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MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1936.
KNOCK, KNOCK 5 ANEW mid-summer game is going the rounds’ in place of “Monopoly” and “Handies.” Some one gets ‘an idea and calls out “Knock, knock.” - “Who's there?” cries the crowd. “Landon,” the inspired one, replies. “Landon who?” “Landon bridge is falling down.” Or it might be Lemke. “Lemke who?” “Lemke call you sweetheart.” Or Roosevelt: “When I woke and Roosevelt awful.” Or Gar- - mer: “Garner the days when my heart was _ young and gay.” The worse it is, you see, the better. : Unfortunately, this hot weather pastime seems to have spread from the parlors to the political hustings. And the knocks are getting _ more and more absurd. For instance, the usually temperate Senator Vandenberg refers to the New Dealers as “alphabetical commis- " gars,” and tells the Chicago Union League Club that conditions are as critical today as they were in the Civil War, when the league was formed to save the Umion. G. O. P. Broadcaster William Hard, who used to be a different ‘sort of fellow, radios that the New Deal tax bill is “crossing the rich and double-crossing the poor.” Secretary Ickes talks about, Republican “soul erosion,” and devotes a long radio speech to the theme that Landon is inconsistent, as if consistency were a New Deal virtue. The, ubiquitous Mr. Hamilton crosses the country like a chameleon, turning from gold to a silver hue as he reaches the silver state of Utah and trying to persuade Nerthwestern cattlemen that the reciprocal trade pact with Canada has ruined their business. The silliest knock, however, comes from Maine, where a story is widely circulated that pigs are being fed! pie bought for Quoddy workers. This tale, easily refuted by the War Department, recalls a similar on® told on the Senate floor by Senator Dickinson about the New Deal feeding canned dog food to the poor. “Knock, knock,” the parlor game, will pass with the cooling breezes of autumn. Let us hope the political knocking soon gives way to something mare useful.
OUT OF POLITICS? AST month Gov. Landon and ex-Gov. Lowden of Illinois virtually took the farm issue out of politics by indorsing the prevailing system of bounty payments to farm-. ers co-operating in soil conservation. Gov. ‘Landon’s acceptance of President Roosevelt's ‘invitation to discuss the drought disaster crisis ‘gives. hope. that the whole question of relief may be elevated from a partisan to a patriotic plane. : Certain problems now confronting the United States are too big and too baffling to be tossed into the arena of party politics. Relief, ‘whether of drought or depression victims, is one of these. Like national defense it is a common burden that all of us must agree upon and share. There is plenty to criticise both in the New Deal's unemployment and relief program and in the Republicans’ failure to formulate a program. The Republicans are right in saying ‘that the New Deal program has been wasteful, its policies experimental and changeable, its methods often amateurish, The Democrats are right in replying that: Roosevelt, unlike Hoover, faced the realities and prevented hunger riots, and that, unlike certain preceding ~ Administrations, the New Deal has spent billions without serious scandal. But there is nothing to be gained by such recriminations. The Republican platform is critical, but on ' {ts constructive side it meets the Administration half way. It accepts the principle of Federal grants-in-aid, which Hoover opposed. It urges the Ickes plan of public works, separate from relief and of a type to meet the requirement of social merit; a principle ' with which few will quarrel. The chief point of divergence is that the Republicans scorn work relief and would substitute direct relief, or “the dole,” to be financed by states , and _ localities and wholly administered by ~ them. ® ” ® EANWHILE, Republican Mayor ' La : Guardia, speaking for the United States "Conference of Mayors, petitions the Federal . government to provide 500,000 additional WPA ) jobs, 80 that the burden of caring for that num< ber of employable persons may be lifted from . the backs of local and state governments. No other group of officials is closer to relief than _ the mayors of our cities. Moreover, local relief administration has ‘been demonstrating itself before the public recently in such a way as to raise the question whether this is the answer. Of these demon- _ strations in Pennsylvania, Chicago and New Jersey the August Survey writes: “What can happen when relief goes back to the communities is no longer a subject of speculation. Full size exhibits, not sparsely populated, chronically poor counties and towns, but of rich and populous states and cities, are now on the record. The details in each exhibit , but running through all three is evidence leading to the inescapable conclusion that relief ‘gone back’ becomes the’ club with which poli-
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"INDIANA LAGS
diana does not have satisfactory legislation
The state drivers’ license law, Jacking any provision for examination of drivers, is lax and utterly inadequate. ?
