Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1936 — Page 16

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MERIT PLAN BACKED UBLIC-SPIRITED citizens will applaud the action of the Republican state convention yesterday in adopting the merit system platform plank proposed by the Indiana League of Women Voters. The platform pledge reads: “We recommend the installation of a system of public personnel management in the state government comparable to sound methods of personnel administration in business. : “The purpose of such a system would be to insure the employment of qualified persons on the basis of proved merit; to classify the civil service so that equal pay for equal work will be assured and unnecessary positions eliminated; and to provide for control of personnel so that promotions and discharges will be made on the basis of performance on the job and not on the basis of partisan political activity or personal bias. ; “We recognize the necessity of adequate training for government employes and pledge ourselves to co-operate with the educational institutions of the state in their programs of preparing persons for the many types of governmental positions which require "a good educational background, skill and technical knowledge.” ” ” ” T= first part of this pledge was placed in the Republican state platform two years ‘ago at the League's request. Officials of the League say the new plank, in addition to urging a merit system based upon competitive examinations, would provide other tests of fitness going beyond civil service examinations into the field of public personnel management. The platform threw down a challenge to the Democrats, criticising the growth of the spoils system in state and Federal governments. The League of Women Voters will offer the merit system plank to the Democratic state convention. The League also is campaigning to force strong merit planks into the two national platforms. Grow=- _ ing sentiment against the pernicious system of political patronage can not be ignored. The Indianapolis Times congratulates the Republican state convention on its stand in favor of trained experts chosen for public careers regardless

i 4 Fad . An SAR a ; . "we pay for their wines and champagnes and mush. Pirst, it may be assumed that they will purchase larger quantities of all the things they already buy from us, the products of our farms and mines and factories, including notably oil and cotton and foodstuffs. : Second, they will purchase proportionately even _ larger quantities of things for which the new treaty reduces existing French tariffs and expands or eliminates existing French quotas of American goods: These include fresh fruit, dried fruit, canned fruit, canned asparagus, rice, tobacco, canned and frozen fish, lumber, motion picture films, automobiles and parts, refrigerators, radios, typewriters, tractors and agricultural machinery, ” » 2 OME alarmists contend that our lowering of tariffs will result in flooding the American market with French products. The concessions are much too slight and the remaining tariffs much too high to permit that. These objectors seem to think that every dollar's worth of imports robs American farmers apd manufacturers and other enterprisers of a dollar's worth of business—that it is a net loss in American profits and wages. But what about the credit we export when we pay for imports. That credit has to be used either in the purchase of American products or in the payment of debt. The money itself never leaves the country. And when the credit is used, it means business for American enterprisers—the revenue to be divided into American wages and profit. J \ 8 8 8 T= volume of our world trade can be rebuilt only by restoring conditions which will permit more goods to flow in. We learned that when we tried to check the inflow by passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The new treaty does not go as far as it should in

accelerating the inflow of French goods, with which

credits can be built up for the purchase of more

American goods. (Last year, we d France twice as much as we t from France, a condition unhealthful for both countries.) But the new treaty

does remove some of the hindrances, and it will pro-mote-a greater flow of trade in both directions, and contribute thereby to the prouperity of both countries..

BACK TO NATURE

SENSIBLE plea for elimination of artificialities in state parks and for preservation of unspoiled bits of nature which have historic pasts, was made to the National Conference on State Parks in Hartford, Conn. this week by Col. Richard Lieber of Indianapolis. 3 Said Col. Lieber, president of the National Conference and a former state director of conservation who played a major role in building the Indiana state park system: “A thousand years from now, there will be little if anything left of man-made monuments of our times. The face of the country will be so changed that no one could possibly reconstruct the America of our day were it not for these great natural monu-

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BY * ANTON SCHERRER

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Y LOYD LEWIS latest book, “Os-

