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A LONG STEP FORWARD

FEW Republicans, who would rather keep alive an issue than settle a problem, see political trickery in President Roosevelt's executive order exfending the merit system in the postal service. While we don’t suppose the President was without guile in timing his announcement just ahead of the Landon acceptance speech, we are inclined "more to sympathize with these Republicans than to agree with them.

If the President has taken the ssi: out of the:

~ fampaign, so much the better. , Gov. Landon sent a message to the Cleveland €onvention declaring, as the Republican platform k writers had refused to declare, in favor of putting i entire postal system under civil service. We - thought at the time that the Landon message had sealed the doom of postoffice politics, but we were

somewhat taken aback a week later when most of

the Republicans in the House voted against the Ramspeck bill. Who was guilty of political trickery - then? The question answers itself, but the answer is ‘Unimportant. Providing for civil service examinations for first and second and third-class postmasters (fourth-class postmasters are already under civil service), has ac-

- complished the same purpose, A long forward, step has been taken.

“BLOOD AND SAND” Bl the tragedy which is sweeping Spain today there _* Is a lesson for people everywhere, including Americans. ~~ When Alfonso, the unlucky thirteenth, was de- : throned in April, 1931, the revolt which sent him into ; ‘oblivion had a far deeper meaning than merely getting rid of the monarchy. It was to rid Spain of countless abuses for which the regime stood—the tyranny of power entrenched in ‘church and state, army and feudalism, autoc‘racy and the whole system which, for centuries, had ~ Teposed thereon. ~~ There was no widespread opposition to mon‘&xchy, as such. Britain is a monarchy, yet is one of the foremost democracies of the earth. What the Teal leaders of the 1931 revolution were after was to Wrest Spain frem the grip of medievalism and transform her into some such democracy as that of Brit= ain, France or America. . And they made a splendid beginning. The revotution itself was a peaceful one. There was a notable ‘absence of serious violence. The new republic set on foot excellent reforms. It remodeled the army, retiring its excess. officers, part of the ruling caste. It separated church and state. It nationalized a half billion dollars worth, of ecclesiastical property, but permitted its free use by worshipers. It freed religion, making it a matter of conscience. It secu- _ larized the schoois, freed speech, press and assembly. . But, as is usual at such times, the masses were impatient. They attached something of magic to the very word republic. They expected to wake up the next morning and find Elysium. - When they didn’t, they were disappointed. ? a & “8 Spain, as in every other country, there are extremists. She has her share of anarchists, syndicalists, Bolshevists and other direct-actionists. These, from the first, had planned to make the republic : merely a stepping-stone to something more to their king. And they found in the popular disillusionment fertile soil for their plans, Last February, these factions, together with left Republicans and Socialists, formed a so-called “Popular Front.” They won a majority of the seats in . the Cortes. Whereupon, the extremists began to - boast that the day of their dictatorship was near at hand. Mobs surged through the streets of the _ principal cities crying death to their enemies and ~ applying the torch “to the properties of the Pope.” ~ The smoke of churches, schools and other buildings darkened the sky. People were killed. . The present violence is a reaction to violence. The pendulum swings. Just as the. revolution of 1931 was to rid Spain of the tyranny, abuses and violence of the extreme right, the 1936 revolution is to rid Spain of the violence, abuses and tyranny of the extreme left. The tragedy of it all is that the Spanish masses seem doomed to have imposed upon them something they probably do not want—a dictatorship of one extreme or the other. Their hope—popular gov‘ernment, whether through a constitutional monarchy, a republic or a Socialist regime—seems as far away as ever. Spins pall asises from: the fach that her Te forms are a century overdue. Generations of repres-

they have been unloosed, may for an indefinite time

: come turn Spain into a veritable bullpen, an arena blood and sand. A perfect democracy, said Burke, is “the most shameless thing in the world.” Disraeli said it degrades statesmen jnto politicians. Nevertheless, said Woodrow Wilson, those to whom it is a birthright ire lucky and should contrive to hold on to it. For

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German jail. It seems he called Julius Steicher & “lump” and is about to face a charge of “vilifying a public figure.” ’

1 Bos Sitti wanted fa to that why did ti"

leave! the Utlited States right at thie height of the vilitying season?

