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1936.

LIFE BEGINS AT —

Fer thousands of boys and girls life begins this week at graduation. More than 2540 young men and women ‘have received diplomas from the six

Indianapolis high schools. The graduating class:

was five times as large as that .of 25; years ago. Indiana colleges and universities are Puig out hundreds of ‘graduates.

‘Youth again is warned by eomnencRath speakers to watch out for the changing world. ‘Graduates are told that “youth must accept the: challenge, standards have changed, you. are living in.a new day.” National surveys indicate that this month's 140,000 ~ graduates from American colleges fate the best op- ¢ - portunity of gettirig jobs of any class since 1929, College presidents report more calls from employers. Jobs’ are open for a surprisingly large number of talented young people.

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LL this is encouraging. But how many of the

commencement speakers are doing something about the problem of youth today? How about the so-called “lost generation” of 800,000 young men and

women who were graduated from college during the

depression years? - What of the. estimated 5,000,000.

young Americans between 16 and 25 years. of age who have nothing to do? Dr. Homer P., Rainey, director of the American Youth Commission, says these young people constitute “not only an employment, but an education problem.” He charges the schools with failure to provide a curriculum suited to the needs and capabilities of this great group—in other words, vocational education. He says mass education must get out of the narrow rut of classical teaching. Dr.. Rainey says many youths are out of work today not because there are no openings, but because they can’t qualify for the Jobs. The youth problem, then, is more a challenge to education than it is to" youth, ” n ” OME ‘gloomy sociologists think the ravages of depression on the morale of youth have been tremendous, that this is truly a “lost generation.” We do not think so. The young people we know have more hope and: more imagination than many of their elders. Most young men and women who

have had to shift for themselves have adjusted

themselves to economic change and strain.

The National Youth Administration has accomplished much in a year. Abolit 600,000 youths have been given work. The NYA has saved many from discouragement, : The youth problem is larger than many commencement speakers admit. It is a problem of adjusting education to youth and to changed conditions.

'INDIANA—ON ITS WAY

IGNS of recovery, because they are more frequent now than in recent months or years, do -

not receive so much attention these days. for example, two significant Stories were treated as routine news, One told “how employment, pay “rolls and manhours worked showed ah increase in May for the fourth consecutive month, The importance of this is that pay rolls and jobs usually suffer a seasonal decline at this time of year -in the industries e porting. The other story ‘revealed 8 ‘definite tendency by industrialists to expand and modernize their plants in Indiana. Sixteen specific instances were reported, including the $7,500,000 tandem type mill at the

United States Steel Ourporaien’s Gary tin plate

mill.

Yesterday, .

: Perhaps stories of this kind are becoming routine ;

news, ‘a fact in itself which plainly shows Indiana is on iis way.

AWAKENING

O other .agency than. government dan bring justice into the’ relations of those who work

with the machines and those ‘who. .own the ma-

chines.’ + Those words, commenti on" this week's Supreme Court minimum wage decision, /are not the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt. They are the words of William Allen White, one of ‘the nation’s leading Republicans, and than whom there is no man

‘closer to Alf M. Landon, leading candidate for the

Republican. Presidential nomination. "Polities - 1 full of strange happenings. But nothing stranger than the way the wheel is turning.on the constitutional Issue. - : What White has say is indeed a far cry from the holy “horror which Republicans only such a short time

‘Viéwing even the hint that the ‘great:

might have to be changed if the nation

Were fo be ‘able to deal with the impasse that.

eourt decisions have been bringing about. ppd ik mph

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~ operators in some Northwestern: cities not to. sell

7 am, frankly shocked "by. {his dalotumie 5 to-4 decision that compels millions of loyal Americans to work for. wages. that will not secure for. them the common necessities of life. 2

“1 propose to offer's constitutional amendment |

permit the stafes.toiset up minimum wage for women and minors. . “The nis Cot mg poeiad ua Avatiotn people with ‘anew Dred Scott ‘decision condemning millions of Americans’'to economic slavery, and the issue Will not down until it hag been righted in the public interest.” - YE

It was. just one year ago this week ‘when the “save-the-Constitution” outery. from the Republican opposition was raised following President Roosevelt's now famous “horse-and-buggy” remarks on the NRA decision. .

