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PRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936.

Give Light and the Peoples Will Find . Thetr Own Way

EDWARD VIII ESCAPES

HE people of America congratulate the people of Britain on the escape of their ruler, King Edward VIII, from what seems to have been an attempted assassination. ; That the attempt against the young monarch’s ‘life was the act of a mentally unbalanced person appears proved by the performance itself. Probably never in the empire's history has a more popular figure occupied the throne or shown greater Interest

As Prince of Wales he often sought occasion unobtrusively to leave the beaten track of royalty, descend in mines, inspect factories, visit the slums and go into the very homes of poverty to see for “himself how his humbler subjects live. Nor were these things mere gestures. This he “proved by unprecedented public declarations of a nature far from flattering to those responsible for ~ the living and working conditions he uncovered. More than once he deliberately made burn the cheeks of many a noble lord and others of the ‘guilty upper classes. . Britain, we feel, 1s fortunate in having an Edward VIII kind of King. We join her, therefore,

in wishing for him a very long and a very useful reign.

PROSPERITY—AND LABOR

lee most encouraging news that has come from the labor front in many a day is that four men who enjoy the confidence of the workers of the na‘tion are negotiating for a settlement of the C. I. O.“A. F. of L. controversy. : They are John L. Lewis, whose genius for leader‘ship is primarily responsible for bringing higher wages, more security of employment and more stability to the great coal industry; George Harrison! ‘aggressive, peace-making head of the railway clerks; Edward F. McGrady, the Administration’s competent composer of differences in labor disputes, and the Rev. Francis J. Haas, former member of the old Wagner Labor Board.

. The conciliatory efforts also seem to have the “blessing of William Green, A. F. of L. president and ‘head of the eraft unionist opposition to Lewis and the C.1 0. : It is too early to predict that irreconcilables will ‘ be reconciled. But it is never too early or too late to “hope for reconciliation. For without a united front labor can not move ahead. And, in our opinion, the . future prosperity and economic stability of the country depend in great measure upon the ability ‘of labor to move ahead. ; ; 2 =» = HY do we say that? Not for any reasons of : sentiment. Not because we are blind to the . faults, unfairnesses, shortsightedness and selfishness which too frequently assert themselves in the labor movement. But, simply from the point of view of cold economics, we believe that the key to prosperity would be lost if labor's power to organize were destroyed—for the plain reason that it is only through organization that steady progress can be made toward increasing the purchasing power of the masses of the American people.

America’s capacity to produce increases at a rapidly accelerated rate. America’s capacity to con‘sume must be increased in some similar proportion. Otherwise the genius of the inventor of the labor‘saving device may become a curse instead of the ‘blessing that it should be. The only way to increase consumption is through a steady upward trend in wages. Unfortunately, that trend is not a self-starter and is not self-perpetuating. It is started and sustained only by that force which we call organization.

We believe that some time industrialists generally who today most bitterly resent labor’s efforts to organize will see that there can be no other way to attain the balance that an economy such as ours requires if prosperity, once attained, is to continue without such recurrent crashes as hit us in 1929. We believe that it is as much to the selfish interest of industry as it is to labor to encourage that “which will prevent a piling up of products on a market that does not have the wherewithal to buy. We think that the significance of all this was perhaps best expressed by the Brookings Institution in a study which pointed out that, despite our apparent prosperity in 1929; 71 per cent of American families’ had incomes of less than $2500 a year, and “that if all families under that level had been at the $3500 figure every factory then in existence, at full blast, could not have produced the s to supply the demand.

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0” = » 3 ROADLY speaking, the present controversy between the two great labor groups involves the

tion are about 40,000,000 workers. Of these, not to

the object of Lewis in moving in ‘on the mass inOut of this has come the battle between

power and toward decreased consumption. Not it ca a, not just union ator, but the whole

d 10 per cent are organized. To widen the base |

mobile accidents. The human element is to blame.

