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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST §, 1936.
‘Sve Light end the People Will Find . Their Own Way
KANSAS
THERE still a deal of ambiguity about
Gov. Landon’s views on the great issues Now bothering America. Presumably he will Speak out more clearly before November. the meantime thére's Kansas, where Gov. Lanon rules. What of it? ~ It has been said that. a civilization may be Judged by the way it treats its children. Kan88s is not one of the 24 states that have ratifled the child labor amendment. A Kansas child of 14 may work in a factory, mine or
. packing plant, and a minor under 16 may work
48 Bch
urs a week. ' A University of Kansas 1 ‘of Business report says that the ad-
~ Mministration of even this “incomplete” child
labor law is unsatisfactory due to “lack ‘of funds” and “public indifference.” How about the old folks? While 36 states have old-age pension laws approved bythe Social Security Board, Kansas gives its needy old people county relief, supplemented by
. Federal emergency funds. Last year 5751 Kan-
sans past 65 were dependent wholly on relief,
-@and received monthly average handouts of
$56.30 each. Gov. Landon has just asked for a constitutional amendment permitting his state to co-operate with the Federal social security system. Had Kansas been prepared like so many other states to accept Federal grants in - aid she could have. increased her benefits to aged pensioners Without extra cost to the counties. / Kansas last year gave relief to 962 blind poor, half from the counties, half from the Federal emergency funds. The average was $6.13 per person-per month. The/Federal gov-
' ernment also furnished 78.5 per ¢ent of Kan-
sas’ 1935 bill for aid to dependent, children. Early this year Kansas submitted a plan for accepting grants-in-aid under the Social Security Act. The plan was rejected on Feb. 18 on three legal grounds—in that it did not cover all the counties, that it did not contemrplate money payments, that it was not to be administered by a single state agency. } 8 8 = S to relief standards Thomas L. Stokes of «+ this newspaper found neighbor Nebraska giving needy families from $1 to $7 a week
“more than Kansas. The Kansas Legislature has appropriated only $775,000, leaving the counties and the Federal government to bear
the load. Kansas, with only a third more
an up-and-coming liberal.
population than Nebraska, has received $58,000,000 in Federal relief, compared with’ Ne-
- braska's $29,000,000. .. Kansas has no state aid for education. : Teachers. .salaries, have been slashed, and some may
not be paid at all this year. Kansas’ budget is balanded, it is true. The state constitution requires that. But other states balance their budgets with taxes, not at the expense of the Federal government, the ‘ counties, the poor and the teachers. Last year while. most of the states were modernizing their labor laws and preparing to, ‘ co-operate under the Social Security Act the * Kansas Legislature passed five minor labor measures, the most important of which was one
forbidding the sale of Prisoa-wade Bois to
private dealers. Gov. Landon may be, as his sponsors ‘claim, The state he has
governed for four years does not disclose him
- in that role.
“SOCIAL FUTILITY”
N condemning ‘Mrs. Mildred Bolton, confessed slayer of her husband, to the electric
_ ‘chair, Judge Robert C. O'Connell of Chicago _ also condemned society that forced him into
such a duty. - His words will find echo in the
hearts of many thoughtful Americans. He said:
“In passing upon the verdict’ and the penalty, the court finds its public duty in conflict ‘with its private conscience. There are
~ some survivals of the barbaric and medieval
that at times belie the advance of civilization. . “The power of a law which permits society ‘to wield the power of death as a punitive measure is an assumption of a function properly ‘belonging to God, who alone has the right to
give and take life away. God will eventually
“punish the intention of the evil-doer, while so_clety can only punish the action. Final retribution is above and beyond the power of so--¢lety to conceive and inflict.
“The fact that capital . punishment is.
