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Thetr Ojon Way WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1936.

LANDON’S CHANCE-II

Ee are several issues on which Gov. Landon ' alone can define the Republican attitude. The / Tennessee Valley Authority is the Roosevelt Administration’s one great socialistic venture. The government is actually generating and selling ~ electric power, and is doing many other things to conserve and utilize the resources of the Tennessee _ basin, Because of this power yardstick, electric energy has become cheaper in. that area. Private power companies bitterly oppose TVA, despite the fact that cheaper rates have brought the private ~ utilities in that territory more business than they ever had before. %s Another Roosevelt undertaking in the power ~ fleld is the Rural Electrification Administration, which is lending millions of dollars to farmers’ co-operatives for the building of transmission lines carrying electricity to thousands of farm homes. The Democratic platform points with pride to these two performances, and pledges: “We will continue to promote plans tor rural electrification and for cheap power by means of the yardstick method.” What does that Republican platform say in respect to TVA and REA? Nothing. Nothing, unless there is some hidden meaning in these two vague promises: “To preserve the American system of free enterprise, private competition and equality of opportunity” and “withdrawal of government from competition with private pay rolls.” Those pledges may or may not satisfy the private power companies. But we are confident they do not satisfy people who want the TVA and REA continued. When he formally accepts the Republican nomination tomorrow night, Gov. Landon will have an opportunity to speak cut clearly.

” = a HROUGH the HOLC, the Roosevelt Administration saved some 2,000,000 homes from foreclosure. Through the FHA, it broke, down the high interest mortgage racket, and stimulated the financing of new home-building among families having in- . comes large enough to afford decent homes. But in its efforts to provide low-cost housing for families with incomes too low to afford decent homes, the Roosevelt Administration has wandered all over the lot. The Democratic platform pledges to do ‘better, to extend the government program “toward the goal of adequate housing for those forced through economic necessities to live in snhealthy and slum conditions.” What does the Republican platform say in re3 spect to housing? Nothing. It is up: to Gov. Landon to tell what the Republicans propose to do. . Through neutrality legislation, the Roosevelt. . Administration has made a definite attempt to guard this country from being drawn into foreign wars. In our opinion the legislation is inadequate.

munition and implements of war to. belligerent na-" tions; prohibit transactions in the securities of belligerents and the extension of loans or credits to them: prohibit shipment of munitions on Amerjcan vessels; prohibit use of United States ports as supply bases for belligerent craft, and warn American citizens that they travel on ships of belJigerent countries at their own risk. The Democratic platform pledges “a frue neutrality in the disputes of others” and promises “to guard against being drawn by political commitments, international banking, or private trading, into any war which may develop anywhere.” What does the Republican platform say on neutrality? Nothing. What does Gov. Landon say?

INDIANA MARKETS

N 1929, the foreign trade of the United States totaled $10,000,000,000 and the country was pros-

perous. The value of Indiana products going directly to

foreign markets that year was $74,000,000—and the people of Indiana were prosperous. In 1932, the nation's foreign trade shrank to $3,000,000,000, and Indiana exports to $17,000,000. This $57,000,000 loss in Hoosier exports aggravated

the hardships of the depression. ' The State Department in Washington, report-

"ing these figures and telling how the New Deal's reciprocal trade agreements have helped repair some of the damage, commented on the fgreign * trade losses: “This drastic contraction, which contributed greatly to the ‘severity and length of the depression, was caused to an important extent by excessive parriers to foreign trade set up by the United States and other nations of the world.” The figures clearly show that the prohibitive rates of the Smoot-Hawley tariff, resulting in retaliatory action by foreign countries, destroyed Indiana ~~ and American markets abroad, increased unemploy"ment, caused economic hostility between nations, : and effectively choked off an outlet for farm prodgo Yet in the face of these facts the Republican Party in Indiana declares: “We renew our allegiance to the doctrine of a protective tariff for the benefit of American agriculture, American labor and American industry.”: And the party nationally also makes an orthodox Republican tariff

= Ed 2 ; ” State Department reports the reciprocal ~ 4 trade agreements under President Roosevelt have done much to restore foreign trade. Most of “the 14 agreements now in operation contain con-

It does, however, ban the shipment of arms, ams- |

the reciprocal trade agreetient law Which the'na~ tional Republican Party promises to repeal on the ground that “it is futile and dangerous.” Hoosier farmers and industries have benefited from a tariff policy which the Republican ‘state platform asserted has resulted “in the loss of foreign markets for American agriculture and industry.” It ‘would seem good business sense for Indiana to continue support of the profitable and successful reciprocal trade act.

