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Their Own Way : TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936.

BLACK INK

you don't think Roosevelt is “ruining business,” study the newspapers these days—any

: For instance: The Indianapolis Union Rail- = Way Co. during July increased by 32.9 per cent over the same month last year the volume of raw materials delivered to Indianapolis manufacturers and of finished products hauled away to markets. This Belt Railway activity is a significant barometer of Indianapolis business. Assessed property valuations in Indiana are $20,000,000 higher this year than last. The steel industry, important to Indiana, is “in the black” and showing larger profits than at any time since 1929. RCA Manufacturing Co. shows its faith in ‘the future of Indianapolis by speeding plans to recpen its big plant here and to hire 1000 empioyes. Employment in 742 Indiana factories dur-

ing July mined 17.7 per cent and pay rolls increased 34.9 per cent over the same month

New automobiles sold in Marion County in E Juy totaled 2090, as against 1467 in July, 1935. : If Roosevelt is ruining business, maybe it's the red ink business.

GAS-PROOFED BABIES

HE preparedness-minded British govern- ; ment is taking over idle textile mills in Lancashire for the purpose of turning out 25,-

Lo 000,000 gas masks for its citizens by the first

; of next year.

It also is distributing pamphlets advising i householders how to make their homes secure from gas attacks, and has even devised—such s are the marvels of science—a gas-proof cover for baby carriages. But all is not serene. s “The British Home Office,” says one Lon- . don dispatch; “admits that it has not yet ‘satisfactorily solved the problem of the child : who is beyond the baby-carriage age but who . has not yet developed enough sense to keep

3 from crying or struggling to take off “the

mask.” Here is: a problem in human psychology—

. how to overcome the juvenile notion that life °

in a gas mask is hardly worth the effort.

WELCOME HOME DREW W. MELLON, returning from Europe, says: - “I don’t. expect to take

yy part in. the campaign other than doing |

my share.” & Can’t you just see William B. Bell, chair- ] ‘man of the Republican Finance Committee, reading that—and saying to himself: “That's. all I want to know.”

x TRUST THE SUPREME COURT \VERY time a big case comes up to the 4 Supreme Court, involving the hazy fundamentals of our Federal-state system, the justices turn to their law books and find therein 2 two horses, saddled and ready to gallop off. in opposite directions. Sometimes they split and »do gallop off in opposite directions, as in re- + cent New Deal cases.

This is what we learn from “The Commerce

Power Versus States’ Rights,” by Edward S.

Corwin of Princeton, one of the leading con-*|

stitutional authorities of the nation—excuse us, of the confederation which Roosevelt calls “these United States” and Landon “this United + Btates.” Prof. Corwin bewails the laissez faire attitude of the present court majority, after devoting his volume to a scholarly dissection of their theses and finding that their position is wholly illogical, although supported by plenty ©f precedents. So what does he suggest at the end? Nothing. “We must still trust the court, as we have 80 largely in the past, to correct its own errors.” He argues that even if we do amend the Constitution, a reactionary court can find plenty of other weapons in the vague phrases ‘of the Constitution to nullify real enforcement of necessary laws. Prof. Corwin rests his conclusion on a happy, Coue-like belief that things will get better just by hoping. : 1 » » » i HE book is one of the most logical attacks

yet made on the paralytic grip which the:

court- has put upon the Federal government,

notably in the 1918 Child Labor case and the

1936 AAA and Guffey Act decisions.

: The court's own inconsistencies as described by Prof. Corwin sometimes reach _& point of

“AS 1 was instrumental in removing Her: bert Hoover from the White House,” said Father Coughlin in a New Bedford (Mass. speech, “so help me God, I will be instrumental in taking a Communist from the chair once ‘occupied by Washington.” We republish this here 50 our readers may be kept up-to-date on the expanding Coughlin catalog of presidential epithets. Franklin Roosevelt is now listed in that catalog as a “liar,” a “double-crosser,” and a “Communist.” The only listing for Alf M. Landon thus far, “is an unknown.” But the campaign is just getting started.

WHAT SLUMS COST HE concluding article in Joe Collier's

series in The Times on “Housing Hazards” emphasized this oft-forgotten fact:

“As a matter of dollars and cents, city slums and shanty towns are the most expensive types of housing possible. This cost is not borne.by the slum inhabitants, of course, .but by the rest of the citizens of the city.”

The quotation, from the State Planning Board's housing report, is backed by data showing that social service costs in the lowrent areas of Indianapolis are nearly three times the average expense for the same services for the city as a whole.

