Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1936 — Page 10

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The Indianapolis Times (A gCRIPPS-HOWABI) >'E rt'SPAPEK) HOY W. HOWARD President LUDWELL DENNY Editor KARL Li. BAKER Business Manager

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SATURDAY. MARCH 21. 1338. FLOODS AND TAXES WHILE the floods still are raging, we read estimates of property damages. As the waters go down, the estimates go up $150,000,000, $200,000,000, $250,000,000. Os course they are rough estimates. We understand they pertain only to improvements on real estate—homes, store buildings, factories, bridges and wharves washed out. Add to them the wage losses of those who were driven from their jobs by the floods. Add the loss in income on the money invested. Add the losses of soil. (It is estimated that year in and year out an average of $400,000,000 worth of soil is washed or blown away. That is a destruction of a national asset. And it doesn’t include what it added to the liability side of the national ledger where the soil comes to rest as sediment in the lowlands and silt in the river beds.) * a tt THE Red Cross and government relief agencies. providing they get adequate funds, can do much to minimize the human suffering, starvation and disease which trail these floods. They can help the 200.000 made homeless. But what of t.h(se things that should be done to minimize future floods? The people of Cairo. 111., for example, might resent Pennsylvania after overflowing their property and leaving deposits of Pennsylvania mud. But no court can give them redress by declaring this transgression on property rights to be unconstitutional. Neither can the Illinois Governor nor the Illinois Legislature protect them. Even the Liberty League • can’t help them; it can’t persuade farmers on Pennsylvania hillsides to re-sod and re-forest, their lands and build reservoirs to hold the water where it falls. nun ONLY the Federal government can do those things which need to be done to guard the people of Wheeling and of Marietta and of Cairo and of Memphis and of New Orleans against future Pennsylvania floodwaters and Pennsylvania mud. The ' Federal government can go up the. headwaters of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, and there carry out the soil and water conservation improve- • ments that are needed to restore an orderly drainage of that area. It can do what it is already doing in the watershed of the Tennessee River. Another tributary of the Ohio River, another segment' of the great Mississippi basin. And it can do likewise in the Green Mountains of Vermont for the protection of the people in the lowlands of Connecticut, and in the uplands of West Virginia for the protection of the people in the Potomac Valley. The present national Administration is the first even to recognize this national responsibility of husbanding soil and water resources. It has begun in a small way. For the next fiscal year, it has budgeted an expenditure of $28,000,000 for straight soil conservation work, and a similar amount for the forestry service. Conservation is the avowed and long-range objective of the $440,000,000 farm program, although the immediate purpose is to balance crop; production .and sustain farm income. The CCC, budgeted to spend $220,000,000 next year, already has made major contributions to the conservation program. People who in the last few days have seen muddy floodwaters swirling around their homes and' factories will not think these expenditures a waste of the taxpayers' money. RED INK AND RED DUST A MASSACHUSETTS ink manufacturer, interviewed in Portland, Ore., discloses that the sales of red ink, which were several hundred per cent above normal a few' years ago, have declined abruptly in the last few' months. Even the ink manufacturer is not disappointed, because the sales of other colors are mounting. This symbolic statistic, is confirmed by current financial reports of corporations showing profits where losses were recently listed, and in the trend toward fewer and fewer bankruptcies. And it seems to provide some justification of the New Deal's fiscal policy of spreading red ink on the government’s books to build up the purchasing pow'er and balance the books of private business. tt * m IT is appropriate, therefore, to ask what private business is doing to flbTp solve the problem of unemployment and relief which forces the government to continue operating in the red. Private business is giving employment to three to five million more persons than it had on its pay rolls at the depth of the depression. Yet approximately 10 million are still looking for work. And the government’s relief burden is no lighter. Most big business spokesmen say that business started getting better the day the Supreme Court tossed NRA out the window. But tnere seems to be another side to this picture. The last A. F. of L. monthly survey of business reports that since the downfall of NRA's maximum hours and minimum wage guarantees, those who are employed have been forced to work longer hours at lower wages, although the average weekly wage and the total of private pay rolls are larger. If the NRA’s shorter work-week schedules w'ere still in effect, it is estimated, the increased business volume would provide employment for 2,000.000 additional wprkers. Business men who are writing their own financial reports in black ink, and think the government should be doing likewise, might help the government a little by doing what they can to spread employment. It will be very difficult for the government to quit using red ink until the country as a whole gets in the black. The personal budgets of the 10.000,000 unemployed, and their dependents, are still very much out of balance. n n m A NOTHER thing more ominous than the government’s red ink Is the red dust blowing in the Southwest. For it symbolizes nature's unbalanced budget, an unbalance which came about because man, engaged in the private business of farming, tried to make big profits for himself by growing two blades of wheat where one blade of grass grew’ before. A protective sod which once maintained natures balance was turned by man’s plow into a pulverized topsoil, and the winds now whip it across the countryside. The dust bowl widens. Adjoining areas, even those not thus mistreated, are made use- | lfss as the suffocating dust blanket spreads otiirarti. It is not possible, we believe, to exaggerate this " •>.. .' < **■ * • $ , W 1 .. . .jJ* . i

