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KNOX AND/OR LANDON

HE performance attending thé notification of Sux Vice Presidential Candidate Frank Knox in Chicago contrasted more than outwardly with Vice ~ President Garner's self-effacing acceptance at PhilaAdelphia in June. ! Instead of the humble second-fiddle, the Colonel _meemed to have got hold of the first violin by misfake. And the tune he played was an angry ®ppassionata that jarred in strange disharmony With the friendly refrain from Topeka. Candidate Landon has spoken temperately thus far. As Governor he frankly approved many of the ‘New Deal's aims, criticising only their administra‘tion. He praised CWA as “one of the soundest, most ‘constructive policies.” He said that Roosevelt had not sought to: seize power improperly. “I plan,” _ he said in 1933, “to enlist with President Roosevelt ‘for the duration of the war against depression.”

Candidate Knox revealed last night that he regarded this war as a mistake. Although he “léhrned as a buck private the lessons of duty and loyalty,” the Roosevelt (and Landon) war on the depression was one that, in his opinion, should never have been undertaken and he'll have none of it. ; “The present Administration,” he explained, “in the winter of 1933 had just one immediate responsibility to meet. That responsibility was to’ promote the little flame of recovery that had begun to burn An the summer of 1932.” Since Roosevelt (and Landon) instead of blowIng on this nice little flame elected to go to war . against. the depression, don’t expect Col. Knox to

spare his criticism. He didn't spare it last night.

” » o : F Landon listened he must have regretted his enlistment with Roosevelt for the duration. Because, despite Landon’s innocent belief, many times expressed, that Roosevelt's program is pretty good even though his performance is bad, Col. Knox averred very heatedly that this is not the case.

“On the mere issue of efficiency in administration the present government stands convicted of failure,” he said. “But there is a larger issue, an issue that goes to the heart of American life. It is the issue of the kind of economic system the American people +will live by.” He gave a lurid picture of “a crew of amateur experimenters, hacking at the vitals of : industry, agriculture, commerce and _ finance.” The “fanatics,” it seems, “have usurped the powers of Congress, insulted the authority of

the courts and undermined the institutions of local

self-government.”

With the right-wing reactionaries of his party - screeching at this high pitch, Gov. Landon will find ' 4t increasingly hard to carry on the campaign as he . promised to do, “in the example of Mr. Lincoln, who... . always addressed the intelligence of men, never “their prejudice, their passion or their ignorance.”

. Many Republican spokesmen have tried to turn: “the campaign from a dignified contest into a class ¥war. Col. Knox seems disposed to adopt this course. ~~ And because we'd hate to see that kind of war “take the place of the war on the depression, we hope "that Republican spokesmen wil] take their cue from Landon’s speech and not from that delivered by his running mate.

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"ALL MILLIONAIRES NOT SCARED

N contrast to the alarmist utterances of -Col. Knox are the calm, matter-of-fact statements of Republican Senator James S. Couzens of Michigan. No one has ever accused Senator Couzens of - He didn’t make his millions that way. Moreover, he is a blunt, plain-spoken man

who has disagreed with and voted against many “measures of the New Deal. But ‘he has never made “it a practice to impugn the Americanism or sin‘gerity of those whose opinions differ from his own. # Quite characteristic was his speech in- Detroit “fast night in connection with his campaign for re“election on the Republican ticket. Some one in the audience asked the Senator if he thought “Roosevelt will bankrupt the nation.” “Certainly I do not,” Couzens replied. - “In 1929 and succeeding years, many states and municipalities _ bankrupted themselves trying to prevent suffering among their unemployed. Somebody with unlimited taxing power, as the Federal government, had to sstep in and take the load. I have been disgusted with this constant talk about balancing the budget. How could anybody have balanced it? How could states have balanced their budgets if the Federal government had not given them 70 cents for every 80 cents they spent on unemployment relief?” “How soon,” another questioner asked, “do ‘you expect a ‘Red’ government in Washington to deliver Us into the hands of Moscow?” “In the 14 years I have been in Washington,” 1 Couzens replied, “I have learned there is no possibil3 ity, no intimation, no suggestion that our govern4 ment is a ‘Red’ government. I do not know of a sin- § gle member of Congress who wants to adopt a Mos-‘{cow-type of government, All three functions of our + government—the legislative, executive and judicial— are functiohing. Even though somebody might start # ‘Red’ movement he could not get far.” It has been said that “nothing is more timid than 8 million dollars.” - It depends on who owns the

