Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1936 — Page 10

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MONDAY. MAY 25. 1938.

RESPONSIBLE DRIVERS T TOOSIERS. while campaigning against traffic accidents, may be interested to hear of the success of some Oregon experiments in safe automobile driving. One concerns that state’s new safety responsibility law, similar to the law passed by the 1935 Indiana General Assembly. As under tie Indiana law, the Oregon act requires that financal responsibility must be proved before driving licenses are restored to those who have lost them as a result of traffic violations. Out of 228 cases of suspended drivers—most of them charged with driving while drunk—only three have been able to prove financial responsibility. Those three cases were wher? the vehicles were operated for business purposes only. a a a TN Portland, a SIOO bounty was placed on reckless A drivers, the cash going to any citizen who gave Information leading to the a,.rest and conviction of a reckless driver. The law there considers speeding reckless. Officials reported the regulation produced immediate results. The traffic control program in Portland proved that much can be done by citizen co-operation without additional laws. Filling station operators agreed informally to sell no inotor fuel to drunken motorists. Asa result an intoxicated driver can not buy gasoline. A “night school" for traffic violators was established by the city to instruct violators in the fundamentals of safe driving. Already the school has 3000 “graduates." Traffic courses were started in the city’s high schools. Regular classes in safety education will be given in Indianapolis high schools next year. When an aroused citizenry decides to do something about the disgrace of 36,000 auto accident deaths yearly in the United States, the reckless, drunken and speeding drivers no longer will be tolerated. LAW VS. LYNCH TN Florida a Polk County jury found five former -*• Tampa policemen guilty of kidnaping and flogging three labor leaders last November, a case made famous for its brutality and the death of one of the victims. In Louisiana a Federal Court jury assessed a sheriff $2500 for negligence in failing to prevent the lynching of Fred Moore, a Negro boy, in 1933. Because the case w r as brought by the dead boy's parents in Arkansas, the trial fell under Federal jurisdiction. But these triumphs of law, encouraging as they are, do not cancel out the other side of the picture. Lawlessness, masquerading as super-patriotism, is brought to light in Michigan. The Black Legion, a terroristic secret society professing allegiance to the Constitution, but conducting an undercover campaign of race hatred and religious intolerance, is caught red-handed in the mob murder of a young WPA worker. State police investigate tips that this vigilante organization also was responsible for many other “purification" murders which were disguised as suicides. There is ample justification—vea, necessity—for an expansion of the Federal police power to the end that we may stamp out mob violence just as we have stamped out kidnaping. In the last 54 years, lynch mobs have slain 5000 men and women. Since the spring of 1935, when a Senate filibuster shelved the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill, there have been 25 actual lynchings and 117 attempted lynching.-, narrowly averted. “DELEGATION RUNNING RIOT” 'T'HE divided opinion of the Federal Circuit Court A of Appeals in Washington, halting the Resettlement Administration’s New Jersey housing project under the 1935 relief act, will not of itself outlaw the work of Dr. Tugwell nor upset Federal relief plans. But it sounds a warning against Congress’ carefree delegation of spending powers to the President and the all-too-general categories into which it has been bracketing relief funds. The 1935 relief act directed the President to spend 400 million for housing. “The only standard or criterion to guide him." said the court, “is that the money is to be expended for ‘housing projects.’ There is no guide as to where or when or how these funds are to be expended for housing. “His discretion in the language of the Schechter decision is 'virtually unfettered.’ He is at liberty to set up agencies and to prescribe such rules of conduct and fix such standards as he may deem proper. Considering what is here attempted ... we repeal the significant words of Mr. Justice Cardozo in his concurring opinion in the Schechter case: ‘This is delegation running riot.’” With the President asking Congress for another huge relief fund on the same terms this criticism is pointed and timely. Congress should reassert its spending as well as its taxing powers. It should be more explicit in its instructions to the executive. This means that it must have more expert guidance, particularly in relief spending. If the President, under his broad emergency powers, makes mistakes, how much more fallible is Congress, torn as it is by warring political, sectional and class interests? The court has added another argument for a national long-term policy board to study all aspects of this perplexing relief picture and help by its findings to guide Congress and the President in their unavoidable duty toward the needy. THE ORIGINAL SIN D EPUBUCAN orators can be expected to lay much stress on the large size of some of the benefit payments under the late Triple A program, as finally revealed by Secretary Wallace. But after all they should be the last to complain. For they will be talking about a tariff. And the tariff is the keystone of Republican philosophy; is and has been since Hamilton’s day. What we had with Triple A was a domestic tariff, pouring subsidies from consumers into the pockets of the farmer. In its two years Triple a paid benefits of about one billion dollars to nearly seven million farmers, or an average of $143 per farmer. Tha protective tariff which has levied tribute in . behalf of manufacturers for 150 years and which reached its fullest flowering in the Hawley-Smoot %tet has spread so many billions 1 1 its timers sto

