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SATURDAY. MARCH 14, 1936 DEMOCRATIC MIRACLE Senate Leader Joe Robinson raises the alarm that Herbert Hoover Is “apparently trying to secure for himself the presidential nomination.” Isn't Joe a little more wishful than fearful? SPEAKING OF LIBERTY that the American Civil Liberties Union has joined the American Liberty League in attacking the activities of the Black Lobby Committee, maybe the League will join with the Union in behalf of certain similar causes. Defenders of the peoples’ liberties is an unfamiliar role for the League, which apparently hasn't yet learned to distinguish between the prerogatives and privileges of a wealthy few on one hand, and the human rights of the common man on the other. But before this Lobby Committee scrap is over, the League may pick up a few points from the ACLU, which has been upholding the bill oi rights long enough to know that assaults on liberty have to be met head-on wherever they crop up and regardless of whether the alleged victim is a prospective slush fund contributor or just a man in a picket line. To counter an attack of the Liberty League, Senator Black could take the offensive with a recital of the League’s record in allying itself with wealth and privilege. But the protest of the Civil Liberties Union that “the procedure of your committee is on a par with tapping the telephone wires of private citizens” can not be turned aside by such strategy, For the ACLU came into this battle, not from the fleshpots, but from the front lines in the battle for human rights, where frequenters of “wellwgrmed and well stocked clubs” do not go— Defending sharecroppers from eviction because they dared to organize to protect themselvs in an uneven contest with landlords, defending the rights of strikers to picket peacefully, defending freedom of thought and teaching in universities dominated by reactionary regents, defending the right of the unemployed to organize and petition for redress of their grievances, defending the right to fair trial of accused men who can't afford high-priced lawyers protesting the lawlessness of police third degree, lynch mobs and vigilantes. Senator Black may contest the premises, but he can not question the motives of such an organization. ' ana VXfHILE waiting for the Senate to complete the * “ evidence in the Lobby Committee case, the Liberty League might well take a look at some of the other causes in which the Civil Liberties Union has already interested itself. There are the McCormick military disaffection and the Kramer anti-sedition bills, designed to muzzle civilian free press and free speech. There is the Dobbins postal censorship bill, which would authorize prosecution for sending “objectionable” matter through the.mails in a jurisdiction of the prosecutor's own choosing. There are the humiliating teachers’ oath bills in various states. In these times of unemployment and unrest, with repressive measures widely advocated by Fas-cist-minded groups, the liberties of the people are tineatened as they never have been in the memory of living men, war years excepted. There is ample work for the Liberty League in this field if it desires to make good its pretentions. THE COLONEL SCORES TUST as a sporting proposition, Col. Frank Knox deser\ es the break he got in the New Hampsliiie primary, where Republican voters elected a solid bloc of Knox delegates for the Cleveland convention. The Colonel having been ot\ce a resident of New Hampshire and having the active support of the state political machine and ha vmg no avowed candidate opposing him, the result came as no surprise. Nevertheless he is entitled to whatever satisfaction he can draw from his victory. For in recent months the Knox candidacy has been ebbing fast as the breaks have gone to others. Only recently it was his embarrassing experience to be put on a spot where he had to print in his own Chicago newspaper a public opinion poll which showed him running far down the list of potential Republican nominees. We haven't yet seen The Chicago Daily News of Wednesday, but we bet the New Hampshire election made the front page. And we don’t blame the publisher. DESIGN FOR DYING T>RITAIN'S war minister. Alfred Duff-Cooper, says: “With large numbers of young and active unemployed men living on the dole, no better advice could be given them than to join the army.” CAMPAIGN YEAR TAXATION VTO has ever been devised which comes from any source other than the pockets of the people. But many and ingenious are the devices which attempt to camouflage this truth. There aie taxes, such as income and inheritance levies, which come from the people in proportion to individual ability to pay. These are the fairest of taxes, but they also are the most visible, and therefore the most painful and politically unpopular. And this being a campaign year, it is but natural that the candidates for re-election who comprise the House Ways and Means Committee should be giving but scar. 6 attention to possibilities of raising additional revenue by this type of taxation. It is reported that the only changes ii' income and inheritance taxes receiving consideration are proposals to dig a little deeper into the upper brackets. This would risk alienation of the political affections of only those comparatively’ few voters who reside in the silk stocking wards. And since the yield from such upper bracket increases would be very small, the committee, as always, will have to contrive some scheme to raise the bulk of revenue from the rank and file. * Which explains why there is such a premium on

