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People Will Find : an
Their Own Woy FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1936.
LANDON—AND THE PLATFORM
BREATH of the West was in the air last 4A night—a flavor of youth, and a dash of cour age. ! ‘ West, Kansas. Youth, personified by John Hamil- . ton, he of the strong jib and the catching smile, who nominated Landon. Courage, in the message from the nominee wherein he went further than the platform on which his political associates had been so long and so cautiously chiseling. ; The net impression is that the Republican Party has moved not only westward, but forward, . : That impression was accentuated by the first ' Klieg light appearance of the trim Topekan, Hamilton, among those bald and paunchy remnants of the Old Guard who hitherto had been in charge of the proceedings. ; Whether this streamlined lawyer is a statesman is yet to be proved. But that he is a manager has been demonstrated. He has managed his man from obscurity into the nomination for the nation’s highest honor. Hamilton stood before the thousands Thursday night in Convention Hall as a new and strange and striking personality; as a symbol of change in control of a party which for so long ruled our political destiny snd which went so crushingly to defeat four years ago. He and his Western group now take charge. What they do will tell the story of whether a party sick unto death can be revived. Most hopeful of the signs was the message from the nominee which so quickly followed the presentation of the platform—a platform that generally speaking was of the usual hedging, on-the-other-
hand variety.
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. 8 » : HILE the document marks a departure from W the past in its recognition of social responsibility, one can not escape the conclusion in the reading of it that the Re ublican Party has reluctantly been pulled forward by the New Deal; that it has not gone ahead under its own steam. Some planks bear the plain stamp of reaction. Others, by proposing some new twist, attempt to put a Republican trademark on reforms which the New Deal already has accomplished, or has in the making. Throughout, the struggle between the Old Guard and Young Guard is in evidence—and their compromises, contradictions and straddles have little of the flavor of youth or the dash of courage. On the one hand they espouse “the American system of constitutional and local self-government” and therefore condemn “arbitrary encroachments on the legislative and executive branches.” But on the other hand, they close their eyes to the judicial en-
croachments, On the one hand, they favor higher tariffs to restrict what they describe as competitive imports, but on the other hand they favor adjusting tariff “with a view to promoting international trade.” On the one hand, they “advocate a sound currency” and “opposes further devaluation of the dollar,” but on the other hand they do not recommend that our money be tied to gold or silver at any fixed value, but do declare for what in effect is continuation of the present managed currency. On the one hand, they oppose what the last three Republican Presidents sponsored—adherence to the World Court, an established tribunal for international arbitration—but on the other hand they favor “the great cause of international arbitration through the establishment of free, independent tribunals.’ On the one hand, they oppose the New Deal Fed-eral-state old-age pension plan, financed by taxing both employers and employes on a pay roll basis, and on the bor hand they advocate a Federal-state old-age pension plan, financed by “a direct tax widely distributed” (whatever that means). On the one hand, they are for “state laws and interstate compacts to abolish sweatshops and child labor,” but on the other hand they say nothing in favor of the pending child labor amendment to the Constitution. (The Constitution after all is nothing but an interstate compact.) : On the one hand, they urge state wage and hour laws protecting women and children, but on the other they do not want to amend the Constitution, which
the Supreme Court has decreed forbids such protec-
tive laws.
> = = » N the one hand,. they condemn. the New Deal soil conservation farm program because it tends
“to promote scarcity and to limit by coercive meth- A
ods the farmer's control over his own farm,” but on the other hand they favor “protection and resto- : ration of the land resources, designed to bring about such a balance between soil-building and soil-deplet-ing crops as will permanently insure productivity.” Strictly on a reading of the piece it becomes ob-
vious that what the Republicans need is a one-
armed platform writer. Mr. Landon apparently sensed that immediately. ; from him in Topeka came a message which
ening events in the campaign of 1936. "On the vital and politically dangerous matter of
“I hope the opinion of the convention is correct that the aims which you have in mind may be
he sald. “But, if that opinion 1 want you to know that, if nominated and elected, I shall favor a constitutional amendment rmitting states to adopt such legislation as may be adequately to protect women and children
sance.
the Republican Party is in'a process of rebirth.
