Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1936 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936,

Give Light and the People Will Fina : Their Own Way 1

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; | GRASS FIRES ARELESSNESS. combined with a searing sun has run fire hazards up to alarming proportions. During June of 1935 the Indianapolis Fire Department answered one grass fire call. In June this year there were 53 of these fires. The number has continued to multiply in July. A check the other day showed the Fire Department made ‘an average of three runs an hour to grass fires between 9 a. m. and 1 p. m., The daily average is from 5 to 15. One fireman, Lieut. George Ream, was overcome while fighting a grass fire last week and died. : 2 Warning that most of these fires are due to carelessness, Fire Department officials suggest: Don’t burn trash, grass or weeds now unless. it is absolutely necessary. If such a fire is started, be sure it is well tended and that there is ample water available to keep it under control. Don't throw away matches or cigarets until all fire is extinguished.

PROMISES VERSUS PERFORMANCES

N Cleveland, Gov. Landon and the Republican ‘national convention went on record as favoring extension of the civil service.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylania’s capital, the Republi-can-controlled Senate recently killed a constitutional amendment providing for civil service in all state, county and local offices. Among those instrumental in throttling the measure was Senator G. Mason Owlett, who as Pennsylvania's national committeeman helped draft the Cleveland platform. Which once more goes to show that there is a vast difference between promises and performances and that Theodore Parker, the noted American theologian, knew whereof he spoke when he said: “Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.”

- 1936 AND 1830

EDICATING the Triborough Btidge at New York, President Roosevelt glanced briefly back over the vears when ferry ‘boats were adequate to move traffic across rivers, and cited the new $60,000,000 span of concrete and steel as another example of the ever-growing services which make for an ever-growing cost of government. Even more graphically, Mayor La Guardia paint‘ed the picture of change: “Because the early set- _ flers crorsed the East and Harlem Rivers in saildh joats was no reason why steam ferries should not ‘have been | utilized when they came into being. Should ferryboats be continued when automobiles and trucks demand bridges and tunnels?” One hundred and six years ago Lord Macaulay, English historian, addressed to the timid of his day _ this question: “On what principle is it that when we see nothing but improvement behind us we are to expect ‘ nothing but deterioration before us? “History is full of the signs of the natural prog‘ress of society,” he wrote. “We see in almost every ' part of the annals of mankind how the industry of individuals, struggling up against wars, taxes, "famines, conflagrations, mischievous prohibitions “and more mischievous protections, creates faster than governments can squander, and repairs whatever invader can destroy. ; | ® x 2» E can not absolutely prove that those are in 8 error who tell us that society has reached . the turning point—that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us and with just as much ap- ~ parent reason. : : "ip million a year will beggar us,’ said the . patriots of 1640. “ “Two millions a year will grind the country to * powder,’ was the ery in 1160. “ ‘Six millions a year and a debt of 50 millions!’ exclaimed Swift—the high allies have been the ruin of us.’ “‘A hundred of forty millions of debt,’ said ¢ Junius. ‘Well may we say that we'owe Lord Chath- : am more than we shall ever pay, if we owe him such - a debt as this.’ “‘Two hundred and forty millions of debt!’ cried ¢ all the statesmen of 1783 in chorus. ‘What abilities } : what economy on the part of a minister can save . a country so burdened?’ "The present moment is one of great distress . . . . yet is the country poorer than in 1790? We firmly ' believe that, in spite of all the misgovernment of her rulers, she has been almost constantly becoming

richer and richer. Now and then there has been a

‘stoppage, and now and then a short regression; but as to the general tendency there can be no doubt. “A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.”

CLEAR THE TRACK!

I'd never ride a train again because of the cost, ‘but now that you've reduced the rates, I'm starting again.” | > : A local railroad agent reports this and similar ‘comments from some customers since the new 2-cent Z h fare t into effect.’ It is merely one indication that more people are using the railroads. The lines here re a sharp increase in ticket sales and enue over last year. Part of this is due to reduced fares. Some is due recovery. People are traveling more and comanies are finding it profitable to put more salesmen n the road. And still more is due to railroad modzations — air-cooled trains, faster schedules; m-lined, Diesel-powered trains; more comfort, ter convenience. These advancements are being alded as a new era in railroading. . Indiana it an important railroad terminal, but in the Big our shops at Beech Grove it has the second largest road shops in the country. At Beech Grove some She Rew super-trains are being built. Important vel ow are being carried on. conicued up upswing in railroad activity, there-

Ba chi coms Even more

HAVEN'T been on a train in 10 years. I vowed

is a key city in this picture. Not only

‘GOOD THING BADLY DONE

is both good and bad news in the an-

== nouncement that the government this week is

‘paying railroad men’s pensions out of the Treasury.’

