Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1936 — Page 8
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THATS A LONG TIME
WwW= Congressman Sweeney of Ohio introduced Father Coughlin at the priest's personal convention in- Cleveland he termed him “the outstanding American of ail time.” We nominate Mr. Sweeney as our Olyfnpic entry for the running broad statement.
“WE CHOOSE PEACE!”
ELDOM, if ever, has President Roosevelt appeared to better advantage than in his Chautauqua speech last night. Seldom, if ever, has he chosen a more important text.
For nothing—not even the depression—can -
equal the menace of war, and nothing is quite so vital to America as peace. Quite as he said, mankind today faces a dark world. Ahead are almost certain “wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are entwined race hatreds . + it 1s as if within the territorial limits of
the United States, 48 nations with 48 forms |
of government, 48 customs barriers, 48 languages and 48 external and different verities, were spending their time and their substance in a frenzy of effort to make themselves strong ' enough to conquer their neighbors or strong enough to defend themselves against their neighbors, . . « “There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the ‘legacy of old, forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago’ There are newborn fanaticisms, convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and light.”
» t 2 ” OR was the picture the President painted one whit darker—more’s the pity—than « the daily deluge of facts from the four quarters of the globe fully warrant. In all truth, one does not need to be a pessimist to agree with his admission that he is “more concerned and ‘Jess cheerful about international world condi- . tions than about our immediate domestic prospects.” Against this somber background, the President drove home two points of supreme importance: First, that “peace, like charity, begins at home”; that we must set an exsmple
+ of peace in our own hemisphere. And, second,
should war break out in some other part of the world, we must make whatever sacrifices are necessary to keep from being involved. But, as the President quite rightly stressed, staying. -out o even. an unwanted war is not always easy.’ There is no royal road to peace, the President wisely warned. Congress, for example, has given the chief executive certain authority ‘to provide safeguards of neutrality in case ofl war. “Nevertheless,” he added—"and I speak from a long experience—the’ effective maintenance of American neutrality depends today, as in the past, on the wisdom and determination of whoever at the moment occupy . the offices of President and Becrstry of _ State.”
8 s 2 IKE it or not, we fear this is, always has ‘been and always will be true. The knowledge should make Americans vote with care. They may be casting a ballot for or against sending themselves or their sons to the trenches, ; Why this is so the President himself sets forth plainly: » “If war breaks out again in another continent,” said he, “let us not blink the fact that we would find in this country thousands of Americans who, seeking immediate riches— fool's gold—would attempt to break down or ' evade our neutrality. “They would tell you—and, unfortunately, their views would get wide publicity—that if they could produce and ship this and that to belligerent nations, the unemployed of America would all find work. They would tell you that if they could extend credit to warring nations that credit would be used in the United States to build homes and factories and pay our debts. They would tell you that America once ' more would capture the trade of the world.” , It would be hard to resist that clamor, the President reminded. And it would. Congress would be importuned to repeal‘ any neutrality . Jaws that stood in the way. It would take a President with an uncommon backbone, vision _ and leadership to withstand the pressure. That, _ plus the most intelligent public opinion. . And so, in the final analysis, the President put the issue squarely where it largely belongs —up to the American people. “If,” he said, “we face the choice of profits or peace, the nation will answer—must answer—we choose peace!”
WELCOME, DR. WILDMAN!
the sentiment of many in extending s welcome
and best wishes to Dr. Wildman in his new
PRIVATE ENTERP! SE ATE enterprise should ‘be taking a leading part in attempting to solve the
involves wholesale slum clearance | and we building of low-rent dwellings. 10, come other cities, ow: cast Rousing oper. ations of various New Deal agencies have resulted in the Federal government putting
terests. The result in some cases has been that protesting real estate men haye organized to devise a possible low-rent, housing program by private enterprise. Baliimore realtors, Tor exkmiple, met and announced they didn’t want the Federal government intruding in the Baltimore rental business. Their in effect, was, “if any slum clearance and low-rent housing projects are required in Baltimore, we will build them ourselves.” The Baltimore group formed s committee about a year ago and planned a comprehen-
the survey have been announced.
failed to develop decerit housing accommoda-
financially can cope with housing for ‘the lowest income groups. x This situation should focus attention on the projected low-cost housing experiment in Indianapolis, and on the work that the , Purdue
part of the experiment.
