Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1936 — Page 10
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HIGH TRAFFIC TOLL
EEK after week the traffic accident toll in Indianapolis climbs upward. Unless a start ‘is made soon: the community will have difficulty improving its shameful record of last year. The na-tion-wide safety campaign has reduced the total number of motor vehicle deaths and injuries this year, but Indianapolis has not been contributing to this Jife-saving effort. The burden of this campaign can not be left to Evanston, Milwaukee and a few other cities which want to do something about the grim fact that 86,400 persons were killed in automobile accidents ‘last year. ; © Some other cities witha relatively high record of traffic deaths have reduced these deaths to a minimum,
Their death rates were brought to a new low
level by following a program of adequate traffic con- |
. trol, * dents, The formula, as given by the National Safety ~ Council, is based on three principles: Engineering, « education and enforcement. The groundwork has been laid. Plans worked out through scientific study have braught results ' in other cities. ‘What these communities have doné can be accomplished here. ¥ Let us apply these intelligent methods to our own traffic problems until definite progress is © achieved. The heavy toll of automobile accidents . can and must be stopped.
designed directly to reduce automobile acci-
INTERSTATE CO-OPERATION HE 48 states, which since their inception have
operated as independent governing bodies hav- . ing little -to do with each other, are beginning to -
work together in a * Widespread fashion for the com- © mon good.
The recent sessions in Chicago on interstate co- ]
_ operation, in which Indiana representatives took a © prominent part, show. where this significant movement is headed. : j Four main lines of action are being followed: Interstate compacts, of which 69 have been aps + proved by Congress since 1789, according to the current issue of State Government, magazine of the . Council of State Governments: .
Uniform laws, of which more than 50 have been
- _ adopted by an average of 12 states apiece. ‘These : have been chiefly useful in commercial and property law and civil procedure. Reciprocal laws, such as South Dakota's agree- * ment to grant full privileges to police officers of ~ other states which grant similar privileges to her + ~ police. * Administrative arrangements, where’ interstate matters are handled without formal legislative action. ” ” » “HE increasing use of interstate compacts to -%. cover vital regional problems is worth watching.’ b Within the last few years compacts embracing many _ states and involving oil conservation, control of * tobacco production, control of crime, supervision of out-of-state parolees and other questions, have been « ratified. v State lines are largely wiped out in these days of fast transportation and modern commerce. Manifestly crime and many other problems can not be handled as individual state questions, The trend toward. full interstate co-operation should be encouraged.
CONGRESS IS CHALLENGED ER our Federal Constitution, Congress has the sole power to lay taxes against the people © and to spend the people's money, to pay the debts of the government and to borrow against the gove ermment’s credit.
- ‘These duties and rponsihgitiesi-toRéther with
such others as the power to coin money and regulate
its value, to declare war: and raise and support
armies, to regulate foreign and interstate commerce and otherwise to “provide for the common defense and general welfare’—were vested in Congress on the theory that such vital governmental authority - over the affairs of the people can be safely entrusted ©" only with the elected representatives of the people. - In times of war and other emergencies, it has . been the practice of Congress to grant wide discretionary power to the President, so that the execu tive branch might deal swiftly-and decisively with pressing problems. But always, as the emergency passes, Congress gradually reassumes its powers and responsibilities. The current depression has been no exception. When Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated, so widespread was the panic, so deep ‘and tragic were the : economic difficulties of the people that Congress . in rapid succession passed scores of sweeping laws ' and approved huge appropriations with few strings
attached, in order that the President might cope |
with the emergency. On the whole the President used these powers and moneys descretely an ef fectively. He got practically all the power he sda for and used less than he got; he was given all the
money asked for but spent less than was appro-
priated. ‘And responding ‘to his” vigorous leadership, She coutitzy climbed 2 long Way up from the bottom
QR ETOVGR ot reine tani. - emergency have passed: And over the last 18 |
its own hands: those emergency legislative pow- ]
“of these are its victims.
