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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1036.
CAREFUL NOW, DRIVER
HE encouraging but still too small reduction in auto deaths in the state and nation is not due chiefly to new laws, mechanical governors on automobilés or any other automatic control. It is largely the result of the intensive campaign for safety. People finally are rebelling at the high traffic toll. An aroused public is learning to be careful for its own sake. A week-end of traffic tragedy such as has just passed, then, is all the more reason to increase the fight for safety. Twelve names were added to the state auto death list. Five deaths in Marion County boosted the county's 1936 toll to 61. W. H. Cameron, National Safety Council managing director, warned that the opening of the heavy suminer motoring season “has precipitated a crisis in the five-year campaign to reduce automobile fraffic deaths.” A striking demonstration of successful safety education is in the schools. National statistics show a reduction of 6 per cent in child traffic fatalities in recent years. This week about 60,000 children leave Indianapolis schools for the summer vacation. Measures for their safety can not be concentrated around schools and playgrounds during the next few months. A heavier responsibility falls upon the individual driver to be careful.
CHARLES FRANCIS ROBERTS
HARLES FRANCIS ROBERTS was an important figure in the musical life of Indianapolis for 35 years. A composer of operas, musical production lyrics and popular songs, he probably was best known for his “Indianapolis, My Home Town,” composed jointly with Henry K. Burton; for his operetta, “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” and for his lyrics in the stage production of “Roger Bean.” Others like to remember him as the musician who played the first organ installed in a local theater— the Orpheum, which was in the building now occupied by Stewarts, Inc. Still others recall that Ole Olsen, of the stage team of Olsen and Johnson, was a member of the group Mr. Roberts organized here years ago to furnish sound effects for silent motion pictures. Mr. Roberts’ death at 58 deprives the community of a talented musician and interesting personality.
AND NOW WHAT?
HE public's power to deal with economic and T social problems is now impaled upon two horns of a legalistic dilemma. damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Last week that power could not be exercised by the Federal government because that would interfere with states’ rights. This week the power can not be exercised by state government because it runs afoul of another kind of constitutional barrier, The first case was the Guffey coal decision. The second, the New York minimum wage law. Since both Federal and state governments are thus made impotent by judicial decree, more sharply than ever rises the question—now what? We are living in an increasingly complex civilization. These problems arise—such as saving a sick and far-flung industry and preventing the exploitation of labor and the evils of cut-throat competition through wage slashing. They aren't just academic problems, They are so serious and so real that the - whole future of an intricate industrial system is at stake. But government, the ony force through which a people can deal, finds itself paralyzed. Striking comment on the situation comes from the four dissenting | justices. Said Mr. Justice Stone, speaking for himself and Justices Cardozo and Brandeis: “There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract if those who, because of their economic necessity, give their services for less than is needful to keep body and soul together. But if this is freedom of contract no one has ever denied that it is
freedom which may be restrained, notwithstanding
the Fourteenth Amendment, by a statute passed in
the public interest . . « 8 ” » T is difficult to imagine any grounds other than
our own personal economic predilections for
' saying that the contract of employment is any less
than an appropriate subject of legislation than are
_ gcores of others in dealing with which this court has
held the Legislatures may curtail individual freedom in the public interest. . . . “It is not for the courts to resolve doubts whether the remedy by wage regulation is as efficacious as many believe, or is better than some other, or is better than the blind operation of uncontrolled economic ‘forces. The Legislature must be free to choose unless the government is to be Yendered impotent. » Said Chief Justice Hughes: “I can find nothing in the Federal Constitution which denies the state the power to protect women from being exploited by overreaching employers through the refusal of a fair wage as defined in the New York statute and ascertained in a reasoriable manner by competent authority.” But after-all, that was comment only from the minority, and in terms of effect the minority doesn’t
: count. So we have the 'impasse—a situation made
worse than that described last Thursday night by Senator Borah when he said that the American people would not long tolerate an empire for the ‘purpose of exploitation and a government of 48 states for purposes of regulation. The minimum wage
_ decision takes the teeth even from the states.
It is pertinent, we believe, to ask the majority, as they leave for their recess, to give some little thought,
from the perspective that vacation provides, to the
glesiion of whets do ve go from here.
~ WELCOME, QUEEN MARY! PRITAIN'S wonder-ship, the Queen Mary, arriving in American waters on her maiden voyage, as found this country tinged by envy,
Or, as the saying goes, it's ;
| duction of freak bills.
