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Their Own Way TUBSDAY. JOLY 28] 1936.

HOUSING HAZARDS HE announcement that 500 uninhabited houses are to be torn down before fall as health and safety menaces, will be welcome news to the people

of Indianapolis.

These desolate, dilapidated shacks are a constant fire hazard. Insurance rates on adjoining property are high. Classed by the City Health Department 8s “insanitary and uninhabitable,” these houses depress the values of other real estate. The 500 houses now are unoccupied. But, as Joe Collier points out in his series of articles on housing,

* in The Times this week, these. places being con-

demned by the state fire marshal would be used as

winter refuge by luckless families unless torn down Y before cold weather. They can be given better refuges

which do not jeopardize the safety and health of other citizens, 3 . 2 x5 =] T= whole story of housing conditions in Indianapolis is a gloomy one. And it is a powerful

argument for the Federal government's initiative in

starting low-cost housing projects. . Private initiative, usaided. fas failed to house rly. There may be profits in some of our low-rent areas, but the people there, for the most part, are badly housed. Housing

as them well eats up the profits.

. - Low-rent housing is sorely needed in Indianapolis for families which, through no fault of their own, _are uhable to pay for better dwellings than they now

i " accupy. The health and morale of our city are linked

with the solution of this problem. We can not con-

. tinue to cram people into these unfit shacks where

decent living standards are impossible. ere are many other houses in addition to those being condemned which should be razed, rebuilt or repaired. The properties are worth little now as income producers. There is little to be lost. There is much to be gained in future dividends to taxpayers, as well as in better health, better and improved morale for the community as a while,

VIMY

-T dawn on Easter Monday—April 9, 1917—under scudding clouds, the British went over the top It sounded like

with the man-made earthquake. Two miles to the north of Arras stood Vimy

+ Ridge, 475 feet high, so steep as to make climbing . difficult. Around it, in ruins lay Vimy village, Lens,

yuchez, Grenay, Vermelles, Hulleck, Loos, La Bassee, e ridge of Notre Dame de Lorette, under whose

* ghell-churned sod already lay the broken bones of a

quarter of a million French and British, harvest of other battles for that area. Vimy dominated the whole approach to Flanders. It had to be taken. Thus the Canadians were told

off to do it—and they did. On April 12, after one of

the most gallant episodes in the World War, they

~ finally planted themselves on the crest from which ~ they never were driven.’

” » E 4 UNDAY, on top of Vimy, King Edward VIII of ‘England unveiled a monument to the 60,000 Canadians.who died during the war. Around twin 140-foot pylons, visible for miles around, runs a defensive wall on which are engraved the names of 11,500 “missing”’—these impossible to identify. “In dedicating this. monument,” said the young

monarch who, as soldier Prince of Wales, knew what

ft was all about, “we invoke the splerfdor of their sacrifice, rather than-the gunfire which battered

this hill 20 years ago.”

: In other words, he reminded, war is no glorious thing. - Only the spirit of the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for a cause in which they believed is

. worth commemorating. |

Which, of course, is everlastingly true. But is was

Prime Minister MacKenzie King, speaking by transoceanic phone, that crossed the “t's” and dotted the “i's” of the dedication. “A world at peace,” he said, pointedly appealing to Europe, “is the only memorial worthy of the valor and sacrifice of those who gave their lives in the “pha war.” » » 2

Ir is only too evident that the war to end war, the war

which saw the cream of civilization go to their doem on Vimy and the other battlefields of Europe, did not do the job. | ’ “Fear of war broods over Europe like an ominous

__ hush heralding a violent storm,” cabled the United

' Wallace Carroll from Geneva. “You Americans are lucky,” a young Austrian told “In a few years I and all my. friends will be “ killed in the next war.” And so believe millions of other young Britons, Frenchmen, Germans, Belgians, Czechs, Slavs, Poles and the rest. Bigger and bloodier wars are in prospect, in Euope and In Asia ‘And while we like to believe at we Americans are lucky, as the young Austrian Said, we are by no means sure, When a major con-

. w » . tragic thing about the Vimy and similar memorials is that while they stand for soldier or and sacrifice, the valor and the sacrifice for : h they stand were utterly wasted. Te one big, constructive thing for which they ly fought, the idea of collective peace as given

whole sensory apparatus.

