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THURSDAY, MARCH 26. 1936

THE NEED INCREASES JNDIANAPOLIS, giving generously and promptly, today is near the SIB,OOO goal sought by the Red Cross chapter here in the nation-wide drive for $3,000,000 for flood sufferers. But the continued ravages of floods have increased the number of victims tc 360,000. Early estimates fall far short of meeting the needs. Red Cross chapters assigned new quotas. Indianapolis is asked to raise $24,000. Although the tragedy of wrecked h-mes, devastated farm lands and ruined businesses has not been impressed first-hand upon us, as it has upon Pittsburgh, Hartford, Wheeling and other cities, Indianapolis has shown no disposition to regard this crisis as the ‘'other fellow’s problem.” it didn't happen to is but it might. The people of Indianapolis are to be commended for their enthusiastic and unselfish response to the call for help. A DAINTY NAVAL TREATY is small comfort in the new United States-British-French naval treaty. There is some, but much more in the separate Anglo-Ameri-can agreement to maintain the two great navies at parity. Yet, with the world as hysterical as it is today amid the tub-thumpings of nationalist demagogs, it is at least some consolation to know that three powers can get together in even a limited attempt to head off a world naval armament race, and that the two great English-speaking powers can agree that they at least will refrain from trying to outbuild each other. The three-cornered pact, to which Italy and Japan also will be asked to subscribe, places no limit whatever on the size of any navy. But it does provide for a mutual exchange of information on fleet-building programs. This should help mitigate fears and suspicions. And it does provide limits to the caliber of guns and the maximum tonnage of vessels by types. But that would be a dead letter should some non-signer alarm the world by building a larger vessel with more powerful armament. Nothing in this treaty, so far as we can see, would stop the United States from adequately protecting her interests. Yet experience warns us to anticipate that the treaty will be kicked around considerably in the Senate before it is ratified. Some Senators seem to think any treaty an evil, and that any limitation on spending more and more money to build bigger ships and more deadly guns is somehow un-Ameri-can, regardless of whether we need larger ships and guns. Nor is there anything which we can see in the treaty that would possibly hamstring any other power. And it is to be sincerely hoped that Japan and Italy will join in the agreement. For Japan's failure to do so would be a standing invitation to the United States to resort to the treaty's escape clauses, just as Italy’s failure would likely lead England to ask that all restrictions be lifted. In fact the lack of limitations on the naval building ambitions of the world is the principal shortcoming of the treaty—the thing which makes it a poor substitute for the Washington Pact of 1922 and the London Pact of 1930. All ratios are abandoned, and they only limit to the number of ships and guns that can be built and the amount of money that can be spent is the discretion of the world’s rulers and the financial resources of the respective powers. Which makes very bad news indeed for the world’s taxpayers. BOLTS AND NUTS MOST machines are held together because of bolts and nuts. But it looks as though the Republican and Democratic Parties will hold together in spite of them—at least for a while. SHELTER FOR ALL WE do not recall that the bashing in of a radical's head, the arrest of a soap-box orator or a pick-ax raid of vigilantes ever caused William Randolph Hearst or John Henry Kirby or Silas Strawn to get excited about the bill of rights. To the contrary, they run with the crowd which cries “anarchy” or “Communism” or “revolution” whenever the American Civil Liberties Union defends a street corner haranguer or a peaceful picketer, or when it protests improper use of armed militia. Asa consequence the tar of radicalism has been pretty well smeared over the Civil Liberties Union, because in the last few years it has had to devote most of its time to defending political minority groups and the economically underprivileged. And now that these gentlemen are on the short end of a civil rights squabble with the Senate Lobby Committee, they must be surprised, not to say embarrassed. at finding their cause stoutly championed by the Civil Liberties Union. a a a TT is the practice of the ACLU to strike out at ■*- tyranny whether it crops up in Scottsboro or San Simeon. This is something many reactionaries have never been able to understand. Ana apparently it is something which many short-sighted liberals also are unable to understand. For many who have stood by the ACLU through its battles for “the underdog” now bitterly criticise the union for applying the same principles in defending "that other crowd." “Our business is to defend civil rights, not to examine the philosophies of those whose rights are violated,” says Roger Baldwin, director of the union. And he adds wise words of caution to those whose ■“approval of the objects of the Lobby Committee’s inquiry blind them to the fact that if this procedure stands as a precedent it can be turned equally against other lobbying activities.” •‘lmagine,” he says, “a blanket subpena issued for all telegrams sent or received by the liberal magaancs. the minority political parties, progressive and religious organizations active in legislation. Imagine further that all their communications on every conceivable subject were in the hands of a governmental committee, without opportunity to contest the examination of irrelevant communications, to protect their rights by court action, or to guard themselves against the wilful misconstruction that naturally is placed on material in the hands of one’s opponent.when one does not have the opportunity S'