~~ DOITNOW! A SMOKE-PLAGUED community will support Mayor Kem in his request for additional manpower fo enforce the laws against the smoke nui-
.
Indianapolis is acquaintéd with the high cst of smoke to industry, homes; health and to the physical appearancec of the city, Smoke abatément work has lagged in recent years. The results are plainly visible, and are particularly noticeable to visitors. We agree with Mayor Kern $hat the time to launch an intensive smoke abatement campaign is now. When winter comes again furnaces can not be shut down for repairs and replacements. Moreover, there are signs of greatly increased building activity ahead. Factories are expanding, People are building new homes. To take full advantage of this situation, Indianapolis should be made one of the cleanest and most attractive cities in the country. ) Building Commissioner George R. Popp says much of the smoke is produced by individuals rather than factories. Thus each individual homeowner can aid in the campaign.
. ” » = EN THOUSAND persons have signed petitions asking ‘the Common Council to provide for an assistant combustion engineer and four inspeciors, and ing the Works Progress Administration for at least seven full-time workers to aid in enforcement. The Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League deserves much credit for pushing the campaign and backing Mayor Kern in presentnng these requests. The league and others have informed the public of the failure to control smoke and of what can bz done about it.
The question now is one of enforcement. This can not be done with a one-man department. An adequate force should be provided. And the time to do it is now!
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“NO ADVICE”
N her one hundredth birthday anniversary this week Mrs. Elizabeth Boone of Delphi, Ind., had no formulaf for longevity, no advice to hand out to younger generations. fra
This mother of 10 children, grandmother of 25, great-grandmother of 46 and great-great-grand-mother of 6 simply told of how she and her husband journeyed to Indiana by wagon after their marriage in Virginia in 1857, of theiricovered wagon trek westward to Kansas, their return to Indiana, and of the modest, old-fashioned life she has lived.
Many younger people today will give—with or without provocation—advice on how to get fat or thin, how to succeed in business or marriage, what to eat, or how to live to a happy old age. It is refreshing then, in an age where the gap between each generation is inevitable, to hear this centuryold Hoosier say she has no rules of living to offer and that she doesn’t know why she has lived so long.
AN ISSUE TO FACE
HEN the state Democratic platform makers ’ meet this week-end they face a challenge concerning the merit systém which they can not afford to sidestep. a The recent Republican state convention adopted the plank proposed by the Indiana League of Women Voters pledging abolition of the spoils system and establishment of the merit system of public service personnel in state government.
Promises ‘of this kind, of course, are more quickly made by parties not in power, and the carrying out of a pledge is far more important than voting for a political platform plank, but the commitment is an initial step.
The Democratic Party should join in the widespread movement to abandon the costly patronage system in favor of a qualified public personnel.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
OUTH bored with living is perhaps the saddest sight on the modern scene. Yet we must believe it is no uncommon one when such letters as this one arrive: -
“If I could only have a new experience! I am fed up with everything. Tired of dancing and cocktails and sports. Even a little tired of love, although am only 28.” : What does one say tg a woman who writes in such a vein? In that state of mind any advice would be worthless because she has lost all zest for life. The request, however, came at an opportune moment since I was still haunted by the memory of a new and lovely experience which may be had by any person who will take the trouble to get it. It is “hard to interpret in words because the thrill comes from such a commonplace event. - Watch the dawn come. Welcome the sunrise. I don’t mean by this that ‘you are to stay up after an all-night party when your head is woozy with cocktails and your body weary from lack of sleep. Quite the contrary. For you must bring to the venture a heart soothed by sleep ‘and a mind from which is wiped all petty tribulations. : Set your alarm for the hour when the world is still pitch black, the moment when you hear the first faint chirp of a bird. Jump into your car and hurry to some ligh spot where you can face the east, preferably across a Small wooded valley. If no car is available walk to the handiest site and wait. First you are aware of the din of bird song, which holds the same triumphant ecstasy which is to be found in Handel's “Halleluiah Chorus.” The coming of the sun in spring is always a miracle to the robins, the orioles and the larks; they never cease thanks for it. oe
Quickly the light spreads. The rounded :
| where near being what he started
Town | Cao ey ‘A WALK out W. Maryland-st in
is the top of the hill and meet Mrs. Kuzma is as good as running across the best wrote,
Pearl-sts right in the heart of where the Rumsnians, Hungarians and Turks do their business.