repugnant to the court's reason and spiritual convictions is derived from a long line of study of crime and criminals.” The conception that capital punishment has a salutary effect and ‘ots as a deterrent to crime is a much mooted - question. - “The life-for-a-life philosophy is a relic of
feudalism. We have discovered no ideal crime-
free states where corrosive passions of jealousy, envy, hate and the attendant evils are nonexistent. That & debt to society can-be paid by THAD DOdy SH TY Jeati 33 Pulaophy JencIuslen with soctal fauley”
In
you think the City Park
exclied shout the more: or ‘less undraped
male form—when it decreed men wear shirts at municipal pools, beaches and golf courses—consider the puff-sleeved bloomer suits of yesteryear. Indianapolis’ 1936 mermaid attire would have given apoplexy to the nation’s park superintendents when they met in New Orleans in 1916 to adopt a set of rules then considered -~They outlawed white or flesh-colored suits and any suits “exposing the chest below a line drawn on a level with the apmpits.” For the
first time, Jersey-knit blouse or bloomer suits
were permitted, “with or without stockings.” But the bloomers had to be full and not shorter than four inches above the knee, and women had to have quarter-length sleeves or ‘closely fitted arm holes. Men had to have “skirts or skirt effects,” with similar length restrictions. So if the Park Board is too eonservative, or too liberal for you, remember nothing is so permanent as change. Cleveland last year required its men bathers to wear shirts. this year they may bare their chests—if their trunks are high enough to “touch the floating rib.” Covington, Ky., has turned thumbs down on the short and halter mode. In most places bathing suit regulation now is, as one suit manufacturer says, “largely imaginary.” And so it goes. The rules vary from year to year, but you can easily get a sun-tan within the law.
AMERICANS IN SPAIN
i hundred American citizens for various reasons remain in strife-torn Spain despite all our State Department, our Navy and the navies of co-operating foreign powers have done to provide means for their departure. Some of these are short on cash and. say they can’t afford to leave that land of low living costs, some have business interests which hold then and some are just plain curious, and want to stay around to ‘see the excitement. They are free Americans, and our government, can’t compel them to come home. But by the. same token, the rest of us Also have rights and interests of our own. Those who stay in Spain despite official warning to get out, must, as Secretary Hull declared, accept responsibility for whatever happens to them. We hope none is shot down in the streets by Fascist or Communist bullets, or bombed, or gassed, or starved, or jailed. But if thaf happens to any one of them, it will be his or her business—not ours, We have troubles aplenty at home, and can’t spare the time or expense to send an American army of occupation to police Spain or any other foreign land.
THE TAX ON BEAUTY
N the name of American womanhood, Indiana’s only woman member of Congress starts a crusade to take the tax off lipstick and cosmetics.
At first we feared this campaign by Mrs. :
Virginia E, Jenckes might result in class warfare, dividing men and women at the polls. Now it appears that while women invest $800,000,000 annually -in pursuit of beauty, men shell’ out $600,000,000 yearly for hair tonics, manicures and other aids to the male appearance. Apparently, the Sixth District Representative has .a plank of wide appeal in her drive .to make it cheaper to keep that schoolgirl complexion. But some one is sure to say that if America can pay so handsome a price for beauty it can afford the tax.
‘FORESIGHT NLESS city councilmen already have forgotten the tragedy of children burned and injured by fireworks July 4, they will not hesitate to pass the proposed anti-fireworks
ordinance introduced this week by Dr. Silas
J. Carr. : Fort Wayne, which also recalls with misgivings its recent celebration of Independence Day, is going even farther. The Carr pro-
posal would forbid the shooting of fireworks
‘in the city, but not their sale. Fort Wayne would ban both.
It is not easy to forget that dozens. of
persons were injured by firecrackers or tor=
pedoes here July 4, that eye injuries were numerous, that the fire départment made
more than 50 runs. Milwaukee's situation
Until two years ago its fireIn
was a parallel. men averaged 50 calls on the Fourth,
1934, 190 persons were injured there.
Some argue the fireworks ordinance could |.
not be enforced. The answer is that after Milwaukee barred all shooting of fireworks, only four fire alarms were turned in on July 4 and only five persons were hurt. Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and other cities ‘have demonstrated that such ordinances encourage public fireworks displays and permit celebration without the hazard of blinding and maiming children.
SAY IT AIN'T SO, HERBERT!
4 Bi Rev. J. Earl Edwards of Queens Village, N. Y., quotes Herbert Hoover as having said that jobs for all the now unemployed would be available six months after the elec-
tion of Gov. Landon.
