Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1936 — Page 10

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936 |

"READ IT AND WEEP

AID Gov. Landon in his opening address of the campaign: “I hope for the gift of simple and “straightforward > speech . . . 1 want every man gnd woman in this nation <:to understand my every word, for I speak of issues deeply =®oncerning us all.” . : If ever a man failed dismally in a worthy ambition, the + “Kansas Governor failed when in Indianapolis Saturday ~ ~“night he attempted to deal with foreign policy. And if ~ ‘ever there was a subject “deeply concerning us all,” that is it. How to preserve the peace in a world which daily hears the threat of war, hourly growing louder and more * ‘menacing ? | That was the question he approached: The approach . was belated, in a campaign that is drawing near its close; ~a campaign in which affairs abroad, in Spain, in Russia, in » England, in Italy, in Germany, have become so serious as to ‘indicate a situation which might at any moment over- ", shadow in importance here all the domestic matters which “the party orators have been discussing. It was not therefore too much to expect that great study should have been given; that this would be a masterpiece of clarity, of “simple and straightforward speech.” 4 Opportunity was there, for Landon, in large measure. Much ‘doubt had been expressed even among his supporters as to how the Kansan whose experience had been largely confined - to the drilling of oil wells and the administration of the -affairs of a Middle-Western state would envision the prob“lems of a whole world. Had he shown grasp; had he been able to strike a clear “note and thereby to inspire his listeners with the hope that in the international sense he “knew how,” he could have "made an impression which would have meant an almost - immeasurable contribution to his aspiration to be President “of these United States. ! But, instead— e | We ask you to read the speech. And then to reread it. Nothing that we could say in dissecting it could be as ‘convincing of its hopelessness as the conclusion you will ‘reach upon your own perusal. a It is as thick as tar: as loose as a freshman theme; as ».vague as a cameo in the moonlight. =. Read it.

+ “TEST TUBE” HOUSE ERECTED

: FEW months ago, surveys revealed the acute condition of the accumulated housing shortage in" Inflianapolis. Homes built in recent years had provided new hous-.-ing for only a fraction of the increased population. Many “families in the low-income brackets were found living in “shacks classed as “uninhabitable,” without adequate health . safeguards. : One result of the attention focused on the problem was the co-operation of several agencies in an experiment to test the feasibility of low-cost housing in Indianapolis. The State Planning Board, the Purdue Housing Research Project, WPA, County Commissioners, State Fire Marshal's office and ofhers who joined in the project refused to be discouraged’ by obstacles that arose. oC Today, they saw the object of their efforts take shape in the erection of a prefabricated house at Smith’s-ln and Coffman-pl. An itemized summary of the cost will be awaited for an indication of the practical value of this : approach to one of our most urgent probféms..

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: THE ITALO-GERMAN ACCORD : (GERMANY'S recognition of Ethiopia’s annexation by : Italy may prove a mere surface ripple indicative of a “far deeper understanding between the Nazi-Fascist states. Nationis—particularly European nations—never give something for nothing. Herr Hitler can be assumed to have received a price from Count Ciano, Italian foreign minister and Il Duce’s son-in-law, for being the first to > recognize Italy's African conquest. What that price-is remains to be seen. But it would ~ _ cause no great surprise if they had agreed on some sort of ‘common front or parallel policy with regard to the hell's stew which is Europe's political situation at the moment. Both fear bolshevism worse than they do the devil. Probably, however, there is no alliance as yet. But a clear-cut understanding at this time between fascism and " Nazism would not only give Soviet Russia something to think about in the undoubtedly critical days ahead, but ~ Britain and France as well. For in any clash between communism and fascism their position—and the po-ition of _ democracy—would be one of the greatest peril.

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- YOU TELL ’EM, BABY | “YA7OMEN INVESTORS IN AMERICA, INC., is out after the brand-new-infant vote, but whatever the intelligence quotient of a new-born babe may be, it hardly is low enough to be confused by this latest piece of campaign Women Investors makes its appeal with a full-page newspaper ad containing a picture of £ crinkly, very new infant and beneath it the clarion call, “Get to work, baby. ou owe $432.47.” “Yes,” the infant might remark, “but did you ever op to consider, you Women Investors with your ¢ontribu“tions from those same men who support all the anti-New al propaganda agencies, that even taking your own basis computation, babies born in the last few months of ve! came into the world owing $272.92 and ha

"protection a grateful President and

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Jack Dempsey's Wrestlers Bring Campaign to Close With Rousing Demonstration in Enemy Country.

