Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1936 — Page 18

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People Will Find

: Their Own Way THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1036.

THE STATEHOUSE LAWN

(TCRIPAS ~ HOWARD

Phone RI ley 5551

iq A T the height ‘of the tourist season, when more

people drive along United States Highway 40

and look at the Indiana capitol building than at any

“Tother time of the year, the Haitioute yard presents

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, an untidy sight,

One correspondent writes that the grounds “re- ° | semble a barnyard.” Another compares the yard to

a pasture. The lawn is unkempt and overgigwn in . places with weeds. The shrubs are not pruned. . Patches of grass are dried up.

The Statehouse grounds should be cleaned up and freshened up. The contrasting green appearance of the Courthouse lawn shows it can be done.

QUIET, PLEASE!

OISE has been called the most barbaric characteristic of our civilization. It is physically harmful, It reduces human efficiency. It never has accomplished anything. Doctors say loud noises injure hearing, strain the nervous system and interfere with the healing.powers of sleep. Many other cities during the past year hdve studied the question of noise and its effect on people. They have worked to reduce unnecessary noises and to limit those still regarded as necessary. 7 Anti-noise ordinances regulate the sounds from ‘horns and sirens, compressed air devices, street. cars and busses, Joudspeakers and - amplifiers, building operations, advertising by noisy devices, even milk wagons, garbage and rubbish trucks. Tampa equipped its trash and rubbish carts with rubber tires. Milk companies in many places use rub-

“ . ber-lined bottle containers, rubber horseshoes, pneu-

matic tires® In New York it is a violation to keep “any animal or bird” that make “frequent and long continued noise,” ahd Portland forbids “attaching any bell to any animal.” Milwaukee's noise ordinance even outlaws marathon danges or “any human endurance contest.” Penalties include both fines and imprisonment, ranging from $1 to $10 in New York to $5 to $200 in Milwaukee.

Noise is a local problem and its regulation is a local problem. A citizens’ organization, civic club or public official would find: widespread support for a campaign of noise abatement in Indianapolis.

BONUSES AND BONUSES

WH corporations back ‘on an earning basis and the question of bonuses again assuming more than academic interest, two news items become interesting. One is an anfiouncement by President K. T. Keller of Chrysler Corp. of an additional cash bonus of $2,000,000 to be distributed Aug. 10 to its employes in the United States, Canada, England and Belgium. All employes will participate, the lowest amount being $25, with $1 extra for each additional year of service up to 10 years. This is Chrysler's second bonus this year, the first having been a $2,300,000 melon cut for 53,000 workers in February. The other is a report made public last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission, over protest of F.. W. Woolworth & Co. This showed a 1035 profit of $31,247,000 from the “5. and 10” firm’s American and Canadian stores. Included in its

__ “gelling, general and administrative expense” of ‘$47,524,000 were a number of bonuses. They didn’t |

go to the thousands of sales girls, but to the directors. They totaled $1,143321. One director got $309,880, another $113,726, ‘another $88,743. Profits on total sales in this country exceeded 40 per cent, in England 62 per cent. . The reader can judge which of these two types of bonus is better for American recovery and for American capitalism.

«BY THEIR DEEDS, YE ...”

WE were pleased.to hail as bold and progressive statesmanship the wire which Gov. Landon sent to the Republican convention saying that he proposed to extend the merit system in the Federal government to include “every position . in the administrative service below the rank of assistant secretaries of major departments and agencies and « « - the entire Postoffice Department.” ‘Here, we thought, is at last a candidate for

' President who believes as we do that public servants

should be chosen for their fitness, and not on & basis of spoils. ; So it is quite a let-down for us to read in the Baltimore Sun a dispatch written from Topeka by . Paul: W.. Ward. Here are a few excerpts from Mr.

: Ward's article:

“Research ‘showed that his (Landon’s) own state

has no civil service system at. all, although, accord- _ ing to state:officials, a law providing for one has ~ been on the Kansas statute books since before the

War. “No !Governor . . . ever has seen fit to appropriate sufficient funds to put the law in operation. Once » + 13800 was appropriated to pay the salary of & clerk for that purpose. “Under Gov. Landon... . dhere hoa Den Bp AP~ propriation at all and the civil service law remains _ Inoperative.

“ » 4 There are no competitive examinations for

President Roosevelt 1s re-elected, Julian T Bishop is going to sell out and move to Canada.

