Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1936 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Pind Their Own Wap

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936.

A PRESIDENT UNAFRAID OU could be proud, if you were listening last night, that ~~ you were in America. For over the air came the voice of America unafraid. The voice of the President of the United States, saying, “These things we have done; these things we will continue to do; we are not quitting.” That was the essence of the Roosevelt speech, though " not the words. * That was the message he gave to the millions who turned to him for leadership in 1982, the millions of the submerged whom he has rescued and who are grateful, and the message likewise to a much smaller number whom he also rescued—and who are not grateful. It was the voice of courage and confidence, courage and confidence of such degree that it sounded a new note in a campaign that had threatened to establish a low mark in political mediocrity. For, until now, his enemies have had

the air and the newspapers pretty much to themselves, and |

the air and the newspapers have been filled with whimperings and mean fears. The President cleared the air, at least. He revealed anew that a man’s sized man is still at the controls in Washington, doing the man’s sized job he was chosen to do, wholly unbothered by the yelpings of the panicky minority mentioned above. There is a political candidate in the field against the President. His campaign to date has not been inspiring. ~ He has obviously sought to be two things, a man in whom the masses of the American people, the. farmers and the

laborers, could put their confidence, on the one hand, and '

a man to whom the privileged few of the past could look - for reassurance that their day would come again. He has presented a blurred picture of himself and his program. He has but a few short weeks in which to undo the damage he has done himself and his candidacy, in which, to say, to present a negative that has not suffered from double exposure. The President has. cleared the air, has let a flood of : light into the campaign, revealing that he knows where he is going and is moving resolutely on his way. In this light his opponent will have to reveal not only where he stands, but the direction in which he proposes to move—whether east or west or in a circle.

MOVING JUNK-HEAPS

“MY brakes didn’t work,” or “my headlights were out of ‘ order,” have been standby excuses of negligent automobile operators. The day is coming when they won't be ficcepted.

' When Chicago yedently adopted compulsory auto " spection—it now is a traffic law violation there not to have

an inspection “'sticker”’—the Keep Chicago Safe Committee estimated 10 per cent of all automobiles in larger cities, at least, were unfit for use and should be junked. And the inspection drive, which has spread to many cities and is receiving some consideration in Indianapolis, also focuses public attention on such matters as wheel alignment, brake equalization, rearview mirrors, steering accuracy, headlights and tail-lights. Since Memphis nearly three years ago started America’s first compulsory auto inspection system, the plan has worked to reduce accidents in Evanston, Ill.; Des Moines, Billings, Mont; Huoxvills, Seattle and other places. Delaware and Connecticut have made compulsory inspection statewide. Maryland has a system of private in8pection. Ten other states have more or less effective in-’ spection legislation.

The keeping of unsafe automobiles off the roads oe

compulsory inspection should be considered by the next Legislature, along with -a more stringent drivers’ license law providing for examination of drivers.

- THE SIMPSON CASE

JAVRENCE SIMPSON, American, has been sentenced to three years in a German prison. This should put a period to at least one phase of an affair which has obtained considerable publicity on false pretenses. Simpson was widely pictured by sympathizers in this country as an ordinary American seaman trying to make a living for himself at his job, who suddenly had been yanked off an American ship in a German port and thrown into a Nazi prison for no apparent reason. 3 _ The trial brought to light an altogether different pictire. By his own admission Simpson has been warking hand in glove with German communists, smuggling in anti-Nazi propaganda and otherwise engaged in activities which he and his associates hoped might overthrow the Hitler regime. =: We hold no brief for Naziism, fascism, communism nor any other ism hostile to democratic government. But when ah American citizen uses the American flag to camouflage his meddling in the affairs of foreign governments, he is beying the best interests of his own country. And Uncle Sam’ Ss obligations to him are distinctly limited.

