Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1936 — Page 26

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reve HEYWOOD BROUN

3 NEW YORK, Aug: 29.—I would have been | much more impressed by' Alfred Lan don’s speech on taxation if it were not for the fact that the Governor of Kansas in_advertently forgot to take -into account either the Federal of the local levies on

liquor.

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proper distribution of the funds of Kansas.

~ some time spent with it.

The Republican nominee was more eloquent than

usual when he. approached the subject of contribu-.

tions by the well-to-do toward the + cost of government, For the first time in his campaign he reached a level closely approaching fervor.

Mr. Landon waxed both grave and | gay in dealing with the extrava- i gance of the Roosevelt Administra | tion, but he made no mention of | the fact that the government was |

dealing with half a billion dollars | which would not have been in play at all if Washington had proceeded.

along the lines laid down in the political philosophy of the Governor of Kansas. Mr. Broun a : land, and Alf Landon as a strict constitutionalist is not pledged to lead any forlorn hope of the drys in spite of his previous passionate commitments to the cause of aridity. I assume that ff he is elected he ‘will not choose to refuse those revenues which flow from beer and wine and spirits. i And vet 1 think that he was careless in climbing | all the way out to the end of the limb and attacking | indirect taxation. All Federal and local levies on

liquor are indirect in the sense that the consumer

pays the freight, with his martini or glass of lager, “without being acutely conscious that he is being exploited bv a mercenary and extravagant govern-

: ment. It seems to me that taxes which gurgle in the

throat are much the easiest to pay. ¥ un " un Free Schools, Free Teachers EFORE repeal was accomplished there was a good deal of tall and fallacious talk about the manner in which excise taxes would solve all our Federal financial problems. Some few patriots have done their very best to drink America out of the depression, 4d they have failed. Nevertheless, though half a billion may sound like chicken feed in these piping times, it still remains 500 millioh. And this is a source of revenue which Alfred Landon would have scorned and which Franklin Roosevelt has made possible. Moreover, the extreme

id dryness of Alfred Mossman Landon moves me to

wonder whether he really is the superman of thrift and sound financing so often mentioned ‘in the billing. > In compliance with the law he has balanced the

- pudget of Kansas. This result has been achieved by

neglecting state relief and cutting the salaries of teachers down below the level of bootblacks. Kansas believes in free schools and pretty nearly free teachers. It-may be said that the payment to instructors 4s all that a typical prairie state can well afford: The

_ friends of Mr. Landon have presented him as the

very perfect watchdog of ‘the Treasury. In order “to adjourn on time.let it be admitted that Mr. Landon

has been a marvel in preventing all waste in ins u

there may be leakages on the intake as ‘well as the outgd of state funds.

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Landon as a Collector E AS Alfred Landon been a superb business man in gathering. the potential revenues of the state of Kansas? I say that he has not. I am aware that

‘by his fellow citizens,

Repeal is now .the law of the

joined with others in perpetuating an expensive fic-

tion /in his own domain. - Kansas is dry. get a drink in |Kansas.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t Stragglers from Topeka have | wandered in and said that Topeka is not nearly as |

bad as one might imagine, They say that it is no town in which tc order a silver fizz, a sazarac cocktail or | a mother’s ruin, but that the land affords a reason- |

; 7 in. In other | ably good supply of Scotch and rye and gin. In ot | any other than Dr. A. R. Dafoe,

words. Kansas' plays dry, drinks wet and lets the . bootlegger get away wit he potential tax. And

- what kind of management iS that, Mr. Landon?

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EW YORK, Friday—We had an uneventful drive home yesterday afternoon. It was beautiful through the highlands and we reached Hyde Park in time for supper with my two grandchildren.

" They look upon the opportunity to eat with their

elders primarily as a period when their elders shall entertain them. We were no sooner seated than they demanded, “A funny story Grandma!” : Mrs. Scheider and I thought very hard and then related every incident of the last few days that could possibly be made to have a humorous ‘twist. Finally my granddaughter said to Mrs. Scheider: “What you tell isn't always funny Tommy, but you tell it in such a funny way it makes us laugh.” I realized that as a “raconteuse” I was neatly put in my place. Have you ever noticed how slowly children can eat? We spent one hour and a half over a very simple supper. We all had a good time and the

| ~ children have the right idea—laughter is certainly

good for the digestion. After supper we drove over to the cottage and were simply snowed under with envelopes of mail. ° Miss Dickerman had arrived to late in the after-

noon, so," although no one joined me in my early | . morning Swim, ‘three of us had our coffe on the

(porch today. We worked hard all morning frying to get through as much of the accumulated mail ‘as we could: At 12:30 I went over to get my grandchildren and their governess to bring them over for lunch, for they look upon a change of environment as a real spree. . - Miss Fannie Hurst joined us, having driven over from her retreat in the Catskill Mountains. Even the children fell under the spell of her personality and listened with great interest to all she had to tell us. What I wouldn't give td have her gift of writing! -If ever any one had material for stories spread before

_ them. I certainly have had it in the last {ew years.

(Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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" FHOUGH Alexei Tolstoi is unrelated to the famous

Leo Tolstol, his DARKNESS AND DAWN (Long‘mans; $250) reveals something of the power and scope of the other's novel, “War and Peace.” + Through the story of the youthful Dasha and her gentle sister Katia is shown the violent and troublous between the years 1814 and 1918. Though they mselves have little understanding of the war or revolution, they are involuntarily drawn into these ‘With them we-see the breaking up of the Russian av, the civil war between the Bolsheviki and the nsheviki, the guerilla warfare of the partisan bands, carried on by innumerable groups intheir own ideas, and the confusioh and

This story is the last on the

business boom which the Dionne | babiés have brought to their On- |

tario district and the program which is being followed in “getting the quins through the summer.” The introductory story and the one following were written by Willis Thornton, NEA staff cor-

respondent, and the other four by - |

Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, physician t the famed babies. .

(CALLANDER, Ont., Aug. ~ 29.—When the screen romancers imagined their first movie featuring. the Dionne quintuplets, they conjured up a story of a country doctor’s long battle for a hospital for his isolated Northern community. It was fiction, pure and simple. But now that, too, like so many other dreams surrounding the fabulous babies, is coming true. Callander is to have a hospital. Before the winter sets in, a Red Cross “outpost” will be standing on the shores of Lake Nipissing, almost within a stone’s throw. of the house of Dr. A. R. Dafoe," who is the real “country doctor” of the guintuplets. It won’t be a large or elaborate hospital; probably only a fourroom affair, with quarters for the resident Red Cross nurse, a rest room and equipment for emergency first aid and clinical work. But it will be a hospital and the fulfillment of a frontier dream. Specifications and blue prints are being studied by Dr. C. W. Routeley, head of the provincial Red Cross at Toronto, and’ bids will be submitted soon, according 'to P. J. Keeling, the reeve of Callendar, The position of reeve is comparable to that of mayor in most American cities. The site, bordering a picturesque cove along the Lake Nipis-~ sing road, close to the center of the town, has been donated to the Red Cross by the village. Reeve Keeling says that a tag day to raise the local share of the

: i : | hospital's cost is planned soon to no dictatorial powers have been conferred upon him |

but he has” enthusiastically |

add to the general carnival aspect of Callander. 5 ” un } HE present Red Cross district T nurse, Miss Sparling, who now boards with a ldcal family, will live in the hospital. While no announcement of a directing physician has been made, it is hard to see how he could be

‘ho has always worked closely vith the Red Cross in the :North country and who is at present medical officer of the district, Establishment of this new: Red “Cross “outpost” hospital will-en-dow with visiting nurse service a wide territory, badly in need of it since diseontinuance “of the station at Bonfield in which Dr. Da~foe and Madame de Kiriline formerly served. Clinical, out-patient and emergency cases wiil be treated there, with grave operations and ward cases carried on to North Bay after first-aid treatment. The relief problem is almost solved, for the moment at least. Last year 140 families were on the rolls of North Himsworth township, the community in which Callander lies. : It is a poor community, whose

NEA Service Writer

Teatime is milktime in polite quintuplet society, so. all refreshed by ‘their afternoon baths and naps, the five Misses Dionne are entertaining, this afternoon, their nurses, Miss Yvonne Leroux, left, and

Jacqueline Noel, right. And, left to right, the hostesses, as they say in the society pages, are the Misses Emilie, Cecile, Marie, Yvonne and Annette. The hostesses seem still engaged in refreshment.

farmers can scarcely grub a living from the rocky soil even in good times. Today there are just 16 families on relief, mostly unemployables. : The farmers at work on ‘the roads, the carpenters at work on the new staff house, and the many souvenir stands, the clerks and salespeople catering to the visiting thousands, tell the story.