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make what Triple A put forth seem small change by comparison. Essentially Triple A and the protective tariff are the same in principle. But the protective tariff was the original sin. Out of it grew the demand that the farmer who paid protective tariff prices for what he bought be given a tariff, too. As Triple A started to 'fork it had to work for big farmers as well as small ones. Hence the large size of some of the Triple A checks. The largest yet revealed went to sugar corporations in Puerto Rico. Louisiana and Florida. But even here the new form of tariff has seemed to prove out better than the old. The old way was to raise tariffs to keep out sugar from Cuba, our natural sugar barrel. To subsidize our small beet sugar industries, we raised consumer prices generally and spread ruin for one of our best buying markets, Cuba. Under the Triple A program we placed sugar producing states and territories on fixed marketing quotas. By reciprocal trade agreement we lowered the tariff rate against Cuba by a half cent. Asa result, while consumers’ prices have not gone up, Cuba is coming back and is beginning to buy our goods once more. And other buying power has been pumped into the sugar states and territories through benefits to those planters who stabilize their planting. Since much of the sugar producing industry is on a big business basts the largest Triple A payments went not to the small farmer but to the large corporations. We never have felt that the scarcity theory behind Triple A was good economics. But the farm problem had become a condition, not a theory. Because of the existence of the protective tariff something had to be done to equalize farm income with the prices farmers had to pay to tariff-protected manufacturers. For the first time Triple A put the tariff shoe on the farmer’s foot. LIBERTY UNDER FIRE TT is a high American ideal that change shall come by orderly processes and not by violent uprisings and revolution. * * That ideal Implies and rests for its ultimate efficiency upon the willingness of all elements to permit orderly advocacy of change. Obstruction of that freedom impounds discontent and tends either to produce combustion or centralized suppression of a grandiose and ruthless sort such as Fascism. It is an unhappy commentary now that the lid of suppression is being put on seemingly tighter and tighter by elements most vocal against revolution and violence. The American Civil Liberties Union, which more constantly and expertly than any other agency gauges the pulse of popular freedom, declared in resolutions at its annual meeting: “American liberties are subjected today in the midst of unprecedented economic crisis to extraordinary attacks by violence, law, court decision and ceaseless propaganda by organized reaction. The forces which desire to prevent peaceful change of the existing order attack the rights of organized labor, the unemployed and radical political parties. They seek to discredit them all by cries of ‘Communism,’ ‘agents of Moscow,’ ‘un-Afnerican.’ All progressive liberal and labor movements, even the New Deal reforms, are subjected to the same attack. Education is being subjected to perilous gag laws.” As specific instances, reports were made on alleged violation of civil rights in the following cases: Scottsboro, Angelo Herndon, Tampa flogging, Tom Mooney, Gallup (N. M.) miners, sharecroppers of Aikansas and Alabama, and the Sacramento criminal syndicalism case. The most precious property of the American people is the Bill of Rights. None, not even the most selfish reacticoary. can afford to permit those rights to be violated or abridged. Every encroachment breeds more encroachment. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson r J' , HERE is something sinister in the preponderance of lawyers in all our legislative chambers. For only the strongest mind can withstand the corroding influence of what is commonly called “logic” by the legal profession. This logic has nothing whatever to do with right and wrong; it hasn’t even a bowing acquaintance with moral ethics and is sometimes a total stranger to justice. It is based entirely upon precedent and the kind of precedent which often runs back into the darkest age of history. Whereas all other professional men project themselves by imagination into the future and can be persuaded to give up worn-out theories, the lawyers stand four-square upon a conception of court procedure which came into vogue shortly after William the Conqueror’s time. And they are proud of this fact; they even boast about it. They constitute our one great group that keeps its face turned persistently toward the past. The strong-minded man may find it easy to maintain a clear vision amid the inconsistencies of multiplied millions of cases upon which court decisions are based, but it’s a tougher job for the peewee fellow and he seems to be taking to the law with ever Increasing gusto. In his recent book “Crime and Justice,” Seldon Gleuck has a chapter called “The Knights of Justice.” It should be studied in every colleg'e, read aloud in the courts, and proclaimed from the housetops to the‘people. For it truly proves that in thousands of instances the officer making the arrest and the attorney prosecuting are as bad as a criminal with whom they deal. The inferior legal mind as it functions nowadays is our greatest menace to moral reform and by all odds tha chief enemy to social progress. There are entirely too many incompetent lawyers in our legislatures. They ha.e arranged national business so that nobody can turn around without resorting to them for advice. Not their profession but their profusion makes them dangerous. We need good lawyers to interpret the law, but isn’t it time to let someone else formulate part of our legislation? HEARD IN CONGRESS TANARUS) EP. MARCANTONIO IR., N. Y.): The present American merchant marine is a disgrace to the flag it carries. The American merchant marine today can not, in any manner, pretend to grant safety at sea to any of its passengers. Any such pretension is a fraud. . . . Mr, Speaker, I charge right here and now that these shipping companies outdo AI Capone by millions of dollars. a a m SENATOR ADAMS (D., Gilo.): There Is no one who has a higher regard than I have for the services of the National Fark organization. However. like all bureaus of the government, they have cultivated a bureaucratic mind. I think their frame of mind can be illustrated in this way—that if a group of men were caught in a heavy snowstorm in one of the parks, and the only food available were the wild animals, and the wild animals were starving, the park authorities would agree very readily that the men should be fed to the animals to keep them fnm starving, but would not consent that the animals be killed to keep the men from starving, (Latighter.) %'

