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THE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

N his acceptance speech last night Gov. Landon * said he had no time to lay his whole prom before the people, but: promised to discuss other phases of it in detail as the campaign progresses. © Coming as he does fresh into the field of national Affairs, and beset with conflicting counsel, Gov. 3 Landon is naturally inclined to move with caution. “It is only fair that his program be judged as he himself reveals it, 8 » »

B we can attempt to appraise his approach to some of the few issues upon which he touched “last night. He professed great faith in the American system of government, and implied that the New Deal has by some devious means attempted to undermine that “System. He made veiled references to “unsurpation.” | He offered no instances of undermining or usurping. . He declared the solution of our unemployment ‘problem lies in placing “reliance once more in the « Initiative, intelligence and courage of the makers of : “Jobs and opportunities.” The nation’s business men, + “he indicated, are not now making jobs and oppor- | ‘tunities because of “incessant governmental intimi‘dation and hostility.” He was quite as obscure as . ‘the Republican platform on this subject, but we feel ; ‘sure he would not want to go back to the coddling policies of the previous Administration, under which 3 unemployment grew greater and business grew * worse. , 2 The. Governor spoke of the great pent-up “con- ‘ sumer demand,” which, once released, will achieve ‘recovery and make our problem “not where to find “Work for the workers, but where to find workers for * the work.” But there has never been any lack of “consumer demand’—certainly no lack in 1929 and . "30 and 31 and "32. The lack was in consumer purchasing power.. The Roosevelt economic policies . have been designed to translate consumer demand into consumer purchasing power, and to the degree that they have done this, business recovery has got | under way. That explains why building eonstruction contractors are now: “trying to find workers.” Consumer purchasing power is just beginning to be felt, but surely policies which have made “consumer demand” something more than a phrase are not to be condemned in their. entirety. .On labor problems the Governor also, in our opinion, failed to display .a grasp of underlying eco‘nomic realities. He went out of his way to proclaim ; the right of workers to organize in company unions ; a well as craft or industrial unions, without “ference from any source. But he did nob’

organization, so far ‘a8’ society as a whole is con- - cerned—the building up of workers’ purchasing power. through the processes of collective bargaining. Nor did he say anything as to possible state or Federal responsibility for wages and working condi- * tions. Yet, somehow, in some way, something will _ have to be done to give workers a larger share of the _ proceeds of industry. Only a steady upward trend in “real wages will enable our capacity to consume to _ keep pace with our capacity to produce; only in that way can prosperity be attaifted and sustained. » » ” o™ space and your time require us to plead, as the Governor did, for a postponement of further detailed discussion. But we can not fail to ob serve that the Governor's remarks on the farm problem leave us puzzled as to his agricultural program. We thought we understood it after Mr. Lowden's concise statement the other day in Gov. Landon’s presence. But last night's speech returned to the contradictions and uncertain premises of the platform’s farm plank. His announced determination to balance the budget through economies appeals to our prejudice on the subject, but his failure to admit that taxes will be necessary challenges our common sense. The budget can not be balanced merely by taking economies “out of the hides of the political exploiters, » though we heartily approve taking what can be that way. 3 Notwithstanding this, ‘however, the Governor did make a point, and a telling point, in his indictment of the ‘present Administration’s extravagance and ‘waste and its political uses of the vast sums made available to it during the national emergency. There 4s a sound appeal, that the Roosevelt forces will do well to heed, In Landon’s homely declaration that “the government does not have an unlimited supply of money to spend. It must husband its re- / sources just as truly as does the head of a family.” His promise to “amend the Social Security Act to ~ make it workable” would have been more convincing if he had told how. : He failed to mention the power issue—the Ten‘messee Valley Authority, the rural electrification program, the utility holding company law, ~ He said nothing about banking and investment jes—whethér he was for or against the New 's bank reforms, government control over the e System, deposit insurance, the truth-in-ties law, stock market regulation. ~ He spoke out, in a way we like, for a more agve. policy, in. co-operating. with other nations to armaments. But he said nothing about the e ty ‘policies he favors, if any. i He said nothing about the slum housing problem,

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: not one of the least to help you attain the presidency.” Imagine any normal, Christian being able to write, after the Cleveland ent, “ . . in a gentlemanly

and ‘courageous’ manner, 1 shall strive always, willing to admit my mistakes. . Father Coughlin has become a problem to his’

church, as well as a source of embarrassment to his

fellow priests. Might it not be well to send him back

to. the seminary to study again the lesson of Chris-

tian humility, as well as good manners?