invisibility, and why there is talk of a general manufacturers’ sales tax. the visibility of which—to the customer who pays it—is practically zero. (Fortunately, the committee is backing away from this one.) It explains also why special processing taxes on farm products are in the picture, and likewise the proposal to boost many of the nuisance taxes—another half cent on a gallon of gasoline, a larger cut on theater admissions, etc. Ninety-flVv, per cent of our population pay no Federal income taxes. But these same people pay most of the invisible taxes which constitute about two-thirds of all Federal levies. It is no pleasure to reiterate day after day that sucb taxes pick the pockets of the people and are unjustly burdensome to the poor. But we hope that constant repetition may in time goad the people into demanding abolition of hidden taxes, and the substitution of honest, visible, equitable taxes, based on the principle of ability to pay. 1936 MODEL JUSTICE AND JUSTICES? npHE Supreme Court in the past often has caught up with the changing times. Atty. Gen. Cummings recently listed 13 instances in which it has reversed previous constitutional interpretations—along with the three notable instances in which the people by constitutional amendment reversed the court. The painful Civil War was a part of the process that overturned the court’s ideffs of chattel slavery, too. Now the court is about to hear arguments on the validity of the Guffey Coal Stabilization Act, a Federal regulatory law which covers trade practices and working conditions. In the NRA and AAA decisions the majority justices made it clear that they hold such conditions outside the Federal pale. In the AAA case an industry just as basic as mining was specifically assigned to the states for regulation. By this same reasoning, the Guffey Act would seem earmarked for the discard. But several of the coal-mining states have just entered the picture in a-manner which the justices can not disregard. In their semi-sovereign capacity as states, they have filed with the court statements of their obvious inability to control the industry with effectiveness or with the uniformity necessary in a national industry. In this case, as in the other New Deal cases, the phrases of the Constitution involved are vague and general. There are adequate precedents in the form of previous Supreme Court rulings on both sides. (Precedents are very dear and necessary for judges.) We like the precedent of Justice Roberts’ opinion in the Nebbia milk case, in which he said: “The guaranty of due process, as has often been held, demands only that the law shall not be unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious; and that the means selected shall have a real and substantial relation to the object sought to be obtained.” The states by their action have gone far to establish that “due process” has been complied with by Congress in enacting the Guffey Act. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson BEFORE I realized it we were up to 75.” How often you overhear such remarks. And every time it is uttered you know that something besides thy car engine was going 75. The driver’s nerves were also racing. Which means extra wear on his circulation, blood pressure and heart. Enough of such extra wear g.nd he may expect his innards to give out earlier than they should, just as his automobile engine might if he continued to race it. Even if the modern motorist escapes sudden death or crippling accident, he can not escape the fact that fast going may cut short his life. The mortal frame can not withstand the hairbreadth escapades, the high-tension rigidity which must be maintained by our Highway Hurricanes. Traffic speed represents something more significant than getting somewhere. It means we are all geared up to 90. Even if we only run around in circles, most of us are going much too fast for good sense or pleasant living. If utilized intelligently, the energy we waste rushing around to no purpose might revolutionize existence and enable us to cultivate the art of living, which we seem to have lost somewhere between the red and green light. There are men, for instance, good business men, too, who dash madly around the country under the impression that their hurry will cover up their lack of thought. They remind you of little whirlwinds you see in summer on country roads; faster and faster they come until they finally disintegrate and dissolve into nothingness. There are women, too, who seem literally to leap from one occupation to another. They race to the dentist, hurry to a luncheon, dash off to make a fourth at bridge. Then, worn and wilted, they run home to dress for a dinner to which they are invariably late, and for excuse they offer the old plea of being too busy. They aren't really busy; they are only aimless bustlers; little chips caught up into the maelstrom of modern lu. ~y which is sweeping us all without dignity into the sea of oblivion. FROM THE RECORD U EP. BLANTON (D., Tex.): Does he (Rep. McCormack) know that The Daily Worker in New’ York, which is a renowmed Communist paper, with connections with Russia, has its reporters right in our press gallery? Rep. McCormack <D.. Mass.): I hepe the gentleman intends to yield me additional time. Rep. Maverick (D., Tex.): Does the gentleman object to s representative of the Communist press in the gallery . . . ? Rep. Blanton: Yes; absolutely. If I had my way about it they would be kicked out of the press gallery. Rep. Maverick: Mr. Chairman, I object to the gentleman from Texas answering. Besides, it is a “she.” Rep. Blanton: There is one of both, a “he” and a “she.” Rep.' McCormack: The two gentlemen from Texas can argue that out between themselves, but not in my time. a a a TY EP. RICH (R., Pa.): When will we step this extravagance? I want to say that we have talked about responsibility. Whose responsibility? Whose, Mr. Bankhead? Is it yours or is it the members of this House? Rep. Bankhead (D., Ala.): Mr. Chairman, I rise to a point of order. The Chairman: The gentleman will state it. Rep. Bankhead: Mr. Chairman, I am net sensitive about the matter, but I am a little meticulous about observance of the rules of the House, and it is a direct violation of the rules of the House for a member to refer directly by name to any member upon the floor, and I shall have to give the gentleman a little preliminary schooling on the rules of the House and I may add to it a little later on. The gentleman should say, “The gentleman from Alabama." The Chairman: The chair confirms the statement of the gentleman from Alabama and sustains the point of order. *■'