Certain drivers are “accident-prone.” ‘These are the conclusions of H. M. Johnson, who for eight years has investigated the subject for the National Research Council. Writing in Collier's, he reports that a check on millions of road-miles covered by thousands of drivers shows 5 per cent of the drivers have about 30 per cent of the accidents, 10 per cent of the drivers have about half the accidents, and about 75 per cent of the drivers have no accidents. The records were kept on automobile’ and truck drivers for several large corporations. Professor Johnson concludes: “If we should find that general drivers fall into ‘the same groups as the commercial drivers do, an -effective remedy’ would be evident. If, with the facts before us, we should decide to save 3000, 6000 or 12,000 lives next year out of the 36,000 thai will be lost if the rate for this year remains constant, we

can do it—by taking off the road the worst 1 per

cent, 2 per cent or 5 per cent of the drivers who are now on it. Their own records (if they were made) will show that they are the ones who should ‘be taken off. “This remedy may seem drastic. We sympathize with the ‘unlucky’ fellow whose license has been revoked. But the situation is serious. .

, “Permission to drive a potentially death-dealing

machine is not a natural right. It is a privilege. In granting, renewing or withholding it the licensing authority should be allowed to consider the prob-

abilities of the effect of ts action upon the public.

These probabilities can be derived from the person’s own reco: ay : A proposal to keep records on these accidentprone individuals is one of the safety steps that an accident-conscious public probably will force on the attention of the Indiana and other Legislatures. It may be only a question ‘of time until public indigna--

tion will force a systematic weeding out of the worst drivers.

CLEANER STREAMS

JA STIS of the State Department of Commerce and Industries under the 1935 Stream Pollution Law have accelerated the movement to stop pollution of rivers and streams, w! H. Frazier, secretary of the Pollution Hearing Board, writes in the monthly bulletin of the Indiana Division of Public Health. ; The efforts so far, Mr. Frazier explains, have been concentrated on municipal. pollution, because the Federal government has offered financial aid to cities in building sewage disposal plants. : “Already,” he says, “three times as many plants

have been built in 1936 as during any previous year. { While this is partly due to the assistance offered by

the Federal government, it must be remembered that the Federal program was also in effect during 1934 and 1935. This increase is undoubtedly due to the effectiveness of the Indiana Stream: Pollution Law. . . 3 ’ “The construction of most municipal sewage plants also-eliminated. the pollution caused. by in-

dustrial institutions. located in or near such municiFor example, the plant now under cons

palities. struction at Kokomo will handle the waste from .the Continental Steel Corp, and the meat. Packing plant . “The policy of large industrial imstifiittons has changed during the last year or two and now in practically every case they are quite favorable to the construction of municipal sewage disposal plants even though 3 may mean additional taxation for them.” Mr. Frazier tells of more than a dozen specific industrial cases where anti-pollution improvements have been made. He says the Prest-O-Lite Co. which has been discharging acid waste into Big Eagle and Little Eagle Creeks here, “is now completing plans for a neutralizing plant which will eliminate that source of pollution. Construction will be completed this summer.” While complimenting the department and these municipalities and industries for what they- have done during the last year, we wish to point out that the anti-pollution fight is just beginning. It should be continued aggressively and intelligently.

THANKS, CANADA!

Oz heavy imports of arctic alr masses coming \” through Canada can break the present heat wave, according to the Weather Bureau. These cooling winds, migrating southward through the Mackenzie Valley, must ' enter United ‘States at the ‘headquarters of the Missouri. They will create high-pressure areas and cool the steaming states. And, if they encounter low-pres-sure areas south of the high-pressure ones, they will drown the drought in welcome downpours of rain. Such interaction of air masses settled the Dust Bowl last May. It resulted in the great rains of September, 1934, and broke the terrible drought of that summer.

