Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1936 — Page 10
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AUGUST 17, 1936,
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Give light and the People Wilt Find
MONDAY,
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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. "FP HE greatest social movement which has
been accomplished since the foundation of the Third Republic has been done without ‘any shedding of blood, but by persuasion only.” With evident pride France's Socialist Pre-
« mier Leon Blum made this his valedictory be-
fore the first Popular Front Parliament as it put away its speeches and went home for a well earned rest. ~~ Well earned is right. It passed 65 new laws ~many-of them of a nature , calculated to change France's social structure almost as radically as did those which followed the fall of And it was all done in a session Which lasted only 10 weeks. These laws give France a 40-hour week, collective bargaining between ‘employes and em-
" ployers, vacations with pay, nationalization of , @8rmament manufacture, a longer school period
for children, tax reforms with penalties for evasions, a reformed Bank of France, a new wheat board to control the whole trade from production to bakery, coal control, and so forth
and so on.
That France was able to effect such a revo-
~ Jution without bloodshed is a handsome feather
in her phrygian cap. While across the Pyrenees her Spanish cousins are tearing each other to
* pieces over political differences, even the con=- ~ servative French senate agreed to the changes.
“We do not agree with all that is proposed,” France's upper chamber said, in effect. “But that is what the electorate seem to want.” Thus France proves her claim, with America and Great Britain, to be one of the world’s three great democracies. True, it remains to be seen how well her reforms work. Critics say they will raise living costs to the masses, lead to devalued franc, cripple French exports and otherwise do more harm than good. Maybe so and maybe not. Anyway, fundamentally that is far less important than the fact that such radical departures from the established system can be made without the spilling of blood. Life is no static thing. Cultural “civiliza-
tion” is at least a century behind what we call |
science. Government still rides in a chaise while science rides the clouds. Government is It can stand a lot of im-
provement. Merely to abolish actual hunger
+» and want from the very door of 50 per cent oi
the world’s population will take a terrific amount of endeavor. But the vital thing, we repeat, is to be able effect these changes by ballols instead of
bullets, Nations able to do so are very few
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e « « and very fortunate.
JUDGE WILLIAM A. PICKENS HE death of Judge William A. Pickens of Superior Court deprives the community of one of its most highly regarded citizens and Jurists. , Judge Pickens spent his 78 active years in Indiana. From Spencer, his birthplace, he came to Indianapolis in 1893, with a reputation as a railroad attorney and former deputy prosecutor already established. From a distinguished legal career in Indianapolis, which saw him honored with the presidency of the Indianapolis Bar Association in 1911 and of the Indiana State Bar Association in 1926-27, he was elected to the Superior Court bench
"In 1930, Re-elected in 1934, he carried on his
work until recently with such vigor -that few persons thought of his age. He was the oldest playing member of the Riverside Golf Club. With Judge Pickens’ death there is another
~ gap in that colony of sturdy citizens who saw ~ Indianapolis grow from a sprawling town into
a metropolis, and who lent a hand in its development.
HELPING THE JOBLESS NLY five states, among which is Gov. : Landon’s state of Kansas, have so far failed to accept provisions of the WagnerPeyser Act setting up free Federal-state employment exchanges. Otherwise, Labor Department figures reveal that the three-year-old law is being put into operation all over the United States. ~ The Wagner-Peyser Act went into effect July 1, 1933. Today 43 states are affiliated
‘act. Only Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan and Montana have taken no action un“der the measure. : ; Kansas operates five free state employment exchanges under an old state law, but
in 36 states, the government operates 1399.
National Re-employment Service offices, un-
District of Columbia, Of these, 80 are in
This is the conclusion drawn from a study of speed and drivers’ license laws, a survey that shows the need of such laws to curb
mounting death and injury tolls on the high- olen
ways. Sr Indiana's fee-collecting “license” act 1s termed utterly inadequate by national traffic experts because there is no provision for examining drivers. We have no state. speed limit. Partly because of these factors, Indiana has one of the highest accident death rates in the country. Last year one in every 2600 Hoosiers died in a motor vehicle accident. States with standard drivers’ license laws
have cut their automobile death rate more |
than one-fifth in the last 10 years. Other states have had increases up to 35 per cent, Rhode Island, with adequate drivers’ laws and a 35-mile-an-hour speed limit, is the safest state in the Union. Its death fate is one in 6000. Massachusetts, one of the next safest, has excellent drivers’ laws but no speed limit. Nevada, with a traffic death rate of one in 1166, is the most dangerous state and also the smallest in population. It has no effective license laws, no speed limit, and any one over 15 may drive. High speed by incompetent drivers is stark ly dangerous, but the hazard lessens as regulation and examination of drivers increase. Yet in spite of the proven relationship between - the death rate and drivers’ laws, only 20 states now have adequate legislation. AEE The matter is too serious for Indiana to: continue as a state that fails to safeguard the public against careless, incompetent operators at the wheels of high-speed motor cars.
