Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1936 — Page 10

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Give Light and the ~ People Will Find ~~ Their Own Way

‘A CALL FOR LEADERSHIP

The Times tomorrow could publish the names of the 70 or 80 persons who probably will die in ET E piotor vehicle accidents in Indianapolis between now = i and the end of the year— 3 .. If The Times tomorrow could publish the names pf oof hundreds of Hoosiers who—if the present rate : | {eontinues—may :die in that period; and, if the press . of America could print a list of the 12,000 to 16,000 . who may be expeected to die in highway accidents : before Jan. 1, 1937—

: city, state and nation such as no anti-crime war or . + other crusade has ever inspired. _ , Unfortunately, the names of these probable victime will remain unknown until they are killed.

as many of them as possible, should be delayed.

- fee been greater than it is today in this tragedy of . traffic deaths, . Citizens’ groups, service clubs and public officials could win the everlasting thanks of

. intelligent mass drive to curb the city’s high fatality . rite. :

A. L. BLOCK : L. BLOCK, who died today after a long fliness,

Indianapolis for many years. ia Coming here in 1898, he joined the late Leopold 8°" Strauss in the men's wear business. Twelve years latér he bought the interest of Mr. Strauss and be8. came president of L. Strauss & Co. Mr. Black also F was president of the Circle Theater Co. and of

and club affairs of the community, His loss will bring sorrow to his many friends.

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i \: HANDWRITING ON THE WALL i HE people of the United States will watch with ie very special interest France's effort to “take

i» the profit out of war.” They have entertained + hopes of doing the same thing over here. It is notorious that munitions makers the world _ over meddle in politics, both domestic and foreign; H that they promote war scarés whenever and “. Wherever they can; that in time of war their profits x are unconscionable; that while the rank and file of 1 citizens are dying for their country, a few drag iz down colossal dividends, riches coined from the blood 2 iis of patriots. BE France's Socialist Premier, Leon Blum, says that "Bort of thing has come to an end in his country. : . But it is going to be a difficult job, even for * France. Totalitarian states can do it very well =" Germany, for example. It is said that 60 per cent is. of her workers are engaged on munitions jobs of =. one kind or another. Unless French taxpayers shell f° put enormous sums to keep their own munitions

self at a tremendous disadvantage. And French * taxpayers haven't a reputation for willing and lavish : contributions to the public treasury. Russia, in complete possession of her industries, is well fixed. Italy, whose Duce has only to crack

& ditto. And Japan, whose military men run the 8, \ Sovernment, will get what she “wants. ¢

” SUT democracies, Tike France. Great Britain and

: ge. LD the United States, will find things less easy, For : some two years a Senate Munitions Committee has . struggled with the American problem and got no“where in particular. True, the seven members have 3 submitted a ‘report, with recommendations. But | they divided on it, four to three. 2 Four—Senators Nye, Clark, Pope and Bone—sugge © gested the government should take over the arma2 . ments pusiness, more or less as is planned in France. . Three—Senators George, Vandenberg and Barbour— “recommended, instead, rigid control of private plants.

A The majority contended such regulations would

. prove ineffective, that outrageous profiteering, war- “ mongering and the peddling of American military : inventions to ‘potential enemies ‘would. go right on. ¥ The minority said ‘nationalization would create | Jocal political pressure to maintain government "plants at full production regardless of actual need 80 and that, in the end, taxpayers would be fist as “ hard hit as they are now. . Nevertheless, the handwriting is definitely on the wall. Doubtless there is something tq be said for both majority and minority opinions. But one thing is certain: The era when great wealth can be piled ) by the few, reposing in safety and luxury at ‘while the many are dying in their own gore c Viale nothing pe dieu I the Sith trenches “of war, is drawing to a close. Sentiment is runing ever more.strongly Against the system. whether i is in France, England or the United States. ~ Profiteering munitions makers may still have time to chobse between voluntarily submitting to sane, but hog-tight, regulation and eventually hav4 n their plants nationalized. Bus all signs indicate Fe time is short.’

PARK AMPHITHEATER (CTEIEENS who bad 8 stale of oblour sympliy

# concerts this summer will-applaud the an- |

. thet a nftural amphitheater to seat ) Pefachs wil ve Bul Vis tan 44 Gants Bute

‘There would be a clamor for traffic safety in the

- But that is no reason the fight to save them, or

Seldom has the opportunity for community serv- |

. the people of Indianapolis by banding together in an |

was prominent in the business and civic life of '

", Monument Realty Co. He participated in the civie

plants going full blast, France may soon find her- .

= the whip to make everybody jump through the hoop, .

