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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936

.BUTLER’S AUTO VICTIMS

AILY statistics tell the story of traffic tragedies. Twelve a more persons have lost their lives on the streets here this year than last. The nation’s auto fatalities threaten to exceed 1935's record 36,000.

he But nothing in recent months has so emphasized traffic -hazards as the death Saturday night of Spero Costas, ButJer University football captain, in an automobile crash at Crawfordsville, followed by another smashup here early yes“terday in which Arthur Cosgrove, captain of the Butler "basketball team, was injured critically. In one night, automobile accidents strike down two of the university's athletic stars. Similar disaster almost daily “ befalls persons of less prominence. : And the community still awaits the leadership that will take hold of this problem and make Indianapolis a safe city.

OUR SCHOOLS AT WORK

ARENTS and patrons will visit Indianapolis schools this week in observance of American Education Week. And some adults, who haven't seen the inside of a classroom in -many years, may be impressed by the appropriateness of this year’s Education Week theme, “Our Schools at Work.” “A distinguishing feature of the schools of today,” says Superintendent Paul C. Stetson, “is that they are places where all the children are busy all the time. This is why _in a modern schoolroom in Indianapolis you will find freaquently many groups at work, busily engaged at the most important. task they will ever face—self-education. ‘ “The keynote of the modern school is pupil participation and teacher guidance in education. When pupils participate in their own education, schoolrooms are found to be interesting, stimulating, and busy places.”

AFTER MADRID?

- JFOR months the world has been hoping that either the fall of Madrid or the defeat of the besieging rebels + would someliow put an end to the Spanish butchery and with it the peril it has brought to the rest of Europe. The indications are that it will do no such thing. The fighting in Spain is no ordinary civil war. Probably the ‘Russia of 1917 and immediately thereafter offers the near- . est approach to the Spain of the present. - White Russians and Red were then cutting each other’s throats wholesale to see which would take over the rule of the Czars. Simultaneously, for purposes of their own, central Europe aided one side and the Allies the other.

Something similar is now going on in. Spain. The Fascists of General Franco are at grips with the Commu-

nist-Socialist-Anarcho-Syndicalists of Premier Caballero.

And the fall of Madrid with the transfer of the capital to Valencia is not likely either to end the war or the danger of it spreading beyond the Pyrenees. Valencia is on the Mediterranean. Therefore it has access to the sea, on which anywhere from one to three dozen Soviet ships today are reported to be convoying food and arms to the loyalists. But German and Italian warships are likewise in easy reach of those waters. So, off Valencia, lurks a potential catastrophe of major importance to the world. Both Berlin and Rome have just proclaimed a sort of holy war against Bolshevism, and, picking up the gauntlet, Moscow has decreed that victory for the Spanish Leftists is vital and must be assured. Britain and France want neither Fascists nor Communists in power in Spain. They prefer a democratic regime. France is already bedeviled by countless dangers, both from -within and without, and can not afford the addition of many : more. And. British fears are growing for the Empire's short cut to India and the Far East, via Suez. No more than ' France would she welcome Russian-sponsored Reds or * Fascist-sponsored Whites in Spain.

BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT

AS plainly as the fateful writing on Belshazzar’s wall, the depression warned that the old American business leadership had been weighed and found wanting. In three elections, each time in a voice louder than the preceding one, the people have repudiated this old leadership. What now do these leaders propose to do? One prominent business man, Peter Van Horn, presi- . dent of the National Federation of Textiles, has written to 15 industrialists, financiers and merchants urging a changed attitude toward the government the people have just underwritten so strongly. The New Deal, he says, is going ahead with its reforms, seeking to bulwark the nation against new depressions, turn "more of recovery’s fruits into mass buying power and make ~ _ the people and the system more secure. If business cooperates in these constructive and inevitable reforms, it can be of tremendous service to government. If it refuses, it may suffer’ further loss of prestige. © We believe the Administration and Congress would * welcome the co-operation and advice of intelligent business leaders. We believe that if they had had such co-operation _in the past, fewer mistakes would have been made. If they lack it in the future, more mistakes will be made.

“ALL IS VANITY! DONT let all of these crucial issues and vital causes get you down. If the political campaign seemed to go “round and round,” write it down as being in harmony th the rhythm of life, concerning which the Pi Line ist of The Albuquerque Tribune chronicles: “You work all day doing about the same things and

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iting about the same money in order to write about the |

» check to the grocer and the landlord and you go home

i eat about the same supper and hear about the same 0 jokes and get into the same bed and sleep in the same

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Difference Between A merican and Nazi Election Methods Gives Columnist. Cause for . Cheering.

