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MONDAY, JULY 8, 1936.

Give Light and the: People Will Find Their Oun Way

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WHILE WE SAT AT HOME—

HILE many of us sat at home last night listening to the splendid broadcast of the PhiladelPhiladelphians heard the concert in their comfortable Robin Hood Dell. Similar outdoor summer concert seasons are under way in Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Atlantic City and other cities.

These hot summer evenings should remind city

officials, when they draft the budget for 1937, that Indianapolis citizens would like to hear their cwn fine orchestra in a full series of outdoor concerts next summer.

WHAT! ANOTHER FLETCHER? E had high hopes after the nomination of Gov. Landon that at least one thing of dis-

. tinet value to the country had happened. This was

the appointment of his campaign manager, John Hamilton, to succeed Henry P. Fletcher as national chairman of the Republican Party. Under Mr. Fletcher's inept and blundering leadership, the minority party had become so ineffective as to lose almost completely its value as a check on Which is a bad thing under the two-party system. Mr. Hamilton looked like a very great improvement, Bul there are indications that he is yielding to that disease from which few party leaders escape—excessive talking. Talking at Chicago, Mr. Hamilton charges the Democrats with imitating the Republican platform and mentions the “sincere flattery of imitation.” “Hardly was the ink dry on the anti-monopoly

~ plank of the Republican platform,” he said, “when

Mr. Roosevelt suddenly deplored the evils of monopoly and added our pledge on this issue to his own platform.” A good many people still remember that the Cleveland convention adopted the anti-monopoly plank offered by Senator Borah—and that Senator Borah later admitted that he had merely submitted a plank from previous Democratic platforms because it was the best he could find. ” s ” N fact, the first sentence of the G. O. P. platform —reading, “A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable”—appeared word for word in the Democratic platforms of 1908, 1912 and 1924—and the entire Republncan plank was almost a duplication of the previous Democratic planks. Having taken their plank from the Democrats, there hardly seems to be much flattery when the latter continue to use the language the Republicans had borrowed. Then Mr. Hamilton charges the President. with

. willingness in 1932 “to risk a complete collapse of

the nation in order to gain the political advantage

_ and personal satisfaction of the dramatic upturn he knew was inevitable.”

That charge surely imputes to the President clairvoyant powers for which Mr. Hoover had struggled in vain. Time after time Mr. Hoover saw prosperity just around the corner—and every time Le mentioned it things suddenly got worse. But months before he took office—if we are to ‘believe Chairman Hamilton—President Roosevelt looked ahead and saw that there was to be a dramatic upturn, fi March, 1933. Whereupon he

pitched in to bring about a collapse prior to that in- _ evitable date, so that the recovery would seem all

the brighter by comparison. Now, honestly, Mr. Hamilton—isn't that a little

far-fetched for an adult audience?

You wouldn't want to get in Fletcher's class— would you?

LOUDER, BUT NOT FUNNIER

Tue tragedy of children burned and injured by dangerous fireworks hung over Indianapolis’

celebration of Independence Day. A T-year-old boy put a lighted firecracker in his

mouth and let it explode. A horse, frightened when

a firecracker exploded under it, threw and injured

its youthful rider: A defenseless blind woman was the target for lighted firecrackers. A policeman was burned when a lawyer threw a firecracker at him in Dozens of persons were injuted when firecrackers or torpedoes were thrown at or near they. Eye injuries were numerous. One boy

may lose his sight. The fire depattment made more

than §0 runs. In short, Indianapolis contribuied little, if anything, to the drive for a sane Fourth. The irony in the fact that 4044 Americans were killed and 6004 injured in the war for independence and 4290 were killed and 96,000 injured by Fourth of July fireworks between 1900 and 1930, does not seem to impress us. Up until two vears ago, Milwaukee firemen answered an average of 50 fire calls on the Fourth,

and in 1934, 190 persons were injured. Then the city.

by ordinance barred all shooting of fireworks. Last

year only four alarms were turned in and only five

persons were hurt. Other cities have legislated out the dangerous Fourth and still managed to get maximum enjoy-

} . ment from such public fireworks as the Sahara

Grotto display Saturday night. Until Indianapolis

SPEEDY HOOSIERS ‘EE track stars from Indiana University are lit- * erally running away with things. Three weeks

. ago, on a rainswept track, Don’ Lash broke Paayo

Nurmi's world two-mile record. Today, after taking the combined A. A. U. national championship and Olympic final tryout with the fastest 10,000meter race ever run by an American, and after setting a new record in the 5000-meter race, the Hoosier

