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People Will Find Their Own Way Phone RI ley 5331

MONDAY, AUGUST 3. 1936.

ENFORCEMENT OV. M'NUTT, announcing a five-point campaign of traffic law enforcement last night, said: “This is not just another talk on safety—it is a real declaration of war on the most dangerous menace to the lives of all of us” Indiana, he said, has found it necessary “to declare a war that will discipline every careless driver through arrest for any offense.” ~The campaign of state police will center on drunken driving, speeding through unincor- © porated towns, improper lights, passing on curves and hills, and failing to stop at preferential h’ghways and stop signs. Despite safety education efforts, the Governor said, tests at Gary, Evansville, Hammond, La Porte, Michigan City and South Bend showed 30 per cent of the drivers were traffic law offenders. The conclusion is that only rigid enforcement can check the mounting death toll, which appears headed toward new records ‘in Indiana and Indianapolis.

To make this state police drive eflective,.

local police here and in all other Hoosier cities must be equally vigilant in enforcing traffic laws.

BLERIOT—AND AFTER

OUIS BLERIOT is dead in Paris. In’ the 27 years and eight days that have elapsed since his daring airplane flight across the English Channel, aviation and other sciences have geen more wonders performed than man had believed possible. That is to say, all save the science of government—man’s relation with man. For, ironical though it is, while the body of France's lone eagle today awaits final disposition, the nations of Europe stand snarling at each other across their frontiers. Aviation has progressed from a 20-mile hop across the channel to regular flights across the Atlantic and Pacific, but statesmanship, diplomacy and

human relations have floundered in the cur-

rents. * * - ] N Spain, fascism and communism have come to grips. No quarter is being asked or given. The winner apparently will take all. The republic—and with it the hope of early democracy in Spain—seems doomed. About her, for the moment shelving their

& a other disputes, the great powers of Europe are

‘threatening to take sides. In a desperate effort to stave off almost certain conflict should they mix in, France has appealed to Britain and Italy to joi in obtaining a general agreement to keep aloof. -Otherwise, she warns, she reserves the right to do what some of the others seem to be doing, namely to supply arms to the side of her own choice. Thus, like badly singed moths, the nations of the Old World keep flitting with unbelievable ‘blindness about the white-hot flame of war. “War,” says Pravda, mouthpiece of Moscow, “is very near. Preparations for it have never been so open, rapid or provoking. Italy, Germany and Japan have turned against England. And in the most unworthy panic, the whole. foreign pollcy of this traditionally cool and ‘conservative nation is confused.” Unfortunately, this blunt charge is not ~ without foundation. From that July day when Bleriot’s tiny white monoplane first crossed ~~ the channel, England ceased to be secure in - her “splendid isolation.” 1 “* -® *® UT British statesmanship is not alone in its shortcomings, as witness all Europe, Asia and America. While we criticise Europe for her reckless gallopade toward destruction, we are guilty too. We have not done our bit for peace, and the advancement of amicable international relations. If civilization is to survive, however, something will have to be done and soon. Today war is traveling on wings, much beyond the speed of the wind, while peace still wallows along under sail. Like the caravels of Columbus ‘~—sometimes advancing, sometimes blown back or off course. But the effort is up to us no less than to others. Our future, too, is at stake.

LANDON ON LABOR : T= dispute over what Gov. Landon meant - when he talked about labor in his accept- _ ance speech, goes ‘round and ‘round and comes out—about A. D. 1842. ~ In that year the Massachusetts Supreme _ Court laid the issue of labor's basic right to ~ organize and strike, Its Commonwealth vs.

