Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1936 — Page 26
(A SCRIPPS-NOWARD NEWSPAYER) W. HOWARD . . ooo cx «ovo o President
LL DENNY . . os vv oss oss « +» Bditor bi bD, BAKER", + . ++ +ry ++ Busitess Manages
Member of United Press, SerippsHoward Newspaper Alliance; Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Qwoed and published dally (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis’ Times Publishing Co., 214-220 W. Maryland-st, Indisnspolis, Ind. - Price in Marion County, 8 cents 8 copy: delivered by carrier, 12 cents a week. Mail subscription rates in Indiana, $3 8 year; out. ve Light and the side of Indiana, @ cents a month.
Soneie Own Woy «GBP = Phone Riley 851
Their Own Way SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1936.
STATE REORGANIZATION
Republican pledge to repeal the State Government Reorganization Act would, carried out, be a backward step. The movement to reorganize the administrative machinery of state governments, starting in Illinois 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 during the last five years for thoroughgoing reorganizations of their administrative machinery. Similar plans have been drafted for Alabama, Iowa, Mis- ~ sissippl, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North: Caro- ~ lina, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Surveys are under way in California, Minnesota, Ohio, 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 officer, usually the Governor, power to see legislative mandates are carried out, budgets carefully prepared and spending agencies forced to live within them.
“State governments have traveled a long way toward the goal of administrative efficiency during _ these two decades.” un ” » 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 responsibility can not be fixed. Purther 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 Democratic state ‘convention. . But, the evils of patronage will not be cured by reverting to the patronage-ridden system of over- - lapping and independent boards and bureaus. Both’ major parties seenied to be on the right track with their platform pledges for a strong merit system in? state government. . In the face of these promises, . . how do the politicians justify their reported maneuvering to control the patronage of the “next” administration?
If the platform merit pledges mean anything,
the state's administrative’ machinery can be greatly
improved next year, regardless of which side wins. The progress Indiana has made uld not be undermined 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, tried out for the roles. As the first all-talking local movie done on ‘so large a scale, the picture was directed .and produced . as it would have been in Hollywood, The film is being viewed by various casting directors in Hollywood for possible talent. i . 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
se OMORROW will I bring the locusts into oy coast. : “And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one can not be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which graweth 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 4] ptians; . . . “And the locusts went up over all the land of YD Nery tives wets they , ...
rl er zor are t iF
Li Fe
a5
Plessine Preferred will reach an al-time Hh More people than ever in this busy
will oy aide dull cars SHE Br Hie "AAD Hap
By train, plane, boat, bike and even hoof they will scatter to the play ways. Those who can’t go abroad will seek out their own templed hills or splash their worries away in good clean salt water, = ¢ ‘The reasons are simple. Since 1932 the national income has increased from 39% billions to 59%
* 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 invest- |
ments 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 nae tional character can we attdin permanent recovery. America has learned how to make a living: now. it must learn how to live. “Civilization,"made up of everything that: we might get along without but would like to have.”
The vacation boom ahead indicates that we're i
becoming more civilized.
* ELECTRIFYING AEA BARE. :
| 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 | on farms and virtually all of Holland's have electricjty.
The number of American farms having: automobiles, radios and telephone service is greater than the number served by electricity. But through the Rural Electrification Administration. 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~ 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 into 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 the standard of living. for rural Indiana. It should eliminate some of the drudgery in washing and ironing, milking and pvmping. Cheap power means better lighting, better re-
frigeration. The day of rurhl electrification, long de- -
layed and much needed, seems to be on its way.
OUT OF POLITICS
A TTiRENTLY, oor the first time since the World | War, there is to be no farm issue ‘in the: 1935 campaign. A farm problem still remains, but. the
- Roosevelt Administration and the new Repubkhicsin
leadership seems to be agreed, even-in detail, ‘as to the proper solution. Credit for taking the issue out of politics goes to the Republican presidential nominee, Gav. 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, Gov, Lowden ‘outlined at a Topeka press conference the farm-pro«
; gram’ Which, Gov, Landon intends, ‘to advarite, if “elected: :
The program he outlined is practically identical with the one which the Roosevelt Administration already is putting into effect—the payment of “oun ties to encourage farmers to take a part of their’ lahds out of the. production of soil-depleting surplus cash crops, and plant instead soil- ~building legumes and grasses, the program to be financed by Fed:ral grants and eventually to be administered by the states, through the Seon colleges.