death rates 21 per cent. Other states, in-
of 33 per cent. In the nation as a whole, for the last 12 years the number of fatal accidents on the open highway and in small towns has gieadily increased—from 10,000 in 1924 to 25200 in 1035. For six years the city death total has
| “The shift in accident predominance from | the city to tbe rural area has greatly increased the responsiblity of state governments for traffic safety.” writes R. L. Forney, statistician for the, National Safety Council, in the current issue of State Government. “This does not mean that city governments have lost any of their responsibility, but simply that the worst part of the problem—and the part which is increasing in seriousness— is not within the control of city officials and must be controlled, if at all, by the states.” Experience shows a direct relation between the success of a state in controlling traffic accidents and the effectiveness of its drivers’ license law. ; Accident control is not the problem of a single state. Motorists from other states account for many accidents in Indiana. Likewise, many Hoosiers figure in accidents away from home. Fewer than 20 states have adequate examinations for drivers. Is there any excuse for Indiana not having accident prevention laws as good as those in other states? Drivers’ license legislation, of course, is only part of the needed safety campaign. But the opportunity is wide open for legislative can- ' didates to announce what they expect to do about strengthening the Indiana license law in the 1937 Legislature. CO-OPERATION | the winter of 1844, 28 undernourished English weavers of the mill town of Roch-
I first\guccessful consumer co-operative, a store that was to become a model for the consumers of other lands. Today the co-operative buying movement at last seems to be “taking” in the United States, and, strangely, with that most individualistic of Americans, the farmer. ' The depression and the example of such countries as Sweden have created a minor boom 1 in consumer co-operatives, particularly among the Midwest farmers. The Farm Credit Administration estimates that farmers’ purchas.ing co-operatives have doubled their business in the past decade, and that out of a total of retdil consumer co-operative purchases of $365,000,000 in 1934, $250,000,000 were made by farmers’ co-operative purchases of. feed, seed, fertilizers, oil, gasoline, insurance, electricity and other supplies. Last year 7000 city and farm consumer co-operatives were operating in the United States, covering 2,000,000 members. And in 1935 such purchases increased 20 per cent over those of 1934. This is small when one compares the cooperative sales with the total volume of retail sales last year of $32,600,000,000.° The co-opera-tives account for only about $1 out of every $100 in retail trade. And it is just as well that the movement is not growing too fast. ” 8 8 i
& ating. We read about Sweden, the only foreign land that has made complete recovery, with a third of her 6,200,000 people listed as - members of 4144 co-operative stores. Of Japan, where a third of the population belongs to some sort of co-operative. Of the movement's spread in Finland, France, Czechoslovakia and England. We are impatient with monopolies, rising prices, the raft of middlemen supported by the consumers’ all-too-few dollars. But co-operation, by its very nature, can not be rushed. It must grow from the bottont through voluntary trading between neighbors. Its success require infinite patience, great personal integrity and the development of expert management. The many casualties among producers’ co-operatives here proves that a system is no sounder than its human foundation. . | The collapse of many & blueprint reform in the past warns that this splendid movement, too, can be hurt by excited wholesale promotion.
ECONOMIC POWER VS. - DEMOCRACY o E are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourlselves and for the world,” President Roosevelt "said at Philadelphia. If that fight is to be successful, democracy must be reanalyzed and reconstructed on the ‘basis of modern economy, Gardiner C. Means and Caroline F. Ware say in “The Modern Economy in Action” (Harcourt, Brace & Co.).
Deal. Some of Mr. Roosevelt's experiments have been in the right direction, the authors think, others have not. But the theme of the
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ful students of, questions involved in the cams paign it is sure to be a text. | “Modern industry has produced ‘a set of conditions radically different from those to
JUDGED by standards of the National Con- l | ference on Street and Highway Safety, In-.
and administration for the licensing of drivers.
During the 10 years from 1926 to 1935, the | states with effective license laws reduced their |
| dale met and pooled their savings to set up the.