He says he has “an intense dislike” for the New

‘Deal. “I used to be a broker,” he says, “and I worked

like hell at it. And then the Securities and Ex- ||

change Commission came along and there's no point in being a broker any more.” A Without trying. to turn Mr. Bishop from his rash act of sglf-expa Svaifiationiwe 1st] he should be warned about A set of eight laws, launched last year by Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett and supported by Liberal Premier William L. Mackenzie King, are many times more “radical” than than anything the Roosevelt Administration has conceived. ‘These laws include: Federal unemployment insurance; federal regulation of wages and hours; a marketing act similar to AAA and NRA; price regulation; compulsory liquidation of farm debts; an act similar to the Robinson-Patman Act to prevent secret rebates and discounts by chain stores. Canada’s highest court has upheld three of these acts entirely and two partially. The King government has just taken steps to put the Central Bank of Canada under Federal control. 'Canada owns and runs the great Canadian National Railrosd. Canada recognizes collective bargaining and--note this, Mr. Bishop—Canada regulates stock exchanges. Mr. Bishop may not like it here, bufi-by moving to Canada wouldn’t he be jumping from the frying pan into the fire?

INDIANA TOWN

OCHESTER, Indiana, receives national attention this week in Fortune Magazine. The arti~ cle is a colorful portrait, in words and pictures, of small-town life and characteristics. = The story tells of the pride of Rochester citizens 4n their town, concluding: ™ “They like to joke.about Shelton’s dray horse, Billy, and only horse in town, and to say’ that ‘Rochester is a one-horse town.’ They are.used to being called hicks and Hoosiers and Main Streeters, and they don’t care. If anybody wants to laugh at them, let them laugh. They are proud to live in Indiana, proud to live in Fulton County, proud to live in the quiet, shaded streets of Rochester.” The pride of Hoosiers in their town, whether it be Rochester or Indianapolis, and their ove of Indiana, are invaluable assets.

WAR DEBTS AND COMMON SENSE

ITH increasing frequency trial balloons are being sent up by European nations to find out how the wind blows for some new loans from this ‘country. Already in default to the tune of more than $12,000,000,000 on the war debts, they indicate a cheerful willingness to make the amount bigger. The very human reaction of the American man in the street is to tell them all to go take a running jump. That, however, is not an answer. Congress has been telling Europe that for a decade. But it hasn’t settled anything. It hasn't hurt Europe and it hasn't helped us. In fact, both debtors and creditor have been incredibly stupid. From the beginning Britain, France and the rest have been reluctant to pay, They have irritated American public opinion cone stantly and needlessly by calling us BShylocks, by rebuking us for being “late” in coming into the war, and by the unflattering innuendo that’ we should have been glad to contribute money instead of men. At last, instead of saying yes, we owe you the

money and will pay back as much of it, and as fast, A we CAD, they defaulted entirely.

LAER y tof doing what each member would" do.as an individual business man dealing with a debtor— namely, striking the best possible bargain for all he could get on the dollar—Congress, as -a body, has kepk on insisting on all or nothing. .

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- Ir has been stupid business. all aout

stupid’ of Britain, France and the other war debtors to default. Even more stupid was their

attitude that Americans were some sort of moral

lepers for asking payment. But we have been just as bad ‘with our impossible demands, then hurling insulting epithets ‘because they were not met, A common-sense settlement—if- common sense is not too much to expect in international relations in this day ahd time—is badly needed. One of these

"days, France, Britain, Italy and the others—to ex-

press it mildly—are going to need the good. will of

this country. And we, on our side, need and ‘want

the good will of Europe. ~ Sound loans are as vital to foreign trade as they are to domestic trade. Not to be able to ex~ tend them is to discourage business and handicap commerce. , Nations, like banks, in time of crisis

should be able and willing to go to each other's aid

for the good of all concerned. It is “high time, therefore, that Burope and the United States again set about finding a solution to this chronic and irritating problent.

lke, spoiled ehfidren in a. Kindergarten.