EW YORK, Oct. 26.—Jack Dempsey brought to a close his campaign for the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt with a rousing intellectual demonstration at Newburgh, in the heart of the enemy country.

Newburgh is close to the homes of Mr. Ogden Mills, the noted economic royalist, and Congressman Hamilton Fish, the Peter Pan of the House of Representatives who always seeks office on a platform of a Communist under every .

Although the Republicans in the Newburgh region are known far and wide as the most obdurate political higots in the United States, it was apparent that the wrestling show had finally cracked their hard outer shell and that Mr. Roosevelt would win the district with hardly a dissenting vote. Mr. Mills is reported to have watched the wrestlers with deep interesp -angd to have: at; the pig “1 learne Bertiane tonight. Never before. have I seen the economic’ policies of Mr. Roosevelt presented as Mr. Tiny Roebuck expounded them. Why isn't he in the Cabinet?” “It is a Moscow plot,” Mr. buck is & Red Indian.” Inasmuch as Mr. Walter Lippmann and Henry (Hollow-Shell) Mencken have come out for Mr. Lan-, don, your correspondent feels called upon to say that he is throwing his support to Mr. Roosevelt. Looking back over the wrestling contests of the last few days under the auspices of the New York State Democratic organization and the prize fight commission, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion. Nobody

Mr. Pegler

Fish said. “Tiny Roe-

~ on the Republican side has dealt with the issues in

the same way and the challenge of the moist and hairy gladiators who struggled with the problems of America under Mr. Dempsey’s chairmanship has not been met. o # 8

OBODY has dared reply to the intellectual challenge of Count Ludwig Otto Von Zuppe, of Germany, who entered the ring in Schenectady wearing a monocle- and a purple plush opera cape. The Republican organization has tried to answer with sunflowers the powerful truth laid before an enlightened community by Flowers Johnston, colored, the light heavyweight champion of Cuba. And certainly the Republicans were at a terrible disadvantage when Mr. Dempsey, campaigning in sheer patriotism, stepped up to the microphone and said, “I am for Mr. Roosevelt because he is the friend of the working man.” : It is to be hoped that Mr. Roosevelt will be reelected for Mr. Dempsey’s sake at least. Mr. Hearst is the working man’s foe and there is no telling what day the Hearst milk fund may declare itself in for 10 per cent of the gross receipts of Mr. Dempsey’s restaurant and saloon as often happened to the unhappy Garden corporation. He may need all the Postmaster General can give him. - : ; 2 u 2 UT it was not the fine, vigorous common sense of the wrestling or Mr. Dempsey’s inspired oratory which convinced your correspondent. It was balloons. Mr. Dempsey’s troupe distributed thousands of small white balloons on rubber leashes. “Keep punching for Roosevelt,” says the legend on the balloons. Mr. Landon has no answer to the balloons. His national committee tried to steal the idea and seduce

the manufacturer but Mr. Dempsey prevented that.’

So the wrestlers’ phase of the campaign closes on a happy, symbolic note with thousands of American citizens along the Hudson River valley socking one another over the head with bladders.

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ROOSEVELT BACKER

"LISTS REASONS

By a First Time Voter Having the opportunity of casting my first vote for a President of the United States, I have given a great deal of serious thinking to the decision of my vote. My decision has depended ‘altogether upon the men. My vote will be cast for President Roosevelt because: 1. I know that conditions are considerably better throughout the land and that the majority of the ground gained has been due to certain New

Deal legislation.

2. I am better satisfied with a government that spends billions of dollars in developing our living conditions and natural resources than I am in a government that swells the pockets of men who already are millionaires and stores the same billions in the vaults of banking institutions. 3. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt has the nation as a whole

at heart, and stands for the prin- |.

ciples of constitutional government that are most beneficial to the largest number of people. : 4 I am certain ‘that under the Roosevelt leadership we never need fear a dictatorship. - If, as some say, the New Deal has dictated along some lines, I am satisfied it is better to be ruled by a man of Roosevelt’s caliber than by Wall Street or the Morgans, ‘Mellons, Du Ponts and

‘Rockefellers.

