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Give Light and the People Willi Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1936.

THE PRESIDENTS VISIT N the eve of the Indiana State Fair, President Roosevelt will confer here Sept. 4 on drought conditions with Governors and ather officials of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. “Indiana has fared much better than: many other states during the severe drought. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A, Wallace, stopping in Indianapolis on his recent drought tour, said Hoosier farmers have prospects for much better crops than farmers of other states in the arid grain belt, The Indiana corn crop was damaged less, he said. And with the destruction caused by blistering sun and winds come high food prices which help offset the loss to Hoosier farmers. ' The crop and livestock exhibits at the Indiana State Fair opening here Sept. 5 may, therefore, show quite a contrast against those of other states which have been hit harder by the drought. ‘But the problem is as much ours as itis that of the Great Plains states. It calls for co-operative human effort to check the ruinous land policies of the past, to restore grass io the prairie country, to check soil and wind etosion, to give relief to stricken livestock and financial aid to farmers, and to work out—if possible—a program of crop insurance to protect farmers and the nation from seasonal disaster. This spirit of co-operation is manifest in the drought conferences the President has called, and in the ready acceptance of his invitations by the Governors of the stricken states, including Gov. Landon. ‘ We can not believe that Gov. Landon, or the farmers whose courage has defied this and’ other disasters, would accept the despairing view of the crisis voiced yesterday by Senator Lester J. Dickinson, ‘Iowa's. Republican New Deal critic, when he said: " «I am convinced there is only one cure for droughts—and that is rain, They never will be cured by confereneces of Governors or anyone else.” Our history shows that rain itself has been an agency of disaster through floods and erosion because we did not have drought conferences 20 and 30 years ago*to work out a program of soil conservation.

BEHIND THE TAX RATE

MASHING the front pages is an announcement from Topeka that the Kansas Tax Commission has set a ‘state tax rate of 1.20 rnills, “the lowest levy: and the lowest amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes for state purposes in any year ‘for more than a decacze.” Since this widely heralded move apparently is intended as a: further build-up of Kansas’ thrifty Governor, it becomes advisable to ‘100K | behind the. scene. Haw does it happen that Kansas can reduce taxes when most states and the Federal government are called upon to ‘assume extra heavy social burdens? « Perhaps because Kansas lets practically all its relief load fall on. its counties and the Federal government. The Kansas Legislature has appropriated only $775,000 for relief. But the Federal government has given Kansas $58,000,000 for relief, compared with $29,000,000 to Nebraska, notwithstanding that Nebraska relief families have received from $1 to $7 more a week than Kansas families. Perhaps because Kansas has no old-age pension system, and last year let nearly 6000 aged poor past 65 subsist on county handouts averaging $5.30 a month. Kansas has failed so far to co-operate with the Federal social security program for state-Federal aid to in- _ digent aged, blind, and dependent children. Last year the Federal government and counties took care of 962 of Kansas’ needy blind, aver age $6.13 a month. Uncle Sam furnished 78.5 per cent of Kansas’ bill for aid to Sspendent children. - Perhaps because Kansas is one of five states that have taken no steps to co-operate in setting up free employment exchanges under the

Wagner-Peyser Act.

Perhaps because Kansas is one ‘of only two states that contribute practically nothing to their schools. - According to Kansas’ own superintendent of public instruction, Kansas schools get from the state only interest on a small school fund and the dog tax, or 84 cents ~ annually a child. Kansas has closed 400 schools. The average salary paid Kansas teachers, including those of principals and superintendents, in 1934 was $858 a year. compared with the national average of $1227 and New York's $2361. The average paid in its nearly 7000 one-teacher rural schools last year was $463 a year, or about $39 a month. _ It will be argued that Gov. Landon is not to blame for Kansas’ social delinquencies. That would be true if during his four years as Governor he had urged his state to modernize its institutions by amending its antiquated Constitution, He has only Just now: taken this step. ‘ - The new Renses. state rate reduces taxes 25 mills. * A Kansas taxpayer, therefore, own-