Bad housing is costing Indianapolis heavily in community health, individual health, fire hazards, juvenile delinquency and other social evils. The program to demolish hundreds of uninhabited shacks is ‘one forward step. The proposal for low-cost housing construction is another.

The housing situation is one of the most challenging we face in community develop-

ment. Every taxpayer has a financial interest:

in seeing existing conditions corrected.

BANK EMPLOYES

THEE Internal Revenue Bureau has ruled that national banks are exempt from social security taxes. The ruling is based on & provision of the law which exempts the pay roll of any government agency or “of an instrumentality of $e United States.”

Isn't it rather far-fetched legalism to. classify a national bank as “an instrumentality of the United States” under the scope

of a law whose purpose is to give greater se--

curity of income to all employes who can. be covered by a practicable insurance plan? It is. true some banks have social security schemes of their own. So, probably, do some cracker-barrel factories. But most banks do not, and it was the purpose of the Social Security Law to extend that protection. ! ; ‘The’ Internal Revenue Bureau’s ruling may be good law, but it is not good sense. We trust Congress will plug that loophole and give bank employes the same type of protection that is given employes of other business concerns. i

A TOWN MEETING ISSUE

UOTING Macaulay, “Men are never go"

likely to settle a question rightly, as ‘when’ they discuss it freely,” the American Discussion League in Bulletin 1 attacks John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education, for advocating forums supported and controlled, by. the Federal government,

commissioner's public plan of “town. meetings”

‘under the “properly exercised” direction of the -|... Ommce of Education in Washington: REPEL

“Every true, vigilant citizen, in a representa :

dominate the most powerful of all the forces of a nation—{ree public discussion.”

neighborhood gatherings in which Joe Zilch

and John Slibonski would have a chance to

do some talking too, and there wouldn't be any teacher.

: We are inclined to ride with the Discussion -

‘League that: the back-to-the-town-meeting then. defended yourself by saying:

movement will best be served with, all wraps off.

LOWER LIQUOR TAXES so

om D. ROCKEFELLER JR. warns that

bootlegging ean not be controlled as long as

liquor taxes remain too high. This is the same Mr. Rockefeller who, be-: cause he believed in temperance, was the prin-

cipal financial angel of the: prohibition move- | ; ment, .and who, ‘when he found prohibition:

failed to achieve temperance, but promoted lawlessness, instead, closed his purse strings to the professional drys and came out for-repeal. While repeal was being accomplished by state referenda, Mr. Rockefeller financed a commission of experts to study the problem of regulating the liquor traffic, and to suggest to fora) state and Federal governments how best to promote temperance and respect for law. Many of the Rockefeller commission's recommendations have been put into effect, including, in some states, a government “monopoly in ‘the sale of hard liquor through package stores.

But .one of the commission's primary recams - ‘mendations, low liquor taxes to make ‘bootleg ||

‘competition unprofitable, never got a fair hear-

ing. Federal, state and local governments were desperate for revenue; law enforcement and

‘temperance would have to wait. They're still swaiting; that part of the Rockefeller commission report is as good aE new.

GO-AND LOOK, rst

t'she tackles an angel { | Tolles follows an entirel;

| mide ‘prohibition did not ‘apply to killing “birds of prey, or other

tive democracy will be quick to sense with ; ‘mad gviwild animals of the brute]

alarm any movement of his government tor of

Our Town.

different school thought: She keeps on cracking eggs until gets a coffee-cup full of whites, - The Efroymsons unravel an onion and sizzle the slices to the richness of Van Dyke brown,

after which they work them into their spinach |

according to a system of their own. - Mrs. Booth Tarkington’s coffee is a blend of ‘Brazillan Bourbon and Medellin Bogota with

{ just a soupcon of selected” Buck from Co-|

lombia, Ervin W. Snyder mainiains that the success of mashed potatoes depends on the centrifugal motion set up after the milk and butter are added. George Calvert insists that an authentic hoe-cake is made without eggs and milk. The Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks will walk a mile to get hold of a good German pot roast and potato dumplings. What's more, he dunks his bread after he gets it. The secret of Mrs. Leroy Templeton’s tomato bisque lies in pouring the tomatoes into the milk and not vice versa. Mrs. Robert Elliott can bake a cake without using an egg.