SOUTH OF RED RIVER FEE schootroom is far removed from. the polling place, and it is not often that the question of academic liberties reaches the latter. That issue perhaps was the deciding one in either instance, but it sh up in two spots in

Ji results very sratisyedom of Yeashing and

Rep. Tom Binion, utho; of the “red rider” h required every school teacher in the District SEH} SVeEY DaY day Chat he i the meaning of comand probably will |

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\NE of the best pieces of Business news Taian apolis has heard in a long time is the an-

nouncement that the RCA Manufacturing Co. will | Tesume ‘operations af ence In its Plant & Mighigan

and LaSalle-sts, : The company, a unit of Radio Corp. of Ametica, expects to employ 500 persons within three months and -1000 within a year, with an estimated annual pay roll ol $1,800,000. * RCA regards the reopening here as 8 major expansion move. Many other Indiana industrial expansions in recent months indicate manufacturing ‘is definitely on fhe upgrade. Indianapolis extends a hearty Fela to RCA and its resumption of operations ere.

‘MODEL LOW-COST HOUSE TEE proposal that the county build a model lowcost house—on its own property and with WPA labor—is one that should receive wide support in view of Indianapolis’ serious housing situation. The county has $500,000 tied up in about 200

properties it acquired through defaulted school loans.

Marion County Commissioners, at the instance of State Planning Board and WPA officials, have asked.

the County Council for a $350 appropriation for -

material for a low-cost house on one of: these sites. One of the old school fund dwellings would be torn down and the model house erected at once to determine feasibility of the idea as one solution of the bad housing problem. There would seem to be no valid objection to this plan. County Council members are reported favorable. Adequate, sanitary, low-rent housing is one of the community's greatest needs. Many of those

who have studied the Indianapolis situation believe

this experiment may point the way. The appropriation should be made.

BUSINESS IS BETTER

O a nation weary of hard times and eager to speak of the depression only in the past tense, the latest report of the United States Chamber of Commerce on business conditions is cheering news. The record of the first six months, the Chamber reports, indicates that business volume this. year will be the best since 1929. Employment in manufacturing, retail trade and the railroad and power: industries is mounting rapidly. ’ Building construction was 75 per cent better

than in the first six months of 1935. Consumption

of electric energy and the output of cigarets and 5-cent cigars are topping all records. Foreign trade is coming back. Exports’ in the first half of this year were 13 per cent greater in value than the first half of 1935, and 72 per cent over the first half of 1933. The value of imports was 17 per cent higher than in 1935, 95 per cent higher than in 1933. Volume and still more volume we must have te make ours once mare a land of prosperity. In 1929

we had volume and we had prosperity. But it was

unbalanced and unsupported. In 1929, farm purchasing power was shrinking; goods were flowing from, but not back into, the farm regions, and much of our urban purchasing power was only a tightly stretched fabric of credit. To the end .that the recovery of 1936 shall not head into another collapse, let business statesmanship turn to strengthening the foundations of pur= chasing power. A well-knit - government program is contributing to a steadily rising farm purchasing power. But in the building up of urban purchasing power, the government has been able to do little more than use its credit to provide jobs. That can not continue indefinitely. A lasting contribution can be made only by the co-operation of business management and labor, in spreading the available jobs in private industry, in: keeping prices down. and moving wages’ up.’ SO That is the only sure road to volume, and still more volume.

OARP IN SHORT PANTS } Oo: -AGE Revolving Pensions, Ltd., into which. s0 many old folks have been’ pouring their dimes and quarters for two years, now may be’ converted into a “youth movement.” The robustious Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith of Louisiana, whom Dr. Townsend took into camp (or vice versa), plans to purge Townsendism of “the old age complex,” get each Townsend Club to select 12 young men as leaders of a Townsend Youth Movement and set-up a youth army 100,000 strong “over night.” “I guess we showed ‘the world at Cleveland, ” he says, “that we're not just a bunch of old people, but a great humanitarian movement.” Dr. Smith will not stop here. In orthodox Hitler fashion he promises an “educational program” and urges compulsory military training in the schools. “We're getting to be a bunch of softies in this country,” says this eminent evangelist. While the Rev. Smith does not propose to change

‘the name of Dr. Townsend's highly publicized or-

ganization, he has raised one of his own. It is “Any One But Roosevelt.” ’ The middle aged and elderly folks who have been financing Dr. Townsend's far-flung movement, in the hope of retiring on $200 monthly pensions,