‘out doles, but it is still handing out about the same
‘number of work relief jobs as when the four-billion«
eight expenditures were started, with little hope of the load lightening soon. Politics and waste have
been as bad as or worse than under the old con-
.gressional pork barrel-method of. public works spending.
Now Congress. is writing another relief check—
‘this time for $1,425,000,000.
® » = . do not here discuss the merits of the RA WPA projects. Some, we believe, are very
‘good; others too grandiose and expensive.
But we believe the people. should watch carefully how Congress reacts to the President’s ine terpretation of the pending relief appropriation. There is no longer any excuse for avoiding orderly democratic processes. It is important that Congress
‘reassert its authority over spending and reassume all of its responsibilities as the policy-making’
branch of government.
If it is the considered judgment of Congress that the President’s “funneling” plan is best, then the appropriation should make specific provision for such funneling. But if Congress disagrees, then Congress should write its own relief ticket,
The Constitution is not vague on how such matters should be handled. It says the President “shall «is » Yecommend . . . measures,” but that Congress shall “make all laws,” and that then the President “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
MONOPOLY
HILE the Republicans at Cleveland were faintly cheering the Borah anti-monopoly plank, President Roosevelt in Dallas was describing just what the evil of monopoly means to “the yeomanty of business and industry and agriculture”—the small men who are the “dependable defenders of democracy.” Monopoly, he said, destroys ovrshiy by these average Americans of farms, businesses and of their own labor.
“The net result,” » he said, “of HoRopolY. the net results of economic and financial control in. the hands of the few, has meant the ownership of labor as a commodity. If labor is to be a commodity in the United States, in the final analysis it means that we shall become a nation of boarding houses instead of
‘a nation of homes, . If our people ever submit to that,
they will have said good-by to their historic freedom. Men do not fight for boarding houses. They will fight for their homes.” Which, incidentally, are not the words of a Socialist.
CONSERVATION AND wy
ITH the government spending many millions in the fight against erosion by wind and water, this greatest threat against the nation’s agriculture still saps the soil faster than governmental agencies can restore fertility to wasted regions or prevent the ravaging of additional tracts. Meanwhile, too, tenantry is on, the increase: in many states.
There is a direct relation between tefanty ] ind increased losses through erosion and soil waste through single crop farming. It is humanly impossible to interest the tenant in conservation and scientific farming to the same extent as the man who tills his own acres. The tenant is wont to make the most of the soil he leases, and move to other lang when his present fields fail to yield. . : “That condition, which is damaging ‘to agricul-
. $ural resources, also weakens the stability of citizen- - “ship. " The tenant comes to regard himself as a tran- “{ sient, without the same interest in developing his
community and his state that characterizes the man who feels anchored to the land. Yet it is not the wish of most tenants to remain wanderers.
Most of them would gladly purchase farms, if they
could finance such transactions with any hope of paying for the land. The tenantry problem must
be solved by states or the nation, before soil con-
servation will safeguard the nation's greatest source of permanent prosperity.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson LL of us endure loneliness of a sort. It is an affliction which spares none, ‘and to say that it is felt most often in crowded places is a truism. There are three forms of loneliness.” First, that
which overtakes us in every day life when ‘we are ‘separated from our accustomed companions. Chil-
dren away at school for the first time suffer such nostalgia, Individuals who move from familiar places leaving friends of half a life time, or mothers obliged to abandon their babies for a few days, or men separated’ from the women they love; all They suffer the fleeting pang which, though it may hurt, leaves our Sepths untouched. Second, there is the loneliness we feel when confronted by the wall of silence which shuts away our dead. Against that wall we fling ourselves in vain, aware at last of the narrow limitations of a physical world. There-is no need to. enlarge upon the subject here. Those who know that lonesomeness will understand its every pang, and those who know it not will be unable to comprehend even the
+ Jeast of them.’
There is, too, a third loneliness—the most dreadful of them all—that of a soul without its God. All men suffer its miseries to a certain degree. It assails the very rich and the very poor, being no respecter of person or place. We know it at its worst when we have allowed our hearts to shrivel to peanut size while we went seeking the baubles of Vanity Fair. It eats into the souls of men who are bent only upon obtaining wealth or power and of women who spend all their precious time upon earth beautifying their faces and seeking beauty for their
bodies. - It tortures the aimless, the selfish, and the ‘mean who never find heart's ease.