TT is easy to become emotional about co-oper-"
picayunish pursuits; for = instance, should th
The book is not an apology for the New
cluding Indiana, showed an average increase pletely
Once during Mr. Hunt's stay larks, a Lombard to show what she could do outside her province. Tt was all right, says Mr. Hunt, but it didn’t af-
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artists, better conditioned up with peanuts. Ae It was that way all along the line. In
had the vivacity, energy and inexhaustible zest of Carpaccio’s pictures—only more so. ‘ 8 = = : N Genoa, he discovered a minestrone col pesto, a thick soup seasoned with oil and cheese and flavored robustly with garlic and basil that had all‘the plastic qualities of Michelangelo before he dabbled in baroque. = And in Siena he ran across .a ravioli that actually had achieved the unaffected simplicity that Domenico di=Bartolo had dreamed .of all his life, but had never quite attained. ~ After that, it was hard to gét Mr. Hunt to
meals ‘are over-organized and too decorative for any use to get anywhere, says Mr. Hunt.
keep on steeping its vegetables in water without the help of butter ‘and hope to preserve the integrity of art, says Mr. Hunt, : Mr. Hunt came back with a beter opinion of America than when he left. He thinks America has contributed many fine native dishes besides being the melting pot into which the cookery of the world has been dumped. It’s énough—at any
ive America: a commanding place ure: : Pressed ‘for an ex-cathedra opinion, Mr. Hunt ventured the belief that Charles Burchfield, Grant Wood and Thomas Benton are, after all, - pretty good artists—as good as anybody, except,
| maybe Signorina Rapaccini.
August 10th IN INDIANA HISTORY
Y J. H. J. .
OLITICIANS occasionally accuse each other . of mud slinging these days, but. their vituperative efforts aré as slaps on the ‘back compared to the barrages that were laid down against candidates 60 years ago in Indiana. Here, for example, is a word caricature of James; D.- (Blue Jeans) Williams, published in 1876, when he was a successful Democratic candidate; for Governor, which a. competent histo-
‘| rian tells us, is “written without animosity.”
“The English language “Would never recover scription of his general appearance. His head, in
{ shape, is of the sugar-loaf order, and is covered
with a short, stubby growth of bristling irongray hair. His only whiskers are a bunch of the same description of hair, grown upon his Adam’s apple and sticking out between .the hard, yellow starched ends of his cotton sideboards, that serve on either side of his head to support the heavy dewlap of his. enormous ears. His eyes are smhll but closely set against the high, narrow bridge of his long, sharp, inquisitive nose. His mouth looks as if it had been put on warm and ran all over the lower part of his face before it got set, and it opens like the opening of navigation in the spring. Looking him full in the face gives one the idea of a narrow, loaded hay barge, with broadside sail -set, coming. down stream with the cabin doors wide open.” His long, lean legs part with each other in disgust at the hips and pursue separate and diverging paths to the knees, when negotiations for reconciliation are entered into, which takes place finally at the ends of the toes of two great feet, which join each other lovingly, while the heels still remain estranged and keep as far away from each other as possible.” .. For a friendly caricature, that’s language.
A Woman’s Viewpoint ‘BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
8 a general thing, modern mothers are too much concerned about luncheon table ‘conventions and not enough interested in the manners of their children. I know many who make a major issue of meticulous service in ‘entertaining, although they are raising -boys and girls who béhave like hoodlums when they are entertained. : : rif Too much of our social energy is 4n honor guest of the hostess be served first; must one have rose leaves in the finger bowls and cloves in the lemons; must the napkin be folded lengthwise or catawampus? Women seem to have a passion for such petty details. And while they pore over etiquette rules their daughters behave like unmannerly gamins and their sons are a highway menace. The average youngster from our so-called “good homes” thinks nothing of burning holes in
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can anything. | €e uccelli—just |
done, they roast them just enough to turn the leaf. They discard the hulls when they eat
"And to think, lamented Mr. Hunt, that other in every way, still put
Venetia, especially in the provinces of Venice, Padua and Treviso, Mr. Hunt tasted stews that
talk about English and French art. French.
for British art, it’s hopeless. No nation cani-
rate, it ought to be enough—says Mr. Hunt, to || in the fu-|
from the shock of a detailed and accurate de-|
his hostess’ rugs, or of invading her. ice box when she’s out, or helping himself from the liquor ; , and on the streets his behavior as a driver is the last word in rude- | He has no consideration for the rights of |
Vagabond
Indiana
EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporier o¢ The Times goes where he pleases,
stories about this snd that.