JAYWALKING HF new National Youth Administration survey - of Indjanapolis pedestrian traffic may start a movement to protect the pedestrian against himself. “Contrary to popular belief, most of tbe acci--dents resuliing in fatalities are caused by ‘careless pedestrians,” says Stephen Crain, NYA survey director. He says twice as many are killed in pedestrian accidents as in automobile collisions. On the theory that a pedestrian can not bé struck when not in the street, we urge a more rigid enforcement ‘of jaywalking regulations. {| - And—for the benefit of pedestrians, who should be able to cross safely at controlled intersections— we suggest a check to see if traffic light changes give pedestrians sufficient time to cross.

HOOSIER SHRINES

1 growing movement to mark and preserve places of historical interest as Hoosler shrines should reap cultural dividends for future generations in Indiana. One of the most practical plans is the WPA project started this year to put 1000 markers at sites of historical importance. . The first of these markers was erected near the tomb of James Whit-

‘comb Riley here this spring.

State and local historical societies have been active in marking and restoring the sites and relics

that form the historical background of Indiana. .

President Roosevelt, at Vincennes last month, dedicated a memorial commemorating the achievements of George Rogers Clark and his associates during the American Revolution.

Most recent of these commemorative efforts was

the City of Greenfield’s acquisition of the birthplace of Riley. The Riley Old Home Society, with the aid of civic, historical and other groups, will attempt to restore the Hoosier ‘poet's home to its original condition. An effort also will be made to collect the household and personal possessions of Riley. As part of the James Whitcomb Riley Park, preservation of the old Riley. home will help immortalize a man whose writings made him one of the best-loved of Ameri-

can poets.

As an ‘added attraction to visitors, as a tribute to the men and women who made Indiana famous,

and as an ‘infliente in historical education, these sites should be. of. permanent cultural value to

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Indiana.

A SENSIBLE PROGRAM HE Administrations drought relief = policies, as outlined by Resettlement Administrator Tug-' well, appear to provide a sensible approach to the

latest calamity the gods have visited on the West.

Under the program the government will help some 250,000 families in actual need to readjust their lives. undertake to move them bodily from their Y Le colonize them in § more favored’ did” #go in the Matanuska, vens {her wr it play Levite and pass them by. For those who elect to remain on their ‘farms and fight it out there will be Federal loans averaging about $350 a family, secured by crop and chattel mortgages, for the purchase of seed, Squipment, stock and the like. For those determined to migrate; the RA will set up information services in the drought areas. There will be no attempt either to promote or discourage migrations, but the RA reserves the right to with-

“hold loans to those who “insist on moving to un-

favorable localities. This ‘program will disappoint those now urging the government to recolonize the hard-hit farmers

~ of the drought country in regions better favored by

nature. But Federal or state farm eqlonies seldom have proved successful. The drought of 1936 will pass. There have been nine major droughts in the past half-century. And in that time there have been 12 unusually wet seasons. The role of the govEtRInent. we believe, is twofold. It should help the stay-at-homes to readjust their farming methods to the nature of their regions. And it should Side and advise those who decide to move, , ’ :

NCE upon a time, in 1935 to be exact, there J lived a sweét-faced Princess in. a tall castle. Her father was a rich American and her mother a society leader. A day she went to parties and at night dressed herself in satin and lace and put goiden sandals on her feet. .. But the Princess was not Happy: She had graduated from college the year before and after a

while the lights and the dancing and the iced

drinks in silver goblets wearied her. She wanted something else. So one night her Fairy Godmother appeared to her in a dream, saying: “On the hill yonder stands a hospital. In it are many sick children. They are crying: Go there tomorrow and see what you can do to help them.” The Princess went and sure enough she found the children, some crippled, some ill and some abandoned by their parents. That night she told her parents she wanted to work each day at the Hospital because she was. tired of only play. : “But,” sobbed her mother, “suppose the Prince

“rides by while you are gone, and you miss him. ‘ What will become of you then? You will never get. a husband.” The Princess laughed and rumpled her |

father's hair. She was not worried about that. .