EAR ADMIRAL SIMS

N the language of the soldier and the sailor, Rear Admiral ~ William Sowden Sims, U. S. N,, retired, has gone West. mmander of the American forces in European waters ing the World War, he has gone to join most of the ger leaders in that great conflict. Rear Admiral Sims never let the barnacles collect on his y To the end of his three-score-years-and-six, he resined keen, progressive and constructive, : He probably did more in a practical way to reform the can Navy than any other one man. Among other , he taught it how to shoot. | He was only a lieutenant when he convinced himself a

|. Ing to rise .above the

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Notes Social and Literary Phases of Series and Especially Parties for Writers and Heroes of Past

EW YORK, Sept. 30.—The social and literary phase of the World Series has developed: into an occasion of such magnitude that it will not be amiss at this hour to leave the technical aspect of the impending festival to the more expert authorities and dis-

.cuss the lighter side. There are two great sport events

in this country compared to which all others are secondary. These are the World Series and the heavyweight championship prize fight, They ‘bring sport writers and customers from everywhere and the World Series, by reason of its continuity and integrity of the game, must be conceded precedence. The gate receipts are threaten-boom-time record of * $1,207,000. Moreover, the boys are moving inn irom other cities of the major: and minor leagues in large numbers to cover the ball games and intuce in the social frivolity which has become 3 fixed tradition of the show, along with those wrinkle-riecked, thick-fingered forgotten men, the heroes of occasions past. A Hank Gowdy will recall the home runs which he hit in 1914 before the devaluation of the homer and the time he stepped in his mask going after a foul in a World Seri; 10 years later and staggered around with the cage on his foot to lose the game. And a Casey Stenzel, who hit two home runs to win the only game the Giants did win in 1923, the last time they met thre Yankees, will remember that when the team broke up into first and second squads to play their way home from Texas in the spring of 1924, he himself put ‘his name on the second string roster. his job to dimly O Connell, the recruit from California.

Mr. Pegler

"8 = A : HIS year, perhaps, Babe Ruth, after a full season of oblivion, will pull up a chair and set awhile

over a noggin, relating just what he said to the Cubs’

bench in 1932 when, with two strikes gone, he pointed to the flagpole and, on the next pitch, knocked a home run precisely where Ii¢ had pointed. The custom of providing a chafing dish meal and beverages for the old ball-players and the inmates of the press coop goes iarther back than I do in World -Series and it has sometimes been honored in the breach. : 2 8 ” E hospitality of the Philadelphia Athletics always was bleak and meager, for the owners are

not festive men and old Mr. Clark Griffith, as a teetotal prohibitionist, paid grudging. tribute to tradition. At Mr. Griffith's first World Series, when prohibition was at its grimmest, those who held social credentials presented themselves at the mysterious room in a hotel and received each a Canadian quart

- which was duly recorded on nis ticket with a con-

ductor’s punch. The writers, the old-timers as well as the kids who are constantly coming along to cover their first World Series, always wrench and strain to compose literature consistent with the magnitude of tle occasion. Some do and make a mess of it througli over-trying, but there is no other :gpproach to the story. You can’t just relax and let it write when you are Soverng; an event of great Tigional interest. £

He knew without being told that he had lost

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

MORE SCHOOL BUSSES NEEDED, WRITER SAYS By Ancil Ellis, R. R. 7

I think that you would do more good in your safety drive if you would just take a trip through the county and see how the schoolchildren have to ride to school. They are jammed in busses like cattle in a car. I think it high time that the people of the county stand up on their hind legs and speak for themselves in regard to this matter. Township trustees can spend money for things that amount to nothing. I think they should spend a little money for a few extra busses to stop crowding the kiddies in like sardines Jn a box.

= ” ® CRITICISES BEER SALES AT FAIR By W. V, Crawfordsville

While I was seeing the sights of the Indiana State Fair, I also was doing some thinking. While I was eating some fine food prepared by one of the city churches, a man in a stand behind me kept telling the virtues of his ice cold beer. A little later I noticed that the exhibit of a state college was directly over a beer stand. Then I thought of a story in the Bible

| abodt: two houses, the one built

upon a rock and the other on the sand. I don’t want to say anything against the college. The saloon belonged to the underworld, and perhaps it was fitting and proper that it was. so placed. I also thought of another passage of Scripture which says not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good. If the church and the school continue to do their best, some day we may be able to drive out the institutions’ which degrade and demoralize our citizens. But when beer signs are seen in so many places on the fairground and in our eating places, people will wonder where we are drifting and oa what foundations we are building. » FJ ”

SPRINGER’S POLICIES

HELD SCHOOL DANGER By Horn Book Benjamin Franklin once had a sad experience in which he spent all his pennies for a whistle. It taught him a lesson. I wonder if the teachers of Indiana know enough about business to profit by Franklin's experience? Gov. Alf Landon passionately declares that school teachers should not” be required to swear allegiance to the Constitution. By the way, isn't that a little inconsistent for one who parades himself as one of the defenders of the Constitution? ’ The tetally ridiculous side of the picture is the fact that Kansas grade teachers draw an average salary of