1014 wete. not a preachier. who said. ft we
| couldn't: believe that Herbert had ventured
again into the quicksands of prophecy... Remember what he promised us—the pot with a chicken and the garage with two cars? And that rosy prediction on the depression’s ‘eve that “we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation”? And his procla‘mation on famed Black Thursday, in October,
1029, that “The fundamental business of the | foreve ; country is on a sound and prosperous basis? |. na And his famous statement on June 30, 1930,
that it Amounted to $3 a
later, circa 19:8; it. was for Mr, nec ta make nyvhere fiom 6 5 $10 8 at pt
8 8 op ne Mr. Vornehm lew a mouthful of bacco smoke m :
Well, it turns out that Mr. ‘Vornehm. mixes
& half-ounce of dried rose a pound of to
something he eo my Jing of nan
once upon a time, He said he didn mind if|
the rest of the world, got wise to it. After the Statenouse was done—at least, the stonework--Mr. Vornehm did a lot of traveling because he had to go where the big work ‘was. An 1890, or thereabouts, he returned to Indianapolis to work on the Soldiers and Sailors’
most ‘exciting thing about that job, said }
T= Mr. Vornehm, were the fox dens Circle, You heard me. m ine Nobody knew where the foxes came from but they were there all right because Mr, Vornehm saw them often enough himself. The foxes stayed in their dens mest of the day but at night they went prowling around the neighborhood. ‘Mr. Vornehm doesn’t know why they went prowling around at night but he’s sure it wasn’t
kind of tobacco, It's
for food ‘because he distinctly remembers that{ ©
Sandy Smith, the Scotch foreman: ~on the ‘job,
always miade it his business to.feed the foxes|
every evening after the whistle blew. 3 Sandy lived on the southeast quadrant of the Circle in the hotel that Maria Rhodius ran and anybody who knows anything about old Indianapolis knows that no fox had any business
looking for more food after tasting the kind Mrs, hs
Rhodius cooked.
One day the foxes ‘Were. gone and it almost Ce broke S8andy’s heart. I can’t help it if most ot my :
stories end that way.
# 2 =
IN ENG much happened around the |:
Monument after the disappearance of the foxes until William Kreiner showed up. Rudolph Schwartz, it appears, brought Mr. Kreiner
from Germany to. help him. carve the . Mony-
ment. Mr. Kreiner is still here.
In ‘fact, he’s very much here Behice the |:
very day Mr. Vornehm looked me up. was the same day—such is the timeliness of this column
—the the people of Irvington unveiled their | :
long-<wished-for statue of Washington Irving. ‘Well, as luck would have it, Mr. Kreiner carved: that statue and, believe it or not, Mr. Vornehm turned out the pedestal for it. Mr. Vornehm was all ready to terminate thé interview when he remembered John Tattersall, who worked on the Courthouse, circa 1870. That
makes Mr. Tattersall the oldest -stone mason
in Indianapolis, says Mr. Vornehm. Mr, Vornehm said he didn’t want to steal the whole show.
“August Sth
IN INDIANA HISTORY ~BY J. H. J.
[oiana -has a reputation for torrid politics: and it was never better .demonstrated: than in 1828 when James B. Ray made a successful, though devious, campaign for re-election as Governor. He was elected Aug. 5. ~ What made the race especially exciting was that the presidential election, for the first time since 1816, took place in the same year. Opposed in the national campaign were thé Jacksonian Democrats, supporting Andrew Jackson, and the, Nationsl or Jeffersonian Republicans
‘who backed John: Quincy Adams.
Gov. ‘Ray, already mentioned in this column
{as a partisan of the railroads as against canals,
believed national issues should have no part in state politics. However, both national parties decided to nominate opposing partisan candidates for Governor. This alarmed Gov. Ray so much that he made a secret agreement with the Jackson ‘men that as soon as the election,
‘held about three months before the presidential
election, was, over he would come out for Jackson. © Publicly Be sald that Jackson's letter, in answer to an inquiry by the General Assembly,
had assured him Jackson’s position on the tariff
and internal improvements was sound. All was serene then until Gov. Ray, in a speech at Brookville, where the Adams faction prevailed, castigated the Jackson party'as a “faction not’ fit to be ‘entrusted with power.” This was promptly reported to the Jackson state chairman, Henry S. Handy, Salem, who laid the secret agreement before the Jackson committee. The committee renounced Gov. Ray and noniinated Dr, I. T. Canby, Madison, for, Governor. The election was held so soon ‘after the Brookville speech, however, that few ‘voters learned’ of Gov. Ray's about-face and he was reelected by a substantial plurality over Dr. Canby and Harbin Moore, the Adams candidate.
A Woman’ S Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
OU'VE been going on about pacifism -for years,” scolds a gentleman in uniform. “Looks as if you'd be all tuckered out by this time and ready to get behind national defense’ Where every red-blooded American ‘ought to s He's right. 1 am all tickered out talking about pacifism—which makes it even more necessary to continue. It’s no. time to stop now. If we do not raise our voices about peace today, tomorrow may be too late.
drum beat; if the pacifist talks “he goes Peace lovers had Detter tak om loud. and fast. De low, and uk into court for treason may we have the courage of Eugene V. Debs, Who once in like situation spoke these words:
“Gentlemen, I would not take back a word of :
what I believe right to save myself fi
WE parents try to change ® ; youngster who is normally| left-handed into a right-handed | ‘| child, they really are _endeavoring a
The Hoosier Forum
I 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, religivus controversies excluded. Make your letter
short, so all can have a chance. Letters:
must be signed, but names will be ‘withheld on request.)