A GAIN FOR US—AND OTHERS SELECTION of Indianapolis as regional head. M7 quarters for two important overnmental agenciés shows the importance of the city in the administration of Federal activities. The new offices should bring tangible gains to the community. The fifth regional office of the Resettlement Administration, to be opened here about August 1 with

350 enfployes, will bring an estimated $750,000 annual 'pay roll. The moving of these families to In-

+ dianapolis should be an added incentive to the much-

needed fncrease in housing facilities. Consolidation of erosion survey offices gives Indianapolis one of the two field survey offices matitained by the Soil Conservation Service. With a clerical force of seven and with'85 field.workers, the office here will handle the erosion survey work for

' the entire eastern half of the United States.

Even more important than what Indianapolis

_ gains because of its central location is the long- ‘ range program of these agencies in conserving soll

and humanity for America.

PENSION—OR INSURANCE? HE Republican platform promises an. old-age

security program, financed by “a direct tax’

widely distributed,” with each generation supporting its own aged poor on whatever scale that generation deems proper. The people have been at a loss to know what this pledge means, but we have now what looks like a bona fide interpretation by Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich of the Chase National Bank. Mr. Aldrich is high in Republican counsels, and the

The President's executive order; in h bank’s economist, Benjamin N. Anderson, conferred

with Gov. Landon on this subject and was consulted in drafting the platform. ' Mr, Aldrich suggests that all needy persons over 85 be pensioned by the states, the money to be provided—all or in part, he does not make cleat—by Federal grants. This coincides with one part of the Roosevelt plan, already on the statute books and in force. Mr. ‘Aldrich specifies that the money should be raised by a special tax on all incomes, individual and corporate, in excéss of $500 a year. In that respect, we are inclined to rate the Aldrich plan an improvement, for under the Roosevelt program gratuities for the needy are being provided out of general tax and borrowed funds. : : But the weakness of the Aldrich (Republican?) plan is that there is nothing more to it. It calls for a permanent system of doles for elderly paupers. It takes for granted that we will always be burdened by a great number of impoverished old people, and that the best we can -do is to sustain them by a general tax. It is an admission that we can not desis a system under which free men and women would make provision for their own ou age.

FT EE Roosevelt program does not accept that defeat. For those aged persons, who because of the lack of a proper security system in the past are now unable to .support themselves, the Roosevelt law makes provision out of general funds. But the young and the middle-aged, now self-supporting, a required to put- aside a-small portion ‘of their nings, smatched -by contributions of their ‘employers, to-the end that they may live in comfort

and self-respect off their own savings in their old

age. The Ropsevelt plan is one of organized thrift, and one, we submit, much more in keeping with the American tradition of self-respect and independence. This insurance plan ' would be abolished under the Aldrich formula. One point the New York banker makes against it is that it fails to embrace nearly half the gainfully employed and about twothirds of the adult population. This, it seems to us, is argument for extending the law, as advocated in this' year's Democratic platform, but not for abolishing the insurance plan. Mr. Aldrich believes the premiums, assessed onehalf ‘against workers and one-half against employ-

ers, constitute too heavy a drain on industry and current income. That may be true.. But if so it

would argue for lower rates, not for Siiening the

whole insurance principle,

~~, WOMEN ARE FUNNY ANONe a welter of predictions popping out of a semi-annual fashion clinic in New York City the other day was the dubiously welcome news that

women’s skirts would be two inches shorter come fall. :

Isn't that just like the women? - When it’s hotter than a fritter, all over the

‘country, they flounce around in flowing frocks: then

‘about the time mint leaves are withering and mittens are in order, up go the skirts,

1 old man-bite-dog story is ‘nothing compared to the news that’ Broadway has gone to Texas.

It has taken 100 years for the thing to happen but

it is now. a fact. : Walking around Fort Worth and Dallas, where the two Centennial celebrations are in progress, one bumps into persons whose presence on Park-av sets

_ the! New: York columnists into a regular twitter.

