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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.

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Penple Will Fina Their Own Way

MONOPOLY HE Republican platform this year has a stout, anti- -monopoly plank. It declares that private monopoly is “indefensible and intolerable,” and a menace to “constitutional government and liberty.” It promises vigorous enforcement of criminal as well as civil laws against monopoly, and “such additional legislation as is necessary to make it infpossible for private monopoly to exist.”

This is further than the Republicans have ever gone before. Senator Borah, who was largely responsible for this plank and who lifted the text almost bodily from previous Democratic platforms, wanted to go much further. To these broad condemnations and promises, he wanted to add specific criticism of the Supreme Court's emasculation ot the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, specific promise.to restore the vigor of that law and enact additional legislation prescribing “conditions upon which corporations shall be permitted to engage in interstate trade” (which would mean Federal charters for corporations), and “the prevention of holding companies beyond the second degree, of interlocking directorates, of stock-watering, of discrimination in price, of

price-fixing, and of all monopolistic practices Which may be defined by law.”

But the Republican platform committee refused to go that far with Borah. explained that the party's nominee should be left free to spell out the details of the antimonopoly program as the campaign progressed.

: ® 5 =» T= far Gov. Landon’ has made only one statement in respect to monopoly. In his acceptance speech, he said: “We propose to use the full power of the Federal government to break up private monopoly and to eliminate monopolistic practices. A free competitive 8ystem is necessary to a free government.”

As a generalization, we find nothing in this statement to quarrel with. But the details of the program are still lacking. ~Gov. Landon will open his Eastern campaign Saturday in a speech at West Middlesex, Pa., his birthplace. It is reported the central theme of his speech will be “Americanism.” ‘Certainly there is nothing more un-American, nothing more threatening to our economic freedom, than private monopoly. And, ‘by a happy coincidence, there is no place so ideal for a forthright discussion of monopoly.

: Pennsylvania, is:the Home. of Joseph Grundy, §

for years the chief lobbyist for high protective tariffs for manufactured goods. Grundy probably will be on the. platform when Landon speaks. Here will be a rare opportunity for Landon. If he will denounce Grundyism, the foster-father of monoply; if he will pledge a drastic downward revision of the Grundy tariffs under which monopolies grow fat off the lean of consumers, he will prove to a skeptical people that he really means to tear out the roots of monoply. Four years ago the Democrats promised to do this, but their tariff revisions have been only piecemeal.

Pennsylvania is the home of Andrew Mellon, head of the tightest monopoly in the "United States, the “aluminum trust.” who has promised to help finance the G. O. P. campaign, and whose family already has contributed $25,000, may also have a seat on the Middlesex platform. This will be another _splendid opportunity, which Landon can make the most of if he will only promise definitely to use the full power of the Federal government to break up Mellon's trust, and establish free competitive conditions in the aluminum industry. » » 8 ENNSYLVANIA is the home of Joseph W. Pew, vice president of the Sun Oil Co. Being a member of the G. O. P, finance committee, Pew probably will also have a seat of honor at the West Middlesex ceremony. Here Landon will have his chance to tell what he intends to do to break up monopolistic practices. in the oil industry, He should know all about them. ‘He is an independent oil man, himself. He knows to what extent the independents owe their existence to the sufferance of the big oil combines. & Pennsylvania—yes, the very congressional district in which’ West Middlesex is located is the scene of a bitter campaign which the “power trust” is conducting to unseat a Demo‘eratic congressman. “Rep. Driscoll, who exposed the fake telegrams .with which the . gtilities fought enactment of holding company legislation. The utility bosses will be listening to the West Middlesex speech. Landon will have his chance to prove his hatred of monopolistic tyranny by denouncing said scheme and all responsible for it, and by pledging strict enforcement of the utility holding company law. Pennsylvania is the home of steel. Through {Republican Administrations and Democratic tions, throtigh good times and bad, ‘the steel industry has followed the monopolisEE S. Steel And recently the steel bosses openly ded together in & united-front opposition to E. T. Weir, head of the Na-

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: 7] Bk smecting Yesterday of housing planning,

and charity representatives shows momentum is gathering ‘behind the movement to solve the Indianapolis slum problem.