Glaze JOUR, €xnirges 45 4. Potentially great Olympie

a ‘Caldemeyer, another I. U. runner, outd's-

tanced the field at the Princeton trials to win the

110-meter high hurdles in 145. seconds. Still sn-

WHAT PRI : who prefer children to strawberries will be interested in the following dispatch to the New Orleans Item Tribune: : “Baton Rouge, June 25—For the third time in 12 years the Louisiana Legislature today refused to ratify the National Child Labor Amendment. “Answering the pleadings of Rep. Charles Anzalone, Indeperidende, that acceptance of the child la"bor law would bring ruin and desolation {to Louisiana’s strawberry belt, the House voted to 9 to reject ratification of the amendment.”

LESSONS OF HISTORY

R. WILLIAM E. DODD is a noted historian. His vision ranges backward and forward over the centuries. So when Dr. Dodd, now the United States ambassador to Germany, says the world today is in “a dilemma unsurpassed in a thousand years,” his explanation of how that came to pass commands attention.

His logic is simple—that the erection of international tariff barriers choked down the free flow of commerce and led inevitably to the repudiation of debts, growth of national animosities and increase in armaments. And his solution is just as simple—lower those barriers and restore free interchange of the world’s goods. Recalling that the American colonies were able to pay the debt of the Revolution and the Northern states the debt of the Civil War only because the nations of Europe operated on a virtual free trade basis at the time, he goes further into - history to prove his point, ;

“From 1846 to 1860,” he says, “this country had

low tariffs and free trade, as did England, France and Germany. “Standards of livihg everywhere were rising; populations that had hardly doubled in 200 years now doubled in 30 to 50 years; western civilization ceased religious persecutions, permitted freer governments, and blessed the world with ‘Goethe, Emerson, Darwin and others.” Against this marshaling of the lessons of history to point the ¢ourse of the United States, we have the puny plaint of the Republican platform that the Roosevelt Administration’s reciprocal trade program—the first step toward foreign trade restoration which the United States has taken since the World War—is a “estrucive policy. |

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SAFETY WORK

HE traffic safety gains recorded in Indiana the first four months of 1936 have been wiped out. Many persons now dead would have been living today had the reduced fatality rate continued. But 111 motor deaths in May spoiled the record. During the first five months of 1936 traffic deaths totaied 419, as against 415 in the same period last year, and the high rate continues. On the other side of the safety ledger, the Indianapolis Safety Education Council reports no fatalities and few injuries to children at patrolled school crossings during 1935-36. Nearly half the accidents to school children occurred when they were neither at home nor at school nor on their way to or from school, showing unsupervised id is particularly hazardus. Adults are guiding children on the road to safety. Courses of safety study will be introduced ip Indianapolis high schools next September. ust we wait then for these young people to teach safety to adults who seem helpless to cope with the problem?

A CHART FOR RELIEF

C Pceay among social workers about the future

of the relief situation is widespread, according to Walter West, executive secretary of the American Association of Social Workers, .-an orgaiization of 10,000 professionals. As shown at the recent National Cotitirence of Social Work at Atlantic City and from resolutions passed by local organizations, West said, the social workers of America appear to be united Yoon free demands. These are: . 1. The absolute necessity of Federal its to the states for direct relief, in addition to provisions made through work programs. The so-called “unemployables” are in many cases not being cared for by either Federal, state or local agencies, he says. Conditions among many of these are declared as bad as when the Costigan-La Follette investigation in 1931 revealed the necessity of Federal relief action. 2. Establishment of the merit system in manning the various local, state and Federal social welfare and security services now being set up. There is a feeling of alarm, says West, over the types of political personnel now being forced upon these highly specialized programs. 3. A long-term unemployment and relief program. The social workers: are practically united in urging that a thorough and nation-wide study b: made of the whole relief picture. “Our association is on record for a nonpartisan, fact-finding and policy-guiding commission to be named by the President at once for helping Congress to handle the situation more intelligently,” he said. These social workers have made a close study of a situation whigh needs attention.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson HE layman who is entirely unversed in medicine usually turns himself over to the doctor with as much "trepidation as he turns his car over to.a mechanic. For the doctors, like the lawyers, haye befuddled us with language. When they get started on their

