Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1936 — Page 11
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“A MAJOR FAILURE”
MONG the false and sour notes of that discordant medley that is the Republican platform is one declaration that is in key with a growing American chorus, This is: : “The adminstration of relief is a ma jor failure of the New Deal.” The critics of Federal relief policies are not confined to any party, class or group. They include many .. thoughtful students of the subject, most of them . friendly to Mr. Roosevelt. Grateful as these are for
_ the President's humane and forthright action in ac-
. cepting Federal responsibility for feeding the restless; i “hungry millions whom the Hoover Administration fed with cheerful phrases, they are not satisfied with : "the costs, the practices and the planlessness of the ‘relief administration during the past three years. LE The Republicans’ relief program may or may not point to the right solution. They would return administration to the nonpolitical local agencies; continue Federal grants-in-aid with a “fair proportion” - of the burden assessed to states and localities; establish the mierit system in administration; separate _ public works from relief and build public works “only on their merits.” Finally, they call for “a prompt determination of the facts concerning relief and unemployment.” Whether the Republican Party's relief program should be approved in full depends on how it is interpreted. But certainly the last plank is sound. We must know more about this new burden, now costing us billions, creating deficits, piling up a dangerous debt. Now we know hardly anything. : President Roosevelt can go far toward taking this ©. question out of partisan politics. Congress is still in -gession. He can ask Congress before adjournment ‘to create an expert, fact-finding, policy-guiding . _ board, finance it with ample funds and man it with * the nation’ s-most distinguished and public-spirited citizens. They can bring a report to the next Congress, shedding light upon and thinking through this
. baffling problem in all its phases. A handful of Republicans in a committee room
can’t settle the relief problem. Neither can Mr. Roose-
" yelt's busy little group of relief administrators.
COLONEL KNOX
T the end of the third day the Republican dele- . gates in Cleveland were ready to pack their grips and catch the next train home. Then came an “afterthought. They had to stay a fourth day and nominate some one for Vice President. It was one of those things that political conventions always do, “but somehow néver get around to thinking about until the last minute. The marvel of it is that their afterthinking. came ° to such a fortunate conclusion. After three days’ of . standing around, caucusing, concentrating on pute _ ting Landon over for the presidential - nomination . and getting good bandwagon seats for themselves, - there, was little sharpness left to their wits. But be that as it may, they muddled through to select an able citizen. Col. Frank Knox, if he is elected Vice President, will be no Throttlebottom occupying his official days inthe park feeding the pigeons as did the, famous : "musical comedy character. He is vigorous, active and positive. . True to the creed of Theodore Roosevelt, whom he once followed .up- San Juan Hill, he lives his life “to the hilt”: Soldier, newspaper pub- . lisher, ‘politician, a man ‘accustomed to doing his ..own. driving, it is doubtful ‘that he will feel at home in the back seat.
He has never held a public office, and has be-
. come a national character only during the 1936 " campaign. On the record of his utterances to date _ he is considerably “to the right” of his running mate. I Only a heart-beat separates the vice presidency from the presidency. The slipshod manner, in which the office’ is considered in our system of national X conventions gives one the shivers over what might ‘sometime happen. Any one might be nominated, if the delegates were sufficiently tired.
TAXICAB REGULATION
HE. new taxicab ordinance should give IndianST apolis a chance to study more thoroughly this * important phase ‘of the city’s transportation prob- : lem, The ordinance, now in effect, was passed after ' » months of delay and argument. It replaces previous ineffective legislation. .Sponsors assert the new regulations will help stabilize the industry. The number of cabs is limited to one for each 1000 population. - While theoretically this would _ permit more taxicabs to operate than under the old ‘law, it is expected to reduce’ the number from about 200 to.364, because the old vesirietion was no. en- . forced. / y “Since taxicabs are a vital factor in city transpor- * tation, the question is being studied widely today.