It is good news that after all these years the veterans of industry at last are receiving benefits to care for their old age. It is bad news that Congress and the courts have permitted a sound principle to be turned into a dangerous precedent. The Railmen’s Pension Act, written after the Supreme Court threw out their first pension law, was pushed through Congress in the form of two ‘bills. Ome retired all raidroaders at 65 on pensions geared to their length of service, and appropriated $46,685,000 for the first year’s annuities. The other sought to reimburse the Treasury by means-of a 7 per cent tax on the railroads, shared equally by the carriers and the workers. The United States District Court recently declared the tax law unconstitutional but said nothing about the pension and appropriation. Hence, the government is paying

pensions, ranging from $13.55 to $91.04 a month, to .

the first 18 eligible, and paying them out of the United States Treasury. Eventually some; 1,250,000 railroaders will be eligible. If the United States Supreme Court holds as did the lower courts that

the tax is unconstitutional and the pension uhconstitutional, a new permanent and excessive burden,

similar to the bonus, will be laid on the government. Under the Social Security Act, other industries— employers and workers sharing the burden equally —retire their aged from earnings. The government only essays to care for the needy aged, until all are pensioned from earned savings. Under the Railmen’s Act, as passed by Congress and interpreted so far by the court, the government pays the whole bill. It is obvious that the 30,000,000 otber ‘workers covered under the Social Security Act's thrift plan

could not all be retired on government pensions. .

Why, then, should the higher paid rail workers and . the railroads, already benefiting from government bounty, receive such a boon as this?

BAR PROPOSALS

HE INDIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION deserves public support in several of its proposals for improving legal machinery.’ One simple but important recommendation Is for the use of alternate jurors in criminal cases. Other states have found that the use of a “spare juror’—who is sworn in with the others and who participates in the verdict if one of the regular jurors is incapacitated—has prevented costly retrials. "_ The proposed non-partisan election of judges would be a wholesome step. The expulsion from the bar of four Chicago judges for unethical political conduct, and the general criticism of jurists for political activity in Indiana and other states, emphasize the demand for divorcing the courts from politics. Moreover, the election or re-election of a good judge should not depend on which party is in power. It also is encouraging to note the increased sentiment among lawyers to weed out the unfit in their own ranks. Fred Gause, Indianapolis, retiring president, told the bar convention at Lake Wawasee that while

" réquirements for admission to the Indiana har have

been tightened, the profession is almost powerless to discipline members for unethical conduct. He urged that the Supreme Court “assume its inherent power” to discipline or disbar lawyers for misconduct. ‘The more rigid examinations of character and ability should help keep incompetent and unreliable persons out of the profession at the start. But unless there is some means of eliminating the dishonest and disreputable lawyer, the Public stand-

“ing of all- lawyers will suffer,

ARMING—AND WAITING

A” Geneva, France's Premier Leon Blum says that the world has gone back to 1914 and that unless something is done, and done soon, there will be another explosion. From the same pulpit, Soviet Russia’s Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov warns that Germany is preparing for aggression and that the covenant of the League must be strengthened if conflict is to be headed off. Britain's Foreign Minister Anthony Eden speaks ominously of the “uncertainty” hanging over the Mediterranean and adds that until this passes the British fleet will remain on guard. At London, Britain is taking steps to invoke the “escape clause” of the naval limitation treaties to retain warships which otherwise would be scrapped. At Washington, Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations, indicates that, the situation being what it is, the two new capital ships to be laid down next year by this country will carry 16-inch guns, instead of the 14-inch guns agreed ' upen by Britain, France and the United States subJect to Nippon conforming. And so it goes. The naval limitation treaties are now dead. Already Articles 10 and 16 make each member the guarantor of the frontiers of all the other members, and vice versa. On paper, nothing could possibly be stronger. On paper, half a hundred nations, including Britain, France and the Soviet Union, stood back of Ethiopia. Yet Italy won. Today, according to reliable portents, further aggressions are imminent. Yet nowhere is there the slightest indication that any responsible government or outstanding statesman has the fopgiest notion of what to do about it. No, that is not the exact truth. To be fair, they do have one idea in common. And that is 19 gO on SUMING as fast ws they can , . .. and wal} for the explosion.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

