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SPEED AND SAFETY

HREE women were killed in automobile accidents : on the streets of Indianapolis Saturday as * crowds jammed the city for the 500-mile Memorial Day auto race. Two of the women burned to death when. their car overturned, died deaths as horrible i @s that of any driver or mechanic killed in any past + Bpeedway race—a race known as the most danger"ous of sports events. Out at the Speedway Saturday a large field of . drivers raced their cars around the 2%-mile brick drack at the fastest clip in the 24 years of Speedway . history. Louis Meyer, who won the race for _his _ third time, averaged 109.069 miles an hour for the '* B00 miles—nearly three miles an hour faster than _ the previous record. And the 160,000 who watched © knew that the “traffic” was as heavy as any they : would care to drive in. Despite this there was no fatal accident, no * erackup. No car even so much as brushed a retain- ' ing wall. There was but one serious accident, when Al Miller spun sideways on the straightaway, was =» thrown from his car and suffered a broken hip. The . sympathy of the spectators went out to Miller. rd » ” i . HE fact that there were no accidents on the turns was due largely to track improvements : made by the Speedway corporation. These same im‘provements gave the track an almost perfect safety ». record in the weeks of pre-race trials and tests. Sat- > urday, the cars many ‘times went into the aprons on ' the inside of the track, an additional 50-foot space ° provided by removing the inside railing. Before, there was no such safety margin. Changes in the retaining walls and the Smoothing out of bumps also ~. helped. 3 An outstanding safety difference, of course, be-

~ tween this race driving and fast driving on streets

e and highways, is carefulness. No reckless driver ever won the 500-mile race. These men go fast, but they : take few chances compared with the wild speed “ drivers on the highways. They pass on the right with a clear road ahead. They're on the job—the job .. of driving—every minute. They have undergone rigid examinations that many motorists could not pass. 4 They keep themselves and their cars under control.

. 8 8.8 oe ee year’s race may rightly be called one of the Speedway’s most successful from other * standpoints as well as safety.’ The race proved that a better track and improved _ + automobile engineering made for much faster speed, 5 which is the big thrill of the spectacle. Of particular significance was the excellent rec- _ ord on low gasoline consumption. : Meyer finished with nearly four gallons to spare “out of his limit of ‘37% gallons. He averaged 15.1 2" miles to the gallon, an economy which many motorists would like to equa. The 10 leaders finished on the 37%-gallon limit with average speeds of around 100 miles an hour or more. ; The advancement in carburetion and in fuel mix- : ture that made possible this achievement may rea- : n sonably lead to savings of millions to. American mo- . torists.

WATCH OUR SMOKE!

HE smoke problem will get nation-wide attention : this week at the thirtieth annual convention of the Smoke Prevention Association at Atlanta, Ga. ~The conference serves as a reminder that with . the coming of cold weather next fall the nuisance _ of excessive smoke again will plague Indianapolis.

= Meantime, the city has not brought to full ordinance

~ strength its smoke inspection and engineering staffs. Smoke abatement should be a year-round effort.

TOO SILENT ALF RAZIER HUNT picked out the seven leading Republican candidates for the presidency, and to each he submitted 10 questions, or groups of questions, covering what inescapably must be the most + dmportant issues of the coming campaign. ~ From six candidates—Vandenberg, Borah, Knox, Dickinson, Steiwer and Wadsworth—he got more or less specific answers to all 10 queries. From the other candidate—Gov. Landon of Kansas—he got more or Jess specific answers to six queries, and no answers * whatever to four. "The results this poll on issues have been appear- _ Ing in The Inidanapolis Times in Frazier Hunt's series of articles entitled “Smoking Out the Candidates.” We trust they have been helpful in informing rank-and-file Republicans on what. their candidates are thinking sbout vital issues. But we regret that the 4ntdtmation supplied in the case of Gav. Landon was “altogether inadequate. We regret this especially because we believe that Republicans are more inter‘ested in Landon’s views than in the views of all the other candidates combined. For Landon is so far out in the lead that his nomination as Cleveland is al-

= » » questions which Mr. Landon ducked were: No. 4. Do you favor further devaluation of the ~ dollar or stabilization at present gold content? Do ~ you believe in any form of currency change, currency inflation or credit inflation, a return to the gd standard, the remonetization of silver or 8 manged currency? : ev Do son favor an amendment to the Con-

Mtitution authorizing the Federal government to deal

: No, 7. Do you favor modifioatiort or suspelasiod of | ATt=irist ag to dalle business mens 10 gos $o-

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the continua or expamsioncol TVA,

tax on individual incomes.