TRACK ELEVATION

T= proposed elevation of Belt and Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, to be financed principally by WPA funds, would be a valuable civic improvement. It would increase safety by eliminating hazardous crossings, break up some of the bottle-necking of 4 traffic from the South Side, and facilitate railroad operation in and out of the city. The track elevation plan has been agitated for years by South Side civic clubs and others. The large fund asked for a singlé project presumably was the reason the WPA rejected a similar proposal last September. The proposal is that WPA pay $2,062,119; the city, $234,194; Marion County, $110,209; Pennsylvania Railroad, $163,592, and Belt Railroad, $180,812. While city and county expenditures should be held to'a minimum, if the WPA plan does not go through, taxpayers may wait a long time before they can get this long-needed improvement built for the small local cost that may now be possible.

SHAMEFUL RECORD -

T midyear, motor vehicle fatalities were 8 per = 7+ cent lower in the United States than at the same time last year. ‘The death toll in Indiana showed a decrease of 4.45 per cent. At the same time, the number of traffic deaths in Indianapolis had increased nearly 20 per cent. If Indianapolis i to contribute anything but a growing casualty list to the traffic live-saving, campaign this year a start must .be made soon.

HA, HA, HA, HO, HO, HO!

HE Nazis have decreed a “week of laughter” in Berlin so that visitors to the Olympic games can see how happy everybody in Hitlerland is. “The coming eight days will be days of jollity and cheerfulness,” said the Labor Front announcement. “Berliners should take stock of themselves, then with merry heart and friendly expression on their faces receive their Olympic gues : The day following this decree comes a story tell"ing how the Nazi undercover men and judges are doing their part to keep the people smiling. A Kiel professor was sentenced to two months in jail and a 1000-mark fine for “maliciously putting doubts into the souls of his pupils.” For listening to a Moscow radio station a man in Hamm is serving a year. A Dortmund court sent a man to jail for nine months for saying that Hitler had accomplished nothing, A Koenigsberg court gave-a man one year for “unbelievably insulting remarks about Hitler, Goering and Goebbels.” A 70-year-old Gotha resi-. dent got 15 months for writing a letter to a friend in Switzerland criticising the Nazi regime. /A man in Heide got 10 months for saying that butter was delivered to party leaders during a butter shortage. Then, doubtless to make the German folk hold their sides in merriment, a special Hitler commission of jurists has recommended that: maximum sentences for distributing “false reports” will be two yess | in jail :

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: gry ~~ IS THIS HASTE? HE complaint is often heard that the Roosevelt Administration moves too swiftly, that it is always going off after some new reform without waiting for public opinion to catch up. We are reminded that in respect to at least one long-agitated reform the Administration has shown little inclination toward haste. The reminder comes in the form of a news dispatch from Paris, telling of legislation sponsored by Premier Blum to nationalize the French munitions industry.

In this country we had a congressional investigation of the munitions industry, lasting more than two years. The committee unanimously reported that the industry had been guilty of promoting war scares, resorting to bribery to peddle its wares, thwarting international peace and disarmament efforts, and bidding collusively to exact inordinate profits. A majority of %he committee—four out of seven—recommended a government monopoly in the manufacture of war implements for peacetime needs. The minority of three opposed nationalization, but recommended rigid government control and limitation of the profits. Even before this committee reported its findings and recommendations, a crosssection of public opinion indicated that 82 per cent of the American people favored a government munitions monopoly. Yet the “hasty” Roosevelt Administration permitted Congress to adjourn without taking any action whatever on this issue.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguso HE excellent and unusuul magazine, Books Abroad, published by the University Press at Oklahoma University, is having its tenth birthday “ this year, and deserves the encomiums it undoubtedly will receive from its literary contemporaries. - Its editors have had the courage to make the name of my native state known and honored in the far places of the earth. “I do not know where Oklahoma is,” writes Otto Flake of Baden Baden, Germany, but because of the publication he and many another know it exists somewhere and that a few at least of its inhabitants are engaged at worthwhile enterprises. In our daily ‘reading we sre apt to think that

heeding its writers, that we know individualism still survives there. Within the hearts of a few men, some of whom are exiles from their own countries, the urge for freedom and the yearning for a more sea. So long as these and their descendants exist, the remnants of a lost civilization will endure; perhaps from its seed will come a better. Count Carlo Sforza, who outlines the “Intellectu-.