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Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

OF all the sports I ever heard of, fox hunting is the most amiable. No participant has anything but the greatest admiration for the I fox, and any hound that tries to ; outsmart a good running fox is immediately ruled out on personal fouls. The worst thing, any one could do would be to catch the fox, and any one who so much as frightens him is severely reprimanded and, if he persists, is sent home to mama. I had imagined, before talking to Rep. H. H. Evans, the state’s champion fox hunter, that the person or dog who brought back the fox, was tops for the day. But it’s all a game and here’s the way dog and fox and man join in. The site is selected. Some local hunter is found who knows the fox runs; that is, where a fox goes when he goes. The game always is played on the .fox’ home grounds, and he’s first and last at bat. a a a JUDGES are stationed at these runs with score cards. Numbers are painted on the sides of the hounds, in red jiaint on a dark hound and black paint on a light i hound. Then they are loosed. They are supposed to keep a strict silence until they scent the fox. If they bark ; beforehand they, break the rules and are given a talking to. When they scent the fox the fox usually is at a safe distance. They bark, and the fox barks too. They give chase. In the course of the chase the fox leads them over his familiar paths and this is past the judges. The judges keep score that way. One fox often may run only 30 minutes at a time. He’s not a very good fox and the hunt isn’t so successful. But Mr. Evans says he has seen the time when one fox, winded dr leg weary, would run into a pile of rails or something for a rest, and another fox would run out and take up where he left off. a a a TO the fox the whole thing is a game unless he gets scared. At Morgantown, once, the hounds chased a fox through a crowd of more than 1000 people. The people started yelling and that scared the fox. The fox took off for Brown County and that afternoon a farmer 12 miles away came up to report that while he was hauling wood, all of a sudden it seemed to be raining dogs. In front of them was the fox. The fox took refuge under the farmer’s wagon, but changed his mind after a moment and ducked down a hole. When a fox ducks down a hole the game is over. The dogs can’t get him. If, by any chance, a fox can run for three or four hours, he could easily be elected to Congress if no one but the hunters voted. They’d no more think of killing that fox than they would think of killing a race horse because he won the Kentucky Derby. a a a WHEN a dog whose I. Q. is rather good runs for four or five years and begins to figure things out, sometimes he uses shorfc cuts. He listens to where the fox is going and then cuts over to meet him. That’s out. It spoils the hunt, scares the fox, upsets scorekeepers and generally plays havoc. That dog is retired from the sport, in disgrace. Rep. Evans says the kind of fox hunting they do when a large number of persons get in a big circle and beat the bushes toward the center usually yields only gray fox, and they’re no good for hunting anyway. Red fox are good runners. He doesn’t think a red fox is a liability to a farmer. He thinks that most of the chickens killed laid to the fox are done by domesticated cats who have been taken out and lost and have to make a living some way. Red fox eat moles, and mice and grub worms and other such enemies. a a a THE plural of fox is fox, not foxes or fix or feece. Fox are pretty plentiful. Mr. Evans is president of the Southern Indiana and State Fox Hunting Association, inc., and their next meet is in October, 11 to 17, at Rockville, people live in tents for the meets—last time there were 358 tents. Any fox hunter who bags a fox is subject to amendment by the rules and bylaws committee, and the greatest eating is a fried chicken dinner. Fox have been known to attend even the purely social events. That clears that up, except that Mr. Evans says the best hound breeders in the state include Paul Reynolds. New Albany; Dr. D. A. Whaley, Vincennes; Essex brothers, I Edinburg; Dick Bradley, Loogootee; ! Jack Walker. Marion; Birt O’Neal, I Rushville; Frank Moore, Rockville; B. J. Bloom, Columbia City, and I many others. Some people who don’t even like | fox hunting go to the meets. They ! just like to moon around among so | many people.