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SYNTHETIC

WWEAT had been press-agented as - another “cross of gold” turned out to be a poor grade of dross. The much-touted Steiwer speech did nothing more than produce slight symthetic applause as an uninspired preliminary to what’ gives every evidence of being the nomination of a syns thetic candidate. The evening of the first day had its distinctly pathetic aspects. Despite all the splendor of the scene, the keynote produced more jeers among the

audience than cheers among the delegates. We say

this in the purely reportorial, not editorial, sense.

Editorially, we wish it hadn't been so.. Much rather would we have seen the inspirational effect that had been forecasted, indicating a vibrant, enthusiastic,

challenging opposition. But it wasn’t there. Had the message been the “Give me liberty” or the Gettysburg address it wouldn't have gone over in that gathering. The elastic is out of the Republican suspenders. We give you our word that we don’t like it. Our two-party system of government presumes vigor in the minority. Only one conclusion could come from that much-heralded keynote session—proof-positive that the Republican party is definitely moribund. The spirit is gone; the flesh is weak.: ®All the bands and all the banners, all the claques and all the head- _ lines, we are afraid, can’t put Humpty Dumpty to‘gether again. - We repeat—we don't like it. Much as we admire the idealistic purposes of the New Deal we fear the cockiness that is likely to characterize the next four years of Democratic administration. Most of the too many haywire performances in the last three years have been due to having it all. one way. Ar- ~ rogance, over-confidence, sloppiness, are the inevitable results. A keynote speech is supposed to serve a specific purpose. In our American political system it is designed as the equivalent of the quaint Abyssinian festival in which Haile Selassie fed his warriors faw meat to instil them with the lust of bdtile. It ~ is the keynoter’s job to stir the emotions. On paper, Steiwer’s speech seemed to have its full quota of raw, red fighting phrases. There were the “New Deal Caesar,” “the Siamese twins of bureaucracy and centralized autocracy,” “this nation can not be bluffed and can not be bought,” and “bookworms” and “hookworms.” But as served in the Cleveland hall the meat somehow or other did It was stale and soggy. The audience had no appetite. There was no licking of the chops. We wish it had been different. It would be better for the country.

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DRINKING AND DRIVING

RECENT survey by the United States Conference of Mayors seeking to determine the rise or fall in drunken driving last year reveals the failure of cities to deal adequately with this problem. The chief complaint is the inability to obtain

convictions after arrests. The prosecutions won't

“stick.” The trouble seems to be that most cities depend _ entirely upon observations of local police and witnesses. Only 26 out of 102 major cities employ physicians’ tests in questioning tipsy motorists, and only a few of these use scientific methods. / Cincinnati uses a technical examination of the pupil of the eye, while San Francisco uses a complete analysis of blood and urine. An unsteady Berkeley (Cal) driver is required to inflate a large sterilized rubber balloon, and the expelled air then “is analyzed for alcoholic content. ; The mayors’ report says physiologists have determined that when alcohol concentration in the blood stream reaches 15-100 per cent, the drinker is intoxicated. They declare the old method of determining drunkenness by the number of drinks

taken is inaccurate. o ® »

AILURE to get convictions is attributed to various reasons. Some established penalties are considered too harsh and lesser charges of reckless driving or speeding are substituted. ¥ The report asserts one reason is that these latter penalties produce local municipal revenues while drunken driving fines go to the states. Fines for tipsy motoring in the cities surveyed range from $1 to $2000, with jail sentences of five days to two years thrown in. ) :

Most of the cities polled favor use of credited .

doctors’ examinations as one way to meet the prob-

“Jem of drunken driving, with tests immediately fol-

~ Jowing an arrest. Only 24 of the 102 cities reported a decrease in drunken driving during 1935. Indianapolis uses only the conventional test of walking a straight line and the co-ordination test in, which the suspect is told to close his eyes and put his hand alternately on his nose and one ear. ~The city should make use of this valuable survey to establish a workable system for dealing with the

