Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1936 — Page 14
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, -1936,
SILLY SECRECY EVERAL days ago certain American airplane concerns inquired of the State Department what the official attitude would be if they were to sell to Spain. The department Feplied by showing them a message sent: to 4ts agents abroad. ; This message set forth a policy of neutrality the Spanish upheaval and expressed the that American citizens, both at home abroad, patriotically observe this policy. . For which the State Department is to be commended. It is obvious that if the civil war between the Lefts and Rights in Spain _¢ontinues, the rest of Europe will almost cer- ~ tainly take sides and we, too, may be drawn in, ‘Hence, it is in our interest to do what we n.to shorten the conflict.
But why the great air of secrecy? The government should have sought the earliest and widest possible publicity of the noninterference policy, instead of soft-pedaling it. Had the President not let the cat out of the bag by referring to something which he took for . granted correspondents in Washington already knew, our policy doubtless would still be secret.
” » » ASHINGTON has two rabid complexes. : First, it is afraid of being accused of ‘doing something which will “entangle” us in Joreign affairs. Second, the State Department has a mania for regarding all its affairs Bs state secrets, If a vice consul at Singapore 4s given leave to proceed home to visit his mother and father, it's a state secret...
. Both complexes are absurd, unsound, pdsitively harmful, Of course there are secrets : which: the State Department should guard . perupulously. On the other hand there are ‘countless things which publicity not only would not harm but would actually kelp. . The “no entanglements abroad” obsession game very near getting us into trouble during the Italian-Ethiopian war. We were so afraid we would be accused of ‘“co-operating” with the League of Nations that we tried always to keep just one jump ahead. - Whatever the League did, we managed to be a few days in advance. Until one day it . looked very much as though the League was going to embargo oil and we came pretty close to beating them to it. ‘Had we done so, _ #8 it turned out, we would have been out on a limb. : For the League backed down. We often see or hear the expression “open diplomacy. » More - frequent practice of it would he“ dd¥isables f we inform munitions makers ‘that’ pliblic ‘policy requires neutrality - in a foreign war, for example, it could do no ~ harm to let the public in on the secret—and might do some good. ~ As for parallel action with foreign nations to head off a new world war, if that is to be gonsidered reprehensible by even a fairly large minority of the American people—which we flo not for a moment believes to be the case— then God help the country.
WHO 1S INFALLIBLE?
RESIDENT GENERAL MRS. WILLIAM A. 3 BECKER says the ‘Daughters of the American Revolution .“are not. trying to raise any ‘red scare’” and do not believe “that Amerfea’s public schools are. packed «with com munistic teachers.” But, says Mrs. Becker, beginning with the fall school term the D. A. R. again will launch & campaign for strict enforcement of teachers’ oath laws. “Our one purpose in insisting on this pledge,” she says, “is to weed out, as far 2s possible, the un-American teacher engaged in planting subversive doctrines in the minds of future citizens.” : . Mrs. Becker's premise is sound, and her motives. are obviously sincere. : © But who is to decide what are “subversive doctrines” and when and how a teacher vioJates an cath {o uphold the Constitution. The “authors of the Constitution didn't agree as to the intent of its various provisions. Many, many mes in the last few years the nine eminent sts of the Supreme Court have disagreed ‘votes of 5 to 4 and 6 to 3 in interpreting Constitution, and not infrequently the view sed by a court minority one year has bme the judgment of the court majority
Ne] year. . Is Mrs, Becker's opinion of the meaning the Constitution any more valid than the dual opinions of the several hundred pusand ‘school teachers, many of whom ve gained distinction in historical and confields? It may be, but we doubt it. ,doubt even more that such superior wis8 18 also possessed by all the sundry school members and judges, who owe their to the local political machines, and who, any strict enforcement of teachers’ oath s, would pass judgment on a teacher's loy-
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ana, with nearly twice Kansas’ ‘population: twice as many as Wisconsin, Which has a ‘million more people.
MIDSUMMER BALLOTING.