. We build our own prison towers. Every cruel deed, every evil act, every ignohle impulse adds an- |
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won't be long now until everybody will be springing that old one about it’s not being the heat, but the humidity. There will be less cause to say it this summer than ever before. Reason: The Krauss people are digging two more A new driven well in the heart of town is a pretty good sign of
another air-conditioning plant and|
the more air-conditioning plants we have the less reason there is
for talk about the weather. That's| a
kindergarten dialectics.
Anyway, it's only a question of
time now until both Rink’s store and the Claypool sandwich grill will be doing their part and adding to the town's prestige, for, if the truth be told, Indianapolis is one of the best air-conditioned places in the country. : The ancient remark about it's not
' {being the heat but the humidity |
arises from the fact that air fs
often so heavily saturated that the|.
moisture of the body can not evaporate. J 8 : : © cool the body in summer, & person needs a temperature about 20 degrees below that of the
street temperature, but most: of alb|
he wants a humidity of not over 50 per cent. Anyway, that's the way most people like it and that’s what the stores and theaters around Indianapolis try to give them. : “To achieve this, volumes of air are passed through innumerable fine sprays of water (not unlike that of a shower bath, but finer) at 45 degrees. Strangely enough, in passing through the water, moisture is squeezed out of the air by reason of the drop in temperature. The
resulting air is about 50 degrees and | its humidity is 100. It then is heated |
by air mixed from the room. With the rise in: temperature, its relative humidity falls and .it becomes refreshing. : The cold spray comes from a refrigerating plant where the water has been passed through coils of pipe immersed in a refrigerating liquid. To be sure, this isn} the only way of turning the trick, but it’s one way of getting people to sit through a two-hour feature program at the movies. 8 8 & IR-CONDITIONING is older than you may believe, The only reason it appears new .is because it has taken so long for human beings to get wise to its benefits. Until now its benefits have been heaped on the things human beings wear and chew, rather than on the human -beings themselves. For example: Rayon is so sensitive in every step of its manufacture and fabrication that the rayon industry is almost 100 per cent air-
conditioned. The same is true of the
tobacco and chocolate industries. Were it not so, the color of chocolate would be gray. As for tobacco,
it - wouldn't be worth 8 Second.
thought.
Whether human beings will ever’
achieve. the importance of tobacco. and chocolate is, of course, a batable question.
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Q—What does the name Cochran mean?
"A—1t is an Irish surname, the root meaning of which is “purple.”
Q—Is it correct to say that Seot-
{land is ruled by England?
A—Scotland is not ruled by England. The two countries are integral parts of the United Kingdom. The British Parliament legislates for the United Kingdom. : as a single entity.
