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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1036

NE PREFER TOWNSEND" |

E are for Townsend. . We can not give the Democratic organization and its candidate partisan support. We will sign no blank ‘check. But, as between Townsend and Springer, most libersals will choose Townsend. : We are disappointed at Townsend's failure to come tout flatly against the gross income tax. It is a combinaition sales and turnover tax, violating the fair principle of ‘taxation according to ability to pay. True, he has promised ito “correct its inequalities.” True, the Republicans, offer ino adequate net income tax plan or other acceptable method lin place of the present system, which they properly conidemn. All of which is a partial excuse for Townsend's tposition, but a pledge to supplant this law with a gradutated net income tax law would be better statesmanship. { Other factors weigh' heavily for Townsend. : He has the courage to denounce the Terre Haute viola‘tions of constitutional free speech. He has the wisdom to oppose use of troops to settle labor disputes. i. He is for municipal ownership of utilities for com‘munities that want it. : He favors the progressive steps taken by the state ‘for social security. i He would try to improve the reorganization of state ‘administrative machinery, rather than retreat to an arehaic, icostly, inefficient system lacking fixed responsibility. : Against the Old Guard Republican leadership, we be‘lieve Townsend's campaign caliber and his record in In!diana’s second most important office, entitle him to elecition. ) i With the almost certain re-election of “President ‘Roosevelt, Indiana needs a Governor who can co-operate ‘constructively with the national New Deal.

FRED C. DICKSON ‘IPRED C. DICKSON first became known in Indianapolis, :~ his birthplace, as one of the operators of the famous old Park Theater at Washington-st and Capitol-av, recently ‘razed. He was a member of a pioneer Hoosier family. From the theatrical field and real estate, Mr. Dickson turned to banking, becoming vice president of the Union “Trust Co. and serving 10 years in that capacity. In 1925, the became president of the Indiana Trust Co., the position

‘he held until his death yesterday. He also was a director |

lof the Merchants National “Bank and of other business : A leader in commercial affairs for a quarter of a century, Mr. Dickson’s death is a loss to the community.

*INDEFENSIBLE ELECTIONEERING” _{ FROM THE WASHINGTON (D. C.) POST (REPUBLICAN) THE attempt of the Republican National Committee to discredit the Social Security Law by inducing employers ito disseminate migleading information about the new pay roll taxes is indefensible. In'some cases standards of fair ‘play have been:grossly violated by failure to explain that ‘the sums to be deducted from pay roll envelopes are really premiums paid into an old-age insurance fund for the benefit tof workers, matched by employer contributions. i “The Republican National Committee is, in effect, sup{porting doles and WPA methods against a more scientific form of social security.” :

0 REAL PARTIES AT LAST?

THE departure of two former presidential nominees, Al Smith and John W. Davis, from the Democratic Party ‘dramatizes more than ingratitude or personal pigue. : It signalizes the breakup of a long tweedledum-tweedle- : dee phase in American politics. : There have been other episodes like this in our history | i—notably in the Hamilton-Jefferson struggles and in the {Jackson battles, when the issue of democracy versus plutociracy, of equality versus privilege, was so tightly drawn - ithat all had to ‘stand up and be counted. : Yet down through our history, as a year-in-and-year-

lout proposition, thére has been little essential difference in ‘the economic ‘and social views of those who controlled the {Democratic Party and those who controlled the Republican. ‘Party. The division has been more geographic than economic, more traditional than social. . The dominant Democrats of the South in recent years ‘have seen eye-to-eye with the dominant Republicans of New England on the preservation of the established order. But the condition which has permitted George W. Norris and the La Follettes to serve as Republican officeholders, and James A. Reed and Harry Byrd to serve as ocrats, is fast disappearing. The disappearance is due Franklin Roosevelt's apparent belief that he was elected

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to lead a truly Democratic Party in the Jefferson and Jack- |

‘son tradition of The greatest good for the greatest number. . Soit is that we find the reactionaries, the conservatives

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~ Landon, and the progressives and still-rugged liberals going _pell-mell for Roosevelt. | The tweedledums are taking a walk. They feign sorTow. But they can’t say they weren't warned. When sve! accepted the nomination at Chicago four years 0; be Squratively hurled them their walking canes

This ib, no time. for Tear: for reaction or here and now invite those nominal he eonssense oa pk be daiared with tho grup: d the failure of thei party leaders to join }

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Fair Ei By Westbrook Pegler

Columnist Finds the Conduct of British Newspapers in Simpson Divorce Case a Bit Perplexing.