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Three inscriptions by the ancient Etruscans, preserved in New York and Philadelphia museums, are helping to clear up one of the puzzles of how the alphabet originated. The three pieces of writing, now museum treasuries of this country, suggest strongly that the Romans got the alphabet letters directly from the Greeks. This has been one of the weak and uncertain links in the long chain of evolution through which scholars trace the modern alphabet. From modern letters—in which this newspaper is printed—the evolutionary changes go back through Latin alphabet, Greek forms, Phoenician, even farther back toward a still somewhat mysterious origin, perhaps near 2000 B. C. in the Near East. For many years, language students have argued over two rival theories as to where the Latin alphabet was borrowed. One faction said the Romans caught the idea from Greek colonists in southern Italy. Another faction thought that Rome’s near neighbors, the Etruscans, were the people who gave Rome inspiration for an alphabet.

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

/Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have u chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.i a a a LAUDS SELECTION OF WEST AS FUND HEAD By J. F. C. The choice of Harold B. West as general chairman of Indianapolis Community Fund’s seventeenth annual fund campaign next fall is a signal honor to this young business executive, long active in civic affairs. It also is a happy choice so far as the fund is concerned, because of Mr. west’s demonstrated ability in fund work. And the selection of Arthur V. Brown as the 1936 honorary member of the fund was specially appropriate because of Mr. Brown’s long record as a civic, welfare and financial leader. a a a RURAL SCHOOL PLAN IS PRAISED By a Reader States and communities suffering from small, badly equipped and poorly staffed rural schools unight well take a cue* from Michigan. Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, superintendent of public instruction there, is seriously considering a plan to reduce the number of Michigan rural schools from 6700 to 700 or 800. He charges that the present system is extravagant and a disgrace to education. Michigan, along with other states, he points out, pays its teachers as low as S3O a month in the poorer

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN WHILE a person is suffering from acute infection, his diet should always be light. It should include preferably fluids, such as milk and thin gruel. It should be rather low in proteins, also, to avoid possible irritation to the kidneys. The greater the intensity of the disease, the more liquid the diet should be. It may include malted milk, and lemonade, orangeade, or oranges, to provide the alkaline effect. Later, toasted bread, crackers, and various kinds of cereals may be added, and still later, baked potato, rice, corn starch, and many other cereal and milk foods, as well as a greater variety of fruit. The diet in infection should always be modified to fit the patient. The main object is to avoid depriving hmi of any element that he requires to promote his health and to keep up his nutrition, and, at the same time, to avoid gastric and intestinal indigestion. Doctors are often asked whether the patient may have coffee. Provided the blood pressure is not too high, the heart not too irritable, and the patient not too nervous and restless, coffee may be given him morning’ and noon, or coffee

