Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1936 — Page 10

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A LESSON IN LOUIS HE thing that couldn't happen came to pass again last night And another lesson in over-

is confidence was written.

It is a lesson that canewell be taken to heart by all who engage in combat of any kind, anywhere, any time. Particularly, it may wisely be ' given _ thought by those who in 1936 are taking part in a

_ great political contest.

Signs of overconfidenice in the New Deal management have been multiplying in recent months, A

ic _ careless kind of “high, wide ahd handsome” attitude ; has been evident in the Administration. And “it’s-

7 wail.

We think it would be bad for the country for the * thing to happen to the New Deal that happened to 10-to-1 Joe Louis. We understand that Mr. Farley saw the fight. We hope he ponders the lesson.

JUDGES IN POLITICS

UR Cook County (Chicago) judges have been expelled from membership in the Bar Association for unethical judicial conduct in participating in political activities. The Cook County Bar Association also found nine other judges guilty of such conduct, censured seven of them and warned two. The conduct complained of apparently related to

"activities in the April primary.

The canon of judicial ethics of the American

Bar Association which appears to be the basis of this

action is No. 28, which states: “While entitled to entertain his personal views

A ‘ of political questions, and while not required to sur- © render his rights or opinions as a citizen, it is in-

evitable that suspicion of being warped by political bias will attach to a judge who becomes the active

promoter of the interests of one political party as

"against another. He should avoid making political

“" speeches, making or soliciting payment of assess-

ments or contributions to party funds, the public

__ indorsement of candidates for political office and

participation in party conventions.” Are the ethical standards of the American Bar

‘Association and of the Chicago bar higher than ... Indianapolis standards?

RALPH M. SPAAN HE death Yast night of Ralph M. Spaan, following a heart attack which occurred while he

"was driving his automobile, takes from the com- . munity one of its highly esteemed citizens.

Active in Republican politics, Mr. Spaan two

Court judge in Marion County. He had served as.

: 2 ~ deputy prosecutor, judge pro tem. and special judge in the courts of’ the county.

We share with ‘his family and many friends sorrow at his passing.

THE UNION PARTY EP. WILLIAM LEMKE'S new Union Party has a

catch-all platform designed to attract the print- |

"ing press inflationists, Father Coughlin’s money-trust- .. busters, Dr. Townsend's pensioners and the Huey

- Long share-the-wealthers. Will this grouping become in fact a potent third

All of these minorities were born in and of the . depression. Ehch at one time or another in the last

three or four years has risen to a heydey of real power, and each has contributed something to the

+ shaping of national policies under the New Deal.

‘The extent to which any one of. these groups, or

» all of them combined, can continue to command a = popular following will be determined, we believe, by

the degree to which the abuses, of which they complain and from which they sprang, are ameliorated or remedied. The soft money sentiment grew up from the

‘misery which cold, hard and scarce money left in its

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wake—bankruptcy—level farm prices, farm and home foreélosures. Father Coughlin recruited his following from those who were outraged by the malfeasances of the * Albert Wigginses and Charley Mitchells and others who abused the money power for their own greedy

‘ends,

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Dr. Townsend's movement arose largely from the frustration and desperation of aged couples whose life savings were wiped out by such as the Insull and Strauss debacles. The New Deal couldn't glve back to them what they lost, but it has enacted drastic security reforms. If, over the last three years, Washington had been in control of a hard-bitten reactionary Administration, there is little doubt but that a radical third party would now be a powerful force. The New. Deal, it is true, has not won over the extremists. But the great rank and file of liberal-minded people, while “not completely satisfied with all aspects of the New Deal, are not apt to follow these extremists in a break away from an Administration which has given ~ gincere recognition to their problem.

GUESSWORK TAXATION . ‘HE House wanted to lift some money from one pocket of the corporate taxpayer, and the Senate wanted to dig deeper into the other pocket. The Senate and House conferees compromised by deciding to pick both pockets. Thus does the history of tax legislation repeat— a slambang approach and a mad scramble conclusion. The same thing happened last year. This year the confusion is: worse because the onrush of conreson adornment Sule wih, he nrus o the presidential campaign.

