Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1936 — Page 10

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. Their Own Way MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936,

THE LANDON SPEECH HERE - is an accepted political maxim: You can’t beat somebody with nobody. After reading Gov. Landon’s first major campaign speech, delivered Saturday at West ‘Middlesex, Pa., the temptation is to quote that ancient wigecrack. But we won't do it. We don’t want to engage in personalities and, in any case, it might be unfair to the Republican candidate. It may be that his speech does not present the Kansas Governor's true character and capacity. It may be that, as the ~ party's candidate, he feels that he is not free to express himself; that he must voice the views of the responsible leaders of the party, not his own views. * There is no point in undertaking fo criticise "the speech in detail. There is nothing to take hold of. We agree with practically all that Landon said. With the exception of a phrase or two, President Roosevelt can agree with it all, 5 ~The phrases in question occur in the next . + to final paragraph. The paragraph—in full— “yeads: “So here at the place of my birth I "have solght to make clear what I believe to : be the choice now before our country. It is the choice between the pig in the poke policies “of the present Administration and those " American institutions under which we have enjoyed more liberty and ‘attained a higher standard of living than any other people in * the world.” & Nothing in the preceding paragraphs and nothing in the one that followed discussed in any way the policies of the present Adminis- ¢ tration—pig in the poke or otherwise, He did not even deny that the things he thinks should be done are being done now. Not all of his speech was quite so bad, but he actually did say: “Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.” He actually did say: “The remedy for monopoly and special privilege is to do away with them.” With representatives of some of the country’s clear- - est examples of monopoly sitting in his audi- . ence, however, he did not say how he'd do away with them.

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on readers will give us credit, we believe, ” for being patient up to this time with v. Landon. We have merely expressed the i hope that when he began campaigning in . earnest he would tell the country what he thinks and what he would do if President.

Swer seems to be that he would be as good k & Roosevelt as he could be,

We have a feeling that this campaign has _. ended before it has fairly begun. For the peo- ' ple of America, if they want a Roosevelt, certainly want a first-class, not a second-class one.

LAKES FOR DRY STATES

ENTIAL Candidate Willlam Lemke says we should dig 250,000 lakes in the dry region between the Mississippi River and the Rockies to increase the’ humidity of the air. Perspiring folk in the seaboard states may

The conservative, hard-headed, “better ele- '} ment” of Kansas thought it was a great joke

plains section to cool the summer winds. Instead of Alfalfa Bill's man-made bowls of water, Oklahoma now has man-made bowls of dust. And the winds blow hotter and drier than

" Rain doesn’t fall often in the Mississippi's western basin. It never has. But in the old days “most of the rain which fell lingered a long time 2 it fell. ' It soaked through a carpet of 8, seeped through the topsoil into the substorage, with the surplus creeping leisurely n the draws and creeks into rivers that ran ‘between green banks. But man changed jure’s scheme of things. He plowed up the 53 carpet, dug drainage ditches, built cul s, straightened out the rivers so the water i run faster. And} dows, skiing. the

t Way the New- Deal Bas een’

‘Indianapolis $5,000,000 a year.

ROGEAN MANES SHARE the rising toll of motor vehicle accidents is taking shape in Indiana and in the nation.

ures the other night at & meeting here of truck: | |

drivers who have outstanding safety records.

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Our ir Town |

He emphasized that education; enginesring |apols

and enforcement, backed by uniform legisia- [©

tion, are the chief needs. Specifically, Indiana may expect legislation in January to make the licensing of drivers an effective safeguard. Uniform traffic regulations

will be sought through voluntary action in |

state legislatures, Education will include safety courses in high schools and safety training for CCC enrollees. The efforts of the State Police, the Governor's Safety Committee, local safety councils and other groups should be suppiemented by more aggressive safety campaigning by citizens’ groups. 2 Safety engineering means signs and signals, but. more important, it means building roads to fit high-speed automobiles. Likewise, enforcement means an ultimate fitting of drivers to road and automobile eonditions by Slimingting ‘incompetent and reckless drivers.