_ barricade between the King and the peasants.
ssi and out-luxury each other with their Queen Marys, Normandies, Europas, Bremens, Rexes, Conte di Savoias, Ile de Frances and so on—we haven't a single ship in their class. As against the 40,000 to 82,000-tonners of the others, wé have only two ships up to date in liners— the Washington and the Manhattan—of 24,000 tons. These are splendid ships, well worthy of the flag they fly. But there are not enough of them even to provide a weekly service. The President Harding and the President Roosevelt are older ships and only about half the size. There is no call for American shipping to try to outbuild the Queen Marys and the Normandies. Or even the Rexes and the Bremens. These huge vessels have never paid their way. They operate at a loss even when times are good. They are a source of pride and prestige, but are economically unsound investments.
Even strategically they are doubtful projects. In time of war such huge vessels are putting too many eggs in one basket. They offer an almost unmissable target for submarines and aircraft. The admiral of any fleet would much prefer three fast 25,000-ton auxiliaries to one 80,000-tonner. But something is wrong somewhere when a nation like the United States makes such a poor-show-ing on Fhe seas. Ours is the richest country in the world. Its seamen are second to none. It can build as well as any. Its people do most of the traveling. Its sea-borne trade compares with the best. Yet in ships it lags. Americans would do well to ask themselves the why of our failure, and begin to think of a remedy.
UP TO THE POLITICIANS
T= Indiana League of Women Voters is adopting militant tactics in its crusade to force merit
system planks into the state Republican and Democratic platforms.
Leaders announce that about 50 members wearing banners, “For Merit, Against Spoils,” will be at the doors of the district meetings of Republican delegates tonight and pass out handbills concerning the merit system.
The state Republigan convention Wednesday will be asked to adopt a merit system plank. A similar request is to be made at the Democratic state convention and, later, at both national conventions.
The crusade to arouse public opinion in favor of trained personnel in office has had wide response. Party leaders would do well to join the campaign against the ‘costly spoils system.
STUNT STATESMANSHIP
M*~ ZIONCHECK, the playful congressman from Washington, has regaled Washington, Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico and New York City with certain dizzy doings that none of the predecessors of his pe-
culiar school had thought of. But his is a technique that has been familiar to the national and state capitals for years. It requires a minimum of wit, some little originality, but no statesmanship whatever. All that is needed is to woo the headlines by means of some studied eccentricity.
There was Senator Vardaman, who used to drive a span of white oxen through Mississippi to indicate he was for white supremacy. And Senator Magnus Johnson, who wore overalls in the Senate to show he was of and for the people. And Senator Thomas of Colorado, who removed his winter toupee as a ceremonial to greet the spring. And Congressman Manuel Herrick of Oklahoma, who began his career in Washington by conducting a beauty contest with his hand in marriage as the prize and ended it by going to jail for stoking a Maryland still. And Congressman Shoemakér of Minnesota, who, like Mr. Zioncheck, tangled with ‘the cops every so often. And, of course, the late Huey Long, famous for silk pajamas, pot likker and filibusters. The less objectionable of this school are the sartorial exhibitionists of whom there have been many —South Carolina's Cole Blease of the robin-red vest; Tom-Tom Heflin of the spreading white waistcoat, 10-gallon hat and frock coat; the contemporary Rep. Gassaway of Oklahoma, who affects cowboy hat and high boots, and the dandified Senator Ham Lewis of Illinois.
More objectionable are the few who muscle into the news by means of much speaking or the introOf the former, Texas’ “BlaBla” Blanton has burned more crackling thorns under the legislative pot than any. And of the latter: New York's Dr. Sirovich, who brought down Canada’s wrath by proposing annexation of the Dominion, and California's Kramer, who offends Mexico by suggesting the purchase of Lower California, should win the poison ivy and oak wreaths easily. Unfortunately it is lawmakers like these who often bring ridicule and contempt upon the whole Congress. Far from being typical, they are the noisy minority. Those who have ability along with eccentricity remain on. The people soon tire of the others.
IT’S AN OLD STORY
UROPEAN workers and farmers seem to be able to take it from their male dictators. But on Sunday 520,000 men of the Rumanian Peasant Party paraded in protest against the influence wielded over their King Carol by his lady friend, Mme. Magda Lupescu, demanding her banishment.
It's an old story. Since Eve began bossing the works in Eden women have had their fingers in government. It was Helen's fair face that launched a thousand ships and “Laid at last old -Troy in ashes,” and Cleopatra’s sex appeal that lost a world for Mark Antony. “La Pompadour” was the real Louis XV. Comtesse Du Barry gave up her scheming head, but not before it cost France a pretty penny. The last words of England’s Charles II were of his Eleanor Gwyn: “Let not poor Nellie starve!” And Catherine Parr was “One Catherine too many” for bluff King Hal, over whom several fair women had lost their heads.
