Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1936 — Page 10

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Give Light and the Peoples Will Fina Thetr Own Way

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1936

‘THE SUPREME COURT : HE Supreme Court, which convenes today, is an important but little discussed issue of the presidential campaign. This is too bad, for discussion might throw light on this most powerful court in the world, and its place in our government. The court's nine justices vote secretly but decisively many times a year,on what manner of government we are to have, and this year its docket has an increased ‘volume ‘of big cases. fin In four issues alone, the court’s decisions may have as profound an effect as the presidential election on our future “svell-being. ; One is the Wagner Labor Relations Act, brought before “the court in a half-dozen cases involving various industries ~ .and applications of the law passed by Congress to insure labor's freedom to organize. Minimum wage laws are on the chopping-block on which New York's law was killed last June by a 5-4 vote. A state’s authority to enact unemployment insurance legislation, vital to the Social Security Act plan and equally vital to the independent state action suggested: by Gov. ~ Landon, is challenged in three cases from New York. The right of a state to enact fair trade laws is attacked in several cases on the present docket. The late William H. Taft in 1920 issued an appeal for election of the Republican. presidential nominee, Warren "Harding, asserting that the quality of the appointments to ‘expected vacancies on the Supreme bench was the most important issue. Harding's appointees, Sutherland and Butler, “have held the balance of power against the New Deal. They : helped defeat the state minimum wage law last term, and they are in a position to repeat this term.

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TYPHOON OVER ASIA : VERY day the cables bring additional confirmation that 7 |events are steadily approaching a showdown in the Far East. I'he Japanese have presented to the Chinese a set of “mild gentle principles,” as they call them, which, if accepted, would turn China into a Japanese protectorate.

©. Surprisingiy enough Nanking is showing signs of hitting

‘back. Not only does the Chinese government refuse to “concede the “mild gentle principles” by which Japan would ‘surely if gently swallow the country, but it suggests that the’ Japanese give up what they have already taken. So the storm is gathering. One thing is certain. ~ Powerful Nippon is not going to retreat. She regards herself as fighting for her very life. Room for expansion, access to, and control over, raw materials are seen as vital to her existence. Also she must have a wide market for her products.

‘So to America and the rest of the world Japan presents

a phenomenon of utmost significance. She is fast adopting the American, or chain, system of industry because that makes for cheap production. Coupled with this is the

world’s cheapest labor engaged in that sort of work. \ | This makes a dombination difficult to beat. Thus, if \. and when Japan takes over China or a large proportion -

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thereof, she stands to be virtually impregnable economically as well as militarily” . | We do not know the answer. We are simply pointing out some problems with which American and European statesmen may have to wrestle in the not distant future— and solve in peace. And it is not going to be easy. For tariffs won’t do it, nor quotas, nor dividing the world into _ zones. All these and more like them have already been tried and found wanting,

"SEVENTY MILLION MILES JNDIANA may have one of the worst traffic accident rec- ~% ords in the country, but it can’t be blamed on the truck : drivers. : Driving 70,000,000 miles without an accident during a 12-month period, more than 2000 truck drivers in the Indiana Motor Traffic Association's safety campaign won

the American Trucking Association's national safety contest |

for the second consecutive year. The National Safety Council Conference opens in At- ~ lanta today, seeking means to curb the highway slaughter that threatens to pile up a new high auto fatality record for 1986. The splendid record of the Hoosier truck drivers should encourage all motorists to take ‘an active part in the national campaign for safety.

~ JESSE ISIDOR STRAUS

N the death of former Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus,

who but recently returned to this country from his post “in France because of illness, the nation loses one of its most useful citizens. : /

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As Mr. Straus saw it, the world is just one community

: in which nations as neighbors can not hope to prosper long unless they collectively prosper. | It was only natural, therefore, that he should be sent _ abroad, to Paris, it so happened—as this country’s ambassador. And there, despite failing health, he did excellent _ service until” his enforced return home less than two months ago. | ;

THE “Y” CAMPAIGNS HE annual membership campaigns of the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A.—the latter recently completed and the . W. C. A..drive being conducted this week—call atten. n to the wide variety of community services these organlions perform.