high falutin technical terms we never know what

they are talking about. Which is one reason why the quacks get such a hold on public attention; they speak generally in one-syllable words. For the average person wants to understand how his body functions and what the diseases are that afflict it. Taking it for granted that the average patient. is a “bewildered patient,” Marian Staats Newcomer has given! that title to a new book which will prove an excellent medical manual for any household. It covers almost as much ground as the old-fashioned almanac: Resistance to disease; diagnosis; planning the family nutrition; keeping fit; home care of the sick; and in a very able fashion it links together our physical and psychological ailments. To my notion the best chapter is that called “Choosing a Physician,” in which a number of puzgling points are ‘cleared up. It speaks frankly of the necessity for getting good doctors and how to go about it in & strange city, deploring the false economy practiced by so many who try to save

. money by using cheap medical aid.

There 1s great need for complete confidence between the patient and his physician. Dr. Newcomer believes, as many of us do, that much depends on

that confidence and on the personal contacts between the two, That is to say. the individual must :

‘facade.

By. . ANTON SCHERRER

HANT NOTE: The Tree the Golden Rain at the en-

trance of the Herron Art Institute | B=

burst into bloom the other day. 2 22 = There's a great stir on the inside of -the Herron, too, for unless I miss my guess Wilbur Peat has dug up

as nice a collection of prints by

American etchers as anybody can | =

find anywhere. All the big names are represented —Whistleg, Pennell, Bellows, Duveneck, ‘Bacher, Roth—and ‘there is one print, in particular, by Herman Webster, labeled “Sur Le Quai! Montibello, Paris,” which is® worth ! lingering over even longer than the rest. Herman Webster always. struck me as an etcher not fully. appreciated in this country. Europe acclaimed him long ago but, for some reason, America has never warmed up to him. I don’t know why, unless it is that we like paintings better than we do etchings. So much so, that we demand a painter's way of looking at things even in our prints.

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Else, why is it that so many modern prints look like transcribed paintings? What's more, why do S0 many painters, when they attempt etching, give themselves away? ; ¢ Mr. Webster's prints looks like nothing except what it is, which is another way of saying that it shows .an etcher’s intention. ‘Its fine sense of design, dignified simplicity and rightness of relation: squares with an etcher’s point of view. And certainly its manner is so straight-

forward, so free from hesitation or |

vagueness of purpose, that it leaves nothing to be questioned. » It is® impossible to have any doubt -about' the capacity of an artist who combines such a right sense of esthetic responsibility with

uch correctness: of technical’

accomplishment and who satisfied so well all the demands that can be made upon him.

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AY while I am in the neighborhood, I might as well tell you about the two huge chunks of stone on the facade of the Herron Art Musem. They look like unfinished business, and that’s exactly what they turn out to be. When Bernhard Vonnegut and Arthur Bohn were commissioned to design the building some 30 years ago, they set out to do a bang-up job and among the things they had in mind at the time were two heroic figures at either end of the south When the bids ¢ame in it was evident that the statues had to go. It almost broke the building committee’s heart, It almost broke the architects’ hearts, too, and there’s no telling what might have happened had not the architects’, resourcefulness come to the rescue. For it was they who persuaded the building committee to pay for two huge chunks of stone to be built into the wall as an integral part of the building, hoping that some future set of directors would take the hint and release the sculptural splendor imprisoned therein. Twice in a pzriod of 30-odd years, two different sets of directors took the hint. Once, George Gray Barnard, Hoosier-born, was called into consultation. Mr. Barnard, in fact, made a sketch for one of the figures and reckoned that $10,000 would be about the ‘right price. There is no record that he ever set a price for both figures necessary to complete the job but if I know anything about sculptors*I should say, off-hand, that it was in the neighborhood of $20,000. Two or three years ago, during the early reign of the Roosevelt institution known as PWA, the matter came up again, but it faded out. Some of the directors didn't iike to be hurried and recalled the time it took to build the old cathedrals; some couldn’t reconcile the cheap price of PWA labor with the past behavior of artists and some were just plain .anti-Roosevelt. One director opined that she had looked so long at the unfinished hunks of stone that they now i0oked. good to her. Which, when you come to think of it, is about all there is to this thing called art, after all.

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Q—How long does it take to make a telephone connection between New York City and Berlin, and

{ how much is the toll? °

A—Connection can . be made in 3 minutes. The toll charge is $33 for three minutes between 5 a. m. and 5 p. m. and $24 between 5 p. m.

and 5 a. m. A report charge of $4 is made if the party called can not be located.