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Time* Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13that, N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, n< r can extended research be undertaken, Q—What language is spoken in Mexico? A—The language of the country is Spanish. About 4,500,vi00 Indians speak their own vernaculars, and many of the 9,000.000 mixed race also speak Indian dialects as well as Spanish. Q —When and how did Russ Columbo, the screen actor, die? A—He died in a hospital in Hollywood, Sept. 2, 1934, a few hours after he was shot in the head by the accidental discharge of an antique pistol at the home of Lansing Brown, portrait photographer.

DOOMSDAY!

rural districts, and often they are forced to collect part of this pittance by “boarding around” with the farmers, as backwoods schoolmasters did in pioneer days. The new plan would unite seven or eight of these districts and construct a central school to which children living at a distance might be transported. Competent teachers then could be employed at Reasonable salaries, and modern equipment installed at a total expense not greater than present costs. If the proposal is adopted and works in Michigan, it is anew deal for rural children that no state can afford to pass up. a a a ADVISES VANNUYS TO READ ‘FEDERALIST’ By George Gould Hine “It's a great world,” says Charles M. Schwab. “It’s a successful system,” says Senator Var.Nuys, and in effect calls upon five million graduates of high schools and colleges to recognize it as perfect, even though they can’t get jobs. “It must not be tinkered with,” says the Senator and calls upon 20 million reliefers to agree with the Supreme Court that their condition is a local problem, as was said of the farmers. “It is final, as far as I am concerned,” says the Senator and lays down for the count of 10. He admits the Constitution is perfect. But while the Senator is resting on his back he might refresh and strengthen himself with the thoughts of the founders. Let him read the “Federalist.” He will find that Alexander Ham-

in the morning and tea at noon or, if he desires, tea both times. a a a CiOFFEE always should be con- ! sidered as representing so much caffein. When a person is sick, it should’not be taken late in the afternoon or evening, as it may cause just sufficient stimulation to prevent sleep. During fever, digestion is impaired. At the same time, because of the greater demands, there may be increased appetite. For this reason, long continued infections result in under-nutrition and loss of weight. If a child is undernourished when the infection begins, it is likely to become seriously undernourished before infection has progressed very long. In children, infections of the ear and of the kidney, and occasionally tuberculosis, produce the worst effects in this direction. Under such circumstances, the child may need not only a quart of milk each day, but a diet rich in nutritional substances, to keep its weight and blood up to par. If the forcing gs fluids, necessary because of the infection, makes it difficult for the child to take tl>e amount of milk recommended, the use of powered milk, evaporated milk, or a similar preparation will serve the purpose.

Brown was exhibiting a French dueling pistol and accidentally dropped a lighted match on the cap, causing the pistol to discharge, and the bullet hit a mahogany dresser and ricocheted, hitting Columbo just above the eye and entering his brain. Q —How much longer can Hitler continue to exercise full dictatorial legislative power in Germany? A—The German Reichstag passed the law abdicating for four years all its power in favor of Hitler on March 23, 1933. The law expires April 1, 1937. Q —Who was Thor? A—The Scandinavian god of war, thunder, and agriculture. He was the son of Odin and Jord, champion of the Aesir, and benefactor of man. He was the implacable foe of the giants, whom he slew with his magic hammer.

ilton makes this frank confession: “I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberation of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound of the errors and prejudices, as well as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed. The compacts which are to embrace 13 distinct states must necessarily be a compromise of that many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?” Hamilton then quotes from the historian Hume the following words: “To balance a large state of society, whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able, by the mere dint of reason or reflection, to effect it. The judgments of many must unite in the work; experience must guide their labor; time must bring it to perfection and the feeling of inconvenience must correct the mistakes which they inevitably fall into in their first trials and experiments.” In view of these things, the voters of Indiana can not escape from one or the other of two conclusions: Either that Senator VanNuys has some private reason for attributing to the Constitution a perfection to which the framers themselves did not pretend, or that he has no “feeling of inconvenience” at the present plight of his country. SERENITY BY MARY WARD The depths of the sea are calm, Even with tempests above— And a storm does not alarm The heart of a turtledove— They have ways to us unknown Fulfilling their destiny— Calm are the depths of the sea. Trustful, serene is the one, DAILY THOUGHT For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not ,vithal to signify the crimes laid against him.—The Acts xxv, 27. HE who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.—Plato.