Forty-three of the 93 United States cities over’
1100000 In population now Tequire certificates of public convenience and necessity for each cab. In hess cities shire‘ts an-average population of 1473
NHE latest figures show about 50,000 taxicabs in
ee en au In Washington, D. C, there
anal President
EE meter rate should be prescribed which protects patrons from exorbitant and unequal charges.” Another important feature is the requirement that the taxicab companies must carry lability insurance of $5000 for injury or death of one person and $10,000 for more than one in any accident. The new ordinance replaces laws which were not
being enforced. It should, bring regulation which
is as important to the taxicab owners as to the public. No one can say whether the new law will prove adequate. Many problems—such as competition with other mass transportation, proper rates, property damage responsibility, and the proper number of cabs—are involved. If experience under the new
_setup shows additional changes should be ‘made,
there will be tangible information on which to act.
A GOOD BEGINNING HE National Social Security Board has pointed out repeatedly that intelligent operation of Fed-eral-state uriemployment compensation systems and other phases of social security depends a great deal on personnel. It is gratifying, then, to see the new State Un-. employment Compensation Division begin the development of a merit system to govern employes. The State Unemployment Compensation Board has directed a committee to investigate merit programs for public employes in other states and in the Federal government. In order to staff this mew division with qualified employes, the merit program should be carried through with the aim of divorcing the unemployment compensation division completely from poltics. :
THEY'RE GOING FISHING J\EICHEORIHOOD kids with a spool of thread and a bent pin will be out on the banks of Bean and Eagle and Lick Creeks tomorrow, It’s the opening of the fishing season and the fishermen, more numerous than the followers of any outdoor sport, will go by the thousands to Hoosier
streams and lakes. Many seasoned anglers, impatient for the first " bite of the season, are driving to northern Indiana
lakes tonight so:they can begin fishing a mime after midnight. ‘The ordinary garden variety fisherman tidy or may not get out on opening day. He doesn’t get away to go up to Michigan and. far-off places. He does his fishing close to home and feels lucky if he is able to arrange it for occasional week-ends. ' Yet this dverage fisherman—with his old brass minnow bucket, some homemade plugs and ‘perhaps some pet flies he has tied himself—and the neigh-
borhood boy who goes out to a nearby stream for
carp or catfish, will have as much fun as the espera with enameled lines and anti-backlash reels. ” » ® ‘ HOSE who follow the sport say fishing should be better in Indiana this year than usual. Active work against stream pollution, carried on by civic organizations, is one reason. The State Conservation Department is rapidly stocking streams under a plan to make fishing better year after year. ” ] The Civilian: Conservation Corps has helped by building dams along washed-out streams. Conservation clubs throughout Indiana. whose
. members abide by rules of sportsmanship in fishing
and hunting have greatly improved the.sport,. Their eddeatibhai; method ‘of accepting’ youngsters into honorary club membership has been a Worthwhile effort. i _ Conservation efforts of all Kinds should be continued to make good fishing available to every’ one
* who-likes the sport.
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson JAY no attention to the psychologists who advise
spanking,” writes a well- known authority on
child training. "Their ‘doctrine is short-lived.” But lady, lady, deesn’t that leave the opposition hanging from a limb?
advice, is only going to select the authority with whom she happens to agree, what's the good of all our effort? As a matter of fact a great deal of child training is carried on in just such a foolish fashion. Those who believe in spanking follow the teachers who
advocate it, and contrariwise the anti-spankers fol-
low only the antis. It is the easiest thing in the world to find a doctor who will prescribe the sort of diet you like, and have you ever noticed how pious people run to. the Bible to prove right, whatever barbarous beliefs they may hold? Parents do precisely the same thing when it comes to seeking justification for their methods. "Don’t get me wrong, h8Wever. Nobody admires the psychologist more. The lives of children have been immeasurably benefited and brightened by their researches, while their probings after complexes
“have contributed much to the happiness and well-
being of man. Only occasionally;it strikes me some of them act a little balmy, too. They hunt so: hard
for mental kinks they sometimes overlook the child
entirely. ‘The mother who assumes too much of | a psychological attitude in her job may find herself in deep water. - There's danger in the iptellectual approach to a baby. When little Jimmy is too naughty a spank or two will not set him off on an anarchistic bents, or lessen his affection for -his mother. For mama is “human, too, and nobody senses it more
quickly than Jimmy himself with his ‘alert infant. |
perceptions. It is quite impossible ‘to love a ‘set
of rules or a psychology: book, ‘which is one reason
| El ee ttle battles with our Jimmies occur stinict; tempered by plain common sense can't be beat.