5. I believe the record of the last four years speaks for itself to broadminded men who are willing to forget party lines and party affiliations and speak their minds. + I will not vote a straight Democratic. ticket just because I am a Roosevelt man. The best citizens are those voting for men instead of parties and platforms.

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WRITER AMUSED BY LANDON PICTURE By L, L., Crawfordsville ' Try as I may, I can’t help laughing at the picture of Mr, Landon posing as being alarmed ard reciting to the American farmer and laborer Mr. Hearst's scare story. It reminds me of a raccoon-coated alumnus at a Yale-Harvard football game. It was in the last few minutes of play and Harvard was leading. Yale

was in a huddle at the time-out. |_

The racooon-coated alumnus, unable to restrain himself, hurdled the fence and ran up to the huddle. In the center of the huddle, where the perspiring players glared angrily at his raccoon coat, he found himself unable to compose a pep talk. Desperately priming his voice for an appeal of alarm, he found himself saying, “I say, your pants are alarm-

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RAPS ACTIVITIES OF COMMUNISTS

By A, J. McKinnon: . Westbrook Pegler writes a very

fine article on Spain in the Oct, 8

The Times. After his re-

tality of its people. some one to give him an explanation of the degraded intellectual,

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Only Regimenting That Has Occurred Undeg Roosevelt Is Regimentation Back to Security Under Economic System the President Has Corrected. ‘Industry could avoid that.by refusing a code. Many oo ly was regimented (n the years 1020 to |

ASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26—“Do you intend

Mr. Landon asks this question No politician or anybody else except , Landon

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politics and labor, for a complete

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Make your letter short, so all ean have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) ;

social and political status of the people. . . . In the first place, every one will agree that the world has gone wrong, America as well as Spain. ... Spain fell for the snare set for them by a few Communists and Socialists in the government. They did ‘not realize that Russia is ready to send in men to help handle the situation to thei® benefit in any country where awismall hold is obtained. They did a very foolish thing in allowing communistic activities in politics and labor unions. The same thing is in full swing in America today. 4 ; I don’t blame Father Coughlin, Mark Sullivan and Bishop Noll of Fort Wayne for taking a stand against communism in America. The handful of Communists already are in politics and labor unions.” No one can deny that fact. . ... . Unless voters this time take a strong stand to overtkrow by vote our present government and put in a Congress of men who will pass laws outlawing communism on our ballot ‘and heading our unions, this

country will go the same as Spain. p

* Your vote against communism in

change of government at this election, is most important. » ” ” ATTACKS BIG BUSINESS FOR GOVERNMENT By E. 8. Hamlyn, Acton Most of the big Republican newspapers advocate keeping the government out of business. This syndicate wishes to transact all big business including government business and usurp all resources. In this enterprise they have been very successful, Four years ago it was the ‘people versus plutocracy and dictatorship in the election with the result that the people were almost unanimously victorious and opposition went down,

HALLOWEEN BY VIRGINIA POTTER. Pumpkins in the attic— Apples rosy red, Pop corn is all ready, .Halloween’s ahead!

Cold the wind is blowing— Leaves are falling fast, Soon snow will be flying, And, Halloween, at last!

Soon will the oven open, Inside what will you spy? To make your eyes get bigger, Oh, Boy! It's pumpkin pie.

DAILY THOUGHT

Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.—James 4:10. ;

T= casting down of our spirits : -in true humility is but like throwing a ball to the ground, which makes it rebound the high-

but they would not yield peacefully as the common people were forced to do under their monopolistic rule, but with the best talent that money could command immediately proceeded to lay barriers for the Administration, which have proved to be repercussions. Years ago, when the Republicans came in power Congress, through the President, proceeded to frame and pass the tariff laws for those of

their constituency who had so lib-

crally given money and their best efforts for their success, with the result that big business interests were taken care of with a tariff imposed to their liking, but this gave them too much publicity and took too much time, so they devised a so-called flexible tariff, which gave the President power to raise or lower the tariff. = With this law invoked, all the political leaders had to do was to whisper in the ear of the President that he desired the tariff be raised a certhin per cent on ga certain commodity to keep out imports from other countries. With this they thought their worries. would be. at an end. For example: A commodity which is very essential in every household could be raised a per cent to keep out imports, and that per cent to be added to the already high cost to the consumer, so the resources of this country of which God intended we should all have a part are exploited for the benefit of a few.

