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‘ WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936, i
| DUST ON THE OCEAN
is “only natural that the mixed metaphor should
“ be the more or less regular product of mass production in ‘political statements. Seldom, however, will one be found to outdo this from the latest reJease by John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee: : “This is a deliberate’ attethpt on the part of those other people to thfow a dust cloud when they know _ their ship is sinking.” . We submit this, to rival a remark attributed to a San Francisco politician who, commenting on a cer- * tain project said: , ‘That has all the earmarks of an eyesore.”
WILL THEY DO IT? HE solid diet of the local party machine is the ‘4 jobs at the Courthouse and the City Hall.” ; So writes Charles P. Taft II .in an article on * fighting the spoils system in the current Review - of Reviews. Steps have been taken to install the merit sys“tem of choosing personnel in a few state departments. An incomplete merit plan is in operation for city policemen and firemen. But at the City Hall and at the Marion County Courthouse, with a few exceptions, the old evil of the spoils system still flourishes. The party machines still ind at the City ~ Hall and the Courthouse their “solid diet.”
But the merit system now has become a state °
and national issue. Both major parties have heat the drums for it. Both have written it into their state and national platforms. Republican Candi-
date Landon put meaning into his party’s plank by
a public telegram to the delegates.
The reigning Democrats, alarmed by the public
tumult against giving thousands of jobs as rewards to partisans,-have reformed publicly and give their word to the ‘people that, if re-elected, there will be extension of the merit system in both. ctste and Federal service. » ” ” HUS the course is set upon a bipartisan basis for Indiana and for the nation. Support of the merit system is not the exclusive privilege of either Democrats or Republicans. The candidate of either party who openly or secretly promises jobs
to his workers is going counter to the state and
national policies of his party leaders. The spoils system is “outlawed” nationally as a political policy, just as war is outlawed by civilized nations as “an instrument of national policy.” In . both instances there is much matching of the deed with the word needed, but at least the brave word has-been spoken. And—when the public pressure
became great—the brave wofd also .was spoken by ‘
the state leaders.
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» Ge : BU we ask, when is that brave word going to be spoken at home by the Democrats and by
. the Republicans? Where is the Democratic candidate for prosecutor, or sheriff, or commissioner, or other county office who first will say that every job in his office will be awarded on a merit basis if he is elected? Where is the Republican candidate for county office who will say, “I believe in Landon’s ideas.
. Every job in my office; if I am elected, will be as-
signed only after competitive tests.”
We challenge the candidates for county offices be as forward- -looking as their
on both tickets state and national platforms.
We challenge them to “take the merit system :
planks from their state and national platforms and make those planks a part of their own campaign ‘promises.
LOST OCCUPATION
genes time swings northward across the continent’s bread basket, to end a little before frost, or a little after, somewhere in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. But men do not march northward with it, as in the past. Machinery has wrought the change. The invention of the reaper went far toward ending famine’s threat to the world, for so much less man-power was needed in harvests thereafter that acreage could be _ advantageously increased. Even when the reaper had developed to the binder, to tie its own sheaves ‘by machinery, many men followed the wheat belt across the country.
- But the combine that harvests and threshes at a -
single process has largely ended that occupation in . those lands where fields are large and wheat is king. Most of that toil is ended by a device that enables the farmer and his boys to handle the crop
~ That now.seems a normal development of a ma- - chine age, a phase of the evolution of many industries. Perhaps it forecasts the time when even the farmer will not toil. from sun to sun, and certainly it 1s a factor in that widespread unemployment prob‘lem that yields so slowly, even in a period of ~ economic improvement. \
CAREFUL, MR. PHILLIPS! HE American government,” says the United ! Press, “has moved to solve the delicate problem raised by Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.” It has sent Under Sestuimy of State William BS Phaliipe to
We ‘take the liberty of hoping, however, that Designate Phillips will not permit him- _ self to be hurried into any premature decisions. Sanctions having gone by the boards, the chief m now is that of recognition, or non-recogni-
of Ethiopia as an integral part of Il Duce’s
Roman Empire.
Recognition is largely an Italo-European issue,
lee par weer
theteby cutting the membership of the American labor movement by a third. =
or .
