Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1936 — Page 13
Liberal Side by HARRY ELMER BARNES (Batting for Heywood Broun) r pHIS is a critical time with the teaching profession. Reactionary pressure groups are converging upon the teachers and demanding that they abandon their quest for truth and submit in docile fashion to the intimidation of professional patriots and plutocratic interests. It is gratifying to note important signs that the teachers do not propose to take these attacks
lying down. They are arching their backs and returning to the assault. Since they are credited with possessing the organized intelligence of the nation, it has occurred to some of them that they should justify this reputation and employ their knowledge and wits. Hartley Grattan has made a comprehensive survey of the situation with respect to academic freedom in three of the main battlegrounds of the conflict, and publishes his results in the “Survey Graphic.” He examines in detail the situation at the Mellon
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Cathedral of Learning at Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin, which has been kept in the vanguard of liberalism by the La Follette family, and the University of Chicago, where the skillful young president. Robert Hutchins, was able to put to ignominous rout the Walgreen-Hearst onslaught of last year. Mr. Grattan concludes that we are now in the midst of “the most comprehensive, intensive and sustained attack upon academic freedom for many generations." tt tt tt On the Social Science Baltlefront IN the old days, the question of academic liberty turned about issues of religion, the teaching of evolution and like problems. Today the battle rages around the social sciences which are concerned with Jthe nature and future of our social, economic and political institutions: “The situation of the social scientist is the crux of the present campaign of repression. What is now feared is not an attack upon religious verities, nor upon myths about the physical origin of man, but an attack upon the economic order which augurs revolution. The fears such a revolution inspires, even when its nature is but dimly understood, are already abroad. They are expressed in a desire to prohibit study of the economic, social and political bases of American society in the hope that by stifling criticism, those foundations will weather the prospective storm.” In their most progressive journal, the Social Frontier, the teachers carry the battle into the enemy's territory. Practically an entire issue is devoted to the subject of “Freedom in the School,” to which more than a dozen of our most eminent educators contribute. tt tt tt Strategy for Victory PROF. JESSE F. NEWLON outlines the strategy which must be followed if the teachers are to win and repel the reactionaries: (1) The teachers must be made to realize the critical nature of the present onslaught; (2) there must be a vigorous organization for the local defense of intimidated teachers; (3) teachers must realize their responsibility and refrain from half-baked declarations; (4) the teachers must be organized in a militant and inclusive federation; (5) the public must be brought into the situation and made to see how its interests are involved in the freedom of teaching, and (6) the relation of the issue of academic freedom to that of social change must be made clear to teachers and public alike. Only education can prevent social change from being violent and wasteful. We may agree with Mr. Grattan’s conclusion that democracy and the freedom of teaching are inseparably connected: “Professors do not need the right to do and say specific things. It is the right to study and announce considered opinions about all matters which fall within their science, and to announce those opinions not only in the classroom and in scholarly journals, but also from public platforms and in journals of general circulation. The responsibilities of the learned, in a democracy, are not to other learned folk alone, but to the people, for without the widespread diffusion of knowledge democracy will perish.” •
Gov. Landor/s Ideas Parallel Roosevelts BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, April 21.—Whereas President Roosevelt is being criticised for talking too much, Gov. Landon of Kansas is getting it because he does not choose to talk at all. Complaints about the loud silence at Topeka have become so persistent that the Governor's friends have undertaken to deal with it in two ways. They are sa Ing that after he is nominated he will talk his heid off until election day. Secondly, they are digging up the many things he did say before he became such a favorite for the Republican nomination and swallowed himself up in the prairie silence. This latter activity disclosed a curious political phenomenon. From the beginning of time, the first rule of politics has been that when you want to hang something on a candidate, you dig up his old speeches. Generally speaking it is a good rule. Nothing looks so ridiculous as one of a candidate's last year’s speeches. Some of the Republican National Committee's most humorous literature consists of a simple reprint of speeches Roosevelt made while he was Governor of New York. But in the case of Landon it is his friends, not his critics, who are digging up his old speeches. They go better than if he delivered them now because he made them before even he suspected there was a chance at the presidency. a a a ONE which Gov. Landon made on Nov. 3, 1934, just before he was re-elected Governor for his second term, sounds almost like a New Dealer—in a cautious mood. In spots it almost parallels Roosevelt’s recent Baltimore speech, which is why this particular speech happened to be dug out. . A few days ago President Roosevelt urged that the working span be limited to those between 18 and 65 years of age. In 1934, Gov. Landon said: “A broad old-age pension plan offers relief for the aged and also a distinct help in combating unemployment. With such a pension plan removing many aged persons from the labor ranks at one end and national child labor legislation keeping children out of certain employment at the other, opportunities should be improved to the great mass of American labor.” Here's another quotation for those who are enraged over Roosevelt's suggestion that something in place of NRA ought to be set up: “The real solution (for unemployment) is not one of relief but lies in securing for every worker a job at fair and just wages. Steps in this direction must be made through the co-operation of business, industry and government.” After the Cleveland convention nominates him, either Gov. Landon or a good many Republicans are going to have to eat their own words. a a a ANOTHER and less astute bit of technique is used by one presidential candidate, Robert Taft, Ohio Republican favorite son. When he was in Washington a few days ago. a newspaper reporter, attempting to verify a report, called the Taft home here and son Robert returned his reply through his mother's housemaid. Yet, he probably complains that newspapers don’t get their facts straight. The inside trouble in the new Republican National Committee's brain trust is due to the fact that Chairman Fletcher didn’t know it was loaded. One of the professors, Niles Carpenter, turned out to be a. left-winger. He worked with Socialists in Buffalo, and was active in the League for Indu&Rgal Democracy there.
