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STREAM POLLUTION
j fight against stream pollution has made { headway in Indiana during the last year. The
gains have been tangible, if not spectacular. With the help of Federal funds many cities have built
sewage disposal plants. The Federal project for a addition fo the Indianapolis plant should re2 the pollution menace on the White River. But the major task of cleaning up Indiana's 5 and streams lies ahead. There has been no gown so far under the 1935 anti-pollution law. it was only fair that municipalities, manufacturers nd others be given a reasonable time to remedy heir situations. Educational work has been carried on with cities, Li arly to improve sewage disposal systems. it tests of the new law are being made. : 2 8 =n \VEN more important is the move to deal with llution on an interstate and national scale. “Indiana has taken a prominent part in the move‘ment.and President Roosevelt indicates he favors establishment of a national policy on the subject. i Recently, Gov. McNutt, Gov. Martin L. Davey . ‘of Ohio and Senator Alben W. Barkley (D., Ky.), “in separate visits to the White House, enlisted the President's backing for the Barkley-Vinson bill un-
der which the Federal government would aid states in fighting stream pollution. The assistance would :
“be through loans and grants’ for construction of . purification plants. The bill passed the House but © failed in the Senate. It probably will be reintro- ~ duced next year. .. The Ohio River Valley states should continue to push this anti-pollution fight in the next Congress. ‘Health authorities declare pollution has become such ‘a health menace that formation of a national policy should be delayed no longer. The proposed measure would create such a policy by authorizing compacts for fixing state assessments, by establishing a special division in the Public ‘Health Service for conducting examinations, and de- _ claring a policy of extending Federal aid to states, ‘municipalities and private corporations for purification works.
: ” ” » WEEN important streams run through cities a pollution problem often is created. When «these same streams flow through several states, the method of preventing pollution becomes more com_Plicated. Obviously, the states affected should act together on the problem. The interstate compact appears to be one answer. ~ © This would not solve local pollution problems, ‘but it might lead to a wholesale program of purification that would force a cleanup of situations
where untreated sewage or other material is pollut-
ing lesser streams.
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A FOUR-DAY TRIBUTE
ER the glaring lights of Tse great auditorium the Democrats last night re‘nominated Franklin Roosevelt. ir It was a great show—though the outcome had been foreordained for lo, these many moons, and therefore was lacking in surprise. It ended in a saturnalia of yelling, tooting, sing‘ing, dancing Democrats. Deep organ tones playing “A Hot Time”; a brass band blaring “Onward Christian Soldiers”; scrambled tunes competing one with the other—+“Cool Colorado Is Hot for Roosevelt,” “The G. O. P. Ain't What It Used to Be,” “Happy Days Are Here Again,” “Twelve Long Years,”
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“The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You,” “Maryland My
Maryland” vying with “We Are Here From Maine’ ‘Shouting Roosevelt's Fame.” Cow-bells, horns, “mixed with “California Here We Come,” “I-Oway,” “The Party With a Soul,” all dinning into consternation a bewildered jackass ridden by a florid-faced
It was a splendid demonstration of the fact that ‘Democrats, unlike Republicans, possess an infi capacity to “emote.” Republicans strain and are wkward in their effort to generate enthusiasm; seldom are they able to surpass that which exudes from a country banker when approached for a chat1 Joan. Only once during the whole Cleveland convention did the occasion call for rising to one’s feet d standing upon the precarious pine boards that 2 provided for the press. But in Philadelphia, ime after time, jaded and cynical correspondents, of many such a spectacle, climbed atop desks to peer over the multitude and join in demonstration. "The Philadelphia convention, in its superficial was the annual shrine, the Army-Navy the Rotary International, the World Series fat stock show, all rolled into one; the sme realization of the sweetest dream that ever to the couch of George F. Babbitt. In the superficial aspects, we repeat. But, down derneath, the convention was four long days of ie to the man who four long years ago was
d into the nomination for just about the
ighegt job as President of these United States ever encountered, and who, with the same ncy. and the same high and smiling. courage th which he met and licked his great physical met and licked the paralysis with which country was stricken on the day when he asd the presidency.
