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MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936.

REUNION IN VIENNA -A N accord between Austria and Germany, we are

. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

nations’ traditionally friendly relations.” As first blush.a trouble-weary Old World is inclined to heave a prodigious sigh of relief and thank whatever gods there be for riddance from one of the worst danger-spots in all Europe.

its face value. Article 1 of the official communique declares that “the Reich government recognizes the full sovereignty of the federal state of Austria.”

That, in this particular state paper, is meaningless. that water is wet or that grass, generally speaking, is green. Nobody, not even Herr Hitler, has ever officially denied the sovereignty of Austria. He has done much, sometimes secretly, sometimes not so secretly, to undermine that sovereignty. But he has never officially denied it. Article 2 says that each of the two governments regards the inner political structure of the other— including the question of Austrian Nazism—as an affair “in which it will neither directly nor indirectly exercise influence.” That, too, means little. There are many ways in which German and Austrian Nazis can work together \without it being done officially. Besides, the third and concluding article provides a loophole several times bigger thah a barn door. Says Article 3: “The Austrian federal government will maintain its policy in general, especially as regards the German Reich, always in harmony with the basic conception that Austria recognizes itself as a German state.” | So long as Austria behaves as a “German state” should behave—and Herr Hitler, in the final analysis will be the sole judge—all will be well bgtween the two countries. But once she forgets her accepted status, Berlin will do both the interpreting and the deciding. \ : ” » » JD UT that is not all. As if to make a strangely weak “accord” all the more mysteriously feeble, Vienna dispatches say the Austrian government has agreed to make some “slight changes” in its cabinet in line with the new understanding. And what are these “slight changes”? One is merely without portfolio. Small wonder they are already referring to this man as “Germany’s representative in the Austrian cabinet.” Mussolini, cables from Rome state, approves ot the accord. That is comprehensible. His own understandings with Vienna still hold good. London likewise is said the view the rapproche‘ment with no great displeasure,

greatest peace-time rearmament program in all her history. ; " But Prance is alarmed. While internal discord daily saps her strength, she sees, in the Central European entente, just another step in the direction of Anschluss, a step toward the progressive, if underground, Nazification and union of Austria with Germany. We very much hope that Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, is correct when he says it is a ‘practical step on the road to the peaceful settlement of European conditions.” But it looks ~ very much as though Austrians and Germans have agreed to bury the hatchet, each to go its own way— until the time comes when they can have a reunion

in Vienna. >

OBEYING THE LAW

ESPITE the drive against traffic law violators, ; 18 per cent of the automobiles parked in the ‘mile square area during June were parked illegally. “This record of violations, shown by a National Youth Administration survey, was an increase over March, when the NYA survey figure was 17 per cent. Presumably, many of these violators resent our trafic laws. They should remember these ordi-’ nances have been enacted to preserve personal lib‘erty, not to restrict it. Be ashamed, not thrilled, when you “get away with something” just because .an officer isn't around. The alarming death rate in Indianapolis will not be reduced until we voluntarily accept the wisdom of traffic laws and obey them.

SENATOR GORE “rPHE law of evolution is adapt or die, and I didn’t adapt.” * Thus soliloquized blind Senator Thomas P. Gore, as returns from Oklahoma's primary spelled his second and perhaps final defeat. Once before the Senator ignored evolutions law. That was in the war years when he took the position that Europe's carnage was no affair of ours, and refused to follow Woodrow Wilson's leadership. When the war was over, a resentful Oklahoma . democracy retired him to the rear tanks. But in

‘courage—we doubt it. For that would be contrary lo Gore's own definition of the law of evolution. Dreo he has Zone more than ignore that law; has defiled it. It has not been a case of Gore ding still, breathing the cugrent of political ‘Rather, he tried to move against the cur-

Twenty-nine years ago, imbued somewhat

It could equally as appropriately have said

told, has just been signed “restoring the two.