prove the need & a soll-bujlding 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. Rex-’ ford Tugwell. When a leading Republican cites Dr. Tugwell as an authority, it is hard to believe that this is really an election 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 remains that for 12 long agricultural-depression years the Republicans did not act, and it was the Roose velt 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 Re-
publicang in the main opposed it. In the House, 64 Republicans voted against it, and only 20 Republicans voted for it. In the Senate, 11 ‘Republicans voted against it 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 away many Roosevelt yotes in the
farm belt, But it certainly won't Jose the Repub- . Hcans any votes, and 4 should, remove partion bles. [from fuvare Handifug of Hie far problem.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT _ =By: Ms. Walter Ferguson
a 2 Bom ir
says David Cushman Cove, “ig ©
rs ud iF: v: vy le ’ 7
TH}
's ane Vit thio Wink of the ope... ss
you never run across that kind of
and in condensed statements: the rarity of the art and the courage to do,it that intrigues’;
‘condensed statement has everything the Charm School has and then some. It has the same kind of humor skipping across the surface of sense, the same aptitude for making sober words and figures appear ridiculous, the same fatal gift of charm.
Indeed, thé similarity is so apparent at times that I sometimes wonder why Lewis: Carroll, James’
|| Stephens and Kenneth Grahame
never get around to writing the condensed statements of a bank. Take 4t from me, they were hank. ers at heart. . : “The thing that thoroughly. cap=| tivates me, however, is the skill: with which authors of condensed
.| statemehts make ' their resources
equal their liabilities. There's never anything left over, which, when you come to think of it, is exactly what happens in the Charm School, too. Sena 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-—~youys: and’ mine, what there is of: ‘it—un< der liabilities’ when everybody. knows that if 'it.were not for our money— what there - is of .it—that they] are wouldn’t have the resources to run a bank—let alone get out’ a condenseqd - statement. ‘As George Ber-
|nard Shaw or some ‘other depositor
are a lability in the Charm School.
Nor is that all. After we learn that our deposits are liabilities we awaken to the fact that “sums ow-
so aptly. said, we are livi in a topsy-turvy world. Maybe deposits
.| ing from other banks” are resources.
IL says so in the condensed statement. After all we've gone through, $00. Can. anything’ ‘be more whimsical? Indeed, can anything be more like the Charm School?. = It will be mighty dull around the house until the. next batch of condensed Statements comes in. 2
Ask The Times’ Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or in-
Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. W., Washington. D. C. Legal and medical adviee ean not be given, ner, 48 extended rematsh Ja. sndwisken.
So —
phiet “The Gag on Teaching?” :
o| Se.
writing except in the Charm School |* | Ist
As for the familiarity of style, the |]
formation fo The Indianapolis Times |
G-Whers may I obtain the pam: “| oe
31 or © Square s West, New York fue
oon can th sex of youn pie
; A—Pidliets are
S 100 much ofa strain for most HA ‘authors, which is probably why Ce
1 oosier B 'orum Ly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the. death your right to say tt. —Voliaire.
(Times readers are invited to cores their views in these columns, religious sontroversies excluded. Make your letters short. 80 all can have a chance. Limit | them to 250 words or less. Your letter | must be signed. but names will be withheld on reouest.) : \ 2 =» »
VOTERS’ LEAGUE GRATIFIED | BY COUNCIL ACTION : Eddtana aa Ss of. Women Vo siden, Members of the Indiana League of Women Voters who. have been ihterested in the appropriation for the merit commission's salary in con-
‘} nection with the Indianapolis Police
and Piremen’s Merit Act are grati~ fled with the action of the City Council Monday night, July 6. While the League does. not believe.
