Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1936 — Page 10
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. STATE REORGANIZATION T= ‘Republican pledge ‘to repeal the State Gov4 ernment Reorganization Act would, if carried out, ‘be a backward step. The movement to reorganize the administrative ~machinery of state governments, starting in is nearly 20 years ago under Gov. Frank O. Lowden, has shown steady progress. Indiana, Colorado, Kentucky, Georgia, Maine, Rhode Island and Utah have enacted legislation dur- * ing the last five years for thoroughgoing reorganizations of their administrative machinery. Similar plans have been drafted for Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, ‘New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Surveys are under way in California, Minnesota, One, Oregon and Connecticut. Secretary Robert M. Paige of the Governmental Research Association reports that since 1917 at least 39 states have reduced the number of separate departments, boards and commissions, provided fiscal control systems and given Governors greater power and more responsibility. Says Mr. Paige: “State government in this country has been hampered by the absence of a chief administrator or manager. The reorganization measures adopted have looked toward a correction of this situation by giving some central agency or offiter, usually the Governor, power to see legislative mandates are
carried out, budgets carefully prepared and spend-
ing agencies forced to live within them. “State governments have traveled a long way. to-
ward the goal of administrative. efficiency during
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‘these two decades.” ; ” ” 2
HE aid of Republicans and Democrats alike is
needed to improve Indiana’s administrative machinery. We do not believe this can be done by going back to the decentralized system where re- / ‘sponsibility can not be fixed. Further changes in the structure of state government and in the ma-
chinery of administration may be necessary, but it should not be in the direction of scattered and ir-
responsible boards and commissions.
. One obvious fault at. present is the enormous patronage power wielded by the Governor. Criticism ‘of political use of this power is justified. It is no secret that the McNutt administration used the increased control over patronage to build a strong political machine and to dominate the: recent Dem‘ocratic state convention. : -But the evils. of patronage wll not bec ‘cured by reverting to the pafronage-ridden system of over“lapping and independent boards and bureaus.
Both “major parties seemed to be on ‘the right track with.
Aceonoma to BG, ray the next 10 |
weeks will see America in the thick of her greatest recreation boom. Pleasure Preferred will reach an_ all-time high..
More people than ever in this busy Republic's history
will lay aside dull care and hit the vacation trail. By train, plane, boat, bike and even hoof they will scatter to the play ways. Those who can’t go abrofid will seek out their own templed hills or splash their Worties away in good clean salt water. t ‘ The reasons are simple, Since 1932 the national
income has increased from 39% billions to 50% | fi billions. People not only have more money to spend,
but in the depression more have learned how to play. Thousands of firms now feel able to offer their help vacations they denied them in” harder times. And a lot of us are convinced that investments in muscle, sun-tan and happy memories are safer than in get-rich-quick stocks. Mr. Babson estimates that the 1936 tourist trade alone will total five billion dollars, ranking it with steel and autos. To certain of our 1936 Puritans this sort of thing’ should be frowned upon as frivolous and wasteful. What is it, indeed, but that awful thing called “boondoggling?” Yet some of our economists’ believe that only by developing the playful side of the na-. tional character can we attain permanent recovery. America has:learned how to make a living; now it must learn how to live. : “Civilization,” says David Cushman Coyle, “is made up of everything that we might get along" without but would like to have.” : The vacation boom ahead indicates that we're
‘becoming more civilized.
ELECTRIFYING INDIANA FARMS I America, only one and a half farms of every 10
are equipped with electricity. In Japan, more . than nine of 10 are electrified. Half of Sweden's.
farms and virtually all of Holland's have electricity. . The number of American farms having automobiles, radios and telephone service is greater than. the number served by electricity. But through “the Rural Electrification Administratidn a program to. - bring electric power to the farm is under way. - Two new electrification projects for Hoosier farms - have. just been announced by REA. One is an $85,= 000 allotment in Huntington County to ‘begin a 374-1 mile system which is expected eventually to include parts of Allen, Grant, Wabash, Wells and Whitley: Counties. The other, for $92,000, in Henry County, is for a.378-mile project which will extend intg Dela‘ware, Fayette, Hancock, Henry, Madison, ‘Randolph, ‘Rush. and Wayne Counties. “The first sections of the two projects are expected ‘to serve more than 400 families. ! . This program should raise ihe standard. of Hving * for rural Indiana. "It should eliminate some of the drudgery in washing and ironing, milking and puvmp= | ing. Chedp power means better lighting, better refrigeration. The day of rural electrification, long delayed and much needed, seems to be on its way.