. Hunt decision was followed by other states, and

‘finally recognized as official American law

WHILE THE ING

Francik] pages these days ur flied with reports cf greater corporal earnings and promises of greater di - register proof that business is Tecovering. Whence come these gremter eamings and prospective dividends? Returning confidence, say the orthcdox economisis. But, by what route did confidence return? It didn't just pop up out of nowhere. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said President Roosevelt in March, 1933. “We have conquered fear,” he said in June, 1936. In the three intervening years, we fought fear by inaugurating banking and Fi and investment reforms, by correcting some of the evils which had contributed to the loss of the people's savings—and confidence. | By putting money into the hands of wouldbe consumers, we helped to translate consumer wants into consumer purchasing power. And much of that money came directly or indirectly from government spending. ‘Government. spending - was -the economic mainspring of the program which balanced farm production with the market for farm products, helped raise farm prices and made farmers once more important cosumers of the

products of industry.

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(GC VERRMENT spending on various | types of public works provided direct wages for millions of the unemployed and made them once more active consumers; provided orders for steel plants, brick plants, concrete plants, ;with which orders those plants gave jobs and wages to more of the unemployed. Those wages, like. the new farm income, seeped rapidly upward, through the cash registers of the retailers, the wholesalers,-the processors. : | Now all of this government spending will have to be paid back in taxes, and the government very soon will have to balance its outgo with its income. -But the taxpayers are get ting their hands onto something to pay taxes with. Many taxpaying corporations, which formerly had no profits and had to dig into reserves to pay taxes, now have profits with which to pay taxes. Stockholders who got no dividends are again getting dividends with which is to pay taxes. It hurts to pay taxes. But it hurts worse when we had nothing to pay with.

BACKERS OF BETTER HOUSING

HE united backing given by public officials -

to the program for better housing is a hopeful sign. Mayor Kern terms the drive against insanitary houses “very significant, as it indicates a new humanitarian note in government.” He adds, “The cost of crime, health of citizens and in fact the entire future of the city is involved.” Cecil K. Calvert, city sanitation plani superintendent, says, “I think the plan is a perfect one and would be a remedy long needed here.” > Indicating business men realize the cost of bad housing in terms of taxes, William H. Book, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, says a survey “revealed a tremendous economic drain on the entire .community from regions in which the worst housing conditions existed. . . . The Chamber is

déeply: cotiderniéd ‘With this problem, which the ||

community 4s: now starting to cure.” Dr. Vern K. Harvey, state director of public health, and Dr. Herman G, Morgan, City

Health Board secretary, point out that slum

areas breed disease and crime, encourage delinquency, increase taxes and form a serious community problem. $$ ® = THE acute housing problem in Indianapolis is something that can not be solved over= night. The State Fire Marshal's plan to raze 500 uninhabitable houses as fire>and health menaces should: create no new ‘problem, as these places are unoccupied anyway. Yet any program of demolition must keep in mind the ‘needs of - distressed families who might use these places for winter shelter. George Popp, city building commissioner, points out that new improvements should be permanent “or they may become the slum clearance problem of a few years hence.” The proposal for the county to build a model low-cost house with WPA labor certainly "is worth trying. ‘We hope private industry will take the initiative in working on similar lowrent houses, for the solution of the problem lies in providing adequate, sanitary homes at a price people in the low-income brackets can afford.

PATRICK HENRY

UCHED off by Senator Carter Glass’ spiritéd eulogy to Patrick Henry, political commentators are asking themselves what that Revolutionary patriot would do were he alive today, and are supplying the answers from

“their own imaginations.

Somehow this academic exercise strikes us as futile. How can anybod FR what Patrick Henry would do today? Would Patrick Henry himself know? He served -generation to the best of his ability and deserved well of that generation and of posterity, yet history which glosses over faults of the great has not quite obscured the truth that Patrick had trouble enough steering his political course in his-own time, In 1775, at the second Virginia revolutionary convention, Patrick Henry contended that war was inevitable, presented resolutions for the arming of the Virginia militia, and’ ‘supported those resolutions with his famous give-me. liberty-or-give-me-death speech. : . Yet in 1776, at another Virginia convention, ‘he favored postponing

the Delspekion of Sue.

Our Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER.