OOKING for straws in the wind, we scan the primary election returns from Idahd and Arkansas, and conclude , . . That Senator Borah, despite his Handy primary victory, is going to have little oppor~"| tunity ‘twixt now and November to range over the national hustings and discuss: the, “larger issues” of the presidential campaign. Unless he stays home and grubs his Idaho political potatoes, he may end up next No-. vember with nothing to console him except Idaho's pure mountain air, while that vote getting Democrat, Ben Ross, packs his saddle bags for Washington “and the United States Senate. . That the. Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, heirpresumptive to Huey Long’s throne, had better conduct a recount of the 6,000,000 share-the-wealthers whom he claims as followers, Objective No. 1 of the Huey Long political program was the defeat of Senate Democratic Leader Joe Robinson. Yet Arkansas gave two votes to Joe for every one vote divided among his opponents,
A WISE OLD FARMER N a certain Southern community about. 30 ‘years ago there was a. wise old farmer. ‘As do so many men and women who live on the soil he had a real love for it. He had
more than a love, he had a conviction that |
ownership of land was the surest way to provide security against whatever ills might befall a country or an individual. “Don’t sell the home place, son,” has often beén the instruction of a farmer father when on his deathbed. But this wise old farmer. did something be-
sides plead with his son, In his will he left |
his farm to his son with legal provisions that he could neither sell nor mortgage it. That wise old farmer has been dead more than a score of years. The son still has the farm—while many about him lost theirs. He still has a comfortable living—has even been making: money in the last year or two. Many of his neighbors no longer own land and eke out a skimpy existence either on or off relief. Uncle Sam should be just as wise an uncle as this’ man was father. ) os ory "8 conununities e tit Ba ‘not: be. dor right transfer. The owner should not be allowed to mortgage his holdings. He should not be ‘allowed. to sell except to another competent farmer ‘who wants to come on the land and live upon it.: The most satisfactory sownership” is the right to possess in security. . The right to
_mortgage only brings insecurity, and one 18
better off without such a “right.”
. FOR A CLEAN CITY
A 1RMosT everj\one will agree we shoula not overlook anything that will ‘help put
‘Indianapolis in the forefront of cities that are
taking advantage of better times. : One such important step, we believe, is to
“make our city one of the most attractive in
the country. Elimination of the smoke 1.uisance would be an important step toward this goal. $52
to make their homes. It would eliminate one of . the objections against building at & -time when residential construction is increasing and should be booming. It would give impetus to other development. Property owners partics ularly would benefit. The city’s proposed survey of the smoke nuisance should receive enthusiastic public support. 3
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THEIR CANDIDATE
R some unexplained reason the 40 antiRoosevelt Democrats and their friends ‘of the Liberty League have shied away from indorsement of the ‘ President's leading op~ ponent. Instead they have adopted as their candidate one Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. We fear these conservatives have acted
[way we once did, or “skel
spectable residence.