Te Sepblicin National Committee is deonly pire a ‘reputation in Indiana not but for misrepresentation of — Recently the committee was caught off base on a publicity release charging advertising solicitation of WPA contractors in Indiana. The solicitation, it developed; was by Republicans. Now enother “special press release” by the national committee, charging WPA exirava--gance on Bloomington (Ind) projects, has backfired. The release quoted John T. Stapleton, Bloomington city engineer, and himself a Republican, as making WPA waste charges which “have aroused indignation of taxpayers throughout the community.” Surprised at the words that had been put into his mouth, Mr. Stapleton said the story “gave an entirely false impression.” He added: “We are having fine results at economical costs. Every item mentioned -in the stories which I saw is in error from either one .or both:of two reasons. Either the writer has misquoted me or he has fafled to include the full circumstances. Even some of the very definite figures which are used are so wrong that it is ridiculous to consider the statements at all.” Mayor A. H. Berndt of Bloomington further discredited the charges by saying that if information given by Mr. ‘Stapleton “had been honestly reported the story would: have been entirely different.” At a time when the administration of Federal relief is not politics-proof, the G. O. P. committee does the state and the country a distinct disservice, The spreading of false reports for campaign purposes can only result in obscuring the issue and making it more difficult to get at the facts needed for a better administration of relief.

WHERE IT HURTS UNICIPAL JUDGE DEWEY MYERS, speaking to the Marion County Safety Council, said the most effective way to combat reckless driving is to revoke drivers’ licenses. Students of the safety problem will agree with Judge Myers 100 per cent. The difficulty seems to be that many judges will fine a reckless driver, but hesitate to revoke his license. Perhaps the penalty seems severe. It is severe, and that is its value. When a driver’s license is taken away, he must either rely on his feet or on street cars and busses. He feels he has been set back in time. It is one punishment the motorist fears above most others. Faulty as it is in other respects, the Indiana

drivers’ license law does provide for revocation

of licenses. More liberal use should be made

of it.

CROSS-COUNTRY CRIMINALS

EFINITE progress has been made in the fight on crime since the criminal was recognized as a cross-country enemy and not merely a state and local problem. The Interstate Commission on Crime, holding its second annual meeting in Boston today with Gov. Paul V. M’'Nutt and Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz representing Indiana, is promoting legal measures and mechanical devices for the states to use jointly against their common enemy.

The present program centers around the

‘model anti-crime bills drafted under auspices || of. the’ interstate’ commission about eight

months ago. . Legislation particularly needed includes uniform acts concerning supervision of out-of-state parolees, close pursuit of criminals, compulsory attendance of witnesses from outside the state in criminal cases, and extradition of criminals. : . In line with this movement was the opening yesterday of radio-telegraph communication by the Indianapolis Police Department with police of St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit. This experimental hookup eventually may be expanded into a nationwide network of communication for Iaw enforcement agencies, and become as big an aid in combating’ the interstate criminal as

the radio is in fighting local crime.

BETTER THAN HELL

ET’S drop such European labels as Fascism, Communism, syndicalism and the corporative state, and try to understand what is happening in Paraguay and Bolivia in terms with which we are familiar. In the first place, whatever the new forms of government set up in those countries, the governments supplanted were not in reality republics comparable to our own. True they had constitutions which were sometimes in force, and on occasions they had functioning legislative, executive and judicial branches. But they had no democracy of equal political rights and economic opportunities. For the most part the governments were operated by and largely for the benefit of a few.families who owned practically all of the wealth. Some four years ago Parsgusy and Bolivia went to war over the disputed Chaco boundary. For three long years, Paraguayans and Bolivians poured their blood and wealth into that juhgle, “Only after both sides were exhausted did they stop their warfare and submit the dispute to arbitration. Then somewhat the same thing happened in both countries: The army went home. to find the ruling class demoralized, and the

farming and working population ruined and

resentful. The army was the only organized force. - Army leaders easily deposed the old

and sought to cement power concessions which the old ruling class had

that goes with it. He gets the syrup

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a civilization has reached the heights or depths to which ours has attained, it's prt ot B 5 Dukes:

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‘milling when he came, but he knows plenty

| Enough, anyhow, to know that an old-f

grist mill produces “Buhr-Stone Products” which

is what the sign in front of Bis Place says. Until

and if they are, like as not, they came from La Fertesous-Jouarre in the department of Seine~-et-Marne near Paris. They could, of course, have come from Scotland, or Conway in Wales or Cologne, Germany, or even from New York, Pennsylvania or North Carolina, but they probably didn't because if they had they would have been ‘too soft to suit Mr. Blakeslee. Mr. Blakeslee likes his buhr-stones hard— the harder the, better—because the harder they are the longer they last. Buhr-stones come in pairs, because ‘it takes two to grind and the longer you think about it, the more reasonable it sounds. The bottom stone, which is stationary, is called the “bed

stone”; the upper one which does the revolving |

is called the “roller.” The surfaces of the two stones have to be perfectly level and perfectly parallel to each other and to keep them that way they | have to be “dressed” every once in a while. . Blakeslee can do that, too. -D is a variety of quartz containing many small empty cells which give it just the right rough surface. =. A good reporter would have started off telling you that.