$37.79 per month and high school

teachers only $77.07 per month. ‘In the first place, the difference between high school and grade sehool teachers is too great in Kan-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Al Smith +c Go Into Lemke Areas and Attack President Roosevelt's as| Ln

Communist, Hoping to Switch Enough Votes to Lemke to Elect Landon Ee

7ASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Al Smith is about to

* go into those areas where Fs! ner Coughlin and | “his ‘stooge Lemke are the strong:st. There, at a

cost’ to somebody of $50,000 or: more, Mr. Smith

will make radio speeches attacking Mr. Roosevelt.

The strategy is exactly the same a: that of the radio priest, who called Roosevelt anti-('od and screamed

to inflamed followers to wipe ¢.! government by |,

bullets if their ballots fail. That :lrategy is to call Roosevelt a Communist. : Communism is ruthlessly again! religion. People of every creed are shocked anc violence to their oe riohed beliefs in —and more lately and most terril against Conn and Al Smith vin col idcisiors of their: HRoMEVEl

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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.)

sas. In the second, we should compare these salaries with the $800 minimum for grade and the $1000 \minimum for high school teachers in Indiana. Indiana teachers. also should remember that the $800 and $1000 minimum salaries are only minimum in Indiana and that the average is much higher. : The declaration in favor of the abolition of the oath of allegiance to the Constitution may be popular

of the whistle is too great. Hitch up this idea with recent deelarations of Raymond S. Springer on repeal of the gross income tax law and® his ‘promise not to levy. any ‘new taxes or increase any of old ones and the picture of desolation for the teacher would be complete. Springer elected in Indiana would be another Landon with closed schools and pitiably low salaries for teachers. Teachers, as a rule, are not politically minded, but even if they were, certainly they have enough business judgment to swat Landon and Springer in November. This pronouncement of Mr. Springer has alienated the teachers and farmers of Indiana. How can he expect to win this fall? ” f 3 ”

INSISTS SPRINGER’S STATEMENT IS INSULT By John B. Hurley, Cutler

Candidate Springer that the.gross income. tax law will and this sounds considerable as coming from a would-be dictator. He says’ further that there will be no new'tax laws and-that property taxes will nogbe increased. Now if Mr. Springer should eliminate the contributions to the. school teachers of the state, stop paying

WANTON |

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK

Autumn breaks against the earth In a flaming wave of blood; Stripping slim frees of their worth— Crimson fruit from fragile bud.

Straining up her wanton frame In an ecstasy of reaping Passion’s fruit without dark shame, Scorning winter and dull sleeping.

DAILY THOUGHT

But I have frusted in Thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation.—Psalms’ 13:5.

AITH ‘lights us ‘us through the - dark to. Diety; faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, to break the shock that nature can not shun, and lands - thought Smeotnly on" the further shore. — Young. Spite

the beaches.

with some teachers, but the cost;

announces.

be la when ‘he is Governor;

BY FLOR ENCE P.

league composed of those s singers, ndied and notorious, ‘wis hate best doling: all columnists’ work while you c:

old-age pensions, dismiss all the officials, from the township advisory boards up, and contribute his own salary, he still ‘would have a deficit. The statement is an insult to the intelligence of the adult citizenry of Indiana. ; 2 2 2 HAILS LABOR SPLIT AS GODSEND By Pat Hogan’ 2 The breach in the so-called American Federation of Labor, although alarming and regrettable, is the greatest godsend in 50 years for the labor movement in Whe United States. In a strict sense, it has not been an American Federation. It has

‘been a mere infant of a federation,

become antiquated by the march of progress, Still: we learn that the governing ‘body, ‘biased by oxeart philosophy or pure selfishness, would seal itself up, turtle-like in

its shell and defy the march of |

progressive action. The underlying fear which expressed its action in suspension of

the C. 1. O. is that the craft unions |

will be lost or swallowed up by a great industrial union. This is equally as absurd as the belief that a river is lost or unidentifiable because. it flows into the sea. The crying need in this nation today is just such a movement as John L. Lewis ‘and his assistants are advocating. In a land where more than fifty million men work with their hands; it seems incredible that less than four million are affiliated with labor unions; the regrettable thing is that those who most need the guidance and protection

of a mighty union, those who ac-|

tually do the hardest work and are

most . exploited, are’ those: who are |

not now members of any union. - The one sure cure for depressions, for Hearst, the du Ponts, Mills, Mellon, Morgan and the other greedy industrialists is a powerful national union that will force capitalism to pay a decent living wage. America is indeed fortunate in having a dauntless: leader like John L. Lewis to sponsor the movement. Lewis is a Lincoln at heart, and the heart and soul of every red-blooded American are with him. ~ Within five years William Green 1#hd his handful of followers will be hegging for admission into Lewis’ inion, regardless of what he calls it.