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Our Town By ANTON SCHERRFR

TNDIANAPOLIS has 11 extermi- -*• nating companies, counting the termite people. Without the termite people, the exterminating companies wouldn’t be worth mentioning in this column. The reason we have so few exterminating companies is because we have so many architects. Architects, it seems, keep on specifying concrete and linoleum and goodness knows what else and it cuts frightfully into the exterminator’s business. At least, that’s what one exterminator said when interviewed. He was pretty blue. The termite people, on the other hand, were jubilant. Termites are now up to Sixteenth-st and headed in all directions. There’s no telling where they will go from there. They like everything, apparently—even | school buildings, but that’s probably because they are blind. They can go through tin, lead, glass and modern architecture but they still like wood best. That’s because of their predilection for cellulose. They can’t themselves digest cellulose but they get around that, too, because their entrails are packed with protozoa which absorb particles of wood, digesting them and then dying, to be digested in turn by the termite. a a a THEY’RE as slick as artists. Indeed, the way they turn to art makes ones wonder whether an unhappy home life may not, after all, be at the bottom of it. A termite is really a white ant. At any rate that’s what Maurice Maeterlinck called them in his book. Seems Mr. Maeterlinck turned to white ants after he got done with blue birds. Mr. Maeterlinck’s book (Dodd, Mead & Cos.) is chock-full of goed stories about termites and their tricks. The best one is about two policemen in St. Helena who stopped under a huge tree to think. That's what Mr. Maeterlinck said they did. One of the cops leaned against the trunk and it collapsed, burying the policemen so that nobody ever knew what they were thinking about. Nothing like that has happened here and the termite people don’t know why, because everything else mentioned in the Maeterlinck book has. The cop on this department’s beat, when asked about it, said it’s because Indianapolis policemen are not allowed to think under trees. a a a /"VBEYING a very old impulse, I went to Brown County the other day and observed that there are more white horses than any other kind between here and Nashville. I also came home with an Indiana orchid grown on the north side of a hill near Trevlac. It’s a gorgeous yellow flower that looks for the world like a lady’s slipper. Asa matter of fact, that’s what the natives around Trevlac call it. The garage man at Helmsburg said it was a Cypripedium parviflorum, and suggested that if I’d stick around a little longer I might find Cypripedium pubescens, too. It’s the smaller kind and just as pretty, he said. I looked it up in a book when I got home and discovered that the parviflorum is one to two feet high whereas the pubescens is only 12 to 24 inches high. There’s no mistaking the simile, however. An inflated sac, open at the top, easy for bees to get into and hard for them to get out, represents the slipper part. And two narrow twisted petals striped with purple madder are the shoe laces. The fact that it has a sterile stamen isn’t any reason to prejudice you. Which leaves the white horses to be accounted for. TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Announcement is made of the election* of Prof. Harold F,. Booth of Western Reserve University as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his achievements in the realm of chemistry. Os the 200 gases now known to science, Dr. Booth is the discoverer of 15. He also upset all the chemistry books of the world by succeeding