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BORAH WASHES OUT AGAIN Wax is it, the question is often asked, that Senator Borah, who frequently expresses so eloquently the sentiments of the average citizens,
can not command and hold a larger popular following?
Perhaps the answer is that people do not like to
~ be led in a circle. We now are witnessing another demonstration of Borah’s penchant for taking all sides of all ques- ~ tions. If it weren't for this trait, he would become one of the real giants of American history, It was Borah who through the pre-convention ° campaign stood out as the great liberajizing force in the Republican Party. It was Borah who, less than two weeks ago, said it would do the Republicans little good to prate about saving the Constitution and: the integrity of the courts, that the thing which really counted was working out a solution to the personal economic prob=lems of “the destitute sharecropper of the South, the jobless millions in the North, the farmer wrestiing with his debts and taxes in the shadow of a threatened diminishing market.” : It was Borah who so well said: “We can not long maintain a government with 48 states for purposes of government and; an empire for purpose of exploitation. “If we are to yopbsess the confidence of the people of this country,” he warned his party, “we must advise them in no uncertain terms what we are going to do about it, and do it.”
” s ” OW this same Borah turns up chameleon-like at Cleveland. Instead of giving aid and counsel ~ to Republican advocates of a platform pledging protection to exploited workers, he says cavalierly: “We are getting unduly excited over this question.” Borah has completed another trot around the track. ; Gov. Landon's representative on the Republican platform committee, William Al White, had proposed a constitutional amend nt endowing states with power to protect workers by laws prescribing
minimum wages and working conditions—a power
which the Supreme Court, in the New York mihimum wage decision, said the states now lack, and which previously, in the -Guffey decision, it had said the Federal government did not possess. Against this first warm breath of humanitarian{sm which has risen from Republican high councils, Borah blows cold, creating again a fog of prejudice over the whole constitutional issue, over the whole question of what we as a self-governing people shall do, to. solve the most pressing economic prob- : Jems of our cifizens. . 8 =» PEAKING src of ‘the Landon-White proposal itself, we believe its principal merit is that it would bring the constitutional issue into the realm of calm consideration, and away from the hysteria which hitherto has enveloped it. The proposal, as thus far revealed, does not provide any method by which the Federal government can help the states make good on minimum wage and maximum working hour laws. Without Federal help, we doubt that any state can make good. A state's laws on wages and hours might be effective in the laundry industry, for instance. All
laundries in a state could compete on an equal basis. |
Few people send their clothes across jtate lines to be washed.
But what about the coal industry, in which the
* Jow-wage mines of West Virginia and Kentucky already are invading the markets of the higher-wage mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana? And ~ what about the textile industry? Without the impulse of legal wage minimums, it already has seen a migration of mills from the higher-wage centers of New England to the lower-wage South. New York's minimum wage law for women was operative until the Supreme Court struck it down. But it wasn't very effective in the needle trades, for example, where the chiseling fringe of employers sweatshops across the line in New Jersey, employed women at lower wages, and shipped their lowerpriced garments back into the New York market. To those far-flung industries, state lines mean nothing. The nation is their market. And their labor standards can not be policed without the help "of the national government. To such industries, the United States is what Borah described as “an empire for exploitation.” It is hard to believe that this eloquent descriptive phrase was coined by the same Borah who now. after the manner of a Liberty Leaguer, shushes: “We are getting unduly excited over this question.”