" MERIT PLAN GAINS Te movement for merit systems in In-
result of the South Bend City Council’s action in approving the establishment of ‘such a plan for the appointment, advancemént and retirement of all police and fire department employes below the rank of chief. + The council has named a committee to prepare an enabling act to be ‘Presented to the next Legislature. Other cities, invited by South Bend to ‘appoint similar committees, should take advantage of this opportunity to work for improvement of their personnel management. : Sv Which reminds us: What have our own city officials done about making a true merit system of the present incomplete merit setup?
AL’S ALMA MATER WEEN Fulton Fish Market collapsed from old age and slid from its moorings in New York's East Side into the river, its wreckage injured a night watchman, The passing of this landmark doubtless also gave a tug at . the heartstrings of its most famous alumnus, Alfred E. Smith of the Brown Derby. : Al was proud of his alma mater. Once in 1911 during a debate in the New York Legislature, a fellow assemblyman announced that the crew of his eollege-~Cornail=—had just won the regatta.
hlyman Smith replied. “What's that, Al?” “Fulton Fish- Market” xeplied the man who: wa fo be Govertior and presidential candidate. -. Probably Al, now boss of Empire State Building and a familiar of “well-stocked clubs,” still is proud of the fact that he began his ‘career in that fish. market as a boy at $12 a week, We wonder if he is proud that money succéss has led him so far away from the ‘humble folks among whom he grew up that he finds himself now talking poltiical language they don't understand.
MORE TELEPHONES N the first of this month there were 4134 more telephones in Indianapolis and: 12,061 more in the state than there were a year ago. Many persons who regarded the telephones as more a luxury than some other things had their phones removed during the depression. Although the number in use now does not equal former peak figures, the gains are significant, for the experts consider in< creased, telephone installations as a “second phase” of recovery. Most depression-struck families don’t get a telephone until they take care of other needs. The telephone, however, isn’t a luxury in this counfry any more. The United States has more than half of all the telephones in | &¢ the world—16,868,955 out. of 33,539,800. : We have 13.36 telephones for each 100 population, against 1.58 pep 100 for the entire world,
“‘I'manP. F. M. man.”
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TRADE, AND THE CAMPAIGN TT Republican platform pledges repeal of the Reciprocal - Trade Agreement law, saying: “It is futile and dangerous. Its effect on agriculture and industry has been Hestauctive.” That part of the platform, it is dhiddntood, was written at the instance of George N. Peek, Who left the New Deal when the Roosevelt Ad-
pe Landon.
If Gov. Landon evolves any foreign trade policy he will have to go beyond the Repub-
international trade. Should the Peek idea ‘of selective imports.
something of a “squeeze” on real estate in- |
sive survey, of the housing situation. Tt also | wu planned a locally financed corporation to clear |. away objectionable slums and provide modern apartments for slum-dwellers. No results of |
tions. that can be rented by the very poor. | Some persons doubt that private enterprise |
Housing. Research Project fs doing’ Here as
diana cities has gained momentum as 8
“It doesn’t mean anything to me,” Assems ‘
| Punishment for larceny of less than $1.50.
