Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1936 — Page 16

: “No. ”

E The total vote was bigger than ever. before. t meetings drew record crowds.

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| SCRIPPS = HOWARD Give Light and the Peopie Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1836

IT ISN'T HAPPENING HERE there danger of America going Fascist or Communist,

as the fear-mongers of the right and left warned during

the campaign ? On Tuesday this nation answered with a thunderous

Foul weather did not keep the people from the polls. Campaign The voters read avidly news

and comment on the campaign. Radios were tuned in from ® millions of homes whenever one side or the other presented ® speakers. Then the people did their own thinking. They ® spotted the shams, the overstatements and the half-truths;

i they judged for themselves of the logic or lack thereof in

§ what they read and heard.

They were swayed less than ever by emotional appeals

& —appeals to class and racial prejudices. Father Coughlin, & the Rev. Smith, Dr. Townsend and the rest found them-

E selves prophets without honor.

On the other hand, the

8 Communist and Socialist candidates made no headway. The E people cut a wide swath down the middle road of liberalism & toward peaceful reform. Both the left and the right were § “liquidated.”

That’s democracy. It’s as far as the stars from either

& fascism or communism.

Democracy thrives in spite of the little enemy weeds.

| £ May it always continue to flourish as the bay tree!

E WHERE NOW FOR THE G. 0. P.?

AVING met its third successive—and most overwhelming—defeat, the Republican Party faces the question

= 8% of whether to live on, or die.

We are not among those who think the: G. O. P. has

& been destroyed. Destruction from without has never been f the lot of any American political group. i parties in our history have committed suicide. 2 : be the fate of the Republicans.

But two major That could

What has just happened to the Republipans: is strik-

: ingly reminiscent of what happened to the Federalists in

the second election of Thomas Jefferson in 1804. Writing

§ of that election, Claude Bowers, in his latest book, “Jeffer-

£ son in Power,” records: “Incredible as it seems that the Federalists could have

| # hoped for the defeat of Jefferson, it must be borne in mind

that they had no contacts with the average man and that

B they were inebriated in their vituperation .

hy he i. a

They called Jefferson a Jacobin (Communist)w They accused him of trying to destroy the courts, violate the ® Constitution and set himself up as a tyrant. Jefferson was

+ an “anti-Christ,” they said. And the Louisiana purchase!

“Fifteen millions for that waste land! Ridiculous! ... Four

dollars a head for every man, woman and child . . . thirty

§ dollars for every family . . . ruin—it meant ruin!”

2 8 = ®& = =

HE result was a landslide. One clear-headed young " Federalist tried to make the others realize what had hap-

ipened. Of the Federalist old deal, John Quincy Adams

| wrote:

“There never has been a system . . . more com-

pletely and irrevocably abandoned . . . by the popular vote . . . it can never be revived . . . and to attempt the restora-

tion would be as absurd as to undertake the resurrection

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D bf a carcass seven years in the grave!” = | i" The next big political suicide was the Whig Party. It

choked itself to death on the delusion that the nation could

exist half free and half slave.

Will the Republican Party, which sprang from the ashes

& of the old Whig group, do likewise? Or will it go back to B its first flaming concept of the rights and equality of men?

That, we believe, depends altogether upon whether it

rids itself of its old guard leadership—the leadership which

has dominated the party since Theodore Roosevelt's day, the

® leadership which clings so tenaciously to the uneconomic

t and unsocial theory that prosperity trickles downward, to

the false faith that government exists to foster the privi-

| loges of the favored few.

‘The Republican Party will live on, it will thrive andw,

it we believe, but only if, leadership is returnéd to the

Fant and file who have been so. long betrayed.

PEACE, AN ADVENTURE

ROR 20 years, says Henry: Wickham Steed, “I have thought upon peace.” This noted former foreign cor-

“respondent and editor of The London Times has put into a book the substance of those two decades of reflection. He

has called it, happily, “Vital Peace” (Macmillan).

“If so much ‘peace propaganda’ has fallen flat,” he writes, “it is because its psychology has been wrong. The of a fat, riskless existence, in-safety from outside atwarms nobody's blood.” In looking beyond war Tor a goal of thilliliy ackiové ent and an escape from bloody destruction, Steed envisions world where “such a spectacle as has been witnessed dur-

the past few years when some regions of the world

stifled in unsaleable abundance, while others have d in penury, would be accounted so grave a scandal, Sursing a reproach in a'world ust free for peace, 8 tbe d intolerable.”

Nye.

__ecoiing that bis eas may shade on Ups, Sted i

des: “I foresee the criticism that I take for

eal conditions, and that It is futile to dwell ups what (ibd be in a world beyond war when the world seems | 8

with the madness that drives men and nations. | “discerning v

The Liberal View

By Harry Elmer Barnes

(Substituting for Westbrook Pegler)

Spanish Civil. War Is Result of Government's Country of Feudal

NEW YORK, Nov.

