Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1936 — Page 10
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SATURDAY, JUNE, 6, 1936,
YOUTH CENTERS
PAUL C, STETSON, superintendent of schools, like many other educators, is supporting the idea of vocational education as one possible solution io” the youth problem, ~" With more than 5,000,000 jobless Americans be«.twepn the ages of 16 and 24, recent figures showed 2,875,000 persons of these ages on the Federal relief Fyolls. Of this number, 765,000 never had held a job; 281,000 others had “worked in agriculture.” Only 54,000 of the entire group were classed as skilled Mr. Stetson has a specific proposal—the estab« lishment ‘of youth centers for vocational training -. 4nd instruction in the use of leisure time. He says the tendency to keep children in school until they are 18 creates a problem for the educator. , “There is the problem of what to do with them «and where to put them after they have been gradu‘vated from high school. Specifically, in Indianapolis “this tendency has meant increased enrollment and increased enrollment has. resulted in overcrowding,” 4, Says Mr. Stetson.
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“Increased vocational training and training in the
proper use of leisure time would feature these youth centers, which would be somewhat like junior 3 , colleges. Perhaps the first and second Year of col“lege work could be offered. “a “In rural districts, one center could be set up for “ every one or two counties, depending on population. They should be kept open day and night, seven days re week, so that the youth of the community could t make the greatest possible use of them. Shops, gymnasiums, home-making centers, facilities for the ~ formation of bands, debating teams and other recreational . and educational activities : should be included.” " The proposal deserves serious study.
STATE-FEDERAL TAX OMELET
ITH the depression came revolutionary changes in the fiscal policies of all of our units of
.~ The sag in real property values and the scarcity of cash in the hands of property owners caused a rapid depletion of municipal and county treasuries. § Local units turned to state governments for aid in
3 : State gevertimenti. their treasuries also demoral- | ized by mounting tax delinquencies, quickly enacted | special excises and general sales taxes. 8 0-8 calls from all parts of the nation found. ‘‘the Federal government likewise in budgetary n Straits. With the crumbling of income tax receipts, vitthe Federal government turned also to special ex- ~ ¢lses and to large-scale borrowings. As a result the American people today are harassed by an almost unbelievable hodge-podge of » duplicating, overlapping and discriminatory taxes, o “which bear mo relationship whatever to the principle of ability to pay, and which offer little promise of achieving fiscal stability. . - Obviously, state and local governments can never reassume their responsibilities so long as the Fed- , eral government continues to. poach on fields of rc: daxation which logically belong to the local units. And the Federal government can- not return to its. normal limited sphere of activity until the local “ Units do reassume their responsibilities. Like the dilemma of tax-exempt securities ex- ' dsting within the framework of a graduated income tax system and like the intricacies of capital gains and losses, this question of multiple taxation also % ‘calls for painstaking study. a The tax bill which the House passed a few weeks “ago and the Senate passed yesterday, and which “now goes to conference, does not attempt a solution ‘of any of these problems. Although admitting that the. problems exist, iCongress can not intelligently go about the job of Nanscrambling our tax mess until it gains a working owledge of the many complexities and ramifications. The most practicable way to get that back-
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tiground of facts is, we believe, to create a joint |
’Benate-House committee, and instruct it to work _ through the recess months with the view of recom‘mending changes When - Congress - reconvenes in
ROOM AT THE Top
‘those ambitious young people who ask, “
there opportunity today in any of the = » When they are all s0 crowded?” we would re-
Sndeed, yes! There never has been a time when
telligence, ambition and ability were more needed |
in the professions and in business. * To illustrate, we cite Dr. Clyde G. Culbertson, 29old director of the central laboratories of the diana University School of Medicine, and director laboratories of the State Board of Healtn. + Dr. Culbertson this week was chosen for the first distinguished service award of the Indianpolis Junior Chamber of Commerce for his out public ‘service while conducting these imclinical. laboratories. Under his direction,
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futility in what they are doing. This will be emphasized under the new program which calls fob the
prevailing wage and thus cuts the hours of work to
fit the present average of around $60 a month.