ministration refused to abandon its feciprocity | program, and who has been conferring |g
lican platform, which on the one hand would | keep competitive imports out of the American | market, and gn the other would promote more
and exports with selective countries be grafted | i. Sul Rai orm of shy jut
acute Indianapolis housing - problem, which | +
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| Gompers in his autobiography, “these discus-
sions in the shops were more like public de-
‘The workers subscribed to several Tabor papers and Gompers read to them all the writings of Marx, Engela and Lassalle. Into the shop, too, came Ferdinand Laurrell, a Swede, who had been in the Marxian Socialist organization; also J. P. McDonnell, an exile, who ‘had spent several years in the office of Karl Marx
was in the cigar shop that Samuel Goms pers tested his theories and acquired what he called his “intuitions.” In his autobiography, “Seventy Years,” Mr. Gompers has a lot to say about his “intuitions.” What he meant, apparently, was a highly intellectual method, of experimental research in testing out all the theories he came upon and Hisasuring just how far they would work or not work. Contrasting himself “with the “intellectuals” whom he always distrusted and opposed, he said: “These facts I knew ihtuitively and have turned them around in my mind during the decades I have been in the movement, put it is an understsnding that. those outside of - the movement rarely grasp.” The funny part of Mr. Gompers* stay in Indianapolis is that nobody suspected him of having “intuitions.” Everybody around here called: it “Gompers’. hunch. » :
August 15th ;
IN INDIANA HISTORY Y J. H J.
UG. 15, 1795, Gov. St. Clair and two judges of the Northwest Territory were in a lawmaking conference. From this meeting came 38 laws, among them a law for the trial and
« It- provided that any person convicted before two justices of the peace of having stolen any money, goods or chattels being under the value: of 5 shillings or 150 cents shail be whipped publicly on “his or her bare back, not exceeding 15 lashes” or fined not more than $3. If the thief was able to make a restitution He was also required to pay the charges of the whipping and prosecution... If he was unable to make - restitution, he could be sent to. the workhouse to be. kept at hard labor or commit ted to prison for & term-not to exceed 12 days. As those’ lashes descended at the rate of one lash for every 10 cents stolen, many must have been the petty pilferer who wished that he had hosed the maxim about honesty being the best policy.
A Woman? 5 Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Dx S. PARKES CADMAN left an estate of less than $10,000. These are the words used
by the court and the newspapers. Yet no one knows even a little about Dr. Cadman’s life; which -
how poorly they’ BE the wealth he left, to the world. * The boy who toiled his way from poverty to fame left the kind of fortune’ which all of us should want to leave—the richness of his love which was poured out upon ghe undeserv-
ing as well as the deserving. He left an indeli-
ble ie mpring 1 upon all with whom he came in con= case { happened to be many. Millions of fearful, sorrowing people, questing after spiritual sustenance, were-fed by him. No fool ‘was too stupid, no rogue too evil to lack his interest and concern. He gave to all from Tis store of faith and hope. He had visions and he spoke of them. He dreamed dreams for humanity and tried to make them come true. Stacks of bonds, towering bt and wide acres are good things for men to leave behind them, but not so good as the intangible ‘which the few like Dr. Cadman bequeath to their families and fellows. Man's life was not meant to be. spent in
accumulating wealth. It was given Mi ‘him for |
some aim more noble,
who writes a couplet which is long. ne Doe h
gives his best to posterity—and the best is all than any of us can do. ; yo
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1 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, 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.) re 8 8 : SCORES EDITORIAL ON MRS. ROOSEVELT By M. R. Kuehn, Richmond
Times of recent date reveals more about the editor than it does about Mrs. Landon or Mrs. Landon’s mother or Mrs. Roosevelt. The Times editor went to some pains to wipe out the “contrast”. between Mrs. Landon and Mrs. Roosevelt. .He studiously wrought for a “comparison” and, after having
" || strained he got not only similarity, 1 he - got likeness—he got identity! |
