Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1936 — Page 10

by EYWOOD.

EW YORK, July 6.—Let me begin by admitting that I am not a neutral. I'm for John L. Lewis. My partisanship does not come out of thin air, but rests upon some study of the situation in the steel industry. _ It seems. to me that a very heavy responsibility has been imposed upon the newspapers of America and that by their performance now they will be judged and will deserve to be judged.

I am asking for a broad conception of what constitutes news. The public will not be well served if American newspapers take the attitude that their only responsibility is to wait until overt acts occur and then print the names of the ini| Jjured. A good journalistic job re- “| . quires a great deal more than that. Now is the time for every paper worth its salt to tell the story of steel from the beginning and to relate as objectively as possible the story of the relations between capital and labor in this industry. : No reader can very well understand what may happen today or tomorrow unless he has had access to the background. Homestead is news again. To say that he can look it up in the library if he is sufficiently interested is a quibble. Nor do I think it a sufficient argument if any managing editor says, “But my readers are not interested in economic problems. They want murders and divorces.” Perhaps it is, in part, the fault of the editors rather than the readers if the general public has become accustomed to an unbalanced ration. But in any case all great editors have given their readers a certain amount of information they ought to have whether they wanted it or not.

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FoiucanLy enough, the first implied criticism of the coverage of the steel crisis has come from the employers and not, from the workers. The American Iron and Steel Institute began an advertising campaign ‘recently in some 375 newspapers in New York and other industrial cities “in the hope of reaching every employe in the industry.” It is said that the amount involved was approximately $200,000. If 1 owned a newspaper this would worry me, because I would say to myself, “Are these guys trying to show up me and my associates? This statement of theirs is news—red-hot news. It belongs on every front page in the country. Why do they insist on putting it in as advertising matter Can it be that we haven't given a reasonable amount of space to the important announcement from Eugene Grace and the other steel bosses?”

And then ¥ would push a lot of buttons and say to a bunch of young men, “Run out and get me a story from John L. Lewis. Get me a good long story. . Don’t let - him get away with ‘Nothing to cay at present.’ “You tell me to keep my shirt on, boys, but you don't understand the spot I'm in. You know me as Butch Knox or Bobby McCormick, but my name Just now is Mrs. Caesar, and nobody is going to put me under suspicion for a lousy full page ad. If it’s news it’s in the Bugle, and nobody has to pay advertising| rates to get it there. The first one back with a story of the union’s side of the contioversy gets a $25-raise in salary.”

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TILL, no editor should be offended at the somewhat tactless hint from the Iron and Steel Institute that a good story is as yet grossly underplayed in most American newspapers. There was a terrific furor all over the journalistic map about the war in Ethiopia, and star men were sent scurrying to the scene to get all the information they could. The impending struggle in steel is far more important to America and is likely to be infinitely «more dramatie; Only knowledge can avert bloodshed. If the American public is to get a clear picture of the issue involved the floodlights should be turned on now before the steel regions become armed camps and subject to complete censorship. I can see nothing partisan in the fervent appeal that the entire case for both sides - be stated immediately.

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

OF BOARD U. S. S. POTOMAC, Sunday.—I was up early enough for a swim in the pool at the Farmington Country Club yesterday morning. We were all delighted to find the sun shining and the lovely Blue Ridge Mountains looming up in the distance through a slight haze. At 9:15 we started for Monticello, and found many of our party had never seen the house before. Of course 1 wanted to act as guide and take them sightseeing at once. No other house is as interesting to me as this one, because Thomas Jefferson had such a creative, versatile mind and expressed it in a thousand little ways in the planning of this house, which was, I am sure, one of his chief diversions. I can never quite understand his aversion to having a staircase anywhere in sight. He evidently thought they .took up too much space and were not decorative. I wonder how anything was ever carried up those cramped little stairs in the wings at Monticello. Perhaps he was waiting till he found a staircase desighed to satisfy his fastidious tastes. On leaving Charlottesville we drove to Richmond through the city and down to the wharf, where we bade our kind Virginia hosts good-by. We started down the river at once, and we all discovered simultaneously that we were very hungry. Breakfast seemed lost in the dim and distant past. In the afternoon I sat on deck and read undisturbed for two solid hours. Martha Gellhorn’s book won't be out till next autumn. It is called, “The Trouble I Seen.” It is well written, almost too well written, if you want to preserve a sense of satisfaction with things as they are. : This is the first night I have spent on board the U. S. S. Potomac. When President Hgpover gave up the old Mayflower many people were sorry, but in many ways this ship seenis to me far more practical for the use of the President. In the first place she does not draw very much, so can be taken into the smaller rivers and away from the main ship channels. She is seaworthy and has no fancy decorations. PR is gray Navy paint, which makes 1

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MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis] Ind.