Unfortunately, the news can hardly be taken at

She is playing for ‘|. time—until she can complete, in feverish haste, the

the ogy of Populism, he came to the |

LAVIN CL

=® working on proposed merit systems for the State Unemployment Compensation Department, the Public Welfare Department and possibly the Fed-eral-State Employment Service, may consider setting up separate and independent personnel divisions. : : We believe this would be unwise. If, as we hope, there is enough demand later for extension of the merit plan to other state departments, the result would be many scattered personnel units, each too smail to provide well-developed systems with the necessary experts and examiners to insure non-political operation. : As different systems operated, they might tend to diverge instead of unify. The danger would be in possibly contradictory systems which not only would be bewildering but might discredit the whole merit idea. : But if the three departments together can establish a sound, nonpartisan system of public personnel, they may set up a mogel for the state service which can be expanded. The unified plan should have some centralized control, with co-operation of all departments assuring uniform standards, The merit groups working on this problem have made a good beginning. We urge them to consider the whole future of merit in the state government when they meet again this week.

“THEIR AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY”

N° supposed handicap suffered by youth prior to the depression can compare with the loss sustained when youth is compelled by the false ecgnomics of the New Deal to exchange their American opportunity, to which they are entitled, for enrollment in a Federal camp at $30 a month” said Senator Frederick Steiwer in his G. O. P. keynote speech at Cleveland, \ Up to now we had heard of none of the million’ or so members and alumni of the CCC camps eager to exchange their enrollments for their American opportunity to breathe the free air of a flophouse, a poolroom or hobe “jungle.” Now, it seems, their unAmerican perversity in preferring clean, hard work In the forests is shared by the great bulk’of the rest of us. In the American Institute of Public Opinion’s re cent poll on the question: “Are you in favor of continuing the CCC camps?” the “yes” answers were 82 per cent of the 100,000 American peopie polled; ‘the “no” answers were only 18 per cent. Favoring the New Deal's “false economics” were 67 per cent of the Republicans polled, opposing them only 33 per cent. In Senator Seiwer's own forestcovered Pacific Coast states the vote was 87 per cent for continuing the CCC, only 13 per cent against. Not one section nor one political group favored abandoning the CCC. This poll only drives home what nearly everybody knows—that of all the New Deal projects in con-

servation and human reconstruction the CCC is the

most popular. Everybody is out of step but Senator Fred. :

THE FIRE HAZARD "Her dry, hazardous,” is the United States Forest Service report from the timber belts of the South, the Great Lakes region, the West and Alaska. And, in view of the increased vacation travel this summer, this means trouble. Careless autoists and campers are the greatest fire hazards, greater than lightning or other natural dangers. Unless extra precautions are taken, this -Ssummer may see millions of dollars’ worth of fine timber go up in smoke as a result of preventable forest fires, ga Via ay 51 =~ The Forest Service lists eight precautions, which if zealously followed will reduce man-caused fires to a minimum. Paste these in your hat as you set out for your vacations in the leafy havens of the woods: . ‘ 1. SMOKING: Smoke only while stopping in a safe place, clear of ali inflammable material; never while traveling in the woods. 2. MATCHES: Be sure your match is out. Break it in two before you throw it away. 3. TOBACCO: Be sure that pipe ashes and cigar or cigaret stubs are dead before throwing them away. Never throw them into brush, leaves or needles. 4. MAKING CAMP: Before building a fire scrape away all inflammable material from a spot five feet in diameter. Dig a hole in the center and in it build your camp fire. Keep your fire small. Never build it against trees or logs or near brush. 5. BREAKING CAMP:' Never break camp until your fire is out—dead out. 6. HOW TO PUT OUT A CAMP FIRE: Stir the coals while soaking them with water. Turn small - sticks and drench both sides. Wet the ground after the fire. If you can’t get water, stir in dirt and tread it down until packed tight over and around the fire. Be sure the last spark is dead. ’ 17. BRUSH BURNING: Never burn slash cr. brush in windy weather ér while there is the slight est danger that the fire will get away. 8, PUT OUT any small fires you can. Report all fires to the-nearest warden or ranger. ;