A clean city should bring more people here
“Injenapolis” of it. It has stayed, .more or like that ever since. So have a lot of other words around here. For example, it is still ‘quite common to’ hear somebody say that a was “shot,”
To be sure, we don’t say “set” for “sit” the ped” for “scalped,” buf otherwise things are pretty much the way jer were a hundred d years ago. » » ND why shouldnt they be? The prevailing dialect of early Indianapolis was that of the
| South. The bulk of the first settlers were from
Kentucky or Tennessee or the Carolinas and they brought with them a language—at any rate, a line of words—that was good enough for . Shakespeare and Chaucer. Indeed, good enough for Wycliffe and Gower. + They brought the word “guess,” for instance, and used it as a verb in the sense of “to suppose” or “to assume,” which is exactly the way it is used in “Measure for Measure” and in “Henry VI. ” They even went further and used. “to reprobate,” “to progress,” “to happify,” and thought as little of it as we do of such neologisms as “to. suspicion” and “to contact.” ‘Which doesn’t mean that we didn't have Yankee expressions around here, too. ‘ As a matter "of fact, we had a lot of Yankees, but they didn’t exercise the influence the Southeérners did. For one. thing, the Eastern immigration, unlike the Southern immigration, was mostly modified into a Western patois by a preceding residence in some part of the West. For that reason, little of the Yankee's: ways got here in so decided a form as to stay or affect conditions around it. Not in the original use of verbs, anyway. - : 2» = HAT didn’t keep the Yankees from fooling with nouns, however. For if the truth be told, it was probably they who thought up the forthright ‘names of our stores— Dry Goods Store,” “Clothing Store,” “Flour and Feed Store,” “Leather and Finding Store,” a nomenclature that had our British cousing “guessing” for a long time. = They never did get hep to the full import of ‘our “Hollowware, Spiders and Fire-Dogs Store.” Considered any way you like, it was a lusty, loamy language. -And what’s more, an ‘honest language, free of euphemisms. : A drunkard then was not “intoxicated” or “full” or “stewed” or “tight.” He was just plain “drunk.” A man didn’t “exaggerate”—he “lied.” Neither was a man “firm” when everybody knew he ‘was “pig-headed.” It" wasn't until ‘we got. more sophisticated {circa 1875) that we began ysing Geficate words for indelicate things.
August 13th
IN INDIANA HISTORY XY J. H. J. ARION COUNTY'S first jad, made of logs at a cost of $312, was. agoopled by Se
county commissioners. Aug. 13, 41822. The fas 'y structure, with an: outside stairway
Hae second floor, stood on the: ne
uare near the corner of Delaware and Mar-ket-sts. ’ ‘Except for the bars, the new jail, according to one county historian, looked: like a small, reThe specifications called for a space 14 feet square. inside the building and six-and-a-half-foot ceilings. Hewed logs 12 inches wide and “at least 12 inches thick” composed the walls. The roof was made of jointed shingles and the 12-inch window in the lower story, or dungeon, was closed with grate bars one and a quarter inches thick. The door of the Jail was four feet by two and made of two thick-
,| nesses of two-inch oak planking.
The only incident connected to this cozy little structuregwhich historians found worthy of note was its attempted burning in 1833. In that year a Ne wearing a black leather cap with a red leather band came to town" leading, sometimes riding, a buffalo. 7 This eccentric stranger was lodged in. the jail for some reason and set it on fire in an attempt to escape. For his pains, he came near to being burned to death. He did not escape.
A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ; HE best thing we could do for education would be to close the schools for a year and let the teachers take a sabbatical ‘leave to find out what's ‘going on in the world. All professional and trades people endanger the social system by segregating into: cliques. The doctors are so involved with their hospital affairs that half of them don’t understand the
‘minds jor the problems of their patients; law»
yers speak only the language of the law; and newspaper folk, ‘who boast of keeping a finger on ‘public , often mistake a slight accelera~ tion f e signs of a dangerous fever. .
wome life. ere of the-class-room he only touch it through contact with uvens and with others of ‘their profession. y subsist mainly on Denne. 3 whereas their — must face facts. Words and figures and labora
without due caution. Had they: gone ito, this a ie
gun h of “fired”; that a table-is “eet,” instead of “laid.”
~ | and demand as contrary to the pubignorant of the fact the ros opera
‘under free’ conditions would opera
An F oertaloly the schools are full of men. and | wip are utterly detached from ordinary { :
Ty experiments are the professors’ con= bl
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1t is the same lusty, bitter old
J§.| story of all pioneering—of the men
them by the waiting Easterners. But today, it seems to me, thers’
‘| is little ex¢itement to iron mining.
