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TUESDAY, JULY 21, .1986,

LANDON’S CHANCE : J the speech he will make Thursday night, ac- - * _cepting the Republican nomination for the presidency, Gov. Landon is expected to clear up many

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+@f the obscurities and contradictions in the party

*iplatform. . He cleared up three of them in his message to the Cleveland convention—the issue of a constitu-~ + $lonal amendment to permit state minimum wage “laws for women and children, the civil service plank, 2 ‘and the money plank. He cleared up another 5 #hrough the Lowden statement on farm policy, vir- » ually accepting the New Deal program. : But there are many other ambiguities and straddles which must be explained in forthright language 4 before Landon can establish claim to the support of rank and file citizens who want an American +i solution to America’s problems. These plain eitizens «will decide the 1936 election—and not by “hate” #: ballots, They will want some answers. n » 2

HAT is Landon’'s position in respect to foreign

trade? The platform promises to adjust

§ wv to promote international trade, but also 7 promises mare protection against imperts and adYocates abolition of the reciprocity trade program ° which is proving very successful iri restoring our i » foreign commerce, If this means, as it seems to, “more Smoot-Hawleyism, how does Landon intend to : A earry out that other platform pledge—“We shall « use every effort to collect the war debt due us”? 4 Did Banker Winthrop Aldrich accurately interpret the social security plank when he advocated abandonment of the old-age insurance program in favor of doles for elderly paupers? What is meant

i "by the proposal to finance these doles by “a direct

tax widely distributed”? Does the promise to . “encourage” states to adopt unemployment insur- '», @nce laws mean only lip-service encouragement? Does the pledge to protect labor's right to organuo §ze, “without. interference from any source,” mean, >" as many labor leaders believe it does, only company ~ unions or possibly a law which will permit court in- © junctions to restrain union organizers? Does the : pledge to “prevent government job holders from exercising autocratic powers over labor” mean, as it : seems to mean, nothing? Or does it mean, as has been charged, abandonment of the Wagner Labor ~ Board machinery for establishing collective bargain"ing through the free choice of the workers?

‘not by increasing taxes but by cutting expenditures,

drastically and immediately.” There are, we believe, - = a great many middle-road Americans willing to de- |

gert the New Deal on this fiscal issue, if only they . -can be shown, where would you cut, Gov. Landon? Relief? Public works? Army? Navy? . ‘compensation? Regular government services? And 3 haw? u .

4 'NDER the heading “re-employment, ” ‘the platform has many obscure pledges. It indicates that the jobléss can all be provided with jobs by: & 1. “Removal of restrictions on production.” That surely doesn’t refer to farm production; the Lane £don-Lowden formula is virtually the same as that the New Deal. The only other “restrictions on production” which we know. ‘anything about .are those. restrictions which. industry imposes on itself. Is there some way, to prevent the Aluminum Co. of § America and ‘U. 8. Steel from restricting their output? 2. “Abandonment of all New Deal policies that . raise production costs, increase the cost of living, ~ and thereby restrict buying, reduce volume and pre«vent re-employment.” Does that mean abandonment of the New Deal's general objectives of higher wages and shorter hours, or what? : 3. “Elimination of unnecessary and hampering regulations. * . What does Landon consider “unnecessary and hampering”? - Could it be the “Truth-in-

. Securities” law and the stock market law, which - _ protect investors from frauds and manipulations?

~The Utility Holding Company law? Another part of the platform favors laws of that type. : There are many other important issues to which the Republican platform refers ambiguously, ‘and still others which it avoids altogether.” On. theses: matters, too, the people will expect Landon to take . them into his confidence.

REVOLUTION IN ‘SPAIN O matter which side comes out on top ‘in the present upheaval in Spain, the real revolution ‘already more than a decade old—will go right on. Her ills are so deep-seated that it may take still more decades, plus considerable bloodshed, to cure

What is going on in Spain at this moment is a during the long period" of the reformation : end. in

Bred in the Spanish bone is the centuries-old tradition. of monarchy, church, army, the landed pristocracy and the rights pertaining thereto. ~ Opposed is the rising tide of the modern leftist —the republicans, workers, Socialists, radicals and mmunists—who bitterly dispute the age-old

his” “of. the others while setting up conflicting :

~ And that is the Spanish army, Woe unto

we ever have a republis with if in control”

duced under the republic. But most of them still In retirement, looking and longing for & return.

