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. Their Own Way SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936.

DRAWING THE ISSUE

OV. LANDON didn't intend to do it. He dealt na for the most part in hopeful obscurities and _ vague generalities, the obvious intention of which was to leave the door wide open to all liberals who are for any reason not entirely satisfied with the Roosevelt method. He quarreled not with the New Deal's general direction, but with the New Deal's

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. The impression he sought to leave was that, to be sure, he recognized the country had become very : sick back in the early thirties, but that Dr. Roosevelt had been a little too inconsiderate of the patient’s feelings. The doctor had called in his brain trust specialists and had prescribed such rigorous treatment as to offend the patient's finer sensibilities. Most offensive of all were the huge doctor bills. S0 wasn’t it about: time for the patient, now that . he was beginning to feel better, to rise from his bed - and dismiss the doctor and the specialists, and hire instead a good practical nurse? And who but Lan2 don—Landon of the gentle bedside manner and > cheering smile? He wouldn't change the medicine. . Of course not. But he would sugar it a little, or a much, as the patient wished. And of course his fees ‘ as a practical nurse wouldn't be anything like the _ bills of the New Deal practitioners. 2 That, we believe, was the impression he intended = to leave with the liberals and the middle-of-the-road = voters. It was a clever idea~—and still is, if it works. ve ‘Roosevelt's methods have displeased many whose .+. objectives are the same as his. And there are a great ~ * many more who think the doctor bills should be += brought down closer to the size of the patient's purse, “= and who think that wasteful surcharges for strictly political purposes constitute an indefensible malpractice. We. count ourselves among these. ; o” = ” UT in that same speech, Landon undertook to ao leave also certain impressions with the conservon atives. And he did it—did it so definitely that, in E our opinion, he washed out the vaguer promises to 22 the liberals and middle-roaders.

Cs Through the wide-open door of that speech can ©" pe seen, clustered around the Republican nominee ;- and wreathed in smiles, the same reactionary crowd 4! which ruled this country through the twenties, ruled * it into the ruin of the early thirties. . Hence, the liberals and middle-roaders, plain American citizens who want recovery and democracy 2 and honest dealing—they pause loday at the Landon threshold. They ask themselves whether they care to enter that door and try to live again under the = same roof with that crowd. They ask whether they can trust that crowd not to do what it did in 1929-= . pull the roof down on top of them. :

It is easy to understand why the senciionaty

5 group beams with content in Landon’s presence. > Nat even Harding or Coolidge or Hoover, with. whom iy usually saw eye-to-eye, went so far as to put his stamp of approval on the company union— just to cite one Landon commitment.

. Nor has any other candidate ever expressed his E {feeling more openly in the matter of giving financial and industrial rulers the freedom they want to make ® profits without restraint. He promised to “unshackle ). initiative and free the spirit of American enterprise.” ; "He didn’t say how. He didn't say whether he con- * sidered the truth-in-securities, stock market regulation and utility holding company laws to be “shackles.” But there is no doubt that some of the beaming old crowd so consider those laws. He promised to “amend the Social Security Act to make it workable.” To those for whom W. W. ** Aldrich of the Cnase National Bank speaks—and they are less reactionary than some others—that . means to amend the old-age insurance principle out it of the law, and substitute doles for elderly paupers. " It means also taking away the tax provisions by _ which the Federal government is aiding states to set «~ up adequate unemployment insurance laws.

: » » o E said yesterday that we believed the American ¥ ¥ people are inclined to be patient and permit Gov: Landon to clear up the obscurities of his program. But for those who believe sincerely in economic democracy and a greater sharing of the oppor“tunities and good things of life, that patience is apt

to end abruptly. The Governor can't expect to win

them with platitudes, and at the same time feed what looks like the meat of real power to those reactionaries who . operate through the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Iron and Institute, the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce and

hich once ruled and well nigh ruined the whole bi i

Reveats for improvement of trac and safety

Savings for motorists in time and gasoline. Adequate parking space with consequent saving

spaces fh the unexpired time of thase Who precede them. . That meters impose another tax on the already burdened motorist.

E give these rival contentions as a matter of .

information on a public issue. We do not believe that any single device is going to solve the extremely difficult problem of parking in metropolitan areas, although it is possible that a fair system of metered parking might help some. The whole parking problem is tied in, with the problems of zoning and city planning, with municipal revenues and with slum clearance, as well as with general public convenience and traffic regulation. We are inclined to think drastic changes in downtown city planning will be necessary before the problem of parking can be solved.