with the same spicy odors the old H, H. Lee stores used to have 50 years ago. And, curiously enough, it has the same strange silence and the same kind of shelves. To be sure, Mrs. Kuzma has a big ice box which Mr. Lee didn’t have, but outside of that it is all of enough to revive memories of a lost civilization and the once was. on ; » 5 » ' } ‘RS. KUZMA is getting along
lar steps and broke her arm the other day. She didn’t mind it, she said, because just about the time she had her hard luck her son was graduating in Washington, D. C, and she was pretty proud, believe me. : ; Her son studied law and is all set to begin business in Indianapalis pretty soon. Mrs. Kuzma’s daughter has a nice position with the L. S. Ayres people, and the way things are breaking for Mrs. Kuzma, including her arm, she couldn’t say enough nice things about America. Anyway, she hasn't been back to the old country since she came to Indianapolis, which is all of 20 years
ago. FJ » 2
RS. KUZMA is a Hungarian by birth, but she suspects that she is a Rumanian now. Things have been happening since she left home, you see, and she doesn’t know whether she will ever be a Hungarian again, but she led me to believe that she still entertains hopes. That appears to be the predicament of most the people on Kingan’s Hill. None of them seem to be what they started out to be. There's Chris Kuzma, for instance. Chris runs a tidy tavern at California and Maryland-sts and, curiously enough, is is no relative of Mrs. Kuzma, who runs the grocerv. Chris wka born in Turkey, but with this and that happening abroad he doesn’t know now whether he is a Bulgarian or a Rumanian. Nor does. he mind because if paying taxes means anything Chris thinks he’s a mighty good American: Chris pays $1800 a year in taxes and licenses and laughed heartily when he told about it, which ought to show where his heart is. Chris hasn’t been home either since he came to Indianapolis 30 years ago. ” 8 =» NDEED, the only man I met on Kingan’s Hill who came any-
out to be was Nick Argoff. Nick started out to be a Bulgarian and. still is, he says. Nick runs a bakery on Californiast between Maryland and Pearl-sts. It’s hard to find because, tucked away as it is back of a driveway, if doesn’t look like anything in Indianapolis. Once found, however, it turns out to be the most curious spot in town because, believe it or not, Nick still makes bread the way the Romans did when they spread the recipe along the Mediterranean. Which is to say that Nick makes an old-fash-foned hard-crusted bread baked on a hearth over a wood fire without the use of pans. Nick hasn't much use for pans and modern machinery. To be sure, he uses-a mixing machine, but out-
found 10 years ago. Old-timers remember the oven 20 years ago and for all anybody knows it may be 50 years old. i Anyway, Nick uses the oven just ‘as he found it and it's still good for 400 loaves a day. Nick doesn't know what he’s going to do if the demand for his bread doesn't le down pretty soon. 14 35
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_ Inmciose & 3-cett stamp for reply when
the direction of} Kingan’s Hill | -a8 good as a trip to the Balkans |
chapter Thomas Mann ever |
Mrs. Kuzma runs the little gro-[ 1 [ {YF cery at the corner of California and | '
It's \ quaint little shop charged |
glory that |
side of that he does everything with ; the smaller his hands and the brick oven he | broth.
Addressing any question of fact or in- |,
right well, she told me, despite] the fact that she fell down the cel-|
> / > 2 ~The Hoosier Forum : 1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your .vight to say it.—Vollaire.
{Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. religious controversies excluded. Make vour 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 request.) / 2 =n = “PEOPLE'S CORPORATION” URGED BY LAWYER By J. BR. H, : : David Horn, a former attorney, has = submitted to Congressman Louis Ludlow a tentative bill for alleviating the economic conditions. It provides for authorizing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or other governmental department. to encourage and aid the population of each congressional district to become consolidated into a “People’s Corporation.” { Such a corporation would function somewhat as an ordinary business corporation operating for pecuniary profit. However, it would - exercise wide, unlimited powers of engaging in absolutely enterprise or business it pleases. In. practice, howéver, the local conditions sould determine the nature of the establishments to be launched. Every resident of the district will have a right to become a stockholder and participate in the corporation's affairs. Unemployed and destitute persons will be required to pay for their stock as soon as the corporation has given them employment,
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ’ HEN the baby is a year old, it will be taking a diet approximately as follows: : At 6 in the morning, it should have from seven to eight ounces of
At 10 it may have some cereal, about four tablespoonfuls; seven to eight ounces of milk, some of which may be placed on the cereal; and a cracker or piece of toast. Le At 2 the baby may have from four to. six slices of vegetablé or meat broth, or it may take one egg, or, as a third alternative, some scraped or chopped meat. :
To this may be added some white |
vegetables, such as two tablespoon fuls of potato or rice, and from two to four tablespoonfuls of ‘a green vegetable, such as. ‘string beans, peas, or spinac The baby also from five to eight ounces of milk, amount if it has some
Then -at 6 in the evening, it may have four tab of cereal with seven. to eight ounces of milk,
some of which is placed on the]
may also have, at this. time, al 1% or a small plece of toast; | | &&
heat ould repalv
when payment will be deducted from their wages. Some of the most im-
portant phases of such a corporation will consist of inducing owners |
of insolvent business establishments, factories, neglected properties; and so forth, to turn them over to the corporation in exchange for shares of stock, and the issuance of appropriate scrip which will be circulated side by side with conventional currency, and on a par with it. I believe the unlimited possi bilities of such a measure, if adequately administered, will. afford employment to almost every ablebodied person willing to work and to accept the reasonable provisions of the law under which such a corporation would operate. Mr. Ludlow has promised to give the matter. serious consideration and has referred the manuscript of a tentative measure to the Social Security Board and to the Bureau of Research and Statistics, I am told. » » » FEARS STRIKES IN WAKE OF COURT VERDICT By H. L, 8. ’ Since the United States Supreme Court has ruled that neither the Federal government or the states may control conditions of labor as fo wages and hours, we can now look forward to two alternatives. One is that labor will organize more effectively to force upon employers through strikes, those items of wages and hours. That is a laborious procedure, under which labor suffers more than capital. It tends to sabotage in production, to produce scarcity and ‘to raise prices. It is not the most intelligent approach. Prosperity can only come with production at a volume that assures high consumption at lowered prices, to bring the goods within the reach of increasing numbers. Why not use 'economic law instead of statutory law. The road to prosperity is a blind aHey if we expect to find it where the conflict of interest between capital and labor exists. In labor would “hire capital at a low wage, and use capital as a medium to or industry. for producing goods for high consumption by 1t will take more than legislation
to create an
toward preduction for high consumption. Capital is too stupid to provide the purchasing power for the consumers through more efficient distribution. Labor is too well satisfied depending on.capital to assume all responsibility and risk for production. Labor lacks the will and the initiative to become independent. ; ® # ® SUGGESTS ‘DOUBLE DECK’ PARKING SYSTEM. By 8. H. L : Referring to your editorial on the “parking” study; problems’ of ‘this kind should be referred to traffic engineers. For our own city let the city engineer design a “double deck” over Washington-st from East to West-st, and over Pennsyl-vania-st from Georgia to St. Clair. Double deck to be 14 feet above the street level. The deck to be only for parking. No: parking below. The city to put nickel meters in for two-hour parking. Double deck Market-st. Pennsylvania to East st also. : Organize a “municipal” street parking corporation to erect overhead. ” ” 2 EVIDENTLY HE DOESNT LIKE SULLIVAN By R. P. Cunningham, Darlington It seems to ‘me that Boots and Her Buddies, and Tarzan of the Apes ought to be enough ‘to satisfy the morons among The Times. customers without adding Mark Sullivan’s puerilities, as you have done. : : If you really feel that the halfwit element has another feature coming to it, I would suggest that you cancel the Sullivan thing and give it something honestly . dippy, like the “Rhymes of dear Old Moth‘er Goose,” instead.
