Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1936 — Page 15

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936

BUD EKINS’ TRIUMPH JT took Ferdinand Magellan about three years full of danger and hardship to sail around the globe in the early sixteen century. It took H. R. (Bud) Ekins, The Indianapolis Times and Scripps-Howard flying reporter, only 1814 exciting but relatively comfortable days of flying to do it in October, 1936.

Ekins’ trip was more than a victorious race with other |

reporters by airship and plane over oceans and continents. It was more than big news, more than a super-stunt. It was a serious and sobering demonstration that mankind has won over the last of the treacherous elements to be conquered by his skill, the air. | That Ekins broke new world records for speed and distance was not. so important as this fact: He flew the 25,804 miles around the earth entirely in commercial aircraft over commercial air lanes. This means that any one with the same will and courage—plus the $5000 that Ekins estimates for the needed fare—can do the same. Traveling around the world by air no longer is the daring sport of experts. You can go yourself all the way by common carrier. :

SYMPHONY SEASON OPENS

“HE Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra tonight opens its seventh and most ambitious season. The list of guest artists is the most distinguished since the orchestra was

founded. The number of concerts has been increased to six.

The trend toward popular interest in good music should help add another successful season to the orchestra's growing prestige. »

IN LANDON’S DEFENSE

E hope that no American voter, native or naturalized, gives heed to a “proclamation” by Fritz Kuhn, leader of the “German-American Bund,” calling upon its members to support Gov. Landon as the candidate most sympathetic to the Nazi regime of Herr Hitler. Gov. Landon has neither done nor said anything to earn Herr Kuhn's friendship. On the contrary, his every utterance has been in behalf of the very civil and reiigious liberties the Nazis flout. : To seek to identify Gov. Landon with Naziism or Fascism is as unjust as a similar attempt by certain Roosevelt haters to smear the President with the charge of friendliness to communism.

1936 AMERICA LOOKS ABROAD E Americans are never any too world-minded. But , especially in election years, when we quarrel so much among ourselves about our own problems, do we seem to forget that after all we constitute only 130 million out of the 2000 million human beings who inhabit the earth. Yet in no time as much as election time should this reality command our attention. And in no election of recent years, as much as the present one, has it been so paramount. - : Let us then examine our position in this world of nations. - First—our immediate neighborhood. For many years our role was that of bully of the Western Hemisphere. Under Franklin Roosevelt, the United States quit being a bully and renounced all assumption of authority in our neighbors’ affairs. Our mortgage on Cuba's: sovereignty, the Platt Amendment, was canceled, and our unfair treaty

with Panama was supplanted by a compact between equals.

As a result, south of the Rio Grande, distrust and resentment have given way to confidence and friendliness.

Observe the Orient. There, at the door of Japan, nestle the Philippine Islands, which came under our dominion by conquest, and whose people struggled and petitioned for freedom. So long as we kept the Filipinos unwilling subjects, our protestations of the democratic ideal were mockery, and just so long also could Japan ask, “At whose heart are the guns of Manila aimed ?” : Under Roosevelt’s leadership, the groundwork for Philippines independence has been laid and we have cleared ourselves of any just suspicion of imperial ambitions. Whether certain other powers will permit Philippines to go their own way unmolested remains t obe seen, but the Navy which the Roosevelt refense program is putting in the Pacific is one that will be respected. : 5 8 =» : ; IN OW—Europe, where colliding political creeds threaten to immerse a half billion people in blood. Through 12 post-war years we were the dog in the manger, We had more than our share of the world’s gold, and we demanded of Europe's prostrate nations that, for debts owed for goods, they pay us in gold which they did not have. They could get the gold only by selling us goods, but we raised our tariffs and shut out their goods. To keep ‘what little gold they had bolstering their unsteady finances, they too raised trade barriers. And so from nation to nation in Europe spread the policy of economic isolation, and with it spread lower living standards, unrest and dictatorships. The one way out for post-war Europe's shaky democracies was a revival of world commerce. We barred the way. In three and one-half years Roosevelt has done much to reopen the gates. As a result of the reciprocity program, a new two-way commerce has begun to flow again

across the Atlantic. The recent currency stabilization agree-

ment, for which Roosevelt is largely responsible, will help nore. Already it has led some European nations to start whittling their tariffs. | ‘Roosevelt has a positive neutrality policy, one that is med to prevent our involvement in a conflict net our own.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Wants Secretary Hull to Ask New Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, 'What About That Dough?’

NJTEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Mussolini has sent us a new ambassador named Fulvio Suvich and the diplomatic set will be molting

calling cards all over Washington for a couple

of weeks. But, when the social rites are over

and Mr. Suvich pulls up his chair to Cordell

Hull's and starts to purr, I trust that Mr. Hull will fetch him a stout jab on the top button of his fancy vest with a firm and demanding finger and put the

question, “What about that dough?” Mr. Suvich may shoot his cuffs and pull his mustache until it is stretched out like the antlers on a lobster, but that will not answer the question, “What about that dough?” Mr. Suvich may roll his eyes and blow kisses at the chandeliers putting on the old number one routine about the beauty of Amer-

‘ican womanhood and the vigor and

youthfulness of our great new country but that will not answer Mr. Pegler the question, “What about that dough?” And certainly it is to be hoped that they will steer Mr. Suvich away fro mthe grave of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington because other foreign diplomats in times past have visited this national shrine only for the purpose of softening us up. Hence-

forth, when the representative of some ‘dead-beat

nation wants to make a solemn visit and drop a wreath, it would be more fitting to lead him to the Treasury or the Archives Building and show him those rubber checks, all tied up with ribbon and smelling of lavender which they wrote for us so long ago. True, we have been told that it would be bad for us to be paid in full all the money we sent to Europe. If they attempted to pay us in goods tomorrow, we would have to use the Navy to chase away their cargo boats lest the dumping of all this goods result in the closing of all our own industries, complete unemployment and poverty and chaos amid plenty.

” 2 fs IF they sent us gold, that, too, would do something to the exchange rate and nobody would ever be able to buy anything from us and a store without customers must go out of business. Sure, I know, but if the money they owe. this coun-

try can buy roads and public buildings, bridges, modern apartment houses, create railroad stations and armament for them, then cerlainly the same money should be able to buy a few knick-knacks for us. Up to

now we have never had a chance to see what it would

do and Mr. Suvich, on his arrival in Washington the other day, said any discussion of the debt would still be premature, indicating that debts mature very slowly

‘in Italy.

Le 8 8 . 1 THINK our people would be willing to suffer a little from the dire effects of too much wealth if some payment on account would serve to reduce the armaments of the countries which are using our money to promote another war. We would be willing to stand the pain in the interests of world peace and, anyway, we are a very ignorant lot in this country who invariably wonder, when Mussolini starts bragging of how much money he has and how many planes and guns and warships he has bought, why any man who is so boastful of his country’s honor doesn’t pay a little something on her honest debts.

~The Hoosier Forum

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

CLAIMS GROSS INCOME TAX UNDER SALES TAX By David Goldman One of the most important issues confronting the voters of this state is the question of taxes. Much has been said by each party both pro and con on the subject of the gross income tax. : To devise a perfect tax system which. will suit every one is an almost impossible = accomplishment. Tax experts agree that ‘ability to pay” is one of the standard tests of a tax system. Therefore, let us proceed to analyze the workings of the gross income tax versus the sales tax. L : Under the gross income tax, a taxpayer earning a salary of $1200 would pay the following: Yearly wage Exemption

Taxable at 1 per cent $ 200 Total gross income tax for the year, $2. ; A sales tax would levy a tax on all necessities of life purchased, with no exemption allowed. A person of ordinary means, with a family, earning a salary of $1200 a

‘ year would have an approximate

tax bill like this: . ‘Annual earnings .....$1200 Annual savings. for emergencies ........ 300

Living expenses Sales tax at 3 per cent, $27. In the above hypothetical example I believe I have been con-

| servative. This increase under the

sales tax amounts to 1250 per cent. The people earning less than $1000 a. year who pay no gross income tax, and there are thousands of them in our state, would be saddled with this tax. Do these people have the ability to pay? The Republican Party has prom-~ ised that it will repeal the gross income tax and replace it with “such other taxes.” As usual, the catch phrase is “such other taxes” which the G. O. P. created to gain the support of the unwary voter. What are these “such other taxes?” Is it a net income tax? Is it an increased property tax? Or is it a sales tax? S ” ” ” “BOTH GOOD MEN,” WRITER SAYS OF CANDIDATES By Jimmy Cafouros There is one thing that we may as well start right now to put in our beans. If we take this attitude we can vote any way we please in a few

weeks. and not feel a whit worse if

we lose our vote. One of two men is going to be elected. Everything else remaining exactly as it is, Roosevelt or Landon will surely be elected. We know that. They are both Americans, bred in a democracy and they love the.democratic form of government. Neither one would like to see America go Communist or Fascist. Regardless of what they say, they both respect

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Boners Might Beat Roosevelt, but They Won't Be His Boners; Son Jimmy Needs a Maxim Silencer; Taking Vandenberg Off Air Was 'Solid Ivory.’