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| TIME, WRITER URGES

By Mrs. Wayne Starks

Most of us try to be at least as broadminded as the Southern lady who said she wasn’t exactly a Democrat, but she never had seen a Republican she would vote for. Judging from the remarks of most of us, myopia is indicated in most voters today. However, common horse sense would tell us Franklin Roosevelt can not build up in four short years what the Republicans had 12 years to tear down, as Mr, Roosevelt says. He can not be expected to get the frain out of the ditch, repair the axle, get her on the track and running in full speed in four years. He has her repaired now; give him tim

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® # 2 SEES INJUSTICE TO NURSES By a Reader . + « I was very much surprised to learn a few days ago that nurses are now required to pay the registers 10 per cent of all they get on every case they get through the register. : I think it a very great injustice. Other professional people are not required to pay such a tax and why should nurses have to pay it? Nursing is a hard and responsible place to

fill. Several times I have had long and serious cases of illness in my family, and I do not know what I would have done without the good and competent nurses I secured. This ruling (or whatever you call it) is also an injustice to the registers

er toward Heaven.—J. Mason.

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By Heywood Broun

Harvard Has Nothing on Yals When It's; a Matter of Public Demonstrations of Bad Taste,

THE trip probably took five years off my, life, but living isn't everything, and I believe that the two days spent in the back row of the Roosevelt cavalcade were about the most exciting in my life. The boys at New, Haven proved that Harvard has nothing on Old Eli when it comes to public demonstrations of bad taste. The smart alecks of Yale can take on those of Cambridge snip and snip

and give a good account of themselves. The “boos” and the cheers for Landon which went up from a small segment of the crowd upon the Green at New Haven were pretty well drowned ‘out hy the rest of the crowd. But, then, the men of Yale decided that it would be awfully comical to begin pushing spectators in front of them against the speaker's stand. It was almost as bright and humorous an idea ‘as shouting “Fire!” in a crowded ‘theater. : . Fortunately, the police descend ed rapidly and kicked the pants off some nine or ten of the undergraduate demonstrators. I wonder whether college boys were always such a nuisance as they seem to be today at our leading universities. I certainly hope that if recovery has come it will not necessarily entail another period of flaming youth and fools and flappers. Surely our colleges stand in crying need of radical teachers who can do their share in rubbing the peach-glow of innocent merrie ess 25 the fatuous and shining faces of the men of Yale, '

Mr. Broun

# x = y LARGE crowd was expected at Hartford, and there was a big turnout in spite of the fact that several of the insurance companies refused to let their workers have any early time off to hear the President. I assume that the insurance men of Hartford are holding back so that they will be able to give everything of fervency and enthusiasm to Col. Knox when that well-wisher of the industry comes to town. : . The thing that startled me was that “anything could wake up Waterbury and make it seem like a wheat pit on a big spread afternoon. And then there was the extraordinary thing which happened to Stamford. I was leaving ‘the tour at that spot, and I was describing to such of the journalists as happened to be city chaps the charm and restfulness of a place like Stamford—the hum of the insects and the birds and 'way off in the woods the bark of a fox and so on. But just about that time the Roosevelt motor parade hit Stamford. ; ! #8 8 =» PF there was a cricket on any body's hearth he could not possibly have made himself heard, All the fire engines had their sirens on. Perfect strangers were trying to cut into the line of newspaper cars, and we were cursing one another back and forth, People were yelling and screaming and whistling, They must have sprung from the earth ‘after some sowing of dragons’ teeth. People of Stanford and such as you see around are a little on the slow and ancient side. They do not spring suddenly in front of your car and yell, “Yippe! yippe! Look at the G-men.” If“ 1 ever go on such a campaign jaunt again I am going to have a big sign printed which I can hang around my neck. It will read, “I am a hardworking newspaper man, and I. am not part of the Secret Service of the government.” But still that doesn't meet all contingencies. 1 might prefer to have my label proclaim, “Smile when you call me

that. I am not a Yale man” ~~

{The Washington Merry-Go-Round B

Only One Boss Running Democratic National Headquarters This Year

and His Name Is Farley; He Never

/YORK, Oct. 26.—Democratic national

Robert S. Allen

‘a lot different

Makes a Move Without F. D. R.'s O. K.