Yes, the world do move.

| PAUPERISM DE LUXE

WwW™= 19 power companies tell the courts that ; ruin is staring them in the face because of New Deal policies the following will not be among the evidence submitted. Buf it ought to be. It is from. an advertisement inserted in one of the East's greatest newspapers by “The Financial World,” investment weekly. . “In one month the utility stock average has advanced 10 per cent,” says the advertisement. “Industrials in the meantime have gairied only 6 per cent. Some utility issues are up as much as 30 ‘per cent. Is a bull market in utility securities starting?” at this be ruin ow 1

THE SPEAKERSHIP ihe

HE kindly soul of Joseph W. Byrns passes on fo where there are no filibustering quorum calls, no heckling minorities, "And William B. Bankhead, affable and able Democratic leader from Alabama, advances to the Speaker's rostrum. It is an advance which a philosopher and veteran like Bankhead must make with no sense of personal satisfaction, but only with a sense that duty compels. From the floor where he has sevved brilliantly for 20 years, Bankhead has seen the eternal and ruthless vigilance with whicn the grim reaper stands behind the Speaker's chair. Second only to the presidency, the speakership carries with it .the responsibilities and narassments which can rob any man of peace and tranquillity, and which has robbed many of their lives. Three have gone in the last four years, Longworth, Rainey and Byrns—all personal friends of the new Speaker. The speakership has given to the country almost as many strong men as the presidency. The names of many of our Presidents have ‘been forgotten, but the names of Henry Clay, James G.: Blaine, Tom Reed, Joe Cannon and Champ Clark live on. * Speaker Bankhead has the calm assurance of experience and the qualities of a born leader which promise for him a place among the really great. Only in one respect is he handicapped—his health— and that his many friends and admirers hope soon will improve. He will have need of strong lieutensnts to share his responsibilities. For that reason, and also because by tradition the majority leader customarily is graduated into the speakership, it is to be hoped that the majority party

members in the House will pick the best men avail-.. |

able for the vacancy created by Bankhead's adva. ment, just as they have alréady pickéd: hie best man available for the vacancy created by Byrns’ untimely \death. r ) The new majority leader should be chosen not on ihe basis of how much in the way of patronage and ' jommittee appointments he can ‘promise other con= gressmen, Not by political jockeying, nor By consideration of what section of the country he represents. He should be chosen for his éxperienee, his record of accomplishment in Congress, his capabili=ties /for strong leadership. .

NO GASOLINE FOR DRUNKS

ORE cities, - unable to prevent automobile drivers from drinking, are trying to prevent

the drinkers from driving. : And the simple method. used is to cut oft thelr

* supply’ of gasoline.

First was a voluntary agreement by filling station :

gasoline to intoxicated drivers. The plan worked. Olympia, Washington, passed an ‘ordinance prohibiting such sales. Responsibility for determining intoxication is placed upon the station: attendant, and the latter may be punishéd by -a $100 fine, 30 days in jail, or both, for violating the ordinance. Canton, O,, and Raleigh, N. C,, have adopted similar ordinances. A few other cities are using the system without benefit of statute: Filling station operators cooperate with the police. When ‘a drunken driver pulls up, an attendant calls the police and a squad car aIrives, Officials say the system | is Working.

A \ WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ONSIDER this fact. At the age. of 2 the five Dionnes have earned $500,000." A. hundred thou sand dolars each—all in 24 ‘months of life. Od Croesus would have turned pale at the news. All this naturally brings us around to ‘the thought of Fate, or Luck, or if you use astrological language ‘the “impelling force of the stars,” for certainly some power outside ourselves does help w arrange the pattern of individual destiny. : Tt I going 16.06 Nard to tel our clilldren Yorn tn : the 1930s that all their success in life will depend

{ Upon. thelr integrity, hard work, will power ann

“If our Johnnies and Semmies and Bills are ds

| smart as we think them, they can make a snappy

wheh he pulls that one by asking:

it reaches the table and it will stay

-|ing ‘worse than an aroused aspar1 agus. © Nor anything ite 80

3 stop at that.