Q—Are the inhabitants of Mexico of the white or Indian race? : A—Mexicans are of Spanish and Indian ancestry. ‘The local "cus-| tom is that if Spanish blood predominates, they are of the white race, and if Indian blood predominates, they are of the red or Indian race. Of the inhabitants. of Mexico proper, 19 per cent are of
pure or nearly pure white blood |
(mostly Spanish), 43 per cent, are of mixed race, and 38 per cent are pure Indian (representing the ancient inhabitants), Q—How is the first “a” in data pronounced? ; A—It has the fist sound as in “ape.” .Q—Of ‘what ligion. was
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PE PRAISES INTELLIGENCE OF
NEW LEGION CHIEF By S. W. . . The American ‘Legion seems © to nave blown itself to a national com~ ‘mander of more than average. intelligence, - National Commander ‘Ray Murphy gives evidence of this by his attiiude toward the collegiate “Veterans of Future Wars.” Instead of denouncing these lads, Commander Murphy has praise for them. In Miami the ‘other day he remarked: “They're doing a job, whether they realize it or not, They're making all war look ridiculous, and some of the greatest minds in the world have tried to do that and failed. They have launched a good peace movement, and if theyre sincere, we'd like to have them join us.” - There could be a real force for peace—the man who fought in the last war standing shoulder to shoul-
der with the boys who will have to
fight in the next one! Commander Murphy is to be commended for haying the vision to see it. :
” 8. COMES TO DEFENSE OF YOUTH J By James E. MeNaught James Brown, in the May 26
| Hoosier Forum, spoke his mind con-
cerning the youth of today and asked if there were not another fellow or girl that shared his opinions. From limited observation, I would say that he spoke for the ‘majority of the younger set of today; that they sustain similar opinions regarding the problems, and the
Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN LEANLINESS long has been considered one of the prime virtues for human ‘beings of all ages. ‘Habits of cleanliness include ‘a full bath at least twice a week, and preferably once a day, regular washLe of the hands and face as needand invariably washing of the hands before eating and after going { to the toilets Habits of cleanliness also include brushing of the teeth, preferably every morning and every night be- |. fore going to bed. Finally, there is the habit of « 4n-
ternal cleanliness, which involves|
regular bowel movements, * established preferably as a habit each morning immediately after break-
fast hers shoyld establish a routine of cleanliness for their chil-
dren. This does not mean that a immacula
child should remain te all day long. it is likely to get dirty intervals. But it must
cleanliness invariably renter eat-
It it plays-as it should, Ll
causes of the: problems, which they now find confronting them. Most of us are not quite as capable of expressing our sentiments and con-
victions—that is the only difference.
As 1 observe this popular ebullition of mass comment and criticism directed at the youth of today, 1 also feel an insatiable desire to debate it. The majority of our favorite ‘magazines are steadily maimed with unjust. articles treating of “This . Modern Generation,” . its recklessness, © unfilial attitude, and altogether unaccountable behavior. Many of our most eminent Writers snatch at this subject, possibly for want of something else. Do they not realize that the crit-
jcism they: fling at us bounces. back
as ‘insults to. themselves? Do they overlook that, in a great measure, they are responsible for our behavior even after we have attained the supposedly self-reliant = age? Wo, I am inclined to believe that most of these parent critics are not aware-of the full meaning of their injudicious statements. They must talk just to excuse and blind themselves from their own lack of purity.
We all are generously endowed
by our Creator with the power to bring new youhg lives into this world. If advantage of this power is taken, it should be understood that the responsible subcreators have the ability and determination to mold of this new life a virtuous and respettable citizen. : The elders, who introduce their
"| progeny into ‘this world without the
asking and would have them prize their bitter lives; who voice morals for them, yet ‘have’ hardly any themselves; who talk of justice, forgiveness -and Golden Rules, yet wallow in the opposite; who lecture against misdemeanors, yet commit them Ji —considering all this they, the e ers. have the gall to reprimand, scold and criticise: the younger generation for things of which they are primarily the cause. ‘No, this modern generation is just as angelic and pure and ambitious as yours was, dear parent; if not more so. All that we need is livable conditions and a hance, we assure you.
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES PRESENT RIDDLE
i8y. 3. W, 1 Whether you choose to aatiot ‘the
unemployment figures of the American Federation of Labor, which-re=-
ports 12 550, 000 are out of work; or those of the National Industrial Conference Board, claiming 9,848,000 unemployed, it is hard to avoid the riddle that these figures offer. The riddle is simply this—while industrial production in the last two years increased 26 per cent, why did factory employment gain only: 14 per
cent?
.Perhaps you can attribute the lag tp -technological advances, or to insufficient business recovery. Or there may be other factors. It is admittedly a complex situation which must be fathomed before any permanent solution of the
problem can be offered. And, to do’
this properly, a complete national unemployment census should go into the causes, as well as the extent, of unemployment.