[OTHING is more futile than the specialized advice given these days to young people; what sort of men make good husbands, for instante, or what qualities a gentleman shouid look for in a wife, or how to go about beguiling a mother-in-law. ~ For the one thing about marriage more obvious than its difficulties is its surprises. Somehow, no wedding ever turns out quite as we expect "it will. The impossible match, over which adults go into a chorus of tongue-cluckings, surprisingly wears on toward: the golden wedding day, while the ideal romance dissolves in no time, with a judge giving the advice. You see, the human element has to be reckoned with and it's a great deal stronger than our ability to rationalize our ideals. But because we have the human element to con-

sider, love and marriage never can be treated like

problems in solid geometry. You can’t fix men and

women together as if they were pieces in a jig-saw

puzzle. And if ever the girls and boys begin seriously to practice all the common-sense rules they

hear, selecting only mates who seem best suited to °

them, we will have a worse mess than ever.

Marriage is an experiment in living—the greatest

experiment. It may not be made in heaven, but it will certainly not be perfected according to specifica ‘tions laid down by the professors. There is only one

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

church choir until Henry Ward Beecher hit upon the idea sometime ‘in the forties. Up to that time, non-ritualistic churches around here generally held to congregational singing, which usually was led by some man with a reputation for sustained pitch and principle. Not infrequently, however, starting was a volunteer effort coming from somebody with a pet tune and a pet pitch. Like as not, it would come from anywhere in the body of the congregation.

Familiar songs were sung right along, with or without books; but when there were no books, or only a few, the preacher would “line out” the hymn or “deacon” it, Yankees called it, by reading two lines and waiting for the congregation to sing these before tackling

entertained by preachers of strong atavistic habits. There were a few hymns so popular that everybody knew’ them. One of the finest of these was “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?” Another was “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing.” The piece de resistance, however, was “Come, Humble Sinner,” a “minor” adapted from an old Irish air, Goat.” Properly sung with emotional emphasis on the “blues,” it made up for many a sour sermon. ” ” ” HE study of music was not much cultivated in Indianapolis before Mr. Beecher’s day. The only known textbook, for instance, was Allen D. Carden’s “Missouri Harmony” (1834), and it was complicated because it still used the “square” system. Indeed, to express. nuances it had to resort to triangular notes.

The “round” note, or “do, re” system came along about the time that the church choir did and it may be that Mr. Beecher’s brother, the Rev. Charles, had something to do with. it, because it was he who ‘led the first Indianapolis church choir.

Which brings me to what I wanted to say in the first place, namely: That if the Beecher brothers hadn't’ done what they did when they did— why, maybe three Indianapolis girls

‘might never have had the chance to

be stars of the Metropolitan Opera of New York. : 2 8 = E that as it may, it remains a fact that Margaret Reid, Mar-. guerite Lemon and Sarah Layton Walker all got to be stars of the “Met” by way of Indianapolis church choirs.

Margaret Reid got there by way of the “Home-av” or Third Christian Church. She made her debut at the “Met” in 1892, as Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet.”

Marguerite Lemon sang in the First Presbyterian Church: choir, then in a New York church choir where she attracted the attention

Sarah Layton Walker sang in Indianapolis church choirs, after which she went to Europe. At Frankfort - on - the - Main, Gustav Mahler, then director of the Vienna Royal Opera, came to hear her and engaged her for three guest performances. ‘After the first performance, Mahler offered her - contract for six years.

Metropolitan wake up .and engage her.

Ask The Tones

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Q—Give the names and political affiliations of the United States Senators from New Jersey.

A—W. Warren Barbour of Locust, Republican; Arthur Harry Moore of Jersey City, Democrat.

~ Q—Were the early models of the Springfield rifle of the same caliber as the present model?

A—The 1868 model was .50-caliber and the 1873 model was .45-caliber. There were no intervening ‘models. 45-caliber was followed by the 30, which is the present model. Q—What are coins and when are they issued?

_A—They are coins authorized - by each issue being author-

celebration. Q—What is oleo oil?

Ashi yellow oil of WiSY n= sistency expressed fron certain animal fats; especially . the highgrade beef tallow known: as premier jus, the greater portion of the solid fat (oleo stearin) being left behind.