.conceived as huge-winged,- fire- , 7} term

has been applied to two. groups of existing lizards. The génus Draco

.| small: lizards, found ‘in :the Indo-

| for flight; they serve merely as glid-

. ‘leap from one to another of the { form “is only ‘about 10 inches in

‘and reaches a lé :| feet, thus vastly

with. Grace Brown to run its kinder-

Tok duets soaks: sie,

because of a belief that a vegetable so fraught with a whimsical de-

plining when it gets on the table. Nonsense! The asparagus is a gentle non-aggressive creature when

that way unless: ardused. Attacked with ‘a fork, however, it begins to show a will of its own, sometimes whimsical and, more often, not. At any rate, what can pass for a limp, lethargic legume on a plate can, under attack, become a writhing, fighting monster on a fork. And if your experience is anything like mine you'll agree that there is noth- |

pathetic, ” t J »

KNOW because I come to this discussion as 8 champion, even a friend, of the asparagus, but :a

told, I once attacked an asparagus with a fork. But only once! ° When I was a heédless youth and cared more for smart, society than I'do now; I fell in with a crowd addicted to the fork fashion. To my dying day I shall never forget the hurt expression of the first and only asparagus I conquered with a fork. It was more terrible than the time I wounded a pigeon with a sling. shot. Indeed, I met the wounded pigeon with comparative composure, but the pleading look in the eyes of that asparagus will stay with me

forever. # ” 2

KNOW better now. At least; I know enongh to know that the asparagus should be treated with respect—with love is even better. And love doesn’t fool with forks, no matter what the smart set may think. : "We touch the things we love. Indeed, we go even farther and caress and. fondle the things we love. Anyway, 1 have always wanted to have a good look at the person who eats asparagus with fork. A good look at such a person might reveal other flaws. And it's just as well to be on the safe side because & man who will stoop to-take advantage of paragus, you may be sure, will Bot

Like as not, he may turn out to be the same person who hides his grandmother’s cigarets, or interrupts a D. A. R's conversation or indulges in some similar form .of treachery.

Ask The Tine

Inclose a 3-cert stamp for reply when addressing any. question of fact or information to “The Indianapolis Times Washingt Service Bureau, 1018 13thst. . Washington, D. C. Legal and Nw “aiivice can not ‘be given, nor ean sxiended research he undertaken.

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Q—What are dragons? _ A — Fabulous fnonsters, usually

breathing lizards -or snakes. The “dragon” has ‘no: zoological meaning, but by the lay public it

incltides -a number of . species of

Malayan regiohs, which are characterized by the possession of winglike folds of skin projecting from the sides of the body and supported by the’ greatly longated ribs. These structures do not involve the legs and can not be used as actual wings

ing planes which extend the distance over which the animal can

trees in which it lives. The largest

length. The other lizard to which the name is - popularly applied is the giant monitor, Varanus Komodensis, recently discovered in Komodo, one of the Dutch East Indies. It is a heavily built | of dull color “of at least 10 all other living lizards, although the extinct Varanus Priscus of At attained perhaps twice the length.’

as an agricultural state?

the soil. ‘The boulder clay or hard-

“sortalled etvilization lk atown| gartens and Paul Stetson to run its | schools should still tolerate “the| ©

barbaraus practice of eating aspara- To gus with a. fork. Seog ie

termination of its own needs disci}

friend who is himself not wholly |. without blame. For, if the truth be |

Q—How does Rhode Island rank 9

The practice’ persists, no doubt, |

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Ap EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases,

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Indiana

in search and that. SLETA, x. M, June S5~We sat out in front "of Pablo. Abeyta's this ancient Pueblo ‘while Pablo Roosevelt. Pablo has long hair, which keeps blowing into his mouth, and he has two long braids behind, and wears a white lace shirt, like a woman's blouse, and a big gray hat. Pablo is about 65 and he speaks better English than I do, and because he is smart and can talk he’s always being sent to Washington us interpreter for Indian delegaons. * ‘He ‘has made 18 trips to Wash-

y of odd “stories " shesg ‘this

: ington, he says, and it was on one

‘of those trips that the Teddy Roose velt story happened. “We went into a White House,” Pablo says, “and somebody introduced us one at a time, and.the President shook hands and said a few words. “Then when we left and were outside a fellow pulled my sleeve and said the President wanted to see me alone. So I went back and he said, ‘Pablo, sit down,’ and he said, ‘Pablo, I want to know.all about your village and what the

: | Indians need.’