‘WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME’
Candidates in County Treasurers Race Explain Bid for Support
Republican and Democratic Contestants in May 5 Primary Make Statements to Indianapolis Times Readers. S NOTE: The Indianapolis Times has invited all the candidates in the primary election contests for county treasurer, sheriff, prosecutor and First District county commissioner in Marion County, and for Representative in Congress from the Eleventh and Twelfth Districts, to make campaign statements. Responses received from candidates for county treasurer, in alphabetical order, are printed herewith. Responses from candidates in other races will follow. tt tt it
FRANK CONES Republican, for Marion County Treasurer. (Born in Washington Township, Marion County, Sept. 25, 1872; Realtor. Served as member of Marion County Council, 1926 to 1930.) EVERY person seeking a public office should possess the qualifications necessary to fill that office. He should appreciate the honor incident to the office as well as the salary received. The treasurer’s duties primarily have to do with finances, real estate and taxation. For the last 31 years. I havs been engaged in the real estate ar.d finance business in IndianapolL. I have assisted thousands to becoi-ie home owners. My experience and dealings in real estate and financing real estate properties have been extensive. The work that is required of the treasurer of Marion County is similar in many respects to the work I have been engaged in all my life. While the treasurer • does not fix the value of real estate or personal property for taxation purposes and does not determine the tax rate, yet the treasurer can and should be a strong moral force in keeping the taxpayers’ burden at a minimum consistent with good government and assuring the taxpayers 100 per cent return on every dollar of tax money expended. Should I be nominated and elected to this office I will promise to be on the job every day in person looking after their interests. I propose also to appoint experienced deputies capable of handling the affairs of the office and to treat the public with courtesy ?nd respect. In 1932, when I was the Republi-
Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
117ASHINGTON, April 21.—1f ’’Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas is pitted against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in November's presidential derby, the country will witness a race between two men closely matched in personal attributes. Like the Democratic President, the slightly younger Kansas Governor has a highly attractive and winning personality. Characteristic of his Midwestern background, Landon’s charm is more homey. He lacks the accent, the polished manner of Groton and Harvard. But his innate friendliness and liking for people is genuine and real. Hardboiled newsmen who have journeyed to Topeka to “give him the once over” have come away bubbling with enthusiasm about the personality of the man. a a a A S a vote-getter and political strategist, Landon has demonstrated that he also is there. His accomplishments in Kansas’ strife-ridden political cockpit are impressive. Four years out of law school, he organized his county for Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose sortie —and carried it. In 1928 he managed the success-
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can nominee for this office, I joined in a movement before the Indiana Legislature that resulted in enacting a law that abolished the fee system and put this office on a straight salary basis. This law has ; saved the taxpayers of Marion County to date over SIOO,OOO. There are other savings in connection with this office that can and must be made. tt h CAL E. HOUSE Republican, for County Treasurer. (Born in Hamilton County, Indiana, in 1880; realtor; no previous public office.) IWAS educated in Hamilton County schools. I have been a farmer and general merchant. I have been a resident of Indianapolis 32 years. I am married and have one son. I am a member of the Methodist Church, Marion Lodge No. 35 and other Masonic bodies. I am a candidate for Republican nomination for county treasurer, and in 1934 was nominee for Center Township trustee. I believe the office of ebunty treasurer is a business institution that should be operated on strictly business standards in the interests of the citizens. My previous experience in business would prove very beneficial in the administration of this office and if I am nominated and elected county treasurer the taxpayers of Marion County will benefit by my good judgment, efficiency and economy in har.dling public finances. tt tt tt FRANK E. M’KINNEY Democrat, for re-election, Marion County Treasurer. (Born in Indianapolis June 16, 1904; in banking business since