R. BLAKESLEE turns out corn meal and whole wheat flour and, for that reason, his

mill is a rendezvous for those who go in for:

authentic Southern cooking. Mr. Blakeslee

shares this department’s predilection for yellow |

corn meal, which ought to settle the:controversy. He also turns out buckwheat flour and has even been known to furnish the maple syrup in Ohio, but he doesn’t know whether he can get any this year. You know how it is this year. The buckwheat Mr. Blakeslee uses is grown by Pennsylvania Dutch farmers. He hasn't heard from them, either. Anyway, it's’a little early to hear, but he believes it's going to be all right, because, if anybody can fight himself out of present conditions, it’s a Pennsylvania Dutchman. Mr. Blakeslee’s buckwheat is so well-known that he ships it into California and New Jersey. Sometimes the parcel post costs more than the buckwheat, which fs something else to worry about, says Mr. Blakeslee. Mr. Blakeslee also sells all kinds of chicken feeds and specializes on a kind that puts minerals in a hen’s constitution. Hens, just like

human beings, have to be helped along with minerals nowadays.

Mr. Blakeslee has a lot of chickens around his mill. I counted 220 White Rocks. the day I was there and they all locked good. Anyway, they looked as if they had all the minerals they could handle. I mention the chickens to show that an. old-fashioned grist

mill run by a water wheel can’t be bluffed by |.

an enlightened civilization. I really started out to tell you the history of Scholfield’s Mill.- Maybe, I'll get around to it.

August 22d “IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J. -

HE Indiana Horticultural Society held its first meeting in the hall of the Statehouse Aug. 22, 1840. In 1906 W. H. Ragan read a paper at a meeting of the society on its early organization. Ragan described how his father and mother came from a cabin in the wilderness to the city for the first meeting, with fruits to display which they carried in saddlebags and panniers. James Blake was the first president and | H. P. Coburn the secretary. Henry Ward Beecher helped to promote the society and his paper, the “Indiana Farmer and Gardener,” became the official organ of the group. Among those who exhibited fruits at the

first meeting were Aaron Aldridge, Martin Wil-

liams, Benjamin Morris, Cyrus R. Overman, James Sigerson and Joshua Lindley. Lindley showed the first Bartlett pear, which was deemed too precious to sample, although members were allowed to “sniff its fragrant perfume.” In 1842 a set of silver teaspoons was won by Ruben Ragan, Putnam County; for the : best apple seedling. In 1906 the spoons were prized as souvenirs of early horticulture. The organization creased to exist in 1842 when Beecher went East. It was reorganized in 1860 under the highfalutin name of the Indiana Pomological Society which in turn was followed by a new Indiana Horticultural Society.

. 9 . * A Woman’s Viewpoint ‘BY MRS WALTER FERGUSON T looks as .if they might have the men in corsets before Christmas. Some such perfidious plot is afoot if we can Judge by the advertisements. As usual, the campaign is subtly managed. We see two broad-shouldered gentlemen in trunks having drinks in their club gymnasium and discussing the virtues of the new abdomen vestrainer. Or it may be a bevy of young men gamboling on the tennis court.’ The winners are shown as high-chested boys wearing form-fitting girdles. Brawny, stevedorish types with Apollo faces and Sandow figures will show up, possessing waists that any girl with a reasonable reach could span with one arm. And that isn’t all. They're also shaving the hair off their chests. Here is almost sure evi-

men with smooth chests and acpiistatied legs. That all this is no mere may be proved by calling Brewin ngy to our current hero, Clark Gable, who in “San Fran-

refused to make to the dispossessed rank and |e

file, “In ‘preponderantly agrigultural Paraguay, economic reforms ceritered around the break-

ing up of large landholdings and the parceling |

out of small farms to landless peasants. It was not done by confiscation, but by forcing the large landowners to exchange their land

| for goverment bonds, and turning over the

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when he pleases, in search stories about this and that,

AKE OF THE WOODS, Minny. Aug. 22.—~When we 'chugged" away from the dock at Warroad, Minn., in the damp chill of early, morning, I thought the captain was a Sour puss. The main thing I didn’t like) about him was that he was in shirt ' sleeves, and here I was Shivering: & two sweaters and a topcoat. And then he looked so solemn never opened his trap when he came: on board. “Well,” I thought, “this! will be a nice trip with Old Marg

| Grouch at the wheel.”

EB oosier Forum I wholly’ ‘disiigree 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.)

