Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1936 — Page 15
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BLACK INK
you don’t think Roosevelt is “ruining busi- +% ness,” study the newspapers these days—any ‘Paper. 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
! 4 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
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| reopen its big plant here and to hire 1000 em-
pioyes. Employment in 742 Indiana factories dur- % ing July gained 17.7 per cent and pay rolls increased 34.9 per cent over the same month * last year, New automobiles sold in Marion County in + July 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 government is taking over idle textile mills in : Lancashire for the purpose of turning out 25,- . 000,000 gas masks for its citizens by the first
; of next year.
It also is distributing pamphlets advising
% householders how to make their homes secure
from gas attacks, and has even devised—such are the marvels of science—a gas-proof cover for baby carriages. But all is not serene.
“The British Home Office,” says one Lon“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 teveloped enough sense to keep from crying ok. Struggling to take off the mask. ” Ra. _
Here is a prosiem in “human psychology—
: : how to overcome the juvenile notion that life
‘in a gas mask is hardly worth. the effort.
WELCOME HOME
Al NDREW W. MELLON, retuining from
; any part in the campaign other than doing .
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: reading that—and saying to himself:
3 1 Dh time a big case comes up to the
Europe, says: - “I don't expect, to take my share.” Can't you just see William B. Bell, chair man of the Republican Finance Committee, “That's. all I want to know.”
TRUST THE SUPREME COURT
Supreme Court, involving the hazy funda-
3 mentals of our Federal-state system, the jus-
tices turn to their law books and find therein
» gro ‘horses, saddled and ready to gallop off. in
te directions. Sometimes they split and - gallop off in opposite disections, as in recent 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 States.” Prof. Corwin bewails the laissez faire attitude of the present court majority, after devoting his volume to a scholarly dissection. of their theses and find that their position is wholly illogical, = supported by plenty
§ of precedents.
So what does he suggest at: the end? NothIe, | “We must still trust the court, as we have gely in the past, to correct its own eror He argues that even if we, do amend the Constitution, a reactionary co can find plenty of other weapons in the vague phrases the Constitution to nullify real enforcement f necessary laws. Prof. Corwin: rests his conclusion on a happy, Coue-like belief that will get better just
~HE book is one of the most logical attacks
. yet made on the paralytic grip which the:
court- has put upon the Federal government,
Dotably in the 1818 Child Labor case and the
1936 AAA and Guffey Act decisions.
ie Slade on inpngsieiancion as tiserind!
sive types of housing possible.
“AS : was eatrumental in removing. Herbert Hoover from the White House,” said Father Coughlin in a New Bedford (Mass. speech, “so help me God, I will be instru-. menial in {aking « Communist. rom. the shaiz once occupied by Washington.” We tepuiiish fis here. 00 our seadiss 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 get ting started. |
WHAT SLUMS COST T= 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 expenThis 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 development. Every taxpayer has a financial interest - in seeing existing conditions corrected. :
BANK EMPLOYES -
TEE Internal Revenue Bureau has ruled that national banks are exempt from social security taxes. The ruling is based on a provision of the law which exempts the pay roll of any government agency or “of an instrumentality of the 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 Se- r
curity 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 cons cerns. -
'A TOWN MEETING ISSUE
UOTING Macaulay, “Men are never so} .
‘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,
commisdloners public plan of “town. meetings”
under the “properly exercised” direction of. the. es
Office of Education in Washington: 5 “Every true, vigilant citizen in a represeitia- :
dominate the: most powerful of all: the forces of a nation—free 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 *
movement will best be served with all wraps off,
LOWER LIQUOR TAXES Ce
Jou D. ROCKEFELLER JR. warns that bootlegging can 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 ‘movement, .and who, when he found prohibition
failed to achieve temperance, but promoted lawlessness instead, clesed 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 local, 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, includ-
ing, in some states, a government monopoly in ‘|
‘the sale of hard liquor through package stores.
But one of the commission's primary recoms ‘mendations, low liquor taxes to make bootleg || ‘competition unprofitable, never got a fair hearing. Federal, state and local governments were desperate for revenue; law enforcement and:
‘temperance would have to wait. They're still waiting; that part of the Rockefeller commission report is as: good as new.