These fwo people ‘are so much alike that you can’t tell them. apart! Twin, Mr. Editor? Mrs. Landon is just: like Mrs. “Roosevelt! So that’s your Honest judgment, Or, has protective coloration gotten the better of you? That's the impression one gets in réading “Mefher Knows Best.” As a try at making these two women look like a pair of. twins, it 1s too strained. we What Mrs. Landon’s mother told the reporter might have been more or less true about her daughter. And for that matter, about my daughter. ‘But the materials there given ‘are not, by a long shot, ample to put Mrs. Landon in the kangaroojumping category of Mrs. Roosevelt. I don’t know what women think about Mrs. Roosevelt. I do know this that her incessant exhibitions of that “I-never-had-a-chance-to-‘do-this-when-I-was-young” complex (synthetic, of course) must please a lot of the girls! They're getting a vicarious experienice out, of it anyhow. A kick, maybe. Mrs, Roosevelt is quite aware of this by this time. She must know that her “just-being-herself” is interpreted by the girls as a cue to them ‘to do whatever they please. And in watching her daily stunt flying and parachute drops, they lose sight of that fact that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt are doing { oodles of money that the gir EE do area. ie SE or of their own 98-cent purses! Yes, Mrs. Landon is “herself” and Mrs. Roosevelt. is “herself” but Mrs, a is not Mrs. Landon and Mrs. Ldndon is not Mrs. Roosevelt. What is plainly clear is that the} Roosevelts are trying desperately to save their hide and their Hyde Park pride. One can not censure them for that. But we readers of The Times have some pride too, and a
. “Mother Knows Best” in The]
th ‘clally, the ones Spiers =
the Roosevelt Administration for restoring prosperity to the masses. Knox’ whole series of knocks was an attempt to make believe that we are now on the rocks, and would be. as long as the New Deal is:in power,
.|when the fact is it was.the New.
Deal that saved us from the Hoover rocks, to which rocks, Knox would have us:return by his knocks. How any one would have the gall to stand before an audience supposedly intelligeni, and talk such stuff as did Knox at Connersville last Saturday night is indeed incomprehensible. But Knox had bis ‘knocks and Knox’ knocks just had to be Selivered. ;
READER GRATEFUL TO BOLTING DEMOCRATS By. Jack Raper ‘Those walking £emocrats who met in Detroit. deserve our thanks for a few novelties they introduced
in their convention, if you ean-call
a meeting of that size a convention, ‘They didn’t have a keynoter,
‘I'which prevented the newspapers ‘from filling a whole page with bom-
bast that nobody would read. None of their speeches messed up radio sets. There was no parade of delegates carrying state banners. No candidate sang “I hear you calling me” and no committee was appointed to notify a candidate that he had bean nominated. 80 far as I could learn no Detroit hotel had to put up cots in the halls. Such a thing was entirely un-
necessary, as those Democrats are
walking in their sleep. t J s a G. 0. P. RECORD CITED AGAINST KNOX By LeRoy S. Moore, Bedford Col. Frank Knox in explaining to the people of Indiana - what his party had to offer said: “Unleash recovery and return millions of unemployed to honest work.” The people of this state have long wondered why the G. O. P. failed to un~ snap the halter during the Hoover regime. However; the colonel had nothing to say in this regard. He also proposed to “drive out the n | sweatshop and the exploiting emf | ployer” and to “battle monopolies.” ‘Let us look at the record and see if
‘the colonel knows whereof he
speaks. .The people of this state and the whole United Siajesvespethese YA suc‘ceeded in accomplishing the very ‘thing of which the colonel speaks. The was then done away with by the Supreme Court and apolaud‘ed by the G. O. P. for so doing. ~The colonel then says: “Instead
of the NRA we propose to have freedom of enterprise.” No doubt of that—freedom of enterprise to exploit the employe as always is the rule under Republic reign. Under the pretense of young blood taking over the party and injecting it with liberal and progressive leaders the Republican Party displaced Chairman Fletcher with young John Hamilton. Close scrutiny reveals the new chairman no more liberal than the rest of the lot. Young} John Hamilton's politics in Kansas show he was a leader against the child’ labor amendment. There has been no © change inn the light brigade. 2 -» . INSISTS EDGEWOOD FAVORS ‘GAS EXTENSION , By William Fowler, Edgewood I‘would like to know where C. S. got his information about putting gas. out toward Edgewood. He didn’t make -very ‘many Anquiries because better than half the
people in Edgewood want gas.
