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Tir aople Will Find

Their Own Way MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1936.

WALK HUMBLY ORE than the usually ample amount of point= ing with pride will be forthcoming this week; oiniing so sustained, we fear, that ere Saturday arrives the right arm and index finger of the Demoeratic Party, not to mention the vocal chords, will droop from ‘weariness. “i Which, for some reason or other, reminds us of {She story of Napoleon who, after hearing from one 4 ‘ot his marshals about a victory that had occurred some days before, said: “Very good, but what did Hou do the next day?”

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i! Of accomplishments, there is no paucity. In fact,

‘gonsidering the awful crisis that the incoming Democratic Administration encounvered in 1933, we beeve the record as it will appear, when the perspective of time applied, will be the epic of a nation saved from wreck and revolution. We are still too much. in it now, too close to it, to appraise in correct proportion, to catch the unity of the piece, to Bense the clear-cut drama that hds been written "around the courage of one man who led a beaten ind confused people out of chaos into hope. » » 2 ODAY we can only total up some of the comparisons and give credit where credit obviously : " due; to express what happened, for example, in terms of cotton, hogs, sheep and beef cattle, national income, stock exchange values, decline in business ‘and bank failures—to treat the picture statistically, ‘but not ‘with the vision that only the years can Bring +‘ The national income has risen from 39 billions of dollars in 1932 to 54 billions in 1935; gross farm income from 5300 millions to 8110 millions; cotton from $5.90 to $11.35 a hundred pounds; hogs from #3. 40 to $7.30; sheep, $2.35 to $4; beef cattle, $3.30 to $5. In the preceding 12 years of Republican rule 1659 ‘ational banks failed; since the end of the bank holiday only eight have failed, of which the depositors of five were protected by insurance. «i Value of securities listed on the New York Stock ‘Exchange ‘has risen from 54 billions in December, 1933, to 86 billions in December, 1935; business failfires dropped from 31,322 firms with 928 millions of liabilities in 1932 to 12,185 firms with 64 millions of Habilities in 1935. i But we don't want this to look like a time-table, 80 we’ll cut down on the figures and merely say that : there is plenty of reason for “pointing” by a party ‘Which, despite its many mistakes, brought convadecane to a patient who was sick unto death.

HAT there are still 10 million jobless, that the cost has been stupendous and that the budget x increasingly out of balance, that only a haphaz‘ard taxation policy has been the fruit of the years nt Democratit “rule; that the administration of reHet is still “without form and void”—those factors tn the debit column can not in our opinion consti pute a convincing political argument to offset the ‘gains which saved us all from disaster. But they do {Present the very vital and pertinent question of {where do we go from here?”—and perhaps that is ‘why we think of that story about “what did you do ithe: next day?” in connection with the braggadocio ‘with which the country will be showered by conven‘$ion orators this week. Il! The party which is'now meeting in Philadelphia ‘is possessed of probably the greatest power of any m our history. That power has both its strengths ‘ahd its dangers. If tHe idea is merely to exercise ‘the strength in a demonstration of mutual back‘slapping, and to leave ‘the future to trial and error “and overconfidence, then it is appropriate to reJind the Democrats assembled that we are not yet out of the woods, and that pride goeth before de{struction and a haughty spirit before a fall. : Hence we venture to suggest—go light on self- : atulations and give stern consideration to the virtues which arise only from the humble and the contrite heart. 5

THE WALL CRUMBLES

HE Franco-American reciprocal trade treaty

i effective this month, is the thirteenth pact “tinder the Trade Agreement Act and the first to be

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{signed witli & major European country that controls™

-‘dmports through a quota system. This month also

| “our new reciprocal trade policy is two years old. It is a bit too early to cast up results, but even

‘neighbors. !* By 1932 the Hawley-Smoot and other tariffs had Jidriven our trade to bedrock. Exports that between 1925 and 1929 had averaged about $5,000,000,000 had dropped that year to around $1,600,000,000. The world wilepression was partly to blame, but the choking of trade helped bring on the depression. In 1935 our exts climbed back to $2,282,000,000. How much of that & due to the Roosevelt-Hull treaty policies no one ican say. Some of the improvement is traceable to eral world recovery, some to the higher price level. t. undoubtedly much of it is due to lower tariff “rates effected by the agreements. © The Cuban treaty, No. 1 of the series, became in September; 1934; in the 12 months folng that treaty exports to Cuba rose 60 per cent. ie Belgian treaty went into effect May, 1935; in the » months following our exports to Belgium rose 71

£ cont. The Canadian treaty was signed last No- |

ber, yet in the first three months of 1936 imports

exports have risen 15 per cent between the

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‘week-end tragedy of accidental death sent |

the 1936 Marion County trafic fatality total to 72. -A man and his wife lost their lives in an auto-

“mobile collision. In this and other mishaps, more than a dozen others were injured, one critically.

