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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1036.

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FATAL POLITENESS you knew somebody might put poison in your soup, you wouldn't hesitate to refuse an invitanto his house for dinner. : But many people are “too polite” to refuse to ' ride\with a reckless driver. I; it sensible?

| FREE FUNNIES OST of our readers, we'll wager, never have + thought of the National Association of Manu-

Hut politics does strange things—and the latest it has (done is to cause that erstwhile organization of * big business men to offer free comedy to the Amer- : * can public. fe have a letter from the “Six Star Service” of York—whatever that is—offering a new daily comic feature entitled “Uncle Abner Says,” entirely ‘free of charge. “The cost of this service is met by the National Association of Manufacturers,” says the offer. | Uncle Abner is a farmer of the typical “hayseed” type) and each day he utters rural cracks against the Administration, high taxes, etc. “A liberal is a feller who is that way with other people's money,” opines Uncle Abner in one of his “daily offerings. “Eph Watts has perfected a bran’ new kind o’

" he declares on another day. Some folks want to check gov'ment spending gnd others want to spend gov'ment checks,” he declares in the outlines under another drawing. Heretofore readers have at least been able to turn to.the comic page with the assurance that it was from politics. But not so now—with the Nationgl Association’ of Manufacturers growing comicminded and seeking to slap the New Deal with free funnies.

: | M’CARL’S CRITICISMS : The Administration can not lightly ignore Controller General McCarl’s criticism of the wastefulngss of emergency New Deal agencies. Nor can it ‘= shrug aside his statement that the regular govern- { doarmens are in need of a sensible reortion to eliminate needless duplications, conand complexities. is true that McCarl [climbed into the .con-

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jdent Harding gave him the job, largely because of the good showing McCarl made as secretary of

1920 elections. It also seems to be true that url now is about to return to the partisan arena. g his political leanings by no means justify ig-

ig what McCarl says. For the fact remains that

For 15 years it has been his job to keep

| procedures within the letter of the laws of Con _ And few will deny that McCarl has done his job well, 8 ” i” NE of the first accomplishments of the Roose- | velt Administration was a complete overhaul- .. ing pf the then existing government machinery. © Under authority of the Economy Act, overlapping

.. consqlidated, and. expenses were cut to the bone. hen almost overnight a vast new bureaucracy < was thrown up to carry out the New Deal’s program _. for nieeting the economic emergency. Speed and vigor were the needs of the hour, ana with speed and vigor came recklessness and waste

: They were unavoidable in that hour of crisis - when the Administration had to keep all of its

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t there is, wd believe, no excuse whatever for continuance of these agencies in the extrava*s and looseness to which they have become too ~ readily accustomed/and which, as McCarl says, “are , tax-donsuming in fthe extreme.” : Al general shaking down long has been overdue. Those which have proved their worth, such as the AAA! and CCC, should be established on a permaand more economical basis. Others, -such as certain functions of the Resettlement Administration,| which have proved Blipracticable, should be liquidated. We can not agree with McCarl that temporary activities should be assigned to regular establish- - ments. Temporary functions, once frozen into the Te bureaucratic setup, have a way of becoming permanent. 5 b mest the more permanent New Deal activities oe the regular gévernment machinery and to make - the whole more economical and efficient—this is the next and perhaps the hardest task before the evelt Administration. A congressional commit"tee, headed by the tough-minded Senator Byrd, is at work on a plan. McCarl has tendered his services to thie committee. The undertaking is worthy of all the talent and experience that can be enlisted.

! | PRAIRIE TREK Every youtns—members of the seventh anhual Prairie Trek of the Children’s Museum— this week are on their way to New: Mexico to exthe lava beds of the Zuni Mountains. Under the supervision of Hillis L. Howie, Orard School director, these boys will eat and sleep and live out of doors for the next two months

and plant life, Indian relics and volcanic tions of the region. Points of natural beauty : fe Cantos wil ke vighet, The whole trip is ined to. resourcefulness, alertness and

in the youths, 504,10 give Shem § Pras.

* ‘Roosevelt a rededication of efforts to accomplish not

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from the world in which they have played a useful

THE MOTION IS IN ORDER AMUEL R. GUARD of Spencer, Ind. editor of the Breeder's Gazette, in a letter to the Hoosier Forum, moves that an effort be made to bring the 1937 National Dairy Show to Indianapolis. Mr. Guard says officials of the show, which is being held at Dallas this year after many years at St. Louis, are looking for a new and permanent home for the exposition, i We hope Hoosier dairymen, business men and others will follow up the suggestion to join in a campaign to bring the show here and make it an annual attraction at the State Fairground.