In Lawrence, Mass. & war veteran who has spent - his bonus rings a fire. alarm fo get medical treatment for a stomach ailment: ; In the California citrus pelt strike, county authorities invite civil war by announcing they will permit nonstrikers to arm themselves with clubs, truck drivers to carry pistols, and str aw bosses to wear side-arms and shotguns. In Westport, Conn., irate citizens circulate a petition protesting against ladies wearing shorts and halters as they do their marketing, and in Washing-
ton, D..C., two lads are barred from the Congres- : sional ‘Library because they wear polo shirts. :
In North Carolina is recorded another whipping
by chivalrous night riders who ‘have been beating up
girls. . John D. M. Hamilton, new G, O. P. chiairigan, charges the New Dealers with interjecting the “unholy issue” of race and religion into the campaign by spreading rumors in New York that he is antisemitic and in Kansas that Landon is Jewish be-
cause his middle name is Mossman. /
A dispatch from Mexico says it rained fish in Agua Caliente, causing prices of seafood to drop. “4n Seattle the bibulous Mr. Zioncheck announces to an audience that paid two-bits admission that he will run again for Congress. His only regret, he says, is that while forcibly detained in a Washington sanitarium he wags unable properly to represent his district. The Nazis give a foreign newspaper correspondent 10 days in which to leave Germany because his reporting was considered “incorrect.” : Hartford, Conn., reports that a 62-year-old fisherman saved a woman from drowning by his expert use of fishing line and hook. , ’ : It must be the humidity.
TO THE WOMEN UT on the Indianapolis County Club links, where the fairways are burned to a crisp brown and only the greens are green, women have been braving a flaming sun to play 18 holes a ‘day in the Indiana State Women’s Golf Tournament: More than 100 entrants started in the qualifying
, round. Seeking the women’s state golf crown of
Miss Elizabeth Dunn, Indianapolis, these golfers have turned in excellent scores under the. most difficult conditions.
If they can play 18 holes on the hottest day in the
city’s history, the rest of us should be able to hold out until the promised break in the heat wave arrives. ..
THE BRAKES!
HAT we are in a boom and ¢on’t know it has been the hunch of many a man of late. Reports of nearly everything going up, from steel and shipping to: sewing machines, have indicated bullishness, but a nation whose all eight fingers had been burned nearly to the bone has been exceedingly shy.
And the mounting debt plus the ever-present load:
of unemployment have been deterrents, working against happy-go-lucky psychology. In the meanwhile, excess reserves in the Panking system have been rising to an undreamed-of peak. : And ‘now, out of the blue, comes the Federal Re-
serve order to increase reserve requirements an
average of 50 per cent. That’s technical for putting
-on the brakes one-half strength. Roughly speaking, .
it constitutes the exact: opposite in effect to that famous Coolidge comment about brokers loans . not
“being too high.
, The order is the first ago move of the board under its new and drastically increased power, cre= ated by the New Deal. portance it probably Will end up An the record as one of the most significant actions in the history of a country’s finance. Too early now to appraise its full meaning; but it is entirely safe to'say that, being clearly defla-
tionary, it runs counter to all the predictions about
the new Federal Reserve set-up being designed for
‘purely political purposes.
Think of throwing cold water in an election year! It never happened during those 12 long ones,
“FOR IDLE HANDS” OMETHING like an epidemic of this: “What Is It” foolishness is sweeping . the country, an endless parade of gesticulating charades to suggest that those present are going into their St. Vitus dance or suffering from ‘writer's cramps. Less troublesome than the chain letters, and infinitely less expensive than ‘that inky bubble, the “What Is It” thing is evidence enough that the silly season is at hand, even if thé observing hadn't gleaned as much from the campaign speeches. However, therg is the happy thought that the new diversion won't last much longer than a platform promise or the Christmas. toys. nor return as frequently, for it is written that the country recovered from flag pole sitting and the ukulele, and even the ouija board isn't all it once was. :
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
— By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
T= saddest: headline we've seen for a long time topped a story of a young bride who followed a
Widely known playboy on his third trip to the. altar,
saying: “I'm going to reform him.” . May she linger as long as possible in her fool's paradise! Certainly any girl who marries in the hope of making over a man is destined to suffer keen disappointment, and if she continues the effort she may die of a broken heart. Wherever did we women get the idea out love was such a potent force it could change a drunk into a sober citizen, transform a miser into a philanthropist, and develop an even-tempered angel from a chronic grouch? Yet this seems to have been our most cherished delusion since Eve fed Adam the first
bad apple. * Men have encouraged us in the self-deceit. They
have done a tremendous lot yof talking about the
benign’ influence of good women in their lives—and
let us hasten to add, with some good reason. To be explicit, however, the only woman who can influence a man to any appreciable extent is his mother. If she hasn't done a good job when she had
her innings, the poor wife will not get very far with M
her reforms.