WILL’S ALLIES

[FARMER WILL SPARLES, thw constabiile of Long Valley, N. J, is waging a one-man war on the Schooleys Mountain nudist camp next to his farm,

He thinks it’s a shameful business, And besides his son’s gal hit a fence post and nearly wrecked the family car while she risked one eye on a look-see. He tried arguing with the cultists on the sin of nakedness, and was told that people get rich only by minding their own business. He threatened to set up 3 grandstand and hold clambakes for peepers. It was no use. Constable Will should take it easy, because a lot of allies are working for him. There are poison ivy and mosquitoes and blackberry thorns and Old Sol himself. There’s that ho-hum feeling that comes after curiosity is satisfied. And the human instinct, common to males as well as females, to embellish the body beautiful with clothes. And then there's Old Man Winter, an anti-nudist who packs a punch. Nudism didn’t work even in the Garden of Eden.

TWO ROADS FOR SPAIN

T° roads strétch out ahead of Spain. One leads on to bloody chaos, bordering on -anarchy, the other to domination by a Lenin, a Mussolini or a “Butcher” Weyler. The only question is which road she will take. ;

It was Lenin, the Bolshevist, who first predicted that Spain probably would be the next state to g0 Communist. Like Russia, he said, Spain is inhabited by a few privileged and many very poor, very ignorant and very oppressed people. And that is true. Buf that is about as far as the parallel holds. For in most other respects it would be difficult indeed to find two peoples more different than Russians and Spaniards. They are made different by race, history and geography. In Russia during ‘the World War one of the things that impressed one was the enthusiastic precision with which soldiers walking along the road would salute a staffer. They liked to appear snappy, well disciplined. 2s + : ® = a Coen “HERE is no such discipline in Spain. The 150,- : 000,000 Russian peasants brought into the Communist revolution were a pretty meek lot. Not so the Spanidrds. Whereas the vast bulk of the Russians spent five months working in the fields and seven months snowed in, brooding and introspective, their Spanish counterparts were living 365 “days of year, loving, hating, fighting, dancing, singing, eating

‘red-pepper dishes and watching bulls, horses and

men kill each other in the ring. “Nor is this recent. history. For 5000 years the

= people: swho' inhabit ‘tlre ‘Iberian peninsula’ have |” lived dangerously. ‘No part of Europe, on a per

capita - basis, has seen more bloodshed, witnessed more wars. Fought more revolutions nor inflicted nor suffered greater cruelty. One must understand that to understand what is going on now. Cadiz, today figuring in the news, is the oldest city in Europe, if not in the world, to continue inhabited and under the name of its origin without a

- break. More than 1000 years before Christ the

Phoenicians founded it as a trading base. There they clashed with the native Iberians. And the fighting has pretty much. kept on.

a ” » REECE, Rome, Carthage, the Arabs, Syrians, Visigoths, Vandals, Berbers and others have cut a swath into and out of the country. Most of them used Spain as a great reservoir of fighting men, recruits for their armies. ' The ungentle Moors were masters there for centuries. And Christian Spain, with its constant wars between the inhabitants’ of Castile, Aragon, Catalonia, Basque, Leon, Asturias, Granada, Seville, Cordoba and Valencia hardly kept up the tradition. The inquisition was a product of the same environment. So were hard-boiled viceroys

and governors general to Spanish colonies overseas, .

down #0 and including Gov. Gen. Weyler, whom the Cubans nicknamed “the butcher.”

One has but to look at the record, as Al Shith -

would say, to comprehend that the Spanish are no puny, timid lot. In no other civilized country today are savage beast and man put into a ring to fight, it out to the death as a national sport. This is said, not in criticism, but in understanding. Theirs has been one of the world’s greatest civilizations. But theirs, also, is an untamed race, of unquestioned personal courage, and one very difficult to make stay put.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson =e

I remustmtean RO T. C. on the campus why not maintain it as a strictly masculine enter-> prise?

The custom of selecting a pretty girl, making her an honorary officer and having her review the troops at intervals is a farcical gesture which must irk the real colonels as much as it does some of the parents. ~ Besides that, it puts the pretty girl in a position very unflattering to her intelligence, since we are led to suppose that she regards the serious business Of War:as a cress; betWeen a Junior rol) and an interfraternity hop. The home guards, being handsome and dashing, are sufficiently devastating to the co-eds as it is. |

‘Saldiers always have Tad the Rest of % With, ihe

{fair sex. And how Well the officers understand that fact!