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VERY year just about this Hiri somebody | - in Indianapolis starts the story that Brandt 3

Steele knew Lizzie Siddal. : Elizabeth (Lizzie) Siddal was a London millin-

er’s assistant who had the luck to be born with | a beautiful, swan-like neck. She could turn it|.

any way she pleased and because she could she became the favorite model of Burne-Jones, Wil-

liam Morris ‘and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her |

neck finally identified the pre-Raphaelites. _ By tacit consent of his colleagues, Rossetti married Lizzie and when she died he behaved

very much the way we'd expect an artist to be-'|’

have. - As a final gesture to his grief, Rossetti buried: the only copy of his poems with her. Seven years later, having had time. to think the matter through, he had her dug up again. Which

11s why we know what. we do about Rossetti’s

poetry. Well, the other day, I heard the story again. ' This year, it runs something like this: Seems

Mr. Steele was in England at the time trying to.

induce William de Morgan, the great ceramist,

‘to accept him as a pupil—the same de Morgan

who startled the world one day by chucking his craft to take up writing big three-volume books in the manner of Charles Dickens. His friends

‘said they were every bit as good as anything

Dickens had written, and nonpartisans kept their mouths shut. Mr. de Morgan couldn’t take on Mr. Steele but was good enough to send him to William Morris, who, as this year’s story has it, was living with. the Rossettis at the time. Arriving there, Mr. Steele was received by a

lovely, long-necked lady who told him Mr. Morris |

was not at home. It was Lizzie Siddal, of course. This year, not to: be caught nabping: 1

| checked up on the story, found everything abso-

lutely correct except. for one detail: They buried Lizzie Siddal with Rossetti’s poems nine years before Mr. Steele was born.

August 4th IN INDIANA HISTORY Y J. H. J.

1MOST daily murders induced Winthrop : Sargent, acting: ‘Governor and commander of :the Northwest Territory, to issue a law on Aug. 4, 1790, at Vincennes which in the first place forbade gambling and in the second regulated the use of firearms. . That portion of the a concerning ALFIE, after providing a maximum:$5 fine, yoo a gun within one-fourth of a:mile from: al ing, went on to make exceptions + £8 self defense, defense of property yoand. 3 of firearms by the military. forces. of’ the: United States. Then it stipulated that the: ope-tourth of a to::the 3 of of birds, and lurking | or near, or preying upon: or.threat-

m 1 stock” or produce. = * Nor did“the law extend: to the “hindrance of

| any" person’ shooting at or: killing any of th As a substitute, the league would create ing ne e

larger kind of .game and wild animals, “such: as buffaloes, bears, deer, hares. rahbits,: 7 turkeys,

swans,’ geese that may happen at any time to. come /in- view, or be passing or feeding near

any ‘city, town,” etc. So. -in ‘Vincennes in the year ‘1790 if you had seen your worst enemy, coming down the street you..could. have shot. him. Jorthwith : and |;

“an, excuse me, I thought he was a swan.” Bepeem—_—

A. Worriai S Viewpoint ©» BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =

‘pu instinct to protect: the ‘weak: is woman's S Most -admirable trait,:and the world ‘would

2 ———

‘be a less happy place without it. But. it can be carried to an extreme which ‘increases rather. ‘than descreases human misery.

‘An’ instance of the sort is related in a etter from San Diego. A young married woman, left with a 16-year-old brother to care for, is on the ‘verge of losing the devotion of a good hus‘hand, for the precarious chance of saving one who appears to be a thoroughly bad boy. - She is torn between love and duty. Charged with the lad’s care at the deathbed of her mother, she excuses misdemeanors which are in réality petty crimes, and resents the sensible advice of her husband who agrees with officials that the youngster should be in a detention home. In this case if the woman has her way the result will be wholesale misery. Obviously the boy is incorrigible, needing the strictest of discipline. Past efforts prove that she can not re-

‘| form him. He has been ungrateful, inconsiderate,

‘and seems to be a thoroughly bad lot. Yet she wishes to keep him in her house and can't understand why the husband and brother do not get along. :

In this CHS" the individual must make a decision and if she is smart ehe will never

husband unhs Woman will. not

ihe strony persii 10F Whi Seat. By causing her | ppiness

cake, Mrs. Harold| -

“prey upon and: davour: any king" of |:

AND SOME HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON "EM

“The Hoosier Forum

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

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your jetter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) 1

HOOSIER OFFICIALS

.| TAKEN TO TASK .By Just a Hoosier

lican or Democrat, only ag a }oos-|

ler, as I get around pretty much: and see things. I have just been through the South and as I compare the situation here and down yonder, where are all thé helping hinds? For instance, Gov. McNutt, our Mayor Kern, our Sendtors, VanNuys and Minton, who fought day and |’

‘night nat Florida shoyid- have 200 mil Ten millions of

5 Bons Hes ry debris in 8 8 swamp

Senators can not gota track |. an on the South: Side. Wake up, Yankees; you. won't get |

"Your Health

BY, DR. MORRIS: FISHBEIN

“pind of the Journal of vhs’ ‘american |

Medical Associstion.