- sex continue to present false pictures of life.

‘and welfare of the "the trend of events and the Toy. are all issues to which Republican voters are en‘titled to receive a definite statement of opinion from any one who aspires to be their standard bearer. We hope that before Mr. Landon permits his name to be placed in nomination he will take the rank and file of the party into his confidence, so that their delegates at Cleveland can pass intelligently upon his candidacy.

PARKING PROBLEM

30-DAY survey of automobile parking in the mile square area is to be started today by National Youth Administration workers. One object is to check traffic violations and the effectiveness of the new sticker system. More important will be the study of the parking problem itself, one of the hardest problems facing modern cities. ' Present-day systems of street parking mean trouble for city officials who are responsible for keeping streets clean and in good repair, for preventing accidents and traffic jams, efliciently fighting and preventing fires, for generally keeping good order, and for preventing thefts and recovering stolen property. Almost universally, these officials complain that street parking multiplies the cost and difficulty of their problems. Many cities, including 18 of the 54 cities in the New York metropolitan area, have established municipal parking lots. Others are experimenting with

“parking meters,” charging motorists a small fee for street parking in downtown areas. Buildings

have been torn down to make way for parking lots, Yet the acute problem of parking remains, with parking rent so high in the larger cities as to be almost prohibitive. : The parking problem is linked directly with general public, convenience and traffic regulation. It also is coupled with the problems of zoning and city planning, with slum clearance and municipal revenues. Any study that sheds further light on the question will be valuable.

FROM THE SAME POCKETS

ISTORY may record differently, but we do not recall that a good tax law ever has been enacted in an election year,

By a good tax law we mean one which undertakes to raise necessary revenue by honest and open assessments against the people, proportioned to individual ability to pay. It is hard:enough even to get a law of this type seriously considered in a non-elec-tion year. But in a campaign year it is practically impossible. It seems to be a part of every. politician’s confession of faith that the people will get mad if they ever find out how much they are paying in taxes.

Just as owls shun daylight and prey at nighttime,

so do politicians spurn visibility in favor of taxa~ tion by indirection. Hence it is not surprising that the Senate Finance Committee took only one look and then backed away from the proposal to add 1 per cent to the normal It would not have made much of a dent in the incomes taxed, and would not have added greatly to the government’s revenue. We believe, with Senator La Follette—who somehow doesn’t think it is politically dangerous to be frank with taxpayers—that the proposal should have gone

further, that it should have specified a normal rate of 6 per cent rather than 5, and should have pro- .

vided surtax increases to get more from larger incomes, and lower exemptions to double or triple the

,-number of income taxpayers. But even: -the:mild 1 ‘per cent addition on: incomes already’ taxed was 3 " ‘enough to give the Finance Committee Senators. the

“ballot fever.” ‘Let no one be deceived. In turning down this proposal, these Senators are not protecting the people from paying more taxes. They have to get the

revenue, and they will gét it from the same people

and also from many other people whose incomes are not in taxable brackets. Buf they will get it by indirect levies. In this particular bill the method is by higher corporation taxes, which come ultimately from consumers in the form of higher prices and from stockholders in the form of lower dividends. Like the sales tax, the corporation tax is a pocketpicking ai Its principal virtue is that it will produce revenue. . We hope that some day all invisible taxes will be repealed, and all revenue will be obtained by levies which the taxpayer's can see and feel and which are pro-rated according to each taxpayer’s ability to contribute to the cost of the government. So long as most taxes are invisible and not so pro-rated, we shall never have the strong popular sentiment we should have in this country for real prudence in government hid

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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson N the Saturday Review of Literature some weeks ago, Katherine Gerould gave our women novelists a dig when she pointed out that a good many of

them flood the magazines with & form of “dream literature” which has little .resemblence to reality.