THE MILK SITUATION

HERMAN G. MORGAN, City Health Board 2 secretary, says four more dairy inspectors are imesded to provide adeqpate: milk spestion this

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For the farmer: ' Too much milk, too 1 prices, For the consumer: Not enough milk, too high prices, too small income. : Surveys have been made in thost of the metropolitan milk markets. One of the best was that of the St. Louis area by R. W. Bartlett of the UniStation. of milk (characteristic of all large citiés, which have a per

capita consumption of less than ‘a pint a day)

is not always due to lack of purchasing power. Eatng habits and standards of living are partly responsible for the fact that milk consumption is not as high as the nutrition experts say it should be. . Attempts to correct the milk situation have been ashy and varied. One big stumbling bleck is that of insuring an ample price to farmers, and this is complicated by the variety of conditions under which

milk is produced. 5 8 8 =» -

HE recommendations of Mr. Bartlett for the st. Louis milkshed, while they may not all apply to the Indianapolis area, afe of such definite nature as to be worth studying. They include: 1. Equip stores with refrigeration and permit retail sales at lower costs than delivered milk. : 2. Gradually rearrange hauling routes from farms to milk plants so as to reduce excessive costs. 3. Persuade farmers to adjust feeding and breeding practices so as to bring about a move to even production during the year,

4. Persuade farmers who have only a few cows,

| or who can not afford to meet quality requirements,

to retire from the bottle milk market and send their

, product to condensories, ¢reameries or cheese fac-

tories. 5. Persuade milk producers to adopt more effi-

_cient methods and develop logical side lines-+poul-.

try, eggs, meat, ete. . 6. Endeavor to ascertain additional methods of reducing cutting among producers. 7. Continue research studies to furnish a factual basis for determining policies that will benefit producers, distributors and consumers.

These steps, Mr. Bartlett believes, would result in less waste production, which is at the seat of .

much of the milk supply trouble because it influences the difference between prices paid to farmers and prices paid to consumers. Indianapolis réquires first, an adequate supply of good milk. Dr. Morgan. reports good milk is being obtained through restrictions imposed upon producers. These health measures must not be relaxed. They should be bolstered by more adequate inspection. It also is important to work out a system of getting milk at a price that will permit ‘ample consumption and yet give an adequate return to farmers.

STUNTS—AND THE COURT

E believe the thinking of a lot of people on: the matter of the Supreme Court versus Congress runs pretty directly to the personal comparison—much of the strength of the court being due to Congress itself. ‘To put it another way, it would be easier to do something about curbing the power of the nine old men if it were not for the Zionchecks. Because, after all, when the average man is faced with the question of where he would desire ‘that ultimate authority be reposed he is likely to reason somewhat as follows—‘“until Charles Evans Hughes takes off his shoes and wades in the Rockefeller Center pool or throws his landlady through the door my affections will lean toward the judiciary. » - The paucity of antics that ¢haracterizes the conduct of the higher tribunal, as contrasted with the wealth thereof which appears in the legislative, branch, is undoubtedly a great asset, in terms of public standing, for the court. We have yet to hear of Brandeis casting aside the black robe in favor of silk pajamas for the purpose of conducting official business, nor have we a record of his bursting forth with an obiter dictum on the subject of pot likker. To our knowledge Cardozo never once has garbed himself in overalls as did Senator Magnus Johnson to show that he was of, by and for the people. Justice Butler has not by the wearing of robinred vests sought to. rival a Cole Blease, nor has Roberts arrayed himself in a 10-gallon hat to impress the populace, as did Tom Heflin. Conspicuously absent in the public appearances of Justice Stone has been anything in the Gassaway mode of boots and spurs; McReynolds has never fried an egg on the Capitol steps, nor has there ever been invented a Van Devanter zipper or a Sutherland stinger to'be added to the Federal bartenders’ guide. So as we say, to the man in the street, when he comes to choose, the court has the edge. Mark Twain said dignity was no more a sign of mental strength than a shirt bosom was of a shirt— but it certainly counts with the voters. And the prestige of Congress can be strengthened in exact ratio as Congressmen and Senators cut down on stunt statesmanship. ° . !