Books Abroad of a fact which most political leader too soon forget, AGN Shave Nice Words:

Europe has flung liberty to the four winds. It is only by seeing the words of its intellectuals, and by. |

al Decadence of Europe” in an article deploring the |! rise of dictatorships, reminds -us once more in |;

Town : gin By ped atom ANTON SCHERRER

ATEoros of my little story about the big smells of the small shops in Indianapolis before the department stores came, Alex Vonnegut tells of the time he went to Ping-

1, too, had a similar experience,

reveal an obscure phase of my life. . 1 wasn't in search of anything as formidable or monumental as Mommsen’s history. Par from it. I had scoured the town for a missing.

series and had gone to Pingpank's. as a last resort.

Plutarch’s

Pingpank was : Fh I= all of res months ago—My! My! how time flies—that I un-

| covered what I then believed to be

an authentic recipe for May wine, which, if you remember, is a heav-

wine and Waldmeister. occasion at the time to. deplore the

a component part of’ May wine. ‘ Indeed, so put out was I at the time:

persist in the barbarous and wholly uncalled-for champagne on top of everything else. Among those shown up at the time was Richard Kurtz.

any rate, it was last week that Mr. Kurtz invited me to his home and treated me to May Wine made his way. Mr. Kurtz was entirely fair about it, however. He made the drink both ways—his way and my way— apparently secure in the belief that somehow in his-own home he could win me over to his way of thinking. To tell the truth, he did win me over. Thus proving again, if further proof & necessary, that a columnist just makes a monkey of himself by trying to be pontifical. ; 2 2 =» of ND on top of everything else came Mrs. Chandler Pritchard's letter. Mrs. Pritchard suspects that 1 do a lot of writing with my tongue in. my cheek. Indeed, she’s.so sure of it that she cites the last time I did it. A check-up reveals it was the very day everybody else’s tongue was hanging out. Be that as it may, Mrs. Pritchard was somewhat disconcerted last week when she picked up Our Town and read the story about the strange girl who turned up in Irvington and asked to be taken home, only to

| disappear before she got there—

the one Sally, our seamstress, told 50 years ago. Remember? The story, it appears, has been part of Mrs. Pritchard’s repertoire ever since Alexander Woollcott first told it five years ago. To be sure, Mrs. Pritchard’s tale differs in details but its point is the same. Instead of happening 50 years ago in Irvington, the way Sally told it, Mrs. Pritchard has ‘it happening five years ago at a crossroads 50 miles from Cleveland. : Mrs. Pritchard’s story is more modern, too. She has the girl killed in an automobile crash and, of course, there is no horse and buggy in Mrs. Pritchard's story. I'm glad Mrs. Pritchard took time off to write her letter, especially the part about Cleveland, because, now that I come to think of it, it all comes back to me that Sally once told me she was born in Cleveland. Sally, no doubt, brought the story to Indianapolis from Cleveland and dolled it up to meet local conditions. It’s & way raconteurs have, including even good ones like Mr. Wooll« cott.. : : I distinctly remember telling

watched.

Ask The Times ' Inclese a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indlenapelis Times

“Yes,” said Mr. Phoepenk. "1 have N it, but you are too young to read it.” |

and I risk telling it, even if it does |

number of the Deadwood Dick |

I came away ‘with a copy off “Lives” under my arm.| That's the kind of bookseller Rar} 2

enly drink compounded of Mosel | You may recall, too, that I took on use of anything but Mosel wine ‘as |: | that I cited the’ naries of Indian? ip apolis gentlemen who, in their. at-] :

tempt to improve perfection, still |

practice! of adding ||

Last week Mr. Kurtz got even. At |

mother once that Sally had to be |f

~The Hoosier Forum

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies 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 wild be withheld on requcst.) ® 2 =

SEES LANDON TOOL OF G. 0. P. OLD GUARD

By H Tye ald that some. big. abot, weeks before the Cleveland conven-

tion, wrote their names on a slip | of paper — “Landon and Knox” —

and said, “There’s the ticket.” Even from the slight description we can guess who the big shot was. He represented the Old Guard which has run Republican affairs since the death of Lincoln, whom: they bedeviled throughout his two two terms.