Whether you agree or not, it does seem a pity

that writers with so much power to influence their For example: That the sum total of an American girl's success is marriage to & millionaire. Not that the lovely young thing deliberately sets out to do this. Dear me, no! She's much too fine for that, and ever ready to sacrifice all for love. But somehow in the end she gets her millionaire or a man well on the way to becoming one. It would be stupid to argue that worldly success means nothing to us, Striving to get ahead is part of our will to survive, a spark from the evolutionary urge. But it is discouraging to believe we are ready to give up to it all our character, individ-

sands of women sit every week listening to other | | women review books or lecture on art or poetry or | e | culture. ‘Spoon-fed, on second-hand learning,

besame. putasiies Jf they 3

-| father, for it was he who built the young couple a- story-and-a-half

ST back of the Y.M. C. A. Build- " ing on New York-st is a drab, ridge-roofed structure that looks as

if it might have served an insti-}| It now houses |

tution at one time. Electronic Laboratories, Before the laboratory people moved in, it was John Rauch’s cigar

factory. And before it was that, it|

was the old and original Thirds

Ward school, where Fanny Vande-

grift recited her lessons. Fanny didn’t have far to go to school, because she lived in Mich-igan-st, opposite the present Maennerchor Building. Indeed, she didn’t have much farther to walk when she went to the old high school in University Square, where she was taught the conventions of the time. As a matter of fact, Fanny hugged the immediate surroundings of her home all the time she was here, but she stepped out after that because she’s the Indianapolis girl who married Robert Louis Stevenson. - n s ” HE didn’t marry Mr. Stevenson right away, however, because, as fate would have it, Samuel Osbourne got ahead of Mr. Stevenson. Mr. Osbourne had been private secretary to Governors Wright and Willard and looked like a pretty good catch around here. At any rate, he looked all right to Fanny’s

cottage on the northwest corner of St. Clair-st and Capitol-av, where the Kahn Tailoring people now do business. The : Samuel Osbournes lived in this cottage until they got ready to: go to California, to start a controversy so acrimonious and bitter that it almost turned Indianapolis upside down—to say nothing of supplying Stevensonia with some of its choicest bits. : : 2 oo» = N the meantime, however, something happened to the cottage, and we might as well follow its fate while Mrs. Osbourne is giving birth to a son in San Francisco. The son turned out to be Lloyd Osbourne who for some reason, known only to British encyclopedists, is always referred to as “the stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson.” As for the cottage, it now houses the United Tabernacle Baptist (colored) Church. ‘ To be sure, the cottage isn’t where Father Vandegrift built it. The

next. owner made a high two-story |

house of it, and’ that’s the way Tom

Taggart found it. when he bought |

the property. Mr. Taggart. had the Osbourne house moved to the southeast corner of Senate and St. Clairsts to make room for his own residence, and it stands there today, remodeled some more to look like a church and somewhat the worse for wear. Anyway, it needs a coat of paint. 2 n=» VV ETHER the Osbourne family trouble started in California or right here is hard to say. And it doesn’t much matter because it’s enough to say that it came to a head in France. Mrs. Osbourne had taken the children to France sometime in 1875 and spent the next three

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1 disapprove, of what you suyami will defend to the death. your right to say it.—Voltaire.

(Timeg readers’ are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make nour letters short. 80 all can have a chance, Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter. must be signed. but names will be withheld on request.) : ®. 8 JOHNSON CONDEMNS OARP CANDIDATES By Hugh S. Johnson, Okmulgee, Okla.

What words are adeguate to condemn a man of intelligence who will seek political preferment by promising old people that, it they elect him, he will see to it that from onethird to one-half of ‘all income. of all our families—poor and rich alike —will be taken away by a sales.tax on the. food and clothing of the poor, to give every one of the aged $200 a month or half—or even onethird ‘of that sum? Everybody who has scratched the

Your Health . BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ABIES who live on’ COW'S milk ~" are more likely to ‘have digestion disorders than those who. live on mother’s milk, Until recently,

a good part of the trouble, ‘no doubt,

was due to invasion of the milk by germs.” Modern methods of cleanliness have eliminated -this possi bility. Most. modifications of cow's milk involve a reduction of the ‘amount of protein and fat, and an increase | in the amount of sugar. A diet which ‘contains too much protein, as compared with sugar, will lead’ to an increased amount of bacterial action in the bowels, .and in that-way, cause trouble with nutrition. Too much protein also will increase the water needed ‘by the

years there. At Fontainebleau in |body.

1876 she. met the 26-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson. Mrs. Osbourne returned home in 1878 and in August of the following year, alarmed by reports of her illness, Stevenson hurriedly crossed the Atlantic He traveled as a steerage passenger and then as an immigrant across the continent and mn December arrived in San Fransco.