The Young Women's Christian Association is empha- | a

y a cultural, recreational and practical program which

des study courses in many fields, gymnasium classes, . ing and dancing and other recreational activities, as- |

in Indianapolis, social service, and

Price in Marion County, |

rates in Indiana, $3 a

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Pleasant Humor of World Series Crowd Relief fo Columnist After Olympic Games in Nazi Germany

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—We had another of. those record crowds out for the World

| Series show at the Yankee Stadium Sunday

and more cops than you would be wise to

shake a stick at. But, though the public was

tilgling with emotion, as*you might say, and partisanship was rife during the Giants’ third defeat, the occasion passed off in pleasant humor and with no saluting or clicking of heels, To those of us who

observed the Olympic games in Germany and certain public occasions in Italy the contrast was a great comfort, for it seemed to demonstrate the superior position of a free race who may have their. amiable frailties, as suggested by the homicide rate, but are able to govern. themselves by their own consent. The flag flew from the big stick in center field and the people gave it the customary salute before the game. But thers was no superman present demanding cheers for his ego and the crowd seemed confident of the country’s position in the world without saying anything about their wonderful nation, their indomitable will, their sacred honor or their readiness to slit the neck of Russian, Briton or Frenchmen on the slightest provocation. : The only uniforms to be seen, aside from the baseball flannels and the rather informal monkey-suits of the ushers, were the coppers’ blue, and the law was there only fo show the free men which way was which and keep them out from under the wheels of the taxis. The law also picked up a couple of scrubby looking unfortunates, possibly pickpockets or hustlers peddling tickets without the proper license. Otherwise, the gathering of nigh onto a hundred thousand Americans, counting those hanging around outside the park and standing on the roofs half a mile from the plate, got along on the best of terms. In fact, with two exceptions, they always have done so at the World Series, and thére was great provocation both times when they didn’t. ;

# » 2 NE was back in the early 20s when an umpire called a tie game on account of darkness when it wasn’t quiie dark enough for that, and the patrons thought they had been gypped of their price of admission. To allay suspicion, old Judge Landis, wha, is the nearest thing to a dictator that there is in the World Series, gave the money, about a quarter of a

million dollars, to charity, and all was well, The other uproar occurred in Detroit two years

Mr. Pegler

‘ago when Ducky Medwick, of the Cardinals, slashed

at Marvin Owen, of the Tigers, with his spikes, and missed him, but aroused the civic indignation of the bleacher trace who pelted Medwick with bottles and hot dogs, and missed him. 2 ” »

HE old dictator, or czar as we used to call him when Judge Landis was a novelty, would be minister of baseball under the Duce or Fuehrer if this were one of those countries, and the citizens would be required to stand and watch him blow out his cheeks and scowl. It would be hard to imagine the old Judge posing on a step-ladder masked in bunting and ser iously expeciating to be¢ honored thus. It would have been only a little more silly if President Roosevelt had done such a thing when he went

to the game at the Giants’ park the other day, but if

Mr, Big had done that they would have laughed him out of the park, out of town and out of office, and some one would have been sure to take a pop at him with a flask. Sha :

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TUT TUT! THAT'S EASILY ADJUSTED = JUST GIVE ME A PARTNERSHIP IN YOUR BUSINESS AND WE'LL SETTLE THE MATTER PEACEABLY

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

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THINKS SOAP BOX : ORATIONS HAVE MERIT By Robert Taylor In this election year it would be an excellent idea for The Times to encourage and sponsor a genuine Public Forum in Indianapolis. If there is any law or city ordinance denying the right of free speech in the Hyde Park or Columbus Circle style, it immediately should be scratched off the books as unconstitutional. The radicalism of soap box orators is seldom taken seriously and usually proves highly entertaining. Hyde Park oratory affords a healthy outlet to political steam which may otherwise do real damage in our political setup. In Indianapolis, the ideal loca-

| tion for a Public Forum is in Uni-

versity Square in the setting of peanuts and pigeons. Remember, the soap box is one of our inalienable rights. Why not have it in Indianapolis. Y 5 ” ” ” FEARS RELIEF CURB IF G. 0. P. VICTORIOUS By Hiram Lackey Just a word to the traitors—men afld women who are traitors to themselves and their families. I refer to thoSe unemployed men and women who are not going to yote, or, worse still, are going to vote the Republican ticket. The name “irai-

tor” may also be applied, with jus-|*

tice, to millions of laborers.who are indebted to New Deal statesmanship for their jobs or increased earnings, if they betray the hand that has fed them. Republican paupers, of course, are not sufficiently analytical to be able to distinguish a ‘smiling figurehead from the sinister forces that control the engaging figurehead. If, by miracle, Republican papers cculd be made to understand politics, they would open their eyes, especially if they were privileged to