EW YORK, Nov. 9.—On the basis of the electoral vote, Mr. Roosevelt's victory was only a little less thorough than that of Adolf Hitler in the so-called election of last spring, but the difference in method is.impor-

tant and should be a source of cheer! In the

Nazi election, the ballot contained no provision for a dissenting vote. The citizens were given to understand that secrecy smacked of treasoff and all persons who had indicated that they might vote against Der Fuehrer if given . a chance had been beheaded, shot, beaten to death or locked up in concentration camps. In this country, on the other hand, the ballot provided a wide range of choice from the dictatorship of Coughlin and Townsend who brooked neither advice nor dissent within their respective groups, to the peevish corhmunism of Comrade Browder and seventeen million voters availed themselves of Mr. Roosevelt's kind permission to vote against him. In the German election, any man who made a point of marking in secret even the one-way ticket ‘which served as:a ballot would have placed himself under dangerous -suspicion on the ground that any decent citizen ought to be proud to indorse in the open the regime of the leader who gave them the right to do as he pleased. In our country men are at large today, unembarrassed in their rights, who would have been dead and forgotten long ago if they had uttered against Herr Hitler in Germany a single speech of the kind which they poured into the air week after week between June and Nov. 3.

” 8 o ND yet Mr. Roosevelt finds himself returned to office by a vote which gives him the personal leadership of a Duce or Fuehrer with the distinct proviso, however, that he avoid the easy methods by

Mr. Pegler

which inferior leaders do the job in the absence of 1

that ability which democratic government requires. We don’t and will not have to open and close each telephone conversation with a shame-faced “Hail Roosevelt,” and the boss, himself, doubtless hopes the dead cats will not entirely cease to fall, although he would be hardly human if he did not permit himself a wish that in the future some of them will be not quite so dead. He must be, in round numbers, a pretty ‘satisfactory American of progressive tendencies because one side called him a Communist and the Communists, knowing his popularity in the fascist Southern states knew that couldn’t be so. And Coughlin, who went all the way and called him both, didn’t pull enough votes to swing a ward election, a result which, in itself, is a distinct rebuke to dictatorship.

2 ” 2 - ND the American people, themselves, must be pretty good material considering that they wer; told the most fantastic lies and promised the moS$t fantastic plush and gilt mansions and stirred by wild men of the very same kind who drove the Italians and the Germans crazy, yet stood off all this nonsense.

When a. political exhorter comes howling through town, promising poor men plug hats and pie for dinner and the privilege of tossing rocks at the local millionaire, there is always a temptation to give him a trial, especially if he is one of those he-harridans with a rousing voice and a hypnotic delivery, The Americans, however, obviously inspected the methods of men who ruled their own political outfits by per-

1 sonal decree and pictured the future with such meth-

ods enlarged to cover the nation.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

SAYS READERS HAVE RIGHT TO HONEST NEWS By Henry J. Schnitzius

I- believe in freedom of the press as the choicest heritage of a free

people. But doesn’t the reader of a:

newspaper have some rights which should .be considered? During the recent campaign the vast majority of newspapers were opposed to Roosevelt. They brought all the force of some of the most brilliant editorial minds to bear against him. This was their right. But what of the news? So-called expert political writers and forecasters roamed the country, seeing

| and writing of the political picture,

through the eyes and desires of the

{individuals = who controlled their

papers. They “interpreted” public opinion and campaign trends without thought. that the man who reads the news thinks he is buying at least -a certain amount of truth and integrity. There was no honest effort to produce honest news. . For myself, I would like to believe a certain part of the campaign news, if it is furnished as news. But when propaganda deliberately and untruthfully is furnished as news, there is no more freedom of the press exercised than ‘in the European nations where natlonal dictators, instead of special interests, delete, distort and discolor the news before it goes to their deluded nationals. Read the headlines in two-thirds of our. daily newspapers for the week previous to the election and you garner nothing but a highhanded, unscrupulous effort to force an antiquated, un-American theory of politics down the throat of a helpless public, ‘which turned out not to be so helpless. It would be well for our news agencies to take stock of what the eventual result of such policies will be..

