Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1936 — Page 19

Give Light and the Peoplé Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936

WELCOME, INDIANA TEACHERS JNDIANAPOLIS entertains hundreds of conventions every year, but none does it welcome more cordially than that of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association, meeting here today for its eighty-third annual program. . The association was nearly 40 years old before its imembership included more than a few hundred teachers. Since then, the advances of education and transportation ave increased the organization's importance until now fit has more than 16,000 members. Dr.J. W. Studebaker, Washington, United States comemissioner of education; Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president of Mt. Holyoke College; Dr. Paul R. rt, director of the Columbia University school of education, and other nationtally known educators are on the [two-day convention & program. : . The instructive nature of the sessions is in keeping with the association’ s aim of maintaining high educational

standards. .

SWHAT A TEA-PARTY! “IT S the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life,” sighed Alice, as she left the hatter|and the March hare busy trying to stuff the dormouse into the teapot. Ah, Alice, it’s a lucky girl you are not to be listening, as we are, to the political mad hatters and March hares now

find this tea-party even stupider. We hear the incredible Col. Knox, who for weeks has been charging the Roosevelt Administration with radiedlism and abandonment of “the American way of life,” suddenly

switch to an attack on Roosevelt for having “associated ‘with ‘money-changers, and stock market operators and rich men.’ On the other hand, the changeling Gov. Landon, supported by Morgan, Insull, Du Ponts, Sloan and Rockefeller, £is revealed by Secretary Ickes as having urged him in 1933 : £"“to make loans to states for public statewide telephone sysstems” as a “sound public policy”; as having sought a $35,- . £000,000 PWA allotment for a state-owned gas pipe line in scompetition with private industry; as having called his Sfriends Insull and Morgan “racketeers” in 1933; and otherwise having made a complete somersault in three years. We see this same Gov. Landon, outspoken opponent of the Townsend plan and promoter of a meager Federal dole or the needy aged, dashing to California to make an obvious . 2bid for the votes of Townsendites, who dream of $200 Font pensions for all people past 60 regardless of need. We hear the amazing Herbert Hoover, President at : the beginning and during the worst of our worst depression, | saying; “Roosevelt now claims political reward for that | funnecessary forcing of the country into the ditch of panic!” 3 We listen to Mrs. Preston Davies of the Landon VolSunteers daily intoning the foreboding formula: “Only 13 ays left to save the American way of life!” « We read of another Roosevelt enemy; the rabble-rous-g Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith of Louisiana, claiming financial cking for a Fascist organization of “10 million patriots” “seize the government of the United States.”

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winding up the maddest of mad campaigns. For you would |

We see Woody Hockaday showering Father Coughlin

ith peace feathers, WPA workers showering G. O. P. debs New York with tomatoes, Terre Haute mobsters showerthe Communist candidate for President with eggs. Alice, you'll remember, walked out on her mad tearty. Unfortunately we can’t do that—at least until ov. 3.

S OTHERS SEE US EN Terre Haute, by police or mob interference, prevents a candidate from making a political speech, most oosiers denounce the violations of constitutional rights the acts of misguided local Terre Haute officials and me citizens. Elsewhere, however, the stigma of suppressing free may be placed on the entire state, as witness this mment from the Passaic (N. J.) Herald-News: “A little thing like the i doesn’t bother hem out in Indiana.” We believe the majority of Indiana citizens agree with Gov. McNutt when he calls the egging of Earl Browder, pmmunist presidential candidate, a “disgraceful affair” nd “silly performance,\ and with Lieut. Gov. Townsend hen he terms it a violation of constitutional rights.

| ELECTRIC RATES | NGINEERS for the Public Service Commission and for the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. spent about two

s making independent inventories and appraisals of the 3 A

ility’s property.

At great expense, this information now is available for | he first time and will be the basis for fixing the company’s |

uation. Since utilities are permitted to charge rates that fill give them a “fair return” on their valuation, it would a logical to get.

