency. Azana was made premier, forming anew government in less than half an hour. This heavy-jowled man with protruding eyes and a light olive complexion guided the young government for two years over some extremely rough ground. Then government guards set fire to the house of a local politician far from Madrid. The politician and several members of his family burned to death. Azana was blamed. His government fell and the conservatives came in under the aged Alejandro Lerroux and young Gil Robles. Lerroux, who used to counsel his followers “to revolt against everything because nothing is good,” had became a tory. As for Robles, his conservatism is measui?d by his historic remark concerning the new republic: “It is like measles. We will live through it.” These were the men who took over the republic in 1933 and jailed Azana. An attempt was made to drive out all who did not favor the Lerroux-Robles policies. Opposition began to grow. The jails acquired more and more political prisoners until the recent explosion when their friends on the outside, celebrating their victory, attacked the jails with guns and clubs to release them. YOUR TELEPHONE BILL TF ours were a simple economic system, instead of A one of baffling complexities, a decision handed down by the Federal Statutory Court of lower New York would have vitally interested every telephone subscriber in the country. But because the decision dealt with such a prosaic matter as a system of accounting, it excited little interest, And small wonder. For it is not to see A dollars and cents difference in our monthly tele-

phone bill in a court’s ruling that telephone companies must prepare and submit a record of accounts along lines prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission. But it happens that this accounting system is one which the FCC worked out in collaboration with state utility commissions, the purpose of which is to obtain information on the original cost of telephone properties, information which hitherto has not been available for rate-making purposes. The American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. sought by injuction to be relieved of the duty of making such facts public. But the court ruled against the company, and if the United States Supreme Court sustains that ruling, the facts will be spread upon the record. And state public officials, whose responsibility it is to regulate the rates charged by utilities, may then examine the records and decide whether our monthly telephone bills are, or are not, higher than required to give a fair return on investment. “THE MEASURED PHRASE” /~\WEN D. YOUNG preached a seasonable sermon when he warned against the dangers of intemperate radio speeches and bespoke “the measured phrase” of logic instead. The radio, Mr. Young told a Florida audience, is a far different forum from the old political stump. From it, for good or evil, go forth on wings the words that circle the globe. He said: “Good will or bad will, understanding or misunderstanding, co-operation or contest, peace or war, may depend on the spirit, on the wisdom, on the c-elf-restraint of him who, for the moment, controls the mighty instrument which modern science has put into his hands.” It is, probabiy, too much to hope that the minor political orators will lay aside bathos, invective and slander and get down to reason all at once. The habit lies too strong on them, and political campaigns for years have been open to the meanest of partisan hatchetmen. But it is not too much to hope that our really noted leaders may begin speaking less from their glands and more from their brains. With them, to date, the speech-making has been strident, bitter, red in the face, prone ;.o exaggeration—and that goes both ways, Repuolican and Democratic; applies to Roosevelt and to Hoover, to Knox and to Ickes, to A1 Smith, and Vandenberg and Farley. Talk about the “foul breath pf Communist Russia,” “fountains of fear," “cowardly cloaks," “political puppets" and “shackled liberties” has characterized the oratory of 1936 to date, and with more than eight months to go. We already are in a campaign of unusual bitterness. The danger of stirring up passions is a very real one, for throughout the land are groups that fatten or fear and hate. Great sums will be spent to turn the tide of sentiment one way or the other, for pocketbook nerves have been hurt and privileges challenged. So we think that Mr. Owen Young has spoken his cautionary word at a particularly opportune time. Let the intelligent leaders try to minimize passion and its aftermath. Let them practice restraint and enjoy the strength that can be found only in understatement. And let the nation bear in mind the truth of the old saying that abuse is not argument. INCIDENTAL LIEUT. LEIGH WADE and Dr. Manuel Ferrara were in charge of buying arms for Brazilian revolutionists a few years ago. They paid Consolidated Aircraft Corp. $53,000 for 10 planes and then charged revolutionists $137,500 for them. Dr. Ferrara, according to one of the committee witnesses, told him he was getting S7OOO of the difference. The rest hasn’t been fully accounted for because Lieut. Wade is in South America and hasn’t responded to a committee subpena. These same agents bought 100 old machine guns, junked by the United States Army, for $350. They did seme repair work on them and submitted a bill to the revolutionists for $49,000. Jose C. de Figuerol told the committee he was working with Wade and Ferrara and that he was “taken care of in the proper manner.” This is just one of war’s by-products, one of the things that is never mentioned when bands are playing and flags are waving young men off to be killed. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson /'OKLAHOMA politicians are eating crow. Literally. Somebody hit on the idea of creating anew food supply and eliminating the bird pests at the same time, so the papers are full of pictures of state officials picking the bones of fried crows. It’s sw'eet of the politicians to set us the fashion, considering that in Oklahoma, as elsewhere, the taxpayers will soon have to resort to shooting crows for grub. That is, unless they can first drive out the flocks of politicians that infest the country. When the publicity is over, the program will be reversed; the politicians will eat chicken and the taxpayers will eat crow. Isn’t that the way it usually goes? Between the official ineffleients—national, state, county and city, and the War Boys who are always yelling “Gimme, gimme, gimme,” the future of the American child looks as black as the crow. Here's Charles Schwab, singing the praises of Sir Basil Zaharaoff, and assuring us that war is here to stay and that all good munition makers ouf-ht to have a “reasonable profit.” Everything points to some lean years for the hard-working citizen. And he isn't such a flint-hearted fellow either. He wouldn't mind going on slim rations for a while if he knew the dollars he shelled out for taxes actually went to the old, the starving, the poor and the sick. But to eat crow so that our politicians can feed on turkey—there's the rub. To eat crow so that Mr. Schwab may make reasonable war profits and Sir Basil Zaharoff may remain one of the richest men in the world —no crow is going to taste good to one who cogitates those facts. FROM THE RECORD OENATOR METCALF <R„ R. I.): Our national deficit will destroy us if we do not succeed in stopping it, and the result is suggested by the following rhyme: Hush, little deficit, Don't you cry— You’ll be a crisis Bye and Bye. man TY EP. CELLER (D., N. Y.): Mr. Speaker, I verily believe that the list of subscribers to the Townsend Weekly is well calculated to become the best "sucker” list one can find. Very likely the owners of Townsend Weekly are trafficking in that list, because every get-rich-quick operator, every charlatan that tries to get something for nothing, every freebooter, every fake stock promoter, has paid a good price to Townsend and the sole owners of the Townsend Weekly, for the use of this list.