- “STORM OVER THE CONSTITUTION” -

HE Supreme Court. decision nullifying the New York minimum wage law for womeh and children climaxed a series of conservative rulings and stirred public indignation. It caused Alf M. Landon, the Republican nominee for President, to promise a constitutional amendment, “if necessary,” to get needed legislation. And it brought from President

only this, but other reforms.

A vivid picture of the Supreme Court struggle which thus figures in the 1936 campaign is given by Irving Brant in “Storm Over the Constitution,” published this week by Bobbs-Merrill.

Mr. Brant does not find the Constitution hogtying economic and social progress. Go back to the spirit of the framers, he urges, and there will be no need of amendments. “The implications of national power are broad enough for national necessity,” he says. “The power is in the Constitution. . « « The Supreme Court can be a weapon of social and economic reform, as readily as a refuge for industrial and financial malefactors.”

The author declares the narrow constructionists and state rights advocates of today stand with the handful of framers who in 1787 refused to sign the Constitution. He says: “The doctrine of state rights, in the twentieth century, is a defense mechanism of great corporations and industrial fortunes against governmental control. If they escape Federal control, they escape altogether. “The drive toward the new federalism, which began in earnest with the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887 and is still breaking into new fields, is the reply of 125,000,000 people to the subjugation of the states by 200 corporations which own half of the nation’s wealth and exercise control through the interlocking activities of a hundred men. “The use of centralized democratie political power to break down centralized financial power is the only possible answer of the American people to their feudal masters. If that answer fails, the end is fascism, and fascism is the end of democracy.”

THE GREATER DICTATORS

OT even his enemies will gloat over the pain Premier Mussolini suffers as he sits at the bedside of little Anna Maria, his 7-year-old daughter, who lies stricken with infantile paralysis and pneumonia. For three days now the haughty ruler of Italy has kept vigil, humbled by fear of greater dictators than himself. He has conquered Ethiopia and defled the League of Nations, but he quails before the

Now “the proud setter up and puller down of kings” is only a sorely tried father, stirred by the same conflict of hope and fear that tortures all parents everywhere when their children are very sick.

FAILURE AT VINCENNES (From the Evansville Press) HILE the memory of the magnificent - cere= mony in Vincennes still is fresh it is well to reflect that the high adventure, extolled by orators and commemorated in everlasting stone, was not the end of the story. : " Francis Vigo, who advanced for the conquest of Vincennes, came to the end of his good fortune. In

money from the young nation he had served. Father Pierre Gibault, whose eloquence and ex= ample swung the French settlers to the colonial cause, attracted the. disapproval of his superiors and lost his pastorate. Without means in his declining years he was refused a gift of five of the broad acres he had helped to gain and he ended his days, neglected, in the Spanish territory of St. Louis. ‘And George Rogers Clark, in his eagerness to win an empire, neglected to keep his accounts straight and was held personally responsible. We thrill at the mention of these three names; but ‘were they alive today they would be considered what they must have been considered in their final years—failures. Failures, by all standards which, in our scramble for material things, we hold dear. Failures because they lacked cunning to protect their own interests; because they neglected to seize for themselves some of the vast wealth that lay within their grasp. But for a while they felt the real joy of life. There is tragedy here; but it does not concern these three men, Vigo, Gibault and Clark. , The tragedy is on a grander scale and concerns the vast majority of us who, with earthbound gaze, nqver can achieve their glorious Sriumph, nor even fully sense its meaning.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ISCONTENT plagues every life. The other day I listened to the tirade of a successful business woman. . Nothing made her so impatient, she said, as the complaints she heard daily from the home bodies who seemed always pining for something to do. “I've had to make my way in the world,” she warmed up to her subject, “and how hard I've worked nobody knows. Besides educating a son I supported my mother for 10 years. I'd like nothing better than a chance to stay at home, cold cream my face, do embroidery or cross-word puzzles and have a foursome in for bridge twice a week. The whining women in comfortable homes make me tired. 'I want to shake' them until their teeth rattle.” Here is an honest and in many respects a valid anger. No doubt she sincerely believes she would be happy to exchange her work for loafing. But ‘she’s only 40 and the chances are if she were ‘down at home to play the leisured lady she'd ready to tear her hair “out in three’ “months. . Active like “active men, never are satisfled to exist in a state of inactivity. Detach them

part for many years, separate them from the tensemess of office lite of the contusion of Mdusizy and ; There are thousands of adjustments to be made in a lifetime, but the adjustment from