Q—What is a tangelo? by crossing the grapefruit and the tangerine.

‘Q—What is the Jewish population in Sweden, Denmark and Norway? A—According to the latest available information Sweden has 6465; Denmark, 5947, and Norway, 1457.

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(Times readers are invited to erpress their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short. sn all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed. but names will be withheld on reauest.i » 2 a PRAISES ROOSEVELT’S

SPEECH AND METHODS By Hiram Lackey

President Roosevelt's acceptance speech has the spirit of Lincoln, Jefferson, and everything else that is worth while. In breathless wonder, one is gripped from its first to its last sentence. One is held by the spell of its fineness and simplicity. Surely the inspiration for this deathless literature is from the same fountain as that which gave life to Chief Logan’s immortal letter to the Governor of Virginia. Seldom do we find anything so filled with human interest. President Roosevelt certainly made no mistake by following the example of the successful Mr. Henry Ford in surrounding himself with college-trained advisers. It is easy to see why our Republican friends fear the subtle brain. trusters.. This speech which. climaxes the greatest convention in American history, will win 2,000,000 votes for President Roosevelt.

Tn 2 » BELIEVES LUDLOW'S BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL By James C. Barnett

With adjournment of the Sev-enty-fourth Congress, Congressman Ludlow’s war referendum measure died in°' committee. Perhaps this bill was conceived in all sincerity, but it so obviously is unconstitutional that it is small wonder that

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

HEN a baby is sick, the firs thin to do is to make certain of the nature of the ailment. For this, a doctor must be called. - Do not take illnesses lightly, as most of the common infectious diseases begin in just about the same way. The child who is listless, drowsy, flushed, and breathing with difficulty is obviously a sick child. The one who is alert, smiling, and playful is more likely to be healthy. A child who looks well probably feels well. It is not absolutely safe, however, to trust merely to the appearance of the’ child as a sign of

its physical condition. It is much |

better to know with certainty than to take a chance. An adult is able to say something about the state of his health; not so the child. The examination of |, a sick baby, therefore, is much more 31 Hea than the examination of an a Specialists in diseases of children are compelled to make their diagnoses on the basis of their own observations, helped somewhat | by the advice of an intelligent mother or nurse. .

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mother: or nurse, but because of their constant familiarity with the condition of the child, they know better than the doctor, who is called for the first time, whether changes are

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not. enough signatures could be obtained to discharge it from the rules committee. It iolates Section ‘VIII, Article I, of the Constitution. Many people believed that this measure could be enacted. But it couldn't. The idea of a referendum, a delegation by Congress of its power to the people as a whole is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. This one instance tends to disprove that the recent Congress was trying to undermine the Constitution. The recent Congress truly represent the people as a whole. But that gives us a corresponding evil tonclusion.: Since the war referendum measure was not considered seriously, can this mean that the people as a whole are not averse to participation in another foreign war? Or can it mean that with the recent tendency of .the people to look to the Federal government for a solution of current problems, they were misled by Congressman Ludlow’s referendum measure? Not, since the Civil War have we had a war on our own territory. Does the antipathy of the recent Congress to Congressman Ludlow’s measure indicate that we are having a difficult time enduring the peace? That was Spengler’s idea.

2 ” ” DICTATORSHIP? : WANTS AMERICA TO, SAY ‘By the Rev. Daniet Catrick Do the American people want a dictator? Have all the administrations and president of our constitutional government been a failure? And is it true that Mr. Roosevelt alone is sufficient to guide the destiny of this nation into the right path? And is he a “superman,” the inspired leader? What do the records show during his administration? In past records, Washington was Lincoln was the Great Emancipator. McKinley was the saint, and Theodore Roosevelt was the hero of the

the great hog-killer and cotton destroyer, and records show he had burned up thousands of . tons of meat that the hungry and needy could have - eaten, and plowed under acres of cotton that could have been used for clothing, and he has had control of prices: of food and has been dictator over the farm land and has had thousands of men employed digging holes in the ground, then another hundred Drousang employed to fill up the les.

ship? Let America answer the

question.

a2 na =» FLAYS NEW DEAL

AS UNDEMOCRATIC By Paul Masters, Anderson

The voters of America should stop to consider the source of Rooseveit criticism, and if they do, they will find it coming from sound thinking men of all parties. They will realize that there must be some reason for this dissension in the Democratic ranks. They will dis~ cover that the reason lies in the unDemocratic action of Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal.

