Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1936 — Page 28

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YOUTH CENTERS

AUL C. STETSON, superintendent of schools, like many other educators, is supporting the "idea of vocational education as one possible solution +»of the youth problem.- “' With more than 5,000,000 jobless Americans be--“tween the ages of 16 and 24, recent figures showed 2,875,000 persons of these ages on the Federal relief ..-rolls. 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.Jishment of youth centers for vocational training “and instruction in the use of leisure time, : He says the tendericy 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 graduated from high school. Specifically, in Indianapolis this tendency has meant increased enrollment and “ dncreased enrollment has resulted in overcrowding,” . says Mr. Stetson. : “Increased vocational training and training in the proper use of leisure time would «eature these youth centers, which would be somewhat like junior rgolleges. Perhaps the first and second year of col“lege work could be offered. . “In rural districts, one center could be set up for every one ar two counties, depending on population. They should be kept open day and night, seven days a week, so that the youth ot the community could make the greatest possible use of them. Shops, , gymnasiums, home-making centers, facilities for the ~formation of bands, debating teams and other re--creational and educatignal activities should be “included.” The proposal deserves serious study.

STATE-FEDERAL TAX OMELET

ITH the depression came revotutionary changes in the fiscal -policies of all of our units of “government, from the bottom to the top. - 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’

keeping open schools and maintaining other in- ~ dispensable services. / State governments, their treasuries also demoral-»-dzed by mounting tax delinquencies, quickly enacted #pecial excises and general sales taxes.

i < 8 O 8 calls from all parts of the nation found ..the Federal government likewise in budgetary { straits. With the crumbling of income tax receipts, the Federal government turned also to special ex- ’. cises 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, ‘.which bear no relationship whatever to the principle af ability to pay, and which offer ile promise of achieving fiscal stability. Obviously, state and local governments can never Ireassume their responsibilities so long as the Fed“eral government continues to poach on. fields of , taxation which logically ‘belong to the local units.

a the Federal government can not return to its .

normal limited sphere of activity until the Jocal “units do reassume their responsibilities. Like the dilemma of tax-exempt securities ex-

_ isting within the framework of a graduatéd income

“tax system and like the intricacies of capital gains and losses, this question of multiple taxation: also . calls for painstaking study. x ar : 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 jot any of these problems. i... Although admitting that the problems exist,

_ Congress can not intelligently go about the job of |

{ unscrambling our tax mess until it gains a working knowledge of the mgny complexities and ramifications. The most practicable way to get that back-

oground of facts. is, we believe, to create a joint

Senate-House committee, and instruct it to work “through the recess months with the view of recommending changes when Congress reconvenes. in ‘January.

SY ‘ROOM AT THE TOP

: > those ambitious young people who ask, k. there opportunity today in any of the > ston, when they are all so crowded?” we would rei " Indeed, yes! There never has ‘been a time when inetiigenor, ambition and ability were more needed

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£3 “To {llustrate, we cite Dr. Clyde G. Culbertson, 29-“year-old director of the central laboratories of the < indiana’ University School of Medicine, and director. 08 jaboratories of the State Board of Health. : Dr. Culbertson this week was chosen for the first;

14 _ These annual awards, made for distinguished § work that results in important civic service, should jnlp emphastas‘tha: te door of gpportunity i wits

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A yi cusable. Relief has become a long-time problem. The new program, Yoo, will raise doubts in thoughtful minds. Grahted that work relief is socially and psychologically preferable to direct relief, it is also more bureaucratic and more costly.

Valid criticisms have been leveled ‘against, certain of ;

the projects now under way and continued in the new program. In these the tendency is to get the money out to the needy regardless of the social usefulness of the work ‘or its creative benefits to the individual. So far as morale is concerned, there is little difference between an actual dole and such made-work jobs as leave the workers with a sense of futility in what they aré doing. This will be emphasized under the new program Which calls for the prevailing wage and thus cuts the hours of work fo fit the present average of around $60 a month. ; ss = = oA contrast .to these hurriedly improvised projects that recall the old CWA is an item in the new program bf $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 preparedness all of our work relief eould have: been permanently valuable. The tragedy of this relief program, however, Hes

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 for-

'mulate a long-range relief policy and for the even-

tual 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.

NO HARK-BACK

HEN a stanch old Republican newspaper like the New York Herald-Tribune frankly admits 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’ ‘sign, also a hopeful one. We see in it welcome further proof that the more thoughtful conservative Jeadership 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 cpnservatives at first denounced in sheer horror. The Herald-Tribune comes pretty close to confessing threatened party bankruptcy when it presents 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 new and natural alignments. . We are getting closer to the day ‘when, we Delieve, the country will find it normal and necessary to divide politically into conservatives and pro--gressives, 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 edge wisely, albeit cautiously, toward the left. That makes for safety and sound progress.