of offering an explanation. We venture to say that the outcry would be greatest from the very quarters which now support the Senate committee’s procedure. ‘ So far as the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned, it makes no difference whether the shoe is on one foot or the other. Either way it fits us. Once this precedent gets established, there is no limit to any means taken by a governmental agency to get information. It justifies blanket subpenas. It justifies wire-tapping. It justifies any kind of unreasonable ‘search and seizure.’ The whole procedure indicates impatience with democratic processes,, which are admittedly slow and often inefficient, but on the whole always safest.” a * a 'T'HIS is good clear logic, in support of the equal- -*■ ly clear guarantee of fundamental human rights contained in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which article all of us—including Messrs. Hearst, Kirby and Strawn, and Lobby Senators Black. Schwellenbach, Minton, Frazier and Gibson, and all partisan reactionaries and all partisan liberals—might well reread occasionally. Here it is: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” LANDON IN OHIO T ANDON-FOR-PRESIDENT managers in Ohio are seeking to match Senator Borah’s appeal to liberalism. They are preparing to picture Gov. Landon as a candidate whose views are as progressive as those of Idaho’s lone lion, and to combat the talk that the Kansan is bass-controlled and servile to financial Interests in the East. W. J. Williams, Landon leader in northeastern Ohio and a candidate for delegate against Borah on the “favorite son” ticket in Youngstown, gave an indication of the strategy with a statement that Landon could subscribe to the platform laid down by Senator Borah in his Youngstown address last week. Between the two “equally liberal” contenders, Landon is “more available” because he is younger and better equipped in administrative experience, Williams said. The primary contest, to be decided May 12, contains both favorable elements and handicaps to Borah’s fight against the instructed delegation program of State Chairman Ed D. Schorr and National Committeeman Walter F. Brown. In Borah’s favor is the fact that he is the only avowed candidate whose name appears on the ballot. The opposition slate is pledged to Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati, to comply with the state law. Thus the voters have the choice between an actual candidate and a stalking horse. Most of the delegates, however, are favorable to Landon or one of the other actual candidates and are preparing to campaign on that basis, so Borah is in the position of fighting the field. Williams, for example, has announced that if elected he will vote for Landon “to the end” after casting his first complimentary vote for Taft. Speculation on the number of delegates Borah can win ranges from 10 to 25. He has 42 candidates in the field out of the 52 to be elected, as against a full machine slate. The delegate-at-large vote is counted on to indicate most closely the Borah strength, but most observers believe the personalities of the at-large delegates themselves will swing the result. Leading Borah’s ticket are former Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch, former City Manager Daniel E. Morgan of Cleveland, and John S. Knight, Akron publisher. On the opposing slate are such names as ex-Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Walter F. Brown. The anti-Borah forces are overlooking no technicalities and have served notice of contest against the Idahoan’s delegates in Cleveland and Cincinnati, charging nonresidence, lack of sufficient signatures on petitions, and improper use of a nickname. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson WE are just recovering from a Shrine convention. Tall thin men, short pudgy men, baldheaded and bowlegged men, marched through the streets dressed in the most ridiculous regalia. In a dry state they drank enough liquor to float a battleship. You couldn’t get into the hotels for their massed presence. Once in, you couldn’t stay there, because of the dreadful din. They shot off fake bombs; they popped trick doo-dads into each other’s faces; they tied ropes around their legs and became imitation members of a chain gang. It is interesting to muse upon the desire of grown men for such tomfoolery. I daresay it means they are so full of inhibitions and so lacking in real freedom they must go on periodic sprees or burst. Anyway, it’s heartbreaking to watch them. They are so sure they are having a good time, and most of them look miserable. Perhaps they parade in order to feel important. Maybe they get drunk to forget, and certainly they must disguise their antics with mystic symbolism and secret oaths, so that their dignity may be maintained. Poor little-boy men! One watches them reverting to the sport of childhood with certain misgivings, since it is so obvious their youthful fervors must have been suppressed in some way. That they could possibly take all this seriously is almost incredible. Would women, I wonder, be happier if they could cast off adulthood in such a fashion? We can’t do it, you know. Somehow the Lord didn’t give us the knack. So we can only gaze in surprise at the pompous rituals and the nonsense which engages the attention and time oj. so many men. HEARD IN CONGRESS p EP. WOODRUM CD., Va.): Now, 1 sympathize I'- with you gentlemen on the minority; that wrecking song you are singing is getting weaker and weaker, i Laughter.) It is going ’round and ’round, and every time it comes out it is weaker. While you are hollering about it, every time we pick up a newspaper ve find that business is improving. The only thing in depression now is red ink. Rep. Gifford (R., Mass.): I would like to have the gentleman from Virginia make that speech in my congressional district. . . . Did the gentleman read the index report last Sunday? Rep. Woodrum: I have the index report here from Boston on March 17. Rep. Gifford: That is the day that you see snakes. (Laughter.) a a a OENATOR COPELAND (D., N. Y.): God was |i id enough to grant a great boon to me. I hav a boy. So far as my ability permitted, I gave him all the privileges of education possible. He was in the R. O. T. C. at his university for four years. He was sufficiently competent so that he became second in command, and also went to Plattsburg. I am here to say that, in my opinion, the finest thing that ever happened to that boy ws his experience in the R. O. T. V- ▼