Democrats of America, it is high time you ceased being silent onlookers in your party. It is time you purged yourselves of the un-Amer-ican . an un-Democratic ideals of Mr. Roosevelt and his brain trusters. You will have your chance in November. Will: you continue to be puppets of the New Deal, or will you rise to the occasion and throw off the yoke of Farleyism and return the Democratic . Party to the people where it belongs? You must make the choice. There is but one way to clean up your narty and that is to vote against ‘the New Deal in November. Wake up, Democrats of America!

IMPRESSION OF A LIFE : BY LON PERRY Day. Heat— : Shrilling telephones— Clanging, discordant symphony of traffic— Cash registers— Glaring sun— Men and women with tense faces—

Night. An open door— A quiet room— Coolness— Your smile and dark eyes— A bridge of words between your thoughts and mine— Then ; Your hands curve around my head And hold it to you— Peace. . . .

DAILY THOUGHT

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.—I Peter 2:15.

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SIDE GLANCES

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ASHINGTON, July 6—Good-by to you, my little old car. Ina’ few minutes I must go and drive you away for the last time. Trading you off, selling you down the river for a shiny new hussy. I don't know whether I can do it or not. I feel like a dog. ; ‘You look so sad and weak, sitting there ready to go away. 1 know; you're thinking of the things we've been through together, You've never let me down, have you? You've been so much like me. We were both so proud that first day we marched down the road together three * years. ago. Remember how you purred, and I drove you gently, because you were mine, and I didn's want to hurt you? Remember up there Canada malady

attacked your steering gear, and you could hardly bear to turp a corner, and it took every ounce of my strength to steer you around the mudholes and through traffic? : But every time we'd get within

| yelling distance of a garage, you

remember what you'd do? You'd pull yourself together, and when the mechanic would get in to test you, you'd steer like a feather. » ” » 2 EMEMBER that time down in south Texas, when you just: up‘ and died, as cold as a turkey? And I got out and raised your hood, and after seeing the engine was

still there I didn't know what to do

next, so I just got back in and stepped on the starter. And you laughed and started right up. Remember that? We did take a hunk of dirt as big as a walnut out of your gas pump at the next town.

But you just did it to scare me, didn’t you? You've seen a lot of country that most cars don’t see. And you've had some pretty full experiences for an automobile, now hayen’t you? Remember that blizzard. in Mississippi? Yes, in Mississippi, of all places. How we drove all day through snow and freezing mud, and it just didn’t seem possible you could keep on pulling. And how when we got into Brookhaven that night, the garage man said you had 400 pounds of frozen mud / under your fenders, and it was sticking out behind for two feet, like these new streamlined models? And do you remember that time - the whole gear shift lever came right out in my hand? And when I put it back in everything was mixed up, and reverse was high gear, and low was second, and I had to call a garage to get you straightened | out? I'll bet you chuckled a week over ‘that.

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2 ” ” UT you know the thing I love you. most. for. The time we hit that hole in Mexico at 50 miles an hour. You showed what was in you that day. You took it standing up, and you stayed up. I guess any other car would just have rolled over and died that day. But nob

you. You've been 12,000 feet high, and 80 feet below sea level. And you've seen 20 below zero and 110 in the shade. And you've been ‘through cloudbursts and snowstorms where I couldn’t. see your radiator cap. We've ridden so far and so long’ together, and we've been to such funny places, and we've been so terribly close to tragedy, and things have looked pretty dark for us, but somehow we always came home together, didn’t we? So there you sit, waiting to go. 1 know you wish you could sneak off somewhere and hide, don’t you? It

:l makes me sore to be feeling sorry

for you, but that’s the way I feel. And sad, too. If I were rich I'd just turn you out to pasture, like a horse. But I'm not rich. I stand -and look at you, and I see back over our far 35,000 miles together. We must go for the last ride. Good-by to you, my dear little car.

Today’s Science

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

NEW and unusually difficult. L feat in engineering is cone" fronting the Department of Raile ‘ways of Japan, with the construce tion of the Kwammon' tunnel under 'Shimonoseki Strait, which is 1200 meters wide and 20 meters deep. The Kwammon tunnel will be the first undersea tunnel. ‘It will bore beneath the strait which connects Inland Sea with Genkainada Sea and Yellow Sea. The need for such a tunnel is’

place; and, besides being dangerous, the trans-shipment of goods and people is expensive, gon ean time-consuming . With