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Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

T HAD been to the south part of the town in the afternoon and there was a man in canoe, paddling around house tops. The thing that struck me most was that it wasn't raining. The brick street ended in ripples of water—disappeared under floating mud. Everything seemed peaceful enough. The sun was shining and there was no noticeable wind blowing. But as it got dark I heard the family talking, in a muffled way, about .the dams at St. Mary’s. There was a reservoir there, and a lot of water captive in it. It was the opinion of father, I gathered, that, once released, that w'ater would roil down from St. Mary’s and flood more of the town. St. Mary’s was more than 20 miles away and in our automobile of that day 20 miles was more than one would attempt for a Sunday afternoon ride. That was the way I measured distance —if it was too far for a Sunday afternoon ride it was a long way, because even a Sunday jaunt tired me out and seemed miles and miles. man SO I couldn’t understand how water, that seemed so elusive when one wanted to wade in it, could travel all that way without getting lost. I enjoyed my dinner. It got dark, and time to go to bed. I heard the family talking again; wondering whether the hill the house was on was high enough to escape the waters if the dam broke. It didn’t seem much of a hill to me; a sled in winter, or a wagon in summer didn’t get up much speed going down it. Then I overheard that if the dams broke in St. Mary’s, the fire bells would ring to let the people know. Then people could get out of danger. That night father put me to bed, which was unusual and which made me think there was something to this flood thing. He seemed pretty solemn. I lay awake most of the night listening for the fire bells, but they never rang. Next day the waters went down. I never could understand why they talked so much about what happened in Dayton. That was 40 miles farther away from St. Mary’s. For a long time I had the idea that people in Dayton just couldn’t take it. After 23 years, that’s all I can remember about the 1913 flood as it happened to me in the neighboring state of Ohio. They say there might be another flood this spring, and if there is I’ll keep my eyes and ears wider open. a u a JULIUS CEASAR lives at 3630 Coliseum-av, Ihdianapolis. If you’re looking for a Rosener in the phone book and aren’t sure of its spelling, be sure to look also under Raesener, Rasener, Reasner, Reasonor, Reissner, Resener, Resner, Resoner, Roesener and Roessner. a a a AN odd story collected by George Abell of Washington: “The Japanese embassy here is composed of clever mem. They make few errors, but sometimes they slip just a trifle. “A widely known newspaper man died recently in New York. The clever Japanese sent a beautiful floral tribute—a large cross of lilies and roses. “Those in charge of the funeral ceremonies were touched. They sent a letter of appreciation concluding with the line: “ ‘Unfortunately, the beautiful cross was so large that we were regretfully unable to get it through the door of the synagog.’ ” a a a YEARS ago, the grandfather of an Indianapolis man was spending his declining years in Spencer, Ind., in well-earned idleness. In season, he loved to hunt squirrels. Some member of his family used to drive him in the horse and buggy to the hunting grounds, leave him there with his dog, gun and a spot of rum, and then return for him at supper time. One evening the old man was left longer than usual, and he finished his rum, something he seldom did. Just as they drove to the limits of Spencer, the old man ordered a halt. “Stop this rig,” he said, “I got an idea.” The rig was halted and he started to get out. “I’ve lived around here all my life and never cut much of a swath,” said he. “Let’s light the hay in the back of the rig and go through town a-hellin’.”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ.