‘POSES QUESTIONS ON LANDON’S PLANS By W. Scott Taylor Mr. Landon’s- acceptance Samet’
- | leaves the most important question
unanswered. It ‘concerns - jobs: for the idle. What great new - enterprizes has Mr. Landon in mind that will enable industry to take back the men who are no longer needed becatise
of the increased efficiency of new
‘methods and ‘machines? What method has Mr. Landon in mind to force foreign countries to
Your Health
-- BY: DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal ‘of thé Americin : Medical. Association. HERE are more theories about left and right-handedness than about = almost any other of the physical characteristics of a human being. Most of these beliefs are based on symbolism and supersil-, tion. ; ‘Things that are left-handed, or sinistral, are said to be harmful; those that are right-handed, ‘or dextral, are believed pleasant correct. Since psychologists began paving attention to these matters, we have | learned : that left-handédness may | ‘be normal physical action for many children, ‘and, indeed, is to be encouraged for them, lest interference do harm. The child who is left-handed is, in a way, unfortunate, because of universal ‘recognition of righthandedness as the standard. Doors, keys, traffic rules, instruments, golf courses and baseball diamonds are laid out in most instances for the benefit of the right-handed par former. It, * therefore, is not surprising that occasionally the left-handed child should seem to bé more awkward than he really is, -4 It should be understood that’ there are two sides to the brain. The left side of the brain controls the movements of the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain &ontrols the movements on the deft} side of the body. In the Ain bere are serlain Pars
tions which control movements of
the hands and eyes; others ‘which control the muscles that take Jt in speech.
quit making the gdods and raising the crops we formerly supplied to them?
- How is Mr. Landon going to re-
move the barriers to foreign trade
by returning to the policy of selling
everything and buying nothing? What is there in such a policy to
induce foreign countries. - to. lower |
their trade barriers erected in retaliation for the Republican SmootHawley tariff? = . Now, that foreign trade has been practicaly paralyzed by the new world-wide : policy of national self‘sufficiency; where is Mr. Landon going to get the rich, new virgin ter-
ritory that would be needed for the.
ful emplqyment of capital and labor Aamder the presents system: of distributing buying power? Assuming, of course, that Mr. Landon has no intention of starting
} 8 war of conquest in imitation of
Italy, Germany and Japan, will he admit that an army of unemployed
| raust be accepted as a permanent
institution, as in: ‘England, or will he leave the question of a better distribution of buying power to the arbitrament of riots, insurrections and civil war, as now imminent, in
France, and now being fought - out
in Spain? The : people ‘have not forgotten {that the budget could not be balanced by Mr. Hoover when the aver‘age relief check was $8 a ‘month.
Flow is Mr. Landon going to balance the budget “not by increasing taxes aad | pue by reducing expenses drastically
and immediately”? - Every well-informed person knows ‘that America can not isolate herself from the world without a ‘better distribution of buying power.. _Every‘body knows that. the Republican
Party never will permit this. Every-
body knows ‘that it is beyond the power of any political party to regiment world-wide conditions. | What path does Mr. Landon propose’ to take? Is it the path of Englénd?" will the people be content to resume the path of deflation down which Mr. Hoover led the people straight toward the liquidation ‘of :insecure businesses’ and ' properties? What else could ‘happen “but deflation when government spending is reduced “drastically and immediately” aid who would it help but the big
money-lenders, who want to gather:
in gilt-edged properties at a fraction of their value and hurry the process along by lowering: as they propose to do in
_ | platform?
"It is not sufficient merely’ to
criticise the present policies, ee
implying that a change of administration would automatically re-
eir Cleveland a
employ the idle. Mr. Landon should state specifically how he is going to do it. ; 8 s »
SAYS M'NUTT SPEECH
+ BOOSTS LANDON ‘By Disgusted’ Democrat
. The attempt of Gov. McNutt to smear Mr. Landon was just a shot aimed to divert the people from: voting for Mr. Landon, who will
‘be our next President, if such tac-
tics as these prevail. I am a Democrat, but I do not approve of such “under the. belt”
1 punching.