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“THE BITTER ONE” LEXIS MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOV was the
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ALS toriling a finish as you can hope to see in tournament play yestertlay gave the Indian-
_ apolis femifiine golf title to Miss Dorothy Ellis, Me-
ridian . Hills. The 22-year-old Butler University graduate sank a 45-foot putt on the third extra hole to triumph over Miss Harriet Randall, Hillcrest star and a Butler co-ed.. It had been a see-saw
match all the way over the Indianapolis Country.
Club course. This week's championship meet of the Indianapolis Women's Golf Association added greatly to local interest among women golfers. A record total of 76 entered the competition. Success of the tournament was a tribute to Mrs. Ben Olsen, association president, and her committee. While she did not enter this year, Miss Elizabeth Dunn deserves credit for increasing interest in the sport. After winning the local women’s golf crown for 10 successive years, Miss Dunn voluntarily retired this time to make sure the title would be passed around. The Indiana Women's Golf Tournament will be played over the same course here July 13 to 17, with a record entry of 130 expected. Miss Dunn, who has won the lasf three state matches and has won six times in the last 10, will defend her title. Indianapolis women also will compete in the tri-state tourney at Cincinnati next month and ip the Western Open at South Bend in August, when Patty Berg and other nationally famous women golfers will play.
POLICE RADIO NETWORK EARLY seven years ago Indianapolis became the fourth city to operate-a police cruiser car radiotelephone system. Next week, after months of experimentation, it becomes a key city in a nationwide radio network to combat crime. : Capt. Robert 1. Batts, police radio supervisor, played an important role in working out this_elaborete new system of police communication. The system’ supersedes a cumbersome network that linked cities in more than half the states, operated slowly and unsatisfactorily and kept the short-wave channels congested. Under the*new setup, the united crime-fighting forces of widely scattered cities and states can be marshaled quickly. The criminal not only will have the radio-directed mobile units of city and state police to evade, but will face the fast action of the inter-city radiotelegraph, transmitting tips, warn-
ings, descriptions and details of crimes between -
headquarters from coast to coast. Capt. Batts predicts the results will compare in degree with the results of the local radio operation, for which a 57 per cent decrease in crime since 1928 is claimed. &
T= new network partly p a police criticism voiced by Arthur C. Millspaugh in a recent Brookings Institution survey of “Local Democracy and Crime Control.” Mr. Millspaugh charged that “no state has yet seriously attempted to integrate its numerous crime control agencies into a single, centrally commanded, technically equipped, mobile, and effective force.” He cited Minnesota's 94 city police departments, 630 village and one borough departments, 87 sheriffs and their deputies, the state highway patrol unit and three other state law enforcement bodies, to show the multiplicity of agencies trying to control crime. This situation is repeated in most states, with hundreds of local units fighting crime, each independent of the others and of the state. The new radio network should help integrate the police activities of large cities. Further logical steps would be to unify policing and prosecution in the 10cal units;
* THERE 1S ONLY ONE
~HIS generation may ‘never know another states- .
man as strong as George W. Norris and so. it is not surprising that men and women of all parties and from all states should unite in demanding that he remain in public life.
It takes a rare combination of circimstantes and
human material to shape a man whose convictions can not be made to waver by any manner of persuasion or threat, whose patience persists through any number of years, whose courage in fighting
never fails.