Successful ladies in politics, however, have worked their wills behind the scenes and managed their males with silken chains, Carol's titian-haired flame has not been so discreet. She is accused of being a
The average married man thinks he’s boss in the family, and a wise wife never will let him know the truth. Much less will she let the neighbors know, as Mme. Magda evidently has.
HEARD IN CONGRESS EP. FORD (D,, Cal)—Of course, if we do not want to help the artist who has no work, we can take him out, as some of the opponents of this bill would do, and shoot him.
2 = = ENATOR VANDENBERG (R., Mich)—Probably 14s precrdained ial the souniey shal persist, py} for one more year at least, in the reckless, wasteful, corrupting, and inadequate relief process which is - the Administration's. present infatuation, But the
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HE least emotional, and very likely the most scientific amateur ichtyologist hereabouts is Albert Reager, all other claims—and there are some, especially in Irvington—to the sonirary notwithstanding. * Mr. Reager is especially good when it comes to explaining the home life and habits of the viviparous breed of fishes. He is so good, in fact, that he can even account for them. He knows something, of course, about the oviparous kind, too, but his heart isn't in it the way it is with the viviparous kind. I have somebody else to go to with my oviparous problems. 8 = 8 R. REAGER gets into this column today because he knows why most of the goldfish around Indianapolis died last winter. Mr. Reager lost a couple himself and is in a position to talk, especially about the breed known as guppies (Lebistes reticulatis). To" hear Mr. Reager tell it, gup-
pies get sick just like anybody else |
with viviparous habits. Guppies can, and usually do, contract shimmies, itch, fungus, tailrot, gill congestion, gyrodactylus, dropsy and even consumption, and any one of the diseases—let alone a complication—is reason for alarm, says Mr. Reager. There is the matter of senility and old age, too, because a lot of the time guppies feel about life just the way human beings do. ” 4 ” HE average life of a fish, says Mr. Reager, is two to five years, depending on the species and the care given it, but there are only a few around here who have stuck it out that long. Most of Mr. Reager’s guppies are five years old, and he has a pair six years old that looks good enough to celebrate the tin wedding. Mr. Reager ventures the opinion that the average life of a guppy in Indianapolis isn’t any more than 215 days, and it’s probably because people are so occupied. with the death toll of automobile accidents that they haven't got around to the mortality of guppies. » ” 2 LL this, however, doesn’t explain why Indianapolis guppies died the way they did last winter. Mr. Reager ascribes the trouble to the fact that guppy owners didn't provide their tanks with thermostatically controlled heaters. It stands to reason, says Mr. Reager, that you can’t expect an exotic fish to get along in a temperature that has dropped ten degrees and stands.at 50 degrees F., with no telling what will happen overnight. The thermostatically controlled heater is heaven’s gift to the guppy, says Mr. Reager, but like the most heaven-sent things it, too, has to be watched. Otherwise, you're worse off than you were before. #® 2% HE real solution, says Mr. Reager, will come when fish are taught a sign language whereby so many wiggles of a fin will signify a case of cramps. A combination of fin and tail wiggles will indicate a chill, if Mr. Reager has his way. Mr. Reager has high hopes of putting something like this across, thus solving the inhibitions of thermostatically controlled heaters. He says he doesn’t see why this can’t be done because you can: do almost anything with creatures smart enough to have viviparous habits.
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Q—Name the selection played at the opening of the motion picture, “Charlie Chan in Shanghai.”
A“Prelude to.a Chinese Play,” by L. E. DeFrancesco.
Q—For what are soy beans used?
A—In making industrial and food products, including paint, enamel, varnish, glue, printing ink, rubber substitutes, linoleum, insecticidesy plastics, glycerin, flour, soy sauce, breakfast food, candies, roasted beans with a nutlike flavor, livestock feeds, etc.
Q—How was the dollar fixed as the unit of currency of the United States?
A—Ry act of Congress of April 6, 1792, which also established the United States mints,
Q—What is sloe gin.
A—A dry gin assimilated with, the | i
sloe berry, a small plumlike, astringent fruit, and granulated sugar.
Q—Is Holland and The Netherlands the same? A—Holland is a popular namie for the country officially known as The Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Q—What has been the average yearly production of coal im the United States in the last 20 years? A—Production fluctuated -from Sos SA
J been used as cosmetics?