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Behind these campus antics lies one purpose, the purpose of making the junior soldiers féel they have

supreme power over the ladies and of creating in

‘the gitis- the desire 10 bestow special favors, ou,

fighting men, J ¥

It is one of the ways in which we train young-

sters to think of war as a glorious adventure in

Enema —————

Our Town

By ~ ANTON SCHERRER

HERE were two kinds of boys in Indianapolis when I wore short pants: Those who read St. Nicholas and those who read the Youth’s Companion. - To be sure, there were also those who didn’t read either, but they didn’t count. Measured by the same standards, maybe, there were two kinds of girls, too. ‘I don’t know. I remember a lot of girls, for instance, who read St. Nicholas, but I never came across one who read the Companion. There must have been some, of course, because without girls,—the Companion could never have had its big circulation. They didn’t turn up in my bailiwick, however. In my bailiwick it was generally taken for granted that the Companion was a boy's paper. So much so that I heard it said more than once that St. Nicholas was a paper run by a woman. It was the meanest thing the Companion crowd - ton 8 =» - HE two kinds of boys weren't anything alike, which is'another way of saying that they were very much like the papers they read. The Companion crowd still believed in the Alger-Henty doctrine that virtue is its own reward. The St. Nicholas crowd had its doubts —at any rate, it was beginning to. The reason for the doubts was due, more of less, to the wonderful way St. Nicholas writers had of delaying their denouements until the very last. Any kind of an ending was possible in St. Nicholas and it

tions. ; The Companion’s stories were more orthodox and had ‘a lamentable way of spilling their secrets in the very first chapter. It didn’t do the story any good and it made for a class of readers constantly on the lookout. for the obvigus. “Little Lord Fauntleroy” couldn’t have gotten to first base in the Companion. The Companion had other obvious features, too. It collected its humor, I remember, in a department labeled “Jokes.” St. Nicholas was too smart for that. It sprinkled its pages with Palmer Cox’s “Brownies” and an occasional jingle by Oliver Herford and it was the better way, I think, because it allowed us boys to decide for ourselves, without any help from the outside, whether it was funny or not. ' “Allin all, the Companion had too many obvious departments. It even had a “Religious Department,” as if going to Sunday School once a week wasn’t enough. ; # ” » 8 yr one respect, however, the Companion had it all over St. Nicholas. Once a year the Companion people published their Premium Number and it made up for all their shortcomings. Indeed, it made St. Nicholas look sick. The annual Premium Number offered unbelievable prizes for new subscriptions to the Companion. Ii you secured one new subscription, you got your choice of at least 50 premiums. For two you got something that looked three times as goods Imagination tottered at what could be had for five or 10. A real steam engine was, I remember, one of the rewards for 10. They even gave: bicycles away. All a Companion boy had to do was to go out and hustle and the world was his. St. Nicholas boys. were just as good hustlers but there wasn’t anything to hustle for. And come to thing of it, 25 subscriptions was good for a gold thimble. Maybe, after all, the Compas ion had its girl readers.

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are for 1933, when the totai.conof

a a ering was 213,013,679 gallons.

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NOVEL FEATURE OF THIS CAMPAIGN

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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.

BARE. N.D, July 25 —This. is a summation of the way things are in the “drought bowl,” after nearly 2000 miles of Sriving around it. The whole United: States seems to be tortured and “wounded in varying degrees with’ drought | ‘and ‘heat, but in the bowl thére is complete destruction. The bow is more or less’ oval shaped. It: . about 100° miles after you. get ‘into the Dakotas, going west. Its ‘ side lies along the northern =D line. Its west end is in ° Montara, It Jakes 1B a- of oe Fr upper: North “Dikots. It

{seems to me that South Dakota has

suffered most. I have been in this bowl for 12 days. I've found only two places ‘where the destruction was not 100

'p-~ cent. These were in the Black

The Hoosier Forum.