OUT OF POLITICS:
APPARENTLY, for the. ‘first. time. singe the. World. War, there is to be ne farm issue withe 1936
..campaign. A farm problem still" remains; “but” the’
.-Roosevelt Administration and the new ‘Repubincan * leadership seems to be agreed, even in detail, as bo the proper solution. Credit for taking the issue out :of politics goes to the Republican presidential. nominee; Gov. Landon, and to his adviser on farm policies; that stout old agrarian, Ex- Gov. Lowden of Illinois. Speaking for. - and in ‘the. presence of the nominee, Gay. Lowden.
- outlined ata Topeka puess conference: the farm pro--
.their platform pledges for a strong merit system iy''p#8¥am which Gov. Landon intends “to” advance, Mf
:gtate ' government. : In the: face: of ‘these promises, how do ‘the politicians justify their reported thaneuvering to control the patronage of the “next” administration? ie
If the platform merit pledges mean anvtiing, the state's administrative machinery can be greatly . improved next year, regardless of which side wins. The progress Indiana: has made should not be un- ~ dermined ‘by spoils politics. Nor should the reor- _ ganized setup be discarded in favor of an’ archaic. system which we know to be: costly, inefficient and ‘without fixed ‘responsibility.
= IT HAPPENED IN INDIANAPOLIS’
HE Times-Loew’s local moving picture, “It Happened in Indianapolis,” showing for a week at “Loew’s beginning last night, gives you a chance to
see 200 local high school boys and girls in a movie
performance. More than 2500 persons, from 15 high schools, fried out for the roles. / movie done on so large a scale, the picture was directed and produced as it would have been in Hollywood. The. filmi is being viewed by various casting directors/in Hollywood for possible talent. : As an enterprise into which many boys and girls put much effort, and which we believe will encourage dramatic activities in the community, see “It Happened in Indianapolis. »
COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED
i ld will I bring the locusts into thy
coast. “And they shall cover r the face of the earth that ‘one can not he able to see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which rematneth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field;
“And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses’ |
‘of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; ... “And the locusts went up over all the land of | Egypt—very grievous were they .. .
“For they covered the face of the whole earth,
20 that the land was darkened and they did eat every herb In tho Janay (Exodus, 10)
aa Er La :
a TET aires as rolls Chosen But | they. gave us more time. Pharaoh was given nly| a day's warning. Our Federal scientists gave al year, i
10] (the American .cousin of the Egyptian plagi locust) abuiormally abundant. ‘The states
A plague would be in the spring, with poison, -
As the first all-talking local .
‘vein they found’ the eges of ihe Buss.
elected.
The program he outlined is practically . identical with the one which the Roosevelt ‘Administration already is putting into effect—the payment of Boun-: ties to encourage farmers, to take ‘a part of. their lands. out. of the production: of - -soil-depleting sprplus. cash Crops, and plant instead ‘soil- -buiiding legumes: and grasses, the program to be financed by Fed:ral _ grants and eventually to be administered by the
. States, through the gional colleges.
T° prove.the need of a polls building program, Gov. Lowden even went so far as to quote liberally and with approval from a New Deal book on soil and water conservation, entitled “Little Waters.” The book was prepared under the direction of Dr. Rexford Tugwell. When a leading Republican cites Dr. Tugwell as an authority, it is hard to believe that this is really an electibn year. ‘ The conservation-bounty idea. Gov. Lowden. contended, is of Republican origin, ‘it having. been broadly advocated in previous Republican platforms. There is some validity to the claim, But the fact re= . mains that for 12 long agricultural-depression- years ‘the Republicans did not act, and it was the Roosevelt. Administration which actually put the law on the books and set up the machinery for executing it. And it is also a fact, and to the Republicans now a somewhat embarrassing fact, that when the Soil _ Conservation Act was passed by Congress the Republicans in the main opposed it. In the House,.B4 * Republicans voted against it, and only 20 Repub-' ‘licans voted for it. In the Senate, 11 Republicans voted against 1t and 5 Republicans for it. . Since farmers are a: rather tough~minded folk, who. place a higher value on performance than on " promises, it is not likely that this’ Lowden-Landon move will ‘woo away many Roosevelt votes in- ‘the farm belt. "But it certainly -won’t lose the 'Republicans any votes, and it should remove partisan bias from’ are handling of the farm Probie.
