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PRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936.
LANDON AND THE ISSUES EFORE Gov, Landon delivered his acceptance address in Topeka last month we suggested several questions the Governor might answer in order to give the people an idea of the kind of President he would make.
The Topeka speech left most of those questions unanswered. It was explained that the Governor in his initial speech sought only to express his general philosophy, and that he ‘would discuss issues in specific terms as the ‘campaign progressed. Starting tomorrow Gov. Landon will deliver three major speeches in five days’ time, and then drop again into silence. We trust that in the three speeches the Governor will answer some of our questions, including the following:
How does Landon propose to carry out the Republican platform promises in respect to foreign trade? How does he intend to adjust tariffs to promote more international trade, and at the same time give more protection against imports and abolish the reciprocal ‘trade treaties which have actually stimulated our foreign commerce? How does he propose to modify the social gecurity law? The platform promises to finance social security by “a direct tax widely distributed.” What does that mean? In his Topeka speech the Governor said he would make the law “workable.” How? Does he subscribe to Banker Aldrich’s proposal to abolish the old-age thrift insurance feature in favor of doles to the needy elders? The platform promises to balance the budget without increasing taxes. In his Topeka speech, the Governor- spoke of taking economies “out of the hides of the political exploiters.” The people will wish him well in - that undertaking. But even if he lops off all useless Democratic pay-rollers and adds no Republican substitutes, that will not balance the budget. Where else will he economize? On public works? Army? Navy? Veterans’ compensation? Regular government services? And How? How does he propose “to make it —— for private monopoly to exist,” as the platform promises?
Bive light and the People Wil Find * Their Own Way
W JHAT changes would he make in the “truth- in-securities” law, the stock market control law, the utility holding company law, the Federal deposit insurance law? Do any of those measures come within the scope of the platform's pledge to eliminate “unnecessary and hampering regulations?”
What would he do about the many New Deal policies and agencies on which the platform is silent? What would he do with the Tennessee Valley Authority, with its electric energy yardstick and its experiments in congervation and economic planning in the Tennessee Valley? What about the Rural Electrification Administration, . . which is lending ‘money to farmers’ co-operatives for the building of transmission’ lines to carry ‘electricity to the farms? What would he do with the Home Owners Loan Corp. and the mortgages * {t holds on some 2,000,000 homes? What about ‘the Federal Housing Administration program of reducing private mortgage interest rates? What would he do, if anything, to help pro“vide decent housing for slum dwellers whose incomes are too low to make them prospective customers for private building operations? What about the farm tenancy problem? And—this question grows more important hourly—what are Landon’s views on neutrality? Would he carry on or discard the Roosevelt policies, which forbid shipment of war implements. to Belligerents, forbid the carryIng of munitions in American vessels, forbid credits and loans to belligerents, forbid the use of American ports to belligerent craft, and proclaim that American citizens travel. ing on belligerent vessels and in war .zones do so at their own risk? Would he extend "those policies toward a more complete nonparticipation? Or would he return to the
freedom-of-the-seas and freedom-of-trade |
policy. This is a long list of unanswered questions. But the issues of this campaign—as made by the opposition—are as obscure as this list is long. To the extent the Governor shortens the list, he will likewise clarify the issues.
TRUCK ROUTING
T= proposed ordinance to. control the ovement of truck traffic in the northern part of Indianapolis—on which the City Couneil delayed action this week—should be part of a comprehensive “use-plan” for city streets, City Engineer ‘H. B. Steeg ‘has announced a new route for trucks using Keystone-av. Val B. McLeay, City Plan Commission engineer, says the routing of heavy traffic is vitally important in city planning. He visualizes a four-arterial system .of wide paved roads circling Indianapolis and allowing heavy through traffic to continue on its way without traveling the congested central traffic district.
[ ists and police.
. REGISTER NOW ITIZENS will applaud the action of Pred‘erick E. Schortemeier, Republican county chairman, kind County Clerk Glenn B. Ralston in settling the dispute over proper registration of voters. The agreement calls for appointment of 16 Republican and 16 Democratic registration officers assigned to eight registration offices. These offices will be open from Sept. 10 through Oct. 5, in addition to the registra tion facilities at the Courthouse, “The Republican chairman properly raised the question whether the spirit of the bipartisan registration law was being carried out. On the basis of facts that came to light, however, Mr. Ralston technically was in the clear. The weeks of delay in forcing a court test of the issue—a period punctuated by -political charges and counter-charges—Iled some voters to suspect the fight was not so much in their interest as in the interest of political campaigning. One beneficial result of the controversy is’ the sharp increase in registration. Voters in large numbers have been going to the. Courthouse to check their registrations. This wholesome trend should continue, It is not too early to find out whether you are properly registered as a voter for the November election.’