; Its’ unfortunate for everybody that we've over | oman the power of romantic love and under. |bor
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believing she can ie into a faithful ‘husband, and there, some patient woman, old enough
| her
As time seasons its im-
T a time when the art of fine ‘dogs, it's newsworthy to note that
Mrs. Bess Hutchings makes the sitchest Sup of Coffe anyWHee this
| side of New Orleans. -
~ Mrs, -Hutchings- -begins - where
‘other women leave off. hich is 0 say that she begins with a drip}
coffee, black and hot enough to serve the purpose of a decent demiThen, but not until then, does she turn alchemist. At any rate, it’s at
,pthis point that she begins collecting
a big peeled orange, a stick of cin-
and 7 jiggers of brandy, which is just enough to serve six conservative coffee drinkers. She puts everything into a fireproof bowl and touches it off with a match as one would a bunch of
all the while to keep everything in a state of stir until the fire is out. What remains is honestly ap-
coffee. And there you are. Sure, it’s the recipe for “Cafe brule,” a secret supposed to be hidden somewhere in New Orleans. Mrs. Hutchings’ recipe is duly au-
‘grandmother, Spaniard. ®
HE prety, little girls selling paper shopping-bags on the south side of Washington-st these
the: Nathan Morris Kindergarten, At any rate, they come from the southwest part of town, a district inhabited. largely by alert Jews who came here by way of Turkey and Greece. : The girls are a sturdy lot, with as nice complexions as one can find anywhere and it’s part of my business today to tell you why. Guess why? Believe it or not, the girls were brought up on spinach. So were their brothers, who spend their spare time selling “baseball extras” on Pennsylvania-st between Market and Ohio-st. Of course, the South Side kids don’t take their spinach the way American children have to. South Side parents know better. Either that, or they have bigger hearts, because if you dig into the subject as deeply as I have, you'll discover that these parents give their children spinach in the shape of spinach pie. Which is probably why épinach in the Old Country hasn’t the goshawful reputation it has
here. : OE
PINACH pie, or Isbanah Pideh, as. it’s known among us col-
-umnists, comes in two flavors, and
the kind you finally go in for will depend largely on whether you like cheese or not. Im here to ave both sides. To make Shinach or with the cheese flavor, collect two pounds of flour, two quarts of spinach, two eggs, two (or better still, three) medium dry onions, three tablespoonfuls . of hard, grated cheese and, of course, some - salt and pepper. The technique: Make a plain stiff patter of the flour, using like-warm water, and after rolling it out to pie thickness (which is one-eighth
pie-dish sizes and hold ready’ for stuffing with the next paragraph: Wash the spinach well and boil until half done, then pass it through cold water, after which cut into small pieces and mix well with the beaten eggs, the finely chopped onions and the grated cheese. This
lis the place for the salt and pepper,
too. The mixture should then be placed between the rolled batter and pressed together, notching as fancy as you know how, at regular intervals. Whatever you do, don’t forget the vent holes in the center of the tops. Bake in a hot oven until well done. To make spinach pie without the cheese flavor, forget all about the cheese. ;
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Q—What isa bull bat? A—It is a local name for the nighthawk. The name derives from ‘the noise they make, and because they fly mostly at dusk. : Q—What was the title of the Eng‘lish edition of Emil Ludwig’s “Life of Christ?” A—*The Son of Man.” Q-—1Is raising livestock one of the major industries in Mexico?
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to know better, wears out her life in the futile effort | Q—What
to Inject ambition Into & nwer-do-well,
dining is fast gping to the hot |
namon, 18 cloves, 7 lumps of sugar, |
fire-crackers, taking infinite pains |
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SUGGESTION FOR REPUBLICANS By William Lemon 2 I notice where the Republican organization has put collection boxes in various ‘places for a campaign fund contribution. : This poor-box method is an old one, but as they have not eaten at the public trough for several years we know they are hungry, gaunt
‘and lean.