And the Texans, bless their -hearts, treat them

Just like ordinary folks. Fannie Brice and Sally

Rand, Ann Pennington and Rudy Vallee, Billy Rose

and John Murray Anderson are just so many nice

people to the wide-gallus boys. Even Jumbo doesn’t seem such a colossal enterprise in the plains country. Everybody gets a taste of the famous Texas hospitality but, believe me, no little old celebrity is going to put the cow country into a fever. And the

celebrities laye. it. That's why everybody is happy |

in Texas ‘this summer.

You ought to see the Centennial. The Dallas

affair 8 on a par with the Chicago World's Fair, and Billy Rose is putting on'a show in Fort Worth

Skt 58 SEVIS ques Srspuued of 1 he enter.

bought and a two-story building befgun. It stood on E. Maryland-st

‘bigger curriculum and a bigger ex-

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT ‘1. wee By Mrs. Walter Eweonr- J

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ANTON SCHERRER

obituary column mentions the “German-English School” nowadays a reason enough for bringing up the subject. : There are other reasons, too. For! example, it may surprise the youngsters to learn that the GermanEnglish School was really the work of a secret society known as “B. d.

sometime in the fifties.

as a secret society of the German and Austrian students in Metternich’s time. In Europe, the cryptic letters stood for “Bund der Tugendschaften” (union of the virtues). They stood for the same thing in Indianapolis. Apparently, the only difference between the European and the transplanted idea was the fact that it was operated by older and, perhaps, more serious men in Indianapolis. In Indianapolis, the secret soclety met once a week in the office of Dr. Homburg and ii’s violating no confidence—not after 175 years, anyway-—to say that the e of a good night would bring out John

Hielscher, Charles John, Franz Damme, George Mannfeld, Mathew Moesch, Ferdinand Wieser, Herman Weinberger and Gustav Zscheck. is moe "HESE men had big plans and ~ among them was the founding of an independent school in which their native and adopted languages could be taught. Indianapolis in the fifties had nothing of the sort despite the fact that the town was full of German private schools. On the day of the Thomas Paine celebration, Jan. 29, 1859, the thing came to a head. At any rate, that was the day the need for a school building was pointed out. . At a later meeting, the GermanEnglish Society was formed with Valentin Butsch, president, and Herman Lieber, secretary. The meeting decreed the founding of a school which “independent of all sectarian influences should secure the principles of humanity.” The sum of $500 was appropriated for the building of a schoolhouse. Within three months a site was

between Delaware and Alabama-sts. Three years ago, it was torn down. At the end of 1859, the school was opened under the management of Julius Schumm and Theodore Hielscher who, up to that time, had been running a private school on E. Washington-st opposite the Court-

house. : #8 x =

) USINESS got so good during the Civil War period that they had to buy the adjoining lot and double the size of the building. : With a bigger building came a

pense account. The bigger curriculum included reading, writing, grammar, composition, arithmetic, geometry, geography, history, nature study, perspective drawing, music and gymnastics. The bigger expense account was anywhere Brom $6000 to $7000 a year. : In 1869, J. T. Coffroth, Repre iz tative of Huntington, Ind, in duced a bill in the Legislature to have German included in the pub-’ lic schools it the parents of 23 children in a school district peti tioned for it. The German-English School Society decided to support the hill even if it did look like the end of their school. As a matter of fact, the GermanEnglish School continued 13 years after the passage of the bill and it wasn’t until 1882 that they closed shop. Among those taking an attive interest until the very last were Valentin Butsch (the first president), Adolph Seidensticker (the postmaster’s father), Herman Lieber (the first secretary), Clemens Vonnegut, Edward ‘Mueller; William Kothe, Alex Metzger, Louis Lang, Jacob Metzger and William Hauelsen. After that, all German ‘oye in ‘Indianapolis went to public school.