The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your tight to say it.—Voltaire.

{Times readers are inviied to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letler must be signed. but names will be withheld on request.). : ; . #8 8

SEES VIRTUE IN LANDON’S

‘SILENT’ ATTITUDE By Martin R. Kuehn, Richmond

In Monday's Times “Too Silent Alf” interested me. The editor appears to be a trifle irked that Alf Landon did not answer every one of ten questions put by Frazier Hunt. Alf repliéd to only six of them! To the other four Alf appears to have adjusted his Timless spectacles. Or, did he in truly Coolidge fashion swing one leg over the other and let it go at that? . Enough, Alf remained as speechless as, well, well as. any plain man from the prairie states would. Alf Landon refused to be «smoked out” on the spot. Alf should have popped off on all ten, so opines The Times editor. On every one of them he should have blurted right out. The editor “regrets” that he did nof. He imputes to Al a fault. Alf is “too silent.” By now it must be obvious to nil lions why Alf Landon of Kansas does not leap first and look later on. He appears to have learned a few things from the rugged experiences of ‘life. For one thing he evidently has learned that it pays to think important" matter through before jumping. For another, that's man’s hands count for more than a glib city slicker’s tongue. Alf Landon knows too = that honeyed radio speeches will. not: save the American

“Your ‘Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

ODERN proprietary “foods are results of attempts to take advantage of new facts, discovered .in. iglation to essentials of the: human | d ye The ‘proprietart foods of a previous era frequen ly Jacked vitamins and mineral salts.’ They also were over-rich - in’ carbohydrates. VAS: 8 result, .the producers were able to

which, however; may nat have been healthy ‘babies. : When properly | diluted with ‘water or when made up with-milk, some of the prepared foods now ‘available approximate the composition of breast milk. In some, the fat is a mixture of vegefable and ‘animal fats, in an attempt to imitate the physical and chemical qualities of the fat found in breast milk.

A—Tt ranks Inst of all the states thetic chiefly because of the smallness of | the state and the sterile nature of |

show pictures of very fat ‘babies, |. MERIT SYSTEM HELD

people from their sins—as all the

world, knows today that Woodrow Wilson’s impressive speeches did not “make the world safe for democracy.” - Alf Landon has to promise. us the moon, he’ll build a ladder up to it first and make the promise later on. That's the way I've got-Alf Landon doped out. . Or, can it be that The Times’ editor is getting a little nervous about Landon’s effective leadership? Does this outward admission also account. for : other -Scripps-Howard wirters’ efforts to play Landon down? Does it also account for the new strategy of Mr. Roosevelt himself in pulling in his horns and delivering speeches modeled on the Landon type? Does it also account for Farley's bungling move to cast aspersions on Mr. Landon’s per= son? All in all; Alf Liandon’s got a.

lotrof 'em - guessing. - He seems: to

have .the lead on even the: clever board of strategy that has’ tried’ to “smear” him. It may be that to the over-solicit-ous Times editor, also, Alf Landon is “only the Governor of one of the prairie states.” And that, by .inference, ‘accolnts for Alf’s inability to answer sich simple questions, i LANDON CAN'T CARRY ANY STATE, 1S CLAIM By Charles Franklin Howard, County I've asked over 1000 persons “Why are you for Landon?” Every reply was “Because he has balanced the budget.” The poorest Governor in the United States has balanced the budget. T have read all of Landon’s statements and speeches. He has never advocated one thing he could afford to make a national campaign issue— not one! - : I have made Landon: a’ study. of all the - candidates suggested or listed Landon.is the weakest. He would be the end of our Republican Party. I can give 100 reasons why

Tipton

it wouldn’t do to nominate Landon.