OUTDOOR CONCERT
TT first free outdoor concert given Sunday night by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra was a distinct success. A crowd of about 4000, by far the largest audience ever to hear the local orchestra, was attracted to Garfield Park by this initial experiment In outdoor summer music. ' Ferdinand Schaefer, founder and conductor, and the players rewarded their listeners with a highcaliber performance. 3 The next concert is set tentatively for June 31, Limited funds prevent a full summer program. The first venture, ‘wowever, is proof that free outdoor summer spestatnment of tus King 1 yeeded and
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set | up
STRANGE parade took place in Washington the other day. It was a delegation of 50 mothers and fathers from the slums of New York
' City, /who went down in an all-night bus ride
to ‘the national capital to lobby for the pending Wagner-Ellenbogen Housing Bill, A feature of the parade up Constitution-av was a black coffin with the device: SWill the Slums Bury Us or Shall We Bury the Slums?” “We're just the first wave in an ocean of American slum-dwellers seeking r living conditions,” said one East Side mother. “We come down to speak for all the millions of American families now forced to live in: inhuman conditions whether in Alabama or Hester-st.” If Congress does. nothing the slums will bury thousands of families, for without Federal subsidies
_ the cities can do little. These families will continue
to live in festering tenements and hovels where children are born to sicken, die or become delinquents and criminals. Eventually America will bury these slums, as less wealthy nations of Europe are doing, because they are too costly in dollars and human values. Why does Congress delay now that a sound remedy, backed by millions of people, is on its calendar?
CHARLES T. MARTINDALE HARLES T. MARTINDALE was one of those civic leaders whose life was closely tied in with the life and growth of Indianapolis. A descendant of pioneers who settled in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1811, Mr. Martindale was born in Newcastle 79 years ago. The family moved to In-
dianapolis in 1862 and it was here that Mr. Martindale attended school and worked up from reporter to editor of the old Indianapolis Journal. He left this position in 1880 to study and practice law, a
profession he followed until illness Jorced him to
retire five years ago. : i Mr. Martindale was active in culfiiral, charitable and civic affairs of the community, He served as president of the School Board. Sa : News of his death last night comes as a shock to the many who held him in high esteem.
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THE G. O. P. ON RELIEF
OR months criticism has been leveled at the
Administration’s relief policies. Indeed, the high cost of relief and the haphazard methods of its administration doubtless will be one of the main
issues in the coming campaign. Unanimous as the leading Republican candidates are that things are all wrong, they are not all so
cocksure about what they would do if they were
in the White House.
Prazier Hunt's quiz of the seven leading Republican candidates reveals that the confusion of
thought on this subject is not confined to the party
in power. For instance—
Candidate Vandenberg would return relief “ad-
ministration to the states, but furnish the bulk. : of funds from the Federal treasury. His proposal
won only 14 votes in the Senate. Candidate Borah also would continue Federal relief, but thinks “the individual states should have much more to do with administration of relief than at the present time.” 3 Candidate Knox wants local administration and outright cash relief instead of “fake work-relief.” Candidate. Steiwer would continue work-relief “in ‘many instances,” but where the difficulties are too
great cash or goods should be substituted. States and Federal government should share. costs, but |
admisisération should be by states.
Candidate Dickinson says that relief should: be
neither in cash nor wages, but by local autharities in the form of “the proper necessaries of life to provide sustenance.” Dark Horse Wadsworth wants direct cash:.payments, with local administration of funds provided
jointly by state and Federal governments. And Candidate Landon is candid in his preplex-
ity. He thinks Federal aid has been necessary, but |
imperative now are decentralization of relief ‘and encouragement to people trying .to become selfsupporting. : “The first thing,” he says, “is to find out ‘what the requirements actually are and what is wrong with the present setup. Let us have the truth about it whatever it is. When we have the facts, we must provide an honest and effective relief system, . administered so that the money will go to those who need it and deserve it, free from political strings. We need desperately a cheaper, simple and more responsible relief administration throughout the Union.” We agree with Mr. Landon. And we think that party lines should be forgotten in an honest attempt by the President and Congress to g these facts. Democrats and Republicans should unite in Cone gress before adjournment in the creation of a factfinding, policy-guiding national commission of distinguished citizens, whose findings and recommenda-
tions could help the next Congress find a gradual
way out of this relief bog.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT : By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
T 1s glad news the doctors are giving us these
days. They say spinach and carrots may be taken off our diet list entirely, if we are so minded, and no harm done. Somehow I can’t work up much gratification over the matter. For I think of .the. countless conscientious mothers who have frayed their own
nerves and worn out their families in the effort to
break down resistance to these two vegetables. *
For decades homes have been battle grounds because the dietitians insisted that every baby born into the world must take its daily measure of spinach. Marriage has often gone down to defeat before the repeated assaults from the lowly carrot as it came to the table sliced, scraped, creamed or
Gistised 45d biden ia some Fsachutiues Mit 4
The whole is merely another ‘example of adam uikred To the. attr, Be ws
is the chief victim of the faddists. ac a a | t the though manifold by nature, are increased wry | Dut co
‘| jack-pot into a - collection of pic-
‘I call it a raffle today.