# # = HUGE VOTE ATTRIBUTED TO SLANDER OF PRESIDENT By L. E. Blacketor

If the tumultuous acclaim accorded the President by the unprecedented avalanche of voters who trooped to the polls to swell a victory already conceded means one thing more than another, it is that the love. of fair play and a decent regard for the common amenities still ranks high in the American scheme of things. Teeming hordes of eligibles who in years past had not troubled to vote at all. were so outraged and hurt by the mean attacks upon the character of President Roosevelt that they veritably swamped the poils to register their stinging rebuke to the maligners of his honor. (Gov. Landon, praise-be, was above such cheap tactics.) Let not the vain be fooled, for though we may be rabble and know not how to crook our little fingers about a teacup and get easily lost in the metaphysics of monetary and economic affairs, we do have the simple understanding that recognizes and appreciates a man with a heart. And a sixth sense, too, that quickly tagsia demagogic sham. Now that the hurt have had their

day dn court the purveyors of those

unhallowed aspersions find them-

selves pretty much alone. Poor

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Powerful Effort Will Be Made to Restore Some NRA Principles, Notably Minimum Wages, Maximum Hours and Elimination of Unfair Practices.

Although the devalued dollar and the AAA processing ~fiies Wele much. Sie eflestive $0 increase ests than NRA and were working at .the same time, yet forces working full

ULSA, Okla., Nov. 9.—Some of the most persistent and immediate public questions are

whether NRA is coming back and what will happen to the Black 30-hour bill and the Guffey bill

Will there be a new drive to restore NRA? As it

was, no: It was an emergency measure based on the war statutes. The worst of the emergency is over. You can't revive the war theory. Also, it was wrong in several particulars clearly demonstrated in But a powerful effort will be made to re-

(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.)

petty souls! Shamed and deserted and with their glib babble “gone with the wind,” they must “live alone and like it.” = ” ” ” YOU HAVE GREAT CHANCE, HE TELLS ROOSEVELT By Progressive Republican Millions of /us progressive Republicans cast the votes that made the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt possible. Now, when we hear

| the clamor of Al Smith and the

Democratic reactionaries attempting to get back on the band-wagon, we feel we have a right to give our President a word of advice.

Mr. Roosevelt, we carried on

.against the most ferocious attack of

propaganda the world has ever known to elect you. We were strong for you. Will you remain strong for us? We know the powerful forces

of coercion and propaganda which

will be brought to bear against you. We fought those same forces under the banner of Theodore Roosevelt. We joined your banner because we thought it was the same banner under which we fought with Theodore Roosevelt. : Mr. President, let it be understood that we did not vote for AI Smith, Bainbridge Colby, Carter Glass, nor for Hoover, Mellon and Morgan. We were thinking of our orphan leaders, Norris, Borah and the La Follettes. We were thinking of the vain effort we had made to rekindle the spirit of Lincoln in our own Republican Party.

Mr. President, -yours is the great-

ADMONITION! BY F. F. MACDONALD Love, thou art pitiable indeed—

Ne’er finding words to intercede Lest hearts break silently and bleed.

Those souls reap naught save grief and pain, Refusing joy to give or gain— Yet knowing death rides not in vain.

What profit vain regret and tears, Or bearing heart-break through the years— When sealed are loved one’s mortal ears?

Oh love—if worthy of the name, And not a gesture or a game— Haste thou—thy healing ruth proclaim!

"DAILY THOUGHT

And if ye call on the Father, who, without respect or persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.—I Peter 1:17. :

EVER forget the the day of judgment. Keep it always in view.

Frame every action and plan with

reference to its unchanging decisions Terence.

absorbs it,

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est opportunity of any President in American history. You have brought to America a new party and a new hope, just as Lincoln brought a new party and a new hope in 1860. You are the choice of the. American people, rather than the choice of any party or group. You are not obligated to any party or group, either radical or reactionary. You are free, as few Presidents have been free, to move forward. | » ” ” WHAT ANSWERS WOULD HE RECEIVE? By Samuel Toole

Some letters the President might dictate to his critics: Alfred M. Landon, Topeka: . “Come up and see me some time.

I'll tell you what I am going to do.”

Frank Knox; Chicago:. “Who's there?” (No answer). Alfred E. Smith, New York: “I could have given you some advice before you took your walk, but you never asked me.” John W, Davis, New York: “Where do you go from there?” James A. Reed, Kansas City: “Well, good-by, Jim. Take keer 0’ yerself.” W. J. Funk, editor, Literary Digest, New York: “Next time poll Jim Farley.” William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, Cal.: “Shortly mn be telling you.”

