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HOPE HE DOESN'T SAY “HOT”
Al a masterpiece of understatement, we cite this prosaic—and slightly monotonous—daily an- * nouncement by Indianapolis’ most Yalkst-of citizen, the weather man: - “Porecast: Fair tonight and tomorrow; continued
BRITER LATE THAN NEVER
NYTHING the amiable Alf does between now LA and election is news, whether roasting weenies or tucking his napkin under his chin. In view of he trivial vacation-time items that trickled from se Rockies we don’t blame the Topeka correspondents for letting themselves go when the Governor came down out of the mountains and delivered himself of a message to his Kansas Legislature asking for a social security amendment to the state Constitution. 2 From stories running at great length in Republican newspapers, one gets the impression that Mr. Landon is pioneering in social legislation; that with one hand tight on the budget he has been stretching out the other bulging with aid for his state's unfortunates. The record, however, doesn’t bear out this theme. For four years during the depression, Mr. Landon has been Governor of Kansas. In that time “the more progressive states have been modernizing .and humanizing their laws in a tempo geared to the unusual needs of their poor. New York's Gov. Lehman, like Gov. Roosevelt’ before him, has led in many reforms, even though handicapped by an unfriendly Legislature. So have Wisconsin's La FolJette, Indiana’s ‘McNutt, Illinois’ Horner, Rhode Island's Green, Connecticut's Cross, North Carolina’s Ehringhaus, Alabama's Bibb Graves. Kansas was among the states that marked time. Kansas’ regular legislative session occurred last year. The session was remarkable for the fact that "the only piece of social legislation enacted was one providing for state use of prison-made articles. Kansas is one of the 24 states that have refused to ratify the child labor amendment. It is one of five that have not accepted the Wagner-Peyser act's provisions for free public employment exchanges.
As for social security it is significant that while -
_ 36 other states have adopted Federally approved oldage assistance systems, 12 other states have acceptable unemployment: insurance laws, 22 other states _have blind assistance and 20 dependent children provisions, Kansas just now is being asked to amend - {ts Constitution to allow co-operation Jvith the Federal Oo for these services. Kansas is cooperating only in aid for crippled children, maternal and child health and child welfare. From the viewpoint of social legislation Kansas
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‘Is certainly -no pioneer state. Her Governor 48; ‘of 4
course, entitled to due credit for seeking now to bring his state into line with the more liberal commonwealths. Only that and nothing more. ; In the language of the copy-book maxim: Bet- | : . fer late than never.
TEXTBOOK RENTAL PLAN
ARENTS will welcome the extension of the
school ‘textbook rental plan to all elementary grades, not including the first and second years. The rental plan, used in the seventh and eighth ‘grades the last two years, has been so successful that most parents have rented books instead of buying them because of the economy. © The charge will be 75 cents for the use of hooks for. one child for one semester, or $1.50 for the | year, compared to an average cost of about $4 if books. are bought. outright. The total expected saving is estimated at $75,000 a year. School officials say the rental fees will make the fund self-sustain-ing within two years. Besides economy, they cite
the convenience for pupils, and say the plan will
make available a greater variety of books ! and references.
Used for several years at Gary and Richmond,’
and now authorized by state legislation, the rental Pian Will: be-intfoduet af Squth Bend and. many _ smaller cities next fall.
BIGNESS IN STEEL : AS the United States Steel Corp. world’s greatest: Ialackiring company, unconsciously developed a public institution? # : Fins A attained magnitude so vast and problems and responsibilities so complex that it has evolved beyond the realm of capitalism and into the feld of government? The magazine Fortune, completing a four-month survey into the problems of Big Steel, winds up its 3 series with the assertion that it has become “an in- . dustrial enterprise so great as to be almost a public institution” and declares that it must either become | ore sharply competitive or gracefully accept pyblic regulation” e The survey, made before the impending battle nization of the steel industry began to
Pew Boul alleged tht this “Industrial Fortune calls it—had almost outgrown system by taking on such bulk and
‘the country’s,
oul this seems to be the conclusion after a | Jassie A2aiFSl by this sasasios So Hig Pfu th
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combat its smaller and more mobile and efficient
~ competifors. It is spending $140,000,000 for plant
modernization; it Has raided the personnel of more
alert rivals for new brains; it has been merging operating companies until the expectation is that soon wilh come the complete metamorphosis from a . holding ‘company inte one: gigantic. operating com. |
pany,
Tous fa. the change bas been chil on the
financial end.
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But Porbane’s articles sharsty salto’ the question |”
whether. accompanying changes in labor and price
| policies can be avoided.