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The only Mae Mr. Scudder failed his public

was when he missed the chance of putting ice cream in his store. t wasn’t because he didn’t try. and §

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his Jeve) best Jo Iiduce John partn p with him in 1840, but Mr, Hotgans wouldnt listen to it. was the man who introduced ice cream in Indianapolis in 1840. He sold and served it al fresco in what he called a “pleasure garden” ‘on the northeast corner of Capitel-av

sd Georgia-st, the present St. John’s bailick

” . 8 2 | 2 .l fi T'S just. about a half century ago that Oxford’s ‘great Sanskrit scholar, the Right

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Honorable Prof. F. Max Mueller, startled Vic-]| .

torian society with his heretical views on dining out. He couldn't think up enough mean things to say about modern dinners. He called them “monstrous,” “social gobblings,” “tortures,” and ended up wanting to know why in the world ne a so anxious to perform this function in public

And then he made matters worse by ob- |

serving that Occidentals couldn't manage the

thing daintily or even inoffensively, no. matter |

how hard they tried. Orientals, he thought, knew better and to prove his point he cited Chinese and Hindu poets who went into raptures watching Eastern ladies toss little morsels into their open and waiting mouths. All ‘of which made the Victorian = ladies mighty mad. Whereupon Prof. Mueller proposed a solution. As a matter of fact, he proposed two solutions: (1) That the grosser part of the feeding should, if possible, be confined to the home, and (2) that, if we must have social gatherings, which he doubted, let them begin with the dessert, or, in the case of stag parties, with the wine. In that way, said Prof. Mueller, we'd have a real Symposium instead of the goshawful Symphagion we now put up with. . 2 ” » CHOLAR that he was, Prof. Mueller didn’t get to first base with his idea. In fact, I never heard of it again until the other day when a gentleman, who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous, told me about his wife's club—right here in Indianapolis, of course

~—which does this very thing.

The ladies, apparently, attend to their grosser feeding in the privacy of their respective homes and then hurry to the appointed: ’ home to partake of dessert and demitasse 6r whatever it is that club ladies| drink this kind .of weather After which they enter into the business of the day.

August. TE IN INDIANA HISTORY Y J. H J. ——

N Aug. 3, 1784, the board of commissioners of Clark’s Grant decided = which of the soldiers who followed the. great George Rogers Clark were eligible for sharés of ‘the land the

-1 Virginia Legislature had: ‘given him and his men.

The land, 150,000 acres of it, lay along the Ohio River in what is now Clark, Floyd and Scott Counties. The board decided that those who assisted in the reduction of British and French posts” (during Clark’s famous Vincennes expedition) and those who had enlisted in Clark’s army for three years before Jan. 2, 1781, were eligible, Great disagreements ensued as to many men’s time of enlistment. The commissioners finally got the. tangled records straight and apportioned 149,000 acres of the land. The remaining 1000 acres’ comprised the town of Clarksville, laid out in one-half-acre lots where Silver (Creek ‘empties into the Ohio. Clark himself received 18049 acres as his share. Each - captain was apportioned 3234 acres, every lieutenant got 2156 acres, the sergeants had to be content with 216 acres apiece

and the privates just did get in under the wire lies

with comparatively paltry shares of 108 acres for every man.

A Woman’s Viewpoint By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

the heat made life seem not worth enduring, I began to read “Drums Along the Mohawk,” by Walter D. Edmonds, and how my spirits did perk up! The book is good medicine for the weakhearted. Strong, bitter, rancid stuff. ' Taken in large doses it ought to stimulate any man’s drooping ccurage and stiffen up his backbone. By the time you've gone through 592 pages

| with Gil Martin and his wife, Lana, from 1776 |,

to 1784, you feel as. if you were living on a bed of roses.” And you are. However terrible -your troubles: may be, at least you don’t have wild Indians and mean Tories in every

running in whipstitch, setting fire to your house, destroy--

ing you; But

crops and scalping your neighbors. book isn't just another . of - those stories about ‘our proud pioneers. ~According its author, it is not bygone life about which he is wilting, Tor Jis. paallels ae very close fo our

ON omehow yea ‘are struck with, 0 know that those. poor, ‘half‘men wao are desc historians as “conquerors of :

I was ammost wilted by the drought

bed so feelingly by |

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

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

COMMUNITY CHEST WORK IS OUTLINED : By W. J. A. . One hundred ‘twenty degrees— that’s where. the thermometer marked out in the sun.. And it wasn’t much cooler inside the tinroofed hovel where Mrs. Smith tossed feverishly on a shaky metal

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS 'FISHBEIN Editor, of the Journal of he ‘American. Medical Association.