BUTCHER SHOP BLACKBOARDS
T hadn’t occurred to us that the big packing companies might become a great educational force in the nation, but they have volunteered and perhaps their services should be accepted. Butcher shop blackboards may yet become the great popular medium for exchange of economic facts, Why should those blackboards, now being distributed with the help of the Republican National Committee, display merely the neat little legends the packers are planning—figures to show the butchers’ customers that taxes account for one-third the cost of meat? There will be plenty of room for other interesting percentages. How much of the price of a pound of round steak goes to ‘the cattleman, for instance? How much to the railroads? To the stockyards? How much profit goes into the packer pocket? The government has been curious about these figures for a long time without being able to satisfy that curiosity. It will undoubtedly welcome the blackboards and the decision to tell all which must logically follow the first revelation about taxes. The tax education department can be expanded indefinitely, also. It is always a wholes, some thing for the people of a country to understand just how and when and where they are being taxed. The packers undoubtedly, in response to public demand, will put their butcher-econo-mists to work explaining to customers that the taxes they are talking about are the county, fownship and school board taxes paid by the cattleman who raised the beef in the West, and the real estate, city, county and state taxes paid by the packers as well as their Federal corporation and income taxes, all thoughtfully covered into the price of meat so that the consumer can pay them along with his own city, county and state taxes, his sales tax, and his personal income tax. The New Deal has been trying to. drive home that lesson and to find forms of taxa-
tion the big fellows can not pass along. It
may receive valuable aid from the butcher shop educational program. Perhaps the blackboard breakdown can even show what part of the price of a piece of round steak goes to pay for the packers’ 20year drive to get around the anti-trust laws. We're for full and free discussion in butcher shops, blackboards that tell all.
A HELPFUL DECISION UNICIPAL JUDGE CHARLES /JKARABELL'S ruling upholding the city’s “fix proof” traffic sticker ordinance seems te be a reasonable decision. The case is to be appealed on the grounds that “the burden.is on the city to prove that the defendagmt parked the car.” If this were the law, the regulation of parking would become a game of hide-and-seek between motorYou could get away with a violation so long as no policeman caught you in the act. The number of officers needed to supervise proper parking would be prohibitive. The “fix proof” stickers have greatly aided enforcement of parking rules. If the ordinance were knocked out the temptation for all driv-
ers to disregard parking restrictions would be multiplied.
TWENTY BILLIONS MORE
(COMMERCE DEPARTMENT officials unofficially forecast a 1936 national income of close to 60 billion dollars. Looking back over the “three long years” of the Roosevelt Administration this figure will ‘strike all but political pessimists as something worth 8 cheer. It means that in these years the people of the United States have increased their collective annual income 50 per cert, In | ‘the depression’s darkest year of 1932 our income had sunk from the 1929 high of 81 bil" lions to less than 40 billions. Encouraging also is a prediction that this
| year the national income produced will Just
about equal that paid out. This means that instead of going “into the red” by paying out more than we produce we have just about
balanced the economic budget by bringing production up to outgo.
Most encouraging of all were official figures given out by the Commerce Department several weeks ago on the share the workers are getting *of the added income. In 1929 the total share of all employes in the income paid out was 65.5 per cent. In 1932 their share was 64 per
cent, a record high. back the national income to the 1929 figure.
Ot course, we still have far to go to bring |
Our Town
BY ANTON SCHERRE
JOHN LAUGK ts only 82 years od. or
reason he is too young to remember. train that entered Indiana
e because he remembers Madison and its equipment. Mr. Lauck still turns up for work south side branch of the Fletcher Trust Co.. Up until eight years ago he was president of the bank. .& chance, he said.
Mr. Lauck says the first locomotive he saw.
make more fuss than the one he remembers as a boy. No locomotive, for instance, ever belched forth such an amount of smoke, and no train, Mr. Lauck is quite sure, ever had so many bells and whistles.
T= old Madison Railroad was four years coming to Indianapolis. It came in slow and easy stages, halting for several. months at temporary stations including, North Vernon, Salt Creek, Clifty Cgeek, Columbus, Edinburg, Franklin and Greenwood. It reached Greenwood in the latter part of the summer of 1847 and that left but 10 miles to Indianapolis. A stage coach brought the passengers_from Greenwood to Indianapolis. This slip-shod way of doing business gave Daniel Yandes a bad case of the nerves and the only way to cure it was to dig into his pocket. and complete the last stretch. Which he did.