when it comes to raising children,
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: HEARD IN CONGRESS : R= LOUIS LUDLOW (D, Ind.)—The more I see of womien iu politics and in public activities |
I mean if the modern mother, peppered from all sides. by contradictory
Mother in-
as a symbol of something or other interested me considerably this week because, if the truth were known, nothing excites me quite
that a sunflower is god for some-
‘thing.
Apparently, it is good for a num-
pears to be good enough for preOffhand, I don’t know very much about it. I do know, however, that the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood lived in realms removed from reality and preached a doctrine which, according to certain Democrats, is exactly what the Repub~ licans are doing today. (You don't have to listen to the Democrats, of
course, if you don’t want to.)
5 ” ” » UT, in the meantime, it can’t hurt anybody to learn a little more about the message of the sunflower.
The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) was first symbolized by Dante Gabrielle Rossetti in his Magdalen murals. After which it was celebrated by William Morris in his Oxford frescoes. By that time it was pretty well established, but it really took Edward Coley Burne-Jones to put it across and elevate the sunflower to the apotheosis of .an emblem.
When Burne-Jones finished his
at hand. Everybody had something beautiful to say about it and no-
: body more so than Mr. Burne-Jones
himself.
“Did you ever draw | a_sunflower?” Burne-Jones onge rhapsodized. “It | is a whole school of drawing. Dé yod know what faces they have, how they peep and peer and look
larch and winning, or bold and a
little insolent at times? Have you ever noticed their back-hair, how beautifully curled it .is?” Well, nobody. ever had. #8 8 T= death: of - pre-Raphaelism didn’t ‘dispose of the sunflower, however. It takes something more than that. ‘It kept going as if nothing had happened and when Oscar Wilde appeared on the scene some years later he, too, adopted the sunflower as the symbol of something, although nobody to this: gay. knows what it. was.. ;
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@—Who is the president pro tem-
| pore of the United States Senate?
A—Senator Key J Pittman of. Nebraska.’
| Q@—What is the sources of. the quotation, “Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find ii after many days?” : : A--The book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 11, verse 1, the Bible.
‘ @—What is the name and address
; of the United States Commissioner
of Immigration and Naturalization? © A--Daniel W. MacCormack, United States : Department of Labor, Washington, D C.
Q—Does the United States have | 8 free trade with any country? - A—The United States does not have free trade with any foreign country. Certain commodities are on on the free list and the duty on certain other commodities is lowered
agreements.
Q—How old was Charlie’ ‘Chaplin when he made his debut on the screen?
A—He was born April 16, 1889, and made his screen debut in 1914.
» @—What is the distance from the
earth to the sun, and from the earth to the moon?
'A~From the earth to the sun it is approximately 92,900,000 miles;
{from the earth to the moon it is _»| by another after this time is abnor-
approximately - 238,840 miles. Q—Give the meaning of the names Mona, Myrna and Moira? - A—Mona (Latin), single, solitary; Myrna (Arabic), of myrrh; Moira (Celtic), the great one. ‘ @Q-—Why are white crosses and circles and other.symbols.in white
HE fact that a number of Re-/|
as much as the recurrent discovery |
job the reign. of the sunflower was |
to some countries through trade
ber of things. At any rate, it ap-|
The Hoosier Forum
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GRADUATES MAY LAUGH
AT ADVICE, HE SAYS By Hugh ‘S. Johnson, Tulsa, Okia.