BELIEVES DIGEST OWES APOLOGY FOR FORECAST

By Jan Lucas, R. R. 7

The Literary Digest owes the people of the United States an apology for attempting to. predict election results. The people are awaiting that apology." The poll was an inaccurate one, the count being taken from among Republican-concentrated areas. The biased data thus collected circulated through the Digest for the purpose of furnishing a psychological motive to sway the popular vote... ‘We believe that the editors of the Digest might do better in Weather forecasting. . ” 8 MODERN. VALJEAN CASES PROBLEM FOR SOLOMON By N. S.

If Solomon were living today, he would probably find himself appointed sole arbiter of “modern Jean Valjean” cases, while those of mixed babies would be given to lesser legal lights. For the Valjean problems seem to be among the knottiest with which the. forces of justice have. to grapple nowadays. Their patis similar. Imprisoned for a minor offense, a man escapes jail, builds afd honest career, and then is found out. The dilemma that arises is formidable. If the man is returned to jail, the disgrace may blight his life. If not, his debt to society will remain "unpaid, and a bad precedent is created. The solution is not made easier by pleas of the man’s friends and business acquaintances. To the authorities who have to handle such cases, the thought must - come that Solomon had

-| something of a sinecure.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

|. vention every Middle

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Assures Republicans That They Are Not Dead and Says That They Need Psychiatry, Not Medicine.

EW YORK, Nov. 9.—I know the election is over, but I want to join in the present spirit of charity to all and contribute my own comforting words to a distressed minority. If Republicans care:anything for my opinion I can assure them that they are net dead. It isn’t medicipe but psychiatry which. the Re=publicans need. They ought to send for old Dog, Freud. There have been few votes in their dreams, but many inhibitions, It is a very strange case of a switch in personalities. The ‘Republican Party has managed to get its story all ~ mixed up. © IT don’t know just which experts in popular psychology were called ‘into ‘consultation, but it seems a little fantastic that an attempt should have been made to stampede , New York with sune flowers and “Oh, Susanna.” Ogden Mills never did learn to say, “By heck!” ‘convincingly, and Alf always looked queer with the straw _behind his ears. \ The political wisdom of Jim Farley has been demonstrated, and even. one of his so-called blunders may have been a piece of diabolical cleverness. Shortly before the nomination of . Alf M. Landon Mr. Farley made a speech in which he referred to him as “the Governor of a typical prairie state.” Republicans upon this as a fatal blunder on Farley’s part, and in the Cleveland conestern community announced its vote with the preface, “Iowa, a typical prairie state,” and so on. It got so you couldn’t call yourself a. good: Republican unless you could say “Truly rural.” The high command of the Republican Party practically surrendered all the big cities to Roosevelt even before the voting began. Every argument ran that up-state or down-state would nullify the will of New York or Chicago, as the case might be. Mr. Roosevelt was accused ‘of bringing class consciousness into the campaign, but this charge was made by a party which almost proudly undertook to exploit the clash of interesd between the urban dweller

Mr. Broun

_and-the agriculturis,

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rN time of crisis America no longer looks to the plow to find a leader. To be sure, neither Gov. Landon nor Chairman Hamilton was a dirt farmer, although in the case of Mr. Hamilton there were times when a listener might have thought so. No Republican could possibly have won, but it is easy now, just as it was easy in Cleveland, to see that the party might have gone further and fared much better. With no disrespect to Gov. Landon personally, -I honestly think he was just about the second least available candidate whose name came up in Cleve~ land. Hoover wouldn't have carried Maine or Vere mont. 8 8 = $ ENATOR VANDENBERG might have done a little better. But a really frank and logical selection by which the issue of liberalism and conservatism might have been tested would have been for the Republicans to have nominated either Ogden Mills or Mr. Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court. I concede the defeat of both candidates, but it would have cleared the political atmosphere. Mr. Roosevelt's victory must, of course; be scored as a triumph for the progressives, and yet it is not possible to forget that Carter Glass is still a Democrat. Senator Capper would have done better than Lane don, and if the effort was to get somebody who knew

farming and at the same time was wise erffough

not to blow out the gas, why didn’t the Cleveland convention pick William Alleh White 12.

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New Deal Has Revived Washington Society and It Is Once Again Going - About Its Serious’ Business of Attending and Giving Dinner Parties.

‘By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen . ASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—With elections over, the

¥ nation’s capital is getting down to the only serious business which, year in and year out, really

Congress may debate the problem of peace or war,

Laura Curtis, patron saint of those who p for a thousand-dollar limit, turned her bea