ful campaign of Gov. Clyde Reed. In 1932 he performed the double miracle of unifying the fiercely warring G. O. P. factions, and with this united front support defeated a popular Democratic Governor despite the Roosevelt landslide. Two years later, again notwithstanding a New Deal tidal wave, he not only repeated the performance, but was re-elected by a greatly increased majority. a a a IN one important personal aspect Landon is distinctly inferior to Roosevelt. He is not an effective public speaker. But when it comes to personal contact with individuals, Landon is a master of the craft. In Kansas it is said he knows more voters personally than any politician since the late Vice President Charles Curtis. On the rostrum and over the air, Landon is a limping figure. Physically, he makes a good appearance. His face is friendly and firm; his chin well-molded, his figure sturdy and about middle height. But when it is time for forensics he bogs down. By temperament Landon is not the orator type. The moment he rises to his feet his speech becomes stilted and faltering. Also his Midwestern nasal twang lack's timbre and carrying power, a
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deficiency which the radio accentuates. In contrast to Roosevelt's rich, full voice, Landon’s sounds flat and rasping. For a national campaign in which radio plays a leading role, this is a considerable handicap. a a a T>UT in certain other attributes he has a lot in common with Franklin Roosevelt. He has, for instance, Roosevelt’s knack of getting along with his Legislature. He doesn’t believe in waving the Big Stick like Teddy Roosevelt, or in issuing mimeographed warnings like Hoover. He gets what he wants, but he gets it through flattery, personal contact and adroit politics. a a a npHE ballyhoo that Landon is a Kansas Coolidge is pure myth —regarding both his budget and his temperament. Landon has anything but the slow, cautious character of Calvin Coolidge. All his life he has been an oil man, a gambler. On occasion he has thrown his fortune into an oil field, and on top of that his shirt. Personally he spends with a free hand. At a party he is one of the first to reach for the bill. As Governor of Kansas, Landon has been a strict economizer, but it is an inescapable fact that without Federal relief remittances and AAA crop payments, any balancing of the Kansas budget would have been impossible. Even so, the state budget was balanced at the expense of closing many Kansas schools and putting a severe drain on municipalities. a a a thing which worries Landon is the problem of getting across to the great mass of voters the fact that he is more liberal than the powerful Eastern interests and Old Guard leaders who are falling over themselves to get aboard his bandwagon. Landon is no Senator George Norris. But he is far more progressive than 95 per cent of his backers. After spending several days with Landon, Raymond Cram Swing, political writer for the New York Nation, remarked: “The views he expressed to me are so liberal I don’t dare write them. I’m afraid that if the fat boys who are backing him really knew what he thinks, they would get cold feet.” a a a TT IS a fact that many of Landon's ideas are close to the New Deal policies of the man he is fighting. For instance, he is strong for old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. He pushed through an amendment to the Kansas constitution permitting a graduated income tax. Also he passed his own Holding Corporation Bill to force the big utilities to pay the cost of having themselves investigated. And he has fought most of his life against the big oil companies. OopAisbt, 1936. by United Peaiuri Syndicate. Xnc.>
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you, Mr. and Mrs. Voter, why I think you should vote for me, so here it is: I am thoroughly familiar with the detailed accounting and bookkeeping work of the office through my training as a banker. lam qualified for the job. I have been serving you as treasurer for only a little more than three months of my first term of two years. I have inaugurated several improvements in the office
New Left Swing Expected in Crucial French Vote