I suggest that they put their precinct committeemen downtown on each street corner wearing dark glasses | and using a tincup, to “please help the blind,” for they were blind in the past. Those “Tincup Bennies” might save the day for them, and restore
‘their old leaders to power again.
i.e URGES ENFORCEMENT OF NIGHT PARKING LAWS By a Citizen It is with much pleasure each
day I read the column headed Safe
and Sane Driving. And also note
‘the increasing deaths, which we all ‘regret to see, as I believe the public
at large is the police de sible way. I do not think the police department gives proper co-operation in return. It is a fact they are enforc- | ing the’ downtown traffic rules and doing much good, and in many cases fine some people that have not en-
Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor of the Journal” of the American Medical Association.
E adenoids lie in the cavity behind the nose. Like the tonsils, they may be seriously infected and transmit infection to other parts “of the body. When the adenoids become infected and swollen, they block nasal breathing, the mouth is kept open, and the person afflicted often appears to have a stupid expression. After breathing continuously through the mouth, the child with infected adenoids is. likely to develop an unusual appearance. The upper lip is shoriened and turned out, the lips are thickened; and a line is formed between the cheeks and the lips. This is a result of the narrowing of the dental arch of the upper jaw. When there is infection in the adenoids, the germs pass he the tubes that connect the throat to the ear, and may infect cavities of the internal and middle ear. ‘Since the nose is blocked, the speech of a child. with adenoids has a nasal sound. Children with obstructed breathing are restless at
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dangered any one's life, such as overtime parking and improper parking. Why is it there is no law enforcement on night parking? There are hundreds of such violations each night. In many sections of the city where the streets are narrow, one must drive on the car track to avoid hitting blind cars parked at the curb, which are parked there gall night with: no sign of a red light. Mr. Chief of Police why not instruct these efficient officers to enforce these night parking laws? If there is any doubt as to these facts drive West-st, Washington-st; Indiana-av, and, in fact, any of them. As a taxpayer of Marion County I feel we are entitled to
safety protection both night and
day. Reduce the death rate and untold misery and make motoring a pleasure.
2 on ” CALLS ‘SUPREME COURT NATIONAL TEMPLE By x Y Z, Crawfordsville Those ‘who. vainly are trying to undermine the Supreme Court are like blind Samsons trying to pull down the pillars of the national temple. . We need not fear, for they are shorn or bald. ‘Our nation is built upon the solid rock.
It has stood amidst storms and.
floods and though clouds may roll above it while these men are tugging at the pillars, we will see when the storm is. over that the Ship of State has weathered the storm, and the stars and stripes will not be marred by a single shot. from a
traitor’s gun. Long may our flag. ‘wave o'er the land of the free and patrotic brave. -
*. 2» SEES SIGNS OF FAILURE OF CAPITALISM IN U. 8S, By F. H. Fallmann, Newcastle
The editorial writers of our great dailies seem to be highly elated about Russia’s return to the capitalistic fold. The trend of events in Russia, which they interpret as: a faflure of communism, ‘is in reality the bi ginning of real Communism. So f they have only had a Communist dictator, but as the Russian. people become more enlightened, they are gradually intrusted with the responsibility of self-government, and it will not belong until Russia is completely socidlized "and communism firmly established. I see no signs of their return to
capitalism,’ for I have yet to see where they are destroying crops while producers are starving, nor have I noticed them lavishly handing out millions of dollars to bankx while denying the workers a ent living.
- However, I do see signs of cap-.
italism failing here and elsewhere.
A recent editorial states that the cost of maintaining their armies is prohibitive and that if they are disbanded: it would cause a crisis due to unemployment. This is true with the exception of Russia, for = if Russia's soldiers are put back to work it wili mean more food, clothing, shelter and leisure for all, for they have production for use: in Russia, while in capitalistic countries it is production for profit for rich and poverty for ihe workers,
APPRECIATE RERNS ACTION
"| ON ASPHALT PLANT
By A. L. Marshall I note in your issue of July 7 changes that are being contemplated at the City Asphalt Plant, and I am sure that the people .living in the vicinity of the plant will appreciate Mayor Kern’s prompt action. While on the Asphalt Plant subject, it might be well to call attention to the smudge wagons used by this department to heat the tools used in their work on the streets. Most progressive cities have oilburning heating apparatus for this purpose, which does not smoke out the neighborhood in which the men may be working. . Mayor Kern might be interested in
| eliminating this smoke nuisance in
addition to correcting the trouble at the: plant.