For the nation as a whole, the intensive

safety campaign has produced results this year. Figuring increased gasoline eonsumption, the national death. toll is down about 8 per cent under last year. But for Indiana, the death rate is higher than in 1935; for Indianapolis, much higher. About the only benefit so far locally is the

. arousing of public indignation against the

traffic menace. Yet this is a major berefit, for it paves the way for accident reduction

when other phases of the program get under way.

PENNY WISE—

robably no one would argue that taxes should not be cut. Tax reduction is a universally popular campaign issye. It is easy to campaign for tax reduction—in generalities. The danger is that the cry may become so

unreasoning that vote-conscious public offic-

ials hesitate to face the cold fact that taxes must be collected for certain necessary public services, Few persons, however, will be so short sighted as to think there is any tax-saving logic behind the fight against the City appropriating $2400 for two inspectors to enforce smoke-abatement ordinances. Edward Raub, City Council president, and Councilmen Schumacher, Kealing and Oren, opposed the expenditure. The snfbke nuisance is estimated to cost

That is more that $13,000 a day.

Is there any “tax reduction” in refusing to spend for smoke elimination in a year the

SPuvslon: of what smoke costs Indianapolis every few hours?

COMING UP ais to a double victory from Toledo

yesterday, and to some timely co-opers-'

tion from Kansas City in defeating Minneapolis in- a double-header, the Indianapolis Indians are back in the first division of the American Association, Since that disastrous road trip on which the Indians won only five out of 23 games played, the team has been revitalized.

They started on the winning streak by taking 12 of 17 games at home, and kriocking St. Paul and then Milwaukee out of first place. On a swing around the western clubs, the Indians then won 10 games and lost eight. During the triumphant home stand that ended last night, they won seven games and lost two.

1 The Indians have won 29 of their last 44

games, nine of their last 10 series. : The season is so near the close that the best the Tribe can hope for is to stay in the first division and participate in the post-season playoff. This hope seems near fulfillment, and the fans had a grand time cheering the Indians on yesterday when Paul “Dizzy” Trout held Toledo hitless for éight innings in a sensational pitching exhibition.

“THE LABOR MARKET” WEAT can be accomplished by a working partnership of Uncle Sam and the states to wipe out old evils is illustrated by a record being made in setting up ‘free public employment exchanges all over America.

For years 'fee-charging privateers preyed on helpless job-seekers. What they took in

annual tribute mounted into millions. A study

revealed that in California in 1929 alone 281 such private placement bureaus collected $1,772,000 in fees for 450,000 placements. Feesplitting, extortionate charges and other swindies practiced by some of these filled the papers with scandal. < In June, 1933, President Roosevelt signed the Wagner-Peyser Act, providing for Federal-

state free employment exchanges, locally man- |

aged but financed jointly by the Federal and

state governments. ‘Today, according to Fed-

eral Director Frank W. Persons, 297 such ex-

changes are operating in 36 states, and all but |

here as “Bayou Blue.” - a J 2.»

T wasn't until 30 years later that anybody

thought of Fall Creek. Everybody laughed

nobody else had the sense to think of it. It's known now as 4215 Fall Creek-bivd.

He built a dam about 100 yards east of his

mill and let the water run down a race alongside the north bank of the creek. It was as prefty as a picture. The water rushed down from the dam and turned the big wheel, which set the buhr-stones going. I have. told you about the buhr-stones. The original dam was built of ‘logs. It

looked strong enough, but every once in a while|

the floods broke through just as they have a way of doing to this day. eve: this happened, Mr. Schofield had to stop milling and rush to town for help. He started grinding again after the dam was plugged up. " ‘Between floods, Mr. Schofield did a nice busi-