I disapprove of what you say~—and will defend ‘to the death your right to say. it—Voltaire,

(Times rcaders are invited to erpress 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 mames will be withheld on requcst.) 2 a =m SWIMMING TRUNKS BRING COMMENT By Harry A. Kobel There has been a good deal of comment: from certain persons, women, mostly, regarding men in swimming in trunks at «city pools. I would like to say they have a lot to squawk about. Take any busy street, downtown

-on a hot sunny day, and see how the

women are dressed. Yet, if a man goes swimming in trunks ‘several | miles from the downtown district on a hot day there is a squawk that can be heard for weeks. . It used to be that a man could

Your Health BY . DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of fie American : Medical Association. N hot weather there is more danger of hydrophobia than at any other time of tlie year. This is one of the oldest diseases known to man. Long before the time of Pasteur it was recognized that the saliva of a dog with rabies, or hydrophobia, would transmit this disease. - Hydrophobia means fear of water. This name was given to the disease because it described one of the most significant symptoms. It is one of the strange superstitions about hydrophobia that it ccinmonly occurs in the “dog, days.” People thought that the danger from mad dogs was greater during summer than at any other time, A dog may go mad, however, at any time of year. It is merely more likely to occur between April and September than from October to March, because dogs run loose more often in warm weather than they

do ‘in cold.

At such times there is greater risk of the pet dog being bitten by a mad dog and thus becoming infected. There also is greater danger of a mad dog attacking children or adults in its vicinity. With hydrophobia, as with other infections, prevention is far more

important than cure. Part of the

prevention depends on picking up homeless animals and disposing of them. Another major step is insistence on*muzzles for every dog running loose where there are children. The dog that is kept in a good home usually is watched carefully and is not as likely to be involved as a dog that runs everywhere. However, any dog, under provocation, or

sometimes even without provocation, :

Way suddenly bite a Hyman being. a7 ECAUSE of the terrible possi-, bilities of rabies, a defi’ program should be followed ~~ a child has been bitten by a wug. First, the animal should be penned up or kept secured for at least 10

days, during which time it may|

either die or develop the symptoms of hydrophobia. If it doss not do either it is reasonable te

believe that the dog has not been | :

infected. Many.

milk and cream in cities | and villages in the United States was 36204TOW gallons, and the liquors | .

go to a creek, get his clothes oft and go swimming. Now if you do’ that some flat-foot pulls‘ you out." much for the almighty 20 cents that the city pools charge fora swim. So mere man might as well, go sit on a tack and let the women dress as little as they please—that would suit the ones that 2 are kicking Ine most,

Sg POETIC TRIBUTE PAID SENATOR GORE By : George Sanford Holmes THE MORE ABUNDANT LIFE Blind Senator Gore, with the SnOwwhite hair And the fresh schoolgirl complexion, ‘You might have ‘known put) New Deal dare ~~ Would cost your re- -eléetion:” x!

With diatribes redundant, But. Peniograls who know: their tuff Must. praise Life Moré’ ‘Abundant.

You stung it in your bantering: way With tongue and touch :sardonic, But down old Oklahoma way: ‘Twas fat too strong a’ tonic:

wit, Though some day they may soften, But now they’ ve ordered you 0 quit— ‘You've wisecracked | once often, 4 Thus you have mocked slips of : youth. And proved, with derision, That mind: means more than sight, in truth, "And will transcends mere vision; You carved a New Deal from your

need, Found substitute for seeing . The more abundant life indeed. That lights the inner being.

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SOCIALISM DEFENDED By W. H. Richards - A letter appeared in your cogs a few days ago which, whether 4in-

the facts, made several misstate-

ments. It began: “Among the chief purposes of Socialism and the New Deal are the breakdown of the home life, the scrapping of the sacred institution of marriage and the closing of the churches.” This is the exact opposite of the

‘So’

The G. O. P. may treat it rough,

The home folks did not like Jour | DESTROYING U. S.

tentionally or through ignorance of 3

truth, It is the capitalist. system,

| that is breaking up homes, prevent-

ing marriages and the establishment of family life. Socialism will make it possible not only to have homes for all, but in them the comforts

of life ‘which, are denied, to. the!

masses under the present dog-eat-dog system. . . ‘When -all industries are national1y owned, “employing all who need

. | work. at. a wage that enable them “|'to ‘buy off the ‘market what their labor puts on, instead of piling up ‘La surplus in profits to:idle owners

‘who do nothing productive, there

will be happy homes and more of | .

them than are possible now. As regards the churches, Socialism ‘leads to a way of life that will do away: with competition: and rivalry which now makes it’ possible to live up to thé teaching of he

: Nazarine.