In “quiet zones” for hospitals. of people in our cities, not yet at the stage of com-

to admire and emulate. Denning, like John Dillinger and other headlined “public enemies,” began his career as a little crook. His first crimes in 1931 were stea automobile plates and violating the prohibition att. Now he is

suspected of having engineered eight major bank,

rokberies, using stolen autos, kidnaping hostages and employing rifles and tommy guns in his getaways. Like the rest of his fraternity he probably is a cowardly and pitiful human driven to bigger and bolder- crimes by bravado or a warped, / morbid egotism. 1t is society's business to capture and punish its criminals without delay and without trumpeting. It is also its business to find out what makes the Dennings, Karpises and Dillingers. For this reason we hail with enthusiasm the organization of the “National Crime Prevention Institute” and the naming of eminent Dr. Sheldon Glueck of Harvard as its president.

This new institute proposes tc begin fighting crime in the homes, the schools and the communities. Its task will be harder than just catching and punishing crooks. It will have to cope with such subtle public enemies as greed, poverty, slums, neglect of childhood, inefficient and crooked police, criminal lawyers and political judges, genteel gangsterism, and social unpreparedness generally. And one of the enemies will be found to be the all-too-common exploitation of crime in the very name of law and enforcement.

A NOISE ABOUT NOISE

NDIANAPOLIS should join the parade of cities that are making a noise about noise. With scores of cities investigating the problem, taking steps to soften the crackle of the machine age, bringing relief to jangled nerves and sleep to sleepless citizens, we have done nothing yet about the sound and fury.

“Anti-noise” ordinances, covering virtually every obnoxious noise, blast, tinkle or scream emitted by man, beast or machine, exist in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Portland, Ore.; Jacksonviile, Fla.;" Albany, N. Y., and some ether cities.

“You don't just hear noise,” says Dr. L. Grant Hector of the University of Buffalo. “It affects your Loud noises of high pitch result in irritability and nervousness. Low notes upset the digestive processes and have a definite physical effect.”

We have long deplored the increase of noise that has accompanied the advance of machine civilization—but nothing much has been done about ‘it. The cost’ of noise to comfort and health resulted Yet the great mass

plete breakdown, have gone unprotected from this modern nuisance.

Progressive cities now are doing something about it, however, and the United States Conference of Mayors predicts blaring radios, yelping dogs, the nerve-cracking roar of heavy traffic at night and other disturbing sounds will be unknown in the city of the future because America is becoming “noiseconscious.”

Indianapolis should fall in line with this sensible movement.

REWARDS FOR SAFETY

NDIANA is to take part in a nation-wide motorcade which will dramatize the safe driver instead of stigmatizing the incompetent and reckless driver. A committee named by the Hoosier Motor Club is to select Indiana's representative at a national trafic clinic in New York Aug. 3l.

Much of the campaign for safety has dealt with “don’ts.” The Commercial Investment Trust and affiliated companies which finance the purchase of motor vehicles, recently established the C. I. T. Safety Foundation Fund to distribute $50,000 a year in prizes to promote traffic safety. The emphasis is to be on positive encouragement instead of on “don’ts.” The idea of turning the spotlight on safe driving—of giving public recognition to good drivers as well as punishing the bad drivers—seems a good one.

MARION COUNTY FAIR

HE fifth annual Marion County Fair, opening tonight on Road 29 near New Bethel, will give a preliminary view of what Hoosier farmers are able to do this year in the face of severe drought. In addition to agricultural and livestock exhibits, the fair board has arranged exhibits of farm mae chinery, feeds, gutomobiles, furniture and other manufactured products, as well as other items of community interest. County fairs thioughout the state, as well as the stdte fair here this¥fall, will demonstrate again that adversity does not prevent the Hoosier farmer from making the most of this basic industry.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson: ; ERHAPS when this in in print the drought will be broken. But its searing memory will live on in the minds of thosé¢ who have suffered through it. That it is a major catastrophe no one who lives in the Middle West can doubt. And in major catastrophes men and women turn | instinctively to prayer. This is a fact which all the scoffing or iconoclasts never will change. After 30 days of blazing sunshine, when the leaves of the corn turn yellow and hang limp in the still air, ministers from their pulpits include in their devotions requests for rain. Very politely at first,

we call God's attention to nature's lack of consid-

eration for our needs. A The heat increases. Old people and babies die in the cities. In the country, farmers with their plodding patience have given up all hope of a crop. At this stage congregations are asked to send up petitions in copcert. And as the sun's rays pénetrate into our very bones and the earth swoons under

‘a cruel brassy sky, groups of the faithful meet to-

gether and special supplications are sent up, even as the primitive peoples conduct their cetemonial dances to propitiaté unremembering gods. At such a -point your intelligence turns traitor.