” » = HE_emporium- conducted by Oliva Dionne, the world’s most famous father, is a beehive. Directly across the road from the nursery, it: draws huge crowds, and 10, sometimes 12, ‘clerks are

busy selling a variety of merchandise as fast as they can pass it over the counters. : Mr. Dionne . should make a handsome profit this year and in succeeding years, for his place is easily first as an attraction. Since its establishment in co-operation with the Ontario government it has drawn the cream of the trade away from earlier enterprises. As a sideline the father of the quins makes a considerable income autographing postcards or photos, as most visitors are - so avid for his signature that they are glad to offer him:a quarter. He spends only a short time each day at his shop, usually shielding himself from the crowds by retiring to a glassed-in cubby hole at the rear, a curtain dividing it from the main room of the store. There, on a card table, he signs his name and meets the more de- . termined of his visitors,

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HE active proprietor in the business is Dan Saya, responsible North Bay druggist and business man. A land boom all the way from Callander to the Dionne place is evident. One “widow woman” who has a rocky and unprepossessing tract that would have been well sold three years ago at $50 was offered ‘$1000 the other day. Pro-

LET'S EXPLORE

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C. M. YOUNG, psychologist of Colgate, gave a test to over 200 students—all men—on six qualities of sociability—such things as number of students each one knew by name, the number he knew intimately, the average degree of liking he had for fellow students, and the degree of liking expressed by others for each student. Some students scored pretty high, others pretty low. He then compared these sociability scores with their intelligence test scores and found no relationship whatsoever—the brilliant students

were as well liked and liked by as.

many other students as the mediocre and slow. rok 2 a 5 | THIS QUESTION is in dispute among psychologists and physiologists. ‘According to Dr. James Sonnett Greene, Medical Director of the National Hospital for Speech stuttering is not inherited

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BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

YOUR MIND

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can run in families by being handed down by imitation, but, if it runs

{very long or involves very large

phases of behavior, it rouses a strong suspicion that the basis of it is inherited. Many people believe if a thing is inherited it can not be cured. It is usually just as hard to cure things caused by environment as those caused by heredity. Most anybody with proper, treatment by a real expert can be cured of stuttering. i : = n ” =~ I THINK it is. Either that or else woman's “mancipation” and “new freedom” from man’s domination amount to nothing. I think, immensely more than formerly, women read, think and act for themselves and are much more independent of their former “lords and masters” in every way. Instead of this leading to greater antagonism between the sexes, il seems to me it is leading to better under-

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moters want the site forqa restaurant. : Complications incident to the “boom” have verged on the comic at times. For instance, three of Oliva Dionne’s cows were browsing about one night in the former pasture where the new dormitory is being built. They came on a couple of barrels which seemed to offer good drinking. : That the barrels were full of brine being used on the plastering work never daunted the cows. They drank deep. Next morning all were dead. The Dionne family has retreated behind an eight-foot board fence which hems in the still unpainted house, while a wire fence and “no admission” sign are regarded as protection enough on the road.

HE fence was built by the North Bay Board of Trade, which exacted a huge sign advertising the town as its reward.

Oliva Dionne’s garage was moved across the road to adjoin his house and thus make room for the extended nursery grounds. Farming on the Dionne place has been cut to the minimum these days—there are more important and profitable affairs confronting the father of the quins. Every one «in the neighborhood with a legitimate claim to the name of Dionne has found a source of potential profit. Many of the signs proclaiming that name do not necessarily mean that there are any Dionnes active=

ly taking part in the enterprise advertised. Some are distinctly silent partners, whose name was their sole contribution. But, in one way or another, the charmed quintuplets, who frolic in their nursery with such blissful innocence of all the hurly-burly about them, have brought stimuity and prosperity to

MONDAY— Brown County Centennial

~ BY HUGH Ss. JOHNSON ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 29. —As several astute commenta~tors prophesied, Lochinvar Landon boldly rode out of the West to Pennsylvania and came right out for Amercanism. Then he went to Chautauqua, N. Y., and fearlessly «discussed education. He is in favor of it, But at neither place did he speak with particularity of the great problems which are disturbing this country and upon which the coming election must turn—not even of the serious problem of, schools in Kansas. He is for freedom in education and radio expression. Nobody disagrees. There is no issue. Neither is there any issue on freedom of the press, which he favors. But he says it queerly: “No censorship—no control at the source of news.” The great chain of newspapers that discovered and now most unrestrainedly supports him, breaks all American records for the control and coloring of news not only at the source but all the way through to the public. Its savage red-baiting crusades were responsible for the teachers’ oath in the few communities where it is required by local law, The Administration joins Mr. Landon in condemning it. Again no issue, but is the Governor about to turn and rend

