Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1936 — Page 14

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NEW YORK, July 8. —One fallacy which came- out of Cleveland seems to have - - been nailed in full flight. Even the most ardent Republicans must admit by now that John D. M. Hamilton was born with a pew-

ter knife in his mouth rather than a silver tongue. - : I thought the one he gave before the Republican finance committee in Chicago was particularly inept.

Chauncey McCormick, who presided at the dinner, did not make it any easier for the guest by making a long and intemperate speech himself. After comparing the President of the United States to Uriah Heap, Mr. McCormick exclaimed. “The difference between the two contending parties can best be illustrated by a comparison between Dirty Campaign Jim Farley "and the Honorable John D. M. Hamilton!” Hamilton trotted out that old and somewhat involved explanation of the depression which blames it all on world causes and the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. You have heard this before, but don't stop me. Herbert Hoover, by dint of prodigious effort, stopped the depression in July, 1932. Unfortunately, it was necessary to hold a national election that year. Mr. Roosevelt was unpatriotic enough to run for the presidency. Very soon it became evident that he had a chance to be elected. This inspired fear and destroyed confidence. ‘The people themselves realized that they were going tn vote for Roosavelt, and, gosh, how they dreaded it. They knew that they intended to rebuke good old Herbert Hoover, who had just led them out of the wilderness, and the more firmly they became rooted in their treachery the more frightened they became,

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: ” ” ” Asks “Wild Visionary” to Aid HEN the votes were counted and it was ascertained that Roosevelt had actually been elected by a huge majority the worst fears were confirmed. People began to take their money out of the banks. “I may have. voted for this baby, but now that he’s won I'm certainly going to keep my money in a sock,” was a familiar saying at every crossroads. Bu! more than three months were to elapse before this man who had broken all public confidence would actually take office. In order to aalm the minds of everyhody Mr. Hoover suggested that the wild visionary who upset recovery by his eampaign speeches he immediately called in as an adviser in a sort of unofficial coalition government. , - “The reason for Mr. Roosevelt's unwillingness to Join with - Mr. Hoover still remains unexplained to him,” said John D. M. Hamilton. “In the face of this lack of explanation there is only one possible conclusion—that he was willing to risk a complete collapse of the nation in order to gain the presidential advantage and personal satisfaction of the dramatic upturn which he knew was inevitable as soon 2s the situation of divided powers was brought to an end by his own inauguration.” ” ” » That Horse and Buggy Again UST why does Mr. Hamilfon think that the upturn , was inevitable as soon as Roosevelt came into office? Surely that was not the opinion of industrial leaders at the time. In another portion of his speech Mr. Hamilton cited an assertion that the New Deal has taken the American business man out of the _ “red” and replied severely, “It was never my impression that it was the function of government to take the American business man anywhere. But if this is so why does Mr. John D. M. Hamilton insist (that Franklin Delano Roosevelt should have rushed over to business with a helping hand before he had any constitutional warrant whatsoever? Truly there was a period of divided powers between November, 1932, and March, 1€33, as Mr. Hamilton has stated. But if Mr. Hamilton will stop to think he may reme’aber that the unfortunate condition was caused by a horse and buggy provision in the Constitution. The lag between election and inauguration was literally on a stagecoach arrangement. The Norris amendment has ended that. But certainly Alf will stand for no further tinkering with the vehicle, and I think he ought to tell John to move over and let the candidate do the driving.