Ask The ‘Times

ntiine a 3-4uut stamy {or resly Sith eli. Jiey

frequency ‘with which the|-

T.” which operated in Indianapolis| §

The “B. d. T.” will be remembered |

F. Mayer, Jacob Becker, Theodore |

The Hoosier F orum

A 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 myst be signed, but mames will be withheld on request.) s = = UPHOLDS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT By George Maria Messmer. In one of the most unfair as well | as unsound criticisms, a certain Rev. Daniel Carrick assailed President Roosevelt as the “great hog-killer” and “cotton-destroyer;” as the man who has had “thousands of men employed digging holes and another hundred thousand fo fill them up again.” In calling Mr. Roosevelt a dictator he asks * What do the records show during his Administration?” . and then ‘wisely refrains from answering that question. spe-

cifically or comparing this record with that of previous Republican

administrations. What DO thé jec-' ords, when compared, show? \ In 1920, this country had a gross farm income of $13,500,000,000, and in 12 years of “sane” Republican government, it dropped to less than $5,300,000,000. Since Mr. Hoover's exit the total farm income again has increased, and. in 1935 was $8,000,000,000. Thus speaks the ecord

‘In the three years preceding ‘Mr.

~ Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of ihe American Medical Association. EW: injuries affecting the human body are as painful, as mutilat=ing, or as difficult to handle as are! severe burns of the skin. Due to development of all sorts of new devices, particularly of inflammable oils, gasoline, and similar substances, burns of the body are much more "| frequent than they used to be. Around the home: the child may be burned by heat from a radiator, by acid, by a flame, or lye, by electric pads, or occasionally by an electric shock. It is realized now that, in cases of severe burns of the body, it is as necessary to treat the patient as it is to treat the burn itself. In such cases, the patient should ‘oe taken as soon as possible to a hos: pital and put to bed. Because of the shock, it is necessary to maintain the heat of the body. - This may be done by any of the usual devices Excessive sweating should not

body, and this must be watched and rigidly controlled 1 the doctor. = The patient will always

Roosevelt's inaugural, under. the Administration of the “prosparify-around-the-corner” President, more an 4600 banks closed due to failure, while among banks permitted to reopen after thé banking holiday of March, 1933, not a single important failure has occurred. ‘Thus speaks the record. dia Whereas social security, antichild labor laws and unemployment relief Tabor | only subject for commission ' reports ‘and conferences prior, to 1932, this Administration has realized a government’s obligation to its citizens to protect its unemployed from starvation. The gentleman complains about “digging holes,” but the fact remains that the thousands of men employed: in thus increasing our sanitary systems, our parks and highways, etc., are em- |

Hoover made use of the Army to drive many of these same men: out of Washington so as to keep from hearing their cries for bread. The gentleman perhaps would prefer to sell cotton, wheat and hogs at a pricé less than the cost of production—but not so the farmers, who would:have to carry the loss. And if the gentleman wants to find a cause for our overproduction in wheat and hogs, while millions of Inhabitants of other nations are starving, let him study the Smoot-

| Hawley tariff, passed under Hoover's

regime—resulting in a $5, 000,000,000 loss to our foreign commerce. Since ‘Roosevelt's reciprocal trade agreements were signed this commerce has increased again by over’ $2,000, - 000,000. No, reverend, it is much better not to look in the records because they prove the fallacy of general statements made by unthinking critics. (If you want to look into records you must take off your collored glasses of partisanship and see straight, and you will find that America will have its answer on that record of Mr. Roosevelt which has gained him the admiration of the whole world and earned hit the by-name “The Great Humanitarian.” t :

Soa COYERED WAGON POLITICS OBSERVED AS CANDID

By D. ¥.: Clancy; Logansport. ; I just saw a covered wagon pass with the slogan—“Let’s give this country back to the people” and “Landon and Knox.” A phonograph behind a megaphone was giving out 4 bg tune, “Hay, Hay, Farmer Grey . Take Another Load Away.” rE hight comment if the people

ployed, earn a living— whereas Mr.

‘ever do. get . the country—they’ve

never had it yet—it will go “back.” But what is astounding, and prophetic, is that the politicians have come to such candor—openly offer ing to give the country back to the people! As for the covered wagon,

a fitting symbol; most things in this-

country are covered. In termination, verily—“take another load yay: : x a DISAGREES WITH WRITERS, BUT COMMENDS POLICY , By James C. Barnett I share the dislike of the readers who object to the expressed political opinions of Mark Sullivan and

Westbrook Pegler, but I don’t share

their dislike of The Times for pub-

. lishing their tion-liberal outbursts.