in print and pulp and ballyhoo? Probably not. : ‘

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HE cat seems to be slithering slowly out of the bag. Mr. Landon isn't going to discuss issues— but just glitter some generalities with a strong Tory taint. There is a rumor that the subjects of his next five speeches will be, (1), Mother, (2) Home, (3) Flag, (4) Bible, (5) Sin, and that he will mildly favor subjects 1 and 4 and really get hot in ‘denouncing No. 5. It is clear that the Tories have taken Alfred as the whale took Jonah. The Governor is all for

not by aid of Federal government,

create | their own institutions,”

which seems to say that the people

the state governments. Also, he says that those who advocate Fed-

to take short cuts —to have the thing done at a stroke by the powerful hand of government.” “This,” says he, “was not the way in which our educational system was developed” but by “patient labor, long struggle and sustained devotion.” : | That is a Solomon of a reason for putting up with a poor educational system. If there is any sense in it, we ought to have our automobiles built jn a blacksmith shop. It takes longer that way. , = = FJ y

“HEN the good Governor goes on to say what he has done for

state devotes 40 per cent of each tax dollar to the support of schools.” Here is what the state superin of public instruclast year?

of

| approximately 40 per cent.”

the great patriot who fashioned him |

education by government aid but].

because h® wants the people “to don’t control the Federal as well as

eral aid to education “are inclined | -

education in Kansas. “My own

for all children regardless of the condition of the local community.” The Governor, when he is budgetbalancing, evidently believes in letting the local communities root or die on education as well as relief. “Today,” said he at Chautauqua, “perhaps to a greater degree -than ever before, the control of our educational institutfons must be kept in the hands of our local communities.” How has this worked out

in Kansas during the depression?

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‘TATE contributions in some other states are: California, 60 per cent; New . York, 30 per cent; Maine, 28 per cent. The Kansas fig-

ure is 1.7 per cent. Here is what he’

said last year:

“It has been necessary to conduct our schools at lower costs. . . . During the last three years schoo costs in Kansas have been reduced The reason they were reduced was because the country communities ran out of money and credit and the state refused to help. In balancing the Kansas budget, the Governor didn’t take it “out of the ‘hides of the political exploiters,” as he says he will do as President. He took

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Gov. Landon’s Record on Education in Kansas Is Reviewed By Johnson

part. of it out of the jobs and salaries of teachers and the education of children. Says the state super=intendent: “Four hundred {fiftysight schools had to be. closed with that many teachers going without bay. . . . 8557/hoys and girls . . . did not have the privilege of completing a full school. year.”

The secretary of the Progressive Education Association reported “teachers hired for $25 a menth, of standards so low that elementary to teach. . . Kansas was spending more for roads than for education.” An official of the State Teachers College = wrote: “Kansas refuses school to some of its children is an ugly statement, but . . . not iar from the truth.” = » ” HE Governor now says that the Federal government should stay out of the support of schools, but when he was balancing the Kansas budget by.taking 'it out of the hide of all the ‘ideals he extolled at Chautauqua, his | Administration asked Harry Hopkins for $150,000 of, Pederal money r Kansas schools. . Wheén Hopking declined on the ground that the / Legislature hadn’t appropriated 1 cent for these schools, the impression was so crafti the state that

®&, for want of money, that Hopkif$$’ local administrator had to issu4a formal statement denying it. 7 | “The self-sacrifit®e . .. . of our teachers is one ofthe finest examples of public js€%vice,” says the Governor. He ought to know.