Lesser men try harder and accomplish more be-
cause they have known George W. Norris. Without him—Iliving proof that integrity and selfless devotion
to a cause are not just empty words—this country would be poorer, not only by his own achievements but by those he inspires. “We talk about the executive arm, the legislative arm, the judicial arm of the government, but these can give noyreal and permanent security unless we have more men like Senator Norris in our public life,” said one of his Democratic colleagues, Senator Bone of Washington, a few days ago. * “He must not go from our midst.” He was voicing the thought of thousands of Americans in high office and in humble homes. Senator Norris is needed. He will always be needed.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson OMETHING ought to be done before the radio becomes an intolerable nuisance instead of the pleasure and benefit it was meant to be. Owners, entertainers and advertisers might well put their heads together over this problem, since it may Mian their bread and butter in the future. Why can’t people who really enjoy the radio dis ing leisure hours be protected from the everlasting, infernal blatting that goes. on now in most public places? Have you ever allowed yoiirself to become radio conscious? If not, try it sometime. You will find that drug stores, restaurants, shops and shoe-shining parlors, resound with the noise of the air waves. Above the clatter of the dishes in most eating places, whether fashionable hotel or hole-in-the-corner hamburger joint, the radios roar and nobody listens. Drop into the first corner drug store and turn your attention to the useless din. There probably will be small groups of men and women eating, or sipping cokes, making purchases qr perhaps loafing. In a good many instances they will be trying to talk to each other, but they can’t make themselves heard above the voice of the loudspeaker which rises and falls and beats against ‘the walls like the surge of breakers on a rough shore. ‘Baseball news, stock market ‘reports, political speeches, or the virtue of some particular tooth paste; _crooners, torch singers, blues wailers, or bands. You can hear everything. Bui the chances are nobody else wib Like the croaking of frogs to the countryman or the roar of motor traffic to the urbanite, the public radio makes no dent in our consciousness, even though it is loud enough to split the ear Grums. Naturally this condition can have but one result. The time will come when sensitive individuals reach a breaking point. Their home radios will never be used because they'll be so sick of the clamor they are forced to hear outside. The insensitive person on the other hand may turn his dial, but, being so ac-
+ customed to hearing without heeding, ail the pro-
grams will pass over him and leave no more impres- -
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Y=IIRDAYS column men- ' tioned a letter written by Jacob Schramm in 1836. Today, it may be worth while to pursue the subject, if only to show with what courage one of the earliest German families met and solved the physical and economic difficulties of this community a hundred years ago. The 25,000 word letter, translated by Mr. Schramm’s granddaughter, Mrs. Emma Vonnegut, was pub-
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torical Society and forms a precious part of that 20eigy’s Joog. lise oi publications. Jacob Schramm was the younger son of a gentleman farmer and hop dealer in Bavaria. When he was 15 his father sent him to Bohemia to carry on the hop trade with an older brother. He was soon managing the business himself and in
representing a gross profit of $7500, which was pretty good for a boy.
mind to m His father didn't like the idea, thuch less the girl, and threatened to disinherit him. He didn't, of course, but it started the young man thinking about America. At any rate, as early as 1830 he sent a friend of his to America with $1400 fo buy ‘land and establish a homestead. In the meantime, Ja-
his’ choice. Five years later, he determined to leave Germany. With his wife, his 3-year-old daughter, his old father-in-law and a 12-year-old serving maid, with all his belongings in boxes and trunks, with a
considerable amount in cash and some 70 hundredweight of salable merchandise, he embarked at Bremen on Aug. 3, 1835. (Not the least of his load was a library, including Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Jean Paul, Shakespeare, Herder, James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving.) ® = = ATES 78 days of sailing and seasickness on a three-mast-er, the party finally saw land. Mr. Schramm, in his letter, takes pains to chronicle everything else he saw on his voyage, including a variety of fish “usually called porpoise” which were “as big around as the biggest oxen.” Mr. Schramm didn’t stay long in New York because he wanted to find his farm which he had reason to believe lay somewhere in Indiana. To get there, the party took the ‘Hudson River boat for Albany, thence by canal boat to Buffalo, a trip that consumed 7 days. They crossed Lake Erie to Cleveland, a voyage Mr. Schamm never got done talking about because “it cost $6, although it lasted only 30 hours.”