Ther ve oad the siery. of Bem Gopeiy. Hi wife

St. Louis. They _turped back, stopping at Indianapolis because of the intense heat. The summer torture was too much for the mother.” She died. We were proud of the way Indianapolis citizens - came to the rescue of this stranded family. The father and motherless children were taken into a home by one couple. They were fed and clothed. A funeral home, a cemetery and others provided last

money and bought Sransporsation home for the survivors, In their unselfish acts, ll these pexsans no doubt forgot the scorching sun and—by contrast with their own more fortunate circumstances—probably felt some relief from the heat. There may be many more hot days this summer. But in thinking of this family and the thousands of others that have inadequate houses, too little /ice and milk, and no’ electric fans, we're going to complain less, about the heat.

THE PEOPLE AREN'T DUCKING

tried to duck or straddle the prohibition issue— just as they have lately been doing with the constitutional issue. Prohibition was considered: polities} dynamite, Suddenly the politicians awoke to the uncomfortable fact that the people had moved far ahead of them; that the pliblic wasn’t afraid to deal with prohibition, even if the politicians were, Right while the 1932 Republican convention was still trying to carry water on both shoulders and ~ give offense to nobody, the dieof repeal had already ~been cast. Public opinion had congealed against the Eighteenth Amendment. Soon it was all over—and the landslide which brought repeal carried down to oblivion many of the politicians who had been afraid to take a stand. Last week's poll of the American Institute of Public Opinion raises ‘the question whether history isn't repeating itself—this time on the question of a constitutional amendment to enable the government to fix minimum wages. The constitutional question’ also has been considered political dynamite. But the American people, if this poll givés a true indication, don’t seem to consider it such; and they. -aren’t afraid to express their opinions. Seventy per cent of them want such a constitutional amendment. Every party and every group favors ib—even the Republicans by a very slim margin. Despite recent Supreme ‘Court decisions, despite all the talk about “regimentation” and “interference with business,” despite the frantic appeals: to. pre= serve: the freedom ‘of workers to labor for & starva-

constitutional revision as: in- American—despite’’ ‘all this wave of propaganda: against 8 change of the basic law to protect workers, America Speaks. over= Nhelmingly for such a change.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS N the whither-are-we-drifting school .may . be found a lot of faint-hearted souls willing to make ‘certain terms with progress. Such a one, apparently, is not Philip J. Pay of San Francisco, vice president "of the United Btates Chamber of Commerce and one

Plot. thelist df that vanishing type, the. ‘rugged, un-

regenerate Old ‘Timer, , In a speech in Washington this Westerner called the country back from “alien philosophies of gov-. ernment control and foreign ideas of repression pf the individual” to the days when business was free. Folks then went about their affairs “just about as

| they ‘pleased,” handling relief, business and social problems by local effort. In those happy old days, 1

he said:

bad luck. If he met with adversity . ! friends would help tide him and his Jamily over.

erosity or sense of family obligation, and not because

No one owed any one else a living or expected that any one else owed him one. pretty well.” * We're afraid Mr, Fay suffers from the golden age psychosis. Like the bull:buffalo of the 200, who " chews the cud of memory and dreams of his free days -in the lush prairie, he forgets some of the dangers and hardships of that old life. A lot of people,

adversity. Take the corporations, for instance, Where was their fine family spirit when adversity struck in 1929? Did the strong ones help the weak ones “as a matter of right feeling or generosity”? They ‘did

a living. Mr. Fay's is the honest philosophy of complete laissez faire, and is interesting as a relic. It may have “worked pretty well” before Alexander Hamilton started upsetting it in behalf of his wealthy friends. It hasn't even been tried since.

& A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT 2] By ‘Mrs. alter Ferguson -

man in idleness?” Our hostess exploded the band. The group agreed that .cook must be stupid. ‘But not one of us propounded the counters question, “Why. should a man support a big strong woman in idleness?” which is precisely what a good time. Nobody feels resentful about that. ‘Mainly

the one thing is as preposterous as, the other.

and four children, ages 2 to 12- The mother had a bad cough and the family set out to hitch-hike from their Kentucky home to Colorado, hoping to cure her. The terrific -heat wave caught them at

rites for the unfortunate mother. Others gave

IME was, not very long ago, when politicians

tion wage, and despite the studied effort to’ “Pitture

“If the individual sustained a loss, that was his . relatives or

They helped him-as a matter of right feeling or gensomebody compelled them to do so as a duty. . ©. ; °

It"all seemed to work:

we suspect, even in the days before social security, old-age pension, stock-market regulation and other nosey laws, found neighbors and friends cold to their.

Bok They insisted that the government owed them | specifically a.