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threat. For unless re replace the protective sod, restore nature’s balance and check the desert’s ruthless march, our whole civilization a few generations hence will be writing its finish in red ink as ineradicable as that which records the passing of Ninevah and Tyre. INDUSTRY AND RELIEF npHE President’s relief message, while placing responsibility on private employers for a reduction of the relief load, did not state how many men industry must take over if the government is to stay within his estimate of $3,100,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year. Mr. Roosevelt said 3.800.000 of the 5.300.000 family heads or single persons now on relief are employable. He did not estimate the number of unemployed persons not on relief, who would complete for any increase in private jobs. Conservative estimators place this “outside group’’ at four million. Others say six. Increases in piUvate employment since 1933, although large in many fields, have had little effect on relief totals. Out of each 10 jobs opened, only about three relief persons have been put to work; the seven others came from non-relief unemployed. Following this experience in the past three years, relief officials today are skeptical about the ultimate effect of the President’s plea for greater private employment. They argue that before half or even a third of the relief load could be absorbed, employers would by preference exhaust the non-relief possibilities. The belief prevails among Senators, Congressmen and other officials that the part of private industry largely hostile to the* New Deal will ignore the President’s plea for more jobs. What this would mean eventually is a matter of conjecture. The President said that “only if industry fails to reduce the r umber of those now without work will another appropriation and further plans and policies be necessary.” Some read into these words a threat, not of greater relief appropriations but of another attempt by the government to regulate wages and hours. The proposed sfi, 100,000,000 relief fund for the next fiscal year is not sufficient on present schedules to last 12 months. None of the billion-dollar carryover from 1836. nor the $600,000 allotted to public works and the CCC, will be available for WPA. A billion and a half is asked as anew appropriation for WPA, which is now employing more than 3,000,000 persons, and spending $175,000,000 a month. At best, the money now in sight for WPA will be exhausted after eight months of the fiscal year, or on next March I—unless private industry comes to the rescue. ‘STRIKE ME PINK’ A MAGAZINE once published a cartoon in which a coal miner was saying to a fellow digger, “Strike me pink, Bill, but here comes Mrs. Roosevelt!” Some months thereafter the cartoon came true when the übiquitous First Lady did go down in an Ohio coal mine. When the United Mine Workers met recently in Washington Mrs. Roosevelt invited more than a hundred women, who had accompanied their minerhusbands here, to a reception and iea at the White House. Everybody had a wonderful time in the infoimal atmosphere that Mrs. Roosevelt gives to all her functions. And now Mrs. Roosevelt has written, by request, a special message to coal miners’ wives. It is published in the March issue of the United Mine Workers Journal. She has drawn on her acquaintance W 1 1 m * ners and their homes and families to urge the abolition of “what is ordinarily known as the company town and the company store.” - “The mere fact,” she writes, “that human beings m mine towns or mill towns have no choice as to where and how they will live, that they have no real choice as to where they will buy, destroys initiative. No matter how good the employers’ intentions may be, the ultimate result is bad when people are not free to develop themselves.” This seems to be a case of a Roosevelt favoring another form of rugged individualism. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT Mrs. Walter Ferguson T HE feminine struggle for power goes on. It must go on because it is a part of modern progress, and gives evidence of growth. Here is a curious fact however. Such progress seems to lag in the field w here it seems most plausible it should advance the field of religion. We are lamentably behind in church leadership even though we have moved forward steadily in industrial. educational and political power. Let has religion not been our true forte? Good women have always been addicted to pious works. Their prayers have continually assaulted Heaven’s gates. No creeds could have survived without their lovalty and labor. They, too. have died that the Faith might live. And certainly in the long list of Christian martyrs should be written the names of obscure spinsters who have sublimated earthly desires upon religious altars and of thousands of nuns who have toiled without thought or hope of any save Celestial rewards. Actually, women have contributed immeasurably to the establishment and growth of every denomination. No man can deny it. Yet he has given us only a whisper of authority in his religious councils. The sisters bow meekly in their pews, ’or sweat in the church kitchens, toiling like beavers for every w T orthy cause, while the men continue to exhort from the pulpits and to sit upon the governing boards. With few exceptions the bishops, elders and moderators are men. No dictatorship has been so severe as the dictatorship of the male who considered himself God’s representative, especially when he has spoken to woman. Even now the man does nine-tenths of the ’ preaching, decides most of the policies and interprets the Word. In short, he delegates to himself the right to monopolize the spiritual and temporal power held by his particular denomination. In this respect the modern church is our most medieval institution. FROM THE RECORD TY EP. FISH <R., N. Y.): I stand with Bourke Cockran when he made the statement that “a second best navy is like a second best hand in poker —it is not worth & damn.” a a u Rep, Burdick (R., N. D.): I think I am perfectly safe in asserting that there are not 10 members of this House who know what the word “communism” means. m a tt Rep. Taber (R. t N. Y.): They (Quoddy and the Florida CaDal) will get their nose under the tent and then the Congress later may feel obliged to appropriate the rest of the money. I hope the Congress will have courage enough to refuse. Rep. Moran <D.. Me.): To date every shipping measure passed by Congress has Sten written by private interests, their attorneys or JSbbyists.