MODEL GOVERNMENT IN
"CIN CINNATI THREATENED
By P. W. a .a year when cities, as well as staté - and national ' governments, face elections, it is particularly significant to follow the Cincinnati situation. Cincinnati, it will be remembered, instituted, several. years ago the “Cincinnati experiment’—a municipal government based on city managership, the merit system and a small council elected by proportional representation. . .- Backed by effective citizen” support, this program has blessed Cincinnati with good government - for more than a decade. From being one of our worst-governed cities, Cincinnati has become one of our best. But row the experiment faces an acid - test. * Determined ‘forces are said to be seeking to undermine the charter secured in 1924. They are.
urging the voters to turn back the!
clock. It is devoutly to.be hoped that the people of Cincinnati will retain the present setup. The municipal structure of this country can not afford to lose good ground in any city.
DAILY THOUGHT
* Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers: For there is
Jo Power but of God: the powers
t be are ordained of God.— ‘Romans 13:1.
HIRTY years of our Lord's life are hidden in these words of
the gospel: “He was subject unto them.”-—Bossuet.
SIDE GLANCES _
‘By George Clarks
Indiana
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EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reports for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of ‘odd stories about this snd thas, .
ARDEN CITY, Kan, June 15. —The people of West Kansas are hopefully looking for gas to blow the lid off of the vacuum the dust storms have made of their land: : Jaan In simpler words, gas wells have been discovered in the extreme southwest corner of the state: And the people here are hoping the gas field: will spread, so they may collect revenues from unde ind, since revenues from ‘the Ad’st surface no longer exist. The mere possibility of" qastnas kept a lot of farmers going through® the dust storm interlude ut it is; an interlude). .Garden City has suffered much. from the dust storms.’ I Spent an} evening in the home of & Garden? City couple. Their house is a beautiful, modern, suburban bungalow. Every window in the Mouse is sealed with surgeon’s tape. The dust storms this year haven't been so bad, they said, as last year, There has been a little more rain, . and the wind hasn't blown so hard. .
n- ” #” I ASKED my friend in Garden city to tell me all about the dust storms. What caused them, andwhat was being done about it, and so on. This is what he-told:me: , This country through here has" always been cattle grazing country.” There has never been much: heavy"
vegetation; just short grass. ; But during and just after the war, -
- people found they could make more
money raising wheat than raising cattle. They started farming. Money came easy. It was nothing for a man to buy a section of land and pay for, it with just one wheat crop. People: didn’t put much back into the land, or till'for the future, * Then, fiver years ago, came thedrought. Most of the farmers were. broke. There had been a bumper crop. The market was flooded. The price went down to nothing. With no money in hand, the farmers couldn't afford to let their land . lie Tallow; couldn't afford to make. the temporary sacrifice that ‘would, insure the future. They continued to plow and plant. There was no rain. The wind blew.. The raw Broun dried, and started. to blow . . Sng og # : 2 Y friend told how diist. storms : are like a disease. They in<: fect other land. The dust . ‘settles over an adjoining field,’ ‘smothers’ out the vegetation; the blowing dust drills into it, gets a. hold, igs in. bares a spot to the wind, and it's all over. Another field. has bee added to the desolation. Hundreds of thousands of acr have been completely abandoned,’
work, Some’ have .found farms rent outside the dust region. And what i§ to become" of thi¥
The experts do say ‘this That ip this land will be left fallow for & few years, or if it will be tilled with | method, that the country ‘may be restored. But the prerdge farmer, “even, though he may be in accord wif) the scientific ways of restoring the’ land, still feels that it is’ just the plain old farm question of weather, and that as soon as the wind stops blowing and we get back to normal’ rains, everything will bé all right,
Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE OPI cotton, raised by the Hopi Indians on their reservation in’ the Southwest and by nobody else, A is. pretty poor stuff, It yields only a few pounds per ‘acre, it drops its’ bolls before they are matured, it is rather generally worthless, Not: even the most shiftless ‘poor white"
or: the most “triflin*” ‘Negro, in: the Cotton Belt would. think of’
sterling virtue, ins.
promises Hopi cottan’s. existence. Its short fibers are exe ceptionally fine and strong, . be: Fineness of fiber seems ta closely correlated . with. is " cotton. The strongest cotton hith< erto in common use has been the: Sea Island variety, whieh sould, -