: ~ A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.

T= is to acknowledge a nice letter from Robert

Gingrich of Esquire the “magazine for men,” which was soundly berated here some weeks ago. Without changing our opinion one whit about the tiresomeness of smut or our regret that American men seem to like theirs so dirty, the magazine deserves our highest praise for its fight for pacifism. Can we not take it as a good omen when a publication like Esquire, which belongs definitely in the super-sophisticated class, makes'a fight on war? Such magazines hitherto have left all such effort to the radical or the nfore mediocre publications refusing to inflict political questions upon their readers who are supposed to prefer wit to wisdom. A flippant attitude toward serious concerns has long been the vogue. : All of which makes Esquire campaign the more impressive. Its battle against militarism is a wide departure from the fashionable mode in such a type magazine and we can not doubt but it will

pm ny The very fact that it is read largely by men in a position to change public opinion.

is a point not to be overlooked It gives this column great pleasure to salute brother pacifists. "May their zeal never falter! ‘We still believe in woman's

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WHITCOMB RILEY'S fifst book of poems, published 53 years ago, carried. the imprint ‘ot “George C. Hift & Cb.” as publish‘ers. It was the only one of Mr. Riley's long list of books so designated. Last week Mr. Hitt explained why.

The explanation came by way of |

a paper prepared originally for the

Indianapolis Literary Club. Last}

week Mr. Hitt was good enough to read it again—this time for the

benefit of the members of the Indi-|

ana Historical Society, which is where I picked it up. - It was worth picking up because, besides clearing up a mysterious episode in Mr. Hitt’'s life, it’s as nice an example of a paradox on Parnassus as any one can find. At least, around here. Mr. Riley, it appears, had dreamed of his first book as far back as 1877, but it wasn’t until six years later that anything was done about it. The publication of “The Old Swimmin’ Hole” head. When that poem appeared in the Indianapolis Journal on June 17, 1882, and met the reception it did, | Mr. Hitt was pretty sure that something had to be done about collecting Mr. Riley’s poems for posterity. s 2 ” ® \OMETHING was done, because

‘a year later Mr. Hitt went in|

search of a publisher. He took the manuscript of a dozen poams titled “The Old Swimmin’ Hole "Leven Other Poenis” and submitted the proposition to Robert Clarke & Co., an old and well-known Cincinnatti publishing house. Robert Clarke & Co. gave one look at the dialect verse and refused to have anything to do with it. It was beneath their dignity, they said. It was not beneath their dignity, however, to consider the proposition as a piece of job work and a printing job, without benefit of publisher, it turned out to be. Mr. Hitt con-

cost of $141 including the cost of copyright. Which, of course, . still’ left the book without a publisher. The question of a. publisher's name on the title page was finally

who had refused the use of their name, came forth with the naive, if not brilliant, suggestion that Mr. Hitt should -use his own. Mr. Hitt improved the suggestion by adding “and Co.” Mr. Riley was the “Co.” The improvised firm of poet and patron split $166.40, the profits of the .first edition, and called it a day.

® » ” FTER that, the copyright passed into the hands of the Bowen-Merrill people, who got out the second and subsequent editions. The second edition was a facsimile\ of the first, except for a red border line around the pages. Lee Burns, who owns just about every first edition of Riley books, suggests that the border may be in imitation of the “Red Line” books published by Thomas Y. Crowell at that time. Mr. Burns may be right. He usually .is. In all other respects, however, the second edition was like the “Hitt edition”—a little book “about the size 6f a pocket testament” (to use Riley's words), containing 50 pages bound in imitation of parchment. Like the first edition, it sold for 50 cents. Last year in a New York auction room an autographed copy of the “Hitt edition” was sold for $750. I hope Robert Clarke & Co., onetime publishers of Cincinnaiti, arerrt listening in.