The last spike was driven about 9 o’clock om |
the morning of Oct. 1, 1847, and the rail was hardly in place when two big almost-exhatisted excursion trains (théy had been tooting all the way) came up from the lower part of the road and were received with much shouting and shooting As ni would have it, Spalding’s Circus was in town that day and, with it, the band led by Ned Kendall who, to hear the old timers tell about it, was the best ‘bugler this country ever had. Every part of fhe circus, including the Shie-seepers, turned out to Recorie the occa~ sion.
Even Gov. Whitcomb showed up, A as it]
was, and made a speech from the roof of a passenger car at the new depot at South: he Delaware-sts. The celebration lasted far into the night Spd there were enough fireworks left over from the Fourth of July to turn the night into day. A pleasant time was had by all
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THE effect of the railroad was immediate. The pork packed here and at Broad Ripple
by the Mansurs since 9841 and sent down the]
river in flat boats on the spring “floods could now choose ‘their markets. Our foreign trade opened up in a big way. . Before Christmas of that same year, corn and | wheat doubled in price while goods brought in
| were cheapened by the same process that en-
hanced home products. Such was the topsyturvy turn of economics a hundreds years ago. Another effect of the railroad was. the. way the old town spread after that. Until the com-. pletion of the Madison Railroad, little, if any, business was done off. Washington-st. In 1847, ‘however, commission houses and pork packing concerns began to be established around the Madison depot. They still like the old. neighborhood. Still another result of the first railroad wha the effect it had on Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Beecher took the. first train out of Indianapolis: to begin his big career in the East.-He might have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had stuck around here.
August 21st
“IN INDIANA HISTORY
NDIANAPOLIS newspapers Aug. 21, 1918, carried a story of a meeting of the State Council of Defense. The council had been organized to aid and abet patriotic activities during the World War. State Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith reported to . the council that a ‘vigilance committee of 2500 members had beén organized in Miami County to terrorize persons who, in the opinion of the vigilantes, did not contribute : enough money to the support of the war. . The committee, according to Adjt. Gen. Smith, had used violance against persons it deemed insufficiently patriotic with their money. A report was made that, 2000 persons had sur rounded a. house in Peru and. threatened the in-| habitants. unless they contributed more :to the war. According to the report, the local authorities had been called to disperse the mob, but had not acted. “That mob was made .up of the best citizens of Peru, and the council should keep its hands off,” one member said when it was suggested the body act against the vigilantes.
. ; 9 we » A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON UCKY ME! I was out of the country and for 10 blissful days did not open a newspaper while the court contest was staged between Mary Astor and her ex-husband. But by this time one needn't read about the legal battles between headliners to know the defails. They follow a set formula. And the aftermath is invariably the same. Immediately the fight is over, the parents solemnly announce $heir intention to rear the battered infant to respect marriage and to believe in love. Sure enough, Miss Astor remembered the speech. A Little Marylyn, who must be spirit y sore as a bone mauled between two dogs, to be taught to respect adults and to view marriage as a holy institution. But how? We have piot been enlightened on this score and: “probably never will ‘be. If the child's par~} “Tents
Tt was time 10 give the youngsters |
among others, | .
BY J. H. J.— : TW
Revenues May | Pas i ober, 1505, High |
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A SWELL CAMPAIGN MANAGER
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“THe Hoosier Forum
I 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 & chance. Letters must be signed, but names will: be ie held on’ request.) » ‘. ® * SAYS NEW DEAL PROGRAM IS NOT SOCIALISTIC RH
By R. 'C. Lancaster, : Executive" Beeretary, The Socialist Party of Indiana
Your column of Aug. 14 carried 8 very entertaining letter by one Rob-, ert Gaylor, in which he informed
the world that the -Socialist Party had -elected a President in 1932 and that President Roosevelt had proceeded to carry out the . Socialist platform. All this because - the ‘Socialist Party platform in 1932 called for an appropriation “for. public. roads and - works, reforestation, clearance and decent homes. for the workers.” The American Liberty . League, iliam Randolph Hearst, the Republican Party, and Mr. Gaylor would have us ‘believe that Mr. Roosevelt is the secret leader of American Socialists. I write, not in defense of Mr. Roosevelt, but in defense of the Socialist Party. We Socialists want no credit for the destruction of crops and live-
stock, nor for the “insecurity” pro-|
visions of the Roosevelt Administration. We desire an economy of abundance in: which ‘production is for ‘use rather than for the profit: for ‘a few owners, and we hold no brief for the scarcity economy of the “New Deal.” * You Republicans, Mr. Gaylor,
must offer something more than 5
this nonsense if you hope to get & hearing from intelligent people. ‘With fen million unemployed work-
‘ers deprived of the right to earn a |
{living for themselves and their families, with eight million children suffering from malnutrition on relief rolls, we want to hear something more than cries about “balancing the budget,” “defending the Constitution” and “destroying our American system of government.” We want to know what you propose to do about unemployment, security for ‘the aged, relief for the unemployed, unionization of workers, social security and poverty in the midst of abundance. Suppose you spend your time giving us a positive program for recovery. .. We Socialists would like to clarify the issues in this campaign. We feel that the best way to do that is fo meet candidates of other political parties in public debates on the issues facing the American people. We have challenged: Mr. Townsend and Mr. Springer “to meet Mario Tomsich, our candidate for Governor, and we have challenged
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Oliphant, plant superintendent, ads 3 Vises, will ‘take several weeks to com--
plete. the. installation,” Mr. Oliphant said, “but once completed, any pollution of Eagle Creek by this -plant | will be out..of the question.”
