Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1936 — Page 12

EN “WE ARE NOT GOING BACK”

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N his speech last night Senator Borah proved himself a penetrating and, we believe, a prophetic statesman. ' His unexpected attack on the politicoeconomic deadlock under the Constitution and his warnings to the corporation-owned bosses of his own party mark his as the most significant’ utterance so far to issue from a Republican leader in this cam-

paign year. Mr. Borah is one of the Constitution's ablest

late a handful of monopolistic corporations that hold interstate sway over “one vast consolidated empire.” “Will we long as a people be able to maintain a situation under a Constitution which declares you may not fix prices on the farm or in the home because of state lines but private corporate interests may fix prices throughout the country regardless of state lines?” he asked. Pointing out thatsone-quarter of one per cent of all the corporations control one-half of all America’s corporate wealth and thereby fix prices and set national standards, Mr. Borah demanded that his party's leaders tell the people wha they propose to do about it. “If the Republican Party can find no way to control the economic power which these companies exert upon every person in the land, regardless. of state lines, shall we hope to make effective with the voters our argument that state rights under the Constitution must be maintained? “There are no state lines and no state rights and no private rights apparently as against the practices and exploitation of combines and monopolies,” he sald. “As to them this is one vast consolidated empire, The richest prey that human greed ever seized upon. They sweep across state lines, defy state sovereignty and undermine and destroy the prosperity of the citizen upon which the whole state rests.

» ” 8 id Kaw Supreme Court has declared the Federal government has no power to control production nor in any way to affect farm prices on the farm. That, it is declared, is a matter with which the __ states alone may deal. But.five corporations, in no wise hindered by state lines, may and do control production and affect farm prices’ by fixing prices on the implements without which production can not go forward. “What the government. may not da affirmatively, or negatively, may not do for want of pewer, private corporations are permitted to do regardless of state lines or state rights. . The Faderal government can not send an agent within the state to interfere,

dustry. And where do

either for weal or woe, with the daily affairs of th people, aud, up Sue principle alone can a Fede: union endure. But we can not long maintain a gov= erment with 48 states for purposes of government and an empire for purposes of exploitation.” : Then came the warning to his party's bosses whom he called by name—Mr, Hilles, Mr. Roraback, Mr. Schorr, Mr. Brown and “the powerful financial . and .corporate interests behind them.” These have not felt the stirrings of public opinion that, “like the great Mississippi, may have its source among the pebbles.” The people may complain of the unbalanced budget, of waste, of relief maladministration and other things. “But,” said Borah, “they (the people) will tell you: ‘We are not going back’ And then came his solemn warning to the party's rank and file:

“An effort is being made to convince the people |

that pods for the Republican’ Party does not mean we-are going back. But that depends! If the men who have dominated the party in recent years and who are seeking: to dominate it still continue to control: the party, it is a challenge to the common sense of the voters of the country to tell them we are not going back in case we are given power. We will go back. They do not know anywhere else to

LOCAL GOVERNMENT T a time when local governments face a choice of becoming more efficient or turning many functions over to state and Federal governments, Kentucky is paving the way for more responsible local self-government. i Recognizing the overlapping functions of an archaic system, the 1936 Kentucky Legislature voted submission of a proposed constitutional amendment for city-county consalidation. ‘The measure will come up for a vote in November, 1937. Another new law authorized third-class cities (8000 to 20,000 population) to adopt the commission-

manager form of government now in-effect in Ken-

tucky's five second-class cities. ‘Present cumbersome and costly systems of county and township government were necessary when a trip to the county seat meant a day or two of hard work. We were quick to adopt modern means of travel and communication. We modified our lives” accordingly. Yet we. cling to the governmental set-

- ups of a bygone era, slow to recognize that these

changes also call for modernization of our social and govérnmental institutions. . . If local self-government is to survive, it will be through a revamping of functions and areas inte efficient operating units and not through veneration of the machinery of 50 and 100 years ago.