Everywhere in this country, at high schools, academies and colleges, starchy pink and - white old ‘gentlemen of distinction are standing on gaily decorated rostrums, talking down ‘to “serried ranks of | young people perspiring in bachelors’ gowns. Considering the mess ‘we have made of it, it takes some nerve for: this particular outgoing generation to advise oncoming youth about the bright stewardship which we are getting ready to pass along. The
heritage -we- got: was practically |
debt free-and open for development in almost ‘any direction. We are handing it down mortgaged to the
+hilt, haywire with unsolved prob-
lems, and still running at a loss with no immediate prospect of profitable operation, With considerable certainty, we ought to be able to tell these: people what not to do, but they have a right to chuckle in their flowing academic sleeves when we start drawing blue prints for their future. Gov. Landon was probably on the safest ground when he told an Attica High School that honesty is the best’ policy and let it go at that. My good friend Roger Babson went out ‘to Arkansas and told the boys to keep away from the big cities, ‘because he thinks that in’ the next ‘war enemy airplanes will destroy them all. The top-notch effort to date was William Allen White at Kansas University. He contented himself) with telling them about the hard pr ess of liberalism over his 50 ve years, highly commended it, warned them ‘against © getting
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN NE of the most important considerations in any child's education is training in health habits. As 1 have emphasized repeatedly, this should beg begun early in fancy and should be a regularly throughout childhood. The essential habits include those which affect eating, cleanliness, sleeping and exercise. One of the, important habits concerned in ‘eating is f one’s self. Most children can be taught
second year. “For a child to be fed
mal and unfortunate.
The child should be taught to
eat a variety of foods, and not to make ‘an entire meal of one or two substances. = While children
ticles of diet, there still remains
8 Vos: variety’ of foods: from wich |
to choose.
progressed. handling this modern situation: is}
to feed themselves by the end of the |
may be senstive ‘to one or 1wo are-|.
either fiery-eyed or starry-eyed about it—neither Communist nor Fascist.
Rn : READER CLAIMS TRAFFIC HANDLING ANTIQUATED By Jimmy Cafouros:
. As each day passes it becomes ‘more and more evident that the
traffic jams of downtown Inhdian-
apolis are a growing worry. Each rush hour and each week-end is anvils evidence that something is
aye is true that our trafic depart-
ment has stepped a long way. But it is Blso true that revolutionary tactics ‘are necessary in presentday ‘handling of traffic. Some years ago each corner was an independent proposition—to be dealt with independently. There were far fewer vehicles and they were a great deal slower. -
between the intersections today a
hundred try the same thing. And| papers of ‘Europe has convinced. Prof. R- R. Barlow of thefUniversity | ‘of Illinois that international discord: is nothing more than the
where horses once trotted 10 to 15 miles: an hour (if that fast) today the motors rush at:30 in second: Since there are more vehicles today they require ‘more attention. And since their speed is increased their range is likewisq increased. In the days when horses cloppesd their hoofs a city block the corner policeman could’ easily take care of the traffic, heavy as it could be. But today when a modern ‘motor car sneaks past a half dozen at the same time, the corner policeman balls things up rather than facili tates them. Our means .of transportation has But our means of
antiquated and useless. 2 = BACK-SLAPPING SEASON. NOW IS OPEN
‘By Hector, Crawfordsville.
Now that the time of the campaigns draweth nigh, behold the of - fice-seeker is abroad in the land. He cometh forth even as the crocus, which feareth not the frost of early spring. He extendeth the right hand, and smileth even as the people do in the ads, who smile at
anything from a motor car to a
cake of yeast. Yea, verily, his countenance shinéth before the multitude. But when he is in his own house, lo, his mind troubleth him. Then it is that he pulleth forth his memorandum book and counteth them that be for :him and them ‘that
Where once a dozen vehicles rani’
threaten to rise up against him; and.
his upper 1ip hangeth down like a blacksmith’s apron, and he kicketh
his dog. out of the way. But again in the morning his.
spirit reviveth, and he girdeth up his loins and goeth forth and calleth the he-voter by his first name in the market place, and slappeth him between the shoulder blades and
‘maketh broad his smile. And like-
wise the she-voter doth he flatter,
‘and braggeth on” her complexion;
likewise, also, on her kids and her Soskse: And she cackleth as the én. Verily, his work shall be rewarded; for the gentle” voter cottoneth to this even as a kitten cotteneth to cream, for he wotteth not what it is all about. (But we wot that the office-seeker wotteth.)—Selah. i # 8 =» 3 WORLD. DISCORD BLAMED ON PRESS MUZZLING : By H.C. ; Six months’ ‘study of the news-
oduet of a muzzled press.