Its labor policy, Fortune found, was not so much one of opposition to collective bargaining and employer social responsibilities as it was a stubborn refusal to admit that any labor problem exists. The
“bankers ‘who brought ‘together the vast units which
constitute United States Steel—not from any operating or price motives but as an immense financial venture—froze its labor policies 35 years ago. And in the face of change; they have remained frozen. In one year, 1921, it laid off 76,000 workers; in another year, 1923, it rehired 46,000. Today only 77,000 of its 196,000 employes work full time. In 1932 ‘and "33 the average wage of its workers fell to about $13 a week, and in the plate mills fell as low as $3.75 a week. There. were baitles over the 12-hour day. There were organization efforts which brought bloody strife. Yet, all these developments affecting the lives of hpndreds of thousands of workers in steel and allied ‘industries have not changed ‘the belief of
United States Steel that its labor policy was forever.
fixed 35 years ago.
In the field of prices the same strange inflexibility has prevailed. But in operations and finance there has. been belated and violent change during recent months. Fortune foresees some eventual realization that United States Steel operates in a “world in which society was forced in self-preservation to insist on the priority of social over commercial rights” and in which vital adjustments are the only alternative to government regulation. Can or will those adjustments be made? This is the great question mark in the steel world—and it is
a question of greater ‘potentialities to ‘more people
than any similar question outside of the government itself.
MRS. HENRY DOUGLAS PIERCE
HEN Mrs. Henry Douglas Pierce was born, six years before the Civil War, Indianapolis was what she later described as a “charmingly cultural little town of about 30,000.” Her girlhood home was
- at 46 N. Pennsylvania-st, within two blocks of where
she died yesterday.at the Columbia Club. During the 81 years of her life here, Mrs. Pierce saw the city undergo vast change. She saw the residential district, and later the business area, expand until they surrounded the “country home her father bought at 14th and Meridianssts, and which later became her home. "As an ‘active figure in this thriving comunity life,
- she was president of the Indianapolis Women’s Club,
founder of the Indiana Vassar Club, a founder and for 35 years active in the Indianapolis Propylaeum, a member of the Industrial Union, the Art Association, the Women’s Exchange and the Social Science. Organization. She was one of the oldest members .of the Second Presbyterian Church. A community which she Served long and well will Smiourn- her: passing.”
. AGAINST POLLUTION Izaak Walton League’s strip-forést recreation project for White River met immediate. and: favorable response. One of the first results was a letter to The Times by Willlam P. Hapgood, generously offering to turn over to the state a mile-and-a-half strip of river-
- side property southwest of Indianapolis to further
the program of planting" trees, providing. recreation
and fighting stream’ pollution. ' " "Another result was a flood of Setters, isuding the
program and emphasizing the need of cleaning up White River and other streams. Said Mr. Hapgood: “I coincide with the belief of the league that if a number of such strips are secured, the interest of the Indiana citizens will be sufficient to compel towns along the co of White River, including Indianapolis, to dispose of their sewage in a manner Which will not affect unfavorably the river ‘wat And while this ovement was focusing ‘attention’
on the pollution menace, the State Department of
Commerce and Industries issued its first order under
the 1938 stream pollution act, directing Hartford:
City to stop pollution of Lick Creek. Hoosiers are insisting that cities and manufacturing industries put a stop to stream pollution.
a, : AF et ee i shes st z gling to place itself in a betier position to |
for one another ever since they were boys.
they act alike. So much so, that
back -sfalls of the ola Bowen-Merr{ll £hop. The trick came in handy. during the Spanish-American War betause that a part of every day writing home to his mother.
he asked Mr. Burns to do it for him. Mother Oskes never ‘caught on. ” » 8 THE ‘Block people the other day advertised that they serve coffee “good to the last drop” and, unless I miss my guess, they'll hear about it. They will if they have the experience the Maxwell coffee people
slogan.
they thought’ up the slogan than a
wanting ' to. know what was the matter with the last drop. At first, the Maxwell coffee people were very patient about ‘it and wrote long individual letters explaining that the slogan and the
last drop were both sound, but
‘speech beginning:
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT « By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
LF LANDON’S first ‘act after nomination shows him to be a canny campaigner. He went
fishing. At first glance there’s nothing strange about t. Men have exhibited a passion for the sport ever since the land was separated from the water. But when candidates go fishing, the news takes on spe-
¢ial significance. For they are not fshing for fish
but for votes:
_And positively nothing s seems to make : wen on 3
when letters began pouring in at the rate of a thousand a day, all wise-cracking in the same vein, they realized that they had to be more practical. And so. they decided to get out a circular explaining their position. To get ‘out the circular, they engaged a Columbia professor. His name deserves to go down: in history, but for the life of me I can’t remember it. Well, anyway, - the professor. began at the beginning,
.| as professors do, and culled all the ‘| quotations he could find in’ ‘which
the word “to” was. used to mean “including.” You'd be surprised to Yeurms x what a pile he found. The first quotation in the circular was straight from the Bible, Psalms 90:2: “Fig everlasting to everlasting thou art God.” The last was from Tennyson’s “Aylmer’s Field”: “Ev'n to its last horizon.” And sprinkled all through the body of the book were excerpts from all the coffee-drink-
ing poets, Milton, Spencer, Gold-
smith, Lamb, Shelley, including Shakespeare's famous Macbeth “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps. in
‘this petty pace from day to day to
(watch your step here) the last
‘I syllable’ of recorded: time.”