‘| ness and it was then that the scoffers realized

that Fortville and Pendleton millers were his nearest competitors. ” » ® ILL, SCHOFIELD'S mill got to be quite a cultural center in its day. Farmers came from as far east as Oaklandon and made a day of it. ‘They had to, because Bill ran his business on a cash and basis. Politicians and auctioneers were aware of what was going. on at Mr. Schofield’s mill and capitalized the time and place’to get in their work, too. With the coming of the new-fangled patent roller system Bill suffered a loss of trade, but he kept right on as if nothing had happened. Indeed, the old mill is going today, as if Bill were still there. To be sure, the mill today isn’t quite what it was 80 years ago, but it’s near enough like it to fool anybody. The original mill was burned

| about 35 years ago, but was rebuilt three years

later as good as the old one. ‘The old water wheel, too, was discharged for one of more modern design, but outside of that,” it's about’ the same. The most curious part about Schofield’s mill is that the Indianapolis Water Co. owns it today. It leases it to Mr. R. N. Blakeslee, the miller I told you about Saturday. . You can just ‘bet that if Billy Krieg and Alex Vonnegut dig up a story, it's going to be a. sentimental one.

August 24th !

JN INDIANA HISTORY y J. H J.

N Aug. 24, 1918, there was throughout Indiana a supplementary draft registration for

all men who had reached the age of 21 since

June, 1917. Boys when America entered the World ‘War, these young men were now con-

"| sidered old enough to go to Europe and fight, as

they had been taught, to “make the world safe for democracy.” The supplementary registration yielded 24,015 ‘youths who had become old enough since 1917 to make war. A third draft, on Sept. 12, which took in all other males’ between the ages of 18 and 45, resulted in the registration of 354,812 possible soldiers ind brought t Indiana's grand draft total to 626,138 More than a half-million Hoosiers were signed up to fight, if need be, in a war which, it since has appeared, was little concern of ours. The bands played “Over There” and “Tipperary,”.

troops marched down the street with flags gaily

waving and life altogether was very exciting, while every one “did his bit” and waited for the next casualty list to be published.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Claudia Cranston flew all over South |

V “America with only an overnight bag for luggage, sleeping wherever she happened to land, I announced gleefully that the age of feminine emancipation was here. But a Claudia is a piker compared to the girl I saw in Mexico whom we shall call

{| Polly, -because it’s her name.

Polly, lately turned 19, is touring Mexico on

ton, too, which makes the tale almost incredible. . Being a product of ‘one of our new experi-

“What the heck!” said - Polly. “One spot is as

"It looks as if she were right, too,

five states have taken steps in this direction, |Peing the only It is pertinent to mention in passing that one |...

of the five is Gov. Latdon's state of Kauss. :

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times reagers are invited to: express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) y # sw FLAYS NEW DEALER FOR : POLITICAL ATTITUDE By Ralph M. Lett In response to an article. written by Robert Blue to this: department of your editorial page and published on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1936, I am

| astounded to read that a loyal New

Dealer would be so thoughtless as

{to state that a Democrat did not

have any ‘sense of: ‘property right

land allow himself fo be influenced “| by his petty politics and political

activities to make him destroy huge sign boards carrying Republican advertising. Such degrading to be ‘political party.

be suffered by any

ment ‘that Mr. Landon

I question where this party re-

ceived such information because without any facts and figures on}

which to base such conclusion, his statements are not worth consid-

|eration and they sound like more

of that famous Democratic Michaelson Mud.

should not be allowed to work on

any government projects,” is an in-.

sult to people of average intelli~

the theory of ree a is net to garner votes for any political

vote and to go further and add that they should be discharged if

veut of polis reaching sn; all time new low. :

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| SEES AGREEMENT ON

ONE MOOT POINT By Perry Bale, Beinghurst, Ind.

Make your letter

smallness is too.

‘Mr. Blue also: made the ‘statewishes to] lengthen hours of work, take money out, of circulation 'and reduce wages.

His further statement, “That any relief worker who votes for Landon

party, but the theory is to take care of people who can not care for themselves.] To think that he ‘would have|~ the audacity to brag that they feel] that they have paid for the relief |P

they differ in political views is a |

Does not the fairness, of which the Indiana League of Women Voters is a synonym, enabled it to see merit worthy of reward, in this heroism? Have not these good women the insign to see political dishonesty that deserves punishment?