in making a compound of the inert gas, argon. The textbooks all state that the inert gases do not enter into chemical compounds. Membership .in the Academy is limited to 800. Dr. Roscoe Pound, the distinguished dean of the Harvard University Law School, is president of the Academy. Kohaleth, the preacher, complained in the Book of Ecclesiastes that there was nothing new under the sun. His statement has been quoted many times through the centuries. The chemist, however, has disproved Kohaleth. Dr. Booth’s discoveries might just as well be termed inventions, since the new gases which he has announced were synthesized or manufactured in his laboratory. They are chemical compounds which do not exist in nature. At least, they have never been known to exist upon this earth. One can not speak with assurance of the far corners of the universe. It is likewise a fact that the argon compound which he synthesized in his laboratory was never before seen by man. DAILY THOUGHT The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer.—ll Samuel, xxii, 3. THE steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.—Whittier,

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliflious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit I hem. to 250 words or less. Your letter must he shined, hut names will he withheld on reauest.) a a a INTERESTED IN NEW PRISON PLAN By S. E. F. Kentucky may in time become the “model prison” state, if plans approved by Federal and state officials are carried out successfully, A $14,000,000, 10-year program is contemplated, to provide for an entirely new approach to the whole vital problem of prisons and charitable institutions. The keystone of the project would be rehabilitation. Treatment of each prisoner would be prescribed with a view to “salvaging” the individual for society. The vast project encompasses plans to classify inmates as dangerous, less dangerous and tractable. Separate wards would be provided for each class, and useful work found for those eligible. The plan, Kentucky officials claim, is a major step away from the existing “universities of crime.” It will be interesting to see just how it works out. SEES EXAMPLE IN* DEBT-FREE STATES By S. C. ' Incredible as it may seem in these days of heavy public indebtedness, four states are completely free of debt—Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and Nebraska. They are free because

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THE nursing mother must keep herself in good physical condition and eat proper food. Her diet has been described in previous articles. To maintain good physical condition, she must have plenty of sleep and some exercise in the open air. Worry and mental strain, as has already been mentioned, may affect the quantity and nature of the milk secretion. If the mother does not have enough milk, the baby remains hungry and gets fretful. In that case, the mother gets less rest and becomes more worried. As a result, she has less milk. It is a vicious circle. The size of the breast and the size or weight of the mother do not seem to be of great importance in relation to the amount of milk that the mother may produce. It is not possible for any one to say, before the baby is born and the mother actually starts to secrete milk, whether any woman will be able to nurse her baby. However, any competent doctor can tell the mother after the baby is born whether she has enough milk to supply the baby with his necessary food. A woman with active tuberculosis, or one who has had the disease in any form, should not nurse a baby. If she does, she will expose the baby to infection, and the added strain on her body will lower her resistance to disease.