“A knock from McNutt (as un-
popular as he is) is a boost for any candidate. “Muzzle McNutt” would be my advice, if we expect to carry Indiana this November.
# 2 REQUESTS MORE SPACE FOR FORUM - By Philip Gerini I have been reading The Indianapolis Times for years and I always like to read the Forum. The other day I noticed that the Forum, had been. extended to the page opposite the = editorial page. I° hope The Times will continue to do that, at least until after the election.
+ GLAMOUR . BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY I found 2) moonbeam one bright - ght Gilding a worn old chair, : I tried to clasp the golden light, But it slipped my fondest care.
i
I tried to snare a gay. romance Which brightened all my life, But it slipped my grasp in a single
glance And left in its place a knife.
DAILY THOUGHT
That this is a ous people, lying children. chil that will not ‘hear he law of the Lord.— Isatah 30.9
T men so ‘universally dis.obey God bespeaks alienation and enmity of mind, for as obedience proceeds from love, so: disobedience proceeds from enmity, — John ‘Howe.
COMMON ERRORS
Never say, “He came to supper and later on we went to the movjes”; say, “and later we went to the ol 4
SIDE GLANCES
| Lakes all his life.
By George Clark feet
Plays could do s “Grand Hotel” on:
this ship. We have the couple from Pittsburgh, who travel with a chauffeur and maid.
We have gp god rnd who stay in their cabins all the time, except at meals. % We have the two fine ooking: young men‘who stick together, andSit motionless in Sal Ip. e Bow al} ay any never say a
with her. He hates the water. an electrical engineer, and the first auto in Columbus. » » 8
RS, OKEY made the voyage in 1913, and liked it so well she. kept coming back. Her daughter, Dorothy, was 3 years old on their first trip. Now Dorothy is 26 and. married and hasn’t made a trip for several years, but she’s coming next. year. Last year, just before her mother started, Dorothy autograplied a“ snapshot and told her mother to give it to the head waiter. When Mrs. Okey went in to dinner the first night, the head waiter asked: about Dorothy. Mrs. Okey handed. him the snapshot. And he got out his handkerchief and cried, = right there before all the people.
Mrs. Okey always takes Cabin 28. Just got used to it. She goes over’ to. Duluth and then comes back as far as Mac Island, and stays there the rest of the summer to get away from the heat. She has seen, captains come and captains go. She. makes the trip-because she loves to. look at the water. She prefers just lo #it alone on deck. It’s so peaceful. She has been through two bad storms, and was seasick both times. She says nothing very exciting has ever happened to her. She has been to Alaska twice, but never’ across the Atlantic. She feels as though this ship is’ home to her. She expects to keep" on making her annual trip indefi-
” ” £4 ND then there are Mr. and Mrs. ‘A H. 8. Noble of Buffalo. Mr. Noble is just the president of the line, that’s all. They have Suite 1, a handsome two-room-and-bath af« fair right up under the bridge. The Npbles act like any other passen They eat with _the rest, and ha around on deck, and dance, ahd seem to me to be having the. best time of anybody on board. Mr, : Noble's - right arm is in a sling. He pulled a tendon, trying to release the brake lever on his
{auto. Even though he’s president,-
he only makes the full round trip once a year. Can't get away offener, he says. ; He never lets the captain know . he’s going till he comes aboard, because he doesn’t want to be sitting’ at - the captain's table if there's: somebody _ else the captain would like to have. The same with Suite 1. “If somebody wants this suite, we'll move right: out,” he says. “We need the money.” : » 88 : ND then there’s Chief Engineer Robert Keefe. I especially like him because he reads my ‘pleces every day. He has been an engineer on the Every winter, when shipping is ‘stopped, he takes the car and explores fishing villages along the eastern seaboard. He wants to drive to Mexico next winter. But he’s afraid of being vaccinated, and he has a horror of snakes. Says the only time in’ his life he ever - fainted was over a snake. ‘And we have—but look here, here's Duluth. We're getting off. Sure.will seem funny to set foot on land again. It's been all of 12 hours since I tried old mother earth. Wonder if I can walk? So dong, 8. 8. Octorara.
Today’ 5 Scien nce Pry BY SCIENCE SERVIC
are commonly ions: to think of drought as a matter betweer, the weather mdn ‘on one side and the farmer and stockman on the other. It is their worry, pri~ marily; let the scientist warn thy food producers, 80d let the laSier take What, Steps they can to themselves. ;