GO: AND LOOK, corn (Baltimore Evening - Sun) :
-Tolles follows an entirely . different school
the whites of 9 large or 10
eggs when she tackles ar angel food
Mrs. Harold of thought: She keeps on eggs until she gets a coffee-cup full of whites, - The Efroymsons unravel an onion and sizzle the slices to the richness of Van Dyke brown,
according to a system of their own. - : Mrs. Booth Tarkington's coffee is a blend of ‘Brazilian Bourbon and Medellin Bogota with
lombia. Ervin W. Snyder maintains 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. 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. #
Steele knew Lizzie Siddal. Elizabeth (l.izzie) Siddal was a London milliner’s assistant who had the luck to be born with
any way she pleased and because she could she became the favorite model of Burne-Jones, William 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
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
lis 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
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
was not at home. It was Lizzie Siddal, of course. This year; not to: be caught asbring: I checked up on the story, found everything absolutely 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 | BY J. H. J.
| 1MOST daily murders induced Winthrop . Sargent, acting Governor and commander of ithe 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 law concerning firearms, after providing a maximum: $5. ) Shoot a gun within one-fourth of &:mile from ing, went on to make exceptions | [ay self defense, defense of property;and.# ) of | firearms by the military forces. of the: United tes. Then it stipulated that the: ‘ape=fourth of a
. | aide -prohibition did not ‘apply to. the act of of killing “birds of prey, or-other wild birds, and
tive democracy will be quick to sense with 5 a d or: Mild animals of the br te. kind. lurking | -
alarm any movement ‘of his government to: |e
in or near, or preying upon: or: threat ehing to prey upon and devour; any kind’ of:| animal stock” or produce. = i Nor did“the law extend to the. “hindrance of
‘| any" person’ shooting at or: killing any of : ‘As a substitute, the league would create per ing ing any of the |
larger kind of game and wild: ahimals, “such: as buffaloes, bears, deer, hares, rahbits, : 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 stréet you..could. have shot. him: {forthwith and then.defended yourself by saying: - Som, excuse me, I thought he was a swan.”
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A Won? S Viewpoint | Lor BY MRS! WALTER FERGUSON
= instinct to. protect the weak: is ‘woman's most-admirable trait,- and the world ‘would
‘| 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 letter 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 he wholesale misery. Obviously the boy is incorrigible, needing the strictest of dis cipline. - Past efforts prove that she can not reform 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. .
Yi tl cHisls the indiyidual must make a, decision and if she is smart ehe will never sacrifice the strong person for the weak. By causing her husband unhappiness this. woman will, not save her brother. : ULE il an WG EON
RADE SECRETS: Miss Emma Minter uses |
after which they work them into their spinach |
just a ‘soupcon of selected Buck from Co-’
What’s more, he dunks his |.
VERY year just about this, time somebody | - in Indianapolis starts the story that Brandt :
a beautiful, swan-like neck. She could turn it|.
very much the way we'd expect an artist to be-|"
Mr. Steele was in England at the time trying to.
lovely, long-necked lady who told him Mr. Morris |:
ight that Herida milion f or a. CAE
AND SOME HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON ‘EM
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“The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, bul will defend to the death your right to say it—Valiaire.
(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 withe held on request.)
HOOSIER OFFICIALS
.| TAKEN TO TASK .By Just a Hoosier
I am taking the trouble to answer your drawing on the editorial page, “Needed—A Helping Hand.” . Well, I am not Jvelung as Repulblican or Dem fer, as I get aro d pretty much and see things. I have just been through the South and as I compire the situation here and down yonder, where are all thé helping hands? For instance, Gov. McNutt, our Mayor Kern, our Senators, VanNuys and Minton, who fought ia auf s ve A en milions of
ut Py Senators can not get: ‘a track ‘elevation on. the South: Side.
Wake. up, Yankees, you. won't get |
Your Health
BY: DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
‘Editor of the Journal of the’ American i
© Medical Associgtion.
EN and women who ‘have be=| -
- come great are found, in gerierdl, to have had parents above the average in: quality.. In most ‘cases, they also have had superipr advan tages in their youth. = :- "This. fact, determined by: a study | ‘of the lives of: 300 noted men and ‘women, shotild discredit to. some exitent the common belief that great men are more likely to come from ‘poor families, where they are without opportunity, than from vrealthy
‘{ families’ where they have ‘every
chance of improvement. “Indeed, actual studies show that
-| the: son- of an eminent official, a
general in the Army, al resident of the United States, or.a great philosopher and teacher, chance : to become. . great than the son of a toiler in the: : Nevertheless, as every y knows, not all children of famous people attain distinction. A | favorable ancestry helps, but there are recordls of innumerable instances of people who were able to rise far beyond ancestry. John Bunyan, author .of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” was the son of a tinker. The father of Carlyle, author of “The French Revolution,” was a mason. The great philoso- | ditions pher Kant was the son of z strapmaker, and the father of the celebrated British navigator, Capt. James Cook, was a common day la borer. LA ee
occasionally are people
who insist that it is possible 10 ancestry | . Their
take. children of average and train them for view arises from the fact that Pitt, the great statesman; Mozart, ‘musician; Mich “the sculp) tor; Weber, the composer, and man others, had had special ingtruction whe
very young, 8 ‘often an entire family of intelligent peo--circle one
t, only as a Hoos- |
any elevation but you might “have
to pay a good bit of that 10 millions laying wrapped up in swamp land. . Senators have died trying 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, . Our streets are a disgrace to a Hoosier city. Our system smells ‘bad. The city dads are so busy hunting mad dogs that they have Torgotten everything Sige: ” 2 QUO VADIES 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
few, “The so-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, ot swarms 1 serfdom bonde«d;, You ezn not hear them: now, Jer-
haps, High .in your. lofty .tower, . So now youll walk with . puffed satraps Of privilege and power.