Institutions.

5.—~Friends of economic

should take a real interest in the war in Spain. Supporters of the New Deal in the United States have much in common with those who are fighting to defend the new regime in Spain. -As-President Roosevelt has defied. economic feudalism in the United States, so the Spanish revolutionists have flouted the pretensions of the

antiquated dgrarian and ecclesiastical feudalism of Spain.’ The difference is that in our country most of the radicalism has been embodied in rhetoric, whereas in Spain real, if temporary, changes have been made of ‘a very sweeping character. ‘While unrest had existed for decades, the old order’ in Spain persisted with few basic .changes down to the post-war period. Philip II would have been passably at home in the Spain of 1925, aside from a few changes in _naterial culture like railroads; automobiles, machines and the like: The effete and corrupt mon.archy and court still continued to hold power, even if it did not rule with the absolutism of a Philip. It exploited a poor and undeveloped nation, Much of the land was held by a proud and selfish group of landed nobles, whose economic grip on the country was unmatched in the twentieth century save by that of the Russian and Hungarian nobility before the World War. The Spanish peasants were, in many regards and regions, in: a condition resembling that tof the French peasants before the French revolution. A great deal of land was held also by the Catholic Church in . The church was not only a great landholder, but it was also linked up with the Spanish state, from which it obtained a subsidy of millions of

dollars, drawn chiefly from taxes on the poverly- !

stricken peasaniry. . on = revolution of 1931 put a serious crimp in the medieval system of privilege and exploitation. The outstanding achievement in the economic realm was the partial nationalization of the Spanish land. The land owned by the nobles: and: the church was taken over in large part, some half a billion dollars’

“worth of church land being seécularized in the process.

mpensation to the tion among the

promote economic de-

Provision was made for some former owners and for r

ts. - - An attempt was made to

Attempt to Rid

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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

| MORE FORCEFUL PREACHERS

ARE NEEDED, CLAIM By X.Y. Z.; Crawfordsville

Gaudy pictures tell us the virtues |

of nicotine or whisky. Movies show

| lewd pictures and teach the chil-|. justice and decency in the United States

dren the road to vice. Drunken drivers roll. over -the highways af lightning speed. Crime - stalks through the land. ‘There is corruption in high places. Children go ta

-| school hungry.

While there is a single one of these wrongs to be righted, who are {he men who want to muzzle the preachers? Gamblers, crooks, knaves, usurers and those who have something they wish to hide. We need men in the pulpits today who will be heard as much as they were in the days of the prophets. +. Let us have preachers who know their duty and will do it.

8 8.0.» TAX REFORM MUST BE SLOW, HE SAYS = By Hiram Lackey The Times expressed its disap-

pointment arising from Mr. M. Clif- |’

ford Townsend’s refusal to condemn the gross income tax law. { Justice cheers the fight of The Times for direct income taxes levied according to the ‘ability to pay, wis-

dom inquires if Gov. McNutt and

Mr. Townsend are not making Indiana a leader in tax reforms as rapidly as is practicable, considering the welfare of all the people. The Times is asked to consider the fact that our needed tax 1eforms can only be solved by the cooperation of all the states. If Mr. Townsend should try to solve it as a mere local Hoosier problem, he would simply drive industry from

Indiana, instead of ‘attracting it, as aaministration “has

the. McNutt done. La Ta

Lt a 5 BELIEVES THAT DEMOCRACY HAS FAILED

By Hiram. H. Hardtack, Shirley, Ind.

Democracy stands indicted before the ‘world, the foremost count being that it has failed to fulfill its golden promises. Only a while ago democracy ‘was the hope of a 2 or grown weary of tyranny and pression. Now it is being discarasd as a broken dream, a mirage which deceived the minds of men. Na‘tons that tyranny flourish. quite as readily gE ot kings. The s ining ght es t oh ning gh

“While

4° browns, They deck ES emselves’ for play. *

and | And

(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.)

its nature. The result of cutting It up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest. number of them into. one heap will govern the rest.” Therein - lies . the Nemesis of American government. To give a man the right to vote for one politicdl machine or another does not give him freedom or equality in other endeavors upon which his welfare depends. When equality or opportunity ‘ perishes, no tearful: remonstrances of fanatic flag wavers can re-establish world wide faith in democracy. - Men “grow weary -of risy and sham and would as soon have a despotism in name if they must endure one in reality. Democracy may yet save itself if it can realize the purpose for which it was founded. The burning question is: Can it do so and still be a democracy? ; ; ® 2 8 WORK: OF SAFETY. COUNCIL LAUDED By M. 8. - oa % dahuay, the National Sadly

cil started a.campaign to reduos accident by 36 per cant in the

WHEN AUTUMN COMES TO IRVINGTON

wy CYNTHIA PEARL MAUS en autumn comes to Irvington, with its winding streets and lanes, The trees once green or dusty gray, Put on autumnal colors s gay. They toy to change old Nature's brow, : You'd hardly know the place— As in yellows, reds and Tusset

They dance their gayest/dances In the crisp autumnal days, As if to friends both far _. near They wish that they could say: “There's: cider on the highways; And apples, too, for sale; o The fodder’s in’ the "shock, “you

know, Ripe pumpkins on hill and dale.”