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
A SENATORIAL ‘candidate, famous in his’ home state as a humorist, says: “If niy wife faughs at my wisecracks, I know they are good and I can
use them on my audiences.”
(At first. glance, the reasoning sounds good. But isn't there also a popular theory: which says that all ‘good wives laugh at their husbands’ stories? If there is any truth in the legend, our candidate's audiences - are in grave danger of being bored. As we gather from this incident, great peril is
attached, to heeding all the homilies addressed to
wives, and the very first commandment in the code of marriage for women is the ane that reads, Wa
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| pége in. the papers this week.
Next to the Charm School of modern literature, there is nothing I. enjoy more than a bank's condensed statemen ig to see-a who one time. I enjoy them for several reascns: First, because of the author’s serious assumption that the reader.
: batch of them at
khows nothing and, second, be- |
cause of the strange similatty, of the two literary schools. She ‘Let's ‘take them in order. : authors except those of the Charm
School would haVe the courage to |
write for readers who. know ‘noth
possibly i6f -"
ing. It requires too much ‘of them.| = ¥s Assuming that the reader is hon-| ‘gz:
estly and inquiringly ignorant, like | myself, the author must formulate “i
his own ideas with definiteness,
darify and strain his style;«mar-|
shal his figures of speech—especially
the figyres—pick concrete and apt | -
-| illustrations and assert nothing. that
he can’t make us believe—even: 2 1 i
is done: with the wink of the eye.
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TS t00 much of a strain’ tor, Host se
* authors, which’ is probably why 5
you never run across that ‘kind of |
writing except in'the Charm. School :
and in condensed sigionient
“As for the familiarity ot hi the ee
cotidénsed Statement Bias everything
some, It has -the same kind of
humor skipping across the surface |.
of sense, the same aptitude for making sober ¥ords and figures appear ridiculous, the same fatal. gift of charm. : Indeed, the similarity is 50. apparent at times. that I- ‘sometimes wonder why ‘Lewis Carroll, ‘James:
Stephens and Kenneth Grahame Ff
never iget around to writing the condensed statements of a bank. Take jt- from- me, they were banks ers at’ heart, ’
The. thing ‘that Suoioushiy captvates ‘me, however, is - the skill with which authors of condensed statements - make their resources. equal their liabilities. There's never anything left over,. which, when you come to. think of it; is exaetly. what Sapperits in ‘the Chiirm Stifool, do. 2 s 2 8
\F course; it's easy to ‘see how
the bankers do it.) For one thing, they resort to the literary trick ‘of listing our money—yours
and mine, what there is of it—un-
ter liabilities ‘when! everybody. knows tHat if 1t were not’for our: money— what , there is of it—that they Ronis hdve the resources fo run dg bank—let alone. get out a condensed statement. As George Ber-
|nard Shaw or some other depositor
50. aptly said, we are living in a topsy~turvy world. ' Maybe' deposits ate a liability in the Charm School. * Nor, is that all. : After we learn that our deposits’ are liabilities we awaken to the fact that “sums owing from other banks” are resources. 14 says so in’ the condensed statement.” After all we've gone through,
too. Can anything be more whimsi- |
cal? Indeed, can anything be more, like thé: Charm School?’
‘It will be mighty dull around the de
house until the next batch of condensed statements comes in.
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EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, When 3 plesses, in search 6F 448 Sistig), about this and that. 3 :
RIENT POINT, Tn. 1, “July f= Sitting on the pier -at Orient
|| Point. Waiting for the ferry to New
London. Two hours to wait... Who
ever heard of Orient Paint?