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Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

npHERE happens to be an A-l A newspaper man in town who is also a swell fellow. He went to a party the other evening and some one shoved a glass of ale into his hand. Calmly strolling over tr a comi patriot, he gently thrust his full glass into his friend's hand, at the ! same time plucking away an empty j one. “I’m on the wagon,” he murmured. “but I'Vfe got to look like I’m enjoying myself.” * * * 'T'HEN there is the story of the gentleman who finally squandered on anew automobile after driving his old one for almost fiveyears. * He'd been driving around Indianapolis for almost 15 years and he looked very serene as he steered the gleaming new vehicle out of the showrooms and down Meridian-st. At a stop-and-go light the new car stopped. He tried the starter, jiggled this and that, and did any number of things he and learned over 15 years. Finally, he called the auto dealer. Quit stepping on the accelerator ” said the dealer, “it’s an automatic choke and you're flooding the thing.” The old auto driver went back, muttering something about “newfangled ideas.” Well, there's always something to learn, n tt boys were talking about* A the floods over East and a pret- : ty good story popped out. It seems that The Times sent a: photographer down into southern ! Indiana by plane during those disastrous floods a few years ago. The plane swooped over farm I houses, droned over miles of water,! and the photographer click-clicked I away, changing plates on his camera, all the time. Finally back to Indianapolis came the plane. Down clambered the photographer. And just as he reached terra firma, out of his hands dropped the precious plates. Morosely, he sought out a box. He plumped himself down, cupped chin in hand and stared wanly at the shattered plates. ( “Well,” ventured the pilot, “there’s no use crying over spilled milk.” “Yeah,” retorted the photographer. “I wonder what the city editor will *say when I crack that one.” What the city editor said is not printed here for obvious reasons. tt an SPRING note: The firemen were out todav, looking over the side of the firehouse. ' Probably wondering where to put the chairs. a CONTRIBUTION from J. S.; Unsigned notes on apartment doors, like half-heard conversations) sometimes give rise to queer imaginings. In our building several young ladies whom I have never seen have the disturbing habit of pinning little billets doux to the characterless face of their door. Usually they read: “Dear Mabel: Gat the groceries from Alice. I have gone to the library”; or “Alice: I am staying at John’s for dinner; be sure to call Mrs. H. before 9.’’ But this week Mabel, or perhaps it was Alice or John, for all I know, left the one which has been there for four days. It is going to make me force the door if they don’t take it down. It reads: “Stop for the laundry in the basement before you leave. lam getting the oranges and cake.’’ TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ A RESEARCH laboratory devoted entirely to the study of the soybean has been opened at Urbana. 