FROM ancient Egypt comes a flash of light on the beginnings of newspaper history. It seems that a Pharaoh, wishing to send important news of his reign to far-flung cities and provinces, might order the new's inscribed on scarabs. Scarabs, you recall, were amulets or other objects in the shape of the sacred Egyptian beetle, symbol of resurrection. A scarab edition in ancient Egypt may have consisted of a few score copies. Possibly editions were larger, but 40 copies of one news dispatch published in this fashion happen to be known. That the inscribed scarabs were actually distributed as news letters is indicated by translation of a scarab acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The scarab is one issued by Egypt’s resplendent young “Golden Emperor,” Amen-hopte 111, in 1422 B. C. a a a FIVE different news scarabs of this Pharaoh are known to Egyptologists. Amen-hotpe used scarabs as one way of announcing his wedding, or rather one of his weddings. He used this method of proclaiming his score of killing 10 lions a year, average, in the hunt. The lion-hunting item is the scarab .•ecord of which no less than 40 copies are preserved in collections today. Another royal press dispatch from Amen-hotpe told that an artificial take a mile long had been dug for bis Queen Teye ana completed in 15 davs.

The Hoosier Forum 7 disapprove of what you say, but 1 will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

tTimes realen are invited to express their views in these columns, relioious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to S5 0 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) a a a LINCOLN THRILLS TOURISTS AT VICKSBURG, MISS. By Mrs. Minnie Hough Abraham Lincoln still lives. That is, you’d never get over swearing that he does if you could just step down to Vicksburg, Miss. It’s a grand feeling to be greeted by a beautiful monument to Indiana upon entering the historic old town. But when, upon pulling into a tourist cabin camp, you are made welcome by Abe himself, silk hat, breaches, boots and all—well, he takes jou by surprise and you gasp in amazement at the terrific likeness, rub your eyes, then look again. You can’t be mistaken, you tell yourself. You’ve seen his picture too many times. But of course you are, so you just naturally put out your hand to shake the hand of Abraham Lincoln, the owner of the camp. Notwithstanding the fact that on May 19 and 22, 1863, the Union army made unsuccessful assaults—unsuccessful because of the heroic defense of the Confederate army under Gen. Pemberton—Abraham Lincoln (or his counterpart) holds complete sway over his domain and thrills his many, many tourist patrons. a a a URGES INCREASE IN CONSUMPTION By S. L. H. The new soil conservation bill is designed to curtail the food supply to conform to the vendability of the supply. Farm machinery manufacturers have resorted to “pig killing” in restricting production of machinery to the farmer’s ability to buy. His need of new machinery did not govern the supply. So now the farmers want to follow the pattern of the farm machinery makers. Reduction of production may in-