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A LADY on a party line wanted to call a neighbor. Every time she dialed the neighbor's number, she got a busy signal. She became determined to find some single second that the line wasn’t busy, and she dialed chain fashion. No dice. Always busy. Pretty soon an operator interrupted, asking what number she wanted. She told the operator. The operator worked and worked, and found the line always busy. They decided to give up. In a moment the phone rang. A supervising operator asked the woman if she had been trying to get a party on her own line. Then it dawned on the woman that the phone she was trying to get was, indeed, on her own party line. She said yes. a a a WELL,” said the operator ‘don’t you know that to get a phone on your party line all you do is dial 11929 and hang up?” “And see what happens?” the woman thought. But she replied with some humor to the operator: “I guess it would be easier to run down two doors than to go through all that.” There was a short, dignified silence. Then the operator said: “Well, all you do is dial 11929 and then hang up.” a a a A FRIEND of mine was in a taxicab the other night that bumped into another car and nearly scared the wits out of him. He wasn’t hurt much, but he was interested in the argument that followed. The cab driver appeared a little bored. The car owner was excited. When they arrived at exactly no place in their efforts to settle who was responsible, the car owner mentioned calling a cop. The cab driver waved him aside. “There ain’t no use of calling cops,” he said with an air of authority. “All they tell you is that they ain’t the judge.” No cop was called, either. a a a A FELLOW who goes with the sister of a girl from Bloomfield had a great time telling me this, but warned me not to breathe it to a soul. It seems the girl and a girl friend came to Indianapolis for the first time the other day and they were walking at Pennsylvania and Wash-ington-sts. They had the right of way to cross the street until they got to the very curb. Then the policeman blew his whistle, the flirt, and beckoned the girls to him. They went, and he seemed to be astounded. All he had done was to wave traffic the other way. Don’t tell any one: it might get back. TODAY’S SCIENCE I BY DAVID DIETZ THE desire of nations for selfsufficiency in a world that has become strongly nationalistic and highly competitive may lead to the large-scale production of synthetic rubber. Under the circumstances, the synthetic product may win a substantial share of the market even though it is more costly. This is the opinion expressed by Dr. E. R. Bridgwater of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Cos. in a report to the American Chemical Society. A synthetic rubber industry has arisen in both the United States and Soviet Russia, he says, while it is reported thst the material is being produced upon a small scale in Germany. “It is reported that a substantial tonnage of synthetic rubber is today being made in Russia from butadiene, produced by the high-tem-perature cracking of ethyl alcohol,” Dr. Bridgewater says. “I have been unable to obtain samples of this synthetic rubber for test but it appears from Russian publications that those in charge of the plants which consume it, chiefly boot and shoe factories, do not believe it to be the equal of natural rubber.” No information of the cost of the Russian synthetic rubber is available, says Dr. Bridgewater, adding that “it seems obvious from the yield figures quoted and from statistics on the number of workers engaged in the industry that the cost of the product is many times greater than the cost of natural rubber.” In the United States, the du Pont Company is now producting on a commercial scale the synthetic rubber known as duprene. OTHER OPINION On Farm Problem [Ben Marsh, Secretary of the People's Lobby]. Agriculture probably has as much water in its capitalization as Vincent Astor’s holdings, and the Administration is failing because it is soaking consumers to pay returns on watered stocks, urban and rural, and on mortgages. The selling price of farm lands increased about $25,000,000,000 in a generation. During the present fiscal year this Administration is bribing farm land owners to vote Democratic to the tune of about one billion dollars, largely paid by taxes on consumers, to. keep up prices of farm products to consumers, and profits to processors. American farmers are the ablest; in the world—they have ruined a continent or good farms in a generation, and the Triple A is a dishonest scheme to make consumers foot most of the bills for land owners who have stolen soil fertility for profit, while sacrificing sharecroppers and tenants to landlords'