I live there and everybody I know wants it. They have been trying for years to .get gas and only lately succeeded. You can rest assured that almost everybody that can use it will have if piped in. I would like to know why C. 8. doesn’t want gas. Is it because he can’t use it, or hasn't got the money to have it laid in?
PIXY PRANKS BY BARBARA G. GRIFFITH
Fresh blossoms bright and lovely Bloomed on the trumpet vine,
our lucky day had come— When these sweet eA flowers Began to buzz and hum. We figured that some brownies Had climbed this trumpet tree— To stir the quiet country.
With pixy harmony. But though we sauntered closer
To hear their melodies; We very soon retreated, Our brownies were ‘the bees,
DAILY THOUGHT But let every man prove his
own work, and then shall he have |
‘rejoicing in himself aloe, and not ‘in another.—Galatians 6 :
HE fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. — Vauvenargues.
- COMMON ERRORS
Never say, “Most ‘all my friends were there”; say, “Almost all my
friends~"
n lahd, I lease. it to 5 They give me so much for each ton of ore they take out. This is royalty. The state gets 6 per cent of the royalty. But I don't ‘pay it. The mining company pays it. The lease specifies that) An ad valorem tax on 50 per {of the true value of the ore
cen - left in the land. (I own land, with
iron ore under it. The state values it, depending on the grade of ore, and the length of time it will last, and so on. Say they value:it at 77 cents a ton, which is about the average. - Then on half -of that valuation I have to pay every. year - whatever tax rate is set in accord. ance. with: the needs -of the town, school district, county and -state, ‘Only I don’t pay it, for my land is leased to mining companies for fu. ture use. They pay it. , 4. In addition to these three, there is the regular income tax, and a fee averaging 25 cents a ton for all ore taken from state-owned land, of which there is quite a bit in the Iron Range. Which makes, altogether, five taxes or fees on. the mining companies. TE. : TT companies say they object to only one of these—the ad valorem tax. They don’t object, they say, to the theory of taxing what lies untouched in the ground, but they object to the high valuation. And they object to what they call the elaborate spending in Minnesota which makes such a high tax necessary. . Those on the side of high taxation argue that the mineral belongs to the people, and that they have a right to retain as much: of - the profits as the traffic will bear. Purther, a large part of it goes into a state trust fund that can’t be squane : dered. The fund now has $85,000,« 000 in it. . Some people argue that he ‘high taxes are confiscatory, that they are choking the industry, and shutting | down mines, and throwing people mn relief. : Sa ar ” ‘. UT here is an answer to thats -. Almost all ‘mining on {he range is done by subsidiaries of big Easte ern - steel companies. Every. important: ore consumer in this coun» try (exeept Henry Ford) has its own mining company right-here. £
much ore as: the: parent companiés in Cleveland and Pittsburgh tell them. to.. . So, even if the taxes were it 1n half, you don’t think the big cohipanies ‘would mine a lot of ore they didn’t need just for the fun of mining, do you? No, 'it isn’t the |
{taxes that are taking the ry jobs—it's partly the depression, and =
partly machinery : Maybe the people have nt more than they needed to, wh has meant higher taxation “than necessary. -But you know how it is—the old American trait, get your dollar while you can. And on the other hand, how about this kind of reasoning: If the mining éompanies are 1os~ ing money, then the taxes are too all rig el, they're aking money
Your Health
BY. DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Jqurnsi of the Ameriéen | Medical Association. ; J AL exceedingly common trouble which still gives the medical profession a great deal of concern is ordinary nose bleed. This tisually is due to some damage to the small blood vessels in the septum. Indeed, 90 per pos o all nose bleeds are said to. from he blood vessels in the
+ SIDE GLANCES By George | Clarke | oA gi
to the point at which it occurs. If, as occasionally.
‘These companies mine just as