‘My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EEDSVILLE, W. Va., Tuesday.—Contrary to my last experience in West Virginia, the day dawned bright and sunny. Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Pickett, and Mr. Fletcher Collins, one of the teachers in the Arthurdale School, who were on the train last night, all got off at 7:20 at Fairmont. We were met by Mr. Glenn Work and taken directly to his house for breakfast. Mrs. Work's little girl, 7 years old, came down to show us her baby doll after breakfast. We were told that since the doll had become a member of the family, little Patty could not go to sleep without having the doll go to bed also. The doll was the gift of a very lovely person who came down to visit not long ago. I have often thought since how much this woman's thoughtful understanding has meant in this community. She has only been here a few times, but shé€ has provided for innumerable families in the mining region nearby. She has given things which they wanted and needed, but which they would never have asked for and could not obtain for themselves. Only her thoughtful observation translated into action obtained these things; and she sent them down as remembrances of her visit. \ After breakfast we all drove over to Mr. Fletcher Collins’ house, where we were to hold a meeting with the West Virginia committee, which has accepted the responsibility of helping the Arthurdale School. It has become necessary, tcom Miss Clapp’s point of

view and mine, to make certain changes, and we .

wanted to discuss them with the committee and set the machinery in motion for a transition period. We will have a meeting this afternoon with the homesteaders to tell them of our decisions and discussions, and to get their suggestions. I am flying back to New York tonight from Pittsburgh, and hope to sleep in my own apartment this evening. | : (Copyright. 1936, py United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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INDIANA DISCOVERS HER PARKS

The seventh and last of a series.

» TRISTRAM COFFIN E key to a lost civilization that once ruled North America may be found in the Indian mounds of a state park only 40 miles from Indianapolis, the State Conservation Department believes. Almost all trace of the livess and habits of the mound _ builders who lived in North America long before! Columbus discovered the | continent has been buried by the ages.

For years a noisy merry-go-

round stood on the center of a

rare mound in an amusement park near Anderson, before the true prehistoric value of the area was discovered.

- With the help of the Madison County Historical Society and the county government, the state was able to convert the 251 wooded acres in and around the amusement place to Mounds State Park. The park is on State Roads 67 and 32. It offers hiking, fishing, camping, horseback riding, picnicking and nature study to the visitor. Meals are served at the pavilion. ” n ” OST archeologists believe the mound builders were migrating Aztec tribesmen from antient Mexico or ancestors of the American Indian wh® made their way to North America from Asia. Eventually, this civilization was wiped out by more savage Indian tribes. The mounds are a remaining relic of the culture of this lost race. Indiana was in the path of the mound builders as they went to the Great Lakes for copper and west and northwest for ornamental bear’s teeth. One school of archeology describes the mound builders as a

part of the cultured Aztec civili-

‘zation, and another group says the mound builders were merely forefathers of the American Indian and had no highly developed culture. The key lies in the rarely found mounds, and the Great Mound at the state park is said to be the largest and best preserved example in Indiana.

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¥ destruction, eatly road builders cut through the center of one of the old elliptical mounds. Near the Great Mound is one of the rare “fiddle-back” mounds on which the amusement park merry-go-round was built. Altogether, there are traces of 13 mounds in the park. One or two are distinctly burial mounds, found at a distance from the - ceremonial or domiciliary

~ mounds. The Great Mound, with its circular embankment built - around a conical form, may have

been the high altar for human sacrifice, according to the Conservation Department. The park area was once the

~ Prederick Bronnenberg farm. Part

of it he sold to the amusement company, but the remainder was preserved with its many forest trees, shrubs and wild flowers. The Conservation Department now is being urged to have an archeologist explore the mounds fof traces of the ancient builders. Some believe that excavations might reveal an important phase in the prehistoric culture of Indiana.

1. This group of pheasants at the Pulaski-Jasper serve near Bass Lake Beach State Park is waiting

Key to Lost American Ci vilization May Be Found in Indian Mounds

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2. A proud, gaily-plumed fowl is the male pheasant. This is one of

thousands at the preserve.

' propagated at. this preserve.

3. An experiment in breeding the chukar partridge (above), a native of the Western states, is being tried at the preserve. 4. A familiar sight to Indiana hunters is the quail. Hundreds are

N State Road 10, just off State

Road 29, is Indiana’s twelfth state park, Bass Lake Beach, a 10acre strip along the popular lake. The state fish hatchery is across the lake from the park. Only 17 miles away is Indiana’s largest venture in preserving wild life, “the Pulaski-Jasper Game Preserve.