-/ car Wilde Discovers America,” includes, “of course, a chapter on Indianapolis, and it's mighty good reading even if it does omit a few essential details. After all, a book of 462 pages can hold just so much. The chapter is labeled “Ice Cream With the Governor of Indiana” and deals in part with Oscar’s visit to Gov. Porter's party after his lecture here Feb. 22, 1882. Mr. Wilde, it appears, picked a mighty poor day for his lecture in Indianapolis. It was a holiday and the town was full of people attending conventions of their own. The editors of the state had picked the day for their convention; likewise the Grand Army of the Republic; likewise the veterans of the Mexican War; likewise the loud and lusty Greenbackers of the time. And the Governor and Mrs. Porter, not to be caught napping, had capitalized the event by throwing a big party at the mansion, 501 N. Ten-nessee-st. I It kept a lot of people from going to Oscar’s lecture. * 2 ” HINGS started getting dull at the Governor's soiree around 10:30 when somebody suggested getting Oscar Wilde over to liven up the party. It was about time for the lecture to be over, anyway. Billy Roberts, the Governor's clerk, was the man picked for the job. He hired a hack and drove 10 blocks to the New Denison Hotel where Oscar had registered. To the everlasting credit of Oscar let it be

said that Mr. Roberts found Oscar in bed.

Oscar was ready to start out again, |

however. For the second time that day he dressed up in his lecture suit, which consisted of a swallowtail coat, black velvet breeches, a white shirt a little the worse for wear (it was the second time, remember), a high standing collar, black silk stockings and enormous shoes, low-cut, of course, and orna-

mented ' with magnificent silver buckles. ! 8 8 2

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Hoosier Forum

1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your #ight to say it—Voltaire.

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them to 250 words or less. must be signed. withheld on request.) 8 uw = DEPLORES LEGION’S STAND ON CHAILLAUX By Emily S. Barber

As was quite to be expected, the reactionary American Legion, which, with the super-reactionary D. A. R. and their ilk, have set themselves up as censors of American thought,

Republicanism, Unitarianism, Methodism, etc.? He must know that Socialism and Fascism are at opposite ends of the poles; that the former and Communism have very little in common except their mutual disgust with our dog-eat-dog industrial system, which is fast vanquishing even the ideals of Christianity. He may even be secretly trying to foster the hated “isms,” for he must know that steam confined is more likely to explode. As for the rank and file of the Legion, if they knew how they are

the time has been speeded up from a long jail sentence to just as short a time as the speeder can make it—and the police will see that he doesn’t slow down—under penalty. (The average run will approximate 200 miles.) The taxes on this extra gasoline will go back into state, Federal channels, etc, so everybody should Je happy. Naturally, there will be the necessary forms to sign, absolving the city from damage suits should our speedy friends crack up on the famous course. A broken steering knuckle . . . a smack into the

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in this southwest Texas cattle town, and I saw the words, “Big Bend Sentinel,” on a window. So I went in and introduced myself to a young fellow, and it turned out he had just bought the paper, and he and his wife were trying to put it on its feet. : They were in their middle twenties, I'd say, and very enthusiastic, although perhaps a little frightened. rles and Ruth Moore, and we sat and talked all that evening. As Moore said: “The depression hit me pretty hard before I got out of the Uni« ‘versity of Missouri, only I didn't know it. : “I had a sheepskin from a journalism school, abd a little newspaper experience, including a short stay as copy boy on the old New York World. : “Finally I got a job with an oil company in the Texas Panhandle. So I sent for the girl, and got married. It’s a good thing I did, for her teaching job kept us in grogeries after I got fired. :

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“PFPNHEN we had a windfall. Some . friends. gave us railroad tickets to New York. We lafided there with $50. I worked for the City of New York for a year, then came a chance for a good job in the east Texas oil fields. We were there two years. Then I heard this weekly could be. bought. © We bought it. “This is a town of 4000. It's pretty here. On a tableland a mile high, mountains all around, Mexico just two hours to the south. This is Hereford cattle country. But three years of drought have put Marfa flat on its back. “Any one of three things would fix us—rain, the reopening of Fort Russell by the Army, or a hit by some of these oil wild-catters.” That was a year and a half ago. Since then I have often wondered how Charles and Ruth Moore were getting along. So when I landed in Marfa this time I made a bee line for the Big Bend Sentinel office to see’ how things were doing. Things are doing all right. Charles Moore says: + “The paper was bankrupt when

making the Legion hated for trying {o suppress free speech, the first step toward Fascism, they would perhaps read a bit and think a little. Can it be that the army destroys all initiative, all independence, in the poor buck privates? Are they so flattered .to have their former harsh taskmasters noticing them? With the effects of army regimentation follow them all their lives? If so, I fear our democracy is doomed. Fascism is already on its way, helped most efficiently by Homer Chaillaux.