Fortunately, the late high tariff administrations

weren't able to set up barriers against Canada’s cooling summer winds. Now that we have a reciprocal trade agreement with our northern neighbor we can repay in kind for anything she may do by the way of exporting her ice-cooled breezes. Next winter we promise to send her warm ones to temper her sub-zero weather. Thus by two neighborly acts ._both the Republic and: the Dominion can become air-conditioned.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OPE PIUS has issued another ‘encyclical letter urging members of the Catholic Church to band themselves into a body of film ‘censors. By this means it is hoped to raise the standard of moving pictures.

. You remember when the Legion of Decency was:

started two years ago? The critics were almost universal in their condemnation.

freedom of speech, and all that.

the

Editorial writers assailed 4 2s High treason, and pratiied 4 Jot about

- vents, however, have proved them wrong. Un-

ALTER PATER, ih his most|

~ oracular mood, once wrote an

admirable essay to the curious text > that all art constantly aspires to}

the condition of music, and T méver

enter University Park, to loiter and |

linger in the sun-flecked shadows of the fountain there, but what I recall what Mr. Pater said.

The wild abandon of the carefree

children dancing on the water's rim BE

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is like Pan's song and, certainly; not | 7%

unlike a melody edged with point |

and counterpoint.

Indeed, the very way the children |

take their places on the pedestal—

their poise and pause, the sense| .

of gathering force, the final surge and sweep toward a climax ending on a triumphant note—recalls the throb of measured rhythm. Even the circular form of the fountain, approximating, as the symmetry of a scherzo charged with the play of Maypole and mer-ry-go-round. contributes to the imagery of music.

And then, of course, there is the

sound of running water itself which is something Mr. Pater never thought of—never having had the luck to live in Indianapolis. All of which doesn’t make much sense since I learned that the City Fathers turn off the water at night. : ® == WENT to the Herron the other day—this time to have another look at the lithographs of George Bellows. Bellows always astonished me: by the way he has caught the psychology of a mood, because the method of presenting it always is wrapped up with the mood itself; like a poem by Verlaine, for instance, which read aloud conveys as much by its sounds as by “its content.’ This is noticeably so In his portraits, 1 think. . 8 x2 = OT until I-went to see the. J. D. Strachan collection of early shorthand books, now on view at the State Library, did I know that “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Tom Brown's School Days” and the “Psalms of David” actually were set up in shorthand. I haven't the least idea who reads them that way—let alone, any other way—but there they are for anybody who has eyes to see. Mr. Strachan’s collection is chockful of miscellaneous information like that. There’s a book by Thomas Sargeant, for instance, published in Philadelphia in 1783,

and it turns out to ‘be the first]

book published in America by an American on the subject of shorthand. Mr. Strachan has 1500 items like that. N The most interesting item in the collection is the original manuscript of “The Elements of Stenography,” written by Ariel Euclid Drapier in 1845. : Mr. Drapier comes pretty close to home. He was born in Sempronius, Cayuga County, New York, in 1808, and came to Indiana at the age of ten. He worked on newspapers until he was 34, and then adopted shorthand reporting as a profession. For thirty years he and his son, William H., reported the proceedings and debates of the Indiana Legislature. Only one man beat him to the job and that was Harvey Fowler, who reported the constitutional convention of 1850. Mr, Fowler got 371% cents a hundred words. At that, it was-good for a couple of thousand dollars.

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DOESN'T LIKE MADDOX LETTER IN FORUM By George D. Deppert, Waldron Just which political party. does E. F. Maddox refer to as alien and revolutionary and what proof has he that it is either alien or revolutionary? His letter will appeal only to people of his kind. And I am afraid their efforts will be futile ‘as to

-| generating a little common sense.

8 2 = FINDS ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH REFRESHING By Free Lance

In the June 29 issue of The Times there. appeared an article entitled, “New Dignity Seemed to Settle Over Party,” written by one of your correspondents, Mr. Raymond Clapper, covering the closing program of the Democratic convention at Franklin Field, Philadelphia.