~ After combing ‘the country, the:

Old Guard found the most colorless. man, the one who, like Hayes, Harrison, Harding and Coolidge, will do exactly as he is told—will stand hitched to a fare-you-well They

put him at the head of the ticket,|

and put their other man, who represents the Republican press of the country, at the tail end where he can do nothing even if he should take a notion. ; Now, everybody knows what would happen if this ticket were to be elected. The big money folks— not the business men, but thé men who represent international money, and who are in the habit of keeping business and industry at work

for their boss—the big money folks] ‘would take things in hand. For a

time they would give a free hand to

business, and could make. a con-| ¥

siderable showing by b! on

the improvement already at hand.|

Boom times might ‘even come

Your Health’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of she American Medical Association. NFANTS have convulsions mich . more frequently than do adults. The nervous system of the child is

so sensitive that frequently an}

acute infectious disease will begin with convulsions. If there is an associated rapid rise in the body temperature, convulsions are more common than otherwise. In ordinary convulsions the child

loses consciousness and becomes

rigid. Then there may be a spasmodic jerking of the face and of the arms and legs. necessary to ‘distinguish ordinary, mild convulsions, and those which are the result of

epilepsy It is important also to know as

It is, of course, | between

again in the course of a decade; but eventually the same old outfit and their successors would declare that everybody's credit was frozen, and thus they would launch another panic. They would control credit, which is much more to their liking than having control of any -busi-

{ ness, for it gives,them the chance’

to clean'up whenever they care to. The recent depression has cost

| the country uncountable billions.

' Should we: not save the coming population from a repetition of what we have undergone? Give the next crop of citizens a chance to do business, to run their farms, ‘and to own property, with‘out being under a cloud of fear that they may wake up any morning and find that their work and enterprise have turned to dust and -ashes at the Sommand of a crowd of harples.

Loe RB 170 A KANSAS SUNFLOWER AND

GOV. ALFRED M, LANDON By E. 8S. L. Thompson

Sunflower; Sunfllower! are glad for you, You are the badge of honor for one v ‘the brave and true! ~ You represent the manhood - That stands the strictest test: You represent the Statehood . ot the golden, golden West!

Sunflower! Sunflower! Your petals are Star kissed! The dew lies on your bosom of rose and Amethyst! You mean that man’s a brother In the keeping of his God. ~~ You mean’ we've found a Chams= . pion, For the fallen and downtrod!

Of a knightly, knightly line, And hold the torch of Freedom for the man that’s yours and . mine.

‘You’ represent the manhood That stands the strictest test: You represent the Statehood of the olde, goluen West!

CANDIDATE FOR PROSEC UTOR

TAKES MERIT STAND By William Henry Harrison . I noticed in The Times of July 15 the editorial on the merit sys-

‘{tem and I would like to take this opportunity of calling your atten-|

‘tion to the fact that I stated in the primary campaign that, if elected, I would conduct the prosecutor’s of-

be the equal of any district attorney’s ‘office located in the- larger

All hearts |

| Old sorrows and sad experiences So we’ll place you on the banner . {

fice in such a manner that it would |

cities; that the investigation of crime would be initiated and the prosecutor’s office would assist as far as possible in the prevention of crime. -It'is my opinion that the prosecutor’s office can be so organized that it ‘will be a distinct benefit to the community and the prosecutor and his staff something more than mere trial lawyers. T have also made it a rule never to promise any positions so that, if elected, I will be free to appoint those who-are qualified. If elected this fall, every appointee will have to. be qualified and all appointees will be warned before taking office that if they can not perform the duties assigned to them in an eflicient manner that they will be removed. I am at all times willing to discuss my ideas . concerning this

: office and its poration.