Only one minor obstacle®row appears to |

stand in the way of building an experimental house to determine whether private enterprise can successfully enter ‘the low-cost ~housing fleld. ,

Originally, the county commissioners, at the instigation of the State Planning Board, asked and received a $350 appropriation. from the County Council to build a test house. At that time it was planned to use much contributed material. The plan was to show what might be done on a public basis.

Then Purdue Research Housing Project offi-

‘cials became interested and turned over their

laboratory facilities to a study of the problem here. They now report that a single dwelling unit can be built with materials costing from $350 to $400, but that it is more economical to build double units. . Whether the amount needed to test private low-cost housing possibilities is double or even triple this figure, the total still is small. The initial idea has changed. The potentialities now are greater and there should be little trouble raising the small additional sum necessary. Iv is important for Indianapolis’ to find out whether private enterprise can build sanitary homes for the low income groups, or whether this must be done by government subsidy.

ONE IN 2600

MONG the states with from 3,000.000 to 4,500,000 population, Indiana has the worst motor vehicle accident record. The rating is: Indiana, one death in 2600 residents; North Carolina, one in 3000; New Jersey, one in 3300; Missouri, one in 3600, and Massachusetts, one in 5100.

Missouri’s better-than-average record is

credited to the fact that its transcontinental highways go around cities.

Massachusetts, New Jersey and North Carolina all have A-1 drivers’ license legislation with examination by state highway officials— the only method considered satisfactory by the National Council on . Street and Highway Safety. Indiana has no such regulation of drivers. Voters are entitled to hear from legislative candidates what they intend to do about this situation.

POWER PROCRASTINATES

(CONSUMPTION of electric energy is mounting so fast that it threatens soon to overtax generating capacity, unless the utilities go ahead with long-ready plans of plant expansion. , The Magazine of Wall Street reports that the utility executives are holding off until after the election. Having despaired of moderation of the New Deal's power policy, they are hopeful of a Landon victory. But regardless of who is elected, the magazine predicts, there will be a sharp spurt in orders for equipment, as soon as the votes are counted. This may be smart politics, but it doesn't

‘Took like good business.

THE CAMPAIGN 18 ON

N one day . Dr. Townsend blamed Jim Farley for the suit which deposed Townsend officials filed for an accounting of OARP funds. A Coughlinite, who raised his voice against NUSJ indorsement{ of Rep. William Lemke, was denounced as a stooge of Jim Farley. An Army and Navy journal editorially implied that Jim Farley’s spoils system was somehow responsible for the Civil Service Commission' ruling that the West Point postmistress was ineligible to take an examination for reappointment.

COUGHLIN AND LEMKE

ELEGATES to the National Union for Social Justice convention in Cleveland resented President Roosevelt's visit to the city as an effort to overshadow their own demonstration, scheduled long in advance. But William 'Lemke, Father Coughlin’s candidate for President, has found himself at Cleveland and elsewhere constantly overshadowed by the personailty of his own pox. tical friend.

The tremendous ovation Father Coughlin’

received from his convention was not needed to prove his extraordinary gift for inspiring personal devotion. His talents for mass leadership have been demonstrated many times before. Candidate Lemke, though a substantial figure in Congress and in the politics of the agrarian West, is inconsequential by. comparison to Father Coughlin on the national scene. On the eve of the N. U. S. J. convention, Father Coughlin remarked of Gov. Alfred Landon that he was the most honest but the least colorful of Republican candidates in recent years, and that his drab speeches lose votes faster than John Hamilton, Landon’s manager, can recapture them. Mr. Hamilton, he said, ought to be the Republican candidate.