INDIANA

DISCOVERS HER PARKS

Dunes Serves Industrial Area; Pokagon Social Program Popular

(This is the fifth in a series)

BY TRISTRAM COFFIN : RAWN from the crowded, smoky cities of the Calumet district and from Chicago, hundreds of visitors will lie on the white beach at Dunes State Park and plunge into the chill waters of Lake Michigan next week-end. ~ Many of those who will sit beneath the warming sun, climb the shifting sand dunes and follow the trails into the brooding marshes will be factory hands and puddlers

from the steel mills. Dunes State Park was conceived to answer the social problem of providing healthy recreation for workers in the great northwestern Indiana industrial region and to prevent the spoliation of the natural beauty of the dunes.

The park is on State Roads 12 and 49, near Chesterton, 142 miles northwest of Indianapolis. In the northeast corner of the state is another state park, Pokagon. The Dunes is a battleground of the opposing forces of vegetation and the northerly winds that ceaselessly change the structure of the dunes. . 2 x = . IGGING their roots into the loose sand, grasses, shrubs and trees fight desperately for life. Only a short distance from the sweeping beach, vegetation boldly challenges the elements. ; On the edge of the beach are skeletons of trees and bushes that have been picked clean by flying sand. Often, young | trees are buried beneath the ever-shifting dunes. Paralleling the lake front and running along the beach for miles is a high ridge guarding the dunes against the destructive forces of the winds. The loftier dunes, Mount Tom, Mount Jackson and Mount Holden, are proof that vegetation has resisted the invaders, for these - dunes are held together by the tenacious roots of plant life. The small stones tossed up on the beach at Dunes State Park are washed smooth and round by the ceaseless surge of Lake Michigan. Working for generations together, the wind and the lake have ground out the sand dunes from rock and earth. The combination has built a perfect beach of smooth white sand. ” ® »

EHIND the dunes are densely forested areas inclosing a

~ marsh. Although two roads con-

nect with the park, the trails can be traversed only by foot. A guide map of the trails is furnished by the Conservation Department.

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The trails wander through the glades, skirt the swamps, push into areas with wild strawberries, blackberry brambles, wild roses, butterfly weed, tiger lilies sumac and cactus and lead to the beach and dunes. Like most state parks, the Dunes once were the center of Indian life. When the Indians moved off in 1833, there were several attempts to develop harbors at or near the Dunes to compete with Chicago. Three of these ventures, Indiana City, City West and New City West lived but briefly. ’ A movement to acquire the Dunes for a National Park was lost when Congress turned«to war legislation in 1917. but in 1919 Richard Lieber, who developed state park system, started the movement for a Dunes State Park. JA state tax-levy and gifts from private sources led to the acquisition for approximately $1,000,000. The United States Steel Corp., Gary, contributed $250,000.

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DAY, the visitor is offered all the facilities of a modern resort. The Pavilion serves food. Rooms facing the dunes or the lakes are available at the Arcade Hotel. Meals, rooms and cottages may be obtained at the Duneside Inn. In addition, there are camping and picnic grounds. Several large - industries have provided oup camps. Boys’ and girls’ organizations also have camps in the Dunes. - By providing sane recreation for the industrial section of northwestern Indiana and Chicago, Dunes serves the democratic purpose of the state park system. ® s EJ

OKAGON State Park on the shores of Lake James and Snow Lake is in the Steuben County lake district and is named after the famous Indian chief, Pokagon, who sold to the government a million acres, including the site of Chicago, for 3 cents an acre. Northwestern Indiana, and particularly Steuben County, is dotted with ifinumerable Takes that hundreds of fishermen. :

form a background for the park which offers fishing, boating and bathing in the summer and winter sports during the cold months. The park has many wooded acres, through which hiking trails and bridle paths wind, occasionally dipping down to the lake or crossing a hilltop. Along the lakes are shaded picnic and camping areas with shelter houses, cooking ovens, pure drinking water and modern sanitary facilities. Hidden away in the woods is the group camp leased during the summer by the Pokagon Boys’ Camp. Deer, buffalo and elk range in fenced pens, and a series of hatchery ponds in which thousands of game fish are propagated are points of interest. ”® ” s

OCATED near Angola, Pokagon State Park is on State Road 27, 166 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Potawatomi Inn, the park hotel, is open all year. The history of the acquisition of the park land is similar to that of other state parks. As the state park movement swept Indi- - ana, the Steuben Coulity Chamber of Commeree laid plans to establish a park on Lake James. The movement was taken up by Col. Lieber and the acquisition soon followed. . Facing two lakes and protected from the heat by a forest, Pokagon State Park is one of the coolest places in Indiana for a summer vacation. : Pokagon is particularly attractive to young people because of the social life at Lake James and ASL the other northeastern Indiana lakes.