At the same time, a survey by the National Youth

- Administration showed nearly 60,000 of the drivers

of 600,000 vehicles passing downtown signals violated city traffic laws. The continted upward accident trend caused police last week to order rigid tests to rid the streets of defective automobiles. . : But there is no single cure for the accident menace. Seasonal drives against violators and hammering at people to obey ordinances which may be af fault will not get results. Such methods often lead to public resentment—and more accidents.

” ” » 4 COMBINATION of remedies is needed. Some cities have greatly reduced accidents by using the National Safety Council's formula of engineer

ing, education and enforcement. The first step is.

the formation of a definite safety committee or commission.

Then, under the direction of a safety engineer, conditions contributing to the high accident fre= quency are studied scientificaily. Expert advice on how to do this is available. ; Accurate accident records must be kept. Maps showing bad locations, collision maps showing exactly how accidents occur, surveys of view obstructions, speed checks and surveys” on parking are needed. The NYA traffic surveys here Siready have supplied much basic information. These data will show what is needed to eliminate. hazards, improve signals and equipment, change ordinances, or widen streets. A follow-up with education and enforcement would bring results in Indianapolis just as these methods have cut the accident rates in Milwaukee, Evanston, Pittsburgh, Grand Rapids and other cities. It is time to start.

STILL WALKING

HAT seems at first glance to have all the elements of a great political sensation fails to pack a punch. And that for a very simple reason. It is a “repeat.” And a sensation that goes off a second tinfe is no sensation. It exploded first on the night of Jan. 25. That was at the Liberty League dinner, in which Alfred E. Smith made his appearance. Today's telegram to the Democratic National Convention, signed by Smith

"as headliner, and four lesser Democrats, merely ex-

presses in other words the sentiment Smith voiced in that bejeweled gathering in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington five months ago. The action, thus lacking in surprise, probably will not be greeted by consternation or even concern by the delegates assembled. If Al had come out for Roosevelt that would have been news. That he is still against him is hardly news.

TAXI INSPECTIONS

rp axicas companies as well as the public no doubt will welcome the initial inspection of cabs July 5 under the new ordinance. Many passengers have complained that meters on some taxicabs. are not correctly adjusted. This may be due to confusion in changing over from the old rate schedules. The few taxicabs with inaccurate meters are raising the public . ‘pulse and bringing ill will to the cab business here. pe City officials and the. companies should. join In

. €aIrying -out. the spiriv’ and letter of ‘the ‘new ‘ordi-

nance on rates, insurance, number of. cabs and’ other provisions.

ATTENTION, GOV. LANDON _ T= Republicans have éarned a cheet’ for having accepted the principle of social security in their: Cleveland platform. In view of the fact that its very mention at Chicago in 1932 would have started a run of fever among the delegates; this is progress. But when one gets down to ‘details their social security plank requires a lot of explaining. Maybe Gov. Landon will interpret this splendid generalization: “Every American citizen over 65. should re-

ceive the supplementary payment necessary to pro-

vide a minimum income sufficient to protect him or

“her from want.”

If this means, as some say, that every aged person past 65 must undergo a means test or take a pauper’s

oath then it is; a less generous proposal than the,

present Wagner-Lewis act. Will the Governor elucidate? The platform says that old-age security should be financed by “a direct tax widely distributed.” Does this means an income tax? Or a general sales tax? Or Dr. Townsend's transaction tax? Or what? The platform criticises the Administration’s program as niggardly, and would extend old-age benefits to cover not only wage-workers but those now exempted—farm help, domestics and self-employed. This would practically double the present coverage.