Sia tes uisng sie Sas 4s 3 ok

| years ago was the party's nominee for Criminal

“N° supposed handicap suffered by youth prior to the depression can compare with the loss sustained when youth is compelled by the false economics of the New Deal to exchange their Americam opportunity, to which they are entitled, for enrollment in a Federal camp at $30 a month.” (Keynoter Steiwer, at the Republican National Convention.)

THE CITY'S SMOKE n= city’s akphalt plant, 900 block E. New York-st, has been a smoke nuisance to the neighborhood for years. Calling attention to this today in the Hoosier Forum on this page, A. L. Marshall comments rather caustically on Mayor Kern's recent plea for additional inspectors to push the ‘smoke abatement campaign. = Mayor Kern replies, thanking Mr. Marshall for calling the violation to his attention and promising an “investigation and correction” by Building Commissioner George R. Popp Jr. ' This same complaint has been Brovieht to ‘public attention before. The Indianapolis Times in a sur-

vey of smoke conditions several months ago found the asphait plant belching soot. Nearby residents complained of the nuisance. Pictures and details were published.

2 '® ” AYOR KERN'S promise at this time to correct the nuisance will be welcomed. Mr. Popp says he knows of the existing’ condition and is ready to remedy it. ‘City Engineer Henry B. Steeg reports the asphalt plant is antiquated and that the city hopes to move it within a year to an open tract owned by the city at 8. West-st and the Belt Railroad. : : : The State of Indiana is another smoke offender. The National Guard Armory, operated by the state on N. Pennsylvania-st, has been the subject of many smoke complaints. State authorities should seek some emergency solution of this problem without waiting for the red tape of legislative appropriations. Excessive smoke created by governmental -agencies does not relieve private plants and individuals of the, responsibility for reducing smoke. But citizens will be much more willing fo co-operate in the campaign when the city and state clean up their own chimneys.

AIR EXPRESS

NNOUNCEMENT that the Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. plans to inaugurate all express planes within a few months, is striking evidence of the growth of aviation in America. ‘The urge for speed started the pony express in the days when the west was wild, and before the railways spanned thé continent. It was the demand for rapid transit, too, which sent the railways over high passes and through the rugged gorges of the Rockies. Now the airways make the rails seem slow, and business and business men, ever in haste, are providing so much passenger and express business that the two are to be separated by one of the great air transportation companies. This is a long stride from the days when the late Will Rogers, pioneer air passenger, used to smuggle

himself among the mail bags, in order to ride the.

air lanes across the continent. The decision to offer exclusive express planes also heans steady growth of passenger traffic, and .no one doubts that increase will continue. Always great travelers, as compared to most peoples, Americans will

~journey: more as transportation. facilities: improve. Better roads increase the number of motorists, and

railway improvements such as greater comfort and the faster schedules of streamlined trains call in-

“reasing numbers to those common carriers. But the . airways offer the greatest speed, and will have in-

creasing ‘appeal to a people to whom Himes means S0 much to'so many.

A PERSONAL PROBLEM

NE of the National Safety Council stories on “Safe and Sane Driving,” published by The Ine dianapolis Times this week, pointed out that if the present rate continues one out of every 20 persons in the United States will be injured or killed in an: automobile accident during the -next five years. You probably have at least 20 near relatives and close friends. Then . your immediate group is threatened and you have a definite personal interest in taking part in the campaign for traffic safety. If the present accident rate continues, two of every three children now living are sure to be ine

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jured in a motor vehicle accident during their life- |

times. The hazard for drivers is even greater. These statements are as alarming as they sound. The safety drive has failed to get better results partly because many feel the campaign is too general and remote. These figures show it a personal problem. There is every selfish reason why you should participate in

"cutting the appalling accident toll.