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their constitutions prohibit public debt beyond a small figure. Nebraska, for instance, reports a surplus of $21,000,000 in her treasury and boasts that she has neither a state income tax nor a sales tax; yet she has borne her share of the relief burden, paid for anew capitol and improved her schools. It should be said, of course, that relief is borne largely by the municipalities in this state, But granting even this exception, the point remains that a pay-as-you-go policy can get results. Fortunately, Nebraska and her three debt-free sister states were provided with constitutional set-ups to make this sort of sound economics possible from the first. • But certainly it should not be too late for other states and municipalities to benefit by their example. a a a SAYS MANNING’S WORDS ARE INSPIRING By Times Reader It is always interesting and quite often inspiring to look at the world today through the eyes of one who has lived here a long time, seen much, and formed a few solid conclusions. At 70, Bishop William T. Manning offers just such an opportunity. Interviewed on his recent birthday, the eminent churchman held out a cheerful view of the future. “Despite the uncertainty and confusion which exist,” he declared, “I would say that during my lifetime I have discerned a growth among

WHENEVER a woman has severe complications after childbirth, such as hemorrhage, infection or .convulsions, she should not nurse her baby. After she has recovered, the doctor may determine whether she can resume nursing, but it is advisable to be cautious in permitting nursing of the baby after the mother has had any fever, signs of infection or toxemia. If tbs breasts of the mother become infected, it is customary to discontinue nursing until ’ the condition has definitely healed. If the baby develops vomiting or colic, or fails to gain weight, the mother should not stop nursing. She should, instead, find out from the doctor whether she is feeding the baby often enough or too often. Her diet should be surveyed, and the doctor should determine whether the baby ought to have extra food in addition to what she can give him. If the mother is suffering from any chronic disease, such as inflammation of the kidneys, heart disease or cancer, she certainly should not nurse the baby. Indeed, if she is delicate, the doctor should determine whether nursing will do her harm, and whether it will be ol any benefit to the child. Physicians generally believe that mothers are more likely to nurse their first and second babies satisfactorily than they are to nurse later ones. In other words, the ability to nurse the baby tends to diminish with each successive child.

C{—Does the theoretical dead centra.’ point of an axle revolve? A—The national Bureau of Standards says this is altogether a question of definition of words. “Theoretical dead center line” is a mathematical fiction which has no more physical existence than a “perfect ciicle” or an “ideal gas” or any one of a large number of fictions to which it is convenient to refer physical realties. It may sometimes be convenient to conceive of a mathematical “straight line’’ revolving about itself as an axis and sometimes convenient to consider it stationary while the rest of the assumed geometrical configuration revolves around It. Q—What is the fuel consumption per hour of the new French liner Normandie? A—From 57 to 80 toga of oil per hour.

people generally in social consciousness. . . .We may not agree with all the measures toward this end which have been adopted; nevertheless, the general spirit of the times is that men can no longer go along their own ways unmindful of the condition of others.” In the light of human history, that, indeed is a step forward for humanity. a a a HOOVER SPEECH TERMED AID TO DEMOCRATS By William Lemon Ex-President Hoover's speech in Philadelphia on the night of the fourteenth reminded me of the Republican speeches I read when I was a boy, namely, “The Old Full Dinner Pail” gag. He left his country financially dead and bankrupt, yet he dares to criticise a man who is trying to resurrect it, and who is trying to give the average man a chance to earn his living by honest work. He wants to restore liberty and progress, destroyed under his Administration by some of his own appointed Cabinet officers. The prosperity he wants is for his small “mob” and means more starvation for the masses. He smells a battle-royal at the Republican national convention and figures he has a dark horse’s chance, and I for one hope he is right, for that would save the Democratic Party plenty of campaign money. It might save me a few nickels. His criticism is the biggest help the Democratic Party has today, and his party should sentence him to his Palo Alto ranch until after the November election. We all know his funny jokes do not appeal to us who “carried the banner” under his Administration, even his criticism of the present Administration does not make us sore. We only enjoy it. IMMORTALITY- . BY HELEN LOUISE QUIG Life immortal? Who can doubt it When, across eternal springs Waking palpitant from winter. Every blossom credence brings? Resurrection? Who has never, From a death-pit of despair, Felt the rising of hope’s pinions Lifting mercifully there? As the miracle of morning Floods resurgent from the gloom, Just as surely—just as surely— Doth the soul outlive the tomb.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Here she comes , with some, more changes.”