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(Times readers are invited to express ttiexr views in these columns, relipious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so alt can have u chance. Lintit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on renuest.) ana WANTS MORE BROUN AND LESS FISH By James C. Barnett In an article in The Forum recently by Rep. Hamilton Fish in reply to Heywood Broun it seems to me that he has emulated the water animal that bears his surname, by taking the bait, hook, line, sinker and all, swallowing it and behaving just like Heywood predicted. He devotes just so much time to the issue under discussion that he digresses and does a little “Borah-ing” from within. He did this in his radio reply to Comrade Browder. Like most present day politicians, Rep. Fish throws the words “Socialist and Communist” around so indiscriminately that the words have lost their meaning. Nowadays when a politician calls another politician a Socialist or a Communist we know that he simply doesn’t like him. The words have become synonymous in the political dictionary with “enemy.” Meanwhile let’s have more Heywood Broun. Whatever his pay is, he deserves it. a a a PLEADS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF HOMESTEAD FLAN By M. E. Greenhouse Recent news items concerning taxation and real estate seem to indicate that the government’s plans to develop subsistence homesteads are about to be abandoned. This I believe will be one of the greatest mistakes our government can make. If trusted friends, through legalized mistakes, have taken practically all our sustance...and overcrowded our cities with victimized investors and unemployed, then our only remedy is to legalize a tempor-

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN TCE CREAM is one of the best foods you can eat in both summer and winter. The ordinary commercial variety provides 12 per cent of fat, 14 to 15 per cent of sugar, and from 9 to 11 per cent of milk solids that art not fat. Not so long ago, however, ice cream frequently was the source of epidemics, due to poor sanitation of the milk from which it was prepared, or of the ice cream itself. Today it is well controlled. Yet even now you should eat only ice cream that has been prepared under the most sanitary conditions and from ingredients that are clean and pure. In preparation of this delicacy, everything used must be sterilized by stea i or heat, and such added ingredi, its as nuts, fruits, colors and flavoring materials must also

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Inclose m 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau. 10X3 13thst, N. W., Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q—Who wrote the song “Yip-I----addy-i-ay,” and when and by whom was it published. A—lt was published by Will D. Cobb, New York, in 1908; the wo:ds are by Cobb, and music by John H. Flynn. Q—What proportion of the people of the United States have had a college education? A—The United States Office of Education in 1932 estimated that out of every 1000 adults 21 years of age and over 25 had a college education. The estimated number of collage graduates in the United States was 1,900,000.