“Your Health 2 of: fy aman |
TE most, frequent, lines “of | babies is the comman ‘cold: Usually this is not serious, -but everything possible should be done to _ prevent secondary bronchitis, pneumania, or an infected ‘ear. Children who are well fed "dhd well taken care of, with proper at tention. to hygiene, ‘are much less likely to catch cold than those who ‘undernourished and constantly exposed to changes.in temperature and crowded conditions, ‘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 evaporation of water from the radiator, or by Dee of a bumidifyine device. now possible to’ purchase, at small cost, an instrument which, tells the humidity of the roont. The average house is about 20, When 1 should be 45 or's0 in winter. s
PpEorE with colds should Tot be permitted to come near ba- | bies, particularly those who. are delicate, 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 sus- ot
ceptible to sore throats than are’
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 select the students who may attend the schools and that the original weeding out is not done by, the merit committee. Let us. hope: that the males. be fects of the law may be corrected in She next: session of the legislate,
CONDEMNS PEGLER FOR | CONVENTION WRITINGS 1 By RB. ES Beer, Osgood I am: taking’: the liberty to write | you concerning one of your Solu 11sts,” Westbrook: Pegler, ; 1 have beerj taking The for many years and’ enjoying it very much, especially its editorials; ‘but when I read Pegler's articles about t!. s Democratic Convention at délphia and how he deliberately oe Hitled the entire convention with: his. slurring and bitter sarcasm, it is time to ‘call & halt’ on such uns principled tactics, and to. show that. I-am not alone in making a protest, I am ehclosing two Clippings. ‘Pegler © remarks that it ' was pathetic at times the lack: of enthusiasm at. the convention. Either he lied or -the radio ‘lied. From the volume of applause heard over the radio there is no question | in my mind but what Pegler lied or handled the truth in a very reckless manner, One thing ‘is certain: I will not continue to read a paper that besmirches its columns with such clapHap of misteprésentation. :
ee. CALLS SULLIVAN | ASTUTE WRITER : By James €. Barnett Mark Sullivan continues to tell us each time his piece appears in The Times that the Presidents right is gone and that his left is and
adults. If a child is found to have He
large, or infected, jonells nd ade :
ods he
It is a oud, me Shilarer .who have ha ‘tonsils and 4
leaves blank spaces in his copy and some one in The Times composing | 50 room simply drops in the enevitable 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. For more than a decade, whatever .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 eblique-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
© lus he believes the party will win in
N ovetber. ; es
LINES FOR KEY MINOR"
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICE There was the shadow of dusk creeping "11a slow purple ares across the floor,
And the muffled voices of’ children Going in" from weafy play. There was the suspended silence of twilight,
Muted with furtive, tiny sounds; And the wail of a piano in the
Moaning- St. Liouls Blues with infinite sorrow;. 5 And the tones of a girl's voice, -shaking the might With a discordant, primitive cry . for love. . There were many footsteps, passing: Down the street; always passing, passing. .
‘There was a contintious ripple of sound in a darkened room.
| 26 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 oy. clothes, and weep before Me; I have even heard thee also, pith the Lord 11 Chronicles 34:9, 27.
PIERRE never was any heart truly great and generous that
‘was not also tender and compas.
he: he’ sionate—South.
By George Cle ark
the first two hours it is ail city, il & part of New York. Then thers
begin to be short open spaces, and. then. longer spaces, and then smaj], What towns! I. wouldnt be. caught dead in one of them. New Yorkers needn’t go more than 30
miles ‘from from Brosdway to. Sha the crossroads ef Kansas.
> 8s =» . 3 BETWEEN the towns. are he 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 a;
great entranee wi eled drive a ork ity grove of high shrubbery and flow" ers. Just occasionally you get a” roof ong Sitmpse of a turret or 8: roof corner, far back among trees." Long Island really is lovely there on the North Shore I believe thera are more trees along the roads Long Island and Connecticut By anywhere else in America. - Trees; absolutely arch the roadway. Cte co De middle of Long Island is nods. good. The country changes toflatness, the rich splendor vanishes. It is a land of small farms, We drove down across the center of the island at dusk, from the north shore to the south. I have Dever been more lonesome in my e. Going east again, two-th 8Ccross, you come once more hy pleasant territory. Flat, but green’
and with real tr d Pprosperosu looking farms. di SAC polaty.
And then, on toward the far ‘you are in the sand dune coun The island narrows down t8 st B strip; You can see across it. And then finally to Montauk Point, where you stand on the rise by. the lighthouse and look at the oF or tor Ban. Jo, and. on out toward Europe.
s =» ®
| Moka. POINT Is a
Fisher's folly. It is a ghost .
town. The man who built the In.
idea. about Montauk Point, but it
hotel on-a knoll,- and a country: club, and a fine:church, and a big police station—and there's hardly srbody around to go into them. 'm sorry Montauk Point didn’s-
New London leaves from.
Today’ S Science "BY SCIENCE SERVICE
.