has indorsed its chief witch-hunt-er, Homer Chaillaux. We do not look for anything better from the Daughters of the American Revolu- | tion, but for a group as young as the Legion to be so blind is really too bad. It makes one wonder if democracy can continue safe if so few voters can do their own think-

we came. My experience in job printing, which is essential to any country weekly, was zero. I had always looked at advertising work

wall . . . probably no more than would have happened anyway at the excessive speed at which he’s used to driving . .. and if it happens at the track, only the guilty speed- | as a necessary evil for somebody er is endangered. else to perform. I was a news man. i Some plan of FosOpesaiion cer- ® #8 8 ainly can be worked out between |« Ae the city government and the Speed- UT 1 loaines © nin gs. 3 Jessne) way officials for conducting this about, acvertising, gare about expenses. It cost me $600 for

service. Proper newspaper Dpublity “on tis type. of -spesding | he PEIviete of fening The Bia

sentence once it is put into ef-|™% fect, will cut the field of “appli- And then it Fained. 1s Pushed She cants” to the minimum before FTalua rans Rose: gn over e many weeks have passed. In gh-lands. Cattle tan ed up.

other words, it will dawn upon The Herefords filled out again. some of the brighter ones that| rnen we managed to scrape on speed is for the Speedway enough cash to buy our competing only. ‘Those who do not have|ReWspaper and to merge with our

ments (national and state parks). “Let us be firmly determined to keep out of our parks all artificialities. Do not. attempt to gild the lily. Compact your material needs in a service area, and remember you are not the heir but the steward of a great inheritance.” Col. Lieber mentioned Nancy Hanks Lincoln Burial Ground, the Corydon Statehouse, the Lanier Home and the Tippecanoe Battlefield as giving Hoosiers a realization that history is a living thing.

us equipped and ready to go into the night, Mr. Wilde began the adventure by offering Mr. Roberts a drink of Spanish wine which he kept hidden in a goat's’ skin under his bed. Long after the event took place, Mr. Roberts was heard to say that.it. was mighty good wine. Arriving at the Governor’s Mansion, Mr. Wilde immediately expressed dissatisfaction with the architecture .of Mr. Porter’s house. He wanted to know whether. the people had given Mr. Porter the house or whether, by any chance, it was his by choice. Assured that the people had nothing to do with it; he remarked that -it was not any more artistic than the

of politics. The Democratic Party should join in this movement to eliminate the extravagance and waste of the spoils system from public office. But of course there is one thing even more important than a good pledge—and that is living up to it.

DR. ARNOLD BENNETT HALL HE death in Washington of Dr. Arnold Bennett ! Hall removes from the national scene a Hoosier who contributed much in the field of governmental research. Born at Franklin, Ind. 54 years ago, and graduated from Franklin College in 1904, Dr. Hall was the author of several books on political science. As an educator for many years, and as director of

ing. ~ For that matter, I doubt if Mr. C. himself is as stupid as he appears, lumping all the “isms” the way ne does; why does he not mention fundamentalism, humanitarianism,

" Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN MONG the most important con-

ENGLAND DID ‘IT

rye Wagner-Ellenbogen slum-abatement bill, now packed as an Administration measure, does not appear before Congress as just another New Deal ex-

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government research activities of the Brookings Institution in Washington, Dr. Hall played an important part in public affairs.

periment. It aims to profit by our own: American mistakes and it takes for its guide the British re-

Atlantic Ocean. If as good, he

added.

After the reception, Mr. Wilde was

siderations in feeding a baby

is its requirement for water.

By A. L. G. Indianapolis is synonymous with “tops” in speed—who ‘has a greater motor speedway than ours? Much

such a keen sense of figuring will learn after trying to hold a regular passenger auto at top speed for

competitor in job printing. That gave us an exclusive newspaper and job shop in Presidio County. We'll make a profit this year. |

housing plans that appear to have worked exceedingly well. From Director Coleman Woodbury of the National Association of Housing Officials, a student of the English project, we learn that subsidized lowrent housing not only has provided decent homes for millions of British working people, but has proved & ‘powerful stimulant to private enterprise. Right after the war England began subsidizing working men’s homes. Between the Armistice and April 1, 1935, there were 2,655,902 housing units constructed, of which 1,230,172 received subsidy. The interesting thing is that, while at the beginning the bulk of the work was subsidized, private building was ‘so stimulated that in 1934 it accounted for 85 per cent of the units built, Herbert Morrison, chairman of the London County Council, which now has an ‘annual rent roll of three and one-half million pounds, ‘says that this program, more than anything ‘else, - kept England's heavy industries stabilized until pri‘vate building took up the task about two years ago.