Again, Governor, how would this great burden be .

met? The Republican platform on social security has

some good points and some pointed criticisms. . We, too, would like to see benefits applied to all workers. We believe the old-age annuity taxes are too high and the reserves are likely to become too big. But, as the matter stands, the program doesn’t square with the party's economy planks and is too ambiguous to mean very much, except for vote-catching pur-

“poses.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Te Republican platform commits the party to

a program of “adequate national defense.” Doubtless the Democrats will be equally dense for, as it is, nobody can guess what the phrase actually means. It has been used ever since the country

could boast an armed force and was bandied about

as glibly before Valley Forge as when Pershing sailed his crowded transport to Europe. The average male voter who is used to political lingo may be satisfied with such ambiguous paragraphs, but I can assure the statesmen that a great

- many women these days want more explicit language. : Does “adequate natenal defense™ mean a “navy | second to none” or only a sufficient number of dread- | naughts to ‘repel invasion? Does it mean that. we | shall maintain a huge standing army which can be me

‘most elaborate hoaxes ever

specifically, it is the story of how

and Dr. Leonidas Smith tried to

his collection. The practical joke began with Dr. Keene's contribution of a picture frame old enough to have seen service in the Hudson River School. Dr. Keene passed the frame to Mr. Wheeler, who knew exactly what he was going to do with it. Mr. Wheeler got a board from an old packing box and covered one side of it with a sticky radiator paint. He followed immediately with a coat of shellac, trusting that his knowledge. of applied chemistry would stand him in good stead. It did. The board crackled beautifully in all directions just the way old masterpieces do. = - After that, Mr. Wheeler worked fast. He painted a stretch of water, a sail boat and a slanting moon, and when it was done it was a dead ringer’ for an Albert J. Ryder. Not a very great Ryder, you understand, but a Ryder good enough for a collector of American paintings to throw a fit over. ” 8 » EXT, Mr. Wheeler found a cou.ple of rusty nails and fastened the picture into Dr. Keene's frame. After which, he delivered the picture to Dr. Smith. When Dr. Smith unwrapped the package, he had to wash his hands to get rid of ‘the

had sprinkled the picture. Dr. Smith immediately called Mr. Calvert and told him about a woman patient who had left a painting in payment of a dental debt— a part payment, of course. Dr. Smith said the signature on the

or Ryder. “Not Albert J. Ryder,” said Mr. Calbert, masking his excitement the way bankers do. “Maybe,” opined ‘Dr. Smith. Well, Mr. Calvert was over. in a jiffy and started asking a lot of professional questions. The woman, Mr. Calvert was assured, had come to Indianapolis from Cornwall-on-the Hudson and brought the picture with her. Ryder, she said, had been a friend of the family and had presented the picture as a token of his regard. The woman, the last of her line, according fo Dr; Smith, had lugged the thing around ever since, partly for sentimental reasons and partly because, some 20 years ago, somebody had told her the picture’s value, which was the amount he had credited the woman with. He didn’t want to profit on the deal, he said. Mr, Calvert said he wanted to think it over and asked permission to take the picture home. ». ” 8 Hae gotten the picture home, Mr. Calvert immediately called up Mr. Wheeler and told him about his find. Mr. Wheeler said he’d be out right away. There wasn’t a doubt that it was a Ryder, they agreed. What’s more, Mr. Wheeler was sure it was an important Ryder. To hear Mr. Wheeler tell it, that is where he made his mistake, be-

'| cause no sooner had he said it than

he noticed an emotional « conflict raging in Mr. Calvert's breast or wherever it is that emotional conflicts rage. For, said Mr, Calvert, if this be an important Ryder the woman should have $3030, maybe $30,000. Certainly more than a paltry $30. His conscience, he declared, would not permit him to see a woman tricked out of her inheritance and, as far as he was concerned, the deal was off. Anyway, he didn’t have $3000, Mr, Calvert got so hetup about his conscience that Mr. Wheeler broke down and confessed. Mr. Calvert's collection is minus a Ryder to this day and Mr. Wheeler says he’s done with practical jokes. They're not worth the trouble, he says.

