Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1936 — Page 13
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i YORK, July 21.—Bishop Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit said just before he sailed for Rome, “All this talk about my stopping Father Coughlin comes from a source which would like to see him stopped. There is nothing in the dogma of the Catholic Church against his participation in public affairs.”
It seems to me that the bishop speaks soundly. Many Protestant clergymen have been active in
American politics. And I see no reason why: priests should not have the same privilege. Moreover, 1 think it was an excellent idea for Father Coughlin to take. off his coat and collar before he began his. harrangue of the Townsendites in Cleveland. - It should be clear that the gentleman speaks as Charles E. Coughlin and not as the mouthpiece of his church. : The point has been made by Catholic prelates already. At least one American cardinal has criti-
cised Coughlin severely and Bikhop
Mr. Broun Gallagher expressed himself as objecting to certain phrases used by the: radio priest. I think it should be clear that Coughlin is on his own, because at times he nas come dangerously close to suggesting that his own views are part of Holy Writ. And certain Coughlinites have assailed any who dared to criticise him as rebels against God's authority. I know nothing in the Bible which indicates whether the Creator is a Republican or a Democrat ‘or the backer of a third party movement.
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8 a matter of fact, I think Carter Glass goes much too far in stating dogmatically preeisely what Patrick Henry would have felt about the New Deal. And so it is an even greater delusion of grandeur when men rise up upon the rostrum like Gerald Smith, holding aloft a Bible, and asserting that it is a campaign handbook for William Lemke.
In the space of 25 years I have seen all kinds of political sects seize upon “Onward Christian Soldiers” as a party anthem and it never seemed to me that any one of them had acquired a clear title. The Republicans in Cleveland + whooped it up with “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” but before going into their number they took occasion to throw most of the colored delegates out on their ear. I do not see how the right to go to church on Sunday will be seriously affected by the: election of Roosevelt, Landon or Lemke. In the unlikely event of Norman Thomas or Earl Browder I rather imagine that vespers will go on as usual. Mr. Thomas is no longer a clergyman, but I never have heard anything about his renouncing his faith. I am under the impression that Browder doesn't get to go, but there is nothing in his platform calculated to keep you or me from divine services.
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HE religious affiliations of our various Presidents have been rather strongly influenced by political considerations. Some of our chief executives have been deeply religious men, while others have gone to church only just enough to hold the franchise. Just before a nominating convention and all through a presidential campaign the rival candidates are pretty much on the spot. “Ma,” says a man who. is running for office, “whatever became of that prayer And then there is a scurrying and a bustling and a study of the road map and the whole family trundles off to sit in a front pew and pose for the photographers in the vestibule. \ I am pointing no finger of suspicion at Roosevelt, or Landon or Lemke. Maybe they all love to
g0 to church. Perhaps their -attendance record ih
off years is just as good as at present. I merely make the assertion that I never have heard of any candidate who suddenly quit. going to church the moment he was nominated for the presidency.
My Day BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
PCRTSMOUTH, N. H., Menday—Eight = o'clock found us on the road this morning and we made very good time. I had decided to try a new route to Campobello, and found it the best I have taken so far. We went up the regular Post-rd until about five miles out of Albany, there we turned north to Troy and, missing the business section of the town, struck Route 7-and then Route 9, which takes one via Bennington to Keene. From a little place called the Sky Line Tea House, there is a most lovely view of the Green Mountains— and they are green, wooded and very beautiful. The whole drive with its lakes and woods is a lovely trip. When you leave the Green Mountains you skirt the southern end of the White Mountains on Routes 111 -.and 97, and suddenly find yourself on Route 110 running into the low scrubby woods and stony fields which herald the approach to the ocean just south of Little Boar's Head, N. H.. There are no big cities te go through, and while there is a little construction and the roads are hilly with a good many curves, you can still make pretty Sood time and have an opportunity to see things on e way. At about 1 o'clock it began to rain, and I pulled into what looked like a rarely used wood road to enjoy the protection of the trees while we ate our luncheon. We chose well, for apparently nobody was disturbed by us until everything was packed away. Then some one honked in a very annoyed manner. They had to back while I backed out and turned on the road. I imagine they thought we were very cheeky tres-
passers. : At about 4:45 we reached the house of my daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt. As I dictate this, little Kate Roosevelt is sitting on my lap watching, or rather listening, to the typewriter with rapt attention. ' (Copyright. 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.)