By ANTON soHERRER

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UST because you now know some"thing about the old German- | school is no reason to think that you know everything about it. As a matter of fact, you only know half, because you don’t know the story of the old Gewerbeschule. The Gewerbeschule was the work of a group of hand-picked enthu-

work of Diedrich Bohlen (August's grandfather), Herman Lauter, Otto

group which for temper and temperament had everything beat in Ihdianapolis at the ‘time. These gentlemen put their heads together. sometime in the eighties and decided that what Indianapolis needed most, next to a coliseum, was a school to teach: boys the use of tools—at least, drafting tools. To be sure, the German-English school’s curriculum included the study of perspective: drawing, but that wasn’t anywhere near enough to satisfy a group of enthusiasts who, more than 50 years ago, had a notion that manual training should be a part of every Indianapolis boy's education, » ” # wasn’t any time at all after these men got the idea that they put it into effect. Which, when you come to think of it, is another habit the old-timers couldn't trahsmit to their progeny.

school building on E. Maryland-st and got going good with Bernard

Bohn, T. R. Bell and A. Lindenberg: as teachers.’ ‘Mr. Vonnegut and ‘Mr. - Bohn taught descriptive geometry, architectural drawing and design. Mr. Bell had charge of machine drafting and Mr. Lindenberg, an architectural sculptor of the time, taught free-hand drawing and ornamental modeling. It was a mighty fine facuity and nobody knew it. better than the fathers of Indianapolis boys. At dny rate, the boys" kept coming in such numbers that finally the faculty didn’t know what to do. . It was ‘at this stage that the Gewerbeschule: asked the Indianapolis : School Board for. help. The school board could not legally ‘give | the Gewerbeschule any money, but it did something even better. : It assigned ‘William H, Bass as a teach-

terest in manual pi oy ‘ ” 2 = \. rOT long after that, in 1888, the school board opened a department of manual training in Shortridge High School in charge of Mr. Bass. - ‘Meanwhile, the lack of money and the additional room required for manual training became apparent

.and in 1891 an act of the Legislature

was obtained authorizing a special tax to build a real-for-sure manual training high school. = * That’s how Indianapolis got the Industrial Training School (now Charles E. Emmerich Manual Training High School), and with it Charles E. Emmerich, its first principal. Both were unlike anything anywhere in America at the time. Fwouldn’t have thought of all this had I not seen: Ernest (Ernie) Werner the other day -superintending the new .eight-story Wasson Build‘ing. Mr. Werner is a prize example

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writer “Elia.” A—Charles Lamb.

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Stechhan and Clemens Vonnegut, a |

Be that as it may, tlie new school |. set up shop in the German-English |

Vonnegut (Kurt's father), . Arthur |

of what the old Gewerbeschule did | {for Indianapolis boys 50 years ago.

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Indiana ERNIE PYLE

Ernie Pyle has interrupted his regu~ lar itinerary to visit the drought country. After completing this series he will go back to his old wanderings: .

ROADUS, Mont, July 4— What a magnificent thing this Powder River country of southeastern Montana must have been 50 years ago! “This was the greatest cattle-grazing country that ever lay out of doors,” said Ray Wilson. He was born riding the range, and he rode it as. cowman and operas=tor until a year ago.. He finally had to close out. He works in the lum-

“| ber yard now.