Mr. Woodbury found that under the British program, the assets of British ‘thrift societies increased 800 per cent; that losses from uncollected rents from London’s 70,000 new subsidized units were less than one-eight of one per cent; that the public and private building financing gave needed outlets for safe capital investments; that new low-rental homes did not depress wages or reduce buying power but, on the contrary, raised living standards and stabilized families in decent quarters. As it worked in England it should work here.

The child being fed by the breast usually gets. enough water in the milk, The infant being fed artifi-

cially should receive water between feedings. ; re

. This is of special significance in warm weather because of the increased evaporation from the surface of the body. : In winter, with our overheated and dry apartments, it also is well to be certain that the baby is getting the water that it needs. : The water requirement of a baby is about three times that of a grownup. The reason is there is much activity in the baby’s tissues because of its rapid rate of growth. Its output of heat is greater, in} proportion to its weight, than that of a grown-up. * Large amounts of water taken into the body require a constant circulation “of water-from the blood to the intestines and back again, to take care of digestion-and absorption of the food constituents. Since the amount of faod taken is large, the amount of. waste material also is large. ‘This waste material is not all excreted in solid form, but is largely dissolved. Of water taken into the body about 50 to 60 per cent goes out through the kidneys; 30 to 35 per cent in evaporation by the skin and the lungs; and 5'to 10 per cent by way of the bowels. Two per cent is retained by the body to carry on the necessary chemical processes. ;

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F a baby cries a great deal and exercises its limbs, the amount of water lost from the skin and the lungs will be increased. If the baby has diarrhea, the amount of water lost from the bowels may

invited to remain and take refreshments with the Porter family. The next issue of the Saturday Review had a rip-snorting account of it written by Charlie Dennis. “Mr. Wilde,” reported Mr. Dennis, “is not an animated feeder. He placed the small of his back in the seat of the chair and spooned in the ice cream with the languor of a debilitated duck.’ “Perhaps,” concluded Mr. Dennis, “ice cream disagrees with him.”

of value in the evolution of motor car manufacture has been developed right on our track, and much more worthwhile advancement will be made in years to come. The only difficulty at all seems to be that some speedminded residents of this city, the state of Indiana, and other states, have not grasped fully the idea that While excessive speed is applauded on the track, "it ‘is condemned on © streets. Therefore, to correct this slight but’ serious misunderstanding, I suggest that any party found guilty of speeding on Indianapolis streets at any time, be sentenced to appear in his car at the Speedway at a specified hour. There, under’ police supervision, the guilty speeder should be required to fill the tank full of gas, and under police-supervised timechecking, drive his car at top speed around the course until the tank supply is exhausted. . This is a much shorter sentence than 30, 60 or 90 days, and there will still be the “costs”—a percentage of which will. be applied | toward the maintenance of this special police service at the Speedway. The speeder would be satisfled— he wanted to go fast anyhow. Also,

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approximately 200 miles on a fast course, “ ’ 2 2 8 One ‘more thought on safe driving | « E have both worked day and —the roadways inside the track as| and night. Ruth handles sothe Speedway are ideal for com-| ciety and a lot of straight news, as pulsory driving instructions to care- | wey) gs features and sketches. And less drivers—and. just the thing for | whenever selling advertising and a paid course in voluntary driving | job printing leaves me no time for instruction. the news, she steps in and covers.

She also makes pin money by cor-DOUBLE-HACKNEYED responding for city papers and wire BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY sejvices, aiorak : % Memories all t 2 “We have managec ake a fa! un 1 hat T'have left, | | 4 impartial view of the little Of a gone yesterday,

fights and petty quarrels that hapOf all else I am bereft.