VERY mother likes to. feel that her child is superior to other

Jd | children, not only in physique, but

also in ‘mentality. When a mother looks at her child and trie¢ to evaluate its qualities, she should remember: that both

she and her husband -give to -the

child most of what it .has in the

‘way of qualities, and that each of

the parents also is responsible for making the most of those that the child actually has, Thus, heredity, environment, including education, and personal attention of the parents are primarily responsible for making the child what it is. Children frequently resemble their parents; almost as often they do not, in which case they are likely to resemble some one. in the previous ancestry. The fact that we are .the sum of all our ancestors is responsible for different types of individuals in the same family. This is: ‘the reason for the appearance. of genius in commonplace families; and, occasionally, of idiots in brilliant fami-

Nevertheless, in this as in other matters the majority is inclined to rule, and the more brilliance there is in the ancestry, the more likeli= hood there is of the appearance of brilliance in the children. "Not long ago, psychologists in California studied the life records of 300 eminent men and women, to determine factors associated with the production of genius. : :

nn # ” ¥ HEY paid particular atténtion to the early behavior of these

| people, their brightness or com-

monplace character during. ‘sdoles“their energy, their : tors, and their physical structure. It was found that the factors concerned in the. of | genius are home training cipline, home interests, Sousa, travel, and reading. ‘elations were . because they he | tent to which we san IMpove Upon [im qualities with e.

encour-

also harassed by polliicians and bedeviled by | foun

congressmen. oT So he |

and dis- | These rev-| they showed the ex- | Whith Ws fugit

bed. The family of seven children— ages from 1 to 9 — were ‘at the bedside. If you were. in -that little, hot room, you would have to be at the bedside. For year-long days of hellish heal and even longer nights of torture, the Smith family and hundreds of other families have battled for life against the heat wave. It’s impossible really to tell you of this heat--you who have electric fans and ice boxes and ice. But perhaps you can imagine how ignorahce and filth and disease coni= spire with the blazing blanket of heat to make little hot hells out of the homes of the poor. And into this battle go your Com- | munity Fund dollars. Armies of ent nurses: bear your: cooling Banners: of salvation through these broiling days and nights. Organized forces deliver tons of ice into homes where ‘its coolness brings relief. Good, pure milk by the thousand gallons feeds - crying babies. All around the baking city are fresh-air camps wheré children and sick Ppeople find new life and courage. . It may make you feel a bit better and cooler. these days‘to know that your dollars are buying lives— iwmilding cooling ramparts behind which the young and old and sick and destitute can fight and conquer the forces of death and disease.

vik stg gpl CONCERNING LEMKE'S RECENT BROADCAST By Vera Schaeffer

“In behalf of the Union Party stipporters of Indiana, I desire to thank

the Indianapolis (Fair Play?) Times

for the recent ‘writeup accordad Mr. Lemke and his broadcast” over WLW at 8:15: p. m. July 28. We

‘hope no interested - persons over-| looked the gorgeous item. Tisqust-

edly, ». = 8

CONDEMNS COUGHLIN ON ROOSEVELT ATTACK

By M. F. Every right-thifiking citizen has been ‘insulted by the man, Father Coughlin, when he insulted our

| President. SSE. caiie wo respect adipIOS tect our President and it is the duty Sf he American Pehla lo sondemn and his act. I am t the millions of Americans feel hurt that a self-styled politician like ;Mr. Coughlin calls our beloved. Président a liar, a betrayer. ‘Just four years ago the same

priest attacked President Hoover. I wonder what he will do next? Some time .ago some one questioned his citizenship, Is he a citizen born in this country? If he is then we shall condemn his act; if not, the law shall handle it. We love and trust our President. "We don’t need the priest to lead us. We have leaders without him, and why a priest or any other church man in politics? The ‘millions of Americans will not accept Mr. Coughlin and his bunch or Mr. Hearst and his bunch for our leaders. We will continue with the Democrats and with reelecting Roosevelt for President. ®, # f J