-may resent the Rev. Smith's contemplated attempt

to confiscate their movement in the effort to defeat Roosevelt. Smith, however, should have little difficulty in getting what dollars he needs to finance the youthful Townsend army and its march against the White House. His new Townsend banner, flying the A-O-B-R slogan, will interest a lot of gentlemen who have more than dimes and quarters to spend.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mem ARRIAGE is doomed as an institution,” says the psychologist Alfred Adler, “if the married look upon themselves as martyrs.” To put it vulgarly, Mr. Adler has said a mouthful.” We know very well that vast numbers of married people consider themselves ma By some slow-moving mental: process the married state has lost its prestige, and is now quite generally regard-

ed as a sexual experience or an economical arrange-

ment or a whale of a joke. What's the difference, say: the boys and girls: if We don't lke i We. can always get a divorce.

Unfortunately a great many of them do, too, which

makes it’ very bad for society and growing children. It is interesting to ponder how these changes in our thinking have come about, and why our attitude.

comic strip artists and professional joitesters ‘have had a good deal to do with making married people feel martyred. ot Who spiked ‘with rocks the path of the American mother-in-law? ‘The jolly jokesmiths, of course. So intense has been the propaganda about her cussed. Tess that shed licked botors she'istarts’ with her”

Our Town

SPEAKING of this. year's comet, I

J never pass Hilton U. Browns home on. the hill in Irvington but what I think of the time (1843) that a crowd of Indianapolis folks went out there to wai for the end of the world. That was the year of the big, bad comet when nearly ‘everybody had his doubts whether this old earth could hold out much longer.

Nobody knew. for sure just when the end was coming but it became.

pretty certain that something was going to happen, and very soon, too, when the meteors began acting up—especially, when the meteors went blazing through the sky leaving in their trailg little patches o2 fire that looked for the world like letters ‘of the alphabet. ‘Properly put together, the ‘letters read: “The Lord is coming.” It was no. trick to read it with the naked eye. Everybody could do it. ‘Nor was that all Everything else around here was in the same frame of mind. There were. strange. marks on the leaves that had everybody guessing. The roosters started crowing in the middle of the night

when they didn’t have any business | to. Horses made noises like human’

beings talking and strangely inspired hens took the time to lay

eggs with prophecies written on

their shells. = Anyway you look at it, it was a year of signs and portents. # » x. “HE signs and portents were, of course, part of the religious re-

vival that swept this part of the]

country in 1843. It sfruck Indian-. apolis ‘even earlier—in the fall of. 1842, to be exact—and stayed here

all'the time the big comet was busy. -| Which, curiously enough, ‘was also

the time Samuel Miller preached here. Mr. Miller preached - a doctrine that fitted in beautifully with the behavior of comets. Nobody knew, of course, whether Mr, Miller had inside information concerning . the coming of the comet, but it always seemed to me he did. Otherwise, I don’t see how Mr. Miller could have been 50 cocksure of the end of the world.’ Mr. Miller was quite sure of the end of the world and fixed it to happen some time in the. year March 21, 1843, to March 21, 1844. When pressed for a reason, he cited Scripture and did it so plausibly that it silenced even the scoffers. With the appearance of the comet, Mr. Miller didn’t have to. give any more reasons. The ‘thing’ was self-

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FTER that, Mr. Miller got reckless and picked April 1, 1843, as the last day. Many’ of the more confident ‘of=. dered white ascension robes. ‘Many sold their property or gave it away. One of our prominent citizens sold

- out and moved to Ohio, apparently

secure in the belief that Ohio—of all places—would be spared. Came the last day. Having gathered the faithful together, Mr. Miller started toward the - highest hill east of the town and there they spent the day in prayer, praise and exhortation. (Which, to Mr.: Miller's everlasting credit let it be said, was the good he wrought in Indianapolis. At a time, too, when the town needed it most.) The day didn’t turn out the way Mr. Miller thought it would. ‘The sun kept going as usual and at last went down behind the big trees. stars came out. What's more, the moon came out and finally the morning light gave promise of another day. The poor; deluded souls took" off their white robes, folded them: up carefully and silently, stole back to town. Years later, ‘Mr. Brows, more optimistically ‘inclined, picked that very hill and: built a house hig enough to raise a large family. It’s another instance—perhaps a prize example—of the irony of history.