sit around Republican tables where

champagne flows so freely, and intellectual fare, not intended for the common herd, is free to all the “gang.” ~ 2 . “When we Republicans get into power, we shall stop all of this relief nonsense. Instead of all this government spending, we shall increase the police force. Then, if the unemployed want to make trouble, let them make trouble! “We will, of -course, feed the unemployed. That will be our ‘Christian’ duty. But we will teach them to eat common grub. Oats, dried prunes, beans and jowl are plenty good enough for the rabble. When we Republicans get back into power, you will hear no more of WPA workers choking to death on steak.” 8 td 2 DENOUNCE ARREST OF MR. BROWDER By a Group of Citizens We note in your paper the news of the unconstitutional actions of the police in our neighboring town of Terre Haute in arresting Mr. Browder of the Communist Party, Police Chief Yates said he wanted Mr, Browder to stay out of the city and Mr. Browder “defied” him. Well, that's going some! It is said that

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the Reds are for force and violence, yet when their representatives come peacefully into a city to bring a message, force is employed against them. Who, then, are the expert wielders of violence? To us, a group of Americans, the lesson seems crystal-clear, The people no longer can expect democratic protection and civil rights under the two old parties, tied to the apron strings of the Manufacturers’ Association and the Law and Order Teague. We can quicken our race with reaction only by having an independent political party of our own. Can any one conceive of a laboring man acting the way Chief Yates did when a man comes peacefully into a town? Today, whenever any one speaks out for progress. or peace he is called a “Red,” whether he is or not. Let us all unite against those who haven't the courage to fight for their rights—Ilet us build a Farmer-Labor Party!

BY GWEENORA BAY, IRELAND :

BY E. S. L. THOMPSON The corn is brown on the hrae, love, The corn is brown on the brae; The lush meadows call for the sickles, too, As my heart, Mavourneen, calls just for you— The corn is brown on the brae!

Wild thrushes sing! Green rushes grow! , Till corn turns brown on the brae; 'Twas on Lammas day that I spoke you fair Love of my heart with the midnight hair, The corn is brown on the brae!

The corn is brown. The growing moon It loves to shine on the brae; We've seen Crinan Hill in the sunset gay, And spoke Drimeeney in the morn of May!— Now corn is brown on the brae! The corn is brown. - No clouds afrown! Gold sun ashine on the brae:— Oh, alas! Whatever may come to

pass I'll love and cherish my Dungarrow lass, I found on a morn of May! .

DAILY THOUGHT But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not! yes, many a time turned He His anger away, and did net stid up all His wrath. —Psalms 78:38.

CHRISTIAN will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits—Hannah More. :

CALLS ROOSEVELT HEIR OF JEFFERSONIAN FAITH By Robert N. Collier, Sullivan

We see by your paper that Col. Henry Breckinridge, Liberty League lawyer from New York, and a member .of the executive committee of the “National Jeffersonian Democrats,” spoke in your city Monday night and, among other things, said: “If to accept the general philosophy of freedom that prevailed in the Democratic Party from Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson is to be a Democrat, then I am a Democrat.” . It is questionable which is more disgusting, the attempt of plutocrats of the Liberty League and the Republican lame-ducks to kidnap Thomas Jefferson, whose principles they have been fighting for years, or the renegade Democrats like Breckinridge, Ely, Colby, Reed and Smith, who have deserted to the camp of the enemy and now claimn to be true Jeffersonians. vo Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party (forerunner

believed in an aristocracy of the rich and powerful. Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Anti-Federalists (fore-runner of the present Democratic Party) believed in the democracy of workers and farmers. {Today the Republican Party still | stands for the rule of the rich and powerful, for the principles of Hamilton. Today the Democratic Party still stands for the fule of the people, the principle of Jefferson. And Franklin D. Roosevelt is the historical heir and defender of the Jeffersonian faith. Whatever the outcome of this campaign (and we are confident the people will stand by their gallant leader), the Democratic Party should never permit the “traitors of 1936” to sneak back into our ranks.