Landon wouldn't carry a single state! To nominate Landon it would be in the galaxy of states: "Remember

the Alamo!” > ’

FL

AS VITAL ISSUE

‘By Irene V. Merrell

. It is gratifying and encouraging that the state unemployment com-

‘pensation board has named a com-

mittee to study merit tating Bystems

Se GLANCES

for public employes and to draw up a merit system plan for employes of that board. For many years the League of Women Voters has been advocating better personnel in government. With enlarging functions of government and the consequent increase of government cost, the taxpayers are entitled to greater efficlency in public office. In fact, they are entitled to the best public service the tax dollar can buy. That means that public offices should be filled by those best fitted by training, ability and experience for their positions. : ‘Public opinion has ‘become aroused. The poll of thousands of citizens by the American Institute of Public Opinion, recently published, showed that 86 per cent of

Indiana are opposed to the “spoils

of appointment. The candidates in the coming campaign should heed this public demand. Good politics prompts it. A patriotic purpose will demand it. Independent voters constitute a larger percentage of American voters than ever before. The League of Women Voters has confidence that thousands of independent voters will decide their vote this fall

on this important question.

help the candidates make clear th ition on this question of better personnel in public office. Candidates, declare yourselves!

BLOSSOMS

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

I love: a bright face smiling in the rain,

plain. 1t gives me the sort of joy God must have understood ° ‘When he made the wild flowers glow in a rain-drenched wood.

“DAILY THOUGHT

I am their inheritance; and ye shall give them no possession in -

. Israel; I am their possession. —

Ezekiel xliv, 28.

HEY who provide much wealth for their children, but negleet to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses

‘high, but never train them to be ul—Socrates.

usef

By George Clark

the people voting on the poll in

system” and want a merit system

on the stand taken by. candidates. It is the purpose of our organization to |

Be its features humble-—yes, even]

: 8 2 = 0 we sat there talking 45d I knew he was busy and I kept rushing through so..I could leave. But he kept telling me to go on. After a while some Cabinet men came in and sat down, and finally they got to fidgeting, and one of them took out his watch and pointed at it, and the President turned round and said, “Gentlemen, I'm fully aware of the time we are spending here. Go on, Pablo.’ “Well, sir, I talked to him for 2 hours and 20 minutes, and when I left he said, ‘Pablo, some day I'm coming to Isleta and I want to visit you in your own home.’ “So I came on back and didn't think much more about it, till sev-

"eral months later I got a message

that the President was at the main hotel in Albuquerque and wanted me to come right up. “So I hitched up my horses and drove to Albuquerque and tied my horses outside the hotel. There were two men standing outside the door and they said, ‘What do you want?’ and I said ‘the President wants to see me!’ They said, ‘What's your name?’ and I.said ‘T haven't got any name. Tell the President an. Indian wants to see him.

i n ” ‘S° they started an argument and we made so much noise the President heard us, and. he recognized my voice and came and opened the door and pulled me in. “pablo, you didn’t think I'd really come, did you? the President said, And then he said, ‘Pablo, how’ll we get out to Isleta’ without: all this crowd following us?’ i “So 1 “Mr. President, give the your. Sand ‘and coat! He handed them over: without a word, and I put them under my ‘blanket and went down and put them in my buggy, and got another blanket and went back up. “When I got in the room I put the blanket around the President, clear up over his head, and then we pulled thé blankets up around us and stooped over and shuffled down through the lobby and out across the street and got in . my buggy, and everybody thought we were just a couple of old Indians. “1 galloped my horses all the way to Isleta, and we went into my house and the President said, ‘Pablo, you didn’t think I'd ever come, did you? Now F¥ve filled my promise.’ os ” ” O we had a bite to eat, and sat and talked a few minutes, and then we got in the buggy and drove back ‘to Albuquerque. “When we walked into the hotel, the lobby was full of people and the Secret Service men were -around excited because they couldn't find the President. “The guards came running up and they were sore because the President had got away from them, but he turned arourid and said, ‘Boys, I was just as safe in Pablo’s hands as I am with anybody in the world. “And you know he kept. the blanket. I saw him again at the White House in 1915 and he showed me the blanket and said . .."” “But Pablo,” I interrupted, “Theo« dore Roosevelt wasn’t President in

1915.” “Well, anyway,” said Pablo, “he

| showed me the blanket and said...”

So that’s Pablo’s story. It doesn't make any difference to me whether

you believe it.

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