STATEHOUSE SPRUCES UP
MA Hoosiers were blushing a few weeks ago over the run-down condition of the Statehouse grounds. But now the .caretskers have given the Statehouse lawn a hair cut: They have combed last fall's dead leaves from the shrubbery. /They have pruned the bushes of winter-dead branches, They have ‘picked up the paper and cut down the knee-high weeds. Once again the Statehouse looks dignified and imposing in a setting of green, for color has compe back to the once-neglected grass. So we congratulate the State of Indiana for rolling up its shirt sleeves, gripping a lawn mower and hoe and doing what ‘every proud home owner does as part of his responsibility in owning land,
NEGRO FARMERS
ULLY A, COBB, who was born in Tennessee, educated in Mississippi ‘and. lives in Georgia, was sent to address Negro agricul-
tural leaders and farmers at Prairie View, Tex.
-As director of the Southern division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Mr. Cobb presented figures to show that Negro farm owners have increased in number under AAA, and have not been dispossessed in the South as commonly has been charged. His figures showed that there were approximately 233,222 Negro farm owners in 1920, and
tthe number decreased fo 194,540 in 1925 and |’
was down to 182,019 in 1930. : Since the New Deal and its AAA programs, the number has.again increased to 186,065. These farms are largely devoted to cotton production, and a bale worth $37.40 in 1932 brought $90, with AAA benefit payments, in 1935, Lp nT ‘Mr, Cobb summed up the Administration's case by saying: “The problems of the white farmer and the colored farmer are: the, same problems. A policy which helps one helps the other. ‘There
is no place for race prejudice in any national
program for the welfare of agriculture.” This stand is in line with New Deal pro--cedure at the Philadelphia convention, where they allowed a Negro to speak Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith of South Carolina to gohome and sulk,
WELCOME, CARRIERS
ITH a different convention every few. days and with a reputation as one of the ‘country’s key convention cities, Iridianapolis may occasionally take some of these meetings as a matter of course. But this can not be said of the annual convention here this week of the National Rural Letter Carriers Associa“tion. The Indiana Rural Letter Carriers Association, as well as officials of the national association who have been here several days, have worked hard to assure the success’of the sessions which open tonight. A crowd of 8000 to 10,000 is expected. : To the men who carry the mail for rural America, and to their wives, the people of Indianapolis extend a hearty welcome.
THE SLOGANEERS
YY EIuER i because the dog days are upon -us or just bad luck, the fact is that the poets and sloganeers of both major ‘parties are getting off to a bad start. The “Three Long Years” intoned by Key‘noter Steiwer at Cleveland probably discourjaged the: Republican troubadors. - Geared to the tune of “Three Blind Mice,” it somehow suggesicd “two long ears.” The “Oh! Susanna” theme was not much better. Then “Thé Trumpeter, organ of the Young Republicans, decided to stir up the party bards with prizes for the best anti-New Deal poem, It came: “We went out to seek a “Great man from Topeka ; : “And all cried Eureka! The Leader is found! “And now we all stand on “Who Jeads our whole band on American » :
All of them Weren't as bad as that, but it
If a boy killed a ‘toad, his father’s cow would give bloody milk: : If one pared his nails on Sunday, he'd be
If the nose itched, a visitor was likely to come and with him no end of trouble. :
-# 2 8 } } LL of which gives me a chance to say that
‘notorious one was a widow who lived on the southeast corner of Maryland-st and Capitol-av,
half a block of where this paper is published.
against and it’s a matter of local folklore that she took it out mostly on the neighbors’ cows. Sometimes, too, the calves died or the cows had “hollow horns” or the “tail worm.” In such cases it was deemed proper to apply a remedy
but it didn’t seem to do much good. ' Not enough, anyway, for the old lady went right ahead practicing witchcraft, and she got so good at it that she could cast a spell anywhere in town without leaving home. .