So tame are the bass at’ the hatchery that they follow their feeder around the water’s edge, P. J. Laverty, superintendent, said. The hatchery, one of five operated by the state, produces bass, bluegill, rock bass and game fish. Spread over 5000 acres in Jasper and Pulaski Counties, the game preserve is on State Road 43, just off State Road 10. So popular has it become that the state recently provided a picnic area and shelter house for visitors.

Conservation: club particularly, travel from all parts of the state to sze the 13-acre pheasant inclosure, believed to ke the largest of its kind in the country; the 400 acres of restcred marsh; the quail, rabbit and raccoor: broods and other wild &nimals. \ n ” ”

VERY animal that is or once was native to Indiana as it was known to the early pioneers can be found in corrals. Elk, deer, bobcat, lynx, bear, minx and wolf specimens are included. . Surplus deer are sent to state

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parks and forests in southern Indiana. Currently, the JasperPulaski preserve has a surplus of elk, and conservation officials may decide to send some of these handsome antlered animals to other state properties.

Wardens at the preserves are excellent animal trainers and Mrs. Virginia Weddle, wife of the Brown- County preserve’s super= > intendent, could teach Clyde Beatty some tricks.

In addition to fraining minx and weaning baby wolves on a bottle, Mrs. Weddle has taught a bear to roll over by splashing it with water from a hose. The bear is so happy to be showered in hot weather that it rolls over with delight. The 400 acres of restored marsh in the Jasper-Pulaski Game Preserve is a paradise for wild fowl, and migrating birds live there

throughout the winter. Wild rice has been planted in the marsh to provide them with food. 2 ” ” HE state park system has accommodations for three pocketbooks and three tastes. The family that likes to stow a tent in the rumble seat or hitch a trailer behind the car can live in the refreshing atmosphere of the state’ parks for only the cost of admission. Cooking and camping facilities are available. The family that wishes to hide away in a state pa#k cabin for a week or two may do so by paying a modest fee for the privilege. Cabins and cottages are well equipped with living room, kitchen, bedroom, screen-in poreh, stove, furniture, running water and electric lights. Rental of cabins ranges from $1.50 a night for one person to

$31 a week for eight persons. For two persons, the price is from $2.50 to $3 a night. For a week, a couple may get a cabin for from $10 to $13.50. Half rate is charged for children under 8 years of age. Meals at the hotels or pavilions cost from 40 to 50 cents for breakfast, 50 to 75 cents for luncheon and 75 cents to $1.25 for dinner. Those who enjoy nature without

wanting to participate :too thor= |

oughly in it can put up at the hotels and inns in several of the state parks. ic At Turkey Run. rates for each ‘person, with meals, are $2.75 to $3.75 daily and $16.50 to $22.50 a week; Pokagon, $3.25 to $3.50 a day and $21 to $22.75 a week; McCormick’s Creek Canyon, $2.75 to $3.50 daily and $16.50 to $21 weekly; Clifty Falls, $2.50 to $3.75 daily and $15 to $22.50 weekly, and Dunes, without meals, $2 t6 $2.50 daily. ,

SWEDEN

(This is the third of six dispatches on economic conditions in Sweden).

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor ASHINGTON, July 8.—Despite the fact that it was Saturday and the Riksdag (Parliament) was in full blast without a majority he could count on, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, who since has resigned, said to come on over, he would see me. Which was so in keeping with Swedish character that it brought to mind another incident that emphasized the point. ’ The old Hotel Bristol in Paris before the war was the rendezvous of visiting royalty. So it was quite natural that I should find myself one day on one of its upper. floor— there were only four or five—in-

.| quiring for the. American king of

finance, J. Pierpont Morgan, the elder. v Bd “No, no, no!” a secretary informed me in his most chilling

tones. “You can not possibly see

| Mr. Morgan.”