So gather up friends and family, Bicone “bru or th Bie er uty. on. ‘And along ° avenues. No autumn is 8 sompleis you now

| DAILY THOUGHT

' But God is the judge: he put~- |

re Say eel wp an “other.—Psalms

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next five years. Evidently their plan was too ambitious, since their experts have just reported a “startling” increase for 1936. Accidental deaths, it is predicted, will total 110,000 for this year, nonfatal injuries about 9,500,000. The estimated fatalities represent an in<

death toll, 9000 over 1934... Of the 10,000 increase, however, 6000 dre attributable to the excessive heat of the past summer—sunstroke, prostrations, blowouts due to hot roads, etc. ‘The other 4000 will have come

accidents. The Council's 25 years of educational work, particularly in industry, has been invalugble. Had the 1913 death rate prévailed through these years, 200,000 Americans now living would have been killed in accidents in industry and transportation. -Dotibtless many of these saved Hyves are due to the Councils work. But, in spite of this record the American way seems to Be to live dangerously. It is every one’s: privilege to live that way. It is quite another thing if his recklessness endangers the lives of others.

Cees CENTRALIZED COURTS URGED TO CUT EXPENSE By Frank Walton, Campbellsburg Pe If centralized schools make conditions : better, more ideal, why not: centralize courts? |

‘Make a county of Indiana and make townships out of counties.

~ .| Let the court be in Indiafiapolis. Cut down our expenses proportion-

ally, Let us meet our obligations promptly. , » ee |

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: WORKERS" ALLIANCE Nor

‘RED,’ MEMBER - SAYS | By P. E. Dockery The Workers’ Alliance is-a fine

thing to get. in. . I am a member and hope to get

come in. I would like to let folks koow it 18 not * » It is a union. ty. 0 8 | . NEW ‘ROAD BOOMS TOURIST TRAFFIC By Bcripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—The new 766-mile highway to Mexico City from Laredo has drawn thousands

heaviest influx of the year ‘during

from home, public and occupational

more WPA workers and wives to |:

of added tourists this year, and the |

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It Seems t6 Me

By Heywood Broun

Finds Atmosphere of New. York Very Restful After Sojourn at

Health Resort in West Virginia: 5.—As a health resort g

NEW ‘YORK, Nov. b -I.recommend New York. ‘I know be-.

crease of 10000 over last years | cause I've tried it. Two weeks ago a doctor looked quite grave and shook his head a cou‘ple of times. | ‘he: said.

“Most: of all’ you need rest,”

“And then more rest. You must

get away to some quiet spot.” “As, for instance?” I interrupted, hopliig he wouldn't say Bridgeport. He gave me quite ‘a list of places, ranging .from- a trip around the world in a freigliter to a week-end in Atlantic Ofty. I chose White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. It lies cupped within pine mountains, and there scarcely can be many more beautiful spots in all the world. The silence of the night is stifling, and I used to lie awake hoping to hear the sound ~ of a C. & O. freight fighting its way up the grade. In the spa they put mud: packs against my abdomen, and then the masseurs thumped the breath out Mr, Broun of me. My lungs were filled with | ‘purer air than they had ever known, and for 10 days I lived at a hotel which has no bar. To be sure, you can get anything you want from the government liquor store right in the ‘builde

ine, but you must not open the bottles in these prem hauled myself onto a night train

Toes entually. T -and: headed 'n again. It may be that my body was a little better, but I was even more sick in “spirit I simply could not sleep. ; I cured myself the first night I got back to New York. As usual, I was lying in the middle of a bed of pain and coughing my fool head off. Suddenly ‘an inspiration came to me. I looked at my watch, It had barely turned 3 a. m. I said to myself, “You

5 ‘know you don’t have to lie here and bark. You .could put gn your pants and shoes and go out.”

§ » 8 5 I fr just that ‘and ‘wandered over to a night club’ The place was practically closed, but I found two columnists who were sitting around for company, I couldn't. keep up my end of the conversation because of the tickle in my throat. I merely sit and listened while the two other lads talked about ‘theme selves. At 6 I went home and slept like a baby. ” Moreover, you can. get any sort of climate you want right here in ofir metropolis. The city serves quite a variety on its’ on, but I am not thinking wholly of the days as they are dished out officially.

1 mean that the town affords rooms in which one ?

may perspire and spots in which w shiver, ress § ¥hkh helps the invalid in New

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