~The Prest-O-Lite plant .is co-. operating in. every way .possible tekeep the. creek clean, according. .to.|
W. H.. Frazier, executive sanitary en-
gineer of the State Board of Health.
" “Delay has been. caused in installs ing the treatment equipment . because many unexpected difficulties were encountered and the cost of |. the project is about four Himes the original estimate. Dy 2 = = SEES PATHOS IN CASE OF YOUNG FATHER By a Reader 3 3 There -was ‘quite a putlietic story in The Indianapolis Times the other day about a young father who broke into bread boxes to get food for his
family after he had beeh’refused
relief, and who was released by the court under orders to attend church regularly and attend the school for probationers. Why is it necessary to make a thief out of a good man before he can get something to eat? I know of a case where a party is working and their grocery order is mailed to them from the trustee's office. What is the difference? ThE aT ADVISES CAUTION ON CAMPAIGN PROMISES By XYZ I haven't fully decided now I will vote at the fall election but “Bill Keynoter” will be along some of these days and give us a lot of valuable information. If he promises us a full dinner
pail, a turkey in every pot and a lot
of tommyrot, two cars in every garage or a 25 per cent reduction in taxes and offers to do away with a lot of government bureaus, I may decide it is safe to swap horses in ew Deal when there is a prospect of a better deal for all, ' Past experience has taught us that political promises are not worth their face value. It is always in ordér to turn the rascals out but we
| should be careful not to put other
rascals in. Let us weigh carefully the issues of the day and consider
the candidate’s ask acts as well as
his promises, Sty Rn ; . : BELIEVES “DISGUSTED DEM- - OCRAT” HAS NO ‘GRIEVANCE By Mrs. Reed, Bloomington A JF corjeshondent_ who “Disgusted Demo-
Gov. McNutt to meet Norman | cin
Thomas in debate. Republicans,| — Democrats and Communists all re- | i= fuse to meet our candidates. Would |{*
and spoke the hate each: mush Mr 4
have felt for the other, their daughter. a
is ‘not likely to regard wedlock. as desirable, -
All our efforts to rear fine children willbe =
| tutite unless we can give them happy homes.
Here is the one fundamental need, and one, alas, which the American man ‘and woman so oftefi
withhold from the infant generation. Yet it is|-
perhaps the only boon parents can bestow.’ Practically everything -else is obtained else-
where. - Public schools furnish education, char-| tion
; parents the child ‘that solid foundation on which the Whole structite of jis heing| must later stand...
cent. And last year their share was 67.3 per fo
has been a Democrat, nor ever voted as a Democrat. This letter has. no marks of a
not even. sound like. a sore Demo-. crat, His letter has the flavor, of being signed and delivered by request and the reward. for doing so he knows. Every true-hearted Democrat rejoices ‘in Paul McNutt’s speech exposing the falseness and platitudes of the Kansas Governor's Hearst‘made stand. » 8 2 . ASKS LANDON ABOUT HIS JOB PROGRAM .By James W. Cory
We quote: “No future to the relief-rollers. The real Americans want work.” ; . Sure, Mr. Landon, no one is going to find fault with such a wélluttered phrase. But—? Yes, just how are you going about it to as«| sure a future for relief-rollers, -and give every real American a. job? That is the only question, and when you can show a workable pr that will accomplish such, the whole country will make a path to Your doorstep. Seemingly, it is thought there are
| modern miracles, and that one .of
the world’s most intricate problems, constituted of millions of people and billions of ‘wealth: can be solved in a day. What would you do different from what is being done? Probably strike the rock of privately cone
of good jobs to issue forth. Though glib phrases can be coined, as “three long years,” the aver~ American looks farther ‘back upon “twelve long years,” when the whole country indulged in a great . debauch’ (encouraged by blind gov-: ernment) and was. awakened sud'denly in the autumn of 1929 to the most distressing headache the world (Turn to Page 23)
. BE KIND BY VIRGINIA POTTER
When tempted to answer— And speak your mind, Smile and forget it, And just be kind.