But vet, perchance, “before the end You'll] be a wee bit sorrier * For i from that old-time
Who Mend you “Happy Warrior.” Youll ilk with pals of purse and pride, Their strong limbs to enhearten, But Franklin still will walk besicle, The men you have forgotten. gn" INSISTS GOVERNOR
1S MISTAKEN By A Subscriber "In a recent speech Governor McNutt stated that Socialists were in an alliance with reactionaries, Fascists and Communists to crucify President elt. : The governor is mistaken { Democratic 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 or-
ganized workers attempted to ob-| tain iain better wages and working con- | posed
, troops were called out and
prectically 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 sharecrcpper and receive benefits for their idle land? Why ‘did the last session of Congress ignore labor and refuse to pais a much-needed social welfare amendment to the Constitution? 1t the governor ‘would care to debate on the solution to our economic ills or Capitalism versus Socialism I shink he will find several good opponents in. the Soctalist Party of Indiana, Ine:
LA NDON SPEECH SEEN TYPICAL OF CANDIDATE By [Paul Masters, Anderson ‘he acceptance speech of - Gov.
| Alf M. Landon -showed clearly the
tyre of campaign he hopes to preser't to the American people during th¢ coming months. It lacked the muvd-slinging element of the MecNutt -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 eatchy 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 an warm My soul at the fire of modernity. . . . To partake of this twentieth century Frivolity. . To dance, to be gregarious.
Bu! I draw back, Knowing that if I dare partake Of its: warmth, ere long, Dusing the inevitable lulls My: heart should be dark, It :would kill: another fire— The flame that warmeth the soul of : all poets.
DAILY THOUGHT
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to: die; for I have -not fcund thy works perfect before God.—Revelation 3:2.
SOUL without watchfulness is, like a city without walls, ex-
sed to the inroads of all its enemizs—~Thomas Secker.
S I DE GL A N CE S - By George Clarke
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— ERNIE PYLE
EDITOR'S NOTE~This roving reporter fer The Times goes where he pleases, -when he pleases, in search for odd stories about this and that.
: (OTHE GREAT Laxzs, Aug. 4.
—Fundamentally I object to Mozxo the Magician. ; 1 object, because he is master 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 organ; charted and preordained by any
rather sit alone and dark water than win the Ships 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 probably 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 fun= nier 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 qualifications: 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 preparation; he is a super salesman; he can land in a town broke, and by after= noon 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. It burns me up. I can’t even do a card trick. Moxo’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. 82 wn. 8 hai E has been master of cerex 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 -to the passengers. The rest of the day he spends yo lt ganizing bridge 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
miry
I 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. AK 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. 2 8 #8 A [oxo takes a lot of. Kidding 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 g lot of grief off their shoulders. Moko is the fixer. The passengers come
to him for everything. Some funny things have happenad
d | in his two years of being father con=
fessor to passengers. A wife left her husband because her name Wg omitted from’ the passenger list 1 the ship’s newspaper. It took Mox0 a whole day to fix on Another time a passe ted that his pocketbook DT 890 in 1 had been stolen. After the" magic show that night, the man ‘went 10 the purser and accused ‘Moxo- of stealing it. “His Sngers: are so nimble,” the man sa One "time a country girl's teelings were hurt by an innocent poem about “big feet,” which she drew aut of the ship’s grab-bag of presents, She went to her cabin crying, an Mozxo had to talk to her for an hour through the door before Te could calm her.
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Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE y | Lod a big and battered book written in England in 1671" you cafl find the most-up-to-date theory telling how the Indians or their ancestors came to Ameérican soil. ‘Muddling his’ way i with Noah’ for an c Noho ane time, and with Toa:
| fantastic notions about the - “world