INTO THE GARBAGE PAIL

tariff raid now going on in the Senate Finance Committee is a comic climax to slap. stick tax legislation. What started out as a high endeavor to make

to pay, and more visible to the actual taxpayers,

‘up as a greedy grubbing in the garbage pail. And this is more than a figure of speech. For schedule of import excises (Democratic name for

tailow go for their ingredients? They go to the garbage pail This new tariff raid apparently has been put over by the same lobbyist gang that two years ago put over the coconut oil import tax, violating the

guaranties of the Philippine Independence Law be-

fore the ink on that document was dry. The deal was engineered inside the committee by Senators Bailey of North Carolina and Connally of Texas, who claimed, unreasonably we believe, to be acting

‘in the mierests of American farmers and fishermen.

Senators Bailey and Connally pose as old line Democrats, and as such are supposed to stand in opposition to trade-destroying tariffs as a matter of principle. 2 8 = H” can their activity be reconciled with the Administration's efforts to rebuild America’s commerce through -reciprocal trade agreements with other nations? An effort which has been succeeding only slowly but surely under the leadership of Secretary of State Hull, one old-line Democrat who still believes that trade is a blessing and not a curse. It can not be reconciled. It is just another one of the seemingly endless inconsistencies which have marked the handling of the tax bill from its inception. Launched at a time when the Administration was calling upon private industry to re-employ the jobless and thereby ease the government’s relief burden, this half-baked measure has clouded the whole business picture with Job-retarding uncertainty. Some critics say the bill puts revenue secondary to reform.. As a matter of fact, both revenue and reform have been secondary to politics. The whole Administration drive has been to raise the needed revenue with the minimum loss of votes. If revenue and economic reform were primary considerations, certainly one logical place to lay additional taxes would be on individual incomes. vet the Democrats of the ‘Senate Committee who canvassed tax possibilities with the President emerged from the White House admitting that additional income taxation “was not even discussed.” One might expect the opposition party to make capital of this Democratic blundering and avarice, but unfortunately the Republican Old Guard leadership is also given to blundering and avarice, and alse afflicted with ballot fever.

A CHALLENGE

i~HE Central States Probation and Parole Conference here is thoroughly airing two of the most important phases of the crime problem—correction and prevention. Experts from all parts of the country are criticising the weaknesses of the parole system in these sessions. They are analyzing the progress made, reporting their experiences with current problems and methods, and suggesting what should be done to improve systems now in force, Delegates have been told that the increasing numper of crimes by ex-convicts is proof that penal methods designed to exact revenge do not protect society against crime, but serve rather to add to its menace. . They have heard speakers explain the crowded conditions of .Indiana’s six penal and corrective

.institutions, and the lack’ of useful employment for

the prisoners. A significant challenge came from a Woman penologist, Rose C. Beatty of Ohio, who said the schools, churches, the home and correctional "institutions share the blame for juvenile delinquency.

This former school teacher, who now heads the .

Ohio Girls’ Iridustrial School, said the public school curriculum was too regimented, many public school teachers too old-fashioned. She pleaded for a more social program of training in delinquency institutions.

sr SV EE, churches Sd “public

“echo. are not doing the job of teaching children

self-control is a challenge for citizens everywhere to join in the fight for crime prevention and control.

FRANK E. BALL

Jeans E. BALL, killed yesterday when his anplane crashed in Ohio, was a member of the Muncie family of industrialists, civic leaders and philanthropists. Despite his youth, Frank E. Ball has gained a reputation of his own as a ieader in aviation, business and community affairs. As president of the Indiana Aircraft Trades:Association, he was aiding plans for the annual air tour at the time of his tragic death. He headed the Muncie Y. M. C. A, which his father founded. He was ‘assistant secretary-treasurer of the Ball Bros. Company. Mr. Ball took an active part in school, fraternal and community life.