» nn RECALLS $7,000,000 SPENT AT QUODDY

By J. Malone “It Didn’t Get That Way on Maple Syrup”’—Cartoon by Talburt. Neither did it get that way on $7,000,000 of tax money—Quoddy. “Anybody Can Bag a Stuffed Moose”—Cartoon by Talburt. No, they can’t,’ The New Deal could not bag one with over $7,000,000 of the tagayers money — Quoddy.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

'Farrar and Mencken Come ow for Landon' But Columnist Hag Trouble Remembering Mencken

EW YORK, Sept. 30.—Here it is way past the dead-line and I'm trying te dictate a column to Connie. It doesn’t rest me at all when she says, “How do you spell: it?” I'm not supposed to know how to spelt

words.. I'm a creative artist. Or at least I used to be before I started this resting business: and quit interrupting my train of thought by yelling “period?” at me. I'll punctuate this column in such

a way as to bring out those 1di0esyncratic nuances which Pleass. ae. “Couldn’t you maybe do & column about C-a-t or an R-ask: until “you get a little stronger;® suggested: Connie. I'm afraid I couldn't, ‘because if I start oufwith rats I'm sure to finish up: with ~labor .spies, and I'm sups= posed not to excite myself. But on this particular after noon I had begun with an idea. The dry rot of the resting mind: had consumed it. I sought to bring it back. One barrier was an annoying letter in the current: mail. It was an offer to sénd me a check if I would sign an indorsement for somebody's gin. “I wish I could take that easy dough,” I said to Connie, “but, -of course, I can’t. It would just be beneath my dignity to indorse anybody’s gin.” “I wish you'd get so dignified you'd quit drinking it,” she said with that. annoying irrelevance which puts a man off his stride, particularly when he is resting. And now it all came back to me. I remembered: the subject which I had chosen for a column. I ree membered the subject, but its pertinence now ese. caped me. Very distinctly I recollected writing ona small scrap of paper, “Farrar and Mencken come: ‘out for Landon.’

Mr. Broun

8 x =n : = 7 | SHS must have been a headline which I had be served in one’ of the newspapers, probably the Herald Tribune. Now Farrar I could identify easily enough. She would be Sid Farrar's little girl. Sid played first base ‘for the Phillies way back in ths (Before Clark Griffith) period. They were calla ing them out onthe first bounce in those days, and the Farrar crowd quite naturally would be for Lane don. = Geraldine had her own career.. She was Butters fly and Carmen an . She. played Butterfizquite in the tradition of Republican rugged indis vidualism. Hers was an enterprising Japanese lassi® who could knock the block off Pinkerton at ang time she was so minded. So far so good. But who was Mencken concerning whom I had made the note. Most distinctly it had been, “Farrar and Mencken,” but even if I though of it “Mencken and Farrar,” that didn’t seem to help out, either. “i 2 2 = = HE worst of it was that I had, and still hav a distinct impression that somewhere or other: z have heard the name Mencken. Of course, if it gots all the way back to Sid Farrar’s time I have a gr deal of territory to cover, but I don’t think ti Mencken was a ball player. He or she might ho been something musical around the opera house. Am. I correct in thinking that there used to be a famous phonograph record called the duet of Mencken ang Farrar? ~

[The ‘Washington Merrv-GoRound.

Mrs. Kahn Finds It Hard to Write Humorous Column in Midst of Fat Campaign; | Lauds California Youth: for Taking Active Part in Politics,

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As my son says: “During the campaign ie eat 8 every language.” How you would enjoy it! - a= I wonder if the youth of the nation are taking hold elsewhere as they are in the San Francisco political situation. Not only taking hold, but builds Wg segaimtions for future control, developing & real leadership. The enthusiasm, the earnestness, the

willingness to work and to sacrifice are the most

cing €igns J hate sen 4) many Wicons. 3