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I~HIS is the story of one of the |. perpetrated in Indianapolis. More | Dr. Victor Keene, Ulifton Wheeler | §

trap George Calvert into buying a| | painting by “Albert J. Ryder” for i

spider-webs with which Mr. Wheeler }

painting looked like Ryber or Ryden

“Ask The Times

The Hoosier Forum

1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

{Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short. so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sioned. but ‘names will be withheld on reauest.) i 8 8-8 FAVORS CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM IN NATURAL PATTERN ;

By H. L. Seeger ‘ The great political battle -of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum is about to -be staged for the American public Both major political parties profess to favor the capitalistic economic system. Neither, of them, however, has permitted the system to perform according to its natural behavior pattern. ; Both parties have tampered with the system in that its purging functions have been arrested temporarily. . However, this aryesting of natural behavior does not et the ultimate operation of these functions. The delay caused by the attempted checking merely intensifies the purging necessary to throw off the impediments. This nation has been very un= fortunate to have had two succeeding political administrations that have thrown dams across: the stream of capitalistic economy, against which the debris accumulated during so-called prosperity period has been piled. : We are only in deeper water as a result of attempted interference. The spending of public funds to check the deflation of bad investments, and bad loans, becomes a serious hindrance to the operation of a normal curative cycle. No greater folly could be indulged in. | Liquidation of debt on a vast scale, and writing down of capital claims to a level where prices for the products of industry will be sup-

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

oT mothers make the mistake of dressing their babies too

warmly. As a result of being overdressed, a child perspires freely. If it then kicks off its covers, or some of its

"| clothing, it will become chilled.

There is increasing evidence that

sudden changes in temperature are|

harmful to health. Of course, a child must be protected against cold, and should be suitably covered when it is taken out. in.cold weather. On the other hand, during very hot days ‘or nights, many babies sleep better while wearing only a diaper and flannelet, ‘or cotton, gown. There has * been much: discussion as to whether babies should wear cotton, wool, silk, or rayon, or mixtures of these fabrics. In general,

cotton is not a warm material, as it A =

readily conducts or carries off heat.

It can be boiled or sterilized, how-| }

ever, without damage. Wool is a warm material because

ported by active consumer demand, is not only unavoidable but absolutely necessary. This has not been done up to date on a scale large enough to assure capitalistic economic recovery. ee ” # 2 SEES SIGNIFICANCE IN COLLEGE WAR. REVOLT By J. R. A. The revolt of . American college youth against the idea of war, particularly as it might affect the United States, is getting to be something of significance these days. The trend is in sharp contrast to the youth movements in Nazi Ger-

‘many and Fascist Italy, where the

sons and daughters of World War

participants are following the same

blind path, only to find themselves

hopelessly ensnared, as were their

fathers, in-the toils of the War machine. The generation now coming into maturity in the United States has profited from the experiences and warnings of its disillusioned predecessor. It, therefore, harbors no illusions about the whole ghastly business of war. - It has not been fooled. “That is something for which we may be mighty thankful some day. ” ” 2 URGES’ TAX ON INCOME, NOT ON LOSSES

By W. H. Richards The Indiana gross income tax is

one of the greatest “robberies” ever |.

perpetrated by a government upon its citizens. It is not a tax upon income, but upon expenses for the merchant and like all other such taxes falls most heavily upon the

poor. The merchant doing a gross busi-

‘| ness of $10,000 a year must pay the

tax on $9,000. To do this amount of business, the goods he sells costs Him from $7,000 to $8,000. Then he has to pay rent, lighting, insurance, heating, telephone bills and hire of

DAILY THOUGHT

of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by: faith.—~Romans 1: 17.

HRISTIAN “faith is'a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. ~~ Standing without, You can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within ‘every ray A

of light reveals a harmony of un-.

Speakable splendoss—Hawthame,

SIDE GLANCES _

overhead expenses and

his help. All of these are expenses and can not in any sense be classed as income. The little fellow with a business of only $2000 a year, must pay for the goods he sells, and the various pay tax on all over $1000 of his gross receipts. It is plain that a man.and his wife with so small a business can not draw

from it enough to live in decency:

and comfort, for the business is be= ing carried on at a loss. Yet, the unjust law requires: him to pay a tax on his losses. There are many small businesses being conducted by

men who are nobly frying to stem: the tide and keep themselves and

family off the public charity roll and it is rank injustice to levy taxes on their property.’ An income tax is right and proper, but it should be levied only on incomes and Hot on losses 4 Sufferer. oo a Ls : oh g as FORTY- -MILE-AN- HOUR LIMIT ON CARS IS URGED

By Clifton E. Couk, Greenfield ° I have been a traveling salesman for 32 years and have traveled over 19 states in trains, by buggy and automobile. At 68 I am convinced that the only way to curtail traffic deaths is to take the speed out of automobiles at the factory. In my opinion no car should be built that

would go faster than 40 miles an

hour. - ‘Since I have been traveling by automobile I have exceeded 40 miles an hour on one occasion and that 2 when I wanted to find out how fast my car would go. It hit 65 and I slowed down immediately. If all motorists would agree to drive 40 miles an hour or less I am sure that the lives of many of our citizens and children would be spared.