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PUTS FAITH IN ECONOMIC LAW By H. L. Seeger

As a liberal I would cast my vote | for Mr. Landon if any vote were the deciding one. .T recognize one thing in: out: £c0nomics that neither Mr." Roosevelt nor. Mr, ‘Landon has yet-discovered. That thing is that our economic system: is not operated by political parties. The system is automatic in its ac~ tion, and works ‘according to basic economic law. Every depression is the period when excess capitalization and over Hiishiedrjess are automatically re-!

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor .of the Journal of vhe American ‘Medical Association. . HAT we call fear is a reaction depending on. experience and disérimination. It is one of the most important forces in our lives. If it were not for fear, we would expose ourselves to : dahgers. which would be fatal to the human race. Children must learn what to fear and what not to fear. A cowardly child is one who has learned to {ear when it should not, fear. Many parents teach their chil~ dren to obey by threatening them with unknown dangers. The .great~ i fear of all is the fear of the uns H a: child is given an: “adequate explanation of the reason for dark- | ness, if it is told about animals and aided to become used to them, if it sees its own parents act with: equanimity when subject to small cuts, bruises and “pains, the ‘child probably will learn to face these things courageously. Cowardice, once developed,” leads to a host of anxieties. Moteover, the child soon learns to. use its cowardice, its anxieties, and its fears as weapons to get what it wants. : For example, by ‘shrieks of terror the child can bring its mother to its bedside, and by" -continuing the shrieks it can keep her there, , There is no reason why a child should’ lie awake in fear of dark= ness, burglars, giants, or the ‘like; | threats of which have overstifmylated its nervous system. : In helping a child to overcome fear, a- parent first should determine definitely the nature of the abject that is feared. Parents are likely to threaten a child who develops wrong sex habits with. musliation of the body.

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duped, Ls come back within the- eon--sumer’s ability to support invest-’

ment. Until this excess of debt and’ capital claims is reduced with fesulting lower prices to consumers,

‘there can be no real recovery.

This readjustment has not been made, and is long, overdue.

‘Let us; hope Mr. Roosevelt misses the office and the collapse. It would be great to have. two “Hoover panics” in succession. . Capitdlism' always washes up ex-

cess capital, as well as labor, in. or-: ‘der to be able to gain consumer sup

port. -Until.the capital is washed up; there will be no re-employment of ‘the 12 million “white Indians” now dependent on the great white father. Landon Soe foul, me.

M'NUTT’S RECORD Is HELD - SUPERIOR TO LANDON’S By J. C. Watson Please reprint the following letter: “It is amusing how the over=-

zealous anti-New Deal press: and: ‘| Presidént-makers of the country are

‘booming the budget-balancing record of Gov.,Landon of Kansas, all the while ignoring the much superior ‘record of Gov. McNutt of Indiana, Democratic friend of ‘President, Roosevelt. “Kansas put-out the news that property taxes have been cut by 30 per cent. Indiana can boast of a general 35 per cent reduction since

Gov. -McNutt took office. The In-

diana cut in farm taxes has been 50. per cent. Kansas brags that. bonded indebtedness: has been reduced for. political; subdivisions by $21,000,000 sirice 1932; Indiana can show a‘cut}: in bonded debt which soon will amount to - $80,000,000, since 1932. Kansas has a:$22,000,000 state: debt. Indiana has none. Kansas has -a state general fund property tax levy of 14.4 cents per $100; Indiana has a 4:65 cents general fund tax. “In balancing the state ‘budget, Gov. Landon permitted the Pederal government to assume practically the entire burden of taking care of the state’s destitute. On the othe hand, Indiana, ‘which has the better record of fiscal management in all affairs, contributed 35 per. cent : of the money necessary to . feed clothe her destitute citizens:

| percentage is one‘of the

“This highes any state in the union ‘her ef ‘administration under - Gov. McNutt has been cited as a model for the nation. “In Kansas there are many dis-

shown

It will. coming during the next Administra- | tion, regardless of who is President.

‘Anesthetics delay FEEOvELy, .

tricts where ‘public schools are closed.

“The rundown condition of state

institutions is reliably re be. deplorable in Kansas. That is the price Kansas citizens must pay for the economy record made ‘by vhis wealthy oil man who is Governor. “Every one knoWs the school story of Indiana. Not a school door has been closed—salary money for every teacher—no standards sacrificed, yet $12,000,000 of economies introduced. Indiana, as shown by the recovery business chart, is prosperous. Kansas is one of the black states on the ousiness recovery chart.”