: Chairman Perry now indicates the commission

Sefgrmine the valuation before new rates

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Wrestlers Touring for New York Democratic’ State Organization Present Issues in Lucid Manner.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—It is safe to say that no section of the country has enjoyed a more dignified, intellectual presentation of the campaign issues than up-state New York, where, for two weeks that eminent American statesman, Jack Dempsey,

has been making one-night stands on behalf of

Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Dempsey is accompanied by a supporting cast

of 10 wrestlers from the mighty herds of Mr. Jack Curley who grapple out such issues as the Constitution, agriculture and foreign relations every night. The wrestlers weigh, on the average, 225 pounds each, a generous long ton in .all, and, assuring a decent presentation of Mr. Landon’s side of the case, some of them are Republican wrestlers. Your correspondent hears that the Democratic wrestlers have won every fall up to now and, to any thinking American, no other guide to the _ggurse of wisdom should be necessa To be sure, the Democratic state committee is paying for the motor caravan in which the debaters travel about. And Mr. Curley is a Democratic referee. However, to any one at all familiar with the high ethical standards and the sporting nobility of the wrestling profession, it were unthinkable ‘that such considerations might have entered into the results. So the results of the bouts to date strongly indicate that the New Deal is right and Mr. Landon in error, and any one fortunate enough to have attended one of the rallies will have only himself to blame if he marks his ballot wrong. The suggestion seems to have originated in the keen, patriotic intelligence of Mr. Gene Fgwler, the author. Mr. Fowler had listened to Father Coughlin, Al Smith, Harold Ickes, Frank Knox and to both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Landon. It seemed to him that the issues were obscured. in -irrelevant matter. On the other hand, Mr. Fowler, who once owned a pet wrestler named Ivan Podunsky, recalled the fine lucidity of the wrestlers at their work.

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HE proposal appealed to Mr. Dan Skilling of the ‘state committee, and Mr. Skilling went straight to the Messrs. Dempsey and Curley. Mr. Dempsey readily agreed to serve his country and Mr. Curley, with some 80 head of wrestlers eating three meals a day at his expense, was glad to get 10 of them off his hands.

Mr. Pegler

“If seemed to me,” Mr. Fowler explained, “that intelligent Americans, like you and me, the kind who like to think things out, were not getting a fair break in this campaign. There has been too much religion, class conflict, personal rancor and crowd psychology. It has been impossible to obtain any intelligent idea from the orations. On the other hand, I have often done my best thinking at wrestling contests.”

OUR correspondent has considered joining Mr. ‘Dempsey’s troupe for a few days in order to clarify .the confusion resulting from too diligent perusal of the published orations and Mr. Walter Lippman’s declaration of principle. bY asserts that positively there is not a wrestler of the Lippman type in the whole 10 of them. They are all what you might call little-word ‘wrestlers.

‘Mr. Skilling says, and when one of them throws the other through She skylight Shybioly ean understand if.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

An YGov. Landon Promises. Farmers Increased: Prices for Their: Products. a Ss and Consumers No Increased Costs; 1# Just Can't Be Done, Welter Says. |.

Neither. 48,000 head of cattle fior 280,000 is a drop | in. the bucket of American beef production. With | smaller 1934 imparts, the price of beef was much