EN and women who have be-1| -

: come .gréat are found, in general; to have had parents above the average in- ‘quality. In’ most ‘cases, they also have had: Superior advan. tages in their youth. = "This fact, determined by a study of the lives of 300 noted men and women; shotild discredit to some extent the common belief that great men are more likely to come from

‘poor families, where they are without opportunity, than from wealthy

families where ‘they have | chance of improvement. “Indeed, actual studies show that the. son of an eminent official, a general in the Army, a “President of the United States, or.a great philosopher and teacher, has a hetter chance to- become. ‘great ‘than. the ‘sont of a toiler in the fields. . Nevertheless, as everybody knows, not all children of famous people attain distinction. A favorable ancestry helps, but there are records of innumerable instances of people who were able to rise far heyond ancestry. John Bunyan, author of “Pilgrim’s Pri ” was the son of a tinker. The father of Carlyle, author of “The French Revolution,” was a mason. The great philosopher Kant was the son of a strapmaker, and the father of the celebrated British navigator, Capt. James Cook, was a common day laborer.

very

occasionally are people

- who insist that it is possible to} take. children of average ancestry |

and train them for leadership. “Meir

any elevation but you might “have ‘to pay a good bit of that 10 millions laying wrapped up in swamp land. . Senators have died tryipg to, get the 200 million for a Florida canal, but I guess our Senators are not interested in Indiana, and. when ‘you vote, South Siders, think of the elevation, Qur streets are a disgrace to a Hoosier city. Our system smells ‘bad. The city dads are so busy hunting mad dogs that they have Sorgotien everything else. 5 ”» »

QUO VADIS? By George Sanford Holmes So Al is going to take a walk, . Al Smith, the one and only; Well, crowded-as may be New York, We think, Al, you'll be lonely; For you must walk now with, the

“The called ruling classes, For those to-whom you bid adieu Are just the shackled masses.

The parting of the ways has come To you who long responded To heart-beat - of the street and slum,

of swarms " serfdom bonded;,

You oan 7 not hear them: now, Per.

High yy "your lofty tower, So now. youll walk with . Pilted satraps Of privilege and power.

But yet, perchance, before the end You'll] be a wee bit sorrier

| For turning from that old-time ‘friend

Who called. you “Happy Warrior.” Youll Valk with pals of purse and pride, Their strong limbs to enhearten, But Franklin still will walk beside, The men you have forgotten. ; woe eS : INSISTS GOVERNOR IS MISTAKEN By A ‘Subscriber ‘In a recent speech Governor McNutt stated that Socialists were in an alliance with reactionaries, Fas-

cists and Communists to crucify} -

President evelt. The governor is mistaken, | Demo-

cratic Socialists are not in any al- |

liance with these groups in this. country. While ‘we are- on-the subject of crucifixion let. us recall certain events. Who crucified organized labor in Indiana? ; In two recent strikes when organized workers attempted to obtain better wages and working conditions, troops were called out and

practically forced these .workers to accept low wages and give up their fight; for better conditions. Who crucified the southern sharecropper with their AAA payments to big land owners who -found it more profitable to evict the share‘cropper and receive benefits for 1 their idle land? Why ‘did the last session of Congress ignore labor and refuse to pass a much-needed social welfare ameadment tg the Constitution? If the goverr or ‘would care to debate’ ‘on the solution to our economic ills or Capitalism versus Socialism I think he opponents in. | the Socialist Party of Indiana, Inc.

LANDON SPEECE TYPICAL OF CANDIDATE By Faul Masters, Anderson

‘1.-. The acceptance speech of Gov. Alf M. Landon showed clearly the | type of campaign he hopes to ‘pre--

sent to the. American people during ‘the coming months. It lacked the muc-slinging element of the MecNut; speech two “days earlier. It lacked the appeal to class hatred of the Roosevelt. ‘acceptance speech at Philadelphia. It was not: "filled with high sounding words or catchy phrases but was (Turn to Page: 15) !