In May, 1880, he married the former Mrs. Osbourne, who since had been divorced. They: spent their honeymoon in a desolate mining camp described in “The Silverado Squatters.” In the autumn of 1880 Stevenson returned to Europe with his wife and Lloyd and they stayed there until 1887, when they sailed for New York never to set foot in Europe again. At last he settled on one of the Samoan Islands. There he had a lovely place called Vailima at the foot of a lofty mountain. In 1894 he died at Vailima as courageously and’ cheerily as he had lived and his body was borne by 60 natives up Mount Vaca to rest in a beautiful spot above his home.

s » 2 XCEPT for splitting her maiden

Most babies can take a fair pro-. portion of the fat in cow’s milk However, it is customary nowadays to cut down on the fat, also. (A baby. getting cow's milk with a high degree of fat sometimes develops an intolerance for fat. The fat of cow’s milk is not as easily absorbed by the human body as is that of mother’s milk. All sorts of mixtures and variations. of cow’s milk have been devised to overcome difficulties such as have been mentioned. Sugar is added to the milk in many forms. Milk sugar is one of the most frequent forms, as are also malt and cane sugar. . The latter is. inexpensive and is widely recommended by most *doctors who specialize in infant feed-

Many doctors recommend’ a mixture of dextrin and maltose, such as is. found in many proprietary Infant foods. : ® . » : common method of prepar-

‘4 ing artificial’ feeding for the |’

baby: involves the adding of water, and, later, of carbohydrate or sugar. Another method is merely to add sugar to the whole milk and to re-

duce the total quantity of food that |

is taken.

In such cases, & good deal of ad- J ditional water is given between |

feedings. This adds to the amount.

of ‘nursing necessary for the Baby. i | g

‘ture. -

Surtaseiof the Townsend plan knows

that ‘the killing objection to it isn’t

just that it is hideously and ruth-

lessly unfair to every growing child, every youth fighting for an education, and every: member of every

struggling family right up to the

time of their own old age. . The unanswerable objection is that it is wholly, unquestionably and without the faintest shadow of doubt, impossible. : This impossibility isn’t a conclusion of opinion, judgment or conjecIt is ‘a conclusion of arith-

metic<—so plain and certain ‘that it can be demonstrated to any eighthgrade student as clearly as that you can’t put four quarts of water into

| a two-quart can.

In other words, this impossibility is known beycnd peradventure . to every man of sufficient brains to fun for Congress. No: benefit of doubt can, therefore, be’ given ‘to the. as+ serted - misguided: sincerity -:of any

‘candidate who promises this impos- |

sibility—much less to any advocate who takes the pennies of these—our most pitiful poor—to support it. On the basis of his public standing, knowingly to raise an impossible hope .in- desperate and failing hearts—and. to do it for pelf “or preferment—is a betrayal of trust.

pwn. ‘FINDS PRESIDENT MORE

POPULAR THAN PARTY By George Gould Hine

The friends of the President sre| -

in a peculiar position as & result of the recent primaries. They can vote for him, of course, but not for a Congress that will support him. As far as their votes are concerned, he would be only a figurehead. Thirty-six thousand five hundred twenty-four voters in Marion Coun-

ty have deserted ' the Old Guard|"

since its last victory in 1928. It 15 | Were fate to lead me far from you,

fair to assume that they are friends of the President, else why ‘should they desert? For Congress, they have their choice.of two candidates. They can vote for Mr. Elliott, the Old ‘Guard will have no objections. Or they can vote for Mr. Ludlow—and still the Old Guard will have no objections—in fact, the Old Guard : will be most gratified, says Mr. Watson

‘—proved friends are best.

To whom should the friends of the President tender their thanks for this peculiar privilege of converting him into a figurehead? Probably the newspapers and political machines, but certainly not the can-

"|SIDE GLANCES

didates—they had nothing to conceal. In their statements published in The Times on April 23, not one indorsed the Administration or even mentioned the President by sname. On the contrary, the Old Guard slogans dripped from every pen: The Old Guard = virtues, like Ilgurel wreaths inscribed “Peace,” “Thrift,” “Patriotism” or “Humanity,” encircled every brow. What are we to understand from ali this except that newspapers and politicians no longer understand the people, nor lead them, nor influence them in any way. It seems to be beyond their comprehension that the great masses-of men,_do not. find the repository of their faith in parliaments, or congresses, or conventions, or newspapers or political machines. A They always look to one man. And nothing they can say or do will take a single vote away from him between now and November instead more will come. ; a : PROTESTS POLICE THREAT AFTER PAYING FINE By a Reader A week ago, we received a sticker for ‘double parking. Twenty minutes later we had paid our fine. A week later we received a notice to

| appear at police headquarters or a

warrant would be issued for our arrest. - Luckily, we saved our receipt or we may have had to pay again. It is all right when you have violated the law, to pay. That is as it should be, but when one has paid and the police come to you, and you must lay off from work to visit Beadquarters | again, if you have lost or thrown away your receipt, that isn’t right.