PARDONABLE CURIOSITY!

ary form of arbitration to adjust all difficulties and by the development from coast to coast of house and garden communities with work shops, amusements, etc., where millions of unemployed would be glad to settle and find anew form of security. The opportunity now existing to reclaim and conserve both city and country real estate is exceptional, if properly handled. In short, if wisdom stands for mutual trust (fair play) and resistance to the abuse of trust, then everything else under any name is stupidity and suffering. If I were a priest or a minister, instead of scolding, I would write parables to make trusted friends consciousstricken. a a a SHYSTER LAWYERS HIT BY MICHIGAN By G. W. L. The problem of the shyster lawyer has long confronted the American bar. From time to time efforts have been launched to outlaw this outlaw type of attorney, but for the most part the accomplishments have been negligible. It is, therefore, refreshing to observe that the state of Michigan has put into practice in its newly integrated state bar, a weapon apparently adequate to clean up the shyster. In a word, the Michigan integrated bar provides that any person may enter a complaint against an attorney to any member of the bar. From that point the complaint is handled through grievance committees, and finally, if the charge has grounds, the attorney is tried publicly before three circuit judges appointed by the state presiding judge. If found guilty of a breach of ethics, punishment for the attorney may range to permanent disbarment. Bandied about for many years by the Michigan Legislature, the new measure is described by the state

be known to be free from large numbers of germs. a a a THE ordinary ingredients include cream, milk, condensed milk, skimmed milk, gelatin, and similar substances. All these must be of known quality as to the nature and number of bacteria they contain, and only those materials certified as to a low bacterial count should be used in making the ice cream. Even then, the delicacy is not safe for eating unless it reaches you in the original package. In fact, it is best to buy only ice cream that comes in sealed packages, rather than in bulk, for when it is ladled out and transferred from a large to a small container by a person who might be careless in hygiene, there is great likelihood that you or others who eat the ice cream may become

Q—ls Katharine Cornell an American; where was she educated; where did she make her stage debut; is she married? A—She was born of American parents at Beilin, Germany, Feb. 16, 1898, and was educated at Oakasmert. Mamaroneck, N. Y.; married Guthrie MtClintic of New York City, Sept, f., 1921. She made her debut with the Washington Square Players in New York City in 1917. Q —What was the date of the plane crash in which Knute Rockne was killed; how many others were killed; who were the pilots? A—Rockne and seven other persons were killed March 31, 1931, when a 10-passenger Transcontinental & Western Aix*ways plane crashed into a pasture in the Flint Hills cattle country, near the town of Bazaar in southeastern Kansas. The plane’s P#otS were Robert Frye and Jess Mathias,

bar as providing “nearest approach to a politically free system” possible under American law. a a a WOMAN RECALLS HONORS OF EARLY FLOOD By Mrs. Fletcher Smith, Shclbyville I saw in my Times of March 18 that Mrs. Frank Shafer served coffee to the victims of the horrors of the Johnstown flood. L well remember that time. I lived in Fairland, Ind. A call came in from the Red Cross for bread. We formed a committee and sent out a call for flour. It was furnished by the millers. The Fairland butchers furnished the lard, the stores the baking powder. We did not use milk as they said it would not keep. We baked the bread in big squares and then wrapped it in white ppper. We baked as long as the flood lasted. To my best knowledge I am the only one left of that committee. This was our part to help out on the great horror of the flood. LIVING BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL Let me consume myself before I die; Use every ounce of my ability Such as it is and let me laugh and cry, And love and hate with no docility. Let me use up myself, love all I do, Feel deeply all emotions, work and play With all my strength, for then when I am through I’ll know I’ve lived in full, each hour and day. DAILY THOUGHT He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.—Ecclesiastes 3:11. T WOULD fain know all that I I need, and all that I may. I leave God’s secrets to himself. It is happy for me that God makes me of his court, and not of his council.—Bishop Hall.