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G. 0. P. WAVING HATCHET OF CARRIE NATION, HE SAYS © By LeRoy S. Moore. Bedford

Much ado has been made by the Republican press of Postmaster General Farley's reference to languid Landon as “the Governor of a typical prairie state.” However, the late news of the day proves once again that ‘these people who live in a glass house should bear

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THENEVER a new solid food .s added to baby’s diet, always begin with a small arount—not more than a teaspoonful. As new. foods are added, the baby of.course will take less of the foods that it has been getting.

The refined or white cereals are given first, because they are more easily digestible and less likely to be laxative than the whole grain cereals. ° Cereals should be cooked with salt and water, or with milk, according to the instructions ® accompanying the specific product, if it is packaged. If not, the proportion for farina is about one part of the farina io Si six or eight parts of water or milk. Such mixtures are brought to a boil and cooked in a double boiler for one or two hours. When made with milk, farina will provide about 30 calories for each tablespoon; with water, about 20.. Potato may ‘ be substituted for some of the cereals. Potatoes also should be well cooked and mashed. In-this form, the vegetable usually is as digestible as other forms of starch. Later, spaghetti or macaroni may be used. Crackers, zwieback, dried bread, or toast may be given when the teeth have started to appear and it is possible for the baby to chew these substances satisfactorily. Use of new pureed green vege

are prepared preferably by boiling or baking. ; ® =» = " water In which the vegetables are cooked should not be discarded, because it contains some of the valuable salts. Remember that the substances eaten by the baby may appear in the bowel movements. The mother should not be worried if the red

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in mind the frailty of their structure. Meaning ‘the recent dry raid in’ Wichita by Gov. Landon’s state police force acting under orders from Gov. Landon’s Attorney General, who doubtlessly received his orders from Landon himself. The result of the damage perpetrated by the dry raiders was as revealing as red figures. It proves that the Republican Party, regardless of their wails for the protection of liberty, still choose for their staridard bearer the type most fitted to Seize personal liberty and force buttermilk and orange juice down the throats of the people. They buried Carrie—but not her hatchet—the hatchet either = was willed to them or else the G. O. P. made a deliberate snatch. Represensation as usual by the same old bunch of fanatical bigots whose chief assets are analogous with pressed flowers and sour breath and a desire to eternally distress the

good Doctor by imposing upon the

privilege to make free use of the parsonage door. a ” ” 8 SEES WALL STREET OPPOSING BORAH By The Rev. James F. Chumbley. Waldron Wall Street has the machinery all cocked and primed to beat Senator Borah at the national convention. In my opinion Senator Borah is the only man who even has a slim chance of getting to first base. The Senator is a game fish and Wall Streeet knows it, and the Senator also knows Wall Street. His mouth is simply too big for the money changers to plug up. They prefer suckers to bass. It is true President Roosevelt has made some mistakes. So did Washington and Lincoln, but when we honestly consider present day conditions and compare them with the dark days of Hoover's Administration, it seems to be nothing. short of a miracle that we are making

gress, Lincoln, the President who ‘advocated a government By the .people and for the people, ‘only. could witness the Republican Party as it is, frozen into a heartless iceberg, with its fingers clutching’ at the throats of the common people, I am sure if it were possible he would arise from the grave and join in the fight to liberate suffering humanity. I am listed as a Republican for the simple reason my father was a Republican, but I refuse to sell my soul to any man who dances to the music of the Wall Street orchestra.

SAYS BLACK LEGION WILL BE STAMPED OUT By Hugh S. Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.