. \ 2 2 VIEWS CO-OPERATIVES As WORKABLE By H. 8. Ln = editorial in an Indiaha paper described the co-operative - move-

: ~¢| ment as a foreign idea that -would | not work not be’ successfully intro-

duced in America. The item indicated that President Roosevelt is wasting ‘public money in sending trained investigators to Europe to study the movement. ... The ‘conclusion that co-operation as a method of business would not work must be wishful thinking. Right here jin Indianapolis, a cooperative oil station was started less than three years ago on a capital of $505. It did a $36,000 business the first year, $62, 000 the second year and will go over $100,000 this year. Customers have made expansion ‘necessary. In addition to the gas station, a coal yard is in operation. Dividends. on purchases have been

:|.made, equal to more than 4 per

cent, besides expansion of capital assets. Capital investment also has ‘received 4 per cent interest dividends during this time. ‘I ‘may “not work” in wishtul thinking, but it surely does work in ‘this’ American city of Indianapolis. In fact, co-operative consumer. enterprise does more than

‘mdividual ownership. It distributes profits back to the customers to

spend for more goods. It is the antidote to the poison of concentrated wealth.

- DAILY THOUGHT Now, therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck “of the disciples, which Neji

“our fathers nor we were: able

bear?—aActs 15:10.

TOD is better or served in resisting a temptation to evil than in

many formal payers. William Penn.

SIDE GLANCES ‘By George € Clarke] ™

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PETE EE when he pleases, In search for odd ~ stories about this and that, N THE GREAT LAKES, July 31.—It was dusk when we ‘cast loose from the pler at Buffalo. They tried hard to make it ° ro mantic. Quite a few people were At. the.

| about, it later. iB. the

funny, he says, just wait until we

| get. to Houghton, Mich., the last stop

before Duluth. . He says 200 people come down to, see one passenger off, and there's more weeping and wailing and kiss-. ing good-by than you. ever saw. in, your life, and the passenger is. just going to Duluth, and will’ be hack

.| day after tomorrow.

The captain has been leaving home all his life, he says, and no< body ever cries about him. wie

Oct we were actually out in x the’ lake, and it got a little darker, it really was romantic. - The sky: was paint-brushed in the West, and. the water was dark and deep-Jook-ing, and heavy black clouds were banked high in the sky. You could see the gleam of Buf« falo back in the distance, and long* strings of lights on thé Canadian’ shore, and a few little sailboats out in the twilight. We stood at the rail until it was really dark and the shore lights were all gone. The wind was fresh’ and .cold and rushed past with’ a" roar, and you might have been on any ship in the world, going any where. To tell the truth, sailing the little different from sailing a ocean. You just stop oftener, and see :land oftener. The water looks just the - same. The .wind feels the same. The. sea. gulls are exactly like ocean sea gulls. The ship vibrates. People walk around the deck for exercise, even though they never take-any -exers: cise at home, They have cold water, in the cabin wash basins. They slee P in berths. They sit in deck chair with blankets over them. hey. look at the water. ; ape ® ® 8 Ts. is a fine ship. It's as bg a as an ocean liner, and has cabins for about. 500 people and is nicely done inside. It’s called .the 8. 8. Octorara. It. is three “days and four. nights from Buffalo to Duluth. It costs $120 for two people and a car. Most people take the trip for a vacation. The ship stops for an hour or so at Cleveland, Detroit, Mackinac Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Houghton and Duluth. = About 200 people are aboard riow. Most of theni are from New York, Ohio, Michigan and Min nesota. The ship “has colored bellboys in blue uniforms running all over the place, and" white stewardesses - Ay white uniforms. °° We have quite an a assortment ‘on board. There is a placid, ‘ily Father, celebrating his twenty-fifth’ year in the priesthood. There is &' woman making her twenty-third consecutive annual trip on this ship. There are two nuns. . There ‘ars many more women than men. There is one lone Negro girl, onboly’s id.

JULY 3st

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INDIANA HISTORY A

HER WARD BEECHER, the mous preacher and _ Abolition= ist orator and father of det Beecher: . Stowe, came fo Iadian~ apolis as ihe first pastor of the d Presbyterian Churth, July 31, 1839, from Lawrenceburg: The new church had 4a, abership of 32. Services were held for. a year in the county seminary “Of University Square and thén ‘moved

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A WX ored ‘edvioation in the Sunday Schools berause tere the ‘time,