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MARCH 26, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE FIXE

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Mardi Gras; that it costs $750 a day to run the average-sized freight ship; that people in shrimp canneries work from 4 in the morning till 6 and later at night; that Natchitoches in Louisiana is pronounced “Nackitosh.” a a a A ND as a roving reporter I have •**-seensome wonderful things—tr.e long, soft shadows of the Arizona cactus under a desert moonlight; the awful panic in the eyes of people running before a Canadian forest fire; the slow rising of the Southern Cross into the vast tropical sky as you see it from a freighter at sea; the deep preoccupation on the faces of men and women at the gambling tables in Las Vegas Nev.; the amazing speed with which a jumble of tin and steel becomes an auto in Detroit; and the amazing speed with which an auto from Detroit becomes a jumble of tin and steel on a slick, snowy road in North Carolina. In 27,000 miles of driving in one year, I have had only one flat tire. Picked up a nail in Louisiana. Only in one place (on the Gaspe peninsula in eastern Quebec) have I had to go into low gear to get up a hill. I have paid from 12 to 35 cents for gasoline. I have run out of gas twice, and both times it had apparently been syphoned out by thieves, and neither time did I have to walk for gas. Seldom do I go more than 50 miles an hour any more. I almost never drive at night. Some days 1 go only 25 miles. Other days 300. I have never been stopped by a cop. I have driven through a blizzard in southern Mississippi and a dust storm in Nova Scotia. a a a I HAVE never left anything in a hotel room, except one toothbrush. I have had good hotel rooms for 75 cents, and bad ones for $5. In the back country I have seen pigs hitched to little wagons, hauling wood. And men and women hitched to plow’s. I have eaten papayas, and cactus candy, and enchilladas, and oranges right off the trees. I have seen (but not eaten) canned rattlesnake meat. Once in Maine I rounded up half a dozen stories in less than two hours. Another time, in Washington, I worked a whole week on one story. Sometimes I can write a story in half an hour. Other times, when I am out of the mood. I start a story and never do get it finished. Roving has taught me that people in general are good. Once I stopped at a house in a little village in northwest Florida to ask the direction, and they invited me to stay for lunch. Once, standing high on the precipitous bank of the St. Lawrence River, I talked for 10 minutes with a native, and he spoke in French and I in English and neither of us knew a word the other said, but we understood. Once I spent two hours at an abandoned gold mine on a mountain in Arizona, talking with the old watchman who lived alone with his dog. In Ottawa I stood on the sidewalk and chatted with the Premier of Canada for 15 minutes. In Minnesota I picked up the same hitch-hiker four times in one day. How do I find things to write about? Well, some things by design, some by accident. In a strange town, I go to the local newspaper, or the police chief, or a doctor, and they tell me the most interesting people in town. Then Igo talk with the people. a a a NOBODY has ever refused to talk with me. Only one man has ever refused to let me write about him, and even he was friendly and we talked for an hour. There have been many stories I couldn’t write. One was the time I went with a doctor far back into the mountains, to an old log cabin, to see a dying old man. He lay there in his bed like a movie mountaineer, with his shotgun standing at-his bedside. When I came in, he raised on his deathbed and held out his feeble hand, and in a whisper welcomed me to his home. It made a lump in my throat, but I couldn’t write about it. There are times when the life of a roving reporter is so thankless and bare that you feel you would rather dig potatoes for a living; but at times such as now, when you sit down and start remembering the things you have done, and seen, and especially the things you have felt—then you know you want to keep going on.

ByGeorg-e Clark