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Our Town By _~—. ANTON SCHERRER

ITH almost anything happen-

criticism, and no telling what will turn up next, it is of considerable importance to know what State Li-

of Shakespeare—at least, that part represented by “Twelfth Night.” Dr. Coleman is in a. position to tell us something about Shakespeare, because he has just reread “Twelfth Night.” The circumstances. that led Dr. Coleman to do what he did are worth repeating if only to show how untoward incidents sometimes leave their mark. For, if the truth be told, Dr. Coleman. probably never would have gotten round to a rereading of “Twelfth Night” had not his daughter, Martha, had the good fortune to be cast as the clown on the occasion of the presentation of that play at Wells College less than two months ago. All of which is by way of saying, if you haven’t already guessed

1it, that Dr. Coleman's rereading of

Shakespeare was prompted by nothing more than a sense of parental duty. ‘® 8 = VEN so, Dr. Coleman is the last man I know to have read “Twelfth Night,” and the only reason I know so much about it is because I couldn't help hearing what he told Prof. John 8. Harrison about it the other night. To come to the point quickly, Dr. Coleman told Prof. Harrison that he didn’t think much of “Twelfth Night.” He cited any number of objections, but the one that left the

1 deepest dent on me was his poor

opinion of Shakespeare's use of painful puns. This is interesting: First, because of the implication that puns have a proper place in literature; and, second, because of the inference that Dr. Coleman doesn’t subscribe to the time-hallowed theory that the worst puns are the best. I realize, of course, that Dr. Coleman is in pretty good company—in Charles Lamb's, as a matter of fact—when he calls for good puns, but I can’t help wondering, neverthe less. Leiden Brought up as I was and baptizetl in the belief that a pun to be good must be bad—as bad as Will Shakespeare’s, if you will—=I just can’t help jumping to the inevitable, and, I might add, logical conclusion that the worst puns-are the best. 8 8 = AKE what a cultured = world considers the prize pun— Charles Lamb’s, “Presents endear absents,” for instance—and grant for argument's sake that it is a pun and what have you? A thing so pure and unsullied and devoid of punch that for all practical purposes it might as well be a moral wrapped in cellophane. I grant that it’s a nifty and a pretty good one at that, but I won't go a step further. A real pun—a Shakespearean pun, if you please—is something altogether different. For one thing, it’s made of raw material, the rawer the better, and it shows it. It runs the gamut of the gamin—at any rate, it doc:a’t run any further like some cultured puns I know. If it were otherwise, why have all the major humorists from Aristophanes to Mark Twain always pictured the nether world as an inviting place full of low puns and good company? If Dr. Coleman and Charles Lamb hope to get the pun into Heaven, they're shouting up the wrong alley—that’s all I can say.

Ask The Times. Inclose'a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken.

| Q—To what church does Gov. Landon of Kansas belong? - A—Methodist Episcopal. Q—What is the comparative length and tonnage of the new steamships Queen Mary and Normandie? A—Queen Mary, 80,773 gross tons and the length; 1018 feet. Normandie 82,000 gross tons and 1029% feet long, after recent alterations.

Q—Where in the Bible ls the Golden Rule? . A-—-St. Matthew vii, 12. Q—When was - the Flatiron Building in New York City completed? A—It was ready for occupancy in the autumn of 1902.

' Q—What is the origin of the word Eskimo? . © de from the Indian

Q—Where can records of immigrants . who entered the United States in 1825 be obtained? = A-PHoin the § commissioner of

bor, Washington, D. C. hs DAILY THOUGHT

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neighbors south of the Eskimos and signi- | fies “people who eat their food raw.”