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! SUPPORTING THE PLATFORM J

The 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 vour letters short. so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your lctier must be sioned, but names will be withheld on reoucst.) - : ® a =

SAYS WHITE 1S IN

‘RED NETWORK’ By a Subscriber

While we are raising such a hulla-' balloo about Communism in the Democratic Party, it is not beside the point to call attention of Alfred M. Landon, Frank Knox and John Hamilton to the fact that William Allen White, who acted as

leader of Landon spokesmen at’

Cleveland, is listed in “Who's Who” in radicalism in the “Red Network” on page 322. Now, Mr. Hamilton, it is up to you

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. : Many years have passed since the medical profession first recognized the importance of the removal of infected tonsils, because of their re-. lationship to disease. Tonsils sometimes are removed simply because they are so greatly enlarged as to interfere with swallowing and breathing. In many instances, however, they are found to be filled with infectious material,

and‘ for that reason constitute a menace to health and life.

the tonsils by the blood to other parts of the body, and there set up secondary infections. . There are well-established cases in which infection of the tonsils has been followed by that of the heart, of the kidneys, and even of the lining of the abdominal cavity. There also are cases which connect infection of the tonsils with chronic colds and sinus infections, infections of the ears, disturbances of the nervous system and rheumatic disorders. No one ever has determined just why we have tonsils. Apparently, they serve some purpose in taking

‘| care of infectious germs that get +4 into the throat.

- When the tonsils become infécted, they swell and there is pain, soreness, difficulty in swallowing, swelling of the glands in the throat, high fever, rapid pulse, general weakness and an appearance of illness.

HE germ that is most frequently | responsible for tonsillitis is the streptococcus. A germ of the samgeneral culture also is respons for various forms of heart disease, Pheumstism, erysipelas and scarlet ever. Once the tonsils have been se-

riously infected, they are likely to| and

become infected

A child with tonsillitis should be |

physician is called, he usually will apply suitable antiseptics directly to the throat to destroy the germs that are on the surface. He will do what he can to control the fever

The infection may be carried from :

to laugh that off. Is William Allen White the Tugwell of the Republican Party? : 2 x =» CITES ECONOMIC DECLINE OF INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS By Jimmy Cafouras There is still a great stench in the pots of industry. A big slice is due to natural economic factors. A great portion of it is due to plain unadulterated selfishness and inconsideration. on the part of industry. The rest is due to the momentum gathered by these goings-on so that a lot of the captains and puppets of industry can not help themselves. By. this time babes in the cradle and even some of the United States Senators know that improved machinery and newer, quicker and more efficient methods of .prodiction have displaced great bodies of workmen. It so happens that the artisans and skilled workers of yore are being displaced by the piece worker who clamps down a lid or gives Nut 997 an extra turn. The workers of the present are like the teeth on a gear wheel. Any one can clamp down the lid or give Nut 997 an extra twist. By the economy of things, those out of work will work for less than those that have work. And this goes on until those that work do so for practically nothing. Since so many people have little money and since they do at least 90 per cent of the spending there is little spending done. The only kind of money that is ‘any good is money that is moving freely from hand to hand. Stagnant, frozen money may as well cease to exist. And credit depends on the movement of money.

» ” » UNIONIZATION EFFORTS OF LEWIS COMMENDED By H. L. Seeger : The substitution of organized “labor unions” for “company unions” in rubber, textile and steel, through

the efforts of John L. Lewis is the | most important step taken by labor

in many years. ; Bargaining ‘through company unions is like a ventriloquist dummy show, one master, one dummy, one voice. The craft unions are so divided in interest even in the recognized labor federation, that the voice of labor is merely a whisper in the economic . The theory behind thé company unions

is that the interest of capital and labor is identical in the promotion of the business of which they are parts. If this were really the case, there would have to be an ownership -interest on the part of organized workers, which would entitle labor to sharing the prodfits in each ‘industry, on a basis of equality with capital investment. Labor has a greater problem than the mere exaction of wages and working conditions for better living conditions. Labor must in reality become a partner in every industry, and entitled to all the rights and du-

ties of a partner in business. Mr.