~ A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE GREEN PASTURES” is at last upon the

screen. Warner Bros. have filmed a play which in many ways is an improvement on the stage version, and at no point is it less artistic. That which we feared has not happened. The producers have avoided the temptation of giving us another “stupendous picture.” Perhaps because of that, they have done so. All the simplicity of Roark Bradford's tale and Marc Connelly's dramatic arrangement have been preserved. The result is a milestone in the art of talking pictures. It will be a tragic pity if any city bans this film. As I watched its unfolding I felt a sense of shame that ‘the theater in which I sat would allow

no Negro to entef and enjoy the same experience. -

For while white men have written and produced the play, white people could no more have acted in it

‘than a full-blood Chinese troupe. It is essentially |

an interpretation of the Negro nature. Rex Ingram playing “de Lawd” dominates the film, but not one of the all-Negro cast falls below expectation, and never once is there a false note

as the child-like faith and the primitive lore which |°

are the. blak. man's heritage: are ‘expressed upon the screen.

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I newspapers around he sapita} letters.. They seldom use them except for starting tences and even then they appear apologetic about it. The practice,

old timers. It ought to annoy anybody old enough to know better.

is any sign, there Is no reason to lose hope: To be sure, the newspaper I saw still refers to Herr Hitler as “der fuehrer,” but the other day a woman in Amo, Ind., sent in a piece about her chickens and the paper printed it. Not only that, but all through the article the newspaper referred to her chickens as White Leghorns. 2 8 =n ; ENJOYED Wilbur Peat’s talk’ to the graduating class of the Herron Art School the other evening. Especially. the part where he ad-

of huddles. “The natural self-centered and subjective temperament of artists,” said Mr. Peat, “tends to isolate

such as Montmartre, the Latin Quarter and Greenwich Village, where there ‘ig’ a tendency to exaggerate idigsyncrasies ' and lose touch with contemporary life.” It sounded pretty good at the time of delivery and it seemed even better by the: time I got to bed. By that time I got to 6B wqndering whether Mr. Peat could tell us what is the matter with the Indianapolis baseball: team. : # # » CONFESS to a fondness for hazy-minded people, but I hurry to add that my fondness was hastened considerably by the behavior of positive people. The danger of positive people is their readiness to regard as scientific certainties’ what are, after all, only relative certainties. Such a point of view threatens to destroy my serviceable illusions, along- with my superstitions, and puts me in the embarrassing . position of defending my predilections and prejudices, which is just about the last thing I want to do. I hope I have made it: clear that I don’t like positive people. Just now I like them less than ever and it’s mainly because of the. seasonal ‘argument over the relative. beauty of suspenders and belts. Indeed, this year ‘it’s even more provoking than ever because of the women. I never thought women would take to wearing suspenders and I don’t yet know why, unless it js to show that they can be as positive as the men. They couldn’t have picked a better subject because there is no temptation so strong for positive people to be positive about as the subject of suspenders—unless, perchance, it is the subject of. belts. Positive people. of a generation ago scoffed at the inherent beauty of suspenders and went over completely to belts. The belts had it for a generation or so and now, for some reason known: only to the women, positive people feel an aesthetic urge to wear suspenders again. : If suspenders and belts lend themselves to philosophical observations, it would appear that nothing is-so beautiful but what at one time was considered ugly. And to confound positive people I might add that it works vice versa, too.

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Beneath the surface laughter frist eR

of tears, and under the dies.

DON'T kiow why ie atl despise |

or| rather lack of practice, annoys us|

There doesn’t seem to be much} anybody can do about it—Ileast of ! all ,us old timers—but if what I} SVin 3 Hewepele he vile ar]

monished the artists to shy out|

them from the world into huddles, |

the continuance of fire without ces-}

‘The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire..

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ABATEMENT. OF SMOKE AT CITY PLANT SUGGESTED By A. L. Marshall. Your editorials on the smoke nuisance which have appeared from time to time are rather amusing, especially the one that appeared in your issue of June 12, I note that Building Coifiiniss sioner George R. Popp says that “much of the smoke is produced by individuals rather than factories,” and also that “Mayor Kern thinks that the time to launch a smoke abatement campaign is now.” It is true that much of the trouble is due to individual home owners, but all one has to do to see where the real trouble lies is to step out almost any time and.look at the - skyline, One ‘of - the most flagrant violators of the smoke ors dinance is the City Asphalt Plant located at New York-st and the ‘Monon Railroad. Any time that this plant is in op-

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ]

OR babies, as for grownups, the conditions of sleep make a great deal of difference. Everybody knows that two factors most necessary for sound sleep—darkness and quiet—are exceedingly hard to achieve our modern times.. Use of artificial light has become

| so universal, that it is exceedingly difficult to find places to sleep in ‘which there is complete darkness. ‘Even tiny rays of light may be sufficient to serve as a stimulus to |

awaken a sleeper. It is even more difficult to secure quiet. We have one motor car for every four or five people, and at

least one radio for every family.