‘| mother?
Our’ Town By ANTON SCHERRER
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pros may prattle all they please about the beautiful behavior of eur grandfathers, but it remains a fact that 80 years ago they participated in a “gambling orgy,” the like of which Indianapolis probably will never see again.
little ones today. The craze hit Indianapolis in 1860 and it had some of our best families entangled before anything could be done about it. It had everybody involved before it was over and it doesn’t minimize the seriousness of the situation to know that some of our finest citizens: were at the bottom of it. Nor does it minimize the seriousness of the situation to know that the Indianapolis Art Society was at the bottom of it, because, no matter whether you believe the end justifies the means or not, it still remains a fact that a lottery was set up in Indianapolis. At any rate, it isn’t any easier to explain to the little ones on that account. 2 8» i ie] \HE Indianapolis Art Society, |
here, was patterned, after the Cosmopolitan Art and Literary Association of Sandusky (1854), which, in turn, was ’ patterned after the Cincinnati Art Union (1846) and the American Art Union of New York (1840), the start of this country’s ‘iniquity. i The modus operandi of the operators was simple enough: They collected a big fund by way of a big membership and then turned the
tures for which they sometimes paid fabulous prices. After which, they sold lottery tickets, the lucky numbers, of course, receiving the! prize pictures. All on the theory that it is perfectly ethical to let a person, thus artistically inclined, pay a part of the value of something for the chance of winning it. The police |
: 2 8 =» HESE art associations did business on a big scale. The American Art Union in 1847, for instance, had a membership close to 10,000 and a fund of nearly $50,000. The Sandusky people did even better. In 1854, they sold more than 21,000 tickets, representing a jack pot of $65,000. The Cincinnati Art Union went over so big and paid such fancy prices for pictures that it induced Jacob Cox to take up painting for good and leave the tin shop tof ‘his brother. : In 1856 the craze hit Indianapolis, but it wasn’t until 1860 that we heard about a lottery drawing. Jacob Dunn used to say, speaking of the first lottery drawing here, that ‘it was a “chaste” one. The pictures were shown at Lieber’s Gallery, and the art society had scouts out all over the state selling tickets at $3 each. It was a matter of pride at the time that some of our best families bought as many as a dozen. : At:the second drawing, 70 pictures and statues were distributed, representing a sale of 800 lottery tickets. Which was why Poussin’s painting of “Joseph and Potiphar’s “Wife” landed in Mrs. W. B. Whiffin’s home and why H. A. Fletcher got Hiram Powers’ bronze statue of the “Shepherd Boy.”
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Q—Are bear cubs very small at birth compared to the size of the
A—When born, bear cubs are eight or nine inches longnand weigh 12 to 15 ounces. Adult grizzly bears weigh between 900 and 1000 pounds, sometimes more. Bear cubs at birth are smaller in proportion to the size of the mother than the young of any other mammal with the exception of the marsupials,
Q—What five cities of the world have the largest populations?
A—In their order they are, Great-
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‘for The Times goes where he Pleases, '} when he pleases, in search
‘stories sbaut this and that.
LBUQUERQUE, N. M., June 8, —One of the things people do
| the trains come in.
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The Hoosier Forum 1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your wight ‘to say it.—Voltaire.