THE MUSIC OF RAIN

BY ROBERT O. LEVELL There’s something, I can not ex- ~~ plain, Why 1 can sleep well when it rains.

{ Perhaps the raindrops from the For therein is the righteousness | ;

sky, = Play sleepy-time lullaby.

Soothing by their tuneful way, Throughout the night or the day, . 1 can sleep and sleep so sound, When the raindrops patter down.

Pog vest 1 ¢an reseive so. grand, joyful sleepbeat,

time band, 1 hile the falling ‘raindrops ‘areal good time for sleep.

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

Morus. June 22—This job of being a roving. reporter teaches you one thing: He who laughs too long and loud at other peaple is lisble to get sand in his mouth. What I really mean is that the

more you travel around and see all sorts of people, the less inclined you are to stand up on & dais and look down at anybody, and laugh at him. Because he may be looking up, laughing at you. Take this story about Frank - Murphy. ‘Frank Murphy is an old man. Seventy-six, he says. He is tall and thin, and not very clean, and has a bushy gray beard, and inhumanly gray eyes that stare out through horn-rimmed spectacles: Frank Murphy is a squatter. He lives just behind: the city dump, right on the bank of the Missis/sippi. His home, and everything he has, and his whole livelihood, come out of the city dump. He culled old auto hoods out of the dump, and pounded them out flat, and built himself a mansion of them. - It isn’t one of these Wobbly. Shantytown shacks, either. It's straight and solid. No rain or Wind - can get in. # ” ” oRPHY comes pretty close to being self-sufficient. He makes his own living. He gets old tin pans and kettles out of the city dump and-repairs them. He gets steer horns, and. polishes them up and mounts them, - He takes pieces of steel, and files” them down into butcher knives. All these: things he peddles -to housewives. He has something that’s going ¥ ia be a perpetual motion machine. swears it isn’t a perpetual “hig machine. He says it's just-a thing that will keep going all the time,’ and if you stop it, it'll start itself again and keep on going. That wouldn't be perpetual motion, I suppose. He showed it to us. It's just the. rim of an old automobile steering, wheel. . He keeps it hanging on a nail in the ceiling. He has: the” whole thing figured out, except the one little item of how to keep it going. But his house painting is what’ captivated me. . His house is daubed" all over—not solid, or striped, but just daubed, like a speckled.chicken, And every color of the rainbow. I asked him what he painted if that way for. He said so strangers” would think he was crazy and’ wouldn't come near. But it ‘Worked out just the other way. = .. 88 8 i : E does his painting at night. He used to pajnt in the daytime, ‘on to this night= painting idea just a short time ago. He paints in the dark, no light or

i anything, 50 he can’t see what he’s:

doing. Like all geniuses, Frank is a little’ weird about details. He says he’s been living here “four or five years, ever since 1916.” He comes from the “old country,” from. an" island off the coast of Iceland. “He thinks he, has a son, but haso’t heard of him’ in 50 years. So there you are. There are a Tot. of laughs. in Frank's place, But Tdidn’t laugh any. After all, why not paint in the th a lot ‘better than some daytime pain I've seen art galleries, ig In And am I la Ding at the 9 steering wheel that's going to be 9 peipe tual - motion Machine? I a I wonder, yes I wonder véry: mich, if when I am 76 ‘years old I will be able to build a house with my own hands, and have to depend on no man in this world either for company or.the necessities of life?

Today’s Science.

BY SCIENCE SERVICE Pl TOES will have to go on the. ally hold back” ge for a:

weeks, until markets can be ’ pd from the Middle -Atlantic

‘and New England fields, is the in-

dication of reports received by the:

commercial pota: of the Southeast is to blame. But after the middle of July the shortage will relieved—barring unforeseen

The shortage, that is, will amount to a potato famine. The

{nation will not be confronted with?

coals-to-Newcastle situation

| that. obtained in one t dorught year

‘generation ago, when cars ‘goes. of petals Som Ireland were

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