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT, By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EACE was stamped upon the face of the woman who last week celebrated her twenty-fifth anniversary as a nun. Her poise was unshakable. Occasionally in our ring-around-the-rosy life we meet an experience which jaffolir complacence. It makes us wonder whether all our efforts are getting us the real compensations from life. For me that celebration was one of them. Here was a middle-aged woman who for a quarter of a century had been slipping about hospital corridors on merciful errands. Thousands of sick and sorrowful persons had been soothed and helped by her. Her hands which hid themselves in the dull sleeves of a black habit were not soft and white, but they were lovely. - : 3 = “How do you manage to keep so

cool, Sister?”

We crowded arourid to speak to her—with the ther

She laughed. “I just think about the tranquillity of God,” she told us, and

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——————— ALLY, the seamstress, used to days when I was a little boy. She

come without upsetting mother’s

day; Thursday was a kind of midweek rest day, but for all practical

called crocheting day; Friday was cleaning day and Saturday was baking day. os :

to do but engage Sally for Wednesdays. Sometimes she came two days hand running and when that happened it merely meant that a little less crocheting was done on Thursday. Otherwise, it didn’t interfere with mother’s calendar. Sally used to come at § o'clock in the morning and always stayed for supper. She stayed for noon dinner too, of course, but she always seemed her best: at supper time, 1 thought, probably because she had too much on her mind at noon-time. At dinner, she always appeared to have a couple of pins in her mouth. She used to open up round supper-

neighborhood that had escaped us ter.

meals) and furnished her own tools. She also brought her own stories. \ ® 8 » NE Wednesday night, just about 50 years ago, Sally sprung what 1 have always considered her best story. It concerned her . brother, Sam. ;

in the neighborhood of . Irvington, slowed down for the dangerous railroad crossing on Aubudon-rd and saw standing by the roadside a girl, bareheaded but well dressed. She signaled him to stop and giving some explanation as to why she was stranded, begged him to take her back to Indianapolis. . : The girl appeared very tired and. after giving him the number of her home on N. Meridian-st, apparently went to sleep. At any rate, they drove into town without further conversation, | Pen Swinging into Meridian-st from Washington-st, Sam turned to speak to the girl and discovered to his horror that she was no longer in the surrey. He had been driving steadily and carefully and knew she could not possibly have gotten out. He didn’t - know what to do next, but after a few minutes’ thinking he decided to see the thing through. He pulled up before the address the girl had given him and, after a dazed moment, walked up to the house and rang the bell. -# = ‘#) : E rang several times before a - ‘'weary-looking man opened the door and asked him in. Before Sam had a chance to tell his story, the old man went to the sideboard and fixed up a drink of whisky and handed it to him. Sam’s story didn’t surprise the old man at all. Hardly a month passed, he said, without a visit late at night from some bewildered young man who told the same story. Yes, he thought he knew the girl. Undoubtedly, she was his daughter, who had been killed by a train at that intersection more than five years before. Father, I remember, let us boys stay up an hour longer the night Sally told her story. It was the only time he did. : ;

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in which Charlie Chaplin appeared. A—He made his screen

had to come on Wednesday because | lan,

purposes it might as well have been

So, you see, there was nothing left :

time and tell about things in the | boys and father, too, for that mat- i

Sally got $150 a day (and two|

Sam, riding late one Sunday night

‘larguing and delays being brought

Q—Name the first motion picture

The Hoosier Forum . : 1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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DISLIKES BASEBALL ARGUMENTS : By Harvard Beno