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NCE upon a time, the widow bewitched a boy living on the southeast corner of Washington and Alabama-sts which, if you make due allowances for turns and mud holes’ at the time, was all of a mile from her home.
The boy was full of evil spirits and got feel-
against it. That's why the Rev. John L. RichMond of the Baptist Church was called in on e case.
In the presence of the awe-struck. family, the Rev. Richmond mixed a charm in the shape. of a ball of ‘cat's hair and hog’s lard. After a proper. incantation, accompanied by a ‘wild waving of the hands, he threw. the ball into the fire. The lard blazed up like nobody’s business and as it. burned the lights in the house were put out till at last all was dark.
house sprinkling beef blood as he. went to indicgte that the witch’s blood had been spilled. Mr. Barrett was supposed to be the defeated and exorcised witch. See? The boy was cured immediately. In another week he was full of fits again and the whole ceremony was repeated. This time it didn’t work so well. Sa It didn’t have to work this time because the ‘next. day the widow got in the way of one of
lessness, .-Nemesis, the Greeks-called it. \
“The boy got well after that and lived to be 96 “years old. :
y = August 17th IN INDIANA HISTORY Rein -BY J. H. J. NV =a Tess days and lightless nights were the daily order of life in August, 1918. In order to keep the boys at the front supplied with
what they needed, citizens at home were doing without food and conveniences. !
An editorial in the Indiana ‘Daily Times
‘| Aug: 17 expressed satisfaction with the way the
‘state and county fuel administrators were conducting their duties. Martin ‘Rehfuss Jr. was
| Marion County fuel administrator, while Evans
Woollen, ‘with the assistance of A. R. Holliday,
"handled the state job.
Mr. Rehfuss expressed himself as pleased with the way : Marion County residents were co-
day nights. ; * Purpose of the nation-wide conservation program was the saving of coal, which was urgently needed by factories turning .out war materials. It was estimated that the two lightless nights a week would save 1,000,000 tons of coal in a year. Remembering how eagerly we went without
| meat, sugar, fuel and light and ‘bought Liberty
‘Bonds and War Saving Stamps—remember the slogan: “Every time you lick a War Savings
and a little ridiculous that we can not bring the same whole-hearted co-operation to ‘bear on peace-time. problems of depression and. uhemployment.
A Woman’s Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
‘most regretiable marks of middle age; there is also the loss of enthusiasm for adventure. If you do not believe that, follow my example and take a long motor trip with only your children ‘for companions. ST You will discover that your zest for romance
ness had increased I swore to myself that I would never slacken my pace, nor haul down the flag of enthusiasm. The fact that I am yet alive to write the words is testimony to my fortitude, for no Spartan ever faced more hazards or showed more patience under torture.
first-born at the wheel,.and not many miles had sped: when I realized it would take prayer as well as determination .to stem the constantly i Sh admonitions which surged’ to my . - The family failed to notice these } however. The junior: as jumping beans. No apprehensions dampe their spirits. They did not expect to meet dis-
night when we shot down a mountain a tropical deluge, all were happy as larks.* | There were many moments on the trip w! I ould not have | gambled a copper centavo our lives. But these fears were incomprehen sible Jo my enspring. For jhe sense of ture is a nat reaction to change,
A Indianapolis once had witches. ‘The most|
which, if you -know your geography, is within |" She could bewitch anything she had a grudge |
made up mostly of incantations and medicine, |
ing so wretched that even the doctors were up |
At this stage, Mr. Barrett ran through the |
our Indianapolis ‘police.
her bewitched bulls and got gored for her care-
operating in the program which called for no. ’| electric lights to.be burned on Monday and Tues-
Stamp you paste the Kaiser?”—it seems too bad
has gone. Having a suspicion that my’ stodgi- | We were headed toward Mexico with the’
repressiohs, Fergusons were as Hvely.
aster around every curve, and on one black}
footsteps of ‘the {we
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The Hoosier Forum 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 withheld on request.)
2 ® = THANKS OFFICER FOR
COURTEOUS ACTION By Kenneth L. Hunt and’ Martin Haberern ; t i There has appeared in. recent issues of The Times criticisms toward
day, Aug. 8, 1936, I was unfortunate enough to get my eyes burned by some steel from the machine I was working on. This occurred at 7:30 oclock and at 7:45 Mr. Haberern and I were in the downtown district on: our way to the doctor. Mr. Haberern. was driving and when he came t6 Meridian and Washington
‘| he wished to make a left turn so as
to get to the doctor’s office as soon
| as possible.