111., by the United States Department of Agriculture in co-operation with 12 states of the North Central region. The co-operating states are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. Amazing increase in the production of soybeans during the last few years is given by government officials as the reason for the new laboratory. Acreage devoted to the bean has risen from 2.000,000 acres in 1924 to nearly 5,000,000 in 1935. In 1935, 5.000.000 bushels of soybeans were produced. Last year's crop totaled 40 000.000 bushels. Increased demand for the beans for food, animal feed and industrial uses coupled with the beans’ immunity to chinch bugs and other pests are the chief reasons for the ; increase. The beans are also drought j resistant. The laboratory will be under the } direction of Dr. O. E. May of the United States Bureau of Chemistry j and Soils. Breeding work will be directed by W. J. Morse of the United States Bureau of Plant Industry. Much of the credit for the present position of the soybean as a major American crop belongs to Mr. Morse, who, a few years ago, spent two years in the Orient in ; a successful hunt for better .varieties of soybean than those then known in this country. Soybeans are used today in the manufacture of many industrial products including paint, enamel, varnish, glue, printing ink, rubber I substitutes, linoleums, insecticides, i and plastics. OTHER OPINION On Temperate Speech (Owen D. Yonnv] The radio transmitter is one of the great central power plants of i public opinion, and public opinion jis the master of- our politics. Yet, : somehow, in the field of politics, I are demanding no greater re- ! sponsibility than in the days of iho 1 fanning milL i

The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say — and. will defend to the death your right to say it’. — Voltaire.

ITimes readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25 0 words nr less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reauest.) WOMAN DISGUSTED BY BARRETT EXECUTION By Mrs. M. A. H. What amazes me is that we can calmly sit back without so much as a protest against this coming execution. The arrangements of borrowing a scaffold, bringing a hangman and three assistants here, putting them up at one of our best hotels, the hangman boasting of his many' executions, keeping souvenirs ol the crime, of deliberately killing a man in the name of justice, are revolting. The whole thing is a disgrace to our “No Mean City.” If these executions must take place, take them to the Federal prison where people know these things take place. To have this thing thrust upon us is an outrage, and I call upon all good citizens to voice their disapproval against this blot upon our fair city. contends Italy *wars IN SELF-DEFENSE By Frank L. Martino Italy is in Ethiopia by right of justifiable self-defense. In discussing the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, it is necessary to take into consideration the reasons by which Italy was obliged to invade Ethiopia. First of* all, it is necessary to bear in mind the fact that Ethiopians invaded, on 90 different occasions, Italian territory in Africa. Italy never has been able to obtain from Ethiopia, in spite of regular treaty (on May 2, 1889), the least co-operation, but instead has met a steady opposition. The Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland nave never enjoyed tranquility on account of continuous raids and attacks. Mussolini