OUTH ST. PAUL, Minn, Aug 10. .—Al Smeby and I were walking down an alley in the great South St. Paul stockyards when a fellow with a buggy whip came up and buying any cattle
today. : ; Al said, “No, fot today,” and I shook my head. “But I thought it was pretty nice of the-fellow to take me for a cattle buyer ‘when I had ‘never been in a stockyards before. Al Smeby is with the t of Agriculture. He has been stationed here 15 years. He tours. the yards twice a day, cajrying a broken cane. Everybody knows him. walks six or seven miles a day. He doesn’t buy any cattle. But he can look at a bunch of steers and tell you within 5 cents a hundred just what they'll bring. That's his business. He sends out reports for the government all day long on what the market is doing in South St. Paul. . : 3 » » »
Toe yards are not the biggest in the world, but they're im-
1 mense. A rough average of 5,000,000
head of stock moves through.them every year. | There are thousands of pens, separated by high plank fences. All through them run streets, or alleys
“las they are called. There is a gate
The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your ight 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 withheld on request.)
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CLAIMS FARMERS OWE * MUCH TO ROOSEVELT By Just a Voter . ; 1am a daily reader of your paper and always read the letters :submitted by many of your patrons. I am prompted to write you rela-
tive to two letters which have just come to my attention. They remind one that the American farm- | ers should “be ‘most grateful ‘to President Roosevelt, their best friend in recent years. Pony A ‘letter was written by a farmer ‘to one of his creditors relative to a debt which was incurred by him in the year 1932. He wrote in 1832: «I did not have enough corn in 1932 to pay the loan. You ‘will re-
Your Health - BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor of the Journal of the - American Medical Association. "OR years doctors have contended ' that tobacco snioking is harmful to persons who have a condition of the blood vessels scientifically cailed thrombo-angiitis obliterans, and more commonly known as Buerger s disease. For long it had been thought that this condition occurred only in ‘men, particularly those of the Jew{ish race. ie It occurred, therefore, to a number of investigators in the University of Michigan to study the effects of tobacco on the circulation of the blood, particularly in relationship to ‘sex, and race, and to sensitivity of the skin to tobacco. : “They found that cigaret smoking produced a decrease in temperature of the skin on the fingers and toes, and increased the rate of pulse and blood pressure in women, as well as in men, Moreover, the responses about the same degree. The studies showed no reason why this disease of the blood vessels should affect men more than women. If smoking is the disease, it would be expected that it’ would appear more frequently in women in the future, because there is no ‘question that many more women are smoking now then did inh ‘the past. re ) ‘Uhited States consumption of cigarets has risen from 10,000,000, 000 in /1915 to almost 140,000,000,000 in 1936. SF ne : . = l
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per bushel.” : In July, 1936, the same farmer wrote the same. creditor regarding the same indebtedness, as follows: “Please send me the amount of my note and I will mail you a check by return mail.” “ That tells the story. The good citizens of this country, who teil on the farms, are alive to the issues presented in this campaign. Incidentally, the writer was talking with a Kansas farmer only recently.. He was mindful of the fact that he had just received 88 cents a bushel for his wheat crop. “happened to know that in years past he had been a stanch Republican. He made this statement, “Even if our Governor is a candidate } for ‘President, I can not ‘turn President Roosevelt down.” All of which indicates ‘that the boastful Chairman Hamilton of the Republican National Committee had better get his information from the common people and not only from { those whom he chooses to have assembled ‘about him in his expensive hotel suite. He will soon learn from that source that a majority of the voters north of the Ohio and east lof the Mississippi are grateful to the President and will manifest their appreciation ‘most emphati‘cally at the polls in November.