At that corner Officer Forrest Allison was on duty; to make a left turn we, of course: must get pers ‘mission to do so. Mr. Haberern
"| stated the reason in a few words and
Officer Allison responded in a courteous, gentlemanly way and we wish to go on record stating that our city police are courteous and intelligent in a crisis and. perfect gen= tlemen. ; Sof : : Good luck to Officer Allison and many, many -thanks. ® ” 2 | PROTESTS ALLEGED ACTION
| BY COURTS .
By Disillusioned Democrat ; ‘Recently a politician, posing as an officer, assaulted a 70-year-old man whom he accused of running a stoplight. The politician was halled into court and discharged with a meaningless warning. | ERE Bl) © Then a young chap from Mooresville was ‘arrested for violating the
| silly, racketeering overtime parking
ordinance. He was thrown into ‘jail at 6p. m. and denied the privilege of communicating with friends until 1 a. m. He was fined $56. drei ‘It's a lousy, rotten condition.
® =u » - DEDICATES VERSE TO 'G. 8S. HOLMES By T. D. D. \ To Mr. George Sanford Holmes: “Al” is, as he has ever been, on the straight path. :
| God bless you “Al” you noble soul! Gane, hair and wrinkles are not the:
The man within you living, No. shoddy puppets can control: With all their spendthrift “giving.” You raised our people’s banner high Showing strategy and maneuver, Achieving fame that ne'er shall die When the Ku-Klux planted Hoover. oii
And now those onslaughts from within ; ‘The shadows of your party, Sustained by World-Court Franklin, Will find you hale and hearty. u still can show “depressions”
myth; . And to each, its torture who's felt |
Tis Alfred nonprohibition
On Satur- | sts
| with.
ing * warring factions .backing him and moving heaven and earth to push him into office and set up a puppet -government. Here is a man °*who has never faced a real issue. Picture him between the vicious cross-fire of Hearst and labor unions, William Allen White and the old guard, the Dupont Liberty League and dis-
_Itressed farmers, the unemployed and
Wall Street. In a short time he would be a fit subject for the alien-
Abraham Lincoln must groan in his grave when the G. O. P. spokesmen try to attach his noble qualities to a man who does not and never can have them; and no amount of empty oratory will convince the peoplé that he is capable of guiding the nation through its present grave issues.
8 = ” \ EDINBURG PLANT REPORT ‘IS INVESTIGATED y' Mrs. Minnie Hardin, Edinburg ] "A reduction plant just above the Blue River bridge at Edinburg is polluting the river. We have a public swimming pool and playground just above this place and the smell of this pollution is bad in Edinburg. Some people call it odor but it has got past that stage. I guess you can see what we have to put up
Do sesnnsiy
By W. H. ‘Frazier, Secretary, the Stream Pollution Board. ;
Investigation shows that the reduction plant mentioned by Mrs. Hardin is not now polluting ‘Blue River ‘at Edinburg. The plant drains waste from a septic tank into dry wells. One of the wells has an over= flow connection into the river and the Stream Pollution Board is going to order it taken out, for it might mean pollution in the future. However, we have unfavorable reports of sanitary conditions in the plant and are going to ask an investigation by the state veterinarian. ” 2 ” ! FATHER COUGHLIN WON'T STOP FIGHT, READER SAYS By Fred P. Brewer : The -Scripps-Howard newspapers are eager to find a flaw in Father Coughlin’s campaign. = Tuesday, Aug. 4, a large headline said “Curb
‘Coughlin, Bishop Advised, Vatican Report.” = The Scripps - Howard
“| newspapers are one among many
of Father Coughlibys ig ace This paper would rejoice Father Coughlin “muzzled.” They ‘will be disappointed. This man, for the people, will not stop fighting our government. : "N. U. 8. J. is becoming stronger
every day. This paper's slogan is Give Light and the People Will Find the Way. If Father Coughlin
is misinforming the people about
crooked politicians and our money system, why doesn’t this paper expose him? It can obtain his book called “Money.” The contents of this book are the subjects. broadcast for over a year. . If Father Coughlin’s words are true, this paper should change their slogan to give the people propaganda and the people will find our way. ” ”» ” PROTESTS ‘SWEATSHOP
CONDITIONS HERE By Subscriber .