This conclusion is debatable. But if it be true that Landon’s personality is overshadowed by that of his manager, it is certainly true in Sufar SraRier degre of Lemke aud bis own manager. Father Coughlin is eon utionally debarred from the presidency because of his birth outside the United States. If he were eligible, his followers might be wishing fervently that he, instead of the congressman, were the candidate. s To date, there is no indication that Lemke's own. personality has aroused enthusiasm out-

‘side’ the region where he already was well:

Usually, third parties are led by dynamic men. Theodore Roosevelt was his own man in 1912. La Folette the elder was his own man in 1924. : * Huey Long, a candidate in 1936 with Cough-

lin support, would have been a different man

from Lemke for the old parties to- contend : ;

personal follawing on elections Say 30 # Agus like Mr. Lemkey,

-grown raciness

‘wince at the sight of socks, hairpins,

It remains to be seen whether a leader like | oF Father Coughlin finally can deliver even his

Our Town BY ANTON ¢§

AMES WHITCOMB RILEY had just sbout finished the first decade of his literary career

when along came the redoubtable Berry Sulgrove |

with his famous pronunciamento of 1884. After lambasting Dr. Eggleston's “The Hoosier Schoolmaster” as the all-time low for Hoosier dialect literature, Mr. Sulgrove said: “Our young poet. James W. Riley, strikes it more fairly then any other delineator, but some of its peculiarities, or those of the people . using it, which gave it a tone and a turn of humor similar to that noticed in the Lowland dialect of the Scotch, had mes: bly disappeared before Mr. Riley was old ugh to catch it in its fullnd quaintness. If he were 20 years older, we ht expect from him as perfect a picture of Hoosier backwoods life as we have of the South in Georgia Scefies and Simon Suggs, or of Yankee land in the Bigelow Papers.” Mr. Sulgrove’s opinion split the town wide open. Those tolerant of dialect literature thought Mr. Sulgrove very gracious in the matter.

Indeed, knowing Mr. Sulgrove as they did, they |.

thought he went out of his way to be nice to Mr. Riley. Those intolerant of Mr. Sulgrove questioned the propriety of dialect literature under any conditions—let alone, Hoosier conditions. The debate kept going for years.

» 8 8 ; T was of considerable importance, therefore,

when six years later on Oct.” 6, 1890, Mr.

Riley got up before the Indianapolis Literary Club and delivered his epoch-stirring paper on “Dialect in Literature.” (The paper is part of Volume VI of the Bobbs-Merrill Biographical Edition.) Mr, Riley had the donservalives gasping for breath: right at the start because in less than two minutes after he “began he proved that “Chaucer’s verse to us is now as veritably dia-

lect as to that old time it was the chastest Eng-

lish.” He bit into the words “now” and “was” when he pronounced them. After that, Mr. Riley had everything his own way. At any rate, he made it perfectly plain that

there is a legitimate use for dialect and “as|

honorable a place for it as for the English, pure and unadulterated.” What worried him most, apparently, was not the use of dialect but the “miss” use of it and to prove his point he cited any number of books showing its legitimate use. Curiously enough, “The Hoosier Schoolmaster” was among the list. ” ® ”

R. RILEY'S critical choice of books to illustrate the legitimate use of dialect was the best part of his paper that night. It remains the best part today, probably because nothing peters out like polemics after 50 years. After citing Dickens in innumerable passages of pathos and dialect—the death of poor Jo, and ‘that of Cheap John’s little daughter, to name only two—Mr. Riley pointed with pride to Thomas Nelson Page (“Meh Lady”), Joel Chandler Harris (“Teague Poteet”), James Russell Lowell (“Bigelow Papers,” of course), the delightful Miss Murfree, and last but not least, Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston who wrote “The Dukesborough Tales.” Indeed, Mr. Riley couldn't say enough for Col. Johnston’s “Absalom Billingslea.” “Such masters,” said he, “necessarily are rare, and such ripe perfecting as is here._attained may be in part the mellowing result of age and long observation, though it can be based upon the wisest, purest spirit of the man as well as artist.” Apbarently, it. was part of Mr. Riley’s belief that a work of art—dialect or no dialect—must reveal the hand of the humantarian as well as that of the artist. If he did, it’s something else that’s gone out .of fashion.