‘We human beings are so near the savage state that we are likely to recognize merit only when itis linked to the dramatic. If a man should arise in war-torn Spain and raise from the dead all the women and men who have been murdered in Spain’s terrible fratricidal war, we would now brand thesee Farleys But in 1932, if Democratic New Dealers. had: ! established -justice in Spain and thus prevented this horrible bloodshed, slaughter, destruc- ib tion and growth of undying hatreds, we. would now brand these Farleys, with unlovely names. Just as we need preventive medicine and religion, so do we need preventive statesmanship, True, the} merits of *preventive measures are

‘of primitive minds. But when we neglect to reward those who thus labor to awaken the conscience and

‘intelligent efforts to keep in tune i suftes God of Creation, and socie-

serve the highest raise for Beht gas a

gence. For Mr, Blue's information spoils.

ey J a country where - | speech is constitutional, Tooks. like |

a | T Peter 4:1. vt ; JIGET bogs it stars, an so a Bafley.

not appreciated by shallow thinking

turn the thinking of men and wom-

their former experience in the con-

duct of government. The Republican Party being in power gave more opportunity for schooling in governmental affairs, naturally developed more statesmen; consequently, more dependable and efficient. With the thmocrats credited with nine boners out of a dozen laws enacted by Oe and our own Legislature: attempting to destroy freedom of speech, those who heard Mr. Dowling realize he was four years in advance of the blunders. But I haven't made my point yet. A short while ago Mr. Townsend spoke at the Bloomington High ponoa. and while all were entranced his words, a pickpocket “sniped” $60 from a Democrat's pocket. Now

when you can find $60 in a Demo-

crat’s pocket, prosperity must: be here. ;

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ANOTHER NOISE NUISANCE BROUGHT TO FORE ‘By A. ER. Brown T noti your cartoon in The Times—*“Silence ’"Em”~but you neglected to include the noisy drug store delivery motorcycle. This is the worst nuisance we have of an

evening.

| MIDNIGHT 1 MAGIC | BY F. F. MACDONALD The biack-blue bowl of the myd-

night sky’ Spills "out showery-clusters of Luminous planets and satellites vie—

: The moon's iridescence—no cloudlet mars.

Ly The ig firmament flashes "Molten moon sails through star-

space;

a revealed—I see i your face! ;

‘with ! Oe eToame the flesh hath ceased from sin—

7 79%, shaws us trthe.

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‘Indiana

off from their fellow islands in Canadian waters. ° 8 ” 8 TT Angle mainland is about 10 by 12 miles, and it is all muskeg, or swamp, and nobody lives on it except along the shore. The Angle has a total permanent population of less than 100. : There is no town in Northwest Angle. ‘There are two post offices, both on islands, with two or three families living around them. People come by canoe to get their mail, There are two fishing camps in the Angle, where tourists may come to rest or fish. But it would be stretching a point to call it a resort country. The tourists come in dribbles instead of droves, and they are the sportsman type of tourist. I have never been any place where the inhabitants know so little about their own history as the people of Northwest Angle. Not a person § talked with knew why the U. 8.-Canadian boundary was drawn so ludicrously around: this isolated spot. The accepted story is that the British surveyors got the Americans drunk, and they drew a line; and then the Americans got the British drunk, and they drew a line. » ” 2 Li from the best information I could: gather elsewhere, it was really like this: A treaty between the United States and Canada to setfle the boundary was made shortly after the War of 1812. At that time they didn’t know the exact location of Lake of the Woods. So, according to the treaty, the boundary was to run east and west along the middle of Rainy River until it emptied into Lake of the Woods, then across water to the northwestern corner of the lake, and thence either north or south, whichever it might be, to the forty-fifth

‘| parallel.

And when they surveyed it, Lake of the Woods turned out to be far- . ther north than they had thought,’ and the northwest corner was way up in Canada, so when they drew the line back down to the forty-fifth parallel, that left this strange Northwest Angle ‘as United States territory. And here it is today. Northwest Angle isn’t any bargain, especially. The islands within the American are nice, but they're the poorest in the lake. There are 14,000 islands in Lake of Woods, which means that about

: studded’ Fama oF safle went | Woods.

Your Health 4

‘BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

{Editor of the Journal of the American ' Medical