ALIENS, GOOD AND BAD

OT even the sternest patrioteer of the House Immigration Committee was able to resist Lena and Jenet Hendel, foreign born though they are, when they appeared in Washington with their six handsome little American boys and girls—and pleaded that they be saved from deportation. The committee members asked the youngsters about their schools, heard their intelligent Americanese answers, saw 2-year-old David cry bitterly when ‘separated for only a few. moments from his mother, and heard her wish that she might die | rather than live on in a foreign land without him. Then and there most of the congressmen went on record for leniency. : : Yet the Hendels are not among the 2862 aliens recommended by the Labor Department, in connection with the Kerr-Coolidge bill, for permanent resi= dence in this country. : The department has nothing against the Hendels ° but they came in on fraudulent passports, purchased in Berlin apparently in good faith from an unscrupulous attache of the American consulate. Technically, the department ruled, they were guilty of moral turpitude. The point is that the 2862 cases for whieh the Kerr-Coolidge bill would provide are even more deserving. Yet some of the very congressmen who were moved by this one flesh-and-blood problem before them have been denouncing the department for , “letting down the flood gates to aliens,” and have been blocking passage of the Kerr-Coolidge bill, These congressmen no longer can claim the support of the American Federation of Labor in their stand. President William Green has written the chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee expressing a hope that the bill, with a few amendments he suggests, will pass “within the very near future.” He points out that the portions of the bill , dealing with alien criminals strengthen deportation law considerably. The Seventy-Fourth Congress is almost over. But enough time remains to deal with this urgent human problem as it should be dealt with, intelligently and without prejudice or demagoguery. The bill lets down no flood gates. The number for whom deportation may be stayed is definitely limited and is hedged about with many sound re- . strictions. For every person allowed to remain here permanently, the quota of his native land is reduced that much. And for every alien of good character permitted to stay, two criminal aliens are

made deportable by the bill. THE BI | seven or eight reporters perched on the foot of their THEY'LL BUY TOBACCO, ETC. bed, begging for interviews, do they pull any of that $3 wollde? fies What ie ViBues buy 1: stuff? I'll say they dont. Being good ne. so precious as the they sell” sports and better campaigners, they spill all their 4 his fig tree. And in this inquiring spirit, we | = The- . taking another hitch in his belt, duces our tariffs on still wines and champagnes and

” » 2 R. LEWIS got all these facts beautifully straight in his book, but he failed to say that it was at this party-that Oscar thanked the Governor for “this opportunity of observing the peasantry of Indiand.” It was his parting remark, as a matter of fact. It was also at this party that the Governor’s daughter (Mrs. Augustus L. Mason) asked Oscar what he thought of the Irish question, an issue which, curiously enough, was ; aelisting the young ladies at the e. “The Irish,” said Oscar, “don't know what they: want and they won’t be happy ‘til they get it.” Another item Mr. Lewis muffed was the fact that Elizabeth Nicholson and William A. Bell were the two at the Governor's party who suggested bringing Oscar over. Indeed, Miss Nicholson’s niece, Mrs. Brandt Steele, goes even further and says there is a legend in the family (on the McKay side) that her aunt and Mr. Bell actually brought Oscar to the party straight from the lecture. Maybe so, but in that case we would have missed knowing about the Spanish wine in the goat's skin.

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And, now, being old, I am seeing, That of all on earth These have greatest worth— They are enough for any being.

DAILY THOUGHT

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious ‘and merciful, slow-to anger, and - of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.—Joel ii, 13.

ERE sorrow, which weeps and a sits still, is not repentance. Toda Repentance is sorrow converted into action: into a movement toward a new and better life—M. R. Vincent.

’s Science BY DAVID DIETZ Max scientific partnerships like ‘that which united Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory researches as well as in their everyday life, exist at the University of

By George Clark

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ONGRESSMAN and Mrs. Zioncheck have spent their honeymoon on the front page. He's been too cute for words and, girls, don’t you just love the way she proved herself the true Ameri-. can wife (for a time anyway)—a real help to her h d in whatever he does? It's plain to be seen that with his pep and her co-operation, the two of them will go places—to the Senate, maybe. Both are modern, stream-lined, 12-cylinder GoGetters, on their toes every minute, keeping the newspaper boys in gales of laughter. Their repartee as reported by the press is 100 per cent American. Bays the Hon. Zioncheck, apropos perhaps of cogitations on the pending tax bill, “I'm a pretty fast goer, eh, Sugar?” : : . “Pll say you are, Baby,” Mrs. Zioncheck comes back at him, quick as all get-out. And when they awakgn in the morning to find

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