Fi 20th

IN INDIANA HISTORY —BY J H. J. :

N Aug. 20, 1794, Gen. (Mad) Anthony Wayne defeated an Indian army under the famous chief, ‘Little Turtle, at the battle of Fallen Timbers on the Maumee River east of Fort Wayne. Encouraged by the English, the Indians had made life miserable for American settlers for several: years, and Little Turtle had organized

the :strong Miami Confederacy, an organization ‘including . the Miamis, the Shawnees and the

Weas, Wayne had offered to make peace a few days before the battle and Little Turtle had favored the proposal, but the advice of the English prevailed. The British had built a fort at the foot of the Maumee rapids and it was in a

dense forest strewn with fallen trees a short|

distance above the fort that the Indians chose to give battle. Wayne threw out scouts, and as soon as they discovered the Indians, the main body of the

army charged with bayonets fixed and fired in-

dividually at point blank range. After the first exchange of shots it was bayonet against tomahawk . and the Indians, although - double the

number of the Americans, were chased two miles

in an hour. The British refused the protection of the fort to their erstwhile allies and any Indians fortunate enough to escape had to {ake refuge in the woods. The battle broke the Miami Confederacy and eventually resulted -in the Treaty of Greenville in August, 1795, which opened about half of Ohio and a narrow strip of eastern Indiana to

‘settlement.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

\HE person who does her own housework

should by all means take her vacation in a hotel. can get the feeling of carelessness which men enjoy all the year round—the feeling that comes

with throwing things, helter skelter, and never:

having to pick them up. The way in which you react to this orgy will

show whether you are still resilient or have}

already begun to get “set in your ways.” If you are a person who can sling towels all over the bathroom floor and never touch the papers spread on beds and tables and do not . spilled powder and shoes littering the bedroom, then you may know you are still.a pleasant mother. But put a check-rein on when you find yourself jumping up to straighten a hotel room. It

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The Hoosier Forum

od wholly disagree. with what you say, but will . defend to the death your right to id it—Voltaire.

(Times readers ars" invited fo express their views in these éolumns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) | } * #8 = HEIL, OWENS, HEIL!

By George Sanford Holmes

Heil, Owens, heil! and all your dusky crew: Of “black auxiliaries” of Uricle Sam, Who sprinted for’ the Red and White and Blue = . And won Olympic fame for Sons of Ham.

{ Upon the cinder pathways at Berlin

In sun and rain, through puddles deep as ponds, Fuehrer. and his _ Teutons watched you win, :

| Though gentlemen aod Nass favor | hs 3 = WARNS. NAVY TO STOP

blonds.”

If Tyr, the old ‘Norse god of SoHE. looked: in We'll bet he grudged you no champion’s crown. Nor probed your ethnologic origin,

‘Nor cared if you .were white: or

black or brown. Hell, Owens, heil!. It made all races smile To see you tramp that Nordic complex flaf:

‘The Ethiope in Hitler's aryan pile,

Who proved “a man’s a man for a’ that!”

‘SAYS PREJUDICE IS ONLY

OBJECTION TO DEMOCRATS By Times Reader No wonder the Republicans are scared. Their only chance is lots of money and lots more ugly propaganda, for the state and national government ‘have been and are in

the most efficient hands they have been for years. There can be no objections to either Gov. McNutt or President Roosevelt—only political prejudice. Such men -as these will bring a greater American than can be imagined by the ordinary person. Mr. Roosevelt began to help all the people the day he took office, and has never ceased. There is an old story of a man who talked and talked but never said anything, for every time he opened his mouth a

frog jumped out. In the case of Mr.