If there are any who think the sweatshop hasn't returned they are mistaken. A certain canning firm in the city has lengthened hours and cut a low wage lower. It is now working on what are known as non-perishable goods and emploves are worked in two shifts of nine
and one-half hours or more seven days and nights per week. Not even one day of rest on Sunday. How much longer are we going to allow nine old men of whom most were former corporation “mouthpieces” usurp their power and knock out constructive labor legislation? Who is the government in this country, the people or these nine old men?
‘A CHALLENGE
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY I felt like shouting long and loud Today, because I saw a cloud, A cloud which seemed to speak of rain, : (But such appraisal was in vain) It melted into azure blue, And vanished as dreams most times
do, Leaving behind the urge for man To challenge droughts as best he
can wr And transport moisture from river and sea E’er science and man end piteously.
DAILY THOUGHT
For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not His prisoners.— Psalms 69:33.
T is not from the tall, crowded
workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.—Theodore Parker.
COMMON ERRORS
Never say, “It was no use”; “of no use.” a
say,
Or Frankia World-Court Roose- | fe
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Vagabond
Indiana ERNIE PYLE.
". EDITOR'S NOTE~This roving reporter for The Times goes where ho pleases,
IRCHDALE, Minn, Aug. 17/— “Don’t you want to go the tower with me?” the forest ranger asked. We were in the living room of the
‘ranger’s big log house up here by
the Canadian border. I said: “No, I guess not now. Some other time, . I've got to get on to Baudette.” I wandered out into the kitchen and looked out the door at the steel ° tower back of the cabin. I don’t know yet what made me - say it, but all of a sudden I heard these awful words coming out of my mouth: “Oh sure, I guess I might as well go up, now; that I'm here.” -- We walked out toward it. It.2 looked like the Eiffel Tower to me. = “How high is it?” I asked. “Eighty feet,” the ranger said. - “What's that wire tunnel around - the ladder all the way up?” I said.’x “That’s so if you lose your grip and fall backward, you'll hit the wire and it'll give you & chance to catch a new grip,” the ranger said. 2» =n HE tower is steel. The ladder runs straight up. It isn't any stairway, it's a steel ladder, & foot wide and 80 feet high. “I'll go first,” the ranger said. He started up, with me right behind him. Only once did I look down. That was about 30 feet up. It made me weak. I thought I must yell to the ranger that I was going back down, But he would think I was a sissy. So I kept going. I knew if I ever paused I was whipped. Only once did I look up... The first time the top looked a mile . away. The second time it was right above me. And a good thing, too, - for I was puffing hard, and my fin-
| gers were getting weak from squeez-
ing each rung to death, and my leg muscles were giving out. The wind was blowing around us up there. The ranger went through the trap-door into the little bird-house up there. I was right behind. He shut the door. All I could say was: “I'm clear out of breath. I can't talk.” And he said, “I am, too.” We both just stood and panted, like dogs, for a full minute before either of us could say another word. We could look around at the scrub for-
Canada. ’ » » 8 , AROLD PUGH is a towerman for the State Forest Service. . He has been at this station six years, ever since it was built. The Rangers up here. work only six months a year. They're through in November. ' No forest fires after that. They do. whatever they can in winter. The country is full of small fires now. I had been driving off and on through hazy smoke all afternoon. . We could see three big clouds of smoke in the distance. Towerman Pugh had just got back from seeing about one when I drove up. He had spotted it from his tower, and sped over there in his car. But a farmer already had his tractor and plows out to turn up fresh earth in front of it. That was enough. . They had been fighting the other - fire three days. Had about 20 men on it, : ; Fire fighters get 20 cents an hour. The ranger recruits them from the countryside. “When a fire is: getting out of
| control, I start out and take any-
body I see,” the ranger said. “I'm supposed to take the first ones I come to, even if it’s the preacher. I could even stop a train and make everybody get out and help fight. Only there isn’t any train. I'd have to go across the river into Canada. It has been done, though.”
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal ef the American Medieal Association. TH ‘ the daily routine of any office we soon meet certain. persons who are afflicted with: the condition commonly called “nerves.” They are easily excited, quite irri- - table, and disturbed about ‘the temperature, a draft, the sunlight or some other minor physical factor. - Everybody ‘knows t weakness
‘of sight or of hearing y. seriously
interfere with the ability of a person to make good in employment, but few people realize that emotional instability may be even a more serious factor in relation to working: conditions. * _— ‘people may be of equal in-
ests for 20 miles, and clear over into .