Bow checure so stg cin 10
and how SE It’s quiet here frye 18 sight. Two of three
| out at the end of ‘the
Way out here on: the Orient Point? Wi
1 I have wondered 1 | was like, Wondered 3
yond Garden City and : desert, forest, swamp,’ long cold tableland? It’s 140 miles from ‘New York
..| City to the tip of Long Island. For
“he Hoosier Forum 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 wour letiers
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.) : = » 2 i : VOTERS’ LEAGUE GRATIFIED BY COUNCIL ACTION Mrs. 8. N. Cam 11, President, Tidings League of Women Voters. Members of the Indiana League of Women Voters who have been interested in the appropriation for the merit commissions salary .in . connection with the Indianapolis Police and PFiremen’s. Merit Act are gratified with the action of the “City Council Monday night, July 6. While the League does not believe
Your Health
BY: pr. MORRIS FISHBEIN. 4 Eifoe ‘of the Journal, of the American . Mediéal Association.
HE: most" frequent illness ‘of babies is the common cold. Usually this is not serious, “but everything possible ‘should be done to.. prevent . secondary. sbronchitis, pneumonia, or, an infected ear, = Children ‘who are well .fed and well taken cdre of, with’ proper attentioh to hygiene, are much - less likely to catch cold ‘than those ‘who are undernourished: and constantly exposed to changes in temperature and crowded conditions. phy ‘The child who has plenty: of sleep, exercise, fresh air, and sunshine is more likely to resist colds than is the one with improper hygiene. Air in the child's room should be suitably moistened by evapora
tion of . water from the. radiator,
or by use of a humidifying- device. It is now possible to purchase, at small cost, an instrument ‘which tells the humidity. of the room. The average house is about 20, when it should be 45 or 50 in winter. © ” »
DEORLE with colds should ot
be permitted to come near baparticularly those. who are elicate, for these catch cold much more: easily than do adults who are accustomed to colds. ‘Large tonsils and adenoids also Seem to make children more susceptible . to. sore throats than are adults. If a child is found to have large, or ‘infected, tonsils and adenoids, these should be removed. It is the universal opinion that ‘children who have had infected tonsils and adenoids removed suffer less frequently with sore: ‘throats than they did before. ap In preventing colds in children the diet should contain adequate ‘amounts of :cod-liver oil, ‘and the amounts of carbohydrates = should lessened.
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that the merit law is perfect and sees a great deal of room for improvement as far as setting up a real merit system goes, we do feel that the Merit Board personnel has been wisely selected and it would be the part of wisdom to extend the powers ‘of this group. The essential weakness of the. law lies in the fact that the Mayor and the Board of Safety have the power to seléct the students who may attend the schools and that the orig-
merit ‘committee.
Let us hope that the major defects of the law may be corrected in 'the next session of the Legislature.
} 8 2 = CONDEMNS PEGLER FOR CONVENTION WRITINGS By Re. J. Beer, Osgood I am: taking the liberty to rise fou congerning one;of your. col ists, Westbrook Pegler. i *'T have beén- ‘taking The Times for many years #nd enjoying ‘it very much, especially its editorials, but when I read Pegler's articles about tk» Democratic Convention: at Philadelphia and how he deliberately belittled the entire convention: vith his slurring and ‘bitter sarcasm, it ‘is time to cail a halt on such unprincipled tactics, and to show: that I.am not alone in making a protest, I am entlosing two ‘ clippings. Pegler remarks that it - was pathetic at times the lgck” of enthusiasm’ at ‘the convention. Either he lied or the radio ‘lied. Prom the volume of applause heard
in my mind but what Pegler lied or handled the truth. in a very reck« less manner. . One thing: is certhin: I will not continue to read a paper that be-: smirches its-columns with such claptrap of misrepresentation.