DAILY THOUGHT
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?—I' Corinthians 6:1.
: AW and equity are two things |
¢ that God hath joined together,
but which man has put asunder.—
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SIDE GLANCES
~ By George Clark
EN VER, June 14—T don't know whether there is something about gold mining that makes a fel
Colorado's gold mining men. . All you have to do is tell them you're a tenderfoot, have never been
nugget from a player
you. Here are just a few of the many generous men who told me things: : Alf Tellam. He runs a little one-
story place called Mining Service
Co. He does assays, and designs He is around 60, and wears old
and needs’a shave and writes all his long mining reports in a neat printed hand. «= He has been in mining all his life. He's an engineer. Spent 15 years in Mexico, three years in Ruse
sia, five in Peru. X # # . HE was Ibarri caded seven days AL in a Petrograd hotel during the revolution. When it was over they gave him his passport and told him to get. He got. then they have offered him $12,000 a year to come back. And that's about all he’s doing now, he says. The ‘main thing about Alf Tellam is Herbert Hoover. He'll argue or fight (take your choice) at the slightest derogatory remark about Herbert Hoover.
They were in Russia together. Tele lam has.been in the Hoover home many times. Alf Tellam thinks Herbert Hoo-
thinks Herbert Hoover was the greatest President the United States ever had. He thinks Herbert Hoover is the greatest humanitarian in all history. ; ; Take Neal Muir at Cripple Creek. He's a geologist, and a mining engineer. I sat in his room at the
he patiently gave me a primary course in gold mining. “What makes gold, Mr. Muir” I asked. His answer was one word—"“God.” He said he wasnt’ being funny,
is deposited in certain places, but that no geologist in the world could tell what makes gold. He got out His geology and mining books, and showed me sketches of a fault, a. vein, a stope and lots of other things.
» 8: 8 EAL MUIR has been in mining most of his life. He has
ahd gold mines. He has a tremenSous knowledge of geology and mine g. And he is working a little old
probably getting out of it_no more than a fair day’s wages. He and another fellow are working hoping in spite of all his knowledge that he may run into something worth while.
raised in Cripple Creek. His father
Creek was really something. ~~ Walter Vidler has never been to mining school; he’s a self-taught engineer. He’s superintending the reopening of an old mine now.
while he pulled the levers that ran the hoist up and down.
Ontario,” he said. “You'd find your old-time prospectors up there, and
your overnight millionaires, and your real gold rush fever. \
away trying to make bigger ones.
we're going back up there.”
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
sponse to a proposal for co-ordinate"
ture several months ago.
Secretary Wallace pointed out
“You ought to go to northern
FA NE a ee a BT a we
‘in ‘a mine, wouldn't know. a gold | just want to find out—and “they'll take a day off and explain things to
machine installation for gold mines. | clothes and gold-rimmed spectacles {
Since
They went to school together, :
ver is the greatest mining engineer . the world has ever known. He °*
Elks Club one whole evening, while '
He said he could tell me why gold \ :
worked in coal, iron, copper, silver .
abandoned mine in Cripple Creek,"
it, .
Take Walter Vidler.. He was).
ran a newspaper there when Cripple
I sat in the little machine house
“I was up there five years. I was ' a fool to come back. Made a couple of strikes, and had a good many thousand dollars, but piddled it all .
As soon as I can get enough money, |
Today’s Science
LOSER rapprochement between | le’ through the attitude disclosed in a communication of Secretary Wallace to . . Council, in re- |
ing agriculture, industry and science sent to the Department of Agricul-