“This drought is nothing but a freak of nature” |

you argue to yourself. “A cycle of weather, and nothing ‘can be done about it. Elements are not | moved by mortal desires.” | But even as you argue, your heart is screaming: Have you lorgoiten us, God? Help us, help us, help us * “Prom the deep places of gur souls wells up the |

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Town By ANTON SCHERRER

Y tiny item anent the J. D. Strachan collection of early shorthand books, now on view at the State Library, brought a letter from Mr. Strachan himself. A first reading was sufficient to inform me that I hadn't told the half of it. I suspected as much at the time.

wildered to see shorthand editions of “Pilgrim’s Progress” and “Tom Brown's School Days” in Mr. Strachan’s collection that I spent most of my time wondering who in the world reads books set up in such an abridged and anomalistic form. Well, -it turns out, Mr. Strachan does. He says so in his lester. Mr. Strachan has not only read John Bunyan and Thomas Hughes in that form, but nearly everybody else, including even such leisurely and slowpaced books as Washington Irving's “Rip Van Winkle” and Sir Walter Scott's “Lady of the Lake.” Not only that, but Mr, Strachan has read the Bible that way. The Bible, says Mr. Strachan, was printed in the shorthand system of William Addy as early as 1687. You can get it now in more modern edi-

French shorthand. Seems nothing has escaped the shorthand reporters. ” ” ” - : N the past I've tried to hint that progress or whatever you want to call our advancement isn't quite what it's cracked up to be. I've never gained much ground with the idea, but now I have more facts to offer which - may indicate that I'm on the right track.

The other day, for instance, I came across a man who knew for a fact that nearly a hundred years ago, right here in Indianapolis, Simon Yandes thought up the theory of the “vicious spiral,” without which you can’t keep a talk on economics going any more.

Of course, Mr. Yandes didn't call it anything fancy like that. He was a plain man and didn’t pretend to anything more than the réason for panics. Having found the reason for panics, Mr. Yandes also discovered the reason for prosperity. It was as easy as that.

Mr. Yandes’ theory was based on the proposition that “good times make bad times and bad times make. good times.” Those were his very words. By which he meant, of course, that when times are good, people become extravagant, go into debt and create the condition. that produces panics, In hard times, they economize and produce the conditions that cause prosperity. That was Mr. Yandes’ notion, anyway. ” o 2 R. YANDES was one of the richest men Indianapolis ever had. and it was all because he knew what he was about—that and his theory, of course. By buying real estate in what he decided would be years of lowest prices and selling in years of highest prices he amassed his wealth. It worked like

la charm for Mr. Yandes.

Mr. Yandes didn’t, of course, think up his theory all by himself. Nobody does. For one thing, he went to Harvard and it is generally known that he was a classmate (1838) of James Russell Lowell the poet. There is a local legend, too, that Poet Lowell, while minister to England, once told a Hoosiér who told anotHer Hoosier who told somebody alse that Mr. Yandes was the brightest boy in the class.

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Q—What is the average normal life of a cat? A—From 12 to 15 years. The maximum age is perhaps 40 years.

Q-—How is pulque made? A-~TIt is the national beverage of the Mexican natives and is prepared by fermenting the juice of a number of species of agave. It has a heavy flavor, resembling sour milk, but is esteemed by the natives on account of its cooling and nutritious properties. When distilled ‘it yields two intoxicating heverages very widely used in Mexico--tnéscal and tequila. Q-—How much damage ad “the tropical storms do in Virginia in the fall of 1933? AA sevele “in August, 1933, damaged crops In the eastern section to the ey of $35,000,000, and a similar, but less intense storm in September added to the loss.