STATE FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS

iiiara is a leader in the increasing trend toward support of public schools from state revenue

. rather than from local government funds, the United

States Office of Education reports. Hoosier schools during 1933-34 derived 27 per cent of their support from the state, compared with 32 per cent in 1929-30. State support in California rose from 252 per cent to 48.7 per cent; in North Carolina, from 195 to 61.5 per cent; in Ohio, from 3.7 to 153 per cent; in Oklahoma, from 10.1 to 294 per cent; Tennessee, from 23.7 to 42.5 per cent, and West Virginia, from 79 to 49.1 per cent. The figures show that in 32 states, state support of schools increased during the last two years. Made necessary in many cases by the inability of local governments to support schools, this increased use of state funds for schools is welcomed by many educators as an aid in equalizing educational facilities and opportunity.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson OW and then we read of some organization or school opening a six-weeks institute on sex and marriage, designed to acquaint young men and

|_women with the facts on these subjects.

Theoretically, perhaps, the idea is sound. But

‘unless the instructor has a lot of practical sense and a perfectcly balanced’ emotional nature it is also

perilous. Boys and girls need Such information, but they

are also at the period of life when wrong impressions

could ruin their future. Trust them to any but the sanest individuals and there's no tellnig what can

It seems to me quite as dangerous to talk too much sex as never to mention it at all. The opposite of repression 1s excess, and it is our job to teach the young to avoid both, if possible. Our children know more at 12 than we did at 30. Sometimes it even looks as if they might know a little too much. There should be a thorough rebellion against the teaching of certain modern intelléctuals who would have us approach the subject of sex with no restraint’and who endow it with a barnyard flavor. For we can not fall into the error

of regarding our matings in any such fashion. So’ long as we believe we also have within us something divine, our sex life must have a spiritual mean-.

ing or else we shall become animal indeed. . General classroom instruction in ‘the facts of

marriage will not be likely to succeed. Private in- |

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

i HE Herron Art people -were lucky enough list week to receive a portrait of a little girl painted by Jacob Cox, the first artist to make Indianapolis his home, if we except M. G. Rogers. This column feels fully justified

| in disregarding Mr. Rogers because, ‘as it turned out, he didn't think

enough of the town to stay. He stayed but a few weeks in the late winter of 1831, with what advantage to himself or what benefit to the artistic taste of the community nobody will ever know. : Mr. Cox was more in earnest. He came in 1833 and stayed until he died 39 years later. 2 E J ® Cox-painted picture is the ~ gift of George W. Childs of Anderson and represents the charm ‘of little Achsa McCullough. (That's right; it's a perfectly good girl's name, of Hebraic origin, and means “anklet.”) Quite apart from - the -extraordinary name and charm of the child, however, is the remarkable state of preservation of the 80-year-old picture itself. Clifton Wheeler remarked it the moment he saw it and said it shows less wear and tear than most pictures painted five or six years ago. Moreover, he ventured the opinion that this is the case with mest Coxpainted pictures; at least, with those he has seen. The oldest picture painted by Cox is now over & hundred years old; the youngest, all of 50 years old. ” t J = FE K owe what we do about Jacob Cox, which is mostly what Mary Burnet has written, we know that Mr. Cox had to shift for himself when it came to materials. Tube paints, for instance, had not yet been brought west of the .Alleghenies and the only thing left for Mr. Cox to do was to make his own paints. Which is ‘exactly what Mr. Cox did. He bought the raw materials at a druggist’s—probably at Scudder & Hanneman's where Stewart's book shop now is —and ground them on a marble slab. Mrs. Burnet is authority for Cox’ saying: that the home-made paints were the best with which he ever worked and it may have had everything to do with the remarkable

.| state of his pictures today.

t ” 2 |. NYWAY, Mr.. Cox was a pretty good workman. ‘He was a tinsmith by trade and he sold stoves on the side. Indeed, the first business ad ever published in an Indianapolis daily newspaper was: that of - Jacob Cox and his brother