E Bully the church, 1 Spain, cooupled an oven. peivilegeat position. ‘Formerly it received some b anaval quheidy from the atate, Not only

. The platform promises to “balance the budget— .

Veterans’ } last year.

former owners,

Naturally in the process 5 thémeindous smotnt of

bitterness is generated between the classes. This seems to grow, rather than lessen, with the years. Often it has led to violence. Churches have been burned by the score. And there have been bloody clashes—at least four assuming the proportions of a revolt. : As a result of a “popular front” coalition last February, the Left. Republicans, Socialists, Communists and Anarchist-Syndicalists won 253 of the 473 seats in the Cortes, or better than a majority. The outcome was so overwhelming that the victors themselves were surprised. . Which, perhaps, was bad for them, Violence in creased and all kinds of excesses have been common ever since. More churches were put to the torch and sentiment -has somewhat turned against the republican cause, Thus swings the pendulum. Extremes lead to still further extremes—especially in a notoriously hot-blooded country like Spain.

“The wealthy classes,” said Blasco Tbanes,. spen- 1

ish auther of “The Four Horsemen” and “Blood and - Sand,” “are cruel through fear—~the fear of change. They are in favor of all solutions which permit of gunfire as a preliminary measure. “As for the working masses (of Spain), they, on their part, give proof of a taste for violence more marked than in any other coun Thus Spain's transition is so fundamental that it can hardly be completed until a new generation, with a different background, comes along. Meanwhile, the chances are her lot will be hectic with he blood and sand of revolution,

“THE GREEN PASTURES”

HE thing we liked most about the film version of “The Green Pastures,” showing this week at the Circle Theater, was that the producers refrained from making it a “million dellar picture” in the Hollywood sense of the term. They stuck to the stage play in almost every detail, even copying most of the stage sets. : ‘Written and directed by Mare Connelly, the screen play made it easy for audiences to understand that “The Green Pastures” is not an effort to be sacrilegious or mocking, but is a translation of the simple faith of the Negro. The movie is a Powerful sermon.

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- NOTES ON RECOVERY

MONTH ago it was indicated Marien County tax collections would exceed 100 per eent for the year, setting the highest figure for payments in years. Now the Indiana Taxpayers Association announces that property tax collections for the entire state in May exceeded 100 per cent for the first time since 1930. In effect, taxpayers in May not only paid the full amount levied for Indiana as a whole, but paid enough in addition to reduce the total of tax delinquencies by $254,665.93. As another barometer, the Indiana University Bureau of Research reports a marked June in-

1 -crease in Indiana business over last year and ‘com-

ments significantly, “Contrary to the usual seasonal swing, business was better than in May.’ ‘The United States Department of Commerce reports In‘diana gains in bank .debits and clearings, em ment; car sales, postal receipts and construction. W. W. Howes, first assistant postmaster general, told the convention of .the Indiana chapter of the National Association of Postmasters that records. for

airmail poundage have been: broken: four times int the” “Postal receipts, the greatest: ‘barometer

‘of ‘business; “increased $40,000,000 in the last fiscal year and promise to increase $40, 000,000 more in the next fiscal year,” he said.

rol there has been any doubt that Indiana is well . along the road to recovery, that doubt should now

be removed. And Indianapolis is one of the brightest spots on the state business map.

HITCH-HIKIN G

ITH ‘the summer peak of hitch-hiking being

reached, the report by the Hoosier Motor Club

that 25-states have joined Indiana in passing “guest~

hazard” laws indicates progress is being made in curbing the hitch-hiking menace.

Some of the “thumbers” you see may be care-'

free college youngsters, Others may be vicious

characters. Some of them will die, or be maimed or injured, before the summer ends, for hitch-hiking is to the open road what its twin sister, Jay-walking, Is to city streets.