(Copyright, 1936, @United Feature Syndic nc.)

| the ways of Pan-Americanism will not pick

NEV YORK, Aug. 29.—Do not scoff away, the problem of Julian T. Bishop, Green= wich, Conn., a New York broker who adver"

“tised that in the event of Mr. Roosevelt's re-

election he would sell his quail farm at

Carthage, N. C., and move to Canada. David

Croll, minister of public welfare of the province of'On= tario, has written that Mr. Bishop might be unwel= come there, and a look at the globe will show that there is not much choice of territory left to a fugitive tax slave who requires asylum from the dues of. American citizenship together with the freedom and opportunities which are available here. ; In former times,many American fugitives settled in England, having fled the United States to escape, not the taxes, which were negligible before the Great War, but

| the gross vulgarity of the sons and

daughters of those whese labor and savings had made them rich. A class of people but one generation removed from the red flannel undershirt and the red cloth on the kitchen table weré beginning to smoke nickel cigars and equip theif homes with gas light. Their noisy ostentation and the periodic raids of the masses against private property in the labor wars of the nineties made the United States unbearable to per= sons of wealth and taste. They managed things much better in England, where the lower classes knew their place and kept it. Taxes were low, wages negligible and one’s social inferiors duly respectful. These conesiderations and the lovely Old World atmosphere of the mother ‘country, to say nothing of marrying one’s daughters to persons who really mattered, made Eng« land a delightful refuge. France, too, was attractive.

8 8 8 War Brings Change

UT the war changed all that. The cost of the war was such that taxes became really excessive in England and the social stir resulting from the war churned up from the bottom of the human pool all manner of dreadful creatures, really no better than the working classes at home. France remained charm ing, with the franc at 3 cents. But when the perfidi= ous Roosevelt cut one’s dollar almost in half by his iniquitous inflation, the cost of the franc was doubled and with it the cost of living. So one in the uphappy situation of Mr. Bishop must cross off England and, while he is at it, Russia, Austria and Spain.

Italy remains to be considered, but one discdvers irritations there easily comparable to those at home under Mr. Roosevelt at his worst. Italy has taxes which Roosevelt has not yet imagined, and an American resi dent is firmly deterred from engaging in profitable occupations in competition with home talent. And Mr, Bishop is a broker who might want to turn over a dol lar now and again. He is moreover, a man who likes to speak his mind and that would never do in Italy.

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Home Land Not So Bad

N Germany his situation would be similar but more so and of course he wouldn't want to go to South America. Countries where in one period last year five revolutions were running, most of them concurrently, and most of the continent is governed by military dice tators and feudalism.

Hawaii won't let Doris Duke build a private beach to the exclusion of the rabble and Mr. Bishop probably would find objections to Australia and Africa, where taxes are by no means undiscoverable. The Australians might even object to him. : I do not jest at Mr. Bishop's dilemma. I just won der where a fugitive can go to find: nice taxes and the freedom which Roosevelt still permits us. The world is narrowing down and I seriously doubt that he will find anywhere on earth a better ’ole than his quail farm at Carthage, N. C.

Mr. Pegler

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BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Secretary Henry Mor= : genthau has completed the co-ordinating of government financing operations which Roosevelt asked him to undertake months ago.: A central committee has been set up to regulate the issuance of government bonds, so that hereafter the Treasury and the Farm Credit Administration, for example, will not be going into the market to sell bonds at the same time, thus depressing the demand for such securities,

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One of Gov. Alf. Landon’s key utility experts Is now an official of the Motor Carrier Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He is H. M. Roberts, chief of the section of certificates and insurance. Roberts was selected for the Federal job because of his outstanding service with the Kansas state government. Po : “|

: 2 2 = Dr. Leo Rowe, director of the Pan-Amepican Union, hopes that the new cockatoo he is training in : p its vocabulary from the Marine Corps Band, as-did his other birds. Functionaries around the Union want to call the bird Leo.

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Workers in the SEC have a credit union which lends money to themselves.” But the lending committee lends no money to members of the piblic utilify division which administers the Holding Cor~

- poration Act, on the ground that the Supreme Co

will probably declare it unconstitutional. ® = a : 2 Asked if he were not once a member of the Re-

publican Party, which he now excoriates, Secretary :

Ickes replied. “Yes, but I am not like Lot's wife. I am going straight ahead.” : : ! = » n : : N a farm near Washington the latest labor-saving devices are being tested by the Rural Electrifica~ tion Administration, including an electric fence. The fence consists of a single wire carrying a mild charge of ‘electricity. Cows trying to pass it kicked up their heels and vanished. Next day they took, one look at the wire and kept away, 3 #8 8 : The Official ster, latest government publica tion, employs 250 workers and started with a paid subscription list of 65. The other 15000 copies of the publication go to government .offices. Private subscriptions cost $10 a year, : 2 : The latest batch of patents approved by Office included a “bottle holder,” designed

the weary parents of the labor of holding baby while baby drains it.

Whatever else the Department er -of Agricul: of, it can't be vanity; there isn't

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