Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1936 — Page 20

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Their Own Way Phone RI ley 5551 THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936;

THE PLATFORM MAKERS N this platform, twixt 11 and 12, I'll visit . you , .. 'til then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise.”—Hamlet. i. To many fervid crusaders the Democratic plat"form being polished off today will resemble a gal-lows-base more nearly than something upon which to dance in merriment, Yesterday, to a big room in Philadelphia’s convention hall, they came bringing their souls’ desires. ‘Wee Willie Upshaw toted in two well-worn planks, calling for prohibitich and patriotism. White-haired Richmond Pearson Hobson, once the gallant and kissable hero of the Merrimae, pleaded for morality. The hobo brotherhood

proposed a five-day week, four-hour day and six- |

month vacations. Spokesmen for farmers, veterans, Townsendites, sharecroppers, the women’s party, peace and neutrality, brought offerings. Labor's Bill Green wanted the millennium with a fence _ around it. William Jennings Bryan's son wanted a curb on the Supreme Court. And so on. “Foul deeds” are bound to rise when this pistform is adopted. The law of averages will take care of that. It will be too had—but every one, after all, can't be accommodated. And the really important thing seems to be, after the platform is proclaimed, the liberalism, _ President, the lawmakers and the judges. The open hearings, however, are necessary and wholesome sounding boards. assure the folks at home that their delegates and

lobbyists are doing their stuff. They let the party.

. know that. the people are watching them now and « after the convention. And they get things off the popular chest.

: There is a story told. by an American visitor to London’s free forum in Hyde Park. There a soapboxer was berating the Queen in shocking language. . The American appealed to a bobby, standing idly . by twirling his night-stick. Why didn’t he stop ¢ - this attack on the Queen?

“It's all right,” the bobby remarked.

“It don’t urt ‘er, and it ’elps ’im.”

CITY PAY RESTORATIONS

T= move for partial restoration of municipal salary cuts follows a general trend reported from many cities. Since the proposal involves taxpayers’ money and important city policy, the experience of other cities as well as all angles of the Indianapolis situation ‘should be given careful study. Mayor Kern is on record favoring increases in _ salaries of firemen and policemen beginning Jan. 1,

1937, amounting to 7% to 10 per cent. The reduction ;

in 1932 was 15 per cent. He also hinted at an “upward adjustment” in the salaries of all tity employes, but said it would not be a horizontal increase. Such a horizontal increase, on the basis of 7! ‘per cent, would total $261,012. j This woultl require raising the tax levy about 5 .. cents on each $100 valuation. The civil city tax - levy now .is $1.11. With state, county, school and township levies, the total rate is $2.58. The entire = tax picture should be taken into consideration. - s 2 8 RECENT check-up showed that 29 of 100 cities canvassed have made complete or partial pay cut restorations to employes since December, 1934. Milwaukee, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Yonkers, N. Y.,, which made partial restorations of salaries during 1934, have restored them completely since. Some other cities which have restored all ‘pay: cuts or made arrangements to do so in the near future are Newark, N. J.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tampa, Fla.; Sacramento; Peoria, Ill, and Allentown, Pa. Other restorations within the last 18 months, reported by the United States Conference of Mayors, include: Detroit, reduced 13 per cent cut to 8 per cent. Chicago, partial restoration. Police and firemen have 26 days’ pay deducted from annual salaries; other employes, 39 days’ pay deducted. Birmingham, Ala., two of four 10 per cent cuts restored. : Waterbury, Conn., additional 25 per cent restoration, all employes. - Greensboro, N. C., restored salaries under $100 a month to normal; partial increase on others. Lansing, Mich., lower brackets completely restored..

* Kalamazoo, Mich., restored to 1932 levels; still 6 to 10 per cent under 1931. Jackson, Mich. some increases, as in labor pay . Tolls.

Dearborn, Mich., increase of 5 per cent. Beaumont, Tex, 45 per cent of original cuts now Amarillo, Tex., complete restorations to half of city employes; 90 per cent to others. os ” =

GENT handling of salary restorations re-

3 quires something different than blanket increases. % As in private enterprise, it gives an opportunity for . much-needed adjustments. The city’s entire pay roll 5 ‘should be studied with a view to elimination of un-

necessary employes, more efficiency in other posi-

tions and to the obtaining of an adequate, trained personnel, One step in this direction is the WPA project _ in the Chamber of Commerce office. Complete salary . and job data are being prepared for the city. +Officials say jobs are being. classified ac-

intelligence and integrity of the

They do more than

‘as rapidly as possible.