"NOT LISTED By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Looking through the Army list He chooses. wisely for his kit. When all was found complete Without extra fuss and folded neat;
I glimpsed a book of chosen verse r, | Not named upon official page, | But closely tucked within—by him.
Why does my throat tight ache Viewing poems richly rare—therein! It is far ahead I see; Visioning my: serisifive lad Knowing: cruel. wars ahead— That leaves ‘me sad, :
SIDE GLANCES By George: Clark
Indiana
EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter fer The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that. XE
t UILFORD, Conn., July 15.—You have read about men who were: nuts on going to ‘fires, “and gven.
they wouldn't miss an alarm, Well, those birds are just sissies, Listen to this: F. E. Ingals owns two fire engines. and a chief's car and a station house_ and all the equipment that goes with it. His personal fire department is better than Guilford’s municipal fire" department. There isn't a pumper as big as his within miles and miles of here. He answers all Guilford
calls. When Mr. -Ingals was about 105 he was in a hotel fire at a lake Te yort in Wisconsin. His nurse rescued: That put the fire fever im him. 3
Mr. Ingals had an aunt who owned land on the north shore of: Long Island Sound. So he came over here from Wisconsin, years ago, to help her with the property. She is dead now. He owns the prop= erty. " It’s 24 acres, right on the water.
rounded by shallow water. He calls. it-Chaffinch Island. ; Tia. oie. Ha T wasn’t” until 1925, when Mr, Ingals was 45, that he really be= ean to indulge his fire engine hob= At started in a small enough ni “He just rigged up an old Ford truck.as a sort of fire wagon, since his island was three miles ftom town and he wanted protec=: tion Since then he has had six or seven trucks, always getting better, ones. Mr. Ingals drives one truck him= self, and hires a man to drive the other. : Over the front of his station he has painted “Chaffinch Island Fire ‘Department.” ; As soon as he gets to a fire, nine men from the city fire department jump ‘on his two trucks and start to work. He is the backbone of the fire force, because his trucks are the biggest and best. The city. pays Him nothing. He isn’t even a member of the department. He goes to about 60 fires a year: Has missed only three fires in’ 10 years. One. time he was in New Haven. Once He was grading the road, and ‘couldn't get thers. And once, when he had his first truck, the fire’ was out before he could get the engine started,
a fire. Two people have burned to deathat his fires; both were iramps, sleeping in old houses, About. half the fire alarms come at night. It takes Mr. Ingals around four minutes to get up and ‘under way. He says he has about $15, 000 n= vested in his’ trucks. ‘me nearer $30,000.
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E isn’t rich, but he has an income from stocks, and doesn'g have to worry about. a living. .Heé puts practically all his income ‘into’ keeping up these engines. “People think I'm either a million<' aire or crazy,” he says. “But that's my hobby, and I get pleasure out of it, and I can’t take any money with me when I'm. dead, so why shouldn't I spend it this way? “But I told the fire engine people these were my last trucks. They'll last me 10 years and then T'll be 65, and I won’t be going to fires any more. I'll be retired.” Mr. Ingals lives alone. ‘Has never. been married. A woman comes in twice a week to clean up, but he does his own cooking. “It isn’t very good,” he says, “but-I can eat it.” He wears dirty overalls and a blue shirt, and has fireman's badges on his galluses. When I drove up I thought he must be the man who worked for Mr, Ingals, but he turn« ed out to be Mr. Ingals himself. He is a Wisconsin graduate — mee chanical engineering—1908.
JULY 15 IN WF Wis rw INDIANA HISTORY ture
T= first. territorial leg for ‘the Northwest tory convened at Marietta Siwhet was later to become the state’ ot Ohio on July 15, 1788. “ng “St. Clair, former | resident of Ann ntinental Congress, was the first Governor of the territory The . legislature was composed ° | Judges Samuel H. Parsons, James M. “Varnum and John Cleves
: | Symmes. Winthrop Sargent was
secretary. It was the first regularly constituted government provided by the United States for the territory out *of which Inidana was t0 be carved. The legislature held frequent meetings during its first year, but, hedged about as it was by the restrictions of the “Ordinance of
by notice of the disposition of the
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