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os t J » 4 contrast to these hurriedly improvised projects that recall the old CWA is an item in the new program of $250,000,000 for RFC grants to the Ickes PWA organization. This means that approximately $600,000,000 in grants and loans will be made available in the coming year to localities for the building of schools, bridges and other enduring works.” Had we entered the depression with adequate prepared-
ness all of our work relief could have been per-
manently valuable. The tragedy of this relief program, However, lies in its failure to.look ahead. This next winter will not see an end of widespread unemployment, nor of the human problem that’lies at Congress’ door, Why has the President neglected to provide himselfand Congress with expert guidance in trying to formulate a long-range relief policy and for the eventual liquidation of the Federal relief problem? The Times, along with many organizations and serious students of relief problems, has urged that the President ask Congress to authorize a fact-find-ing, policy-guiding board of the nation’s best minds to help us out of the dilemma. The Federal government needs more than haphazard estimates, good will and makeshift policies to guide it in the spending of these billions. It needs facts and it needs the aid of the most competent experts available. Since the President has declined to take the lead in setting up such a board or commission, the Senate should do it. Armed with such facts and advice the next Congress should do better by the needy and the taxpayers. i
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NO HARK-BACK
| WEN a stanch old Republican ‘newspaper
like the New York Herald-Tribune frankly afimits that the old order is changing, that party lines have faded, and that the Republican national ticket this year needs a Democratic candidate for Vice President, we think it a deeply significant. se also a hopeful one. We see in it welcome further proof that, the
‘more thoughtful conservative leadership in these - United States has ceased to condemn root and
branch everything that has happened in ‘the past three and a half years. . We see in it recognition that no party now can afford to hark back to the old days, but that it must instead accept, indorse and build upon not
a few of the progressive principles and programs ' that many conservatives at first denounced in sheer
horror. ; The Herald-Tribune comes pretty: close to con-
. fessing ‘threatened party bankruptcy when. it pre- . -sents its bold plan based on party expediency.
Also we hope its excursion into liberalism for party’s sake may extend to some of its other less liberalized policies. Nevertheless its call’ for a “national” Platform,” ignoring “party. shibboleths,” is still another sign of the irresistible power of new issues to break through old party lines and force pew and natural alignments. We are getting closer to the day when, we es lieve, the country will find it normal and necessary to divide politically into conservatives and ,progressives; That cleavage is logical. But meanwhile no one can fail to note that world lessons as well as national lessons have already taught a host of conservatives to efige wisely, albeit cautiously, to-
' ward. the left. That makes for safety and sound
progress.
DR. MARIE HASLEP N the death of Dr. Marie Haslep, a former president of the Board of School Commissioners, the community loses a citizen who played an important role in public affairs. Dr. Haslep spent most.of her 70 years here. Graduated from the University of Michigan School of Medicine, she served seven years in China as a medical missionary. Returning here in 1895, she became physician to inmates of the county jail, the workhouse and the county farm. In 1914 she was examin. ing physician in the public schools and in 1932 was elected to the School Board on the Citizens’ Ticket. Despite impaired health, Dr. Haslep continued her medical practice until she was injured by a fall
“a few weeks ago which hastened her death.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson have a happy marriage the wife must be at
least one step lower in rank, in wealth, and
in business success than her husband.” Yes, you've guessed it. . The sentence was writen
by a man and’it was undoubtedly the sincere opinion
of one who speaks for the majority of his sex. : Yet, when we examine the statement carefully
we find it leaves the gentleman in rather a sorry |. predicament. Would the writer have us believe | in . then, that a woman should give her loyalty and love
only to one who is able to’ maintain himself in a
higher material position than she holds? If that is
true, are we not justified in deserting husbands who may slip temporarily from these higher planes? I can almost hear the chorus of denials. And so, a a a
a) UTILITY NOTE: - The FunkWagnall people get out a dictionary which defines Speedway as “a specially reserved or prepared road for the speeding of harness
horses.”
OWN in he outa part of
town—in the neighbrohood of Church-st, to be exact—lives a colony of Spanish Jews. Their nestor
is David Eskenazl, and it's just the |
right word to use in this connection |
because, as it turns out, Mr, Eskenaz is a Greek. -
Most Spanish Jews come from |
Greece. The rest come from Turkey.
The reason Spain: doesn’t send us| any Spanish Jews is because Spain|
hasn't any to send. Which doesn’t|
mean, of course, that Spain hasn't
any Jews. It means what I said in|
the first place, namely, that Spain| § hasn't any Spanish Jews. It’s what| &
meticulous people call an anomaly.
The Spanish Jew is a survival of |
the Spanish inquisition. When that| §
melancholy hour struck, a half mil-
lion Jews resolved to abandon: the|
country, which a residence of seven
centuries had made almost & second | Judea to them. The incidents that
marked their departure’ are heartrending. Almost every land was shut against them. Some escaped into France; some, a little more venturesome, esca) into Italy. Some got as far as key and Morocco.