STANZA BY MARY WARD

I hope that, even with years between, You, Hearing me call would answer, e,

“Come, I will take you home, ~. . Kathleen”

DAILY THOUGHT

“But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.— Lamentations iii, 32.

M2 may . dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never.~—~Cowper. E

~ By George Clark

Vagabond

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Indiana ERNIE PYLE

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EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that. »

RT WORTH, June 1.—This attempted visualization of what Fort Worth’s Frontier Centennial will be like is purposely divided into two parts (this is the second) because it will take you two days to see it all.

Since two of the four main at-: tractions are predominantly : you may find it necessary to spen one of the two days getting. drunk. My advice, then, is to see-*Jumbo” and “The Last Fron tier” the first day, and let the second day fall where it may (and you, too). Here is what you will see the sec--ond day—at least, it's what you San see if you're still able.

In the afternoon we will put on our ice cream pants and ‘blue coat, take a deep breath, and stroll over to the “Casa Manara.” This Means “house of tomorrow.” who thought it. up, modestly la it “not only a day, but a decade, in’ advance of its times!” Foe

T is an open-air cafe. Wide circular ledges rise from the stage, and on these ledges will be tables and chairs with big umbrellas over them. You sit out here and order drinks and watch the show, which will be put on each afternoon and twice in the evening, on a stage 130 feet across. This stage, I would have you know, is a “Gargantuan revolving reciprocating stage . . . a leviathan of rostrums . . . with 4,264,000 pounds of actual deadweight plus a lovely freight of 250 eye-bedevil-ing coryphees over a pool of limpid crystal containing 617,000 gallons of real water.” That's what the of« ficial literature of the show says. The stage presentation will be a Broadway musical show, Billy masterpiece. . It will have the most colorful costumes, the most beautiful scenery, the most fantastic lighting effects, of any show in history. You bet it will. There wil be 300 people in it, the stars will be changed weekly, and will in= clude such bearded Texas patriots as Paul Whiteman, Shirley Temple and Jack Benny. In addition, there will be 100 beautiful chorus- girls from Texas, and 100 from New York, all clothed in Texas sun~ beams, at least. 8 2 = HE plot goes something like this: A young couple go to the Chicago World's Fair on their honeymoon and then, getting the habit, they keep on going to fairs as the years roll by—to St. Louis, to San Francisco, and to ‘Chicago's more recent Century of Progress (you know what a scénhe designer can do with all those subjects), to the San Diego Fair, and finally in the sunset of their days they wind up at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. “: (I don’t know ‘why the Dallas Exposition is left out.) And while this is goihg on, the Gargantuan stage.is reciprocating; revolving, swerving and probably oscillating a little (and so is the audience), and then as’ a grand finale the whole stage moves float ingly backward on its limpid pool of real water, and down into the lake thus formed between stage and audience come real girls floating in real boats. That's the finale. What it has to do with the rest of the show I never did find out. It costs $1 a head to get a table in the “Casa nana.” Whatever else you spend there depends on your capacity. After the show there will be dancing on the stage for those who can still stand. # » ” HE rest of us will crawl across the street to the “Pioneer’s Palace,” where they're really having fun, This is No. 4 of the. big attractions. It is a great big honkyork Pioneer day saloon and dance It will have a bar something undep two miles long, and everybody 1 be dressed as in the old days, ie a “tough” atmosphere will prevail,’ and there'll be square dancing and shimmy dancing and painted ladies and men in boots and handle<bar mustaches and more sixshooters than you'd find in the Colt factory. There will be a great commotion and din in here: blood will flow like wine, and wine like water. And up behind the bar will be a huge as and at intervals this painting will slide open in zhe mid= dle, and there in the wall will be a stage, and then we’ll have a floor show, or what would be a floor show if it were on the floor instead of up in the wall. ‘Between shows there will be brawlings and killings among the

customers, and at 5 and 11 p. m.

the “dead wagon” will come around

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