” CITES QUOTATIONS

SOURCE By Reader A recent editorial in The Times said® “Farley has been the chief target for New Deal opposition. The target is still there, though somewhat diminished in size. “For some reason or other, Jim's tenacity reminds us of Robert Louis Stevenson’s remark during his last illness: ‘I'm an ynconscionably long time dying. ’»» It was Charles II of England who said it in his last ‘illness. R. Lu 8S. Just quoted from him.

INFINITE POWER BY JAMES BROWN |

Haunt me with deep pain throbs That choke my heart with horror And arouse intense, pressing sobs.

And yet life has more to offer, So 1 'shall not fret with care. I shall be firm, staunch and true Always knowing that God is there.

It seems a light shines in gloom

And a thought comes o'er the way, To still the restless surge and say, “Infinite power is yours today.”

DAILY THOUGHT

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the ‘violent take it by force.—St. Matthew 11:12.

overcome: but half his foe.—

Milton,

SIDE GLANCES By George Clarke

HO overcome by force, hath |

”

Vagabond

Indiana

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

" MILES CITY, Mont, July 22.— For a whole day I played host to Roy Meehan of the South Dakota Meehans.

Mr. Meehan is a farmer, or rather he was a farmer. He's never going to be a farmer again. He has washed his hands of farming in South Dakota. - He was born and grew up on the ‘Dakota prairies. ‘He never knew anything but farming. His father died, and left three-quarters of -a section for Roy and his mother | io handle. They, with the help of he ments and things we can stand, i inte the hans af Rural Credit. They haven't any farm any more. But this year Roy ‘had a hurich. He rented 400 acres, and put it in corn and small grain. “I I'd make a hit sure,” he said. made a hit all right.”

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S° Roy sold out. He sold his horses, and his fa’m machin

= picked him up early in the morning. He said he slept in a box car the night before. He's going to Fort Peck, Mont. to try to get a ‘job on the big government dam. We. saw a lot of things, Roy and I, in a day. For instance: . We saw Mr. Denien, who came to South Dakota five years ago from La Porte, Ind, to share the farm with a widower uncle. Mr. Denien and his wife and chil dren packed up everything in the old automobile and drove out to the land of opportunity. The auto has not moved an inch since they are rived. It is stil] there in the shed. Some of these days, when Mr. Denien gets up his courage, and enough money to buy a license, it may carry them away again. I have never seen anybody so be" wildered and discouraged as Mr. Denien. Here five years. A good crop the first year, but no money for it. No crop at all the last four years. He has five small children, “We came West all right,” says Mrs, Denien. “But we didn't come far enough. They say things are good in Idaho.”

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OUNG Mr. Meehan and 2X : plunged northward. From Bells Fourche it is 100 miles to North Dakota. In that whole distance there is just one parched little town, and not more than half a dozen houses you can see from the road. There are no telephone poles, or fences, or trees, or grass. “TI had seen range country before— the ‘great rolling spaces—but young Mr. Meehan never had. “Say, this is open country, isn’t it?” he would say. We would top a rise, and ¥ guess we could see for 15 miles, and the only thing in all that space would be half a dozen canvas covered “chuck wagons,” ‘stationed around the prairie, miles apart, for the cowboys and sheepherders, to sleep in and get a bite to eat. We saw a pump behind a house and stopped for a drink. We talked for half an hour with four farmers in overalls and cowboy boots. “You saw that herd at the water hole about 20 miles back?” one said. “That’s the last of, the cattle in this country. They're driving them to Belle Fourche to ship. “The bldest of the group was about 40. He was burned black, and ro'led cigarets in the hot high wind that whipped around us. 2 8 = E had a bad drought in 1911, - but nothing like this,” he “Six years now. I don't know

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said.

‘any other business. I don’t know

what we're going to do. We can't leave. We could even get by on this burned grass if we had water. But the springs are drying up. We can’t afford to drill deep wells.” We pulled up at a road-grading

| job a few miles west of Plevna,

Mont. “I've been here 23 oars” one man said. “I was pretty well off . once, ‘But last fall I had just $50 to get through the winter. I put it in.a safe, anid every time I took a dollat bill out it was just like pulling a tooth. “If anybody had told me 23 years ago that I'd be working for the state today I'd have told he was crazy. But I'm glad to it”

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WO years ago today John Dil linger was shot to death in an alley near the Biograph ‘Theater in

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