EW YORK, Oct. 29.—The conduct of the British press in the Simpson divorce case has been a bit of a puzzle because our friends the British press are known to have a robust appetite for scandal and snappy ¢opy affecting Americans, and this one would seem to have been just their dish. British editors are partial to American news, but they specialize in items mbout Hollywood divorces, kidnapings, race riots and

gang massacres. Last year about this tinfe they had a field day with the story of the execution of our . Dutch Schultz and some of his boys by some of their friends. Later they enjoyed themselves thoroughly for many a day -with the story of the flight of Col. Lindbergh to escape a repetition of the foul ambuscade in which a photographer sniped a picture of his son, Jon. In fact, some of the British papers which thanked God they were British and conducted in good taste with a gentleman’g regard for a gentleman's privacy, went so far as to reproduce to. the extent of half a page the very picture which had been sniped by the American photographer, and to shipe some pictures of their own showing the arrival of the colonel and his baby in the land where the gentleman’s privacy is scrupulously respected. I recall that last winter in Paris Mr. Carl Ackerman, the dean of journalism at Columbia University, going through Paris on a trip around the world, sounded a note of complaint over the type of news which was selected in the British countries to report how life was going in America,

Americans, however, the. curious thing is that the most sensational divorce story in, just for a figure, a hundred years, occurring on their own home grounds and involving a close friend of His Majesty their King, has made absolutely no appeal to the news sense of the British press. It would be wrong to say that it has not appealed to the interest of the British public, for the cables report that American papers carrying the Simpson case were quickly bought up on arriving in London. That would be understandable because there is no public in the world with a stronger appetite for such matter than. the Bil ritish, as ‘any one knows who worked in London before the constant flow of foul and obscene verbatim divorce téstimony made it necessary to adopt restrictive laws.

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Mr. Pegler

0% cables from England report that the British

Sllions have discovered in the Simpson story no news value haters: notwithstanding the fact that His Maj the King has been seen much more often wit the lady than with her husband, and the further faet that the husband is a brother officer of the King in the Guards. By gad, sir, you know, brother officers and that sort of thing! Let it be hoped that nobody on the British’ side will now say that our interest in this affair is unwarranted and in itself a scandal And let us not, for’ the time: being, say anything about the integrity, independence and respectability of the free press of Great Britain which has suppressed one of the most important news stories in the of journalism, contrary to its charter and the “difficult duty which freedom of the press

imposes.

The Hoosier F orum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your ign to‘say it—Voltaire.

VOTE REPUBLICAN, WRITER ADVISES By Mrs. William Procter, Bar Harbor, Me. Many Democrats seem so unwills ing to abandon their party that they

do not realize that Mr. Roosevelt abandoned it long ago for the New Deal, and that the only issue before

the country today is whether you | vote for the New Deal or whether

you do not. Among the most noted Democrats

who are against the New Deal are |

John W. Davis, Democratic candi= daté for President in 1924, who says, “Surely the idea that ‘nothing can go well unless government has a hand in it is one of the most insane delusions that has ever vexed the minds of man.”