Modern iron mine drama lies only in the amazing developments of machinery, and in the immensity
‘J of the holes, they've gouged in the
earth. The development of an iron ore body . takes millions, and o big business can handle it. Millions have been made from this Minne-
| sota iron, but they were made by
lf | corporations, or by a few indviiduals
al | a ton for it.
with minds like corporations. . . There is no such. thing as. pure iron in a natural state. And even if there were, you would get only $9
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T is possible for there to be what the layman: would call pure iron —that is no dirt mixed with it. But
'§ | this “pure iron” would really be
The Hoosier Fora
. I wholly disagree with what you say, but will . . defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
(Times readezs are invited Aeipren their views in these, columns, religious controversies excluded.’ ‘Maks your letter short, so all ean have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be with held on Feudest.).
BELIEVES “ FREE COMPETITION By E. B, Swinney | . Apparently the economic Iw of nature are not enough: for our erudite college economists, but their efforts to improve them during the past three years have failed miserably. The trouble with these boys is, they don’t look below the surface. They are constantly mistaking effects for causes. They would abolish competition and the law of supply
lic welfare judged by results, wholly
bottles up: el resources; thereby reducing: employment opportunities, and by an. antiquated, stupid tax policy that retards production |
costs. Competition is ‘natur wheel: to prevent .
"balance eS an
beneficenfly as intended. To Henry
adopt his a an we ‘correct social and in‘without any Shange in human maliire,
8 ” TRAFFIC SOLUTION i RECOMMENDATIONS MADE By Jimmy Cafouros 3 affic is is becoming such a force in the lives of city people ‘and townspeople that it: will cone ‘to demand more and more attention. No locomotive engineer ever operated a crack passenger train, or even a switch engine, without a fitting apprenticeship. But there are people today operating motor cars that can race with the fastest locomotives: who receive licenses to operate motor vehicles on the strength of their |. assertion that they see. well, hear | well and are not insane. ... | Tt seems that much of this could bé remedied. A state authority, or even a county authority for that matter, ‘could be set up whose office it would be to pass on the fitness of persons intending to operate motor “vehicles. : All would be forced to 80 through . course of training prepare themselves for: the priviege of driv
pene would be some. sample. questhe subject physically capa-
| etal
and consumption: by Ymereaung)
pointed he should first be required to deposit surety bond and other security with the state. A judge should hold office as long as he behaves himself. He may do it for life if he wants to. The statute should define specifically and clearly the specific duties of each judge and lay down the absolute ‘distinction between the duties ‘which are “ministerial” and those which are “judicial.” ° If, on account of failure to perform some ministerial duty, a litigant to an action should suffer any damage, the judge should be civilly liable in damages to him the same as any other official would. The bond a judge deposits with the state should be sufficient to insure the payment of any judgment which may be recovered against him. As long as a person holds a judioffice he should not be permitted to meddle in any political activities 2 even express any opinion on public issues. He should always be renuired- to be strictly impartial - and neutral on all matters. If: the voting population : be dis satisfled with any judge, they should: have the right to petition the Governor or the Legislature to remove,
8 8 0 WANTS LOWER MORTGAGE
| INTEREST RATES
Br et in England was due not go much to homie construction, but ‘to the lowering of mortgage interest rates to 4 per cent. _ Pive and 6 per cent interest rates
‘l'are not justified. Rates in England
are below 5 per cent, and it is this fact that stimulated a demand for new construction. The high interest rate jeopardizes the safety of principal and retards construction, both for investment and homes.
Increasing prices may look like |
prosperity, but in the long run increasing prices wreck consumer buying power and create depression. High interest rates are responsible for the housing shortage, and a
relief roll of many construction. %
‘workers,
KANSAS STATE OF “mALLver-
NATION, SAYS ‘WRITER By Pat Hogan
Because of its geographical location Kansas is termed the “Central State,” but in reality it is a state of hallucination. Kansas is bounded on the south by Arkansas, on the west by WilHam Randolph Hearst, on the north
by William Allen White, on the east by the Blue Nose League. The chief industry of Kansas is Hot Air and Sunflower Oil, Inc. Kansans having distovered that sunflower 0il has-a greater vicosity
than goose grease, whale oil or curve.
grease, this remarkable oil is now applied to all heroes. There has never been a more religious anointing of any living creature than that applied to Alf M. Landon, who rode from obscurity into the limelight by straddling-a wave of hot air. Kansas first attained national repute by its magical recipe for a recipe for a President, which is: The wishbone of a goose, one Santa Claus, the undertow of a New Deal, one bale. of horse feathers; add enough ambiguity to suit the taste
| of prospective suckers.