HATEVER you may think of his politics, Norman Thomas ‘is a great character. His appearance before the Townsend Clubs in Cleveland was an exhibition of magnificent courage. “Come, let us reason together,” said Mr. Thomas. This plea was met by jeers and boos from the throng

that wished to hear only that in Which, it Egy

believed. Most of us are lik€ that. We want to We. encour-

aged in our delusions. We prefer people who agres.

with us. Our individual behavior toward life's major ‘prob-

lems is usually no more intelligent than that of the

audience which listened to Mr. Thomas, and which resented his dragging in realism to spoil the Utopia they had invented. 4 : Take marriage. Most of.its tribulations arise from the same human trait which was so in evidence at Cleveland—a firm Tefusal to look st the truth. |

It is not going’ : to be solved, however, by making faces at each other

‘A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT | | Mary By Mrs. Walter Ferguson-

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Town

ANTON SCHERRER

HE group of prints by James McNeill Whistler, now on view at the Herron, recalls again the famous family feud which existed for 50 many years between Jimmy and his brother-in-law, Sir Francis Seymour Haden. In more ways than one, it was probably the most successful-—cer-tainly, the most venomous—of the American's, many striking achievements in “the gentle art of making enemies.” ; ‘Both Whistler and Haden were actors. At any rate, both had bad dispositions, the main difference being that Whistler was born with his and Haden’s was cultivated. Which

is to say, that Hadén got better as

he grew older, although, goodness knows, he was plenty good enough when he married Jimmy's: half sister. - Haden, the older of the two by 16 years, was often insolent, always domineering. Whistler was conceited, contenticus and cantanker-

ous. Both were prize examples of |

what the two great English-speak-ing nations can do when they set their minds on turning out snobs. There is no reason to doubt Haden’s boast that he kicked his brother-in-law downstairs or, for that matter, to doubt Whistler when he declared Haden lied — that he was the one to do the kicking and that it was Haden who went down tha stairs.

The facts of the case are that both men went through life with chips on their shoulders daring the

world—and especially, their brothe"

ers-in-law—to knock them off. o ® » HERE was one great difference between the two men, however, and it's worth noting.

Whistler was extremely selfish. He cared little for art except as it furthered his ends. Haden was different. I wouldn't go so far as io say that he was unselfish, but it does appear that he looked at art from an altruistic standpoint. At any rate, his greatest pleasure came, not from what his successes brought him but. from the opportunity it gave him to increase the appreciation of fine prints among cultured people. Without putting too fine a point on it, I believe it may be seriously questioned whether Whistler ‘would have lived to see his’ etchings|’

| praised by critics and sought by|a

collectors: had not Seymour ‘Hayden prepared the way. ]

Even if you don’t want to go that far, it stillremains a fact that when Haden first interested himself “in etching (at the age of 40, by the

way), it was looked upon as a repro-

ductive art and, as such, far inferior

to steel engraving. ‘After 50 years

of ‘continuous effort on the part of Haden, a complete change was brought about. Etching regained the place it once had in Rembrandt's time.

It might be interesting, some time this winter, to have Wilbur: Peat

{put on a show of Haden and Whistler prints, After all these

years, maybe, the two brothers-in-law can be put in the same ‘room without quarreling.

Ask The Times

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Q—Where is Chincoteague Island? . Give its size, population, and industries. A-TIt is in Accomac County, Virginia, on the eastern coast near the land line. It is seven miles long and a little more than a mile wide. It is famous for wild ponies and oyster fishing, and has the largest wild goose farm in the Unit ed States. The population is 4500. It is connected with the mainland by. highway and bridges.

Q—Wnat is a “OQ” signal. in

radio? A—A § al ‘of inquiry made by a RSifing to.communicate,

Q—How do electric photo-flash lamps operate? A—Aluminum foil is stuffed

thie bulk which is exhausted

SAME BOT = AND DON'T THE OLD CAMPAIGN ARGUMENTS SEEM PRETTY SILLY?

Inltans.

EDITOR'S NOTE-—This reving reporier when he .pleases, im seaceh for odd stories about this and that.

T.ERIE, Ontario, July 30, — “We have at this track some ofthe oldest horses in North America,”

-| said my friend as we watched them |Parads out fof fhe first rate.