The wanderers appear to have |
met with much better treatment in Italy and Turkey than anywhere else. Indeed, it was in Turkey that they were called Monsaphir, meaning visitors. Thus decorated, they were allowed to reopen their schools, to establish synagogues and settle in all the commercial countries of the Levant. And because: Turkey and Greece had some kind of an understanding at the time, it explains why the ancestors of the Eskenazis got into Greece, ” 8 ”
T= Eskenazis have made quite a go of it in Indianapolis. Mr. Eskenazi has been here all of 22 years now and still likes it. Besides being head of his family, he is also a partner in Eskenazi & Mordoh, who do a right smart business in wholesale fruits and vegetables. And between the two, it Keeps him pretty busy. When his business and: - family permit. it, Mr. Eskenazi is figuring out new ways of bringing more of Greece ‘into Indianapolis. As it is, he has almost emptied Salonika of the Eskenazis. ‘Two years ago he sent for Mrs. Doundoun, his mother-in-law. Mrs. Doundoun is a tall, partician-like lady who wears ‘black beautifully. She doesn’t talk English but she understands her grandchildren because they talk Spanish. That’s another strange thing about Spanish Jews: When they escaped from Spain— —and it’s dll of 500 years now—they took their language with them and kept on talking it, no matter where they ‘were, . » DIDN'T — to see Mrs. Eskenazi because she was up town taking in an end-of-the-month ‘sale, but I saw her children. Bella is the girl and Sydney is the boy. Daisy is the baby. Bella is 41; years old and a student in the Nathan Morris Kindergarten.
| She will be ready for public school
pretty soon. The latest arrival in the Churchst colony is the bride of Mr. Abhorhor; a cousin of the Eskenaszis. She's’ only been here seven weeks. She's a Salonika girl. /
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® 8 » Guy READER GIVES VIEWS ON BILL OF RIGHTS By E. F. Maddox
I want to express my opinion o of your editorial “Liberty Under Fire,”
in The Times of May 25.
First, our Bill of Rights does not provide immunity to the.enemies of our existing order, By “our existing order” I mean our constitutional form of government, our present economic system and ‘our Democratic political machinery. The Bill of Rights does not protect or defend treason, sedition or rebellion. ‘Quoting from the American Civil Liberties Unions resolutions you give us this statement: “The forces, which "desire to prevent peaceful change of the existing order attack the rights of organized -labor, the unemployed and radical political parties.” : I believe that: I am stating a fact when I say that, according to my opinion, the rights of organized labor and the unemployed are menaced more today than ever before
Your Health BY DR. MORRIS 'FISHBEIN
ADDITION of foods to the baby’s diet depends on the supply of | breast milk, but it is customary nowadays to add foods somewhat earlier than was done formerly. By the seventh or eighth month, however, there is hardly a baby that is not getting extra nourishment from sources other than the breast. Additional foods include such substances as pureed, or sieved, vege-
added one at a time to determine the baby's reaction to each new food. Usually it takes two or three days to find out whether a change in" the diet is beneficial. Orange juice may be given during
When the Soby 8 3 months “old, it may have the juice of one-half orange daily, and, after that, the
juice of & whole orange every day. tomato or other fruit
because they are being led into dangerous and un-American activities by these same ‘radical political parties” whose methods do not conform to our: laws or’ ethical standards. If organized labor and the unernployed wish to avoid certain * disaster let them avoid the evil influence and dangerous counsel of these same “radigal’ political parties”—Socialists, Communists, and Fascists. are all equally alien, dangerous revolutionary. ‘The black horse follows the red horse -in the “Revelation of St. John” and the Black Legions are forming against the Red Legions all over the world today. We are sorry to say we have them in our very midst. Shall our fair Republic be divided into rival armed camps of
Socialists, Communists and Fascists? "Are we.
Americans going to permit these alien political factions to rob us of our peace; tranquility and liberty? To tolerate, compromise and legalize either of these alien inspired political attempts to “establish their system” to. overthrow and destroy our “existing order” is an abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine and the constitutional guarantee to every state of the union of a Republican form of government. While I do not see eye to eye with Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam on
some things there is one fact on|
which I agree with him, and that is that the very forces which are fighting Fascism in this country and the methods they are using are the very forces which, if not
stopped, will breed Fascism and
war and divide our great nation into classes and facgions. We do not need .the philosophy of Marx or Fascism to cure our economic, political and moral ills, but the teachings of Jesus Christ and the wisdom and experience of the founding fathers and the common sense of this: -Seniefation.