New Books
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— say that the more you feed them, the more work you can get out of them, might seem to . smack of the harsh methods of an earlier industrial day but, no, it's the scientific conclusion from a recent study made by H. ‘W. and L. A. Greenberg on DIET AND PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY: THE INFLUENCE OF FREQUENCY OF MEALS UPON PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY (Yale; $3). After all, why do we assume ‘that three meals a day at customary intervals are really best for us? Having vered that a difference in meal time
may make as much as 10 per cent difference in work
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TUESDAY, JULY 21 a =
a as Seéond-Class Matter ° ae. Indianapolis, Ind. °
THE INDIANAPOLIS G 7 he Rovord and Pros and Cons of the Contin iting Conflict
Ss BATTLE
(The Second of a Series)
BY FREDERICK G. MATSON HOSE most aggressively favoring introduction of natural gas in Indianapolis today are certain local manufacturers and industrial concerns. They declare they are under a severe handicap in competing with Industries in other localities that are able to operate their business at a lower cost by using natural gas.
The relatively higher price they have to pay for artificial gas here increases the cost’of the products and forces economies in other directions, they assert. When natural gas came within reach of the city five years ago, local manufacturers proclaimed the desirability of the product and took steps to bring it into the city. On June 17, 1931, the heads of 16 Indianapolis industrial firms, under the name of the Manufacturers’ Natural Gas Association, Inc. filed articles of incorporation with the Department of State of Indiana. The group was incorporated, the articles say, “To purchase or otherwise ‘acquire and to sell or otherwise - dispose of natural gas for commercial, industrial and manufacturing uses to corporations, co-partnerships, firms, associations and individuals whose requirements of such gas for such uses and’ purposes shall not be less: than 250,000 cubic feet per calendar month.”
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HE .16 concerns making up
the list of incorporators were E. C. Atkins & Co. J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co., Link Belt Co. U. 8. Encaustic Tile Works, Kingan. & Co., Indianapolis Castings Ceo., ‘Schwitzer-Cum-mins - Co., McQuay-Norris Bearings Co. C. & G. Foundry and Pattern Works, LangsenkampWheeler Brass Works, Meier Electric. and Machine Co., Advance Paint Co., Acme Works, Inc., Lilly Varnish Co., Uniyersal ‘Brass Works, and Rdckwood Manufacturing Co. ; Ten other well- known local firms immediately became affliated with the new organization. These were :Prest-O-Lite, Inc. American Bearing Co., KleiberDawson Co. Indianapolis Metal Treating .Co., National Malleable and Steel Castings Co, P. R. Mallory Co., Indiana Retinning Co., American Lead - Co:, American Valve and Enameling Co., and Emerson Scheuring Co. Shortly before incorporating, 25 of these firms—all of them, in fact, with the exception of the National Malleable and Steel Castings Co.—had entered into contracts with the Kentucky Natu< ral Gas Co. to furnish them with natural gas. - Kentucky Natural was a subsidiary of Missouri-
Kansas Pipe Line Co., a holding
company owning 50 per cent of the stock of Panhandle Eastern
Pipe Line Co. Kentucky Natural : at this time was furnishing Ken- |
tucky and western Indiana towns with gas. 2 2 2 N June 17, 1931, the: Manufacturers’ Natural Gas Association filed with the Indiana Public Service Commission a petition for a certificate of “public convenience and necessity,” authorizing it to furnish natural gas to 'the City of Indianapolis. Such a certificate was necessary .be-
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cause - furnishing natural gas would -involve some competition with an existing public utility, the Citizens Gas Co. ‘The petition was limited to furnishing natural gas to industrial concerns only. the Manufacturers’ Association expected to obtain gas, to be resold to industrial firms, from the Kentucky Natural Gas Co. The petition also stated that Kentucky Natural had an adequate supply from its Kentucky fields, and also “has the right to and will enter into ‘a "contract with the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.” for additional gas.
Line Co., another subsidiary of Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co., was the firm that had constructed the long line from the-rich Texas Panhandle gas fields as far as I~ Dana, Ind., near the Illinois state line. - At this time the pipeline was being extended across Indiana, ultimately to join the line at Muncie, which received ‘its gas from Ohio and West Virginia fields. a Re : BJECTIONS to the manufacturers’ petition were filed
apolis .and the Citizens Gas Co., on Aug. 8, 1931. ‘The objections were based on the ground that if natural. gas were to be furnished to local consumers, it should be done through the distribution sys-
which the City intended to. take over. In its objections filed ‘with the
It set forth that’
- The ‘Panhandle ‘Eastern Pipe -
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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
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Construction of a 230-mile gas pipeline from Zionsville to: ‘Detroit by the Michigan Gas Transmission Corp. was started last April and completed July 1. The line was built to transport natural gas to Detroit
Public Service Commission, the City promised to. investigate the benefits of natural gas to. Indianapolis citizens in the . following statement: 5 “Neither the Citizens Gas Co. nor the City of Indianapolis has determined as ‘yet the feasibility and extent of practical use of nat ural gas in connection with the operation of the plant and property of said Citizens Gas Co., but that the same is the present’ ‘sub-
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a special committee appointed for that purpose by the ‘Mayor of Indianapolis; * that - such questions are complex and important and require the procurement of detailed and extensive information and careful analysis thereof.”