Lewis’ drive to ‘transfer workers from company unions to real labor unions does not create the necessary relationship between capital and labor to insure labor its just share of profits and a voice in the on. eration of industry 2 # READER DEFENDS ROOSEVELT AND NEW DEAL By W. P. Flanary In the Hoosier Forum under date of July 6, I read an item written by one Paul Masters of Anderson, in which he stated that the voters of America should stop to consider the source of Roosevelt criticism, and refers to the critics as sound thinking men of all parties and by so doing you will realize why all the dissension in Democratic ranks. What dissension are you referring to, Mr. Masters, the remark is just as clear and understanding to me as your closing remarks of Wake Up, America.” Do you know, Mr. Masters, the voters of America have not been asleep since they woke up in 1232 and when I say voters, I'm referring to the majority of the voters in forty-two of the forty-eight states that constitute our nation. Can it be, Mr. Masters, that you are a bit drowsy or have you been asleep during the wonderful progress of the New Deal?

DAILY THOUGHT

‘Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek affer my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.—Psalm 70:2.

O man ever did a designed injury to another but at the

same time he did a greater to himself —Home.

SIDE CLAN CES By George Clark

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EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that.

EW LONDON, Conn. July 14. —The chances that you or I will ever have ‘to escape from a sunken submarine are slight. Ese pecially since the Navy won't even let us go on a submarine tied up at the dock. But there's. nothing like > bing prepared, so I've just acquired a large fund of information on how

to get out of a sub that won't come

up. You do it with the Momsen lung.

You may remeniiier that after the S-4 disaster in 1927 there was a hue and cry for putting some ‘sort of escape device on subs. So a Navy man named Lieut. C. B. Momsen invented what is known as a lung. That was in 1928. Today the Navy has a batch of these lungs on every sub, and it has two huge training tanks. Every man in the submarine service must do a few theoretical underwater “escapes” with the Momsen lung. One of the tanks is at Pearl Hare bor in Hawaii. The other is here, It is quite a piece of apparatus. It is a round steel tank, 135.feet tall and 18 feet across. It looks like a silo with a big topnot, ” ” ” 1 OW for the escape. First they put you in a compression chamber, and run the pressure up to 50 pounds, which is the same as if you were 110 feet under water. Some men get pains in their ears and have to quit, but not many. After this, you put on the lung. It’s just a rubber bag that straps across your chest. You put a clip on your nose, then put the mouthpiece in your mouth and breathe through that. The lung has oxygen in it, and also a purifying device so you can breathe the air over and over again. A lung with one filling lasts you about half an hour. The neophytes now stand in wae ter just over their heads, and prace tice breathing .into this lung. Then they take an elevator to the top of the tank, step onto a diving bell, are lowered 12 feet, then step off into the water and come floating up, breathing all the time. Each man has to make two ese capes from 12 feet down, and two from 18 feet down. That's all that is required. But any one who wants to can escape from 50 and 100 feet.

” ” z . Ir this spectacular 100-foot escape, you go into a compartment at the bottom of the tank, which is just like a real submarine compartment.

Then they flood this with water and air, to make the pressure the same as the water above, so the hatch will open. Then the men put on their lungs, climb up the ladder through the hatch, and out into the: bottom of the 100-foot tank full of water. A line is stretched to the top of the tank, and they hold on to this going up. Occasionally they have to stop and wait, to get used to the changing pressure. . Otherwise they would “explode” when they’ got to the top. This . 100-foot escape is ‘purely voluntary. Only about a third of the men in the sub service do it. It bears close watching. The pressure is terrific down there, and it takes about four minutes to come up, and you've got to be calm. Five men have died trying to do it, here and at Pearl Harbor. But more than 2000 have done it successfully.

TULY 14

IN INDIANA HISTORY

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went into camp ‘was covered with slime. Visions of glory began ta fade. A number of the men were sick. The camp, according to one ‘historian, “took on the appearance of a hog wallow.” : Four days they spent in this dis mal camp before two ships were supe plied to carry them across the gulf. But seasickness struck with worse damage to their new clothes than the New Orleans mud had caused, A volunteer from Hendricks County died and was buried at sea. Arrived in Mexico, the First Regie ment was left to guard non-existent supplies in a camp at the mouth of the Rio Grande, #2 2 A EASLES and dysentery, due to impure drinking water, ase sailed the troops. Col, James P. Drake reported 100 of his command sick Aug. 5. Thirteen had died . by Sept. 1. - Col. Drake asked Gen. Zachary Taylor for permission to move his men from the unhealthful camp, Permission was refused and, except for a short march, the First Indiana Regiment spent the duration of the war in Camp Belknap ‘at the mouth of the Rio Grande. The