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The Hoosier Foru

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, 80 all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but ndmes will be withheld on requcst.) : 2 5 =

{ LAUDS INVESTIGATION OF TAXES IN INDIANA By George J. Marott The = Indianapolis Chamber ot Commerce is throwing the light to the taxpayers of increasing burdzns

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN | Editor of the Journal of .vhe American Medical Association. HILDREN occasionally pick up drugs in the house and, not understanding the danger, swallow materials which menace health and life. The first thing to do under these circumstances is to call the doctor at once, telling him, 'if possible, what you suspect is the nature of the poison the child has taken. This is important, since most poisons have special antidotes, and the doctor then can bring with him the one especially suited to the case. In the meantime, the child may be caused to vomit if you are quite certain that he has swallowed poison. For this purpose a strong solution of salt water, taken warm in’ fairly large quantities, is about as good as anything else. Everybody knows that putting the

finger into thé back of the throat

induces vomiting. When the child gags, it does not require much encouragement to cause him to vomit. One advantage of large quantities of salt water is that it will weaken the mixture of the poison, even if the child does not vomit. If the child has swallowed caustic substances, such as acids or things that burn, olive bil in water, or egg white in water, is a useful first-aid remedy. Always try to find out the nature of the poison. An empty bottle in the vicinity, or presence of some of the poison in a cup,-in a utensil, on the tablecloth, floor, or clothing may be a valuable sign. An unusual odor on the breath may indicate the substance that has

been swallowed. Burns on the lips,

tongue and cheeks are evidences of the presence of caustic poisons.

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AKING poison is frequently followed by shock. This must be treated dike other cases of fainting, dizziness, or shock. The child should be put to bed immediately and should be kept warm and recumbent. If the child happéns to have taken a strong narcotic drug, he should be made to vomit. Then I black coffee may be given

At the same time, it is necessary

that possibly would raise the cost of local taxes $6 on every $1000. of taxable property if present demands of budgets were granted. Instead of this increase as set forth by the Chamber of Commerce, taxes could automatically be reduced more than $6 per $1000 in lieu of an increase. I am one of the founders of the membership of the Chamber of Commerce and a citizen who has been burdened on property ownership almost to the point of ruin, because I invested 60 years of my life’s business success to Indianapo-

we all know has been crashed and

crushed in value and is carrying the severe load of tax burden. I can

ship of the Chamber of Commerce in its outstanding attitude to the property owners and protection of the city to further its welfare both in industry and possession of real estate. I strongly stand against exemption from taxation which is now materially imposed upon by the burden of nontaxable incomes that are competitive to homes, property and’ business operations that are. paying taxes; I stand for free taxes to churches and institutions of education, but when it comes to people leaving their estates to institutions of any kind, having the incomes to their personal profit while living, thereby eliminating the taxes, it is a very unjust imposition on all other taxpayers. In other words, all legficies of every kind and character should be given outright and taxes paid upon all such properties that have incomes that are competitive to other investments and businesses now paying taxes, adding the burden of nillions of dollars that should be paid to the city, county and state that are evaded under the impression that such gifts honor the giver,

are taxed upon every other taxpayer, homes and industries. Personally, I believe every membership club should pay taxes if it is doing a public business, such as renting rooms, selling foods, liquors and beer and now paying but per year to the State of Indiana— with a possible petty fee upon memsbers—for their liquor license while many hotels with whom club-hotels compete pay as high as $1500 per year for the same kind of license. Why should this great difference be legal, besides exempt the state gross tax on all sales made e by so-called

lis buildings and real estate, which,

thoroughly appreciate the leader<

clubs thal hotel busi

are doing a competitive 28s? It certainly is destructive 1 , hotels and others operating rest: urants, etc., that are paying taxes hat are burdensome with the club nature: of - competition" to meet. I believe in clubs as clubs and they should be supported by the members for the special privileges enjoyed thereby but not to burden and be-unfair competition, through tax exemption. Commonly in platforms, both po-

litical parties, for vote-getting pur poses, impose upon the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” Why is this disregarded? Where is the justice? This injustice has been carried ‘on by both the Republican and Democratic Parties; which one will do the honest job to the taxpayers? This is written only to express that we need a square deal between giving property away for the good of educational - institutions and other charities and being unfairly exempted from taxes through the scheme that has caused hundreds of millions of unfair taxes to hard working people and industries, in the career of this unjust state law. It is only fair that both Democratic and Republican candidates for Governor and the state Legislature be frank and honest to every voter, about where they stand on’the present situation so that every one shall do their share toward “equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” This is necessary public knowledge and those in power to make the laws stand obligated to acknowledge whether they are for or against this unbalanced taxation. I wish to congratulate the Chamber of Commerce in taking a lead on the tax situation and wish them success in creating economy and the needed justice to all competitive taxpayers and businesses of our industrious

while the truth is that such gifts | people

Submitted without prejudice, simply for right sgainst wrong. #8 8 READER GIVES BOOST TO WESTBROOK PEGLER By Mrs. Reed, Bloomington, Ind. If whoever hires and fires the columnists tries to cut out Westbrook Pegler, I will quit your paper. He is a clear-headed, truth-reveal-ing, hide-lifting writer, and those who are so bitter against him probwbly have been sturig some place.