Hamilton it may be a grasshopper of the grass roots party. ® x =» a POSTMASTER WELCOMES CIVIL SERVICE | By an Indiana Postmaster

The recent ordet by the President |

placing all postmasters under Civil Service hag brought the charge that the ie present incumbents will retain their positions indefinitely. T have in mind an office in a small town emplaying 3v gv people, all under Civil Service. e postmaster is ~ Democrat, the ve people are Republicans. - In -every in

postofiice { this state most of the rural and ity

been removed because of Why shouldn't the postiasiars RS

politics. |

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until after the death of the NRA, That was far from being true. In Hoover's Administration millions were spent to buy wheat, trying to cure the farmers” ills-which had become chronic. All was done in good faith. Yet we hit the bottom. You know the results as well as I. Two years of the worst times | we ever knew. Today, business is normal or better. No doubt many mistakes have been made. Our bad mistake was when we hit the bottom. I believe getting where we are today is worth the price. There is much to be done yet. The critic has no plan but can see all the mistakes. Good judgment in the right direction wiil cure our ills. Helping the idle’ farmer ‘back to the farm where he can care for his ‘family and be independent fon be a step in the right direc-

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BIG BILL THOMPSON By Jack Raper Attention United States Navy: When “Big Bill” Thompson was mayor of Chicago he used to terrify King George and the: whole British

| Empire by declaring war against

them once a day and when running for re-election, at least a - dozen times a night. =

“Big Bill” wants to be governor now and he anno nces he has chartered a steamboat ‘to steam down the Mississippi the length of the Iilinois shore line, stopping at the larger cities so he can make speeches. That's what he says. But it’s only a cover-up. Men who know “Big Bill” can’t be fooled that easily. What's in’ his .mind is to sail to the gulf, cross the Atlantic, sneak up the Thames and demand the ‘surrender of London. The Navy ‘should be massed at New Orleans where it can stop him, There's no sense in having ‘a war with Great Britain Just to elect him Governor.

2 8 =» SAFE DRIVER OBJECTS TO COURT RULING By Safe Driver

A news story from Muncie says

that Judge J. Frank Mann in City,

Court there acquitted Arzo Keys of a charge of reckless driving on state roads, holding that the State High-

way Commission “infringed on the prerogatives of the General Assem-

bly in making the rule Keys alleg-

“The making of these highways

‘tand the placing of signs on them

doesn’t make a law.” The story goes on to say that

SIDE GLANCES By Conrge Clarkes

‘Keys was arrested ‘by state police ‘for driving past another automobile

while rounding a curve between Yorktown and Muncie, ignoring the yellow center line and a sign which said it was unlawful to drive to the left of the line.

How are the highways going to |.

be made safe when drivers like this are acquitted? # ” ” SAYS DAVID LAWRENCE. NOT BIG, BAD WOLF By R. P. Cunningham, Darlington Here and now, I wish to apologize to the Shade of Lamar, Who, while he lived, was known from the Atlantic to the Pacific as the Wolf of Wall-st. In a letter to The Forum, I put his name among a list of defeathered Wall-st warblers. It was my. mistake. he name should have read Lawrence, David Lawrence, Now as, for Little Davie, by no stretch ‘of the imagination could one think of him as a big bad wolf. He is just an innocent warbler, a “street” singer, trying to get along.

TO SHIRLEY BY GENEVIEVE MITCHELL

Precocious Shirley Temple— Lovely. little gir}! You're a fascination symphony That keeps my heart awhirl.

I'm helpless when those lovely eyes In silent mischief dance. And when they sigh I must confess I'm captured by their glance.

I wonder if your secret Of irresistible appeal Is, that in a sham, yD hetic world You're: 50 genuinely real.

'Midst so many imitations You're ‘a perfect, radiant pearl. Precocious Shirley Tetiplem:; Lovely little git!