- 8 ” » THINKS CARTOON SHOWS BUSINESS VIEW By D. Yeager . : The Aug. 14 cartoon by Kirby on the editorial page is a gem and portrays vividly what the attitude of

time rolls around. : It would indeed be a poor pisi-

ness executive who would attempt to retard the remarkable and substantial recovery we have made, in order to satisfy a personal anirosity. This peculiar resentment - in reality is not genuine, but has been foisted upon him by the Liberty

'| | Leaguers, -.the Chamber’ of 'Com-

merce, the Natio ‘Association’ of Manufacturers an others parading as super-patriots. What becom® of our financial wizards and industrial giants in 1932? They were just a myth. They didn’t exist until President .Roose--velt stepped into the picture. There is a man for you! All the other socalled super-executives of the: nation become insignificant when compared to the President. Certainly the Liberty Leaguers and others do not like the tax on surplus and reserve. Why? Because it forces them to pay their fair share of taxes by distributing larger dividends, higher wages and woonuses, and prevents them from piling up billions in reserve and surplus which gradually took most of the money out of circulating before and brought on the depression. Now that the millions are again showing up on the black side of the ledgers, the malcontents are itching to get back in the saddle; but ‘lo and behold, a spectre appears in the form of a man who will not tolerate a recurrence of the previous breakdown.

” 2 2 2 » AMERICA DEGENERATING? WRITER ALL FOR IT : By Hopeful It is high time the people of this country awoke to the fact that America, is degenerating. They are losing so-called high standards. Do you realize what at the present time the government is doing? The government is spending the hard-earned money of Americans to give the farmer a purchasing power he has not had in years! Can you imagine the government trying to shove on us a banking insurance to make our money safe for the first time in history? Without a doubt

that is un-American. Then it conceived that ‘most fool-

to ‘make laws regulating women, and swea!

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A regular job at regular pay.” reads a huge advertising poster,

-my life. -

trait ‘it expressed, because the elephant was the symbol of the G. O. P. ; About that time, too, I learned that the elephant was very fond of peanuts, also that he had an insatiable appetite; but the color of this noble beast never attained its natural beauty until the white light of Truth was turned mercilessly upon hiny in 1932. I learned then that shucking peanuts for a ‘mammoth white ‘elephant ‘was no a

profitable pastime.

But Mr. Kuehn likes peanuts and Mr. Landon; therefore he reasons logically that because Mr. Landon has made a success of a peanut stand he could likewise make a success. of the United States. It would

be little less than cruel to awaken any one with such noble ideals. as

Mr. Kuehn advocates, therefore I advise him to. move to Kansas and develop -a peanut ranch and devote the rest of his natural life to raising

and shucking peanuts for the pop: ‘ular white elephant. ,

» 8» DEMANDS NEW DEAL

IN WRESTLING HERE

By R. R.

We are supposed to have. state laws about wrestling, but they: ‘never were enforced there. They let a bout go on till one ‘of the wrestlers got a rib broken. Why tan not we have a third man'in the ring who will use some sense about

things. Come on, all you fans, let’s

iemand a new Seal in the wrestling racket.

” » » WOULD MAKE POLITICIANS EXPLAIN PROMISES : By David Horn “WANTED: Jobs—not relief: Vote for John Doe and land a job. - So

Now, as: a voter I would make a

' | motion, support it, second it and: | earry it that all responsible for the

display of said. poster be subpenaed to. court and be ordered to explain

‘what particular hocus-pocus they

have up their. sleeves which actually will have the effect promised. on the poster If enonody does have a panacea for . depressions, y, unems= ployment and so forth, I for one would not only be glad to vote and campaign. for him but 1 “would pledge myself to give him one-half of my De, come -for the rest of I “ain’t kiddin'” either. Does Mr. John: Doe ‘actually mean

history.” authentic’ history. ‘He said the “bas‘tille was stormed.” It was. He said, ‘“the Seine ran red with blood.” It

1 did . not; “| Roosevelt is Communist.” Roosevelt

Last night T went to a wrestling. bout: and I never saw a more rotten: : ' show put on before in all my life,

did their share, .this world would be lightened 1—Mrs.

to say to us: “I do have a solution for your troubles but I won't breathe a word about it unless and until you have made me President?” If some one engaged in an ordinary business calling were to run an advertisement of the aforesaid nature, every “Better Business Bureau,” every wisecrack, smart Aleck and, in fact, everybody in general would brand him a. crook, racketeer, “nut,” lunatic: or whatnot.. Now, the question is: Has a

. man any more moral right to solicit

votes -by false promises than to solicit business patronage by false promises? ; ¥ 2 2 8 TAKES ISSUE WITH COUGHLIN’S SPEECH By C-69 Coughlin said “yt you have read :I ‘have read some very

He said, “Franklin -D. is not a Communist. He bellowed a challenge a} the Rothschilds. 1 think the Rothschilds are not now a power in‘international finance. He said, “If you would not have happen here what has happened in

‘Russia, in. Germany, in Spain . . .” | He said nothing about Italy. Why?