The government of Kansas is controlled by Rip Van Winkle, who after his brief 20-year nap, has not as yet been fully awakened to ‘the distress of the aged, the children who toil in’ field and factory, and the school teachers ‘who are fortunate enough | to find a schoolhouse that is not locked up.
; . FIRST LOVE ‘BY DANIEL FRANCIS .CLANCY i and black ‘was Elizabeth's
As beautiful was her skin, white ; and fair— Though with a faint touch of brown, Faded slightly, worn down fa Sophisticated, a big city girl— When JOU ers with heér life was a £2 whir
She also had eyes of black— Brown, blue? Knowledge I lack To tell you the color of her eyes. I still love her, but all advise 3 To worry not, to forget That she and’ I'had ever met. But I can not. Yes, it is useless— That she was intelligent, I grant is ' ‘truthless. But the bliss of my first love doth ; still remain— On the question of First Love no one is sane.
DAILY THOUGHT - And when He was at the place,’ He said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.—Luke - hn. ’ :
realize God’s presence is the one sovereign remedy. against temptation.—Fenelon. .
COMMON ERRORS
Never say, “He was strict in the observation ‘of the rule”; say, “observance i the rule.”
SIDE GLANCES =v George Clarke
only 72 per cent iron. The rest would be oxygen. ° All Minnesota iron is shipped b! Great Lakes freighters to ports suc as Cleveland and Buffalo. The I at Cleveland is $4.50 a ton. It takes two tons of iron ore to make a ton of steel. The Minnesota mines work ‘only in-summer. Their activity is limited
‘1.{ tothe Great Lakes shipping sea.
son—about seven months. . There are two.types of iron ors mining—undergrdound and open-pit. Underground mining is. just like coal mining, through a shaft sunk in the ground. Open-pit mining is simply s stripe ping off the earth above the vein with power shovels, and then SCOOp=ing out the ore and putting if in cars. When this earth covering,’ or “overburden,” as they call it, is 90 feet thick, and when the vein itself goes down 350 feet farther and is ‘maybe a mile: wide and two miles long at that spot, you can see there will be quite a hole in the ground when they get through. Over east, on the Vermilion range, it is all shaft mining. The ore lies deep there; and some of the shafts go to 2000.feet. And the ore there is hard rock.
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ERE on the Mesaba range they have both kinds of mining, But mostly it is open-pit. And few of the" existing’ shaft’ mines” are working now. = Strip mining is cheaper.” Most of the ore here is soft, and you can shovel it like ‘ordinary dirt. In the 150-niile length of" the mile-wide “Iron Range” there arg soe 500 mines. ' biggest hole ‘ever made by a right here on the north edge of Hibbing. It scares you to stand on the brink and look down. A quar< ter of a billion tons of ore have come out of this pit—more than a billion dollars’ worth. Six different companies are mihing in this one hole . They started digging it 40 years 880. They’ re ony. half through now,
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the Ameticas Medical Association.
IDNEY disease is not so simple as it sounds, There are many types of kidney trouble, and ace cordingly, a thorough examination is necessary before any doctor can determine the particular type of kidney disturbance a person has.’ Both microscopic and chemical tests of the fluid from .each.kid= ney have to be made separately, and the organs must be put to what ars called functional tests, to determine their ability to get rid of fluid and other waste material from the body. There are many different. ways of causing increased = amounts water to flow through the kidneys, Taking an extra supply of water will do this; as will the taking of concentrated solutions of - sugar, coffee, or tea, or of large amounts of beer or mineral water. All these methods. act ‘in ditferght ways, however, and ‘what may be good for one type of kidney Hise ease may be entirely wrong for ane