DAILY THOUGHT

Wine js a. mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.—Proyerbs 20:1.

HE body, overcharged with the excess” of yesterday, weighs down the mind together ‘with itself,

and fixes to the earth that particle|

of the divine .spirit.—Horace:-

COMMON ERRORS

Never say “Cleanliness is a preventative of Sisgase”;: : Sy “preventive.”

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when he pleases, In search for stories about this and that.

AUDETTE, Minn, Aug. 20—

John Kennedy gets a lot out of

life. He is Scotch-Irish. He loves the woods. Fishing and hunting are

almost a mania with him. He loves people. He talks and talks, and tells wonderful stories. He is always doing nice things for people, and also plays awful jokes on people. There is nothing so despicable to him as a poor sport. He is nearly 70 now, and a grandfather. He is full of energy, and his legs are nimble, but his eyes are weakening a little. He can’t shoot .as straight as he once could. Kennedy was born and reared on the frontier. When he was born, a little west of Minneapolis, all the" north was untouched forest. White men didn’t live there. Only Indians and wild animals. Kennedy was brought up with the Indians.” He can speak Chippewa as well - as he speaks English. He never got beyond the log schoolhouse, but he has vastly edu= cated himself through an inquisitive mind and a taste for reading and a harmony with nature.

» ” s R 15 years he was a timber cruiser. A timber cruiser ‘is, or rather was, a man who traveled on foot through’ the forests, surveying, judging, marking out timber lots to be cut next. The timber cruiser lived as close to nature as any animal. John Kennedy has been in the forests, alone, for as long as 14 months ab

a time. He has never been hurt in the woods. But he has been

| busted up time after time by autos

here in Baudette.’ 3 In ‘1901 he entered the United ¥ States Customs Service. Baudette was just forming. then. He has :

He will have to retire in a year * or two. He has all the money he

‘| wants, through savings and timber

investments from his cruiser days. John Kennedy has had fun all his = life. I'm sure he almost drove everybody, crazy in the days when - Baudette ‘was a frontier settlement. Just one example, out. of hundreds: v There was an old man, the town drunk, who died of alcoholism on the floor of the hotel lobby. They & carried him down to the little clap- * board church, took the door off the hinges, and laid the corpse on the door inside the church. ‘

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HEY set another old man to > 3 watch the body. To keep up courage for .his grim ‘task, the old * fellow had to run back to the hotel » about every hour and get a drink. After a few he got to waving his gun around and. saying: nobody Z would steal the corpse while he was. 7 on guard. So Kennedy and a friend slipped i over to the church, ran some twine © through cracks in the wall trom § each side, and tied the twine around the corpse’s wrists. Then they hid « outside the church. : When the old watchman came back from his tippling, - Kennedy and his friend started pulling the » cords back and forth. The corpse's 3 arms started flying. The old man screamed,’ dropped + - his lantern and ran. The lantern = 9 started to set.the church afire, so Kennedy ran jn and threw it out * the door. That scared the departing * watchman even worse. .Kennedy cut - the twine off, and beat it. The old man spread the alarm. In : a couple of minutes the whole town, ~ Kennedy among them, came surg- : ing down to the church. They de-’ cided the old man was having visions. They decided to hang him, ? but somebody talked them out of it.

Maybe it was Kennedy. He didn't 2

dare tell the truth of that story for years afterward. ; : John Kennedy. goes on three or - four fishing trips in Canada every > i Je unis in the fall, + abou a year on : fishing and hunting. He bas been *

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doing it for 30 years.

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American : Medical Association. HE scientific. : physician nos longer recognizes that there are . . such things as tonics. In the old days tonics contained ’ iron, quinine, strychnine or arsenic, * and a considerable: amount of spiritus frumenti, -or alcohol. The alcohol gave somewhat of a “kick” which made a person feel better, = : and the drugs. were ‘of the type nervous system and increased the amount