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RESENTS TRIBUTES PAID

TO MR. M’CARL By Ward B. Hiner

When I read your paper of July 16, praising the record of John R. McCarl, former Comptroller General. of the United States, it made me |

can’t: be : “bampooal part of the ‘time. yr I have numerous fiies, some of the letters signed by Mr. McCari himself, that would ‘indicate to any ‘judge or jury his ‘irresponsibility, his inefficiency, his neglect of duty, and above all his unfairness and unprincipled - idea of purpose. If you had a bankrupt organization which could not pay and never intended to pay, he would be a hot spot appointee to put in that position. It was not possible to get a letter out of his department short of six weeks and when you did get one it indicated lack of intelligence, sincerity and any degree of policy that would serve to pay an horest bill which the government owed. I have heard various men criticise the praise that has been accorded a man who does not deserve it. I just had a conversation a few | days ago with a representative of one of the largest corporations in the United States, which showed how {frresponsible he was.and how inefficient his policies were - with reference to paying the bills of the government. It isa shame and disgrace to this’

- Your Health

” BY. DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of she American ‘Medical ;

Association.

MONG the most frequent emer- _ gencies which demand prompt attention are burns from explosions and similar injuries from the use of | toy cap pistols and firearms. Campaigns of education, led by newspapers. and magazines, have resulted in celebrations of great events by pageants; plays, and similar exhibits, Po than by noise making, yet there seems to be a tendency to

‘a return of the use of dangerous toy firearms. One-third of the accidents which |

wonder whether the entire public |T e~greater}

great nation to have a man who served the country as he did now receive the praise he is . getting through. newspaper writers, when the facts are he ought to have been removed from office for inefficiency as shown by any of the letters I received from his department.

® 2 = AU REVOIR, BUT

| NOT 'GOOD-BY

By George Sanford Holmes rt Say “au revoir” but not ‘good-by,” Postmaster Farley, shrewd and sly, Will soon receive a payless leave : an election eve, oF

t's Tush the same old: subterfuge, Jim keeps the job while some poor

ooge will = each day, while he's away, But never get Jim’s Cabinet pay.

To Jim it’s no politicial crime To hold three jobs all at one time— State chairman he, and PMG, And party chief of Democracy.

Tis swell to stay, in fact and name, ostmoster General; just the same, And ‘Deudle pork, with patronage

From San Francisco to New York.

So why should Jim quit sine die, ‘hen Jim will cry, we prophesy, Not. “au revoir” but long ‘“good-by.” Unless Alf Landon runs sky-high? : G » 2 » WRITER SUGGESTS ACCIDENTS’ CAUSE By H. S. Bonsib

Congratulations on your: “Evdlution Toward Death” cartoon, and also your editorial, “A Call for leadership.” You say “If The|8Ss Times tomorrow could publish the names of hundreds of Hoosiers who, if the present rate continues, may dit in that period, and if the press of America could print a list

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a clamor for traffic safety in the city, state and nation such as no ‘anti-crime war or other crusade has | ever inspired.” And will you, Mr. Editor, please’ allow me to give you the cause and reason of all this If is the dry voter who inconsistently votes the |: old party wet tickets which licenses the traffic to continue to perpetrate

of the 12,000 to 16,000 who may be to die in highway nts | before Jan, 1, 1937, there would be |

this crime and curse and refuse to vote a Prohibition Party ticket which proposes to banish this thing which is not a business but a crime —and put a real honest-to-goodness prohibition party in power. . . This can, will and must be done, for what can’t’ be mended must be ended—the cause of this crime.

4 8 ® = DISCUSSES PRINCIPLES OF GOOD POLITICS By Hiram Lackey

enough ‘of the Lincoln-like greatness toi for vend forget, fie'ls for= tunate } have sufficient intelli-

gotten. -An ambitious politician who has

| risen above the petty things has the

supreme advantage over his opponent whose countenance is still darkened by a thirst for revenge. It is profitable to relax and: “consider how foolish the darker -embtions. really are. There is often enough ‘Political discord arising from important issues 'to endanger the succéss of a man or his party. The more unwill= ingly a man is to surrender great. principles, the more likely “he ‘is to he generous in dealing with his enemies, The man who has little concern for the happiness of his fellow |’ citizens is more apt to exhibit the unlovely personal feelings The first principle of’ f good ‘politics is to make friends of one’s enemies. This is often done by some little act of generosity which becomes well-known and is acce an index to the man’s character. We do not always know Ti rae are making or ruining our r * tion. When we find difficulty in risirig above the petty things, it is well to listen to the voice that whispers *Lincoln wouldn't ‘have ‘done it.”