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Lake James and Snow Lake

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‘Elk and deer are shown above placidly feeding in Pokagon State Park.in northeastern Indiana. Years ago elk and deer roamed wild

‘in the: territory. Skeletons of

Park in northwestern Indiana are shown in the lower picture. typify the battle between vegetation and sand at the park.

trees stripped by the wind and sand at Dunes State: - They: -

SWEDEN Fl

This is the first of six dispatches on economic conditions in Sweden ‘written by William Philip Simms, who went te that country to find out, first hand, just what it is doing and how and why.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP/SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor ASHINGTON, July 6.—Americans who condemn President Roosevelt for trying to give the rank and file a break should visit Europe. They should at least take in Germany, Russia, Italy and Spain—and then they should see Sweden, as I just have. dois In Germany, Russia and Italy they would find that things have already gone to one extreme or the other. In Spain, they would hear conservatives and reactionaries moaning: ; “It’s too late now for any middiz

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course. Fascism is the only. thing that can possibly save us from Bolshevism. We shall have to fight fire with fire.” In Sweden they would find the

answer. Sweden, they would learn, long ago adopted the middle course which Spain now dolefully regrets she overlooked. One week in this country would convince Americans that many of the things for which they curse Roosevelt are not only accepted institutions in Sweden but are among the things to which that country owes her salvation from the fate of Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain, While a large part of .the rest of Europe lives in fear and trembling over what may happen tomorrow, Sweden is serene, her living standard

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as high as ours and her prosperity the envy of her neighbors. She "has only 50,000 unemployed. And some of these, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson told me, are seasonably jobless. On a basis of population that would compare witi: a million unemployed in the United States instead of 10 or 12 million. ” » ” ONSTRUCTION in some areas, he said, has reached an all-time high. Homes, apartment houses, industrial and business structures are going up on all sides. Sweden’s budget is balanced at $250,000,000— equivadent, in America, to a $5,000,000,000 budget. And, instead of most of it going to pay for past and future wars, the biggest slice of it is earmarked for social betterment. I mean for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, an elastic public works program adjusted io take up the slack in the job situation, sick benefits and so on. A number of factors, national and international, have contributed, of course, to put Sweden on such an enviable footing. But here are two of them: 1. The government is in business «big business—both for “yardstick” and fiscal purposes, and its enter~ prises are profitable. 2. By public works programs, farm aid and other means of helping the

policy dating back to 1914 when the World War first dislocated her labor situation—Sweden cushioned the shock and so felt the depression less than others. Lo Swedes are among the most ardent lovers of liberty, economic, civil and personal, in the world. Yet the government has retained owner-

p masses tide over the depression—a italist might do, hires the best tech-

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and telegraph. A three-minute talk from Stockholm to Malmo, nearly 600 miles, costs about 18 cents, day or night. A full party line costs

‘about $21 a year.

The radio comes under the same general management—the Telegraph Board. This, however,. is

farmed out to a partnership com-

posed of the newspapers and the radio manufacturers. The government receives an annual tax of $2.50 per set, a third of which is turned back for programs. No advertisements and no politics are allowed —save on special occasions when all parties have an equal go at the mike. Tobacco is another government monopoly. In addition the nation owns most of its mineral deposits such as iron, copper, sulphur, silver and gold, in the mining of which she again becomes the partner of private industry. Thus Sweden has knocked into the proverbial cocked hat the favorite American bromide that governments can’t make business pay. In this country state enterprises are run as efficiently and as profitably as any other enterprise.

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HE formula is simple. Sweden keeps politics out of business. Graft is virtually unknown. She uts up the money, as any cap-

nicians procurable and tells them to go to it. In her competition with private industry, she is scrupulously honest. Each industry must pay its way. "It is fairly capitalized. No tax-money goes to support it. All the overhead any business encounters is added in. On all this there must be a fair return—nothing unsurious, but, say,

5 or 6 per cent. Which generally means a fair price to the consumer. Less sensibly managed, Sweden might be a poorhouse. Climate and nature have endowed her with the best of everything. - Nevertheless, sheer common sense has given her a standard of living equal to any. Having had peace for 125 years— her last conflict was with Russia when she lost Finland—her nose has not been kept to the. grindstone paying for stupid wars. Instead, old-age pensions, agricultural

aid, hospitalization, temperance and |.

popular education come foremost. Sweden has no illiterate class. But that is not the whole story. By providing so many price measures, every one of her 6,250,000 people benefits by an unusually low cost of living. "Thanks to these, they pocket hundreds of millions of dollars annually, or have béen able to buy just that much more of the things which go to make life worth living.

Next—Sweden, Land of Yardsticks.