Dr. Barlow’s observation is: that
the “European newspaper reader. is
merely ‘a robot manipulated by dic-|
tators and bureaucrats, who make
‘him think and "act as they wish.”
The German, for instance, knows
practically “nothing about what is going on beyond his ‘borders and less about events at “home, While Italian journalists print only what:
Mussolini * gives * them. Even the British “see Hitler only through the eyes: of the foreign office.” 7 ~ Nowhere in Europe are there reporters comparable -to the American hewspaper man, according to Prof. Barlow.. And nowhere in the world is there the freedom of the press that we enjoy as American citizens. That's important, so long as there
is” to be social, ‘political and eco-
nomic progress in this country. DAILY THOUGHT
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to. fetch his Pledge, Deuteronomy 24: 24:10.
F you lend a “persoti money it. be- :
comes lost for any purposes of your own. When you ask for it
back again, you find a friend made
an enemy by your own kindness, If you begin to press still further, either you must part with what you have lent or else you must lose your -irtend-Plavtus, :
SIDE GLANCES
By Gores Clark
Vagabond|
Kas, June 13.— : 3 you would Jike to have your , just come out here, is the dust storm country. It 3 the saddest land I have ever
As you get into becomes richer and softer, and when it gets dry and ‘powdery and the wind blows, you have a dust We were still in
| ahead’ to the east” were
‘clouds of sand. The approach to a sand SIGH is.a Gath and chilling
The ow sand haze ahead grew
heavier and darker, making the at-
mosphere a queer yellow, the way it is sometimes just before a cyclone, : : 2 = = O the right were rolling, fore. - boding rain clouds, dust mixing with them. And gver to the left, over where the wind came from, were, pillars of sand. Giant yellow columns; miles away, rising from the horizon clear up into the sky. The wind howled. It came at
| least. 40 miles an hour across the
prairie from the north. It was hard to steer the car. The sand film steadily grew
| thicker around us. It darkened the | atmosphere. ;
The country was slightly rolling, In the valleys it was better. Bu on the rises, the sand-laden wind cut across the highway like a hori« zontal waterfall. The sand was not drifting,” or floating, or hanging in the air—it was ‘shooting south, in thick veins, like air full of thrown baseballs, Cars we met had their lights on, and we wondered if it were really that bad ahead. It was. We went into the darkness, as an airplane flies into fog. .The air was thick with sand. There wasn’t any The tiny rocks smacked and pound= ed against the car windows. It didn’t last long. No more than a mig or two. And then we popped out #to rain. * The air clear. #8 = E came into Kansas. It had been raining for 12 hours. The earth was wet, and we’ were ‘thus spared the spectacle of a Kansgs dust storm. But since the air was
_| clear, we could better see the ter~
rific desolation that 3 western
Kansas. ‘The land - is as flat as a billiard table, The horizon is far; far away. You can.see for miles and miles. I saw not a solitary thing but bare earth, and a few: lonely, empty farm houses. “i There was not a tree, or a blade of: grass, or a ‘fence, or:a field. Not a flower or a stalk of corn, or a or a cow, or a human being. - oday, because of the rain, the
give itself up to the wind. But yesterday it did, and tomorrow, after the bright sun, it will again, The air will gradually fill with the earthy powder;. and people in its ‘path can’t’ breathe, and houses will be closed. And the sofl will blow away from around the roots of things, and pile like. snowdrifte against the barns. - As I drove along 1 thought of all the smart aleck ‘jokes about President Roosevelt’s 100-mile wide belt of trees. : A belt of trees, or a belt of soy beans, or a belt of billiard cues stuck in the ground anything that might faintly halt the march
face. of our earth—seems to mg worth trying.
Toke S Science.
BY SCIENCE SERVICE : almost all al Jurops in a trans. Atlantic airpiane mail igh - m h promised within a time v a
washed
ground held firm and would neg-
of the destroying wind across the
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