DAILY THOUGHT

Nevertheless they aid flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. ~Psalms 78:36.

DULATION is the death of virtue. Who flatters is, of all

mankind, the lowest, save he who courts the Datiary. —H. More. :

SIDE GLANCES By George Clarke

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[rp gras

£ | then.

If a politician does. ‘not possess

gence to imitate Napoleon in acting || as though he had forgiven and for.

“This short thick grass was the richest in America,” he said. “You could graze it the year X= cept maybe for a month in the hardest winters. You could cut enough wild hay along the river bottoms to carry you through that coldest month. “The government owned the land It was free range country. The cattle ranged at large and cowboys rode as they ride in books. The great herds grazed by the thou< sands, always moving, always free =no fence lines, no property lines, no water restrictions. “It was easy to borrow money and it was always paid back. A cattleman would go to the bank for a loan. The bank might -ask how: many cattle he owned, but no more questions were asked.” 2 8 = ND listen to a storekeeper: those days your customer came in only about twice a year. But. how he bought! It-wasn’t anything for a cattleman to come in and buy $800 or $1000 worth of groceries - in the fall. One man would often “uy as much as a store keeps in stock nowadays. “And maybe a man you'd never seen before would come in. He'd walk along the counter and pick out. what: he wanted — overalls, shirts, boots and tobaéco.. It. might total up to: $60 or $70. - You'd ask him who He was riding for. He'd say a. certain outfit. That's all you needed to know. He'd take the. stuff and you wouldn't see him again till fall. and then he'd come in and pay.” In the old days, the storekeeper told me, “Cattle men were worth from $50,000 on up into the mil~ lions. They lived in shacks out on the prairie and brought up their families on hard work. But they had money and they shot square.” ODAY; the storekeeper told me, “Everybody .in this Powder Rivet country is broke.’ Probably nobody has more than $1500 in. the bank, {ree of debt .and those. are few... “The hails wouldn't fend a aime, on.your life. The cattleman comes. in for one cake of salt at a time, and. the farmer takes. a sack of ‘and says he'll pay ‘When Lhe can.” : The beautiful - rolling: hills are bare, and the color ‘of the graveled road. Only now and then.you see a small bunch of cattle; all the others have prematurely gone to market lest they wither away. The ‘squat, treeless houses sit in the pitiless: sun, far from the road, as always. Around them you see long rows of rusty, motionless machinery. : You see the few work horses hud~ dled along a dry: creek,” swishing the flies. There 1s no work for them in the fields. - The farmers and cattlemen patch fences, or do: chores, or mostly sit and watt, ® = Lr : IT started in 1909, hen the rails road came through. The government gave the railroad half the land—every ‘other, section—for 50 palles on each side. Then came eading. ‘ That brought in a on population. - It brought the plow, and the déadly constricting fence that barred off watering places. It destroyed the freedom of the. range. Taxes were . applied. Grazing land was cut down. The cettlemen had new overheads to meet, and less to meet them with. The farmers plowed up, the great rolling . plains, they were scourged by a even In the beginning. : .The ., cattlemen,.. trying to “keep above water; raised too many cattle on too little’ space. thems selves, denied the open range, were forced: to do some’ farming for winter feed. The country was despoiled. It could not stand sevenyear drought. i The ‘country can pever; be Te= stored. True, the grass would come back in a year or two if they stopped farming, and springs would- fill up sgaiy 1} & Joy Joon. But, as a mooner; over times-gone-by told me: “It took character, and free money, and straight shooting, and we don’t have: She same Shines wy more.” © i

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