Milk Fund),

cratic conventions show how complete has been the change of the last few weeks in the public attitude toward the Constitution and the Supreme Court. It is, we believe, a healthy change. This transition from emotionalism to sane-real-ism is one which hardly could have been envisioned two months ago. Then, conservatives were fervently ebracing the Constitution, as the guarantor, and thanking God

' for the Supreme Court, as the protector, of all lib-

erties. And radicals were just as loudly damning the Federal charter as a strait-jacket, and cussing the court as a hindrance to progressive government. Then, Republican spellbinders weére trumpeting for the save-the-Constitution, as a holy crusade. And Democratic leaders, taken aback by this offen

sive, were soft-pedaling the issues raised by the

court’s invalidation of many New Deal reforms.

» = » HE spell was broken—of. all places—at the Republican convention- when Gov. Landon, just prior to his nomination, overrode the platform's pledge against change in the Constitution. State

' governments, Mr. Landon said, must be assured the

power top legislate in respect to wages and working conditions for women and children, and, if necessary, that assurance must be written into the Constitution. Mr. Landon’s declaration took the wraps off the issue. The Democrats quickly moved out into the open. Both keynotér Barkley and the permanent convention chairman, Senator Joseph Robinson, challenged the Supreme Court majority’s reasoning in various decisions.

Regardless of whether there is a definite cleavage in the campaign, it should be possible hereafter to discuss the issue calmly and’ deliberately. The

* question is no longer to do something or nothing; the

question has become: “What to do, and when?” In a democracy such as ours, that is progress. We do not wish to govern ourselves, as the kings governed the Medes and the Persians—by laws unchangeable. For we do not want our civilization to.go the. way of the Medes’ and Persians’,

RED RUSSIA TURNING PINK

RULY the world is in flux. It would be difficult to put your finger on the map and say: with any degree of certainty that this or that country has reached stability.

All are changing. Some are doing it more stibtly

than others. But of none can it be definitely said that it will stay put. Unprecedented things, are happening’ even in the British Empire and the United States. The latest to make page one in this respect, is the Soviet Union. Red Russia is fading to pink. As France swings to the left and joins hands with the Communists, Russia veers to the right and goes Democratic.

It would be hard to over-estimate the impor-

- tance of what is now going on inside Russia. She is to be provided with a Constitution. She is to have

a House of Representatives and a Senate, something

. corresponding with our institutions.

Members are to be elected by secret ballot, as in democratic England, France and the United States. All adults, men and women are to have ‘the vote, legislators will serve four years, and these, as in France, in turn will elect the President.

But most important of all, in our judgment, is the provision for freedom of speech and of the press.

Thus far it has been quite the reverse. Citizens of.

the Soviet have feared even to whisper within the

walls. of their own homes words of criticism against’ ‘|. the _regime.. - to -print nothing that might offend the “powers " that be.

Newspapers of the country have dared

For years Russia has been moving aradually. though slowly, in the general direction of moderation. Beginning. with the idea of simon pure Communism’

and of carrying her revolution to the rest of the world. to bring all nations under the same Red flag,

she has abandoned or modified whole sections of her original plan.

Russia has been forced to recognize that while regimes may change, human nature, for all practical purposes, is immutable.

DANGEROUS CROSSINGS

FATHER and son, after. waiting for a westbound train to pass, drove onto the Shelby-st crossing the other day. An eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad train struck their automobile and both men were injured fatally.

Almost all crossings have an element of danger. Some are extremely hazardous. With Indiana having the third highest grade crossing accident record in the country, the $7,000,000 crossing elimination. program for the state should be pushed The latest figures show 10,427 crossings in Indiana, 80 per ‘cent ‘of them not “specially protected.”