SIDE CLANGES By George Clarke

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Indiana

ERNIE PYLE

Ernie Pyle, after interrupting his regular itinerary to visit the droughi country, goes back to his old wandering tomorrow.

ISMARCK. N. D., July 28.—This journalistic caravan through the withering land of misery swings to a close, and I am glad. I am glad, because the world of drought finally becomes an immer-

‘sion which levels the senses. You

arrive at a place where you no longer look and say, “My God, this is awful!” You gradually become

accustomed to dried field and burned

pasture; it stretches into a dull con- . tinuous fact. Day upon day of driving through - * this ruined country gradually be- « comes a sameness which ceases to . admit a perspective. You get to accept it is a vast land that is dry and bare, and was that way yesterday and will be tomorrow, and was that way a hundred miles back and will be a ‘hundred miles ahead. “The story is the same = everywhere. The farmers say the 3 same thing, the fields look the same =

—it becomes like the drone of a bee, :

and after a while you hardly notice it at all, It is that way all day, It is only at night, when you are alone in the . enveloping heat and can not sleep, . and look into the darkness, and the *

thing comes back to you like a,liv- -

ing dream, that you once "more .. realize the stupendousness of it. Then you can see something more than field after brown field, or a - mere succession of dry water holes, or the matter-of-fact resignation on ° farm faces. 2 = 2 OU can see then the whole - backward evolution into oblivion of a great land, and the destruction of a people, and ‘the calamity of long years on end with- . out privilege for those of the soil, and the horror of a life started in emptiness, .knowing only struggle, and ending in despair.

I have seen a great deal of this in the last few years. Sometimes * at night when I am thinking too hard I feel that there is nothing but ~ leanness everywhere. That nobody has the privilege of a full life, that all existences are things of drudgery that had better be done with, Of . course I am wrong about that. : But hot only people. I have seen - the degradation of great lands, too. The beautiful valleys and hillsifles of Tennessee washing away to the ocean, leaving a slashed and useless landscape. , The raw windy plains of western Kansas, stripped of all flesh. All * life driven away, a one-time para- - dise turned into a whirlpool of suffocation. And the vast rolling Dakotas where huge herds once grazed with the freedom of the birds. Now parched and cramped and manhandled by man and elements into a bed of coals. :

JULY 28 IN INDIANA HISTORY

N July 28, 1827, Gov. James B." - Ray invited the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to extend its line into % Indiana. The Governor, a native of ~ Kentucky, is described by historians as a “pompous, egotistical, dressy, spectacular man,” and many of his opponents professed to believe him insane because he favored railroads over canals,” They did | notishare] his foresight. The éra of enthusiasm over canals was to result in a gigantic financial - disaster for the state, and Gov. Ray -~ was to be proved right. His favorite vision was that Indianapolis should lie at the center of a railroad network ‘like the hub of a Wwheel.. He may be said to be the first man to envision Indianapolis’ famous slogan, the “Crossroads of America.” - Despite opposition, Gov. Ray's . efforts resulted a few years later in “ the construction of Indiana's first ~ railroad, a line from Indianapolis to - Lawrenceburg via Greensburg and . Shelbyville. The first one and onefourth miles of the road were laid at - Shelbyville. ® 8 ‘= 5 HE lower house of the General : Assembly even tried to impeach - Gov. Ray because he served as a - road commissioner and . accepted ; compensation for his work at the . same time he was Governor. The executive replied he did this to speed up construction. He was especially Interested in the Michi-gan-rd that came through: South . Bend to Indanapolis, and it is not recorded that his enemies’ accusations curtailed his activities in any way. They said he money for work he didn’t do, but he went right ahead roads. Credit is due the little-known Governor for his sagacity in perceiving that Indianapolis was destined to be one of the transportation centers of the nation and for - his efforts to start the ball rolling. ~

A GREAT GAME