Then he came back to North America on his “good will” tour. He denounced Mexico. On’ his point ‘to point hop from Madrid to Mexico City, he passed over Louisiana. He said nothing about the minimizing of human rights, in Louisiana, under the Fascist dictatorship of his friend and political ally, the late Huey ‘Long. Could this have been due to the presence of Gerald L. K, Smith, or doesn’t he care what hap~

| pens in Louisiana.

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. IMMORTAL

BY JAMES D. ROTH Ah, yes—again we'll live; We trust in Holy writ. Our lives. to Him we'll give, In body, soul ana spirit. Then keep to the joyous road, Which leads buf to the right; Tt lightens our burdened load, ‘Then turns into silent night.

‘DAILY THOUGHT

Use hospitality one to another without grudging —1 Peter 4:9.

IRE many ‘other virtues, hospitality is practiced, in its perfection, by the Pook. If the rich how .the woes of

of M. Kirkland,

SIDE GLANCES 5 George Clarke

I was wrong. He turned out to

1a swell fellow. After a while’ the:

deckhand took the wheel, and tha captain came out and began talke ing. It's a good thing he did; toda for I'm no whiz at starting: a cone" versation. His name is Nes Runde, He wasn't wearing a coat because he's a Norwegian and doesn’t need a coat. He was looking so black because he had just got up. 2 2 =» ane ELS RUNDE is 45. He came. to this country at 19. He has never gone back to Norway. Maybe some day when he’s rich he'll go, and maybe not. His mother andj six brothers and sisters still . live,

there. He's glad he came. He is happy here. He smiles a lot after you get to know him. He likes people and

ts. Nels’ father was a fisherman and" boatman. Nels remembers the first time his father took him out in the: fishing boat. He put Nels on a seat: in the stern, and tied his feet to the bottom of the boat so he would: not fall out. Nels Runde is one of those sturdy, placid Norwegians who can do anys thing. In the summer he pilots this little" freight boat through the Lake of" the Woods to Northwest Angle. He“ goes up one day and comes back the next. The sailing season lasts six” months. Sometimes he is stuck in’ the ice on the last trip in, trying to stretch it too far. ' In the winter he does whatever he can pick up. Built two boats last spring. He helped build the . boat he’s piloting. It isn’t big, but’ it will hold a lot of freight. - sengers sit on deck if it isn’t too cold. If it is, they crowd on to a&bench in the little cabin below. = Nels steers from a little pilot house. It has an auto windshields, ‘wiper on the window, for the fall’ snowstorms. A 90-horsepower gasos line motor runs the boat. "It takes four hours to get from’ Warroad up into thé islands of Northwest Angle. It is across the open lake, and part of the time you * can.see just one little point of land, Otherwise, it’s like - pein on ‘the ocean.

» NN NCE in the islands, Nels epee about an hour stopping at tiny" private docks before he gets to the end of the line. Some of the docks are only 100 yards apart. On the way up, he dumps. off . drums of gasoline, crates of eggs a little lumber—whatever Supplies. y the people have ordered. Next day, on the way back, he. x picks up empty gasoline barrels, boxes of freshly caught fish packed: in ice, crates of blueberries and so on. He knows everybody on the {5+ lands. They all depend on ‘him, When he slides up to -the little - docks, it's “Nels, didn't you bring . my daughter on this trip?” or “Nels, will you bring me two angle irons.. when you come against?” or “Nels, have you seen that sack of lime I. ordered from town last week?” He has been making this jun for six years. He has never had any. gouble outside of being stuck in the: Sometimes the lake is so rough - that everybody on board is sick... Sometimes it’s so foggy he has to. run the whole course, by compass,

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of‘ the Amiricsn . Medical Association, f ORE and more we read in news". papers of the deaths of famous men, leaders in industry and others, from coronary thrombosis. - This means that one of the small blood vessels which supplied : the heart with blood suddenly became blocked, due to a clot of blood which - formed within the vessel.

tion until just before the World" War. Since 1917, however, much has. been written about it. It occurs’ most commonly in people between, .

50 and 70 years of age.

First sign of this condition usual