No fair-minded person, reading this article, could fail to respond to the call of the highest and noblest impulses in his nature, by the character of the article your, representative gave to the press; by his own comparison of like gatherings in nearly 20 years’ experience, and by the impression the remarkable scene made upon him, a seasoned veteran of the press, as he depicted évents when President

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

wi a small child has a pain in the ear, it usually will indicate the condition by putting its had to the ear, or crying whenever the ear is touched. The pain of earache generally is severe, prolonged, and continuous. Immediate relief may be given in such cases ‘by application of heat.

'| This may be done in various ays

- You may cover the ear with a piece of cotton and then put a small hot water bag, or a hot application, «over the cotton. i The child may lie with its head on the hot water bag, or on an elec-

ric pad. It is not advisable to drop any medicine into the ear; ‘unless the

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| Roosevelt delivered his acueplance speech. It was indeed a refreshing contrast to the miserable, party-in-nuendos which have been found in print, one individual even attempt= ing to badger the public, which is still capable of doing its own thinking, into believing that vast audience at Franklin Field was a “paid” ‘attendance. It is an insult to the intelligence of either : party to

a political firebrand as that into. the hands of the other.

CLAIMS MANUFACTURED GAS IS CHEAPER By an Indianapolis Gas User

The $17,000,000 Citizens Gas Utility now belongs to the citizens of

citizens I propose that we think ftwice before we turn our business over to the promoters who built!” a $40, 000,000 pipe line from the oil fields. It has been claimed that Omaha residents are buying gas. at one-half the rates charged in Indianapolis. I have in front of me a Citizens gas bill for June, 2400 cubic feet of 570 B. T. U. gas, net $2.16. In Omaha, according to the rates published in a local paper June 3, the bill would have been as follows: i 500 cu. feet at 90 per 100,

100, $1. 100, 63c.

feet of 800 B. T. U. gas, $3.13. EE Now correcting this bill so as to correspond to 570 B. T. U. Indianapolis gas, we have.

, 3.13%570 Sf a =$2. 2 800

In other words, the same heating value costs $2.16 in this city and $2.23 in Omaha. Furthermore, after a few months operation rates have been lowered in Indianapolis. Good management may make another reduction possible. - The people of Omaha can hardly hope for a reduction, as they are sewed up in a natural gas contract. - 1 notice, too, that a citizen of Vin-

plant is making and selling coke at a profit. I certainly shall not object if the people who use coke help me pay my gas bills. Go to it, Superintendent Kemp, make and sell at a profit all the coke you can, and give us the saving.

imagine one party would place such

..| The old-age Pension Plan. {The Bell Committee. took a flop

Indianapolis, and as one of these:

Next 1000 cu. fodt at 10c per Remaining 900 cu. feet at Tc per. Total ‘bill in Omaha for 2400 ; ou.

cennes is finding fault because our

MAKES TOWNSEND PLEA IN FORM OF VERSE By A. Brickham So vote the Townsend Plan this fall The Townsend Plan will feed us all.

There'll be no hungry children then |

When Townsend Plan becomes a The Townsend Plan is sure to win So help one and all We'll put twelve million back to : work When it becomes a law. The Bell Committee tried to stop

Thé Townsend. Plan came out on top. Dr. Townsend walked right out

‘He did net stop to chew the rag.

He left the Bell Committee holding: the empty bag

Iding i ; {And they're still holding it. ] grass, and now and then a field of

| raw plowed earth that had been | corn. But not any more. Grasse

THINKS U. :. ¢ouLD USE MORE ROOSEVELYS

By Jimmy Cafouros The humaneness and the heart of the man Roosevelt is revealed more and more as. the years of responsibility mellow and round out a naturally vigorous -and energetic personality. His acts sometimes seem ‘inconsistent but they rise from a

sincere heart. When there. is error it is admitted and that takes courage. Witness his talks over the radio. When decanting "and decrying

‘| faultfinders, bolters and pompously

inclined ‘orators. pollute the air and

{ while even. members of his own

party crowd the ‘air with all sorts of explosive epithets, it is really and truly refreshing and convincing to

J luy Ten Roosevelt - speak ‘of .pos-

terity and future generations and what he intends to do: about the unwonted waste of the day. What we need in America today is more leaders with hearts like Roosevelt and with his Imagination and his benevolence. ;

DAILY THOUGHT

O Israel, thou has ‘destroyed thyself; but in Me = thine help. —Hosea 13: ‘14, :

DERNEATH al all the arches. of Bible history, throughout the whole grand temple of the Scriptures, these two voices ever echo, man is’ ruined; man is Tedeeme. —C. D. Foss.