The special committee referred to was a group of 14 men ap-
pointed by. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan on May .1, 1931. The committee had : been named - to study the whole gas situation: as the result of increased public interest in natural gas. The legal point of attack, at a public hearing on the petition, was
| that. as .the Manufacturers’ Nat-
.ural Gas Association only proposed to supply gas to a limited group, it was therefore not a true “public utility,” and thus the Public Service Commission had no jurisdiction to grant the certificate of convenience dnd necessity.
- cluded ‘Dana, Montezuma,
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fiom ‘the Texas Panhandle fields.
~—Times Photo by Wheeler.
This picture shows. a. tractor taking :
‘a 40-foot section of 22-inch’ pipe across a highway approximately 12
‘miles. northwest of Indianapolis.’
N. Aig 18, 1931, “the comimission dismissed ' the manu--facturers’ petition on the. technical ground of’ lack of Jurisdiction. For more . than a ‘year’ no fur-: ther ‘specific action was . taken on the natural gas problem. The
manufacturers’ association nego-
tiated with other gas interests, ‘but was unable to arrive at-any. favorable means of - bringing dbe. |,
* natural product to the city.
~ In the meapiime. fhe Pipeline. complete “by
Trion. Corp. : ‘By 1932 ‘several Indiana’ * ities q - and ‘towns. along ‘the - route -had installed natural gas.- These Rockville, © North . Salem, Danville, Brownsburg, . Zionsyille,. Carmel, Pendleton, Anderson - and Newcastle. Then, on Sepf. 5, 1933, came another petition ‘for a certificate
of convenience and necessity for
bringing natural gas to Indianapolis by the Indiana Gas Service ‘Co. This ' concern had made arrangements. to distribute nat-
ural gas: primarily to -loeal :indus-
tries, but agreeing. to: furnish: to all who wished to purchase. : “The City and Citizens Gas Co. again - filed objections; ¢on : the:
“same ground in almost identical
language as their objections to the ‘manufagturers’ petition two years: earlier. * | us
the financial
JN “the Sbwoevedr period bwoen these petitions for natural gas for ‘Indianapolis, the : Mayor's ' special ‘gas committee had made no: public report. : In: the new objections,
the purpose and intention: (of the Utilities ' District) immediately to
investigate the practicability of |
obtaining a supply of natural’ gas
‘from the best and cheapest o
- of supply, and that after suc ‘vestigation if will make .such .ar_rangements |
‘Indianapolis. . . .” At a hearing on the petition Oct. 30, ‘1933, it developed “that ‘ resources of ‘the . Indiana Gas Service Co. were not adequate to supply natural gas to the city. The company requested that its petition “be "dismissed without prejudice. This was done.
Meanwhile, "the City - contems-
‘plated requesting a loan of about
"$9,000,000 to enable it to take over the Citizens Gas Co. pursuant’ to .the - franchise granted the company in 1905, and to provide . for ‘improvements and more’ worting . capital.
' Next: Indianapolis seeks’ ' finds to take over the plant and prop: erty of the ‘Citizens: Gas Co.
Gen. Hugh Johnson Recalls Iti rigue to Replace Pershing as Commander of A. E. F. During War
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON [EW YORK, July © 21.—1I - have just finished reading = Gen. Harbord’s book on the World War. He was Pershing’s first chief of staff, then ably commanded the Marine brigade at Belleau Wood, and finally was commanding general of the 8. O. S.—that vast supply organization behind the A. E. F. which made the Armistice possible and was, in my opinion, thie greatest single effort of the war. Perhaps I ought not to say anything about that book. I was tlosely involved: with the controversial aspects of it as chief .of purchase a pb A lantic. :
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HE best beoks on the war are|
Ludendorfi’s. They show. positive genius in. conds
| clarity for the non-professional
Be Lr co-ordinate and he did the job bet-
ter than ‘any general on either
side.’
I can’t say ‘that of Harbord’s book.