Co» re A. CALLS "SULLIVAN ASTUTE WRITER By James C. Barnett
Mark Sullivan continues to tell us each time his piece appears in The Times that the President’s right is gone and that his left is gone and that there is serious defection in the Democratic ranks. And he constantly repeats the idea that New Dealers ‘are not Democrats. ~ ‘He uses these ideas so regularly that one suspects’ that for want of something else to write about he simply warms up on these ideas and forgets to “x” it out of his copy before It goss on the wires. Or that he
inal weeding out is not done by the
over. thn radio there is no question |
leaves blank spaces in his. copy and some one in THe Times composing room. simply drops in the.enevitahle paragraphs. [All jesting aside, Mark Sullivan is an astute political writer and. he knows whereof he speaks. He is obsessed with the idea that New Dealers are not: Democrats. And there. is some justification in his opinion.
ever the faults: or -merits of the party might. have been, it was indisputably a consistent loser of na-
| tional elections. Sullivan is trying
to tell us in his oblique way that he believes the party will win the 1936 election.. They are not ‘Democrats he-keeps telling :us. To him Demo= crat and loser means: the same thing. He finally succeeds in: telling us he believes ‘the party will win in November. :
‘LINES FOR KEY oR
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICE There was the shadow of dusk creeping Ini Slow purple arcs across the floor,
And the muffled voices of children Going in from weary: ‘play. > There was the suspended silence of “twilight, - : Muted with furtive, tiny sounds; And the wail of a piano in the "distance ; Moaning . St. Louis Blues with .. infinite sorrow; : And the tones of a girl's voice, \ shaking the night 3 With a discordant, primitive cy © for love. There were many footsteps, passing; Down the street; always passing, passing. . There was a continuous ripple of sound in a darkened room. It was my sobbing.
DAILY THOUGHT
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest His words against -this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before Me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep - before: Me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord. — II Chronicles 34:27.
“HERE never was any Neart truly great and: generous that
was not. also tender and ‘compassionate i ; Sn
SIDE GLANCES
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For more than a decade, what-"
Gi George Clark thel
the first two hours it is a part of New York. begin to be short open
city, all hen there , and en small towns.
‘What towns! I wouldn't be caught dead in one of them. New Yorkers needn't go more than 30 : miles from Broadway to find, the crossroads of Kansas, L hoe 2 ” 2» ETWEEN the towns | are the homes of the rich, ‘But they are well shielded from the eyes. of vulgar folk like me. All you get is a beautifully bare bered hedge fence, 10: feet high and a mile long. In the center is =
+ | great entrance gate, with a gravs<
eled drive curving away behind a grove ‘of high shrubbery and flow= ers. - Just occasionally you get a haunting glimpse of a turret or 8 roof corner, far back among tr Long Island really is lovely there on the North Shore.’ I believe thera. are more trees along the roads in Long Island and Connecticut than’ anywhere ‘else in Ameriéa. Trees absolutely arch the roadway. 2 The middle of Long Island is not §0 ‘good. The country:changes to flatness; the rich splendoi vanishes; It is a land of small farms. We drove down across the center of- the island at dusk; from thd north: shore to the south. . I ‘have: never been. more lonesome in: my. ife Going east again, two-thirds across, - you come "once more "into pleasant territory. Flat, but green and- with real trees, and Prosperosii looking‘ farms. ; And then, on toward the far point; you are in the sand dune country, The island narrows down to a strip, aa see across it.. - d then. finally to. Montaul Point, where you stand en the rise by the lighthouse and look at. the last tip of America below you, and on out toward Europe. ..
8 88 3. : NVoNTavk POINT is Carl Fisher's folly, It is a ghost town. ‘The .man who. built the Ine dianapolis, . Motor ‘Speedway - and who made Miami Beach—he had an idea about Montauk Point,’ but “ib didn’t work. You can. see a huge castle, of a hotel on: a knell, and. a country club, and a fine church; and a big police station—and -there’s hardly anybody around to go into them.
I'm sorry Montauk Point didn’t develop. It’s grand out there. I
"| don’t: know ‘why: it didn’t go."
Back to East Hampton. North to Sag Harbor, a lovely-village. Short ferry. to Shelter Island. This is the spot. for me. It’s grassy and full of trees, and the houses are all low; shingled on the. sides, covered with vines and flowers. Flowers everye ¥here, It’s all New Englandish,. and q
And from Shelter Island on. over, just a few miles, to Orient Polng. It's the northeast tip of Long Island. That's where the ferry for
New London leaves from.
| Today's Science | ~' BY SCIENCE SERVICE ~ NROUGHT again underlines ons type of natural selection that regularly comes into play on the prairies’ and plains in. years of
scanty moisture. Survival of ‘the fittest, at such times, is to a cotre