Dejectedly, I ambled downstairs. Outside, on the sidewalk in the Place Vendome, his back to the wall of the famous hotel, was a tall, gangling gentleman surrounded by half a dozen newspaper photographers, clicking away.

” = 2 HEY ordered him this way and that. They snapped him with his hat on and with his hat off, full face and profile. He did not seem to mind. Good-naturedly he took it all, without a murmur until told

-| he might go.

“Who,” I inquired of the scholarly, white-wiskered Stodddard Dewey, dean of American correspondents in the French capital, “might that be?” 2 . “That, my boy,” he replied with a touch of irony, I thought—for he,

too, had just been turned down by

REAL DEMOCRACY

waving, vainglorious nationalistic [ sense than any people I know. And so I called on the Premier at Parliament House, in the shadow of the royal palace. Instead of seating himself behind a big desk with his back to the light, and putting me in a chair facing the window to blind me, he did the courteous, thoughtful thing. He had me sit on a comfortable sofa while he drew up an arm chair a couple of feet away so we could both see. In the middle of our conversation, I asked the Premier how many unemployed Sweden has at present. He said, simply and honestly, he didn’t know. I was distinctly shocked, for the politicians I'm familiar with have all the answers. “I can’t say, offhand,” he replied. “The number varies, of course, from season to season and even from month to month. Just a moment, however, and I'll get the figures for you.” He got up and left the room. As he opened the door to pass into the adjoining chamber, I got a peek inside. It was the cabinet room. I

glimpsed the minister -of interior, foreign minister, minister of finance and two or three others who had been pointed out to me while I was waiting outside. They were sitting

{at ease about a long table.

Presently the Premier wseturned. Said he: J “At this moment we've about 50,000.” : Than this gesture nothing could be more Swedish. Offhand, he might have said 40,000 or he might have said 60,000. Most people and virtually all politicians would. But not he We discussed unemployment, farm aid, pegging the price of Swedish wheat and butter, old-age pensions. sick benefits, housing, peace and war, the League of Nations, the cooperative movement, ‘“yardsticks.” “The same opportunity for living securely within the Fatherland for all who live within it.” Such is Per Albin Hansson’s motto. Such is the motto of his party. Such, in fact, is the creed of Sweden's wise old King Gustaf V and apparently of 90 per cent of his people.

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WESTBROOK PEGLER : NEW YORK, July 8.—The press coop of ~~ the League of Nations in Geneva produced two interesting incidents last week. One day the Italian journalists appeared

with mechanical raspberries and blew a

blast of insulting noises at Haile Selassie, the foul aggressor who was defeated last winter in his unprovoked assault of the very gates of Rome. Saturday, Arthur Karl Greiser, the Danzig Nazi leader, thumbed his nose at ‘the journalism of the world, causing great indignation. Considering the conduct of the Italians and the general quality of the journalism of the world at Geneva, there is not much to be said against Herr Greiser’s gesture. The Americans and the British and, one presumes, the Scandinavians, are respectable enough, but they are only a minority and minorities do not rate much nowadays. The journalism of the world at Geneva includes not only the Italians but the Germans, and Herr Greiser undoubtedly knows what German journalism is today. It also includes the Freneh, whose journalism is famous throughout the world for its corruptness. Then there are repree - sentatives of Balkan papers and publications in Russia and the Orient. The majority of those at whom Herr Greiser thumbed his nose are propagandists and even the statesmen who are sent into plot with and against one another are in a position to look down on the Fourth Estate. There are said to be some members of the profession in Geneva who are secretly ems ployed by ammunition companies and it is common talk around the bar outside the press rocm that the diplomats bribe certain brothers in the craft to lean one way or another in their articles. i

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is impossible, of course, to bribe the Italians or Germans because they have no voice in the selec tion or treatment of the material which they send out. The Italians and Germans do as they are told,

They have a distinct feeling of inferiority in the. company of the free jouraalists, but for their defense they maintain an attitude of pride in their ‘condition, It would be interesting to hear just what Mr, Dino Alfieri, the Italian minister of propaganda, expected to gain by organizing the outbreak of the Italian correspondents against Haiie Selassie. In Rome, Mr. Alfieri is a great puzzle to the members of the American and British press. He is not very bright at best and there are always rumors that Mussolini is going to fire him and even stick him away on some island. Yet he hangs on from week to week, a pompous, vain bureaucrat in a petty job, too, which, in the American scheme of government would just about correspond to a keeper of the scrap-books. The foreign correspondents mimic him and laugh at him and delight to watch him grovel when Mussolini comes by. .