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BIG

| BAD WOLF, SAYS WRITER

By a Democrat

, City officials saw fit to include a salary boost for laborers of the city departments in. the coming budget. City employes took a cut in salary - for .a ‘couple of years without complaint, and now they have a chance for a little fair play and the Chamber of Commerce tries to be the Big Bad Wolf. : Nix, nix, C. of C. Don’t Stoop 80 ow.

TRUE LOVES BY JAMES D. ROTH Then what if the winter's cold.

‘There’s my pipe and fireplace.

And the hand of her to hold,

| And yei—a fond einbrace.

I blow gray magic smoke rings, ‘The while my book in hand. = ° ‘While like in youth: she sings, All this reminds of fairyland. -

Lights out; but in only just my pipe, Lady. nicotine is failing me. I stoke it with fue. richly ripe, And supply a burning ember—tra-

la-lee!

And she revels wilh me in my joy, ‘We—are sat With Jen my. pipe and fireplace—

boy I care not: what betide.

‘DAILY THOUGHT "The wise shall inherit glory; put shame shall be the promotion of fools.--Proverbs 3:35.

UE glory takes root and even spreads; all false pretenses, flowers, fall to the ground; nor

can any counterfeit last long Ci-

cero.

- | through the Soo.

there for a full day. By that time I had rapidly gone through the ranks from the status of mere seaman to the exalted position of second-class cook. That entitled me to stay on

‘| board all the time we were at Mack- .

nae, frying pork chops. I had to start at 2 in the afternoon, to get all the pork chops fried for the evening chow. I would fry two huge skillets full at a time, and when they were done I would dump them in a washtub. I had two tubs full by evening. : It was hotter than a Kansas prairie fire on board the Wilmette that afternoon. And the galley was twice as hot as that. I was working without a shirt, and a dirty apron was tied ad my waist. Grease kept popping on my arms and face. I looked like a pork chop. Now the Navy loves a show, so it had thrown the ship open fo visitors that afternoon. All the hundreds of vacationists at Mackinac came aboard. All afternoon they filed around the decks. The galley happened to be on the main deck, and visitors could stop and look right in the -galley door at the funny man frying pork chops,

» : LOT of them did. ‘It gave them, I am sure, a great deal of entertainment. But I didn’t care. They would look, and pass on; & right out of the cook’s life. But gradually I became conscious that somebody had been standing in. the door a long time without mov-~ ing on with the rest of the crowd. - I turned around and looked. And: whotdo you suppose it was? It was a girl friend of mine from _ college, and she was standing there laughing at me. I did get off the ship at Kina" this time. Walked up to the post=" office to mail a letter, and watched the city tourists trying to get into - buggies to drive around the island, and then came on back to the Oc- ~ torara to wait for sailing time. We ~ left at 5. s

HAT a 1 ent to -the ship’s masquerade ball. Just stood along the wall though, sort: of out. of it, watching the other peo- - ple have a good time. When they - started to judge the best costumes, the audience was supposed to clap - for the oné it liked best. I clapped for everybody. A girl in a sheet, holding a coat hangar with an ash- - tray tied to each end, won, first - prize... She represented Miss Justice, or the Statue of Liberty. After that I came up: to. the cabin and tried to write, but got ; sleepy and had to go to bed. We . went through the famous Soo locks at midnight. I really wanted to see us through. the locks. They're the biggest in , the world, you know. Not in size, but in volume of tonnage going through them. A hundred ships a day are locked These locks handle more tonnage than Panama, Suez. and Manchester sombined.

Today’ S Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE

world’s greatest area of sup=" posed explosion craters, making ; the battlefields of Flanders seem like ~

SIDE GLANCE S_ By George Clarke “me