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short. so all can have-a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letier must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

2 8 = NEW DEALERS ARE NOT DEMOCRATS, HE SAYS By Lester Gaylor

A great deal .of clamor arises un-American New Dealers since Alf Landon has stated he believes in. an amendment to the Constitution, if such action is necessary. They are saying in effect that if the Republicans demand a constitutional amendment, why do they make so much noise and stir up. so much opposition : when the New Dealers demand the same thing? The difference, fellow Americans,

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS : FISHBEIN ORE and more Americans are learning to avail themselves of summer resorts and camps for suitable recreation during the hot, months. A large hotel devoted primarily to the recreations and dissipations of adults is not the best place for a child in the summer. Under these conditions the' ¢hild’s food can not be supervised properly, because the menus are planned primarily for adults. The great size of modern resort hotels makes it diffieult for the parent. who can not afford a special nurse to maintain suitable isupervision over the baby or the growing child. Most modern hotels are ‘supplied with fresh milk and good water, but the child in a large summer hotel is likely to eat a great deal of candy between meals, to indulge too frequently in soft and sweet arinks, and to upset its eating and digestive habits. For the child's welfare, a summer cottage or a small hotel is preferable to the great summer resorts. Many mothers and fathers arrange to give themselves a two-month vacation in summer by sending the chilThese - now are under state supervision in ‘many | places. The best camps also have doctors and nurses in constant attendance, as well as suitable educational and recreational instruction.

TN selecting a summer camp, parents should make certain whether the camp provides sanitary con-

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| ditions, food, medical attention and social conditions at least as good

as those that the child has at home. Parents should make certain that health hazards are under Suitable control. A good camp provides for proper disposal of sewage, elimination of dust and crowding, and prevention of fire hazards. In areas where there are many insects, particularly mosquitoes, good camps will be pe vided with mosquito netting and filer methods of controlling insect e. Particularly important in the summer camp is the ‘water and food

is a difference of purposes. The undemocratic, un-American, uncivilized Roosevelt New Deal intends to destroy the American Constitution and American freedom. Its purposes are wholly selfish, vicious, hidden ‘and undermining! Never since the New . Deal “sneaked” into power has it presented its real purposes to the American people! Is that democratic? ‘It never was before 1932! Before the present Administration, Democratic leaders at ‘least made an effort to play fairly with the ‘American people. ' Has - ‘the word “honesty” been stricken from the. Democratic dictionary and the word “fraud’” substituted? Practically, every word and promise made by Mr. Roosevelt has ‘been a “scrap of paper.” If you are a genuine Democrat, you will have no affiliations whatever with the Roosevelt ‘New Dealers, because they are absolutely and positively not Democrats.

. os 2 o JOHNSON SEES WAITING GAME FOR DEMOCRATS By Hugh S. Johnson I once agreed with Mr. Farley's prophecy that this is to be a dirty campaign. Signals changed.. It is going to be a season of sweetness and light—at least until one side or the other decides to change strategy again and lay down a baitage of dead cats. For the next few weeks it. is apparently Democratic policy to let the enemy do all the leading. The voice of Tugwell will be heard no more in the land. Some muchneeded vacations will be taken by principal shining targets. Prof. Frankfurter seems to be absent from the country. Only a few speeches are scheduled for the dog-days, and they will be in the high and rarefied atmosphere of noncontroversial dissertation on the history and high purpose of the republic. : This seems to be good sense. Gov. Landon is an unknown quantity. Until he defines himself, attacks are foolish. The Republican platform is a target too indefinite. It will be what Landon makes it, and until he makes it something, there wiil be nothing to shoot at. As for the Governor himself, it is of.no use io say Wat he is an un-

known or an amateur. His candidacy will make him the best-known man in the country, and there are no professional Presidents. If is to no purpose to dig at his record be-

cause there is nothing harmful to disclose. In br the Democrats are going to have Yo wait prayer-

fully for the “breaks,” and try to

avoid blunders themselves by doing | and saying as little as possible.

2 » 8 NEW RADIO PROGRAM TO AID SAFETY DRIVE

By Martin M. Clinton, Director Indiana Traftic Safety Forum

For more than a ‘year American newspapers and radio stations have waged war on careless, reckless and drunken driving. Saner operation of vehicles is now a national goal. Last month, the Indiana Traffic Safety Forum was formed to co-

| operate with Indiana organizations

active in safety promotion. The

| management of WIRE has given the

writer a quarter-hour “spot” each week for an indefinite period. It will aid the members of the Safety Forum if listeners will address. their comments to WIRE. Thursday, an original play, “Supper With Satan,” prepared by members of the Indiana Traffic Safety Forum, will be presented at 1 p. m. with Miss Betty Anne Brown of the Federal Players in the leading role. Other cast members are Sergt. Edward F. Moore, Stephen D. Crain, Edwin Hobson, Russell O: Berg, Lorraine Abbitt, Jack Hendricks and the writer. This broadcast has been arranged in co-operation with the Mayor's office. ;

SERMON IN SONG;

BY JAMES BROWN I want to be lovely while I'm young, I want to blossom as a flower; I want to catch life’s singing melody And be happy every hour.