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN WRONG selection ol food, a sweet tooth, and lack of sufficient exercise, warns a great nutrition specialist, are the primary reasons for reducing diets. Remember that Americans consume from five to 10 times as much sugar per person per day as do people abroad. This sugar is not all taken as such, but usually is distributed through a wide variety of foods. The average stewed tomatoes or other vegetables served in a restaurant would hardly be eatable without considerable seasoning. When you are reducing, you must avoid, particularly, rich salad dressing, sugar, custards, candies, cakes, pies, rich gravies, fat fish, fat meats, nuts, cream, fried foods, or creamed soups. a a a HERE is a diet that contains about 1016 calories. It provides all the essential food substances.

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crease prices temporarily, but i#does not produce real prosperity. A subsidy to the consumers would get rid of the so-called surplus in record time. The sharecroppers who produced the 6,000,000 bales of cotton held by the government would be glad to get this cotton for new glad rags to replace the rag bag on their backs. But why solve. the surplus problem by subsidies to the consumers? What would we worry about after we distributed the surplus? More consumption would also raise the price without crop reduction. a a a CONDEMNS U. S. LENDING TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY By H. L. Seeger Restoration of confidence to business is dependent upon restoration of purchasing power to the consumers of the products of industry. Restoration of consumption power to those eleven and one-half million unemployed persons would automatically solve the confidence problem of business. The American Federation of Labor survey indicated that the recession in recovery was due to purchasing power lagging behind production. Wages, it pointed out, had not advanced in proportion to increases in profit. This fact, therefore, places upon labor the obligation to demand higher wages, if the balance between producing and consuming power is ever to be restored. Industry’s failure to abosrb eleven and one-half million out of work is bringing the nation into a serious danger. The survey further said: “We have in America the strange paradox of an economic system equipped to produce a comfortable living standard for all, but unable to function,” and that “labor’s foremost task today is to study means of making it function.” None of the howling coming from the Liberty League is directed toward the “unconstitutional” use of money from the Federal Treasury for the promotion of private business. No attack has ever been made upon

On this diet you may lose from two to three pounds a week if you keep up your ordinary work. Remember, it is not safe to reduce more rapidly. Breakfast: One-half grapefruit, one tablespoon cream, one egg, one slice bread, one medium serving puffed rice or similar cereal, one slice thin toast and one small square butter. Luncheon or dinner: One cup plain broth, one broiled trout or other fish, three heaping tablespoons new peas, salad containing one tomato and two leaves of lettuce with vinegar or lemon, one-half cantaloupe or grapefruit, one glass skim milk, one cup clear tea or coffee. Supper: Three slices white meat of chicken, three slices of egg plant, three heaping tablespoons cream squash, four stalks celery hearts, one cup clear tea, one glass skim milk, one banana.

Q —How many one-dollar gold pieces with the mint mark C were issued in 1854? A—Four. Q—Did the United States borrow money from the English government during the Civil War. A—No. Q —Has England a written constitution like the United States? A—No. Q —On what day was June 25, 1924? A—Wednesday. Q —What official in the Irish Free State corresponds to the Postmaster General of the United States? A—Gerald Boland, who is the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. Q —What is tarmac? A—A mixture of ironstone slag, tar, and creosote that is used in roadmaking.