‘ As for the New Deal being Soclalist, it has only been instrumental in helping the rich to make more money and piling up taxes on top of taxes on the poor, That" is far from Socialism. ;

: ® # CLAIMS NEW DL 18

By Rev. Léster Gayloa .Subversivism is a: prominent ord ‘in our current American vocabulary. Webster says, “Subvert is to turn upside down, ruin utterly, overthrow, overturn from ' the foundation, ‘corrupt,’ supplant.” Subwver-: sivisp, then, is the doctrine to bring about the overthrow and “destruction” of the “established” order of “American” life. It is a known fact “ta vigilant Democrats that every attempt’ to expose the “reds” in America has resulted in these. conferences being mysteriously called off by Mr. Roose-. welt .and his New Deal associates. Wake up, Democratic Americans, hefore America is destroyed by the’ “red” New Deal!

WANDERING BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY Oh, many have- “said— ’ Wanderlust doth entice. And many have said— - * A home doth suffice.’ : But the two togéther for my hay. ©." - piness I need— Travel and home. ‘My “life-blood” must congulate and bleed— -I must be. still and roam.

SIDE GLANGES By George Clarke

7} grea) sheen : Judge Stephens Majol of County Circuit | cated

Hills, up behind Rapid City, 8. D., and a stretch of 20 or 30 miles around Hebron, N. D, about 100 miles west of Bismarck. The Black Hills rise above the p ins, and have spruce trees, and they. ‘attract some rainfall. There is a little brown grass and at least & shadow of: a grain crop up there, ; ; £ 88 8 HE little section in west ‘cene tral North Dakota I can not ‘explain, ‘It had several rains last ‘month. The harvest is a feeble thing, but just the same I saw perhaps two dozen combines through

_| there, threshing wheat not even

knee-high. The farmers say it will make from

one to three bushels an acre. They'll ude it mostly for chicken feed, and the straw for hay. You -couldn’t really call it a harvest, but nowhere else in the bowl have I seen grain you could:even cut with a mowing machine. Also, in this little Dakota area, there is still some burned grass, and only a few of the cattle have been shipped out. If it would rain—steady prolonged rain—within the next two weeks, they probably could keep. their. cattle over the winter. This little area.is like an oasis in the desert, and yet the farmers say that 75 per cent of them will have to have relief jobs:this fall. Without exception the farmers say" the drought is much worse than in” 1934. © But they learned -a lesson from that .drought, and this year ‘knew. just when to get their cattle out. That is the reason you see no : dead ‘cattle, or even thin cattle, on’ the range. wn ” ” ; HE * grasshoppers dre bad: . throughout the bowl. But worse in some sections than others.” The farmers around here say theyseem to have been-dying out in the; t few days. Starving to deat,” ‘maybe. . And in addition to grasses hoppers, the bowl has beetles and

Mormon crickets and all kinds of bugs. The air is full of themaround a light at night. In some parts of the bowl the water problem, even for humans,’ is becoming acute. The WPA man _ in Rapid City told me several’ small towns would have to be. evacuated within a week. Drinking ‘water is now being hauled in from other places. In some towns, he said, youll see a ‘padlock onthe only pump still giving water. : The springs all over the bowl have lowered, and in the west end there is an actual shortage of water for the stock. But in most there is: still enough water for” man- and beast to drink. We Living is far from pleasant in : the bowl this summer. ' The hot wind blows all day, and the fields are bare, and there is no shade anywhere. The heat is. constantly terrific. A temperature of 110 is nothing at: all. It seems to stay nearly as hot” at night as in the daytime. .The: last - few- days ‘have been slightly: cooler. But for more than a week I slept not more than three hours a night.

JULY 25 LN INDIANA HISTORY ;

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HARLES MAJOR was born in ‘Indianapolis July 25, . 1856. 8 .| the name recalls no memories, pers haps the title of a book will— “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” the highly popular romance of Charics Srasijon snd Maly Tudor,

It was the best ie Hl

and its SUG, Wad The book attracted

Ee pera, sian ula Maes lowe, who had ‘it dramatized and who acted the Mary, Tudor role witli

Charles Major jor was the don of ‘the Marion. _ He was edus

Si te + Ls Magan, is

| Sie University of

» ¥ his feturn from the univers sity be read law with his fas