Charles, telling the public that they|

were selling “cooking stoves” the latest wrinkle on the market. That was on Jan. 16, 1843. A year later, Jacob Cox paid for another ad—a professional one, this time—announcing himself as a “Portrait Painter,” and it all goes to show what the first Indianapolis painter thought of newspaper advertising. For some reason, artists around here stopped being practical after Mr. Cox. - : Mr. Cox's ad didn’t surprise anybody because everybody knew that he had been painting ever since he came here in 1833. He hadn't been in town. two. years, for instance, when he got the job of painting the portraits of Govs. Bigger and Wallace. After that he painted five more. Besides painting Governors, Mr. Cox painted everybody else, too. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Cox had everything his own way until Mr. T. W. Whitridge came along and set up the first daguerrean gallery almost next door to him. The only thing to separate the two artists was Charlie Mayer's store.’ Nobody knows where Jacob Cox picked up his art. To be sure, hel left Indianapolis for a while in 1360, when he was 50 years old, and took a few lessons at the Academy of Design in New York, but outside of that he was self-taught. Maybe it explains everything.

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CLAIMS PROPAGANDA OF HATE APPEARING . By George Gould Hine ~ The murders and floggings in Michigan are the natural result of the propaganda of hate which is constantly appearing in many forms. The propaganda is varied to fit the intelligence of its victims. For the very ignorant, hatreds are promoted between the white man and the Negro, the Protestant and the Catholic. ; For the slightly less ignorant, there are always city people who can be made jealous of the farmer, thereby - inciting them to resent efforts to help the farmer for the ultimate benefit of all. Then there are always the 48

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN NOW’S milk is used most generally in the United States as a substitute for mother’s milk. It is essential that the milk come from healthy cows, that it be handled only by healthy people, and that it be clean and fresh. Milk from different types of cows varies in its composition. The very rich milk that comes from Jerseys and Alderneys usually is not as satisfactory as that from average grade cows. Ordinarily, the * best milk is that taken from a herd and mixed. °* Nowadays milk production and distribution is largely under state control. The milk taken from the cows is mixed and put into sterilized pails. The cows have been tuberculin tested. The milk is pasteurized, or perhaps first certified as to its freedom from harmful germs and then pasteurized. In country homes and in districts where milk is obtained fresh from the cows, the fluid should be boiled at once. Then it may be strained through several thicknesses of cheescloth into jars or milk bottles which have been boiled. After being filled with the milk, these bottles should be covered and cooled im=mediately. Milk for older children also should be boiled, unless it: has been pasteurized. Pasteurization or boiling destroys the germs by heat. - . ss 8 = - Mess of the germs in good milk are pot dangerous to human

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states to be incited against each other, as in Europe, in envious contention for public funds, as if the best good of one part was not the best good of the whole. Jealousies are fomented between the East and the West, the North and the South, or in one section against another. Besides those who can be pointed out to each other as natural and proper enemies, there arg others who can be urged to become friends. Among the friendships that can be successfully promoted, none are more curious than that between big and little business. - The little business man is flattered when asked to meet and resolve and proclaim that the wishes of big business are the same as his own. - And finally there is always the entire middle class even more flattered when they are assured they will be ruined if they tax the rich instead of themselves. = 2 2 THANKFUL FOR WPA PAY BUT FINDS IT SLIM By a WPA Worker I hear a lot of people talking about WPA and the poor men only working 30 and 40 hours a week. Well, if we had to work any more hours, and at no more wages than we get, we sure could not de much work. With big families living on $10 a week we get weak between meals. But I thank God for what

Many times meetings are announced to begin at a stated time and do not begin until half or three-quarters of an hour later. Those who are there on time have to wait for laggards to arrive. People knowing that a meeting will - probably nto be opened until later than the appointed hour, delay coming so they will not have to wait. The writer once gave a lecture in Cherryvale, Kas. Arriving at the hall at 7:45 there was no one there but the janitor who was just light-

mg up. It looked like a slim audience in

view, but I was assured by the janitor that there would be a good crowd by 8 o'clock. At 7:50 the first arrivals came in, followed by a steady stream until the hall was well filled.