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SEES G. 0. P. AS DYING SLOW DEATH By Pat Hogan, Columbus’
The moribund G. O. P. is frantically engaged in the business : of manufacturing cheap wit, poor puns, class prejudice and Sunday brands of campaign fodder, all of which will serve as a gigantic-boom-erang. . When, Mr. Hoover attempted to approach the Lincolnian reference about “swapping horses in the middle of the stream” and said he was convinced that it was not a Borse, ‘8 white rabbifhe ‘got about the matt phat which wears the GG. 0. P,
This magnificent beast: waxed fat in the 12 years of roaming over
the country during the Harding, Coolidge, Hoover era. ' It sucked the.
country dry, ruined the farmer, the laborer, the home owner and the small business man; and in common with all other white elephants returned nothing for ‘his keep and existed only for show. - After three years of ‘being walled
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN |
VEN tiny babies can learn to
take orange or tomato juice from a spoon. Merely put a drop or two of the juice on the tip of the spoon and hold it to the baby’s mouth. It is ‘natural for the baby to make a sucking motion, which will draw in the juice. If the baby learns to like the food, it soon will be eating satisfactorily from a
spoon. By the time most babies are 6 months old, they can learn to drink from a cup. The cup, how-
ever, must be broad enough sot
that the baby’s nose will not bump the opposite rim. As the baby gets older, it will soon put its hand out to help in holding the cup. By the time a baby is 10 or 11 months old, it will be used to holding a cup, and feeding will be much easier. If the baby refuses to drink from a cup, you should adopt about the same procedure that you use when the baby declines to accept feedings except from the breast. It is necessary to be firm and to keep faking away the food until the child is hungry enough to want it. ‘This means a great deal of patience. It will’ require holding the cup to the baby’s lips over and
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in; this great white elephant has reached the point of starvation and needs only the benediction of some kind undertaker; and very evidently Mr. Borah will pass that ' benediction. . - But its owners are making a heroic effort to prod and drag him
| back before a public has no sym-
pathy. Behold the zeal of Landon, Hearst, Du Pont, Vandenberg, all the old guard of the old.gang. Do these gentlemen: actually ' believe they can sell this hollow monster to ah enlightened people? They howl “reckless spending,” “balance the budget,” “wasteful extravagance in relief.” Do they think they can lead: us back to the Hoover philosophy, that it is a virtue to starve rather than ask for aid when three percent of the people control industry, the money ‘market and the: t? They “are grooming Tandon: ‘with ‘the fond but fatuous belief that he is another Coolidge. That alone would defeat him. This country is in no need of an oyster-like leader. The only man in the Republican party who is qualified to lead it or the people, is Senator Borah, and the party bosses know he would lead it as the people desire—that’s exactly why they are not for him— also why he is going to quit the moribund party. Roosevelt has proved that he has the interest of the common people
‘| at heart more than any. president ‘| since Abraham Lincoln—that's why | he will -be- returned in November.
Three per cent of the oF Sole may have the money, but :97 per cent have ‘the Vues, i
COLLECTIVE JUSTICE URGED BY READER By Subscriber. Certain groups do not seem to be able to clarify what they mean by
‘Americanism, American standard of
living and rugged individualism. Citizens of the United States are not the only Americans. There are a number of nations in North and South America and that makes them Americans too. What is Americanism? Now as to a standard of living. We have a class of people who do nothing and yet wallow in luxury, a middle class that fares somewhat better than the poor class that exists on a hand-to-mouth basis. What is the American standard 1 of living? Rugged individualism is laughable.