“One of my favorites used to be’ a horse named Egad. He was a

‘| honey. They turned him over to a

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all may have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

= 2 » STREET NAME SIMILARITY VEXING TO READER By Diévid Horn ' I understand that quite a number of Indianapolis streets bear duplicate and even triplicate names. For instance, it appears that. there are two “Albert” streets. There is an “Audubon Place” and an “Audubon Road”; a “Bell Street” and a “Bell ce a “Maple Street,” ”, “Maple; Court; » a “Maple Lane” an a “Maple Road,” etc. 3 If a letter arrives at the Indianapolis postoffice addressed to “Mr, John Doe, 76 Maple,” the postal: employes are burdened: with the

job: of guessing “whether the addressee lives on Maple Road or

guess wrong it means that the ad-

receiving his letter too late,

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the Aueticas " Medical | Association. VERYBODY should know by now that children are not born equal, either mentaly or physically. Most of them are the sum of their ancestors. ‘Many a parent’ himself Is dt as smart 2 he would Jie his child to be. The first duty of. a parent’ 5 to

tellectual capacity, and not {to endeavor: to drive the child beyond that capacity. not think well, remember well or learn normally ‘should have the ad-

to make the most out of the capac ity that it has. Once it is discovered that a child Fis mentally slow and that it not keep up with other children; t

to do about its education. But first

examination that the: physical ‘condition of the child is as good as it can possibly be made. i - Out of 400 delinquent. children studied in a mental hygiene clinic, | it was found that-a considerable percentage suffered from ‘easily corrected defects. Orie-

noids and tonsils.

ents who were

Maple Street. If they happened to| dressee has been inconvenienced by

To" avoid -any such unnecessefy.

find ouf the limit of the child’s in-| The child who caf

learn normally shoud have the ad- : fer | Birthplace of men and inavericks

parents must decide what they on they must determine. by suitable

third had bad teeth and large. adle- 4 Many of the children had pr :

) ditions: which do not, lessen fotellc Bi ds | gence, but seem instead to sharpen| § Ch Fthe mind. Thus, it has been shown | .F34 1} that “children who are especially] §

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‘inconvenience I would suggest. that

the city authorities ‘change the

names of those streets, so that only

one street should be known, once and for all, by a given name—regardless: of whether you call it a “place,” an “avenue,” a “road,” a “street,” a “parkway’ or what not. os xs POETIC TRIBUTE PAID |, REP. MAVERICK By Geéorge Sanford Holmes Bh “That Never Wore a Brand”

Young. Representative Maverick, of

San Antonio, They're. calling you. a; Bolshevik, down. by the ‘Alamo, "| “/ a | Where ‘Just - 100 . years ‘before, a .battle-won decree . ‘Was: signed by your own, aticestor, declaring Texas free. 5 We. thought you too a pétrioh, Bs © ‘was your proud forebear, =~ We knew that. you were gassed and shot while serving “Over There,” We read that: youd been €ited for ‘distinguished - gallantry, - : And maimed for life, in that. a war “to save democracy. wonr

| But ‘When. you “bate: “Over Here?

against: the pl ds, The ruthless. ‘rogues “who racketeer with other people’s funds, And unctuous “pink-tea. “lobbies” dumb, that special interests hire, They tell us you are just a “bum” : they're fighting 1 to Yeilfe, > :

You: were a hero overseas. but since you've helped to flay ¥/.- i And regulate utilities and boost the

TVA And brave the. holding. companies’ . fist, wherever Roosevelt led, .

You're : just.a dangerous. “Commu-

gh an un-American “Red.” ”

The. power trust is spending: cash: to beat you, so.-we hear, But we predict their hopes are rash,

: ‘Who venture to be free.

You won tne Purple Heart we note,

also the Silver Star, - But not tll you came home ‘16 vote | ‘did foes learn who you are,

A Maverick. ‘who lives the nate, son | the stuff life is ‘made of Benjamin,

Jof that Texas band ° That ‘Santa Anna could not tame, stat never wore a, brand!

VOTING POWER

CONCENTRATION URGED - By John McLellan, 14744 Broadway-rd, Maple Heights, O. oF Again a cross-section view given by 100,000 -American families shows 55 per cent believing that Roosevelt policies’ have been helpful, with’ 70 per cent against the formation of a third party; with only 45 per cent

‘willing to say Roosevelt policies have

hindered ‘business, with 32 states for

the Roosevelt ‘policies—14 against,

gives strength to the thought that whilst the majority is not always right, if in doubt it is a ‘sane rule to follow the majority. Many old countries have grow weary, given up the fight for democracy, yielded to dictatorship and men’ of “their kin, whem we have mdde ‘welcome here, desite to see America do likewise. "

‘But they have a wrong conceptioh

of ‘the spirit bred ih''the bone ‘of those who make America’ what it is —+the-spirit that will help men like Roosevelt destroy evil wherever it is found and-again make this what #11 called it in my youth, “God's couftry? oe

‘If “re-elected, Roosevelt will’ give

this generation “equal. opportunity atthe’ polling place and the market place.” * To gain this end concehtrate - your voting ‘and economic power instead of scattering it behind will«o’~the-wisp movements, or. the cold verdict of history ‘will be ‘that the men of this generation were weaklings, who by scattering ‘thefr vote ‘amongst Coughlinites, Town«(Turn to Page 19) ?