went canal-boating again—this time across the whole state of Ohio to Portsmouth, where the canal ends in the Ohio River. A steamer took them to Cincinnati, where they felt more or less at home because of the many Germans there. A frightful wagon journey over corduroy roads through forests and swamps brought him to his homestead only to discover that his friend had tricked him. Twenty acres and two pitiful cabins were all he had to show for his $1400 investment. ”» » = HE rest of the letter tells how he went in search of a new home; how he almost settled in Lukensbord (Logansport); how "he traveled on horse back all the way to Sout-Bend (South Beng) and how, finally, he returned to the neighborhood of Indianapolis because he liked it. land, he acquired 1920 acres of good soil with sugar maples, walnuts and red elms almost ready to cut. “The earth is splendid,” he wrote. The whole outlay came to $2671. “If it is ready for cutting in five to sell it and get at least double for it. With the rest of my money I hope to buy stocks that will pay 10 per cent. It is evident all through his letter that Mr. Schramm conceived his American adventure for the purpose of amassing a fortune and with the possibility of Teluniing to Germany as soon as possible. Instead, he spent the rest of his days here; fighting and whipping his big farm into shape. Which leaves me just room to say that Jacob Schramm’s grandson still lives on the old homestead near Cumberland and retains the original land grant.
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ANDERSON WRITER REPLIES TO TOWNSMAN By Joseph A. Dickey, Anderson I have been much amused by the letters of my fellow townsman, Paul Masters, especially his letter of June 20. He says: “Great men have. always arisen to the aid of America in time of great need,” and names Calvin Coolidge as such a man. Yes, Calvin Coolidge did come
upon the scene at a time that de-
manded a man who was able to see that the purchasing power of the people was diminishing year after year, and that thé people were exhausting their credit in reckless investment. In place of such a man we had Coolidge, who said, “The price of stocks has not gone nestly high enough.” Mr. Coolidge increased the running expenses *of this government 100 per cent. The country required an active man, not one who dozed for seven years as did Calvin Coolidge. Calvin Coolidge’s 1924 platform pledged his party to do something
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ROBLEMS involved in the care of infants and children in summer are related primarily to the change in temperature. Heat makes changes not only in our bodies, bu} in the foods that we eat and in the conditions. which surround us.
factors to be controlled in summer are those concerned with the food supply. Milk should always be put in the refrigerator as soon as possible after it is delivered. In summer it is safer, for the health of babies, to boil all milk, whether or net it has been pasteurized. Boiling will destroy | harmful germs which may be present. Ability of the baby to digest food is diminished during hot weather. It is, therefore, customary to cut down somewhat on the amount of food given the child. This may be done safely, because there is less demand on the body for production of heat. Amount of the feeding is reduced anywhere from one-sixth to onefifth of the usual quantity. With very small babies usually it is better to cut down the strength of
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to place farming on a parity with industry. That was the only vital plank. What did he do about this?
By the way, Mr. Masters, why do you not name Franklin D. Roosevelt as a man who arose in time of need? Do you know where this country was going in 1932? Of course, Mr. Roosevelt has spent money, but it is acknowledged by all authorities that this nation’s income has increased from 40 billion Mollars under Hoover to 60 billion dollars under Rqosevelt. Mr. Hoover's 1928 platform promised to reduce the na-
‘tion’s debt, but instead increased it.
Now this ‘Landon “prairie fire.” I believe, Mr. Masters, that I am able to observe political frends as well as any one in our town, and I must say candidly that I have not. been aware of any such conflagration as you talk about. You ‘say that Landon ‘had’ “no powerful political interests to push Have you forgotten that the Landon movement did not really get under way until the William Randolph Hearst cavalcade visited Topeka?
it can undermine the merit system. It is defenseless on any grounds. 8 = = ~
JUVENILE COURT MOVE
IS COMMENDED By S. A. F. : It is significant that the Juvenile Court judges of the country are seriously considering the organization of a national association cf members of their profession, in an effort to improve. the work of this particular judicial branch. The juvenile court was created to meet a special ‘need in our social structure.. Unfortunately, however, says Judge Harry L. Eastman of Cleveland, it has continued to concern itself only with its immediate needs and problems and has neglected to develop “a Hla) sighted philosophy of its. place in
the social welfare pattern.”