MAY 25, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—Tlii rovinf reporter for The Time, trie, where he please*, when be please*, in *earch of odd stories about this and that. DALLAS. May 25.—1 t now becomes my great privilege, ladies and gentlemen, to present to you for the first time on any stage, screen, newspaper or air. a preview of that colossus of the summer South—the Texas Centennial. It costs you 50 cents to get in. Ahead lie 200 acres of the grandest, packed-in conglomeration of history. beauty and nonsense you can imagine. You’ll see 200 magnificent buildings. You’ll see 325 exhibits, ranging from a block square on down to the size of your bathroom. You'll see myriads of pools, and fountains and lagdons. and trees and grass, and colored lights, and buildings that look like temples, and startling murals, and cowboy policemen on horseback. You’re through the main gate. In a grove of trees. Right In front of you is the Centennial’s piece de resistance —the Esplanada of State. a a a IT is a long reflecting pool, with fountains spouting colored water, and alongside it are beautiful walks, and terraced lawns, and all the different trees of Texas, and flanking the pool on each side are long, handsome, new buildings. Beyond the pool, across a park* vay, Is the finest building on the grounds—the Texas State building. In here will be the historical exhibits—the early Texas documents, the old Sam Houston coats, and so on. It is the idea that you can walk through here, and come out with a pretty goofc idea of just how Texas was born, and how she has lived for 100 years. From here on, it’s every man for himself. To the left is building after building of agriculture and native Texas products. To the right is the Federal government’s building, with its tall [ three-sided cement tower, and its exhibits brought* from Washington. You can step on across the drive, and do a curtsy to Henry Ford In his two-and-a-half-miliion-dollar layout. a a a YOU can go on over to the Hall of Religion, which looks like a combination of all the church architecture in history, but isn’t unsightly. Or to the Negro building, a sweeping, square-angled low building painted red and blue. It cost $50,000, and is the first Negro building, they say, at any exposition. There are dozens of other immense buildings, all with names like “Industry” or “Food” or “Petroleum.” with friezes around them and bright murals. They house the hundreds of commercial exhibits. So we just mosey through, and wind up down at the far end of the grounds. Here we see the thing the Centennial is proudest of, and most scared about. It’s the great historical play. You sit in a race track grand stand. Out in front is a huge openair stage, some say the biggest in the world. A river runs between you and the stage. Mountains rise beyond. Buffalo and Indians cross the prairie. A girl from New York, vacationing. comes and sits on the river bank. She doesn’t like Texas. A cowboy comes and sits beside her. He loves her, the poor fish. He wants her to like Texas. She says there’s nothing in Texas. He says, “Why, my sweetie pie, just listen here while I tell you the story of Texas . . .” So the scene changes, and we cut back to the discovery of Texas, and the Conquistadors, and we come right on up through, to today. a a a THERE are 300 people In this show. The actors don’t say a word. They just act. and people in a control room watch them and do the talking over a loud speaker. In the end, the cowboy marries the girl. It’s either going to be grand, or simply awful. After that we walk over and sea the replica of Judge Roy Bean’s old Jersey Lily saloon and courtroom at Langtry; and the Texas Rangers buildings; and the duplicate of the Alamo, And now we’re ready for the midway. The midway is nearly half a mile long. It’ll take a week to do them all. Personally, I’m getting pretty tired. You go ahead and see the fan dancer if you want to. I’m going back to the hotel and put an ice pack on my burning feet.