Promptly on the first stroke of the town clock the chairman arose and opened the meeting. Before the clock was done striking the hour, two men came in hurriedly. The door never opened again. Every person who attended that meeting was in a seat at 8. Never having seen such a strange sight, I remarked about it to the chairman and was informed that this is the rule in that city. Every meeting is opened exactly on the dot at the time specified. No need for early comers waiting for the laggards, nor being annoyed by late comers climbing over them after the meeting begins. Those who can not get inside in time, | J stay away, as it is considered a disgrace for anybody to be late. Here is a simple remedy for a condition that has been annoying in Indianapolis for many years. So simple that if the newspapers merely mention it as a suggested improvement it can be adopted -to the great satisfaction of all citi-

CATALPAS

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

Catalpas are in bloom, my dear, A sign that June is truly here, And God has made so bright and gay Out of each tree, a huge bouquet To brighten travelers on a road Who bend beneath some weary load, And lift the hearts of young and old

. | To beauty that is manifold.

Oh, bell-like blossoms, purple-white, You greet the world with pure det -

And beckon men to lift their eyes From srdid things to flower-touched es. Without catalpas tall and sweet No spring could ever be complete To cheer each town and countryside, They're Indiana’s fairest pride.

DAILY THOUGHT

CAN tell you from my own experience that you will get rajn, thunder and plenty of storms in the public —Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, N¢w York City. :

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ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporfer for Thé Times goes where he pleases, - when be pleases, in search of odd. stories about this sad that.

ALLAS, May 29 —More than

one of them is a woman, and she’y only 18. This is her first big joie and is she happy! She's a New Englander, wa nef

slender, and her skpisamonth and

pale. Rosamond was born and raised i" Providence, R. I. Her father was $4 professor at Brown University. had a sabbatical er oY when Rosamond was 6, and they spent it all over Europe. She went to school a year in Paris. Rosamond was out of school at 16 Didn't go to high school. Went tothe Westover boarding school ag: Middlebury, Conn. “One of those finishing schools,” she says. : = 5 os HE didn’t inherit her talent. Jus§ happened to have it. She ale ways painted all the posters for hef classes in school. By the time she. was out of ‘Westover, there was na doubt about what she wanted to do. So she gave up the idea of college,” and started to art school. That was two years ago. She studied at the Art Students League in New York, and the Chon=' iard School of Art in Los Angeles. ., Six years ago Rosamond’s father died. Since then, her mother has married: Lawrence Tenney Stevens, the sculptor. You notice how I say “the sculptor,” just like that. As a matter of fact, I never heard of But that isn’t his fault, because never heard of any sculptor ile Jo Davidson, and he happens to be a friend of the boss. Anyhow, it seems Stepfather Ste vens helps his stepdaughter COR. siderably. When the Centennial came. alongs Sculptor Stevens was put in charge-

learned that the mural departmengwas having trouble finding paintersy~ s0 he suggested Rosamond. gae She came down for a week's tryout: - Stevens got her in, but she had to make her own way after that. She did. They hired her for the dura-’ tion. She's tickled to death, bat sheisn’t one of these “Oh, I'm just too thrilled” girls.

HE'S working with a New Yor

mural painter named Carlo paglia.. They. both hate .the of rushing an art job. But him = up with their schedule, Just: the same.

Right now Rosamond is up on a scaffold, under an arch, abo feet off the ground, painting a mural on the Poultry Building. It has roosters and gobblers and peacocks in it. : She and Ciampaglia are doing this one together. But there's one at the other door of the same building she did by herself. It's a wild display of flowers and vegetables. It took her two weeks. She works from 8 in the morning’ till 10:30 at night. Actually- paints from 8 till 7. Then she helps with the designs. She loves it all. , Her stepfather used her for the model of one of the huge statues flanking the Esplanade of State. It’s supposed to represent the “Spirit of Texas.” - (She was never in Texas before in her life. .

» 2 = VERY summer she and the folk go out to visit some friends on

paint in. She likes to take water colors and just start out and paint. She: and her sister Priscilla did that not long ago. Drove from Los An--

they liked, they'd She hates oiL

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