This means plenty of noise. In the large cities, the rattle of street - cars and the roar of railroad and elevated trains all serve to make sleep difficult, éven for those who can easily adapt ‘themselves to disturbances. . One specialist even has recommended the use of nightcaps, to serve the double purpose of keeping the head warm and shutting out noise. The mattress on which the baby sleeps should be firm, but soft énough to be comfortable. The baby should be covered lightly, but well enough to be warm. The clothing should be sufficiently loose fo permit the baby to move freely, but tight enough to keep the child from falling out of bed or getting into trouble. Pillows

usually are unnecessary for small

babies. ” 2 o E F the baby’s feet become cold, if it is not warm enough, if there is too much clothing, or if there is lack of fresh air in the bedroom, the baby’s sleep will be disturbed. Most mothers now know that

eration and the atmosphere -is the least bit heavy, it is practically impossible to see the railroad tracks, the street, or anything else, and I wonder that people living in the Vielity permit this nuisance to continue.

| If this were a privately owned s plant, I am satisfied that the con-

dition would be corrected, but being a city plant, it is probably outside the scope of Mayor Kern's campaign.

By Mayor John W. Kern Concerning Mr. Marshall’s letter, I sincerely welcome any information in regard to the violation of any city ordinance or regulation, I am only too glad to refer the matter to the office of George R. Popp Jr., city building commissioner, for investigation and correction, I thank both Mr. Marshall and The Times for bringing the violation to my attention.

- 2 2 8 UNIFIED CONTROL OF TRAFFIC URGED ‘By Jimmy Cafouros ; ‘A great deal of our traffic difficulties” every one realizes, are due to the fact that when the streets of Indianapolis were laid out no 'one visualized that one day they would carry such heavy traffic. Another reason for the dilemma of the present day is that there are not sufficient trained officers to thoroughly marshal the traffic. Then there are the trolley cars and trolley busses with their over-

the wire. Also there is a great portion of the public that drives like folks did before the war. There is another portion of the public that does not know any better while there are others who know but do not care. .

There are any number of systems that could work. Officers alone can not control the trafic. The mile square©®at least should be a unified pattern. Whether the lights are staggered or alternating, or whether the traffic goes straight through, the officer on any one corner should know what traffic is doing at the other corners.

LANDON FOR AMERICAN IDEALS, WRITER SAYS By Paul Masters, Anderson, Ind. Great men have always arisen to ‘the aid of America in the time of great need. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roose‘velt and Calvin Coolidge. Today another joins this rank of

‘American ideals, Alfred M. Landon: ' Eighteen months ago he was

head switches, and dead placés in!

leaders in the preservation of].

little known outside his own “prairie state” of Kansas. Today he is a national figure.

s0 spontaneous a greeting given to a néw national leader. The name of Landon has spread like a prairie fire over the length and breadth of this land. He has completely won the hearts of the ple, not by steam roller tactics, nor by flowery or eloquent nig but by good common sense and true American ideals, :

politicians, he was found and brought forth by the people. His campaign was not run by any of the “Old Guard” politicians, but by his own personal friends, who have known him since boyhood. It is interesting to note the complete confidence that the people of Kansas have in their man-of-the-hour. He had no powerful political interests to push him forward, but he

-| did have the good will and the best

wishes of the people of Kansas. ‘The Republican party has been quick to sense the soundness of this “Kansan Coolidge” and accept him as their man-of-the-hour. Real Americans are for Landon regardless of party lines and Landon is for real American ideals. He will safely guide us away from the false European ideals of dictatorial government and back to the American principles of a government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.

DAD’S DAY BY RALPH W. WHITE SR.

With due respect and glory for Mother, very dear; There now arrives the other great-

These things can be corrected.) est day of the year.