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Washington RODNEY DUTCHER

(Substituting for Westbrook Pegler)

ASHINGTON, July 6.—The next big political date is July 23. Gov. Landon then makes his speech in Topeka, accepting the Republican presidential nomination. As the game stands now, the Republicans have had one shake and the Democrats have

had two and the Democrats have a horse on the

Republicans. The Landons wrote their party plate form at Cleveland and the Roosevelts have had two

grand chances to shoot at it—with the Democratic platform and the President's speech of acceptance at Philadelphia. No one is suggesting that Mr., Roosevelt didn’t squeeze out every last drop of the.advantage given him by the fact that the opposition took first crack. And no more convincing evidence of Gov. Landon’s shrewdness exists than the fact that he promptly refused to go to Cleveland and deliver his acceptance speech at the close of the convention there. He and his strategists are now in position to study the Roosevelt platform and speech, taking plenty of time to do it, and riddle it if they can. After Landon speaks, the campaign will be officially—and actually-—off in full swing.

Landon has a high mark to shoot at. The greate ness of Roosevelt's speech as a political document has been recognized by many Republicans as well as most Democrats and it will be h to produce anything of its kind which will surpass it or outdo it as a fighting declaration of principle.

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Landon Must Answer F. D. R.

ANDON'’S speech must be essentially an answer to Roosevelt, however, and it is logical to assume that it will attempt to throw many words back in the President’s- teeth, to exploit many New Deal faulty and mistakes in such way as to prove that Roosevelt's brave words can be taken as ne guaranty of performance. 2 The President’s stirring attack on monopoly, for instance, might well be answered by the charge thab monopoly and many of its practices have flourished under the New Deal, and that anti-trust laws have become more than ever a joke under the present Department of Justice. His reference to “other pebple’s money” might easily be used by Landon as a text for remarks on New Deal spending. « i

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Much Work Put on Speech

IMES and methods have changed since Lincoln ° wrote that famous address on the back of an envelop in pencil while riding from Washington to Gettysburg. 5 : The Roosevelt acceptance speech was written, then rejiggered again and again. Of the three men who worked on it with the President, two were among the most jmportant members of the original Brain - Trust which helped him prepare his speeches four years ago this summer. ; The third was a younger man who has risen rapide ly to a top role as a White House adviser and strate= gist.’ : : ‘ aly The master mind was Roosevelt, who watched and “listened. intently to the convention and changed the speech from time to time in accordance with what he considered variations in the mood of the convention and the listening populace. ; The high spot of the speech, which undertook to draw a major campaign issue between ‘the warmhearted leaders and the cold-blooded leaders, was not the President’s own idea. But it was he who insisted that people had been bored by the convention and that the speech needed two things more than anything else, dignity and fight. (Copvright. 1936. NEA Service.

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, July 6.—This year’s drought, which promises to be worse than that of 1934, has caused weather experts of the Agriculture Depart~ ment to get out their charts and ponder whether the United States is in for a permanent weather change, Two years ago their chief, Henry Wallace, made a statement that the 1934 drought was “such as we have never had in this country, and are not likely ever to have again.” : Henry was wrong, however, and the big. question mark in some people’s minds is whether successive droughts will gradually turn the Middle West into a Sahara. : Experts who study the weather charts say no. There will be no permanent change of climate. We are only passing through a dry cycle of our normal climate. Periods of recurring drought are not new. There have been five droughts of national impor- ° tance in recent history: 1884, 1901, 1930 and 1934. To compensate for recent droughts there probably will be excessive moisture for some time to come.

Rodney Dutcher

Inc.)

HE weather experts also have been doing research’ into the cause of drought, to learn whether it is man-made or nature-made. They have concluded that it definitely is a phenomenon of nature. What they say is that man has been mistaken blaming himself for droughts. During his second voyage, in 1494, Columbus noted in his log the daily showers in Jamaica, and reasoned that such showers were not enjoyed in the islands of Spain because “the woods are cut down that shaded them.” Forests, however, do not produce rain; they help_retain moisture. What Columbus should e noted was that the trees did not grow along Spanish islands because they got no rain. On the other hand, the denuding of forests and the plowing up of prairie grass has contributed to dust-storms and the quick run-off of water, so there is less reserve in the soil when drought does hit the country. : ” n n i CLE DAN ROPER'S Business Advisory Council, supposed to cement happiness and contentment between the New Deal and big business. has decided | to go into eclipse for the duration of the campaign. This decision was not entirely voluntary. It was more or less forced on the council at an unrecorded cenference with the President not long ago. Some of the’ business bigwigs on the council thought it would be a good idea to tell Roosevelt why big business couldn’t stomach the New Deal. An emissary was dispatched to Marvin McIntyre, White House secretary,

When this reached the ear of the President he hit would let them have a half hour when it could be

campaign