GLASS PEN BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I walchid hin him faghion with tense hi

This shining . tube ‘from glass and

flame; This crystal pen with’ which I write These words and sign’ ‘them with my name.

My fingers trenihle whos I think’ Nf writing with the complex parts Of flame and muscle and of brain, And dre in shy, inventive hearts.

DAILY, THOUGHT

Te ‘everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.—Ecclesiastes 3:1.

OST thou Jove Tove life? Then do - not squander. time, for that is

Franklin.

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glue factory.last year, and now I. don’t come to the track mich any more.” The story of my friend's affection for Egad is a. touching one. My friend was on a train somewhere up here in Canada, and a Pullman por= ter named George told him he had it straight that a horse called Egad was to win that day at Fort Erie.’ My friend happened to be reading the comics at the moment, and: just” as George said Egad, my friends eyes lit on the word Egad from the mouth of Maj. Hoople. So he put two and two together and decided this was Egad® day. He had to call his office in Buffalo on some business, so while he was at it ‘he told the man on the other end of the wire to lay some “inferior * sum for him on Egad. Now while this was going on a ° bootblack named Tony was shining the Buffalo fellow’s shoes, and Tony, overheard that end of the conversation. He then bustled out arourid the building, and told everybody. that the boss had something absa- . lutely sure on Egad. The news spread like wildfire.

Work practically ceased. Everybody

was trying to borrow money, Stenog-~ raphers pooled their lunch allowances for a bet. Workmen sneaked. - home and robbed the baby’s china pig. *

» ” » THE downtown bookmakers got 50 loaded up they had to transs fer bets to suburban bookies. “The ~ news got out of the building, and up and down the streets. By 2:30 | that afternoon everybody in Buffalo

within a radius of five miles BA: his ‘wad down on Egad. There were 10 horses in the race, . Egad finished ninth. My friend became the louse of Buffalo. Stenographers hated him, Fathers ' accused ' him of robbing ° them. * He didn’t know what it was all: about, until somebody explained. 80, just to vindicate himself, wiors than anything else, he kept on bet< ° ting on Egad all through the Fort Erie meet. But Egad was consistent: ~ Every day he ran ninth, :even when . there were only seven horses:in tiierace. Every day; that Is, uni}. the - last day. - That day, just at post: time in Egad’s race, a sudden and violent - thunderstorm came up.. It shook’ - the:Canadian heavens and drenched the Canadign track. The ‘thunder - and lightning ‘were frightful. - There » Was [ * pandemonium : gmong -::/the . horses: - Some" of them’ ran: back~ : ward, and: some the: wrong «way, and some ‘just jumped up and down. But not Egad. . He didn’t - even : know it was raining. Not wind nor: - rain nor:dark of snowy night would stay him on his appointed rounds. « % He had his daily act to perform. ~ . 80 he'just got in his groave,: and went loping around the track. at his: usual ‘dull ‘pace, ‘He came in first; - because all the other horses: had run some other direction. ° 7 My “friend was undoubtedly the only man in America :still betting on Egad. He made a small fortune that day. That's the reason he loved Egad so much, and felt _ so badly when they : took hity- ig the

glue factory.

8 2 8 Toe were 4000 people at the beautiful Fort Erie track. The: sun was bright and the weather hot. People looked pretty “well-to-do. Most of them were from Buffalo, We watched the first race without - betting, just to get: ourselves. ade justed. Then we decided the tine had come for us to wager. “The pulling- them-out-of- theta system I find as’ good as any,” ‘said my friend. “Shall we try Toe ay So’ 1 tore some paper into ‘little ” pieces, and wrote numbers’ from 1 to" 11 on them, and put ‘them in ny pocket, and my Iriend reached in” and pulled one out.’ It said No. 10." That was a horse nametl Timon: We

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