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” ” ” We Look Better

INO’S constant desire is to produce good pube licity in the American papers, but his under standing ‘is limited to Italian journalists who have to do as he telis them and he ds-always being dis= appointed in his clippings from the States. He proh=- - ably thought the Americans would be awed to read

that his journalists in Geneva had gone into the meeting with tin whistles and clackers to heckle the deposed Emperor of Abyssinia. Possibly he got the idea from reading about the mechanical cheers and the parade of the jobholders in the Democratic cone vention. If you could see Dino saluting and cringe ing in the presence of the Duce you would not exe pect much from the body of journalists who in turn salute him and take their orders from him.

In our contempt for Dino Alfieri’s demonstration: from the press coop there is a feeling of satisface tion, too, for the American press. The more the journalists of the rest of the world reveal themselves the better we look.

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, July 8—The boys around Henry Wallace's Agriculture Department go around with broad grins on their faces whenever any one mentions cotton these days. : Unbelievable as it may seem, thefé is a shortag of cotton. Textile manufacturers are Bombarding the AAA with urgent wires pleading for the release of government-held stocks in order to keep their mills running. « A million bales of this reserve, released several” weeks ago, has been consumed, and the AAA shortly will unload another large supply. The demand has brought government stocks of cotton down to approximately 3,500,000 bales—about half of the maximum %once held. AAA executives believe that before the 1936 crop reaches the market the government reserve will be cut to around 2,500,000 bales. This was the amount in government possession when the New Deal took office in 1933. : : Two reasons are behind the rising demand: 1. Marked improvement in business. Principal con=sumers of cotton in recent months have been makers of automobiles, tires, shirts, dresses, upholstery and similar consumer goods. 2. This year’s crop is some~ what backward due to inclement weather conditions, When the Roosevelt Administration took office it inherited 2,500,000 bales of cotton from Hoover's Farm Board. This has been disposed of. The New Deal itself went heavily into the business of accumulating cotton to bolster up sagging prices. ‘At the close of the year 1933 Uncle Sam had more. than 7,000,000 bales of cotton on hi§ hands—approxi= mately one-half of a year’s domestic output. The situation appeared serious. But in 1935 things began to break the other way. ; Note—The cotton situation is certain to have im=portant political effects in the South. A strong cote ton market with good prices plays havoc with Repube lican hopes of making any inroads whatever.

sn» WV HILE cotton is apparently coming out of its long sojourn in the doldrums, other farm commodi

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have done something more to save life. The t chapter in the book is one which deals with the father. The author's eulogy of this country doctor who, through snow and ice, rides unlimited miles to attend suffering humanity and at the same time instills love for his profession into the soul of exchange both of ideas and comthe small son wrapped in a buffalo robe, is one of the monplace personalities. finest of its kind. = = = il » - » SOME psychologis LB pe OF MONMOUTH, by Emma G. Sterne stated that it bien i (Dodd; $2.50), is a thrilling tale of the Revolu- can’t see any reason why or how tionary War. From the early days, when the colonies they know. have shown were first Jearning the meaning of the word “freedom,” throuigh the long winter of Valley Forge, the siege of Philad phia, up to the thrilling climax at the battle of Monmouth, where the traitor, Gen. Lee; the gallant; boy, Lafayette, and the ~ Chief, figure in the dramatic closing rative, the story is a realistic account of those troublous chief is }

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