the Reconstruction Finance Corp., which has appropriated Federal public money for private business. If there ever was an unconstitutional act, it is most glaring in this use of public money for private enterprises. The recovery of much of this money is extremely doubtful. Its appropriation for purposes outside of those connected with public business is indefensible, unconstitutional and clearly as socialistic as it could ever be. This “socialistic RFC baby” was fathered by the rugged former President, and adopted by Mi’. Roosevelt. Mr. Hoover also produced that other socialistic farm board program, of storing and pegging wheat, that drained the Federal Treasury of- 500 million dollars of public money. Let’s stop this socialism of business. Let the government take care of its own business and let business demonstrate its ability to stand on its own legs without propping it up through the use of public treasury money through the RFC, HOLC, FLB and all the other socialistic props put out ti this would-be private business wo Id. Let the government assign hese eleven and one-half million orkers to the industries from v lich they have been released, with orders to put them to work at the production of commodities. If industry can not do this it is not competent to serve the public needs, and failure to do so will surely bring this nation into a serious danger as the A. F. of L. survey stated. Let’s hurry back to the Constitution, kick the socialistic lending and propping out from under the private business structure. Let’s quit meddling and piddling at relief of business. Take it off the dole. MEMENTO BY MARY WARD I would have touched your sleeve, Though you would not perceive— And once I thought to seek A chance to touch your cheek— But that was long ago— The moments pass, you know. DAILY THOUGHT His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come dow'n upon his own pate. —Psalms 7:16. GOD is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, month, or year, but remember He pays in the end.—Anne of Austria.

SIDE GLANCES

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Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

CHARLESTON. S. C., Feb. 26. It’s funny how little things sometimes change tht whole course of history. Take Charleston and me, for instance. I had been in Charleston before, and always liked the looks of the place, and liked to stand down at the Battery and look out over the bay where the first shot hi the Civil War was fired, and loved to walk around the narrow winding streets that so much resemble New Orleans, and was always intrigued by the old Negroes, white-haired and carrying baskets on their heads, just ambling along as if there wasn't any such thing as time. Charleston is historic, and it is lovely, and it’s very proud. I thought now we’d stay here two or three days this time, and I’d sing a few poems about Charleston, and pen an epic or two, something really great to go down in the halls of literature. There might have been some dispute about the latter, but there won’t be any now, for the whole thing blew up, and I'm not going to pen any epic about Charleston. Some of those little things happened. a a a IN the first place, we picked out of the travel literature a hotel you simply couldn't go wrong on. We have got pretty good at picking hotels, but we slipped on this one. Before we could even get it, we had to tip a doorman and two bellboys. When two boys at once pounced on our bags it seemed a little superfluous to me, since any able-bodied child of 14 could carry them under one arm. We took a $4 room. In one corner was a 1905 model chiffonier, reaching nearly to the ceiling. It made you feel as if you had on a celluloid collar and peg-topped pants. The room was so small you couldn't get out of bed on one side without butting your head on the chiffonier, or on the other side without falling out the window'. You could get around the end of the bed all right by walking edgewise. The wall paper around the radiator had turned white and had mostly fallen off. In the far corner, where the steam pipe went up, the plaster had given way, and on the so-called carpet w r as a big pool of gritty powder. a a a r I ’'HEY had cut a square hole In the w'all to insert a light plug, and had just left it that way. You could see through the cracks in the faded window shade. The telephone was the oldfashioned wall kind. It took the operator ages to answer, and the wall paper around the phone was all scribbled up with numbers and various absent - minded pencil marks. The bath was dim and crow’ded, and water squirted out the side of the faucet handles, and bounced off the w'all down onto your shoes. Now all this may be all right for “atmosphere” in a historic old hotel in an old place, but this wasn't any historic hotel. This was a “modern” hotel. . The adjoining room was a sample room, occupied by a shoe salesman. He had dozen i of pairs of shoes out on tables, and the buyers in Charleston must all be deaf, the way that guy was yelling at them. All this for $4. Now some people might say you can’t expect, much for $4, but I know, from much trial and error, that if you hit a decent place you can get a grand room for $4. I don’t mind paying $4 for a $4 room, or $6 for a $6 room, but it burns me up to pay $4 .or a $2 room. a a a WELL,” I said, “we’ll just move to another hotel in the morning, and see what we see. Let’s go out and eat.” So we walked and walked, and almost froze to death, and finally got to a quaint little inn. There we had the extreme pleasure of being permitted to pay a dollar and a half for a 75-cent dinner, cooked Southern style, ala Greenwich Village. - By this time I was really getting the strong odor of commercialism about Charleston: and although it’s the same odor the world over, it seems to smell worse here than it does, for instance, in Miami, where you expect it. “Let’s not go to another hotel in the morning,” I said. “Let’s get out of here. Let’s go to Savannah. I always liked Savannah better anyhow.”

By George Clark