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor PARIS, April 21.—The French nationa.’ elections scheduled for this Sunday and on May 3 are likely to be the most significant in the history of the Third Republic. The issues are momentous. Communism and Fascism will stage the biggest and bitterest battle this country has yet seen. And Germany’s coup in the Rhineland will play an important part. A swing still further to the left is expected, thanks to the “Front Populaire’’ Common Front —a coalition of virtually all the groups and parties from center to, and including, the Communists. Two factors, however, will militate to a certain extent against the Common Front. One is the new danger which the French people scent very keenly from across the Rhine. The other is “the horrible example” set by their neighbor, Spain. Spain “is doomed to be a second Russia,” a high-placed Spaniard here told me. “It is just a question of time before revolution breaks out in earnest there, a revolution very similar to that which devastated Russia. It will end in a Red dictatorship.” It was the “Frente Popular” or Common Front which worked together in Spain’s last elections that led to the present chaos in that country. France fears something similar may happen to her. On the surface, the program of the “Front Populaire” does not seem extreme. It calls for the
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which will lead to the payment of all taxes by mail. This will save you the bother and trouble of coming to the Courthouse. If you approve the changes I am making, I want you to thank me with votes. In the short period of three months it is impossible to establish completely a record to place before you. A treasurer is in office only a few weeks before he is forced to ask support of voters for a second term. I want the opportunity to establish a record of courteous and efficient service to you who must pay taxes. I have kept my campaign pledges in so far as office personnel is concerned. I live at 2243 Garfield-ar. I am president of the Fidelity Trust Cos. and have been engaged in the banking business since 1917. it tt tt HANNAH A. NOONE Democrat, for Marion County Treasurer. (Born in Indianapolis. March 25, 1895; accountant for 18 years. Serving second term as Township Trustee.) IAM a member of St. Philip Neri Church and live at 402 N. Key-stone-av. Poor relief has been one of the major problems which I have handled during the past few years. I believe that my record for efficiency and economy is known far and wide. I am thoroughly in accord with the humanitarian measures sponsored by President Roosevelt and have at all times co-operated with him. If I am elected county treasurer I will not engage in outside interests which will take me away from my sworn and paid duty as a servant of the people. I promise to be personally present each working day at the county treasurer’s office. If elected county treasurer, I promise to be courteous and kind to all, and to manage the office with economy and efficiency in every respect. I have always been a Democrat and loyal to the principles of the party even when my party was not in power. I am a member of the Young Women’s Democratic Club, the Tenth Ward Democratic Club, the Old Hickory Club, and also a charter member of the Marion County Democratic Woman’s Club, which was organized in 1920. Tomorrow—The race for county prosecutor.
nationalization of the Bank of France, arms factories and railways, a 40-hour week with a minimum wage, and perhaps a devaluation of the franc to bring it in line with the dollar and the pound. a a a BUT, it is pointed out, this program was arrived at only after protracted haggling in which the Radical Socialists—the party of former Premier Edouard Herriot —and other comparatively conservative groups, refused to march unless the extreme left modified its demands. Once in power, the opposition claims, the program thus arrived at will prove just an hors d’oeuvre before the -big meal. “The will swallow the Radical Socialists,” says an election billboard cartoon reminiscent of Aesop’s Fables. “Then they will be swallowed by the Communists. Whereupon, according to the moral, “the Communists will turn and swallow France.” Herr Hitler and the dread of another war are influencing the campaign no little. In parallel panels a billboard portrays two pictures—one of the Kaiser, the other of, the der Fuehrer. Both are smiling beneficiently as they stand with hands generously outstretched to the passers-by. “I offer you peace!” is the caption over their heads. Beneath the Kaiser is the date: “1914.” Under Hitler: “1936.” Another poster shows a map of Belgium and France. From the Rhineland are pouring airplanes, tanks, howitzers and close-packed armies marching on Paris.