When angry and weary— With faults you may find, Remember we're human—. And just be kind. .
DAILY THOUGHT |
Let thy garments be always white; and'let thy head lack no ointment. ~—Ecclesiastes 9:
IDE GLANCES
. esteemed to proceed from a due Tevetencs lo/God—Bason.
By George Clarke
-man_ who has a grievance. He does|_
trolled wealth and cause’ a spring
~LEANLINESS of body was ever |
Vagabond
Indians
EDITOR'S NOTE-This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, Whim Be Bleisen, 1 Stsssk ogee ade storia Sbeut Ahi ANG that .
AUDETTE, Minn, Aug. 3 Jack Collins says it is a le that he tells lies. He says he never
"| tells anything but the truth.
He says he was hunting deer one
fall, and a beauty came out of the woods toward him 400 yards away, so he pulled up and let him have it. Just as he shot, he says; the deer made a lightning reverse turn, and started back for the woods, but dropped dead after a stop" or two. Remember that turn, now. Well, they went down and start--ed cutting up the deer. Ihiy. sav that. the bullet had hi hit the deer-in the eye. ar "Suddenly one of the fellows 3
traced the splinters over the snow for about 15 feet, and there lay the: : bullet. It came from John Collins’ gun all right, and he had fired only | one shot. . = = ; § Mp they .examined the deer. . more closely, but found no place. where the bullet had come out. So, the bullet had gone into the deer, and apparently had net come out, and yet there it was on the ground. Here's the way John Collins. explains it: “Remember,” he says, “that the _ deer made a fast reverse turn just _ as I shot. Well, what happened was. that the bullet went into the deer’s’ eye but the deer changed ends so . fast that the bullet, still traveling in the same direction, came right out the deer’s eye the same place .. it went in, and then hit he. tree . and bounced off.”
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ACK COLLINS is one of the world’s great fishermen. He even has certificates to prove it. Along one wall of his hardware ~ store hang mounted’ fish, and the “ heads ‘of deer, and all kinds x fowl and small game. 3 " One of the fish is the biggest muskellunge ever caught. It wéighed 56% pounds. The other’is the big-"' gest trout. It weighed 44 pounds. The framed’ certificates’ from “Field and Stream” attest the veracity of the catches. After hunting gold in Alaska he - never found any), and Working on the Iron range around Hibbing, ahd
| running a boat service on faty
River, Jack Collins drifted into hardware in Baudette. His store gives him a pldce to hang his fish on the wall, and sell sportsmen’s equipment. He got a card from a fellow in Oklahoma, wanting to know all about fishing on Lake of the Woods.
# # ” OLLINS sat down and wrote him a long reply. It went, in _ part: z “Texas, as well as Oklahoma, o sends us ‘good fishermen, if they are. allowed to go at it their own way. . They drive the muskies all into a . bay, and then start cutting out the. . big ones with a rope, and, oh! ‘boy... How they do pull them in. You Oklahoma fellows should be handy with a rope and I would advise ~ bringing one along. : x “Should you come up: during: the-~ middle of July you won't need any ‘snow=-shoes or skis. In fact we have: two or three weeks in July that we - don’t even fire the furnace. + «One thing TI feel obligated to warn + you of,/is the snow snakes. During’ that ‘warm ‘period in July is when" - they are most vicious.’ Wear “Very” high boots, and fill your pockets ‘with limburger. ‘Our’ snow sndkes are fur bearing and quite valuable. 2 “Dress warm and ask your oid’ ’ family doctor to prescribé a good old-fashioned remedy for’ fost, ; bite.” :
Your Health.
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor of the Journal eof the Ameriesn: : Medical Association.
NFANTILE paralysis has been | particularly prevalent ‘in some: parts of the United States during ' the warm weather. A considerable: : number of cases have appeared in : Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and | ;
of some such method. : Since there is some evidetios ‘that '