I want to sing and grin and play, I want to laugh and smile. I want this sighing world to know I'm happy all the while.

And then as older years come on I'll have no sad regrets, For in this sphere of ours There is no place for one who frets.

SIDE GLANCES

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BY ERNIE PYLE

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.

ASHINGTON, July 1.—A lot of people drive their autos as much as 29,000 miles in a year. But not many people during that time cover -38 states, five provinces of Canada and 10 states in Mexico. That's what I did. Ain't 1 wong ful? And during that time, I have to change only one tire! Picked up a rusty nail on a gravel road In Louisiana. I've used two sets of tires. Traded the first set after 15,000, althoug they were still pretty good. second set still is all right. The greatest improvement motoring, it seems to me, has in tires. It is inconceivable to mie how any substance can stand up under what my tires have been through. Ten years ago I drove “around the rim” of the United States. Nine thousand miles in six weeks. I didn’t keep count, but I'm sure.d changed 30 tires on that trip. I do know I changed 13 times in one forenoon, just east of Seattle, where some one had put tacks in the road. i ” 2 HEN 1 started this “roving reporter’s” job, I stocked up with various accessories that I had read in a magazine a constant motorist should have. I got— A set of chains, a tow rope, & flashlight, a box of fuses, two extra light bulbs, ‘a fan belt and a tire

pump. I wore out the chains, and bought another set. I've never needed the tow rope for myself. But I stopped to pull a fel= low out of the ditch in New Mexico ulled by own tow rope right in two The Fite Plug has been indispensable, and I'm still using the

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' T've never needed the light bulbs, nor the fuses, and I wouldn't know how to put in a fuse if I had to. The fan belt. Oh yes. Down in Oklahoma about a month ago, my old belt started stripping off. The loose pieces would whack the inside of the hood, like beating a bass drum. About every half mile, I'd have to get out and cut off a piece. But it held till we got to alittle” garage. And then I turned that car inside out trying to find my extra belt. I knew it was there, .but I couldn’t find it. So I had to buy another one. And as for the pump. T've never needed it. But one day, runfmaging under the seat for my jack to help a fellow out, I discovered two pumps.

I already had one, and-didn’t know

it. Anybody want to buy a good : pump Shap?

OME salts Hive Sy high a taxes. In Arkansas it’s 7 cenfs a gallon. The best marked city for a tourist, in my opinion, is Pueblo, Col. The best marked state is Iowa. Kentucky is .among the poorest. Ohio, a rich state, has terrible main highways. The wildest drivers on the roads have Illinois tags. Y In more than 300 days of driving, there has been only one day wh I had an appointment at a efnite time. It was in southern Indiana, and an old school friend ‘whom iI hadn’t seen for 13 years was going to meet me at 12:30 for lunch . in a town along the way. I started in plenty of time, and it was only 60 miles away. But in that 60 miles my brakes caught fire, and I had to stop and have them loosened; the gas pump .got dirt In it, and we crippled along .on half a motor for miles; and then, just as we werd almost: there, we hit ah unexpected six-mile gravel road detour. We 'got there 15 Minutes late, in a frenzy. In 29,000 miles, I have run out of gas twice. Both times, as far as I could figure, thieves had syphoned it out the night betore.

Today’s Science.

BY SCIENCE SERVICE 2 OU—anybody—can be a member of Alpha Omega, an honor society not yet founded, but proposed by President Max Mason of the Rockefeller Foundation before the recent semi-centennial celebration of the scientists’ particular so= ciety, Sigma Xi. You do not need to be devoted. to the life of science, as sre the members of Sigma Xi. All that is required of the Alpha Onfega “pledge” is that he (or she) shall be dedicated to the scientific way of living, That means that you will have to give up your pet superstitions, your carefully c predilections, your wavering but still stubborn beé-

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proposed op it?” and the answer, be Is wil be gisuncuy 4 § Iragen nity of the - & Such an attitude of scientific skepticism is needed in these days to probe and test the ground whe structures of mass action are to built, Dr. Mason intimated. : “Our civilization can advance the art of living is enriched by pplication of

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