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just stretches on from one day to the next and the farmer says, “Things are getting pretty dry, hope we have rain pretty soon,” and

after a while he, begins to count . back how long it's been since the’

last rain. Usually he can’t remem1 ber.

It goes on and on and he says, “It's looking mighty bad now, things are burning up,” and after a while somebody remembers that it was four weeks Tuesday when ‘we had the last showers. The farmer goes on° watching the sky and thinking maybe it'll raih tomorrow,"and a few days more and he's saying, “Well, 1 guess it’s too late, I don't think rain would do much good now.” A. few more days and we have a na-

tional drought on our hands and the

newspapers -get excited and Washe ington starts doing things.. Tuaty. what a drought it. i » » » OU. come upon the drought ii country gradually. It was like

“In southern Minnesota it was a hot dry day, but the binders were thick in’ the wheat fields,” and the corn was green and growing, and: people were busy everywhere. ‘ Then when you came to the: far southwest corner of Minnesota, if you were looking closely, you could see now and then some corn that seemed pale and scorched on. top. You crossed then into South Das kota, the drought state. You droys 50 miles maybe, and you. wereni aware of any change as you came. along. But if you stopped and shut your eyes and thought back a hune dred milese, you could realize a-dif« ference. The corn wasn’t as billowy. The The grass was browner. hur: “We pound the trail on westward. The highway is cement and strip of glass. The sun is frightful, It is 106 in the shade. ‘An une speakably hot wind blows ‘Across the prairie. os : i » ” » NOTICE field after field of ripe grain, cut and bound, lying on the ground in rows of bundles. I stop a man and ask: “Can't they get men to shock it?” He says: “Yes, they can get men, But they're not going to shock ib, There’s no grain in it. Not worth threshing. . They'll haul it in for feed.” So that's it. In the edge of the. drought belt, you. can't even sea the damage. . Things look good, but they aren't. These farmers don’t know how lucky they are. On west

| they’d be tickled .to have straw with no grain in.it. Just for. feed.

Farther westward... A hundred miles into South Dakota. All crops, all grass, all- vegetation, have -dwin-. dled almost to the vanishing point. The pastures were as short as your beard. They were the color of dead corn stalks. There was noth ing in the fields but short’ Burned

| hoppers. = ” ” 4 T is at best a barren, god-fors saken land of vast lonely dise tances. . It is hard to conceive why anybody ever settled here ‘in the first ‘place. You can stand on a hilltop and see for 15 miles, and there isn’t a tree or a bush, and. never has been a tree or a bush. But it is rich gumbo land, and when God is exceptionally good 1%: raises -fine crops. - - I have not seen a dead animal, nor a thin cow or horse. In fact, the cattle: look -good. But -even the. dead - grass. is about gone. Farmers are trucking .or .shipping. their . ne to green .pastures in. Nebraska, even as far as Indiana. There have been some scattered rains in the past week, which have been "heralded as “breaking” the: drought. They have no more brok-. en it than I could come out and: break it with a stick. !

JULY 17 o IN INDIANA HISTORY

~CORES of natural gas wells were ‘being drilled in Indiana on July 17, 1887. In 1886 and 1887 a total’ of ‘5400 gas wells were drilled, and br the next 10. years 3300 of theny were abandoned. The period trom 1888 to 1800 was: known aszthe “natural gas {in Indiana.

dis. SIDE GLAN CES By George Clark]