RECOVERY MADE DESPITE COURT, WRITER SAYS By Perry Rule ; ‘A pall of fear hanging over business due to contradictory and abro-
| gative court decisions on New Deal
legislation has greatly retarded com--
plete recovery, but in spite of efforts
of propaganda definite progress toward recovery is being made ‘We no longer hear any one ‘talk
supe leadership of the G. O. P. a ie
2s Se disastrous effect on. recovery
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legislation. The citizenry then again |
lift heads and demonstrate unshaken faith in their Chief Executive and Congress to surmount all obstacles placed in the path of complete and lasting recovery. In: the present crisis ' congerted ‘action on the part of the citikenry may be necessary to make the court an anchor to the windward and prevent judicial dictatorship. What is most needed is assurance that there can be no more ‘successful. frontal attacks on emergency legislation. However, it is not likely that there will be any complete change in the attitude of the predatory. favor-seek-ing interest until it more fully knows the - temper of the people. This feeling of security, so much needed, probably will not, come until after next November when the people have registered their reaction to the position taken by the opponents of feudal state and national legisation. -
SAYS FURY OF CAMPAIGN ENECIGHTENS VOTER By K. N. The full fury of the 1936 presidential campaign is upon us. John Public is caught in the maelstrom of charge and counter-charge, and in the next six months he must decide whether he wants the New Deal for another four years. Hence the important fact to the citizen going into the current campaign is that the whole story is available if he wants to study it. ‘For 1936 marks a new high’in the dissemination of campaign ballyhoo, |: and in the growth of interpretative comment. Much of it, of course, is unfavorable to the administration, but under our American system, the administration has to take it and like
it. And the same is true of the
opposition. Facts will out in this country, and
| the people can have them for the
asking. So as the current campaign rises ‘n intensity, there emerges a more thorough'y informed and intelligent voter. That is the best safeguard of democracy we can hope to have.
DAILY THOUGHT For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, nor. discerning the Lord’s body. —~I Co. “rinthians xi, 29.
‘houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those who Digéeses. are full of diseases
Z/SIDE - GLANCES
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He stayed at home in bed for ° many months, and then they sent He's been here four
# # IMMY had never been out of the East, and he doesn’t like it out here. Of course he hasn't seen any of it, excxept what he can see out of the hospital window, but he does not like it anyhow. It was a tough break for Jimmy, He had worked hard, ‘and had a couple of thousand saved up, and thought maybe he'd go into business some day. But that couple of thoue sand is gone now, and he feels pretty low about it. His wife is at home, and fortunately she has a job: Jimmy sleeps on a long screened porch, with a lot of other printers who have “the bugs.” Right behind his bed, through a door, is his room. He gets up and goes in there for his meals. There isn’t any bed in this room, but there are a couple’ of tables, and a locker, and Jimmy has pictures of his wife and baby on the table. He says the time isn’t so hard to pass away. He writes letters and’ works puzzles and reads a few books, and talks with the other boys. Jimmy has a lot of inaccurate figures about the small percenta of people who recover from T. E But he’s going to pull through, spite of himself. » ® # i UNNY is an Army colonels daughter, and a former airline hostess, and an all-around swell gal. fo She’s in her early twenties. She * was born in Cuba, lived in a and I don’t know where else. She calls Washington her home. She has a lot of humor, and she isn't having such a bad time out here. She found out last fall she had it. She'd had an X-ray taken in the spring, and then went away to Montana and didn’t go back to see what the X-ray said. It said T. B, but : she didn’t find it out until" months later. They told her she'd have to stay in bed for a year." As a matter of fact she didn’t much care, for
.| she was a little fed up with things
at the moment. So she was in a hospital in Wash< ington a couple of months, and in December they shipped her out . here. She has her radio, and more books ‘and magazines than you could read in a year, and pictures of all her friends, and flowers and candy, and her room is bright andcolorful and a lilac bush is starte ing to bloom outside the window. - s # ng UNNY takes things’ in her stride, If she Has T. B., she has T. B,, so what? She’ll get over it. She likes the West, and even though she does get a little fed up with the monotony once in a while, on the Whole she doesn’t mind lying in.
She jokes about everything. Not forced jokes either. She really sees fun in things. When she first came, she says, she had so many letters she thought she’d have to hire a secre--tary to answer them. But now the novelty of writing to her has worn off, and she’s just a pal in a hos pital, and she says she’s lost all con trol over her boy friends. : She has a pal down the corridor, a young Army flier’s wife from San Antonio; and they get together and have chat fests. g Bunny figures on a whole year in bed, and then when she gets out she’s going to hang around Denver for another year, just to make sure,
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