® » ”» \ HISTORY TO RECORD RESCUE FROM ‘HOG KILLERS. By Fay Corn ? : The 1060 ‘historians will write a strange record that was never written in history until the “hog killers” came into power. - ‘Cincinnatus left his plow to save Rome. A typical prairie farmer left the farming country to save the To ee ea ri e & 5 9” e yp! e farmer ousted the “hog killers” by using the slogan, “Bring Back the Meat Platter,” and allowed the people to eat meat. The typical prairie farmer fed the half-starved nation meat, which the “hog killers” had not allowed them to eat. - ie WONDERS ABOUT “LIBERTY” By David Horn ~ What are the meanings of “Liberty” and “money”? I have been trying to find this out for some time—without results. Recently, I took occasion to examine a few coins and noticed that each of them bears on one side the impression “Liberty” and I am “kinda wondering” if that’s what Patrick
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Henry had reference to when he hollered: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Today we have with us another Henry—Henry Ford. Bet you dollars to doughnuts that he has our old friend Patrick beat a mile—as far ag “liberty” is concerned. Be it remembered, by the way, that- he has been given a doctor's degree some time ago by the University of * Michigan. * As an ex-Ford worker, I would respectfully submit it surely appears unbecoming not to refer to him as “Dr. Henry Ford.” » » »
SMITH BETTER KICKER,
WRITER SAYS By Jack Raper ~.. Too bad, too bad! Great Britain {won the 50,000-meter walk at Berlin, an event which the United States would have won if Al Smith had been our entry and had really walked. Al's great weakness as a heel-and-toe pedestrian is that he always is threatening and promising to take a walk, and he does make a start but he never gets very far. It may be that a man who can’t walk the short distance between the Democratic and Repub1lican Parties couldn't walk 50,000 meters, Still, I would bet on Al if the { contest called for walking in circles, though there are times when I ‘weaken a bit on him as a pedestrian and wonder if he wouldn’t shine more brightly as a football player. He’s a better kicker than walker. - “ KNOWIN : By Maude Courtney Waddell
Out upon night's still dark air A lilting whistle—startling clear Brings vibrant melody. The fragrance of a good cigar Tells plainly he is approaching near, Though hid from view his form remains.
DAILY THOUGHT When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord .thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.— Deuteronomy 8:10. RATITUDE is not only the memory but hie mage of the heart—rendered to for His goodness.—N. P. Willis, > COMMON ERRORS
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SIDE GL ANCES : By George Clarke
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every hundred feet or so. on trip through the yards is a stant: opening and shutting of gates.’ The. South St. Paul yards are on.
.the west bank of the Mississippi, six
the big Swift packing plant. At the other is Armour’s. river is Cudahy’s. i The cattle, and- hogs and sheep too, arrive at the yards by train or truck. It used to be mostly by|train; now it’s largely by truck. bulk of the stuff here comes from Minnesota, but they get a lot from the -
miles below St. Paul. At one fend is Across i
| Dakotas, and even Canada.
8 » 8 HE stock raiser doesn’t sell di- - rect to the packing ho turns his stock over to a - sioh man. About 35 commission firms operate here. The commission man takes care of the animals until they arg sold, which is usually within 24 | The yards rent him the pens, and sell him feed and water. The commission man of course p these costs on to.the farmer. His fee for - selling is set by the government. - The commission man gets cat= tle ready, and then buyers for the big packing houses come along. The buyer gets in the pen with his whip, and walks the cattle around, and feels of them, and looks at them a long time without saying
o | The commission man says they're mighty fine steers and wo $0 a hundred pounds. .The buyer offers $8.50. So they dicker, and finally the steers are sold for $8.60. . After. the deal is closed, they run the cattle down an alley to the big scales, where they're all weighed" at once. The cattle are then shunted through pens to the packing house. , ” ” ” i N heavy days there is 4 man who sits in a high tower in the middle of the yards. He is p. sort of traffic director. He can see if one part of the yards is getting too jammed with cattle, and gives or-" ders for shifting the traffic. ’ The amazing thing is how bunches of cattle can be shunted here and there through dozens of pens and over scales without all track being lost of their owners or how much: the cattle are worth or where they're supposed to go. It takes an organization like a Swiss clock. Having recently come from the drought country, I was interested in seeing the condition of the cat=tle. - Most of them looked good, Only
|a few bunches of real thin ones.
Which bears out what I was told in the Dakotas—that this year the farmers knew when to. sell their ig before they started getting
" s 9 * ‘Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE UTSIDE of the technical indus- * tries concerned, most people may yet feel that “synthetic rubber,” or rubber-like materials, still is a:laboratory curiosity. How many know, for example that six products now on the American market are rivals of rubber?
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