{the earth, ; HY should s woman support a big: strong |

question as we discussed the laziness of cook's hus-

to work hard and divide her money with ‘a loafer, .

many American husbands have been doing for some because we take the custom for granted, although {s

tor girl babies than any other meri | of early Indianapolis. : Confronted with the task of tag- |

named them Bathsheba, Vine and

own. ‘ :

beat what Indianapolis had in the way of boys’ names, at

better than Azel, Obid, Fado, Elis« kim, Penas, Bazil, Pimri, "Absalom and Athanasius which were at

: ordinary ‘names then, of course, this doesn’t ean that Eo

early Indianapolis didn’t have its share of names like John and Prank

Lm “HE reason so many Indianapolis men answer to the call of John riowadays isn’t due to anything the

to anything they didn’t do. As near as I can figure out, it's just another instance of the arithmetical rule that if . you add something to what you already have—

“why, maybe youll have somelhing

more than what you started with. Anyway, it's Johns add up. ~And it’s all so sim- | pl¢ when you learn that the Johns

all the Italians who started: life as little Giovannis; ‘all the Germans who began as Johanns, Johanneses and Hanses; all the Russians who started as Ivans; all the LatinAmericans who began as Juans; all the Czechs, Poles and Dutch. who began as Jans, What more natural then, that all these men, baptized in the various versions of John, should finally get

squivalent~Johm. : 2 » ” “HE - German immigrants .who came to Indianapolis as far back as a hundred years ago were among the first to adopt “American” given ‘Dames.

The son of every “Johann became a John and of every Franz, a Frank. ‘Heinrich became Henry, Wilhelm ‘became William,

Karl, for some\strange reason, became Carl, a form of spelling practically unknown anywhere outside of America. Stranger still, in that form it began to be. -adopted by non-Germans: Maybe, if's something else’ that ‘needs looking into.

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‘Q=Do Mohammedan ‘men ‘ana women in Turkey wear the traditional fez and veil? TA Lave discarded by decree of the President of Turkey, and the inhabitants were ordered to adopt oc

cidental dress, ;

Q—What is a seminary? A—An educational institution, private secondary school, or an ns training of candidates for priesthood or the ministry.

Q-—Does the sun contain helium

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A—~By meahs of the spect the element helium was Seaacope |

Q—How m in oe. United States?

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ging his own progeny, Mr. Helvey |

Tantrabogus. And there’s no telling |: | what he might have done in | way of boys’ names had he ads ldcky enough to have. ‘some of nis. ECR iL

He wiki denied this privity snd ; maybe it’s just as well; because to|

and Henry. It did, of course, but it | § didn’t have ‘them in the. preponder- 1 ant ratio that it.has today. Which, | if you haven't guessed it already, is | [the thesis of today’s feutlleton.

early settlers did. Neither is it due j

atiazing how the

in Indianapolis, like as not, include |

controversies excluded, Make your letters

together and accept the American

Mohammedan customs’

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in the sun betare 1 was found on ok have, many kinds of birds ae a6 the en ; 8 be dy sticks

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The Hoosier Forum

1 disapprove of whit you say—and wilt defend to the death your right. to. say it.—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious

short, 80 all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or leas. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.). lia n 2 = WRITER D§SCUSSES RAIL PENSIONS By ‘L. N. Helm ° : F ‘An editorial ' in “The Times the | other day said: = “It is obylous that the 30 million other 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?” ¢ : Or, what is more important, why should . employees of the N, & W, Railway. and other railroads who already have pensions without tax or other deduction be now .compelled to give up 3% per cent of their pay? - Or, why was the tax on the lower pay brackets set at a propors tionately higher rate than for for shose receiving the big salaries? Justice Jennings Bailey, tw District- of Columbia Supreme Court, -in holding unconstitutional the tax |: ‘bill adopted to finance the raiiroad retirement act of 1935, said: “The income tax is laid upon the amount of employes’ saldriés not] {in excess of $300 per month, and all

Your Health | He BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor “of the Journal of ihe American *_ Medieal Association. : NWO serious ‘dangers aftecting the ears require particular care

sums ifi excess of that modit’ afe]

exempt. It bears harder upon low salaries than upon those that are higher, and is thus contrary to all principles. which have heretofore ‘been followed in ‘the. levying of in-. come tax.” ®. 6» i SWIMMING IS NATION'S MOST POPULAR SPORT

. By E. W.