* But Indianapolis should not rely wholly on this Federal-state program. A survey should be made to determine where dangerous crossings exist and to find, out how the danger can be corrected through improved signaling or elimination.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT ~. By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HEN a Junior Leaguer quits society for God,’

that's news. And mighty good news, too. Not,

let me hasten to explain, because -the Junior Leaguers are a Godless lot and addicted to evil ways, but because it means that certain members of the younger generation are not content to touch only "the easy surface of human misery, but are ready to take a plunge into its dark depth. There s. no voniradicting: the fact, that a large part of the charity done by our socialites is that of

the hand and not of head or heart. As one woman

has expressed it: “I'd love to help you” (we were visiting Homes

i where children were to be listed. for the Babies’ Hut 1 oars bear 10 See such miseny,

It keeps me awake at night.” Aren't we ladies the poor darlings, so. sensitive! Woe and poverty, degradation and crime are too

much for our delicate stomachs. We can, however, |

thank kind fortune that the constitutions of -many - Dream,” was

of the younger generation are less frail.

It's very heartening, I think, to see how many boys and girls rebel at the formulas of certain adult religions. They wish to follow no rituals. - Some- | times they say no prayers. They even have no' God. | Lp" to propitiate, but they are becoming aware: of al.

JES oil of 10 year ag0 thal Cul Van Doren diagnosed the predicament of popular authors—at any rate, the plight of people who, regardless of everything else, go on and on writing books. One penalty of writing a popular book, Mr. Van Doren pointed out, is that the author, when his next book appears, is sure to have said

J of him (1) that he has not written

the book he wrote before or (2) that he has written the book he wrote before.

The effect is the same in both | cases, because no matter which way |

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you. say it there is ‘no more to say. |

The effect is deadly; and it’s sup-

posed to be. Mr. Van Doren thought this no way for decent ‘people to act. Neither do I. To speak accurately and out of hearing of the critics, any new book by any old author is in its fundamentals like every other book by that author and none of them like any other in its incidentals. 2 ” ” Y which Mr. Van Doren meant, : of course, that every new book by an author represents growth, no matter whether it repeats previous books or whether it givest the author away. And isn't it the truth? - Take the case of R. L. Pclk, for instance. Fifty years ago, or as long as I can remember; Mr. Polk flared conspicuously and picturesquely in-

to prominence with his first book, a |

book packed with brilliant miscellaneous ideas which strained the seams of the plot.

His latest book, which ‘appeared just a few days ago, seems to be |

only a return to tae audacious’ waywardness of his first book, if not a mere sequel to it. What seems to have happened is that Mr. Polk found that he Lad by no means exhausted the possibilities of his original characters. 1lndeed, he uses them over and over’ again with the result that most of them appear to better. advantage in his latest book.

They turn up like old friends, a little more developed, a little older, a little more mellow and delightful but otherwise unchanged. 1, for one, like this sort of thing. I like anything treated with Mr. Polk's tapestry-like. munificence of detail. s 2 2 : O be sure, Mr. Polk adds new characters from time tg time

‘| and involves them in new situations

but for the most part he sticks to the old characters. This time he

goes further, I think, than he ever |

has gone before. At any rate, his latest book is as shrewd and beguiling a story as SYS? sou find for the money. 2 Mr. Polk, it appears, now has reached the point where he would do wisely to devote himself through

“| a series of books, which I hope will

be long, to the presentation of individuals going about their personal

-|and intimate affairs.

He would do well, too; to stick to

people rather than ideas. Not only

because there are more people than ideas, but because in his latest book he has shown an even greater gift for placing people in extraordinary situations than he has for detecting human motives. I hope Polk’s 1936 Directory of. Indianapolis will make as big a hit with you as it did with me.

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Q—What does the name + Seastrunk mean? i

A—It is a German family name | meaning sea. log; a Vatgr-logged

tree,

. Q—After the ‘White House was destroyed by fire in the War af 1812, how much money was appropriated to refurnish it, and how much’ of it was expended?

| them to 250 words or less.

Vagabond

Indiana

ERNIE PYLE

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

EMPHIS, Tenn. June 25.—The most overpowering thing I have ever seen in a human being

is the determination of John Clay-

brook to make his son exactly like himself. John Claybrook is. .a Negro. Ha is a self-made man. He is rich. He considers himself the otitstanding example of what a hard-work-ing, Hght-livirg Negro can do in this wor

John. 10. brook owns 1200 acres of land across the river in Arkansas

“| and various logging “contracting

companfes. . When he was a child he ran away from his home Florence, Ala, and started working on the docks. He knew he 3

harder, gave his | =! And if he didn’t get a raise, he quit and ‘went elsewhere. John married when he was 20. He

| had never been to school. His wife

The Hoosier Forum

1 disapprove of what you say—and. will defend to the death your right to say We-Foltalrs,