The writer helped to make up & party of nine that went to Perry Stadium the other night to see 'a ball game between a colored team from Nashville, Tenn. and the Kingan team of this city. It was a long and tiresome game, most of the

about by the local team. The fact that the game took three hours to play, and it only took eight and a half innings to play it, and with the expense to some interests for the. electric current for:-the extra hour, is evident that too much that is not baseball was injected in the game— unless fighting'is part of baseball as played this day. ’ : With such unsportsmanship' as displayed, the writer and others can stay away from the game and let the fighters fight it out. This game should be a lesson to the management of Perry Stadium to have a clause in the contract that when a night game requires three hours to finish it, and the game not requiring over the usual nine inings, and when delays are not caused by acts of Divine Providence,

Your Healt+ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. OT infrequently a child is born . with a weak place in the wall of the abdomen which results sometimes, even at birth, in the appearance of what scientists call hernia, and what the public commonly.calls a rupture. The rupture. usually is seen as a swelling, because the intestines or other materials within the abdomen have pushed their way through the weak place in the muscle wall. ~~ | The most common place for ruptures to appéar in babies at birth is somewhere in the middle line around the navel. In older children ruptures usually are seen in the groin, and not infrequently in boys | they may. push down into the geni-

that one or both teams pay for the extra juice. >

; nn LAMENT OF THE ARMY ENGINEERS By George Sanford Holmes Good-by, Quoddy, we must leave

"you, : Though it breaks our: hearts to 80; No use trying to deceive you, There’s no more Federal dough; The President's tried so hard to ~~ save you : But Congress would not hear; Thank him for what funds he gave

you, Good-by,: Quoddy dear. Don’t cry, Quoddy, there's another Doomed to be your orphaned pal, Don’t forget your little brother, That hungry Florida Canal: Its big maw ate up many a million, When the dirt was high, But Congress said ’twould cost a billion, So we're kissing it ggod-by.

Good-by, Quoddy, to your: notion Of hitching up the tides and moon; You dreamed of harnessing the B ig too But the cold dawn came too soon; Good-by, Florida, the Sunny, Your ditch must still stay dry, Good-by, also, to our money, Forever and for aye.

2 2 ” WOULD PUT LIMIT ON AUTO SPEED

| By H. 8. Osgood

: Please permit the writer to suggest a real remedy to put an end to the holocaust of deaths from :he deadly auto driver. Speed has become not only a habit, but amounts to a craze with a majority of drivers. especially with the younger generation. The speed gamblers, regardless of consequences, defy laws and éncourage in others a reckless spirit of emula-

‘tion that , gets beyond control.

Hence, if the general welfare of the public is being threatened sericusly so that strict laws can not curb

| an ever mounting death rate, there

seems but ome thing to do—enact a national law ‘Jimiting construction of all private: machines to a universal Shogd Timi of 25 miles per hour, the y exception being the police machine, the ambulance and government machines. ‘Such a law would be a boon to reilroads that have done more to

develop this country than any other agency. ' The idea of the automobile is cheaper transportation for those able to own one, not for business

. | but for pleasure. This feature alone

is responsible for very much of the hard times in the lives of people young and old utterly unable to support the expense and the upkeep of this luxury. At the door of this modern luxury can be laid very much of the immorality that is conspicuous among the younger 3generation. » E 8 ,

SAYS NEEDY RATE MOR

THAN LIP SERVICE By J C. Urban, Bloomingieon

' In commenting on the President’s acceptance address, 'you remarked about the necessity of liquidating pressure groups if our form of government is to live. : sibs In the very nature of democratic government, special pleading is bound to prevail. The diffusion of

.| authority and lack of responsibility

inherently ‘characteristic of the democratic process make it susceptible to both good and evil outside influence. From the standpoint of the common weal, the country in the past has suffered harmful impositions of various hues and odors. Since vulnerability to special privilege is an inevitable concomitant of our system of rule, the elected representatives in Congress should be chary of measures

According to the Brooking’s Institute, in 1929, 71 per cent. of the families in this country lived below. a decent standard of living. These are the families that suffer most when favoritism reigns. It’s time their interests were given something more than lip service. ;

BIRD LORE»

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY You're so gay, my pretty bird, Soaring through the azure blue; Sweetest song I ever heard Warbles from the throat of you. Sad, it seems, your lofty flight Must be broken to affirm Nature’s law of steadfast might, “Down to earth to get the worm.” So man mocks the gay bird's plight, Soars in idealistic mood, Always keeping earth in sight

Where he dives in quest of food.