fingers.—Sen
No one can achieve anything without some co-operation from his fellow citizens. The dictionary explains individualism as selfishness and egoism. It is gratifying to note the slow but. sure awakening of the laboring class to the need of honest liberty, democracy and collective justice. Until we have collective justice under the guiding hand of socialism the workers will continue to suffer from want amidst plenty. ® 2 2
CONDEMNS AUTHORITY
OF SUPREME COURT By William Lemon The Supreme Court declared the New York minimum wage law unconstitutional in regard to women and children and will enable sweatshop employers to pay starvation wages. This Republican controlled tribunal has and will always favor the money power and has almost wrecked all the present legislation favoring the producing and working class. And as long as this court is allowed to survive, Wall Street will control our countty and our chosen representatives will be powerless. If this court were abolished, our President and Congress would have a chance to eliminate’ the depression by law, and give America back to the producing class, where it rightly belongs. Do: you suppose these nine gran® old gentlemen could exist on $12 or $15 a week? " Your vote and millions of other votes mean nothing as long as the! Supreme Court has its present power. The only hope for the working class is for all power to be vested in our President and Congress, and to secure this we must elect congressmen who favor the abolishment of the Supreme Court.
DAILY THOUGHT Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.—~II Corinthians ix, 7. ¥
E should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation, for there is no
grace in a benefit that sticks to the eca.
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
Albuquerque is a city of about
attraction, day in and day out, is the arrival of the trains.
part ; engine itself. It is an: Rotupai] which has its advautages; and I giving “serious thought to
bere is areal fascination about seeing the trains arrive. They come
que.
vey Hotel,” built in
style.
of no prettier spectacle than to see an immensely long ° train,
gone, the Pullmans empty, men in
whole thing just sitting there resting, waiting out its fore it takes on its cargo of humans
ert toward far California. ® = = HERE are five trans-continene tal trains each way, dally, through Albuquerque. Irn the West, you know, most people get off the trains to eat at the “eating stops,” The big trains stay here 25 mine
utes, and they disgorge from 40 to.
200 people, who leap off, stretch,
: and hurry in to the restaurant for
a quick meal. There is hardly a day but what
there’s a ‘celebrity on at least one .-
of the trains ‘going through Albu. querque. A newspaper friend here was: tell= ing me how,. several years ago, hewent to the station to interview Charlie Dawes,
sulking in his compartment, 80: mad - he would hardly talk.
It seemed there was a nuge crowd at the station, and Dawes got off -
and walked up and down, ard nobody paid the slightest attention to him. - They were there to get-auto-graphs fromm a minor movie star.
rity is coming through, the crowd gets so big that Station Master Sinclair has to use all six of his rails road policemen, and call in the city cops, too. The movie stars got to complain-
ing, and said they'd quit using the | railroad if something wasn’t done _
‘about the autograph hunters at Albuquerque. So now if people get too insistent, they are arrested.
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NHARLIE CHAPLIN used to be the biggest drawing card, ace
cording to Station Master Sinclair.
any more. Mr. know who is the big attraction new. There is a book shop. alongside the station platform, and the fel-
low in- there was: telling me about.
the authors who come ‘through. He says they’ll come in and nose around and pick up: a book, and cough and shuffle, and if .anybody - says anything theyll walk over and say ‘ “I ‘wrote this book,” -and he'll. say “Oh, is that so?” and then . they'll say “Would you like me to autograph it for you?” and he'll say - “Sure,” so they autograph it. He says about the only author he can recognize is Thomas Wolfe, the “Time and River” man. Wolfe is about 6 feet 8, he says, and comes through about every two months. This shop sells about 400 books a month just to people on trains. They: re .mostly about the Southw
Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE ‘ AS attack by air, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse of modern war, is at last disturbing Great Britain, whose pegple hitherto
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very long and wide, and running : along it are the depot and Indian ° curio shops and the long, low Hare Southwestern The are lots of tracks, and I know
sitting there in the evening, the locomotive -
overalls tapping thé wheels’ and loading in packages off trucks, the -
2§ minutes be .
again and speeds away into the deg 2
when hé came... through. He finally found . him, ;
The autograph hounds are’ a se- . rious problem. If a really big celeb--
But he hardly ever comes through . Sinclair: doesn’t ;
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