(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 Your letter must . be sionel. but names will be withheld on request.) : 8 88 READER OUTLINES PEOPLES’ CORPORATIONS ACT By David Hern

We are all well familiar with such: standard medicines as “NRA,” “AAA, » “FERA, »” “WPA,” ” 4 “GOD, “9 “PDQ,” “ONT,” “OK,” and I do not know how many more. But ‘‘betcher. don’t know” what “P.C.A” stands for. It means “Peoples’ Corporations A ‘Under this act (if passed and enforced) the. Federal government will help the people to help themselves, somewhat . as follows: Any number of persons, not less than six, who reside in the same congressional - district will have the option to petition, the proper. governmental ‘department: to ‘lend its aid and supervision in ‘founding a

“Peoples’ Corporation” in, that dis- :

trict. Its status will be similar ‘to that of any business corporation - for “pecuniary profit.”’ The Federal’ act will give such a corporation the unlimited power of “engaging in any and all occupations. extant, from A to Z. Every resident and firm located | in the district has the legal right to join the corporation and buy stock. Those who do not wish to join will not be intérfered ‘with in the least. stockholders or subscribing for stock will be given employment. “The poor and destitute who ate able to

| work will first be provided with em-

ployment and payment for their stock - will be deducted from ‘their wages. . Owners of insolvent or non-pay-ing businesses and industrial estabbilshments and of non-income yielding properties will be given the op-

.| amusement enterprises

Only : those . becoming |-

fically ‘how the Various. details shall | be carried out with respect to management, disposition of the income,

distribution of dividends, compensation of labor, etc. Each Peoples’ Corporation ‘will

| conduct retail stores, notels, restau-

rants, boarding houses, hospitals, classes of ‘establishments that involve catering to the general public. The tentative bill has gbeut 15,000 words. It has been sent to Congressman Ludlow and he assured me that, if re-elected, he will introduce it’ to Congress. That's why I am “gonna” vote for him. 2 & = ; ; GIVE FATHER WORK, WRITER URGES By Unemployed Father

Just listened in. to the broadcast of a furniture manufacturing company. The idea, of course, was to sell their products, stressing their many things for father. Buy. some-

make him: feel he was not forgotten. But let father go to this plant for work, that is a different thing. They haven’t time to. talk ‘to father. Now, if they want to do something worthwhile for father give him work. That: would be the grandest present’ for him and take mother: off the anxious seat also, - 3 = » = ; ATTACKS UNION PARTY AS SUPPORTING DICTATORSHIP ‘By E. F. Maddox Wel, it looks like the tie Bas come when patriotic . Americans, who are opposed to becoming regimented under either a Socialist or Fascist dictatorship, had - better

‘make use of their. constitutional | right- of free speech in" exposing

these ‘alien: organizations, who are. attempting to “extend their ‘systems” to this nation, in direct vio-

lation of the Monroe Doctrine and | the Constitution. Wake up Amer- :

tion of transferring their holdings t0 | jea!

Peoples’ Corporations of the dis-|

tricts where their properties are located, providing they will accept shares of stock in payment. for their properties. The statute will ‘provide: spect

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

'S soon as the baby is able to sit alone, he begins exercises | developing good posture. These involve - bending, reaching for objects held in front of him and over his head, and, associated with this, a certain amount of relaxation. When the child enters. school, he will get regular exercises there, but it may "be advisable fo ‘continue the exercises at home to insure good development and good posture.

that are useful in

, the abdomen is|

A—Congress appropriated $20,000} 8

for furnishings. - President Monroe ordered furniture and furnishings from France, and spent $10,819 more than the appropriation.

Q—Have hay pitchforks. and |] manure pitchforks the same num- |'8

ber of prongs?

" A—Hay pitchforks have: three! round tines or prongs; manure} pitchforks have four. and sometimes |

five, flat tines or prongs.Q—What was the name of the

song sung by Shirley Temple in !tou

“The Little it?