SIDE GLANCES

ByGeorge Clark

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1914 with the Keystone Film Co. | during the first few Y “Mak . | this reason an abdominal of 165 Angeles, Making a Liv worm. Babies ear is | i : or five or six months, doctor | Q—Is the Erie Canal a part of a Indicases necessity for it. ta larger sand) Sysiom? : ig yr — main one of the four : ml ie improved branches of the New York | JQ Vroom in the groin are Q—What is’ the address ctor, who will advise A—247 Park-av, New veloped for controllnig | since it is possible wi

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LONDON, Conn., July 13.— - Sure did have a lot of fun

the captain. “Oh, captain, when do we cross

And another one said: “Oh tain, tell us about your most - ing moment at sea.” And still another one said: “Cape. tain, I'm from the Steamboat Ine spection Service. Let’s see your pae pers.” Just like a girl, isn't it? The captain didn’t answer, so we got out the long boats and we rowed against the wind, man and boy, for three days and a half. When we got to Blook Island there wasn't anything there except water. About that time the mate walked by and I said to him: “Mate, how's your scuppers?” : ~The mate said: “Don’t mate. Call me Paul.” 8 8»

Y this time we were three score and 10 minutes out of Long Island, and you couldn't see a bit of land—unless you looked -out the window. So I said to the captain, I said: “Captain, why are women: and children first?” He answered that one. > “It's just a foolish belief held in some ports,” he said. “Sort of a superstitition.” ; We passed Fisher’s Island on the starboard bow, and saw a guy lying on the beach, wearing only a loin cloth, and reading the 10 best books. Shipwrecked, I guess. - The captain walked by again. said: “Captain, I've just been figuring, and I figure that if I had paid the same rate per hour on the freighter last spring coming around from California that we are paying on this tub of yours, the three-week freighter trip would have cost us just $1660, instead of $265 as it did. Laugh that off. Or maybe I better laugh it off.” The captain said for me to laugh it off. = The door of the cabin got to banging back and. forth, so I took out my screw driver and took it off its hinges and threw it in the ocean. The screw driver, I mean. The little guy across the table who hadn’t said a word all evening, said: “Captain, if you're the captain, why ain’t you up on the bridge gettin’ your bearings?”

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Wi sure had ihe Old Man see< ing red, and he was going to have us put in chains, but while he was down in the engine room looking for them, we rammed into the dock at New London. The old boat just stood right up on her nose and dived for the bottom, carrying the women and childre down first. : As I went down for the third time, I saw the captain standing on the bridge, holding a pistol to his head. He fired twice and missed both times. Then, with a mighty oath, he stomped off onto the dock, got in a taxi, and went home for supper.

call me

privily watch had s at 7:13. That | advocated by paid agents of wealth My fopped : ‘| and power.

was the end. (The above is slightly exaggerated, for dramatic effect. It took us an hour and a half to cross, the Sound was just like a floor, the people on board were all stupid, and I never did see the captain.)

JULY 13 IN

Indiana History

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sons, and the Rev. Manasseh Cutler, ~ In his diary Mr. Cutler records that he found congressmen as needy as Congress and tells how he catered to speculating congressmen. The resuly’ was that his company acquired title: to 1,500,000 acres on the Muskingum River and that Congress passed the ordinance tq govern the territory. » t 4 »” . ordinance provided for & temporary government, to be appointed by Congress, consisting of a Governor, a secretary and three judges. Freedom of worship and the personal and property rights

“common to Engl ? were ase sured. A high property qualification wasirequired of both voters and office holders.

The ordinance provided that not less than three and not more than five states were eventually to be carved out of the territory. As soon as a state acquired 60,000 inhabitants it was to be admitted to