Or all great men or heroes, I'm thinking of some one—sad, Why not write a poem of the day set aside for Dad? After all, who is it, that is slaving from morn till night, p Bringing in food and clothing, making home a shining light? Sacrificing many pleasures, and grumbles are so few, As he trudges off to work in that uniform of blue. Of spring or summer attire, Dad knows so little about; And when the season changes, it’s him who is left without. Years pass by—the same skimping, never complaining dear Dad Gives you comfort and happiness, all there is to be had. So try, remember Dad’s Day, make it greatest of the year! Do for him as for Mother, and erase heartache or tear.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

[Vagabond

from

Indiana

ERNIE PYLE

There probably never before was

Landon was not discovered by the |

EDITOR’S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, ‘when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that.

ROKEN BOW, Okla. June 20.— “Alfalfa Bill” Murray let me down. He spoiled my whole sary. He didn't play his part. Here I drive 150 miles out of my way, over dusty gravel roads, to see the picturesque former Governor of Oklahoma on his new farm, and .he just acts like any other ordinary human being. ’ And I had heard such swell stories about him ‘down here. How he has a big hole in the living room floor for ventilation; and how he talks to one bunch of hogs in English and the other in Choctaw, because they are Choctaw hogs and don’t understand English. - But I spent the whole aftérnoon with “Alfalfa Bill” here, and he didn't talk to his hogs in’ Choctaw, and I couldn't see any hole in. the floor. But “Alfalfa Bill” is a character, even if -he didn’t put on a show for me. He's the hill-billiest looking statesman you ever saw—no shirt, winter underwear, plow shoes unlaced, handkerchief . around his neck, upper front tooth out, long hair, white whiskers. He was sitting in a rocking c on his front porch when I wal wr up. He looks older than I had fee . membered him. ” o 8 LFALFA BILL” bought this farm, about a mile from town, last July. He. came here to recuperate from being Governor. He has 70 acres here. He hires men to farm it. He came here because this is the warmest county in the state, and Nas the least dust. It’s right down in the corner where Oklahoma joins Arkansas and Texas. “Alfalfa Bill” devotes every foree noon to what he calls “intellectual” work. He has a- secretary in town who comes out and takes dictation. A good many people come to see him. In one week recently he had a state Supreme Court judge, and a state Representative, and a former Governor, and a whole flock of lesser lights. Murray took me way down in the back pasture to show me the spring where they get their drinking water. He showed .me clover he'd planted, and all kinds of bushes and vineg T'd never heard of before.

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ASKED him if he ever intended going back into public life. He said he didn’t know. He said there's no sense of an honest and sincere man being in public life these days. “I could run for Congress from this district and get nearly every vote,” he said. “But what's the use of me going to Congress? I don’t believe in a thing they’ re doing up there. And the way they run things all T could do is sit and vote “No,” and look like an obstructionist.” He sets out his own governmental theories in literature issued by the “Association for Economy and Tax Equality.” That's what he does. of mornings, writes pamphlets on taxation and how the government ought to be run. Then he mails them out to people. ‘He enjoys telling about what he accomplished as Governor, And how he got the best of his opponents. : He says he worked harder than most Governors of Oklahoma. Especially than some Governors of Oklahoma he, could think of right now.

Today’s Science

BY SCIENCE SERVICE CIENTISTS poring over weae pons in modern ‘crime laboratories” are able to * extract many secrets that neither the layman nor the criminal himself would ever imagine possible. But a group of German museum workers have “mined” a single weapon for information never before obtained about the way of life of people in northwestern Europe 10,000 or 15,000 years

The weapon is a flint dagger about eight inches long,” dating. from the earlier part of the New Stone Age. It was found during the digging of a ditch through a moor in northern Germany. There is nothing remarkable about the weapon itself; neolithic flint daggers are rather common throughout Europe Exceedingly remarkable, however, is the fact that this dagger was still

leather carrying strap still wrapped around it, just as the owner left or perhaps lost it, many centuries ago. Also, part of the wooden handle was still in place, and between the wood and the stone a layer of cloth which had been inserted to improve the grip of the wood on the stone. Leather and cloth usually are absent from finds as old as this, for they