From now to election day we are going to hear

EW YORK, Oct. 20.—Boners might beat Roose‘velt, but they won't be his boners. : Son Jimmy ought to have a Maxim silencer for a birthday present. Any observer of the passing show who would get up three weeks before election and say that the President is going to try to change the Constitution to make way for NRA as soon as he is elected, ought to know that he is dumping a barrel

of gasoline on all the dying fires of opposition bally-

hoo. If there ever had been serious talk about changing the Constitution to reinstate NRA—much less a fixed intention—this writer would certainly have heard

something about it. . 2 » s :

ONER number two, on the very next day and | nearly as bad, wasn't even by a known friend of |

the A just a suffering official of a broad-

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‘he was befuddled and cut ‘a big-shot Republican

speaker off the air for violation of the broadcasting

(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.)

the Constitution of these United States. If you are a Roosevelt man, you probably think Landon is a stammering, Hoover-type nitwit with a microscopic brain. If you are a Landon man, you probably think Roosevelt is overreaching himself—that he thrives best on bureaucracy and throws money out. of tall office buildings. Regardless of what you are, of what you believe, or how the election turns out, it is for the best. America has lasted this last century and a half. It probably will last another century and a half. We will be dead and gone by then, anyhow. Vote the way you see fit and don’t feel bad. The country will not go to the dogs. They're both good men.

Han TOO MANY PARKING PRIVI-

LEGES FOR STRANGERS, CLAIM

By J. AK. The writer wishes to know why special parking privileges are extended to salesmen and other out-of-the-city and out-of-state visitors. : Recently I paid a fine for parking one and one-quarter hours in the one-hour restricted zone in the 200 block on S. Meridian-st. I recently reported to the Indianapolis police traffic department a

car which had been parked con-

tinuously for 3 days in front of 211 S. Meridian-st. After waiting four hours for action by the police department, I again called this matter to the attention of Capt. John-

HEART SONG BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK

I gave away my heart tonight To fifty thousand homing birds, To fling against the high blue light; To teach it beauty’s secret words.

To linger in the purple dusk; To learn the secret of the hour; The mighty rhythm in the husk Of autumn’s crimson, transient flower.

And when they brought it back to

me I didn’t recognize the thing. It raced with secret ecstasy, And saughi me shining songs to sing be

DAILY THOUGHT

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.—Psalms 144:4. rir

O be a man’s own fool is bad enough: but the vain man is everybody’s.—Penn.

son, who, two and one-half hours later sent the motorcycle officer to investigate. Upon investigating, he found this Chevrolet, from Missouri, to belong to a salesman who was attending a convention in the immediate neighborhood. This salesman was allowed to take his car to a parking lot without receiving a ‘“non-fix-able” sticker.

This does not seem fair to our local taxpayers who, every day, are given stickers for parking only a few minutes overtime while transacting business.

By Capt. Lewis Johnson, Indianapolis police department.

I was out of town at the time the complaint (by J. A. K.) was made. My office received a=call that there was an automobile parked at the .address mentioned. The person who phoned said the car had been standing there for three days. ’

Motorcycle Patrolman Harold Morton was sent to the address. He found an automobile owned by H. G. Smith, 2923 Locust-st, St. Louis. As Mr. Morton was preparing to order the car towed in to the garage, Mr. Smith came up and said he was aitending a convention here and had rarked the car three hours earlier. Since the complainant had not given his name and. address, it was impossible for Mr. Morton to do anything else but take Smith's statement as a fact. Smith was given a courtesy sticker. This courtesy is extended to all out-of-city motorists for first offenses.