SIDE GLANCES

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“No movies for you and grandpa today. Here’s just enough for one Jollipop and one cigar.”

MARCH 14,1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

'Iyj’OBILE, Ala., March 14.—“But what about reformers?" I said to my Mobile friend. “What about the professional bluenoses? Don’t they ever make a fuss?” “Why,” said my friend, “if a reformer stuck his head up in Mobile they’d run him out of town before sundown.” We were sitting in a restaurant eating lunch. It wasn’t a doggy restaurant at all; just a couple of jumps ahead of a “greasy spoon," but the food was all right. There were booths along one side, and we were in one of them. Along the other side was a bar, with bottles of whisky pyramided before the mirror, and a bartender in white mixing drinks, and a couple of men drinking at the bar. “This place has been a bar for 70 years. I guess,” my friend said. “And ft never has closed. Never closed a single day during prohibition. Never locked its doors or worked behind a curtain “Alabama is one of two bone-dry states left in the Union. Kansas is the other. No beer or wine even. But you see how much attention we pay to it.” a a a in Mobile.” he added won’t stand for any monkeying with their liberties. Why, there hasn't been a liquor conviction here since I can remember, and with everything running wide open. “They can't even get a liquor jury here. Haven’t had one for two years. The jurors simply tell the judge they’ll acquit the defendant no matter what the evidence, so they just can't get a jury, .and nobody is ever tried. “Sure, we have raids. But they're the funniest things you ever saw. The officers come in and take a bottle or two, just enough for evidence sc they collect their raiding fee, and that’s all there is to it. Nobody ever has to go to court or pay a fine or anything.” a a a WE were paying so little attention that we didn’t even notice at first when the five men walked in. A couple of them were big fat men. Looked liked politicians. Some of them walked into the back room and a couple of others walked around behind the bar. took flashlights out of their hip pockets and started opening cabinet doors. That’s when we first noticed them. When I looked at my friend, he was about to explode. “It’s a raid.” he practically shouted in a stage whisper. “Boy. this is wonderful. They don't raid this place once in a month. Now you can say you’ve seen a raid in Alabama.” One of the big fat men took a bottle of whisky out of one cabinet, and set it on the bar. It only had about four drinks left in it. One of the weaving blokes at the bar looked at it greedily. “You working here now?” the fat man asked the bartender in a friendly voice. “Yeah,” said the bartender. “Let the boss off as easy as you can, will you?” He meant by that, not to take too much of the boss’ whisky. a a a

THE fat man turned and started looking behind other cabinet doors. The swaying old soak at the bar kept looking at the bottle. Suddenly, he made up his mind. He reached over, unscrewed the cap, poured a big drink, and downed it. Then he looked all around, as if h i. expected applause. He got it. The onlookers shouted and laughed. "Now you can say you’ve had a drink of government liquor," one fellow yelled at him. The soak was beaming. "I’ve been waiting for that for years,” he said. The officers paid no attention. Finally, they were through. That one half-empty bottle was all they took. That, and one case of beer, They took a case off the top of about 30 cases piled at the back of the room. The big fellow took some papers out of his pocket and put them cn the bar, and took out his pencil and signed his name at the bottom. Then he took the bottle of whisky and another fellow took the case of beer, and they said, “So long,” and all walked out. The spectators stepped vp to the bar. The bartender opened a cabinet door (one that had been looked into with a flashlight a minute be* fore) and took out a bottle of whisQf and started pouring drinks. Everybody laughed.

By George Clark