After which, yowd think the confirmed coffee drinkers would wut
|'been convinced. But they weren’
The Maxwell coffee people still have to send out circulars every day. eo 5d 2 ” 2
Y reason for going info the matter so meticulously is not merely to help out the Bl people.” Among other things, I want to recall the Cheek family, who
done ‘which, they settled down in Indianapolis. To be sure, they don't live here any more but the fact still remains that, having made their
to choose from as a place to live,
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Not only do they look alike but |
they write alike. It's a trick they| | learned when both worked in the|
For some reason, Mr. ANP ‘Oakes touldn’t do it one week and so|
The Maxwell Coftee people ed & | terrible life because no sooner had.
crowd of hecklers began writing in |.
‘materials next to the
originated Maxwell coffee, having |!
millions and having the whole world | ¢
they picked Indianapolis as the], place to Hayat least, for a ‘while. |;
the time Mr. Oakes spent| __o
had after they adopted the same |
“I'The wind cuts across.
The Hoosier —
1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
(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 letter must be signed. but names will be withheld on request. ) »
nn ” APPROVES DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION 3 By C.J. W: : re There is a phrase that Tes. become quite popular ‘recently among certain business men, i. é., “Business is much better in spite of the Democratic Administration.” The men who are using this expression the most riow are the same ones that predicted our country would go to ruin if the Democrats were elected and, later, were ‘the same ones who predicted complete destruction and innihilation of every one if certain laws were passed. Now that the Democrats have not only restored faith and happiness, but have headed us for the greatest prosperity we have ever known, and our. childish: Captains of Industry (who don’t like to ‘play unless
prosperity literally thrust down their throats—apparently much to their dismay—there is only one thing-left for them to do to retain their reputations as prognosticators in the eyes of the public, and that is to
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN HE sick baby or child must be suitably clothed, to /provide for its temperature and to permit the necessary attention, In summer, the skin should { and be thin, and the warmth of the body may be regulated by covers. In colder weather @ night dress or gown, or simple pajamas, may be worn
In "the hospital it is customary
‘to have a typical hospital jacket,
which makes fairly easy easy frequent: examinations of the chest. In the case of a sick child, ‘the
they can be Captains), have had |
Spr a es |i
assume the “sour grapes” aititude land say that business is better in spite of the Democratic A Administration.
However, unprejudiced, broadminded and thinking people; ‘who
{know what has made business bet-
ter, certainly can see through their
: extremely unappreciative dttitude,’
which has been assumed in an effort
+I to” mislead voters, and regain for
themselves ‘the selfish once possessed. 2 8 ” HAS NO SYMPATHY :
FOR BORAH : 3 ‘By R. P. Cunningham, Daritngton.
“There is no single item in the present political situation so puzzling to the innocent bystander | as the hectic concern both of the old parties are showing about Senator Borah—what he is going to do, which way he is going to jump. He aint got nothing. . He has bucked himself clean jout: of the saddle, is plumb groggy, and is down running around in circles like a coon dog that has lost the scent. Of course it is a safe bet that he will finally land in the Hearst hookup, for that is-where he really belongs. He and Hearst. are oldtime buddies.. They were the .two chief assassins of the League of Nations. a ” oo» PH SATISFIED WITH PARTY IN POWER By Perry Rule, Bringhurst It is nearly unanimously-conceded that both ‘the state and national government has -been functioning Hatiy satisfactory tq the masses, the masses are ‘apprehensive about the results that would follow a change from Democratic to Re‘publican party control. It is a consensus that the outs ‘will be unable to give convincing reasons why they .should be ‘stated. The ‘rank and file of the voters are competent to judge the. reason why former party celebrities have turned wrench throwers, and from the house tops [In
"power they
any. wish to follow them, 2 8 2
| URGES MORE :
THINKING % By Subscriber : } Some are guick ts defiotsis isms” without offeringsa solution for our
have none, or are they afraid that
‘ia genuine solution will upset the
apple cart of selfish interests? . “Let us-look at the “glories”of cap~ italism with’ mounting unemployment, hours of labor lengthened and
be rein-|
y are taking a walk, Few if |
wages slashed, starvation amidst. plenty, “the production problem solved but not the problem of distribution. Our economic ills can be solved by democratic control "of industry and government by the workers of hand and brain with public and collective ownership of natural resources, industry and distribution to produce for use ana service for all instead of profit for a few. They say that 5 per cent of the people ‘think, 10 per cent think they | - think and 85 per cent do no think-
* .|ing. How much longer are the peo-|d ple going to insult themselves with | “Isuch a low average. of thinking?