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN COW’S milk, generally, has been found to agree with the tastes and stomachs cf most persons. But cases sometimes turn up in which a child, or an older person, can not tolerate the fluid. For these some substitute must be found, one as nearly equal as possible to cow’s milk in food value. One of these substitutes is goat’s milk. Both have been found quite satisfactory for invalid and infant. Goat’s milk, when properly produced, is an exceedingly valuable food. For many years, it was believed that the milk of the goat was superior to that of the cow, as an infant’s food. This idea probably sprang from the fact that there, was less tuberculosis among goats than among cows. But it is reasonable to believe that, if goats were herded together in stables as cows have been, tuberculosis would spread among them to about the same extent that it appears among cows. Furthermore, the goat suffers more fre-

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then was right In openly saying to the world: “We have had the patience for 50 years, now it is time to end it.” What would you do if your nextdoor neighbor annoyed you daily, now damaging doors and windows, now stealing bruits from your garden and again breaking down your garage cl-or? Certainly you would be paaent for a time, but eventually the necessity would arise to give him a good lesson. This is precisely what Italy and Mussolini are doing. The war in Abyssinia is an absolute necessity for the safety of Italy’s colonies. Therefore, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia is not an “aggression” or an “aggressive” war. but a ‘defensive” war, which is, according to the law of morals and ethics, both allowable and dutiful. a tt a HOME SCHOOL WORK IS ASSAILED By E. Harold Stolkin Today, in our supposedly civilized world, youth is confronted with a new menace—an enemy of better health, more recreation, and stronger bodies. Home work should be abandoned, and in its place a program of more activity substituted. If a system like this were innovated I am certaifl there would be far better results ip our modern system of education. Let us glance at these appalling figures. The average youth spends approximately six hours a day in school. In addition to this he is asigned about four hours a day in actual study. This allows him two hours, which is easily taken up by meals and other necessities. Thus, from lack of outdoor life, many of our students became stoopshouldered and broken down physically. Asa champion of more healthful living, and less torturous hours in the study, I invite comparison on my views.

quently with malta, or undulent, fever than does the cow/ YOU should remember that goat’s milk is not a medicine, but a food. Goat’s milk tends to form a slightly firmer coagulum, or solid, than does cow’s milk. In proportion to its body weight,, the goat produces about twice as much milk as does the cow. Many persons dislike the taste of goat’s milk, but there is no reason for a bad taste if the proper precautions are taken in milking. Soy bean milk, as its name indicates, is a product prepared from the soy bean. It seems to be a satisfactory food in the diet of invalids. It can be furnished at a reasonable price and is gaining importance in nutrition in this country. The soy bean, dried, provides 7% per cent water, 33 per cent protein, 21 per cent fat and 29.6 per cent carbohydrate. It provides 1993 calories to the pound.

miles does continental United States contain? A—Square miles, 3,026,789; acres, 1,937,144,960. Q —What do the initials “I. H. S ” on church insignia stand for? A—They are a contraction of the Greek name for Jesus; also sometimes taken to stand for the Latin words lesus Hominum Salvator, “Jesus the Saviour of Men,” or In hoc signo, “in this sign (shalt thou conquer) Q —W'hat city is the capital of China? A—Nanking. Q —Are both bituminous and anthracite coal mined in Great Britain? A—Yes. I AQ —Where is the Mount Wilson Observatorv 7 A PtLsaripnft. rial a fMautua,, v**.