YORK, Oct. 22.—Out where the West be-

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The Hoosier Forum

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

NEW DEAL TREATMENT EMBITTERS EX-DEMOCRAT By an Ex-Democrat

I have heard it said that the people who do not vote for Roosevelt will have no jobs if he gets in, I was taught in school that this is a free country and that you.can vote as you please, "I was reared in a Democratic family, but since Mr. Roosevelt has been in office I have had my eyes open. Now I can see what he is driving at. We want freedom, not bondage. ‘We want a President, not a dictator or king. The poor would like a President to help them once in a while ins stead of helping the rich all the time, If it wasn’t for the poor man the rich men would have nothing. Roosevelt has almost starved the poor people on this PWA job. Could he live on $15 a week and. pay his bills and send two children to school? No, it takes that much for him to eat in one day. This government job is no .snap. The men.pay $1.10 a week for carfare. They have to work in all kinds of weather for that little money. If any of the men say they are not going to vote for Roosevelt, they are fired. Is that freedom? * Mr. Rooseevlt has used the truth a little too carelessly in his promises to the laboring man. If it hadn’t. been for the march on Washington there would still be no jobs. Why did: Roosevelt kill the hogs and cows? ' That was wrong. A little schoolboy would know better than to do that. He even has put a tax on everything, Look at the stamps. Three cents for a. letter. outside of town. Supposed to be for one year. Almost four years and still 3

years I am afraid we will have to have a war in this land of plenty. Mr. Roosevelt listens too much to what the rich say. If he had used his own head this country might have gotten along better. Why does he let the banks make money instead of our government. I am voting the Union Party. If they want to fire me, O. K. I will not starve as long as there is anything to eat around.

* = =» BELIEVES BROWDER CASE

ATTACK ON UNION LABOR Joseph D. Persily

I am wondering just what the|

Communist candidate for President of the United States had to say to the voters of Terre Haute that should cause Chief Yates to act in such a hysterical fashion. What was there in the speech Earl R. Browder was to deliver over the radio that could make the peoplel want to overthrow the government by force and violence (if that was what Mr. Yates reully feared)? | Ii would take a mighty ty convincing speech to get people to sacrifice the security of their families and lives by. taking > weapons against the

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purpose in Terre Haute was to urge the toiling people to form a Far-mer-Labor Party and to register their sentiments for such a party by voting the Communist ticket in the coming election.

Mr, Browder has been making these speeches in most of the iniportant cities in the (country and as yet I haven't seen any revolution break out following one of them... Chief Yates, in his own utterances, revealed the chief reason for arresting Mr. Browder—“We have had enough of general strikes around here.” The arrest of Mr. Browder was not an attack on his rsonal ‘rights. It was an attack n organized labor. . 4 " 8 =» URGES CAPITAL, LABOR TO STAND TOGETHER By H. D.. Kissenger, Kansas- City, Mo.

. The thing that should concern us is not whether the Reds seize the Ford plant and other American units in Spain, but whether they seize American property in the United States. With the New Deal squandering $2 for every $1 received, the American people are being loaded with an inextinguishable debt,

financialists who will foreclose when the time is ripe. It is they who instigate “share the wealth” schemes because their own wealth lies beyond reach of the national ax. Then why allow the international ax to menace national wealth? National labor and national capital in America must stand together or fall separately. They failed to do this in France—that is why Soviets are taking over the industries of white Frenchmen to be run

TO A WOUNDED SPIRIT

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

You have been hurt, since now you ape a stone And dwell in rock-like hardness all . alone. Ah, yes, but there’s a secret 1 know well— Behind that stern incasement, you still dwell; “For, let your eye firid beauty or your .« «ear. a ‘tuneful song, Your hardness melts. in rainbow

© ‘mists ds sunshine rolls along.

DAILY THOUGHT

a LY THOUGHT. \ in his words There is more hope 3 ool. shan of him—Froveris

governmen As I understand it, Mr. Browder's

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not encourage Father Coughlin to

This mortgage is held by alien. pitch his camp on some alien shore?

PYRAMID, WRITER CLAIMS

by Asiatic satraps in Moscow. When Bolshevists force strikes to- bring about chaos and national insolvency, the nations should in turn confiscate money so used for mercenary purposes. It is a poor sort of.confiscation that does not work both ways. Our problems are not the gold and silver standards, but whether Americans want their capital controlled from Washington for the benefit of America or from Moscow for the benefit of a World Soviet. ” 2 ” URGES SAME RATE OF TAXES FOR ALL By J. R. M.