MINSTRELS BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY At times, Perhaps when I hear a bit of music, I am tempted to draw near and

warm My soul at the fire of modernity...

| To partake of this twentieth century

Frivolity. .. To dance, to be gregarious.

But I draw back, . Knowing that if I dare partake Of its-warmth, ere long, During the inevitable lulls My heart should be dark, It would: kill: another fire— The flame that warmeth the soul of all poets.

DAILY THOUGHT

Fe watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that: are ready to: die; for I have -not found thy works perfect before God.—Revelation 3:2.

like a city without walls, ex-

posed to the inroads of all its enemieii—Thomas Secker..

SIDE GLAN CES 5 By Geirge. Clarke

a a ate SELES EPS

SOUL without watchfulness is, |

: its John Ogilby steered Rg ge

Vagab ond

Indiana

(QF THE GREAT LAKES, Aug. 4. —Fundamentally I Object to Moxo the Magician. I object, because he is acter. of ceremonies aboard this ship. He says to the passengers, “Now we'll have fun at 8:35 this evening it everybody is on time.” . With Kipling, I prefer. my fun where I find it, and not yn charted and preordained by any Moxo the Magician. I would much rather sit alone and watch the wide dark water than win the snips masquerade ball contest. But Moxo says I am wrong about . this. He says I don’t know what I want. And he has almost proved it to me. He is the most unusual guy I ever ran into. He is like war music. He is infectious, A couple more nights and he'd prokably have me trying to dance, :

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OXO doesn’t just tell people to sing now, or dance now, or put on their costumes now. He does it ahead of them, louder and funnier and better than anybody else. He is a show by himself. He is worth paying money to see. Moxo is a gifted man. Among the abundance God has showered on him are the following qualifica« tions: He is a full-fledged magician; he can hypnotize people; he ‘reads people's minds; he is a ven< triloquist; he is an excellent clown: he can dance like a fool; he can’ make an after-dinner speech on any subject whatever without préeparation; he. Is a super salesman; he can {and in & town broke, -and by afternoon he can make $60 just by put ting on a show or speaking before the ad club or organizing a grocery store treasure hunt. And on top of all this, he is a nice fellow. BR It burns me up. I can’t even do a card trick. Mozxo’s real name is M. E. Barker, He's a tall thin New Englander, about 30, who lives with his mother in Buffalo. He has been on the stage. He took up magic five years ago. ” 8.” sat E has Been mastér of cere. monies on this ship for two vears. He got the job because he was a magician. He says lots of ships are putting on magicians now. Moxo sleeps only about three hours a day. He works till 3 every morning. getting out. his little mimeographed ship's newspaper, and then he’s up at.6 to sell it: 0 the passengers. 2 The rest of the day he spends. Obs ganizing bridgg tournaments, - goif contests; bingo "games, introducing people, getting. afternoon tea under way, putting on his magic show or leading: the masquerade ball in the evening, cheering up the sad, con< soling “the angry, mending -the

| broken hearts, and doing individual

tricks for people.. He is happy. Moxo has a way of getting on with the passengers. For instance, he tells them that anybody. ‘whe doesn’t come to the masked bali will be put off in lifeboats without oars, and that the Great Lakes sharks will eat them up. Some of them believe it, and all of them like it. 8 8 = QX0 takes a lot of: Kidding M from the officers, They razz him about the way he acts with the passengers. But they ‘ought to be thankful he’s aboard. * He takes lot of grief off their shoulders. Moxo is the fixer. The passengers come to him for everything. Some funny things have happenad in his two years of being father con» fcisor to passengers. A wife left her husband because her name was omitted from’ the passenger “list in the ship’s newspaper. It took Mox0 a whole day to fix that. ed

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Another time a passenger that his pocketbook with $80 in had been stolen. After the magic show that night, the man ‘went to the purser and accused ‘Moxo ‘of stealing it. “His fingers’ are so nimble,” the man said. One time a country girl's teelings were hurt by an innocent poem about “big feet,” which she drew auf of the ship's grab-bag of presents She went to her cabin crying, an Moxo had to talk to her for an hour through the door before he could calm her.

-Today’s Science

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

I; a: big and battered book writ‘ten in England in 1671 you cafl find the most-up-to-date theory tell> ing how the Indians or their anoestors came to Ameérican soil. ‘Muddling his” way along, - with Noah's Ark for an historic ' landmark of the time, and with sonie fintastic notions about the ~ world