In these days The Times stands alone in its field as being the only newspaper that gives us both: sides of the story without political color-

ing. Every reader knows that Mark:

Sullivan is a biased Tory. Although in: volent disagreement with the Tory philosophy, I. prefer to see its expression signed, out in the open and removed from columns that are supposed to contain news. : .I helieve the objecting readers who would get drunk on Broun, Barnes and Johnson should be able to endure the hangover of Sulivan

' LEND A HAND BY JAMES D. ROTH Ever see a brother Laboring in despair? Yes—there is another . Having woe and care.

Think you of another’s plight, Compare it with your own; Isn’t your worry a tiny mite? Now isn’t it plainly shown?

So—lift this brother up and up, ‘With friendly attitude, And don’t expect a loving cup; Stay in this helpful mood.

DAILY THOUGHT

- Pardon; I beseech thee, the iniquity of ‘this pcople, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people; from Egypt even until now.~—~Numbers 14:19.

T is in vain for you to expect, it is ent for you to ask of God forgiveness for yourself if you

refuse to exercise this Jorgiving temper as to others Hoadly.

| SIDE GLANCES By George Clarke 5

| him a loan, he said:

| pigs.

Denver grew up as a cowboy.: ‘He came to Montana's Powder River: country in 1912, working as & cOW~ boy. As the big outfits dwindled. and the cowboys started setting up for themselves, Denver did likewise.

. ® = Li JE got a thousand acres. He raised from 40 to 100 cattle year. He farmed enough to get winter feed. The years went on and ‘he got himself in pretty good shape.

1919—Drought. Denver went to the bank. When the banker gave" “Well, the way. I. figure your assets you're worth about $35,000.” 1320—More drought. When Denver sold his drought cattle and settled up, the banker said: “Well, the way I figure your assefs now you're worth $250.” So Denver left for the Colorado oil fields. He had never seen an oil rig. “But it’s good for us to learn new things,” he says. He got on as a "tool ‘dresser. He sent for his wife. ‘He drew $18 a day and they saved $3500: that year. They came back ‘and staked themselves to a new start on the ranch. He got himself in pretty good shape again. Then 1924. Rain. Rain. Rain. It rained him right ‘out of this country of drought. His cows bogged down on the hillsides and died. His steers slid over banks and broke their necks. His liftle. pigs huddled up in the rain and smothered to death.

® » 8 ENVER went to the oil fields again. Three times that happened. Twice it was drought; once it was rain. Something is about to happen again. : | His 1000-acre ranch went in 1934,°

the year of the big drought. But the - bank let him stay on it; - just - for.: taxes. There have been six years of drought now. But things looked * pretty good this year at the start. Denver had 40 head of cattle. and . some Crops. ‘One morning about six weeks ago. he saw some grasshoppers. He had ° a hunch. “I'm letting the cattle go,” he said. His wife said: “But ’ maybe it'll rain” And he said: . “And maybe it won't.” He saddled the pinto ponies, and he and one of his little girls walked those cattle 45 miles to a railroad. It took them four days ‘and nights. - And then he went with them an the train to Sioux City. He got.a good price, because le sold early. But he owed it all tv the bank, All he has left is three milch cows,’ his work horses, ang a bunch of

His horses and cows won't. last another two weeks,: because ' the range is burned up and there is no. feed. “I finally gave away some pigs,” he says, “but I can’t even give away the rest. Novody can feed . them.” ; 5 = ” o : E says he'll have to have work > H of- some kind to see his family through the winter. Ms * “A fellow isn’t going to-see his

kids hungry,” he says.

-- Denver never preached. He never pleaded. He didn't appeal, A He ; just happened to be. there, chewing the fat with me, so he Jugt told us how things were. When he had gone, Tugwell said: “Say, isn’t he a swell fellow? He's the kind that's got fo have help, and right now. He's worth helping.” ? ;

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