And because hitch-hiking has become not oily a -national pastime but a national peril, Indiana and

many other states have laws frankly absolving from any damage claims the giver of a ride. Under the common law of accident damage, the driver was . liable. Thirteen other states ban hitch-hiking completely. ‘In. picking up a chance roadside guest, pollen ‘warn that you run the risk of unknowingly aiding criminals in flight; or the risk of robbery or violence.

And in’ many states there still is the danger of

Sage hits for alleged injury,

| A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT weeBy Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OTHERLESS Youth Ends Life,” says a headline. Probably it was read by a million child= il ‘women over their after-dinner cigarets, and it may be that the Words meant nothing to them. Yet is it not true that maternity in some form is every woman's destiny, and that we are encumberers of the earth when we fail to render to suclety the service expected of women?

By-that I do not mean that we should set out

to emulate Mrs, Dionne. There are many more ways

of being a mother than the physical act of bearing a

child. ‘Sometimes those who only bring forth babies

lack the spiritual essentials of motherhood. . But all women, whatever their station in life, whether they are rich or poor, working or idle, could

exercise in some manner their instincts for mater- tie nity. That the idle and rich so often fail to do so is | They: could be

a major tragedy of our mathers I thie best scat by taking a rational inter est in the welfare of others.

To pty that any child should tel mottos. for feeling motherless and being motherless are very

different things. TE vid Toes ie Jack of 8. :

dos nt maine he without 8 mother.

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stuff is both written and talked ‘about morality: in an attempt to make it approximate a state of holiness. Shucks! SA fgUre 4} Sul, 18 ASining Wut Ue art of living with comfort. The things emphasized and overlooked or left unsaid, the appeals to pur better or gentler feelings, the tokens of personal recognition given and received—in short, the things

and growing code of morals—are based primarily on our sensibilities and on our common sense.

precious little to do with it. Pastidiousness, for instance, can fight

readily than conscience. .And clean-. liness, whatever its proximity to godliness may be, is due almost en-

bilities,

We admit cleanliness and fastidiousness into our way of living, and incidentally into our code of morals, because not to do se would make And it may not be too late to observe that we shed our ‘clothes this reason-—especially When we go swimming, re

Which brings me to what I wanted to say in the first place, namely: That never in the world would I have seen anything wrong in a male ‘swimmer's exposed chest had not

ye» ae I SPENT 15 minutes the other of Mr. Marott's shoe shop, It was good for a set of statistics sufficient to prove that the French aren't the only realists in the world. ~ Thirty-one persons stepped on the scales while I was watching: . 19 women, 9 men, 3 children. I'll dis~ miss the children.

Four of the women were of the nervously alert type with the hyperthyroid glands predominating; six were of the adrenal type, which is to say «they -were more or less as nature had intended them; nine were bigger than nature had in-

say they were of the postpituitary type? All right. Five of the nine post-

while on the scales and pulled out little note books in which they'recorded their weights. Two frowned while doing this; three smiled. The three smiling ones credited their success to grapefruit; the two frowning ones thought they'd have to make a change. One tired woman confided to another that she’d rather meet death than let her husband see her book. It was nobody’s business, she said, not even her! husband’s. The nine men who stepped on the scales aren't worth mentioning. They were all over 60 and overfed. They were not in earnest Hye, the ladies.

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for. reply. when addressing any question of fact or information - to The Indienapolis ‘Times “Washibgton Service Bureau, 1013 13{h-: st. N.. W., Washington, D. OC. Legal. and ‘medical advice can not be given, mor can extended research be anderiaken, :

Rts Loulse Beavers; the Negro actress, "who a West in “She. Dope Him x Wrong” also the personal maid of Miss

A—No.

Q—How many games ¢ ad t the St. Cardinals win 1934

‘Tigers? A—St. Louis defeated Detroit four games to three. Q—When was the actress, Helen

| 'Twelvetrees born?

3 A—Dec. 25, 1908.

Q-—-What. is the record in the ma. jor baseball leagues for innings pitched in a single game? A—Twenty-six by Leon J. Cadore,

"| Brooklyn National League, and Jo-

seph Oeschger, Boston National League, May 1, 1920. In the Ameri-

can League, 24 innings, by John W.