Sinclair Lewis wrote a book called “It Can't Happen Here.” The book showed how a Fascist movement on the Hitler plan could happen here. Then his wife, Dorothy Thompson, in her admirable column, “On the Record,” writes a piece called “It Can Happen Here,” and uses for her text the revelations and rumors about the Black Legion. With deference for the fine analytical thinking of ° both wedded genii, as a national menace to be dignified by attention so distinguished, the Black Legion is the bunk. It is a dirty rat’s nest that should and will be stamped out.

But to go from that to a conclu-.

sion that it is a forerunner to some American Hitler is too big a jump. The Black Legion is no. manifestation of a considerable American fascism or any other philosophy. It is a distorted outcropping on the lower ledges of the ingrained American jining-and-peacock complex. You can read about it in embryo in “Huckleberry Finn” and Tom Sawyear’s boy robber bands. Where some moron or worse perverts this tendency of belated adolescence to such sinister purposes as race and religious hatred and po=

litical action, it is time to take it

apart. But the mere fact that this is going to be promptly and thor-

| oughly and effectively done is proof

enough that “it can’t happen here.” 2 8 = ! SAYS T. R. UNCLE, NOT COUSIN OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By N. W. R. The authors of Washington Merry-Go-Round the other day re-

ferred to Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President, as a cousin

of former President T. R. Roosevelt.

They are in error-on this, as the famous Teddy was an uncle of the nation’s First Lady.

FRIENDSHIP

By Daniel Francis Clancy Friendship is a goodly thing, Much happines does it bring. But, too many random chosen friends, And we lose all of its dividends. Priends should be few And choicely good; Just one or two, And mutually understood. With much in common, And interests the same; In things to be won And things overcame.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

Vagabond

Indiana

4 —Oripple Creek is a thrilling

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You climb and climb and climb

skeleton buildings stand alone with the birds ant the winds. Gold is still being mined in Cripple Creek. In the neighborhood of $12,000 a day is being taken from the 100 mines around here. The Cresson mine is the biggest. It works about 200 men, and produces about $3000 of gold a day. But most of the mines are little. id All the really rich ore (at least so far as is known) has already been mined out of Cripple Creek. Today the ore is low grade, ,

: s 4.8. Teas why a miner in Crippla Creek today seldom sees any real gold. There’s so little of it. Gold mining is nothing more than rock mining. You just dig out rock and

‘| ship it away to the mill, and they

take the gold out there by a .chemical process.

The Cresson mine digs out chou 400 tons of gray rock a day. It ships this rock down to Colorado Springs to the mill. ‘It takes about 10 railroad ‘cars to haul it down there. : And out of all this rock they get around six pounds of gold. ; ‘The gold. ore of Cripple Creek 10+ day runs about $8 a ton. That's a quarter of an ounce of gold per ton of rock. Think of a ton of solid rock—it would take at least 15 men to lift it. And out of that rock they get about a pin-head of gold! .* I asked a mining engineer if he had ever seen a vein of pure gold. He said yes, he'd seen a few, but they weren't what I imagined. Just a thread, maybe a couple of feet long and as big around as a piece of string. A good many of the mines around Cripple Creek today are old ones that are being reopened. In the old days, when there was lots of gold, the. boys couldn't be bothered with low-grade ore. ; = 85 #® UT today, times being - what they are, and the price of gold having advanced, it is profitable to mine this low-grade stuff. then there’s always ‘the chance. of. hitting a vein that's a little better. - ‘Unions :have never made any headway in the gold mines. Why? Because every man has the fever. Every man is working for himself, About half of them work on a basis that gives them a chance at some=thing if they hit. Say a company owns a low-grade. ore mine. It may work 50 men on straight wages, and have 50 “lease ers” working in the mine. This is known as the “split-check” system. : The company furnishes the mine, - and all the tools and materials. The man furnishes the labor. And whate ever comes out, they split 50-50. A mine superintendent told me that Cripple Creek ‘“leasers” aver- _ age higher than straight wages. A “leaser” told me they didn’t. But at least a “leaser” makes as much as straight wages—plus a chance, And in the gold mines, the chance .

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