Semator Byrd Lo Virgina ia, sors}

Senator Tydings if Sista say

citing the l..tred of one part of the people against another.” James P. Warburg, former financial adviser of the President, says, “Mr. Roosevelt's individuality dis such as to make him an ineffective and dangerous man to have in the White House.” Senator Glass of Virigina says, “The New Deal, taken all in all, is not only a mistake; it is a disgrace to. the nation, and the time is not far ‘distant’ “when we shall be ashamed of having wandered so far from the dictates of common sense and common honesty.” | The President is not an avowed Communist, but his is are sq approved by Communists that He wil receive the entire Communist vO e. L Will the Democrats in the country vote for the New Deal and with the Communist vote, or will they listen to George Wharton Pepper, Republican, who says: “1 call upon each of you to dedicate himself to the great task remaining before us; to put forward between now and election day your ‘best personal effort to defeat Roose velt and fo elect Landon; to the end That ernment ‘of the people, for e people, by the le shall not perish from the ea arth.

. ® & = / SEES SIGNS OF PROSPERITY HERE

an American Citizen, h Grove, Ind.

When I board a street car in Beech Grove I do so. amid the sound of pounding hammers as workmen are building new houses and doing considerable remodeling recently. This is necessitated bythe fact that there are practically no

empty houses in this city—which in- | dicates the fact that virtually every one is working and beginning to be

prosperous again. : SGHo0!, hile Jog much better dressed than four or five years ago. es construction here, providing work for several men

General Hugh h kn Joye

ers | regular job.”

FORUM CONTRIBUTORS

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who look well fed and happy while they. work very hard at their job.

“A-large signboard. bears the slo-

281, “Vote for Landon and land a pty basket over’ the word “job.”

IV bolic of oui DE eb "Very symbolic of our experience with

‘Republican Administration. As we journey toward Indianapolis I am attracted to a storeroom which had been empty for about eight years It now has a grocery in it and seems very prosperous. So on until we get on Shelby-st. There on a large signboard is a poster with the President’s picture and this slogan, “He Is Fighting Your Battles.” . Some mudslinger threw mud against ths poster and tore off part of the face of Roosevelt. Just another symbol of Republican tactics, trying to bite the hand that feeds them.

Everywhere I see candidates’ pic-

tures in windows-—mostly . Roosevelt’s, a few of Lemke, but very few of Landon. Then we come to the great Shel-by-st bridge project at Pleasant-run-blvd, a very cheerful scene . .. On up Virginia-av, to the heart

‘of Indianapolis. Very few, if any,

VERSE

BY GENEVIEVE MITCHELL I laugh because you fancy Your scorn can hurt my Heart. You' think that I can not endure The harsh barb of your dart.

I have learned it’s not worth Weeping a solitary tear For a friend not worth the keepin, In my book of friendship here. .

A day may come whén you'll recall Your hauteur with regret. And if Not?: Your shaft's still useless, And I'll be laughing yes. :

DAILY THOUGHT

sorrows shall‘ be to the OE Te that trusteth in mercy shall compass him about,—Psaims 32:10.

‘N undi d heart, which wor

ships ‘God alone, and trusts

fim as it sh all anxiety Gelkle.

‘ is raised above - SOTRY, WamiS.-

Some one hung an

badisglon “List Democratic. War Chest Contributors of '32 and Thereafter a

empty puginess places and certainly no soup lines as I have seen when | Hoover ‘was President, ss. ® DOUBTS IF RELATIVES APPRECIATE CARTOON By L. P. | Your recent cartoon, “Lest We | Forget 1031,” depicting ‘the unemployed apple vendor waiting just around the ‘corner (instead of prosperity), was very much to the point; but I doubt if it will he appreciated by my farm relatives in dndiana. It seems impossible for them to realize the deplorable condition that existed under the Hoover system of relief.

® 8 =» SAYS ROOSEVELT DARES CLEAR WAY

By Mrs, Katy Whelan

I want to write to thank The

Times for its articles, “Why We Are for Roosevelt.” I am for him

for the same reasons. , . . ‘Bvery waking moment our President has’ been doing and daring to

clear away the debris that the pros- |

perity. around the corner left in its path.