‘Morality, as near as 1

that go to make up our fluctuating

Conscience, it would appear, has |

tirely to the rectitude of our ‘sensi-

us mighty uncomfortable. |

kind of weather for the very same

the Park Board brought up the || : Subject last week. 1 -

noon watching the scales in front |

4 By Rev. Lester Gaylor

tended them to be. Shall we simply Yar

pituitary type dug into their purses |

merely to make partisans, and for:

juries of the skin, which

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The Hoosier Forum

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

(Times readers are invitéd to erpress | their views in these columns, religious controversiés excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less, Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) 8 8 =»

CITES JEFFERSON IN FLAYING F. D. BR.

‘The Socialist Roosevelt New Deal is now using 24 different buildings in Indianapolis to house its Roosevelt army of “bureaucrats,” simply a term meaning “Roosevelt voters.” This is sweet music for the American ‘taxpayer! Mr. Roosevelt has not spared the spending of a single t2ApaYers dol-

nos upon a time there was a great Democrat who became Presi-’ dent of the United States. His name. was Thomas Jefferson. - Here | a “direct” message from Thomas |" Jefferson: “I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries

increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its be~ ing a public blessing.” "Mr, American Democrat, these are words of your great American Democrat, Thomas Jefferson. Will

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of vhe American Medieal Association. OTORIOUSLY, liitle : children frequently are subjected to cuts, bruises, burns’ and similar tn

carry them the possibility of infection. 4 such cases the first aid: given ‘at

preventing secondary infection or dangerous - complications. ‘Whenever germs get into the body and begin to release their ‘poisonous products, the human being may re~ “ly with (an ; ‘number’. of white blood cells. In a severe infection - there - is swelling and redness of the part, as “well as pain and te

home is of greatest importance. in

you ‘defend his principles, which aré noble and American, or will you become a rubber stamp to the Rosevelt “destroyers”? " = » COMES TO DEFENSE OF SOCIALIST PARTY By a Socialist I teke issue with Mr. Horn in his denunciation of socialism along with communism and other movements, There is a fundamental difference . between socialism ‘and

communism. : It is evident that he has read very little Socialist literature, otherwise. he would not say: “But- it does not tell us specifically and dis-. tinetly what the heck it does want, and does not convince us it has any feasible means of attaining its alleged goal.” : “Socialists are the advanced’ thinkers today who recognize the need of a new economic order.” We are. opposed to the present capitalist form of society with its unscientific, inhuman, industrial system, creating as it does economic insecurity. for these. who have work, and misery and semi-starvation for the millions who are unable to secure gainful labor at Speir chosen trade or i vlession, We recognize the fact that. the basic principle of the private owners of the present system is the acquisition of profits derived from the

or no regard for the human element

| connected therewith,

‘We would substitute for the pres» | ent system of private ownership and tion for profit, a system of collective ownership and production for use. A planned co-opera-tive Socialist order that would provide. a free, secure and abundant,

life for all.

I would suggest to Mr. Horn to. read some Socialist literature and include in his reading the declaration of principles and platform of the Socialist Party of Indiana, Inc. which explains the Socialist aims and objects very definitely, and sets forth the’ means ‘whereby they can be attained. .

. ¥ = DENIES STATEMENT IN | TIMES EDITORIAL .

By Vera Schaeffer

1 have just read the nasty, Tittle editorial “They Hate

knows, they have reason—but this

child ine “He (Father Coughlin) adopts {

tion as his cure for poverty

operation of this system, with little |

vocates—as did Washington, Jefferson, Pranklin, Jackson, Lincoln and

‘a host of other great men—that

Article I, Section 8, Part 5 of the Constitution of the United States be adhered to. This reads: ‘Congress shall have the power $0 coin’ money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin.” He has never advocated inflation, which means increasing the money supply, whether it be currency or bank credit money, out of all reasonable proportion to the goods and services to be exchanged with that money. The writer of that editorial is pretuly. ignorant or a liar. o » s SEES FAIR TRIAL FOR MERIT SYSTEM By Mrs. Lester A. Smith : The City Council, by appropriating the funds necessary to provide payment for members of the merit commission. of the. police and fire ‘departments, has insured a fair trial for the merit system established in these departments by act of the} Legislature .in 1935. Persons familiar with this Jaw are agreed that it is weak in several respects, chiefly in its failure .to provide for non-political selection of candidates for the training schools in the departments. ‘However, ‘experience gained by the commission in the application of the law as it now stands will be invaluable in planning revision of the law later. It is to be hoped that Indian apolis will follow the example of other cities in which application of the merit principle began in. the ‘police’ and fire departments’ then was extended inio other departments of the city government.