‘It has been said repeatedly by social workers and criminologists, judges and attorneys that the work of the juvenile court is of first importance in crime. prevention. Any move to improve this vital unit of
‘government is heartily welcome,
Hearst is strong for Landen, and ive
so I am for Roosevelt. I'm for the
man ‘who saved this country from |
despair, who saved the farms and any more of the times of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, which James constipation.” POLITICAL REPRISALS A By A. A. B. Political reprisals invariably mark punitive machinery is getting in motion earlier than usual—starting returns. Already one state ‘chairman, rephas announced that all state employes ‘who failed to support the charged. for disloyalty. “That’s usual, of course,” ex-
homes of the poor. I don't want Truslow Adams calls “12 years of ALREADY STARTED an election year, but this time the in fact, oh the heels of the primary resenting a major political 5] Governor in the primary will be displained this particular politician.
“The "boys who are not loyal will
have to go. That does not apply to civil service, naturally. Neither is this a
But what else is it? Surely the |
wholesale dismissal of state -employes, because they choose to. vote as they: please, looks no better in America than it does in Nazi Ger-
Morebver, one of the certain dangers Of this infainons practice is that
SIDE GLANCES
- truth; Thy word . Johm 17:17. :
‘WAY BACK
BY JAMES D. ROTH
‘Remember when we trudged the ‘dusty road?
‘Barefoof, and dust squeezed between
our toes, “ re And patches on our clothes were sewed; Sometimes we hid in the tall torn ° TOWS.
‘With frayed straw hat that shaded
freckles, A stick in hand to plod the way. We thought not then of fame or ' shekels, But just another happy day.
How fleeting are the golden hours, In the richest time of youth; And by and by we meet with showers; Old Age is calling, with reproof.
God grant we anchor to His truth That comforts an aching heart.
Though We can not: bring ‘back our
youth, We're satisfied till we depart.
DAILY THOUGHT
Sanctify them through Thy is truth.—sSt.
HERE is no no fit search after truth which does not, first of all, begin to live the truth which it knows.—Horace Bushnell.
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Tus HRs workoplay boise : has been in existence only a few months. They got it going the lat ter part of the winter. Two men are responsible for it— John K. Jennings, the district ree lief director, and James R. Newcom, city recreation director. To begin with, they had to have some place to put the women on work relief. There was an - oid abandoned furniture factory, which had been standing empty for years. So the rélief people cooked up an arrangement. with the owner whereby they could have the building without rent, provided it were put cn the tax free list, which it was. The building is a block long and half a block wide, four stories high, made of brick. Relief workmen cleaned it up, fixed the furnace and the lights. Today all of Evansville's. relief activities are in this one building. One part is given over to relief— "offices, storage rooms for food, sew=ing rooms (800 women sew in here), carpenter shops and so on. All the rest, which is the biggest part, a for. recreation. E = EJ
WENT all through the lace in the afternoon ' with Director Newcom, getting the details. At night I went back, among the crowds, to get the feel of the place in action. Roller skating was the big attraction. There’ must have been 300 people, skating around and around, as on a speedway. The roar of the rollers drowned out conversation. : More than half the skaters were girls. Most of them wore long besch pants, or ski pants, and sweaters. They skated gracefully. There was only one beginner on the floor. He kept falling down, but nobody seemed to mind, and he didn’t either. An orchestra played while theskaters ‘skated. ‘Boys skated with girls, holding: hands, cross-armed. Two attendants, in uniforms caps, skated constantly around the oval —always skating backwards, slowing down anybody who got to going too fast. Imagine being able to skafe backward for a whole STening: without even looking back.
T= Chief “ Police says. that since the Recreation Center opened, juvenile delinquency has been cut 50 per cent. That seems a pretty optimistic figure to me, but even 10 per cent.would be worth while. Directo Newcom says if youll make a place attractive enough, people will come in off the streets. Two nights a week they have dancing instead of skating. It is the biggest dance floor in southern Indiana. One night they have regular dancing, the other square dancing. On square dance niglis the crowds average about 45 years old, although a lot of young people are learning the square dances too, And while the dancers are dance ing, or the skaters skating, people are having fun all over the building. One room is full of ping pong players (the tables and paddles were made right in the building, by relief workers), another is full of peo» ple at tables, playing cards or checkers, others are practicing arche ery, and so on and so on. . From 6 until 10:30 at night, the Recreation Center is the livest, gayest, happiest spot in all Evansville, I recommend it to all cities that don’t know what to do wiih Shai
people.
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