2 =» = CLAIMS NEW DEALERS
ARE SOCIALISTS By Lester _Gaylor £
Among the chief purposes of Socialism and the New Deal aré the breakdown of the home life, the scrapping of the sacred institution of marriage, and the closing ‘of the | churches. It is extremely interesting: to observe that the Socialist New: Deal has poured out over 20 billions of dollars-to banks, lodges, industries (including : liquor and rum -distiiJeries - and wine manufagctories), sheep and pig. growers, athletic as-. sociations, etc., but it has not loaned 1 cent for religious-institutions, Is that Democratic? We charge again, and will continue to charge, that Mr. Roosevelt and his New Dealers are not Democrats, but are Socialists, rapidly destroying our: glorious American civilization under a pretext of helping the masses.
THE SKIPPER
| dilly has fixed its electric ‘sign.
When I come to New York, I
psiay high, up- on the. east side of & hotel on Eighth-av. -
1 take this you get such a grand view of New York's famous at night. away the
electric’ display Ju shout a block A
evening, just staring at it and iy le ning: to myself. I wasted a good many quarter hours trying to decide whether:I should phone them about it. But I finally decided to let’ 6°
‘ride. Maybe they had 4 reason for
having it" that way. - But now, here in July, 1936, I arrive’ to find shining very red and properly - every night ‘the full HOTEL PICCADILLY. 5 BBB i UMMER is not the best time to see Manhattan's electric signs. When I was here in January I made it a point to be in my room at dusk
every évening, way up here on the twenty-fourth floor, and to look
J down as darkness. came.
New York makes you tingle shien. from ' the
| river, ‘whining around the > towers,
and it’s snug in your room ‘but cold ‘down there ori the streets, and then the day begins to fade and dark‘ness comes over everything, heavy and fast. And as it comes, the sigris’ start to
; .| light up. You can almost. “count
‘them ‘as they -come - on. The fancy ones whirl ‘and jump and make pictures; others flash on and off. The whole thing is an enchantment of color-and dazzle and splendor. But somehow it isn’t the same in summer. ‘The dusk is’ softer and slower, and the signs don’t seem so clear-cut, and I really don’t believe as many are turned on as in the winter. It's disappointing.
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SAD little thing happened: to . me’ in Philadelphia the other
7 Was sitting in a hotel Tobby, fac- | ing the elevators. The-elevator door opened and a newspaper man I knew got: off. - We never were old pals or anything, but we certainly knew each other well ‘enough to shake hands and pass the time of day, especially since we. hadn't seen each other for nearly a year. So_when I saw him I said “Hello ' | there,~—" He said “Good morning, » the same as you would say it.to the elevator boy. Then he turned and walked to the desk to leave his key. - From the desk to. the: front door, he had to go right in front of me, 1 thought he would stop and say something. But he didn’t. He walked within a foot of me, staring straight ahead. It got ‘under my skin. ‘I yelled. at him, so loud ‘he had to turn and come back. “What are you giving me the high hat for?” I asked him. His answer was: “I said good morning, didn’t I” He had me there; There wasn’t any -answer to.that. I guess I just don’t understand the amenities. And then he said, pretty sarcastically it
~ | seemed to me:
.F. ¥. MACDONALD
His eyes are blue as lake-water— By this token I know that the sea Calls his heart with such The sea—ever my rival must, be.
Atle. thus binds me fo Nepttine— “Despite fate and its hapless
decree; Inthe faith we share—our. loved one will turn always to me anid the ‘seat
DAILY THOUGHT. But'l ‘say unto you, i Who soever is angry with his brother
‘without a cause shall'be in danger ;
of the judgment—St. Maven
economic ills. Why? Ist thal; they | 5:22,
ONSIDER. Bow much: more you often suffer from your anger | — than from those very|
things for which you are angry and | grieved-—Mareus Anioninus. :
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark) sh
“I have business to attend to now, if you'll be so good as to excuse me,” rth bl lien
Today’s- Science
: BY SCIENCE SERVICE Font THOUSAND earthquakes a This is Lhe. awnasd number of perceptible ones for all Japan. It is
small wonder that this country has proved a fruitful laboratory for
“Receén / the Earthquake Research