Mr, Springer say economy will do away with the need of money

raised by the gross income tax. The | .

party on ‘the outside always is strong for economy until it gets in.. But suppose Mr. Springer is right. Would it not be more just to elimi-

nate the emergeney-claiise from the | $1 and $1.50 tax limitation law-and | :

thus cause all to pay nearly the same rate of tax, than to exempt those who pay the least tax and let those who pay the most, pay all? If Mr. Springer should happen to be wrong as to his economy claims; the real estate owners then would pay the taxes of ‘the Tox dodgers as well as their owg,

ALIEN SHORE SUGGESTED FOR COUGHLIN CAMP By L. H. : Why is if that real Americans do

Surely there is a foreign field where no “proi-vate bankuz coi-nd the money.” And “foist” of all let the Father take with him our Brown Derby-8ilk Hat symbol Indeed, it is no farther from the Liberty League camp to the Coughlin camp than it was from the Woodrow Wilson camp to that of Landon. One more somersault and Smith is there. What-a clearance for America. . , .

2 ” ” ECONOMIC SYSTEM INVERTED

By H. L. Seeger It is comic, if not teagic, to see the two leading aspirants for the presidency standing up and telling us that our economic system has been made workable, and how it is

if they are to survive,

- Payday for our economic folly is just around the corner, a payday out ‘thousands of

that say

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

» Hops a Ride on the Presidential Train and Is Disappointed by , Blase Attitude of Newspaper Men.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Sometimes I get the trains which go the longer way round. - Late of: a Sunday afternoon I was in Poughkeepsie and anxious-to get to New York. Unfortunately that was just the mo-

ment when somebody mentioned the fact that the presidential train would be leaving almost any minute and that it might be possible to crowd another newspaper man or even a columnist aboard. ~ It seemed to me that any train coming from Hyde Park fo Wash« ington would be compelled at least to hesitate some fleeting seconds in New York. This one did not. It. rested momentarily in Mott Haven, which I do not really consider true New York territory, and then suddenly darted across coun= try to the tracks of the Pennsyle vania, and there I was on the way to Washington. Still, it was all right by me. This was the first time in all my re= portorial life that I had ever been on a President's train. The Hyde Park Special was a step-up, but also a disappointment. As an incurable romantic I piétured the working press of a presidential tour intent upon the problem in hand. I had expected to sit and listen while the experts gravely discussed the various factors which complicate the situation in Wyoming or to hear right out of the feed box the last minute inside information on Ohio. = ” ” ” UT it turns out that political reporters are a law unto themselves. If we had been newspaper men assigned to cover the Schmieling-Louis bout we

Mr. Broun .

:would have been talking. fights. Baseball writers wage endlessly : the- world series game which is gone

and the one which. is yet to come. But if I may speak in bitterness it is the political expert out of all the lot who remains a blase buzzard: not particularly interested in that role to which “it has Pleased the managing editor to call hith, ~~ Probably this attitude is purely specious, I am too naive, and I am taken in by the acting of White House correspondents because they are a shade more expert in their impersonations than the’ baseball writers. After all, the Gridiron dinners serve to teach the budding Washington correspondents the art of acting; aud they can pretend to laugh even though the heart is breaking at the Possibility of the acces sion gst a Landon. : 2's » AM speaking, of course, of a situation which is wholly academic. Possibly the lack of greater zip on the part of the Washington corps lies inthe fact they deal too much with sureties. Wher you that a fighter. or a ball club is a 1-to-3 favorite you do not close the case as to its possible outcome, A badly hit fly can drop into the stands for a t-hand punches haye been known to y and Lang when least expect itici: lay 3 to. 1 against a candidate ! poi iis Jay 3 fo] against o. candidate 1 had hoped to listen to the star political reporters : k for my column some of that between-the« : hope roves groundless. There pio working fli te , Whe wor press discounted the present ‘election. ° . vil

Nashinglon Merry-Go-Round -

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