2 2 =& PROTESTS SPREADING OF TAR ON ROADS By Bill Greén

About this time each year our city officials start covering our boulevards with tar or some such substance, : | We get it on our cars and it is almost impossible to get it off: we track it into our homes, get it on the rugs, and on our clothes, 'It is a nuisance, and if it must be smeared on the boulevards, why isn’t there sand or crushed stone spread over it? x Last year, I made a trip over Road 35 t6 Freetown, and our highway officials, having plenty of money to spend, certainly spent it on road tar. The ditches alongside the road were full of it. There was no detour around it. It cost me $10 to have my car cleaned, and even at that expense it could not all be removed. . We hear a great many complaints from motor clubs about the taxes on automobiles, yet there is more damage done to automobiles, clothes and rugs by this tar than the cost of our automotive taxes. Yet we never hear a complaint from the

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ery Reasonable Guy—By Herblock

By ‘Heywood Broun

Columnist Laments. Old * Days When World Series Was Run for Benefit of Baseball Writers

EW YORK, Oct. 5.—Rain used to be a

regular part of the World Series. We were not so hardy then, There was no High Commissioner, and the idea of fighting out the issue on any such muddy field as obe tained last Wednesday would have been thought wholly preposterous. I can’t remember Just which World Series I have in mind, but it was a long time ago and was played between the Athletics and the Giants. vg As I remember, we were storms bound for almost a week in Phila» delphia. The older sports writers took this in their stride. I remember the notice which Hughie Full-. erton placed on the bulletin board in press headquarters as a rereminder to himself. ve It ran, “Nine o’clock—get Tim Murnane drunk. Ten o’clock-—get Bozeman Bulger drunk, Eleven o’clock—get Joe O'Neill drunk, ‘Twelve noon—start drinking.” It seemed to me in those days as If there were a better balance than obtains at present. The writers were the persons chiefly concerned in the series, and the players themselves were merely so many supernumeraries. The names of the athletes were upon many of the stories, which appeared in the papers, but everybody knew that it was the sterling sports writers who carried on this deception for their less favored friends who could not write or spell or punctu=ate but only hit and steal a base upon cecasion.

2 2 2 B 2% in these early days was practically sub= sidized for the sake of aiding and developing American humor. And it was not a bad idea at that. But for the World Series Ring Lardner might never have come into national repute. And, after all, the fame achieved by Ring was rather more important than any fugitive home run king or duke or princeling. But now the sport has returned to the players. I hear only one name being discussed, and he is, I take it, a pitcher, a left-hander and a gentleman. None of the current crop of authors seems to challenge comparison with the star southpaw of the Giants. He is the stylist of the assembled forces, and he can pitch a better epigram than anybody at hand can write.

. Still the boys in the press box have taken a somewhat mean revenge upon the Giant ace. He has been pictured as a machine rather than a man. His personality comes dimly and rarely into sport stories, because, or so the complaint goes, “he hasn't got any color.” :

Mr. Broun

» » ” | HAVE never known exactly what this meant. Of + course, Chief Bender had color back in the World Series of 1913, but, then, he was an Ojibway or a Sioux or a Blackfoot, or something. He was, in addition, a superb right-handed pitcher, and I gravely suspect that his baseball color lay far more in his fast ball than in any tribal associations, oa ~. Matty seemed not to suffer from any lack of ate tention upon the part of sports writers, but he, azain, was a player set down as lacking color. As a matter

of fact, one of the most potentially interesting «f ail serigs games would have been that contest of a d: eam in which Hubbell"worked against Mathewson. I think that Hubbell is the more perfect craftsman, buf, in any case, such a duel would have brought ou: the

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finest in the reaching for plate corners.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Oct. 5—Al ‘Smith's Carnegie Hall speerl: was a tracklayer. In 1032 he spoke twice for Roosevelt. The first speech such an attack on the Sible belt bigotry that had defeated him in 1928 that Mr. Farley turned pale with fear that it was personal grousing which would lose the whole South and West for the party. It

-It was a tracklayer for his second speech. It

Al's friends in New England to when he wen{ to Boston, he to Roosevelt. :

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Al Smith's Carnegie Hall Speech Was Tracklayer for Expert Betrayal of Former Friends by Every Method Known in Manual of Political Treason

Al made one hit and. four errors. He says he doesn’t understand farming. That was a hit. He says that everybody has a high hat for weddings and funerals. That was an error. It is only in the East and a few spots west of the Alleghenies that this is true. | :

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. By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON. Oct. 5.~Those close to certain . Supreme Court Justices say that seldom in

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Supreme Court Placed in Hot Spot by Necessity of Ruling on New Deal Legislation, Municipal Bankruptcy Act and N. Y. Wage Law, Writers Say.

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