DUST

BY MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Idly yoy held within your hand A lump of sun-dried clay. Soon you scattered it to dust, ‘That softly fell away.

Some day I, too, must turn to dust, |

DAILY THOUGHT

’ In everything give ‘hanks: for. this is the will of God in Christ

wie ; Roosevelt.” | Jesus concerning’ you~~I Thessa- + | That statement may be true—God Ce

lonians 5:18. worship mos! most acceptable to

.” 1s a lie. Father Coughtin ad.

| SIDE GLANCES By George Clarke

God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.—Plutarch.

Indispa

Ernie Pyle has interrupted his regujar itinerary te make a quick trip inte the drought country. After completing this series he will go back to his old wanderings.

APID CITY, 8. D., July ‘3l.— The grasshopper is & ridiculous creature. His legs are out of joint and his eyes are funny. I hate to write a piece about him. ~But write a piece I'll have to, be-

cause the grasshopper to the Dakotas is about the same | as a hurricane to Miami ora wave © to Galveston. - a In the Northwest today, the grass- - hopper opens and closes every conversation. He holds second place only to the Srougnt itself. You can’t say the grasshoppers destroyed everything the roi po left; rather, the two galloped down . through the sun-parched summer - nose and nose, and it would be hard to say whether the last Qlade of ° grass died of thirst or'was gnawed | down by a hopper. Have you seen a freshly plowed field, just after the soil is turned, and it is all black and rich looking, with no vegetation at all? Well, that's what a corn field looks like after the hoppers are finished.

» » » =r not only strip the blades, they eat the stalk, and burrow down into the ground and nibble away the roots. They leave nothing on the surface whatever, They do the same with. grain and grass :

and vegetables. I wanted to take a pletcre of a hopper-devastated cornfield, but I didn’t want a bare ficlid, because you couldn't prove there had ever been any corn there. ‘I wanted a ° fleld that had leafless corn stalks - still standing like sticks, and I drove for a full half-day through South Dakota before I could find a field: that had even the stumps of corn stalks left. There's only one ' corn field in about every 150 miles that hasn't simply disappeared from the face of the earth. The motorist’s first engagement with a grasshopper horde gives him a queer feeling. They don’t make a black cloud in the sky. They just sit thickly slong the road, and you don't see them until your car stirs them up. And then how they jump!

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AE of a sudden they are streakng around in all directio like bullets in the war posters. They _ jump so fast that each one makes a sort of black streak. They smack and hang all over the car. I was continually dodging and blinking. When you see one coming straight at you, you instinctively duck. And just as you do, he hits the windshield with. a. pop that sounds as if you'd thrown a rock. That first batch lasted for about three miles. I stopped at the Rest town and bought a grasshop ‘screen to go over ths radia wg Nearly every car out here has one. Jt costs 85 cents, and is made of (window screening, cut to fit your radiator.

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OU’RE liable to find them in your hotel room, or in your shirt. in the morning, or hopping around the tables in the best restaurants. They don’t hurt you, of course, but they get in the way. The old-timers tell me that grasshopper plagues run in cycles. There was a bad one in 1902, and another in 1922.. They usually last three or four years, and they are worse indry years. This is the third and. worst year of the present cycle. There isn’t much you can do about them, apparently. The government has used paris green. That kills them, all right. ' But as one farmer says, “for every one that. dies, a thousand come to his funeral.” The farmers: say that wheén fit rains ‘after. poison is spread, the poison washes off and runs down to the water holes, and poisons the cattle and birds.

JULY 21 INDIANA HISTORY 3

N July 21, 1829, the Indiana state government received proposals from the Federal government to extend the Cumberland Road across the state. In 1803, Congress had made the first appropriation

for building a road across the Al-

leghenies, from Cumberland, Md., on the Potomac, to the Ohio River.