$e 2 » TURN OF AFFAIRS IS PLEASURE, HE SAYS : By L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville, Ind. . ®T may be ignorant of a great many issues in the present political campaign, but I know a great deal about the Hoover Radio Commis-

sion: I was one of the “hams” Hoover kicked off the air in order that “Big Business” might have complete monopoly. So well did Mr. Hoover establish the legality of the monopoly that four years of Democratic power could not touch it. |

It gives me great pleasure to see

| the Hoover Republicans now double«< |

crossed - by their own monopaly: They have found that some of their best “Big Business’ propaganda has been barred from the air. The rules they made to shackle the other fel-

low have turned out to shackle

themselves. : ST ff

PREDICTS RE-ELECTION

¢ | FOR ROOSEVELT

By William Lemon : . . . Despite. ‘the quitters. ‘and quacks Roosevelt will be re-elected and if Al Smith has a Landon promise of being appointed a Cab-|. inet member, he has lost again, for we don’t need his advice in Washs |’ ington. He is not the only sore-

have them here at home. .'. * We can’t afford to take a chance] or. a Hoover No. 2 at this stage of the game, we are now “Around | the Corner.” We must also Fossler our local candidates on their past records of honesty, our ‘Oounty Treasurer : ‘(Turn ‘to Page 17)

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Martian. Visitor Is Truth Teller No. | and Headline on King and Mrs, Simpson Is Puzzle to Him,

NEW ‘YORK, Oct. 29.—That man from Mags was around again this morning, His name in his own planet is Clarence K. V, 275 Ring—4, for the citizens of his country follow both the telephone and the auto license

system in the choosing of designations. ‘I call him Ring—4 for short. It séems he is a newspaper man, and his. trips to earth are largely motivated by his desire to study our journalism, which he finds puzzling, They do things differs ently in Mars. For instance, when 1 asked Ring—4 what job or post he held he answered, “I am Truth Teller No. 1 on the Mitzi Martian.” Mitzi, it turns out,” means always qn the go, the shedder “of light and the complete coverage of all happenings which are suffis ciently respectable to: be repo As for Truth: Teller No. 1, ise sumed that this. would be equivalent of our “star reporter” or maybe, by some stretch ‘of the imagination, “columnist” or “come mentator.” Ring—4 Ne vectad these suggestions quite passionately. It seems that they have no. columnists in ‘Mars. The last one was de capitated a thousand years ago, and the death. of Fred Ring—3-and-ask-for-Casey is still celebrated as a national fete. “All right, all right,” I said to my Martian visitor; “quit telling me what Truth Teller ‘No, 1 isn't and tell me what it is.” ” » ” T means,” said Ring—4, “that I am“ the only twelve-adjective man in Mars. The newcomer ofi a paper is not allowed any adjectives whatsoever.” “Twelve adjectives sound like pretty hot stuff,” I, remarked. “That must have been quite a y when you rounded out the dozen, What ‘pri leges came with: that?” “No privileges,” answered Ring—4, turning sort of spiritual on me, “but only increasing obligations and chiefly that obligation which should" rest on. every newspaper man whatever his planet.” “And what’s that?” I wanted to know. “To abstain from talking about himself. I am here to make inquiries about newspaper customs and practices of Earth” From an inner pocket of his robe the messenger from Mars produced a New York per which bore the huge headline “King ed ‘Wally.”” 4

BLL?” 1 said. hig “But,” objected Truth Teller No. 1, “lt tend in the story. Look.” 1 - examined the citation: which he offered snd found, “King Edward's most intimate friends state with the utmost positiveness that he is very deeply and sincerely enamored of Mrs. Simpson, that his Jove is a righteous passion and that almost immediSil fer the coonalion Be will dake er es His

“Don’t you see,” said Ring—4 in some excitement, “it just says ‘King Edward's most intimate friends state’? In Mars you would have to name those ine timate friends. You would have to write just what they stated, and, most of all, you would have to mgke clear to whom these things were said and une der what circumstances. And even then the headline on the Mitzi Martian would be ‘King May Wed Mrs. ‘Wallis 8impson, Says Unconfirmed Rumor.’ It might make Page 10.”

Aerry- Go- Round.

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