60,000 INDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN WILL GET ouT OF SCHOOL THIS WEEK
The Hoosier Forum
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” u 2 READER URGES G. 0. P. TO NOMINATE FORD By H. S. Osgood The writer respectfully suggests the honored name of Henry Ford be placed in nomination béfore the Republican *~ National Convention at Cleveland for the presidency. No other American candidate for that position can qualify in the sense necessary to give this government a non-partisan business administration, which is absolutely necessary to establish and rehabilitate the business of this country. The industrial workers of America must have such a man to overcome the grave emergencies created by toe present experimental administration. The business of ‘this country has gone the limit in giving the President and his advisors, some of whom
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN HEN a mother is feeding a baby with artificial milk mixtures, she will have difficulty in determining whether to increase the food or to diminish it, whether to change the food because of various reasons, and when to begin adding other foods. If the baby seems healthy and continues to gain in weight regularly, there would seem to be no reason for increasing its diet. The main reason for increasing the supply of food are that the baby ‘is not gaining weight satisfactorily, and that it seems to be hungry. It is not well to estimate the necessity for increasing the food by the weight curve alone. If the mother does this, she will be increasing the amount of food all the time, because mothers like to see the baby gain weight. A baby's gain in weight is not always continuous. Many healthy babies will remain stationary in weight for a week or two without any visible cause. On the other hand, it is fairly easy for any intelligent mother to know when the baby is hungry. I he drinks greedily and rapidly, if he cries for more, if he gets fretful long before feeding time, the baby needs more food.
EJ ” ” EMEMBER, however, that babies sometimes cry merely be-
‘cause they are spoiled. Further-
more, a baby who is hungry and does not get enough food will keep on sucking, and swallowig air, and this will be asoocated with regurgitation and vomiting.
appear to be ignorant of constitutional law, all the opportunity necessary to demonstrate any ability. The judicial test, however, again has reversed political maneuvering to the confusion of every business. The government has been badly handled by the political moneygrabbers, time servers, and high salaried political parasites until the voters, regardless of party, must place men who have conscience, patriotism, and ability at the head cf government now staggering under a combined assault of special interests, party interests, Communism, and every detrimental, undermining force imaginable. Mr. Ford is in no sense seeking political preferment but he is the head of the foremost industry ox this country, believes in paying living wages, employs more men than any other manufacturer and is vitally alive to every question of national welfare. He has no strings that any politician can pull in favor of special interests. Hence his candidacy would be acclaimed by ‘all lovers of good government and would unite conflicting elements. The time for political experimenting has passed.
” ”» ” TAKES G. 0. P. TO TASK FOR NEW DEAL ATTACKS By Hiram Lackey Our Republican friends complain constantly about the large and increasing number of people who wish to live off of the government, instead of productive work. By government, they mean our national
‘wealth. °
If we were alone on a desert as large as all the mewspaper space that our powerful Republican press has wasted in these futile, inconsistent complaints about the New Deal, we would die from thirst. On 10 grains of rice, it is possible to write enough facts about the subject to enlighten a normal mind and make it forever immune to all of this reactionary rot. Such is the emancipating power of truth. It is well for us to reveal the truth to our Republican friends in a gentle way so that they will not suffer “the analytic shock” which psychologists tell us is likely to disturb a patient when you show him his real personality. Under socialism, all normal peo-
ple have to work. No person in good health is allowed to live by interest, dividends, charity, etc. Ideals of charity are held aloft and followed by the mass. Tillable land is given over to prodtiction of abundance to satisfy the needs of all. Machinery
is used to its extreme capacity.’
There is no unemployment.
Now, Republicans, what American |
groups are most bitterly opposed to all socialistic tendencies of the New Deal? Who are the most bitter in condemning and interrupting all New Deal efforts at hurhane, logical, social planning? In the name of fairness, who are those un-Ameri-
lean individuals and organizations
that are most active in suppressing the free expression of facts on social and economic education that alone shall place productive work and its abundance within the easy reach of all? Who are the actual parasites who thus insist on continuing to live off of interest, dividends, etc.,, and who persist on forcing -a degenerating life upon all?
LANDING SONG BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY
Oh, say can you see o'er the waves pearly bright, What so proudly has sailed with majesty beaming, From the shores of Great Britain— Oh, say! do you sight?
O’er the waters we watched—and then gallantly steaming Into sight she steers . .. the King’s flag! Joyful cheers! Gave proof through the crowd, the Queen Mary was there!