” on ” THINKS ROOSEVELT ‘WHIPPED DEPRESSION By William Lemon Elimination of bread lines, soup houses and poverty, the fact that our factories are working overtime and the smile of prosperity on peoples’ faces prove beyond a doubt that we are on the road to recovery. Yet the mouthpieces of the G. O. P. tell us that the New Deal is all 8 huge mistake made out of numerous small mistakes, and that Lanton will save use from future mistakes, If the Republican Party is the ideal of perfection, why is it ruled by the same old clique that put BS oa the rut and left us there in

Even Lemke has more to offer than Landon and we all know that he is an impossibility. But he does offer us lakes to swim and fish in. We all benefited by the AAA and the NRA and the WPA, and regardless of the hostility of the Supreme Court, they have taken us around he corner that Hoover failed to

We all know that Roosevelt whipped the depression, and I believe the gratitude of the American people will re-elect him.

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Feels Sorry for Comic Strip Artists Who Make as Much as

Crooners, but Get Little Kudos. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va, Oct. 20.—I'm coming back, because this really is a little too far away to tell how the election is going. To be sure, the annual meeting of the artists and writers will begin

here this morning, but the men who draw the comic strips are all impractical idealists, knowing nothing of the political and economic world in which they live. And that's a very curious thing, because I

suppose the successful comic are tist of our day has a larger popu lar following than any other crea< tive artist, and he is an interpreter as well as.a creator. The day of “Wham!” and “Gurgle! Gurgle!” has passed out of the picture, These men are telling us day by day continued stories which may be either tragic or comic. Of course, there is a great deal of pressure on a comic strip man man not to take sides. He would injure himgself for syndication if he became a political propagandist and he would arouse even greater antagonism if he enlisted in any economic crusade whatsoever. Accordingly, we have the strange situation in which the American story tellers who command the largest public also have the least to say. :

Mr. Broun

s ” : A CREAT number of tragic thingg which are fairly familiar to all of us just doh’'t happen in the comic strip except when introduced to arouse a laugh. That is why, to my mind, the “funnies” are ever so much more important than those strips: which pretend a seriousness. Out of a wealth of exaggeration and fantasy some of the best-of the artists do manage partially to dismantle life and let us have a vision of what they think of it. But they have to sneak up on such revelations. They have to be awfully, awfully comic before taking any crack at the best of all possible worlds. And generally they have to introduce one animal or more, Anatole France found that people took his criticism with more tolerance when he talked of penguins rather than Parisians. But one of the tragedies of/the art, the craft, the business, the racket, or whatever you want to call it, is that it contributes so slightly to the satisfaction of the human ego. The rewards for the men at the top are prodigious almost beyond imagination. Good comic strip men make as much as crooners, But there is a catch in it. The radio entertainer sells himself not only in the fact that he is frequently identified to the invisible audience, but the very notes he throws through the disc are a part of his own personality. 2 8 8 . ND when Mr. Roe, the radio artist, is done, he feels pretty good because somebody in Yonkers has called up to say that the program came in fine, Mr. Roe is quite a fellow. He will go around to the night club, and with any luck somebody may ask him to volunteer and sing about the small hotel, Mr. Doe, the most famous of all comic strip artists, is leaving for the same night club at the same time, and he has no such pleasant inner glow as Richard Roe. He has a sense of satisfaction, of course. But nobody personally is going to give him a tumble. He can’t go around saying, “Please take this coffee back and bring me some that is hot. My name is John Doe.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round =

Gov. McNutt Is as Much an Issue in State as Roosevelt or Landon, Say Writers as They Make Survey of Political Picture in Hoosierdom.

chiefly about censorship—notwithstanding that the Radio Commission had nothing to do with it; that the broadcasting companies are owned by people who are not rooting for Roosevelt, and that the overwhelming majority of radio time is controlled by his enemies. tJ ” EJ }

A NCIEER boner that may or may not hurt Roose-

Indiana there are three men running for President—and the third is not Lemke. In fact he is not listed on any ticket. But he is right up in front of the picture just the same. If you are a Hoosier you are not merely for Roosevelt or Landon. You are also for or against Gov. Paul McNutt. That's the kind of man he is. McNutt is an ardently professed New Dealer, a rootin’

. Roosevelt shouter. But there are thousands of Hoo-

sier New Dealers who are violently anti-McNutt.

in a great many people's Farley’ y's and President Roose-

But it also has been ruthless and dictatorial. An overseas veteran and former national come mander of the American Legion, McNutt has a mania

ggles. an on Horseback fixation. He is is a man of destiny, that he is going to ic HM this sounds fantastic, it is no more ) than the man himself. McNutt is no buffoon like