The most popular sport in’ the United States is neither baseball ner football, golf nor tennis. It is, the contrary, the age-old sport ot swimming, ‘This finding is reached by statisticians of the National Recreational Association, who pO nat in 138 jm oi than o00 peop went. to the public and’ 18,000,000 to the outdoor” “ning pools This ies favorably with a

seasonal participation in baseball of

10,250,000 people and in slightly more than 6,500,000. Just what moral should be drawn from all this I do not quite know; unless, perhaps, it be that swimming, ‘the most informal of all

golf of

sports, and the cheapest, is also the |

most enjoyable. Or did you, as one of ‘the 46,500,00, know ready? ea

SAYS ROOSEVELT DICTATED TO: INDUSTRY By Rev. Lester Gaylor: The national platform of the Socialist Party in 1932 proposed to transfer the principal industries of from private ownership and “cruelly .inefficient” management to social ownership and control. Only

without, k petjodis breakdown .and

ait aise. to fulfill v | structive Socialist Party | immediately on going into office. There were “redistribution ' of

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ed bureaucra a SEBS PSYCHOLOGY oN DOLLAR BILLS By Jimmy Catourous Many fol!

that al{abusive articles of Mark Sullivan as

these means, they contended, will

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8 may ave foticed it. |

ssnied’ about 1920—at the time of the Republican satrapy. Then observe ‘a dollar bill issued about 1934—during the Democratic regime. It'is an unusual study in psycholoBy 3 not in some far more potent

This is what you will see: . The 1920 dollar: . “This certifies

| that there HAS BEEN deposited;

etc., ete.” ; The 1034 dollar: “This certifies ‘that there IS on deposit, ete., etc.” 3 ner CE ” 2 { READER DOES NOT LIKE MARK SULLIVAN By John Robbins Please permit me space in your

‘| paper Yo. ‘heartily approve of Pat

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etter in: The Times of July

Mark: Sullivan, I have been a daily reader of The Times since its first issue. I have always liked the high ideals of The Times, as a home paper, particularly

been. fair and ably written. +3 do’ not: wish. © to say’ how you. should run your. paper; ‘that is no of :my business. But I, like th sands of Times readers, do most: emphatically protest against the:

.a Times columnist. He has done

| nothing but hurl abuse at the present Administration since he became

your columnist.

OWNS PAPER TELLING or LINCOLN’S: DEATH ~~ By' Mrs. Burns Albiets, Bloomington In The Times of July 9 you. print- | ed an article which was very. interesting to me. ‘It was in regard to a copy of ‘an old newspaper which a | veteran had brought. home with him from China. :

dated April 15, 1865, telling of the assassination of President Lincoln, Of course my paper hasn't een | * to China and back. I found it about years ago while playing in an attic of my home. It had been placed in a family Bible. This. paper

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DAILY THOUGHT

Every prudent: man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool yeth open his Tolly —Proverbs . 13: 16.

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I have a copy. of this same paper, |

ANT and sorrow are the wages

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“Everybody was rarin’ to go West

we were married. | . “People wonder why we. stay “hers in this God-forsaken country. Peoe ple don't see how we can live with out seeing trees. I wpnder myself

“They say it isn’t right for us to bring up our children out -here. I've raised five daughters, and not one of them ever saw a street car or 8 Negro Will she was grown wp,

a | "BUI tell you this. - Every one

of them can get in the saddle and ride like & man as far as you

| can see, and can drive a four-horse 1 team, and can cook ‘a good’ meal, if | there's anything to cook it with.

“Every one of thé went through high school. ‘They're all gone now, married or holding good . jobs. One works; in- the - Statehouse at. Plerre. They missed a lot- that o girls learn, but they. got a lot t 6 other. girls. never heard .of, We sat in the kitchen, where the water bucket was, and talked ‘about the. grougns. . won a PF 1 had my life to live over again,” said Mr. Wobbe, “I'd come out here and I'd build me three or four good dams, and I'd plant some trees down in. the ravines along the water, and I'd gety.8 good big bunch of sheep, and I'd never touch a plow to the ‘ground. I'd live among the trees and I'd live. easier and better than any man in this country.” Mr. Wobbe is not an educated

“| man, as he said, but he sees things

about the same way the “professors” {in Washington are seeing fhiem. “This country should never have

1 heen plowed up at all,” he said.’

e’ve ruined it ourselves. ‘We're : blame, Slowing is what ‘caused all” ‘the trouble. ‘And’ because we farmed part of it, that cut down the pasturage for ‘our cattle and sheep, so we had to - ‘overstock the’ pastures,” and the grass was eaten right down into the roots, and now our old grass is ruined. Buffalo grass is about gone.

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“the spring - we shear our ‘sheep, and sell the wool for a hh: dollars, ‘say. ‘Then we take that thousand and put it all back in the land, buying seed, hir"ing - men, - buying’ machinery, and so on. We put the whole. thousand back into crops, and then dlong ‘comes dry weather and grass- | hoppers, and the whole” thousand and there’s no feed for the sheep. Robbing the sheep to farm the land. It’s criminal.”. Mr. Wobbe's sheep look fine, but he said they can't pick around on ‘this burned grass more than three or four weeks longer. He has made a couple of trips by auto, hunting pasture for them. If it doesn’t rain several times in the