DR. MARIE HASLEP Ir 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 chigan -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 examining 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 O 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 written "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

| 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 { ua, are we uy justified in deserting Hushands WHO ; may slip temporarily from these higher planes? I can almost hear mint pin And so, "1h my opinion; fhe atlem

TE is pation ta otk or wialth oF bigs’ 53 on something more important and fun-

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NOWN in the southwest part of town—in the neighbrohood of

is David Eskenazi, and it’s just the right word to use inl this connection

nazi is a Greek.

mean, of course, that Spain hasn't

meticulous people call an anomaly.

the Spanish inquisition. Whey that melancholy hour struck, & half milcountry, which a residence of seven 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, escaped into Italy. Some got

| as far as Turkey 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

ing 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. ’ a : ; 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 prety 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 all of 500 years now—they took their language with them and kept on talking it, no matter where

they were. 2 ” 2

DIDN'T get 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 18 the boy. Daisy is the baby. Bella is 4% years old and a student in the Nathan Morris Kindergarten.’ She will be ready for public %hool pretty soon. _ ‘The latest arrival in the Church-

hor, a cousin of the Eskenazis. She’s

{only been here seven weeks. She's

a Salonika girl,

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- Q—What is the estimated

total stand ‘of timber in the United States,

504 In Wie. Ji of the countzy 15

Church-st, to be exact=lives a col-| & : ony of Spanish Jews. Their nestor | F225

because, as it tums lout, Mr. Beke- |

The Spanish Jew is a survival of |-

lion Jews resolved to abamdon “the

centuries had made almost a second |:

they were called Monsaphir, means- | :

st colony is the bride of Mr. Abhor- |

Most Spanish Jews come trom | Greece. The rest come from Turkey. The reason Spain doesn't send us| ; any Spanish Jews 1s because Spain| = SS hasn’t any to send. Which doesn’t|’

any Jews. Ii means what I said in 5 the first place, namely, that Spain| - hasn’t any Spanish Jews. It’s ‘what |

“The Hoosier Forum

wr] disapprove of what you say—and will defend “to a death your 7ight to say it.—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to eopress “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 letter must be signed. but names will be withheld on reauest.) 8 8 ®& READER GIVES VIEWS ON. BILL OF RIGHTS By E. F. Maddox ? I want to express my opinion 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 Demo‘cratic 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 DDITION 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, how-

ever, 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, vegetables, cereals, scraped meats, liver and egg. These substances should be

{ added ene at a time to determine

the baby's reaction to each new food. Usually it takes two or three days to

| ind out whethér a change in the

diet is beneficial. Orange juice may be given: during, the first month. Two tablespoonfuls, mixed with an:equal quantity of water, may be. given once or twice

daily. : When the baby is 3 mnths’ oid, it may have the juice of one-half orange daily, and, after that, the juice of a whole orange every day. Occasionally tomato -or other - fruit juices may be substituted for the orange juice, Cod liver oil should. be started early in infancy, beginning with half-weaspooniul each day and gradually increasing thé dose until ne baby is getting one teaspoonful two or three times a day. This should provide enough vitamin D-. to make |" certain ngrmal ‘baby.

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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 unemployed wish to avoid certain disaster let them avoid the evil in-

| fluence and dangerous counsel of

these same “radical political parties”—Socialists, Communists, and Fascists. . They are all equally alien, dangerous and 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 thése 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 guaran-

tee to every state of the union of a

Republican form of . government. ‘While I do not see eye to’ eye

with Dr. G. Bromley O%nam 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 hot

stopped, will breed Fascism and war and divide our great nation

into classes and factions. 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 gencation.

RECOVERY MADE ‘DESPITE COURT, WRITER SAYS By Perry Rule ’ : ‘A pall of fear hanging over business due to contradictory and abrogative court -decisions on New Deal legislation has greatly retarded complete recovery, but in spite of efforts of propaganda definite progress 'toward recovery is being made. We no longer hear any one falk about hard times, and there is a

significant spell of easier breathing |

after each reac court de-

cision and attack by the pugnacious,

voracious and- Super -Sonservalive leadership of the G. O. P. has spent 8 | its gisaswoss effect on recovery

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 concerted action on the part of the citizenry may be necessary to make the court an anchor to the windward and pre-

vent judicial dictatorship. What is | 5% ‘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 theposition taken by the opponents of remedial - state and national legislation, % ”

SAYS FURY OF CAMPAIGN ENLIGHTENS VOTER By K. N. : The full fury of the 1936 presidential campaign is upon us. John Publie¢ 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 tal 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 tary So as the current campaign rises

w intensity, there emerges a more thoroughly informed and intelligent voter.

DAILY THOUGHT

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, nor discerning the Lord’s body. ~—I Corinthians xi, 29.

8 houses, well stored with pro- | ; visions are likely to be full | of mice, so the bodies of those who eat much are full of diseases. — Diogenes. :

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They don’t know each other, never heard of each other, but they have the following things in common: They're old friends of mine; they have Subervulosist, they're in.

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 b 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 sl 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 4 couple of tables, and a locker, and J y 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 percentage of people who recover from T. B.i But he’s going to pull through, in spite of himself. a 2 = = Ca UNNY is an Army. colonels daughter, and a former airline hostess, and an all-around swell

She's in her early twenties. She was born in Cuba, lived in Panama ang 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 oy in bed for: a'iyear. “ 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 Washington 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 and colorful and a lilac bush is start ing to bloom outside the window. fo 2 #2 = * 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 Whole she doesn’t’ mind lying in

She jokes about everyibins. Not forced jokes either. She really sees fun in things. When she first came, she says, she had so many letiers she | thought she’d have to hire a secre- gi to answer them. But now the §

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