On the whale, it is diffe and dis. | Jess, the: test |
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book tells ‘the repercussions of that Incident across: the Atl tic. ss = EN. GOETHALS was no intriguer. - The whole thing to him was a colossal joke. - He Just wanted to go to France. But both factions had reckoned _ without Newton Baker. Whatever March had meditated, Baker scdfched. 'I don’t know what went on behind the scenes, but I know that this country has never fairly
-appraised the: service of that little - man as
Secretary of War, in this and many more important matters. He reversed very error ‘of : Hs
ineffable predecessors. He abolished politics in the selection’ of officers and the formation of the
‘military units. He kept his hands
off the conduct of military affairs in the field, ‘and at the critical point we are talking about finally
decided to stipport his choice of | a commander against both allied:
and War Department intrigue.” He adopted selective service instead of the archaic volunteer systém of the Civil War. He substituted business methods for Sutsedusatis methods. Copyzieh, 1936 108 ited Feature
GRIN AND: BEAR I m
Syndicate by Licey
filed : + Jointly, the City said: “ .., . dt is
‘connection ‘there- T° with as are for the ‘best’ inter- ' “ests ‘of the consuming public: in |
EW YORK, July 21.—If these dispatches sometimes seem just a trace impatient about things, it may be due in part to the sort’ of reading which your correspondent ‘feceives in the mail. This reading includes fuite a few books, but most of them are angry books telling how’ Andrew Carnegie, Andy Mele lon, the Astors, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers got theip money in the first place or relating the eXperientey of some one who was slapped over si the ‘head with a bat and kicked down a flight of stone: stairs by the Fascists or Nazis. There have been a couple among the many which charged ‘that. certain forms of breakfast food are not redlly: made of cereal but from cedar shavings or ground cork, flavored with slow poison. One says your correspondent’s favorite tooth-paste is just a dirty gyp, produced at a cost of about three dollars a ton but retailing at 25 cents a tube. A couple of books on glands are especially upsetting, for they contain pictures showing what happens to a person when some gland that nobody knows much about : goes haywire for no apparent reason. Among your correspondent’s books. there are seve eral which explain all about money and international trade, with diagrams of the tax-payers dollar prove ing that in the fiscal year 1945 the taxes will take it all and the. insurance companies will not be able to : pay off: the endowment policies: which people are counting - on: for ‘their old age. There are books telling, too late, unfortunately, ‘what a lot of crooks Warren G. Harding had around him and how an ine nocent little boy who has shot a few people in plays ful stickups is thrown iito the company of hardened offenders in: the prisons and taught to chew tobacco and swear.
Mr. Pegler .
2 nw ” His Favorites Are Gone
A POPULAR theme among book-writers nowadays is the venality of the press and this is not cheers ful reading, either, to one:who makes a living in the newspaper business, for it looks as though any dee partment store owner can call up and get a man fired any time just by threatening to withdraw his ad, The kind of books your correspondent ought to be reading is Joe Sayre stuff and Anita Loos stuff, Mr. Sayre wrote “Rackety Rax” and “Hizzoner the Mayor” and Miss Loos did “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds”
and then didn’t do anything else. But on searching the bhook-shelf for these books your correspondent :
| discovers that some one else must have liked thes, J;
too, ‘and now they are out of mn and nobody. 18 Soing anything like them. :
Finds Witerary Diet Gloomy’
PU IsHEss never send your correspondent that kind of book, They send more books, full of indignation ‘which view. with alarm and stir up un 4 feeling, which is then unavoidably communicated to a series of daily essays which earnestly wish to pers ceive the silver lining and preach the all-conquering power of love. They send such things as “Our Lords and Masters,” “The Brown Network,” “Europe Une der ‘the Terror,” “Storm Over the Constitution.” nig “Une der the Axe of Fascism,” “The du Pont Dynasty,” “American Messiahs” and: “Compulsory Spen -' And ‘then there are those little butchers’ ‘paper magazines full of serious thinking and the ‘standard outrages of the day and foreign names and idealogy and totalitarian, and hundre about leagues against things which are going’ meetings and: demand ‘that steps be taken. : A gloomy diet on the whole and just as a fish-duck tastes of perch a writer who feeds on wrongs and
crying: shames is bound. to strike a note of discontent once in awhile, : :
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT s. ALLEN ASHINGTON, July 21.—Thefe is an interesting inside story behind the sudden yarn about sp! in the Navy. That is why the State Department and- even the naval higher-ups are not going to do much about it. The idea that our Army and N are honeycombed with spies is ‘pure bunk. = - Of course, there are one or two ity the Navy really believe in the _spy-honeycomb. Chief among them is Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, bearded exe commander of the fleet. About one year ago ‘Reeves son was killed in an air crash, and there was mutters ing that the crash was caused by sabotage. ; : Ever since then Reeves has seen spies everywhere, He even issued an order prohibiting any officer or enlisted man on any ship from taking a camera aboard. The order was so grotesque that ‘Washes
ington wired to the a a ng a know #f they had understood him
in Washington) eT an Sle Navy General a But that isn’t the whole story. :
pre the first place; the Navy had known about. f mer Lieut. Com. John S. Farnsworth for some ti but never had worried about him. The things he weren't important.
sight ‘which he himself developed, and which Y Sol Ywd auykal Se sia. slenkie, vi are changed every six months, and some “ ‘although
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