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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER YORK, April 21.—Leo T. McCauley, the consul general of the Irish Free State, has disagreed with some particulars of my recent dispatches from London regarding the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, which thus far has yielded $46,000,000 for the care of the sick poor in a nation of 3,000,000, many of whom are neither sick nor poor. We are not very far apart, however, on the fact
that there is such a sweep, and I am sure Mr. McCauley will agree that this enterprise is a lottery and that the laws of the friendly republic of the United States forbid the sale of tickets on the same in this country. We may be prigs about it, but that is our law, and when nations are friends they generally try to respect each other's idiosyncrasies. This being so. I am sure that Mr. McCauley is doing everything in his power as the accredited representative of the Irish nation to discourage the sale of tickets
on the Irish Hospitals Sweep in the United States, It is a difficult task, to be sure, because the British have imposed absolute silence on the lottery ballyhoo in their press, movies and radio, and certain promoters in Dublin have turned to this country as a substitute market. tt tt a Sly Advertising Methods f | ''HEY run advertisements warning American A- citizens against counterfeit tickets—which is a sly way of calling the lottery to the attention of our people and teaching them how to recognize the legitimate tickets. They also maintain American agents who offer books of tickets to the public, and the ballyhoo in the United States is growing stronger. A curious phase of the problem is, however, that the Irish Hospitals Sweep is not immoral or illegal in the eyes of the Irish law but is, in fact, an official concern of the Free State government. The government passed the law authorizing the existence of the sweep, a government commission controls the allocations of the hospitals’ share of the revenues, the government exacts a tax of 25 per cent of the’ hospitals’ share—which is 25 per cent of the gross receipts—and finally, the government has impounded about $25,000,000 of the hospitals’ money in order to supervise the spending of the same to the best advantage. Considering that the Irish hospitals already have been credited with $46,000,000 and assuming that not more than one-fourth of the population are sick poor hospital cases, it may be assumed that the sick poor of Ireland already have a backing of s6l and some cents per head to see them through their megrims. I don’t believe our own sick poor are as well supported. tt tt a The Principle's the Thing HOWEVER, the money is not important, even though the Irish Hospitals Sweep thus far has handled gross receipts of $233,457,000 and even though the Irish government has a budget surplus of about $6,000,000 this year. The important thing is the principle, and I am certain that Mr. McCauley, as the representative of his government among the morally weak but sincerely friendly people of the United States, will leave no stone unturned to exclude Irish Sweepstake tickets from this country. Yet, considering the great traffic in these tickets in the United States, it sometimes seems that he is not taking advantage of his opportunities to shield from contamination that which we sometimes call our moral character. The Irish postoffice handles the lottery mail, and the Irish government should be able to prevent all but the merest trickle of American money into the pool. Yet the traffic grows and grows and our morals presumably are receiving fresh infections from this source. Personally I do not believe it is as serious as all that, but in view of Mr. McCauley’s interest in my London dispatch I thought I ought to show a similar interest in Mr. McCauley’s letter. It looks like the beginning of a pleasant correspondence.
Gen. Johnson Says—
WASHINGTON, April 21.—1 tis not because the principal powers plan peace that there is no war in Europe. It is because so many look to war that none dares fire a gun. A second reason is that although all have been preparing furiously for war, none is fully ready, and the preparations of all constantly defer the complete readiness of any one. England has suffered a serious threat to her colonial empire by permitting Italy to bestride its life-line on the Red Sea and to control Lake Tana—a water supply of Egypt. She would have fought for that, but she didn't know which side France would take. If Hitler fortifies the F lineland, he dominates Europe. France would have fought to prevent its occupation, but she didn’t know what England would do. Hitler would like to clean up Poland, break the Little Entente, swallow Austria and recover Bohemia. He can’t until he fortifies the French frontier, or until England and Mussolini tangle and France is involved. Either event could precipitate the deluge. a a a RUSSIA would be an additional threat in this whole sinister complex, and perhaps the worst one, but she doesn’t know what Japan is going to do in Mongolia. It is a powder magazine where anointed megalomaniacs are playing with Roman candles. That is the situation into which we are constantly being invited, both by the beleaguered denizens of Europe and by our own “citizens of all humanity.” whose preachings, for 18 years, have made of us the world’s prize International Good-Time Charlie. “Touch not. Tast& not. Handle not.” (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
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THERE’S many a chuckle between the covers of “How to Run a Bassoon Factory” (Houghton, Mifflin. $1.25), anew farce on modern business methods by Mark Spade. And there is much underlying common sense. Modern industry is burlesqued by the young English humorist as the divorce law and bad English were by Spade’s veteran contemporary and fellow contributor to Punch. A. P. Herbert. Yet unlike Crusader Herbert, Spade satirizes rather man pillories his subject. He finds business “far too important an affair ever to be taken seriously.” Beginning with tlr? thesis that “there is no reason why any of fte who is tired of working for a living should hesitate to go into business and make a few millions,” he gives his “Maxims for Coming Millionaires.” Author Spade divides business into manufacturing (“buying something and making something out of it”) and retailing (“buying something and making a lot out of it”). In his imaginary bassoon factory you find his keynote of modern methods: You either take things to the top of the factory and let them fall, or you push them through the factory on the one-floor principlr in either case “putting on bits as they pass.” The book Is lively reading. (By L. H.)
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