The Regina of the Seas has come over the wave, To the land of the free and the home of the brave!
DAILY THOUGHT
Wherefore, if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies; let them implead one another.—The Acts xix, 38.
AWS are the very bulwarks of liberty; they «define every man’s rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men—J. G. Holland.
°|SIDE. GLANCES
By George Clark
| “I only wanted her to be able to play a few little pieces that
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Indiana
ERNIE PYLE
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.
ORT WORTH, June 2—Fort Worth, at the present writing, is divided into two parts. One part thinks the “Frontier Show,” which Billy Rose is putting on as Fort Worth's part of the Texas Centennial, is all right. The ath~ er part thinks it is terrible. . People tell me a great boiling™is going on in the breasts of many* Fort Worthians, and that the thing may come bursting forth any minute and become a quarrel of national proportions. The troublg is over the “naked girl” aspect of the show, and the exaggerated literature being issued.
.One advertising folder, for instance, | has at the top in big letters: “Wild
and Whoo-Pee!” isn’t dignified. One of the main points of contention is a practically unclothed but beautiful girl on a bucking bronc—the sketch that. has become the “theme picture” of the show. Then there is another picture of a girl, wearing a big hat and a cartridge belt, doing a cartwheel on a cut out map of Texas. » ” = ND then there is a pen and ink sketch in one of the advertising folders, showing girls wading in the pool of the “Casa Manana,” between audience and stage. The girls ° are covered with water to their knees. From there up, they are covered with nothing whatever. The women's associations of Fort Worth are passing resolutions. against such business. If there must be girls, they would have them wear riding pants and boots and cowgirl shirts, as at Dallas. Billy Rose loves these resoiutions. He hopes they pass a thousand. For every one stirs up more ‘interest in the Frontier Centennial. Rose didn’t tell me so, but I know he is hoping somebody tries to get out an injunction to stop the show. It'd be in every newspaper in the country, and tourists would come flocking by the thousands. There isn’t much danger of Rose having to change any of his plans. There is a “Board of Control,” composed of Fort Worth business men, who have the last word on the Frontier Centennial. They're the boys who furnished most of the money (by buying bonds), and they're keen on gettinig their money back. They figure the best way to
People» say this
do it is to give Billy Rose free rein.
” ” ” * HE money has heen spent. It's - too late now to back out or change horses. So most anything Billy Rose wants to put in his show is 0. k. with the Board of Control. There is also some resentment against Rose for bringing so much of Broadway down for the Centennial. He has a staff of about 20 here * from New York, including Murray Anderson, the director, and Albert Johnson, the designer, and Raoul - DuBois, costumer, and Edward Clarke Lilley, staging expert. There will be about 100 chorus. girls from Manhattan and the whola , cast of “Jumbo,” and stars from Broadway and Hollywood. : The New York “complex” exists around the Frontier Centennial. You get the feeling that everybody is thinking “we're big-time stuff from Broadway, exiled down here for a few months to make a killing, and the sooner we get back to the big stem the happier we'll be.” I got that same impression from the New Yorkers working on the’ Dallas Exposition (although there aren’t so many of them)—the feel ing that Texans don’t know any« thing; that Texas artists can’t paint, that Texas designers can’t design, that it takes us hot-shots from thebig time to do fhings in a big way.
oy 8 on HERE is/another interesting little fight down here. The one between Dallas and Fort Worth, That’s been going on ever since the two cities existed, of course. But this Centennial pours oil on the fire. . : In Dallas they tell the story about the flea and the elephant walking across a bridge. After they are across, the flea turns to the elephant and says, “We sure did shake that bridge, didn’t we?” The flea, according to the Dallas story, is Fort Worth’s efforts at a Centennial. = And in Fort Worth they speak of : the Dallas Exposition as being put’ on by “a No. 3 company from the Chicago World's Fair.” 7s But this brawl won't hurt either of them. It just stirs up interest, * and both of them, if my guess is Cora : rect, will have plenty of people this’ summer. My own feeling is that anybody.’ who comes to Fort Worth and-’ doesn’t also go to Dallas is foolish. And any one who goes to Dallas and passes up Fort Worth is going. to’ miss an awful lot of fun. (How'sthat for getting out of a hole? I ought to start writing political Pat, forms.) :
Today’s Science
BY DAVID DIETZ
for America’s firs§ citizens will be undertaken this summer by a joint expedition of tha National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institution. The expedition will go to Alaska to hunt for the remains of the earli=_ est human beings in America. These"