THINKS ALL SHOULD PAY TAXES By Mrs. M. H Kennedy, Lafayette The editorial in The Times of Mprch 5 entitled “Why Not” seems very timely now the government is asking for more taxes. This editorial should be read by every taxpayer and every taxpayer should do all he or she could to do away with exempt taxation. Why not? The Congress is to be congratulated. It did not grant special exemption to the RFC. There already is a great burden on the willing taxpayer who does not seek exemption. A legislator in the state special session asked for tax exemption of municipal owned utilities. Tax exemption is a racket which cheats the government out of enough money to take care of the Social Security Act, to care for the aged, the blind, crippled and to feed the worthy unemployed, so why exempt taxes for those who can afford to pay them. The Indianapolis Times of March 5, 1936, said in an editorial: “The whole proposition of exemption and favoritism is repugnant to our Republic’s ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities. . . . “More familiar inconsistencies are those that arise from legislation which pressure groups lobby through state legislatures and city councils. A college fraternity may own a mansion exempt from taxation, while a college boarding house next door is subject to taxes. Lodges and churches have their properties taken off the rolls, all of which adds to the tax burden of properties remaining on the rolls.” i I hope the taxpayers not exempt will study this fine lesson given us in The Times. SPRING FLOWERS BY JAMES D. ROTH The Master sends the flowers of spring. To awaken our sense of life, And to atone for winter’s sting, With its cruel pangs and strife. Gay colored petals opening wide, In hues by a master mind, Blossom forth on every side; Our faith in Him they bind. By Him, no promise broken ever, Let’s play our humble parts. Those sacred ties we will not sever, To Him we give our hearts.

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MARCH 21, 1036

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR’S NOTE—This rovint reporter for The Timr* pors where he ple.ne, when he please*. In search of odd stories about this and that. NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-* The evolution of Frans Elom has been a queer one. He was born and reared in Denmark, in an atmosphere of country estates, comfortable wealth, scholarship and art. His evolution carried him out to grinding a filling station pump in Mexico City, and scrambling over mountains on muleback as an oil geologist. From that he sprang into archeology, and today is one of the world's authorities on Mayan culture and all things concerning early Central American civilization. And he is director of Tulane University’s Department* of Middle Research. Frans Blom is not past 40 at the most. He is slight, with a thin sensitive face. His blondish hair is rather long, like an artists’s. and his clothes are not too sharply pressed. His voice is soft, and it can handle six languages perfectly, although he never studied them in books. You would never take him for a scientist, or an adventurer, or a scholar, or a wealthy man—and he is all of these things. He has a beauitful young wife (a Long Islander), an apartment that probably takes second place to none in New Orleans, a Scottie named Peck that gets onto his master's bed and won't let the maid make it up, and lots of friends and a job that many men envy. Yet he is not wholly happy until he unpacks his mule under the tropical sun, 200 miles, from a railroad station, takes his shovel and starts digging.

a a a WE strolled through the museum on the top floor of ono of Tulane's halls. Hideous and beautiful faces, colored and grotesque, stare at you from glass cases. Case after case of images. And pottery that would drive a collector crazy. And old wooden war drums, and . . . what's this? I was staring into the wide open mouth of a skull. It had dirt all over it, and imbedded in the dirt in its mouth was a green ball, like a marble. ‘ That’s a Mayan skull.” Blom sSid, "and that’s a piece of ,iade. We dug it up down there. When the Mayans buried a man. they'd fill his mouth full of corn and precious stones, so he'd have food and money in the hereafter. Notice his teeth, too.” Three of his front teeth had bright green jade fillings. "Now we'll show you our treasures,” Blom said. He and an assistant brought out some strongboxes, and unlocked them. Then they showed me the ever made for white man on the American continent. They were written in ink, page after page of them, and at the bottom was the signature of Hernando Cortez. The date was early in the 1500s. It is claimed that this manuscript is the most important single document in the legal history of the Western Hemisphere. Then they showed me a letter of Cortez', in his own hand, written to a friend in Cuba, telling him of the glories of this new land of Montezuma, and inviting him over. u u tt FRANS BLOM made his first trip from the Old World in 1919. He went to Mexico with a British oil company. He has been an habitue of Central American ever since. For 17 years he has been there more than anywhere else. You couldn’t say he makes trips to Mexico, he makes trips from Mexico. For a while he was chief archeologist for the Mexican government. Then he was in charge of the Carnegie Foundation’s work in Guatemala. Ten vears ago he came with Tulane. Most of the 10 years he has spent in boots and sombrero out in the wilds, digging. And he has built Tulane’s Middle American museum from two casqs to the finest in the United States. DAILY THOUGHT I have shewed you many things, how that so labouring ye ought to support -the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.—The Acts 20:35. BE charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.—Jouberf.

By George Clark