A—The - Tole cong, 9 Salo 0m She Tah.

hie Hew arsangument Was made By : Mockridge.

is the tympanic 1 { bree. of the human ear commanly

Colonel’? Who rote | his finge

[that

Party says,

of Lemke and . Coughlin plainly shows that they intend to set up a party dictatorship over Congress. ~ Our national Constitution says “Congress shall have the ‘| power” to do certain things,’ but the new platform of the new ‘Union ess shall” enact such: = such legislation, leaving. Congress no discretion in the matter. Nineteen times the word “shall” is used in Mr. Lemke’s platform, which if if were put in force would establish a complete dictatorship over Congress and thé people. It Jakes 1 no difference whether it

apd all

The platform ‘of the Union Party |’

iS a Communist or Fascist party

which these gentlemen have .organized it is an illegal attempt to de-

stroy our: constitutional form of

government: and set up a party di dictatorship over Con ‘means the end: of representative government. : Now-1ét me say a word to all sensible Americans: If you don’t want to see .our great democratic republic destroyed, and submit to a tyrannical dictatorship copied either after the Russian or the Italian brand, you had better wake up and shake yourself and get some of your

“|.common. sense to working before

next election day. What with Captain Must in the

| White House and Captain Shall or-

ganizing his march on Washington it ought to be plain to all libertyloving Americans that the time has really come when we must choose | between dictatorship and democracy.

{ Both Roosevelt and Lemke are atthing for him to gladden his’ heart,’

tempting a revolutionary change in our form of government and the radio orator has already appealed to the farmers of this nation to emu-

late the actions of the embattled

farmers at Concord Bridge, which sounds to me like an incitement to overthrow our. government by force of arms. The only safe remedy is to officially outlaw all alien revolu-

tionary political ‘parties.

AFTER-GLOW BY EDNA CUNNINGHAM

1 said good-by to a dream: today,

.. A lovely and splendid thing. It warmed my heart with its tenderness ' And taught my soul to sing.

Oh, T'll sing my song and shed no

tears For a love no longer mine. For my hear is warm with remem-

ng A rapture which few ‘may find.

DAILY THOUGHT

: The Lord shall judge the peo- - ple: : judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness,’ and accordDE ee aegriy tat 1s In me ~Psalms 17

I all things preseive integrity; and the consciousness of thine

own uprightness will alleviate the:

toil of business, soften ‘the bard. ness of ill success and ments, and give thee an a confidence before God, when. the

ingratitude of man, or the

of the times may rob thee of other reward.—Paley. 2

SIDE GLANCES.

By George Clark]

| ging business for himself.

taught him his ABC’s.- He can't read or write very well even today. But figures. Ah, figures are terms for money, and figures came easily for him. He can do figures in his head. John Claybrook was born fo save his money. He went into the logHe ace quired ‘land. His savings grew into a i and the pile into a fortune, ® » FJ IDDLE age approached, and his money, and his. piety, and ‘his pride in his own success, accumulated with his years. _ Then his wife died, and he mar= ried again. He was past 45 when his only son was born. I don’t know

whether it was an obsession right from the start or not—this determination to shape his son in his own image. The boy is 20 now. John is 66, He is still as sound as an oak tree, He devotes his time to overseeing, and to the multifarious task of making the son worthy of the father. The boy was inclined to be a lite

That tle wild. He ‘liked fun, and didnt

care for work. John sent him away to school in Alabama. But that didn’t last long. John: brought him back to the Arkansas farm, and put him to work in the fields. He paid him regular hired hand’s wages, But that wasn’t all. John evened things up for the boy. In school he had been crazy about athletics. So John built him a stadium on the farm and bought him a ball team. Yes, sir, actualy bought him a whole baseball team. The whole thing cost him three or four thousand dollars. The pro ball team is known all over the South today. ” # ” . HAT worked for a while. But the boy was wild. Tney couldn't get along. Four times in four years they have ‘broken up, and the boy has Jeft home. But each time he has come back. "But the boy is starting: to come around. He's showing an interest in the farm. He's developing. John has started to teach him to think along business lines. The fight isn’t over yet. But John Claybrook sees enough progress to encourage him. “A little incident full of meaning happened the other day. John and his wife had left the plantation over Sunday for a little trip. - They got back, unexpectedly, about 2 Sunday afternoon. All the hands, of course, had Sunday off. “We drove up in the driveway,” John said. “We thought the boy would be dressed up and sitting on the porch. But he wasn’t. “He was out in the field. . He had oh ‘his overalls, and he was down on his knees, scratching the ground with his hands, to po how the cotton was coming u “It made me sO An I just had to shed tears, right there.”

Today’s Science BY "SCIENCE SERVICE

EW happenings in science so + aptly illustrate the progress of the last century as do the ‘contrast between’ Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse’s

tween New York and Philadelphia. While ‘Morse’s telegraph clicked