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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMEER 11, 1936

ARMISTICE IS RIGHT ‘A RMISTICE: “A brief cessation of arms, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities, by agreement; a truce.”—Webster’s. Eighteen years ago today, at 11 of a foggy morning, firing ceased all along the line, from the English Channel to Switzerland. It was the Armistice which the whole world today is celebrating. ~ There had been killed 8,538,315 and 21,219,452 had been wounded. The cost to the principal countries in money was $186,000,000,000-—a sum which the mind of man can not begin to grasp. By 1930, the cost to the people of the United States alone, according to the Secretary of the Treasury, had reached $51,546,619,440. And, terrible and expensive as it was, it did not do what those who were slaughtered in it were promised it would do—end all wars. This year it is estimated that the world is spending no less than ten billion dollars on a#tmaments. This is nearly three times what it was spending in 1914, The cost has steadily and rapidly risen since the Armistice and the end is not yet. Nor did the costly World War make the world safe for democracy. Instead, there are now more military oligarchies than ever, dictatorships of right and left, and tyrannies of all sorts. And there are more men under arms than ever before, equipped by science with wings and with poisons, with unimaginably powerful high explosives and incendiary chemicals. New and bigger and more terrible wars seem inevitable, even imminent. Armistice is right. The Armistice merely brought us “a brief cessation of arms.” That is all the world got for its tens of millions of casualties and its tens of billions of money; an Armistice filled with hate and suffering, with hunger, unemployment, misery—and a dreary" outlook for the future. Today President Roosevelt is doing his utmost to prevent another world war. He plans a better neutrality law. He is working with the 21 American republics, and Canada, to make certain that at least this hemisphere will be able to stay out. He has pledged this government to co-operate with the rest of the world in the maintenance of peace. The prayer of every American on this particular Armistice Day, we believe, should be for the success of the President’s efforts.

A WORD TO HUNTERS ITH the opening this week of the hunting season for rabbits, quail and pheasants, hunters are asked to give special thought to two things: First, the annual warning- that too much caution can not be exercised in the handling of guns. Already, the season has claimed its first Indianapolis victim, Orie E. Black-

well, who was killed yesterday when he accidentally stepped

into a blast from the gun of a hunting companion. Reports also show an alarming number of hunting fatalities in other parts of the country. Second, that all hunters will profit by better sportsmanship. Many farmers and other owners of rural tracts complain they have been forced to post their land against hunters in general because a few have entered farms without permission, broken fences, left gates open, wounded domestic animals and otherwise acted as vandals. The law, as well as the rules of courteous conduct, requires that you get permission before hunting on another’s property.

"BROAD RIPPLE HIGH SCHOOL A RECEPTION tonight marking the fiftieth anniversary of Broad Ripple High School climaxes a period of educational growth and city expansion. Indianapolis, then south of Fall Creek, seemed well removed from Broad Ripple when that small community added a two-year high school course to its grade school in 1886. In 1893, Broad Ripple was honored at the Chicago World Fair as an outstanding high school. From the first term—when one teacher taught all subjects to a total of seven pupils—the school has grown into a modern high school with a large enrollment. A 12-room addition was opened last year. Fourteen years ago Indianapolis absorbed Broad Ripple and its high school. The reception tonight is a tribute to the school’s founders, and to the patrons. and parents, principals and teachers, who have worked for its development.

WOMAN HATER'S MONUMENT ' RONTO'S baby derby is all over but the shouting. But with court proceedings now beginning, to determine the award of the $500,000 prize, we may expect lots of shouting. Fourteen mothers are reported to have filed claims, as having produced the largest number of children during the last 10 years. But six of them, with nine children each, apparently are tied. It was all done without benefit of quintuplets, and several of the claimants say they heard of the contest only recently, and so were not really trying. Doubtless there are symptoms of a local earthquake - around the grave of the late Charles Vanee Millar, ‘eccentric bachelor who set up the prize in his will. He must be ~ laughing at his joke. Mr. Millar will be remembered, but he’s welcome to his dubious monument. If courts can divide his fortune so as to relieve the poverty of more than one of these qualifying families, they will be the heroes of this race.

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By Westbrook Pegler Winter Regulation of Miami About Fingerprinting Workmen Makes Columnist

EW YORK, Nov. 11.—The charming cities of Miami and Miami Beach are adopting a winter regulation which will require the finger-printing of certain classes of American workmen who will also be com-

pelled to carry police identity ‘cards. The object is to exclude the criminal element and a very worthy aim that is, to be sure. But a knowledge of conditions in the two communities suggests that the

authorities are going about it in the wrong way, for the criminal element which frequents the pleasure coast in winter is not addicted . to. toil.

The footloose itinerants who follow the sun to scramble for:

mean bs running elevators, age shes, carrying suitcases and serving drinks undoubtedly do include some undesirable individuals. There are waiters among them who do not know how to serve a glass of water. . That is to be expected, however, in almost any city and the fact remains that long ago the two

Miamis cordially invited many criminals of serious

importance to move in and make their headquarters there during the winters. Al Capone was a distinguished winter resident and many of his colleagues in the rackets were attracted fron Chicago, New York, ‘Philadelphia, Atlantic City and other cities of the North. And the first thing the two Miamis knew, in the hustle of the big boom and the confusion of the shakedown period which followed, the underworld had taken a firm hand in the local government. & E-3 ” AMBLING houses, which are distinctly an underworld institution, have persisted in spite of periodic raids and more or less earnest drives to clean up the two towns. The difficulty has been that many of the local business men thought it was necessary to tolerate a little gambling to attract the spenders from the north. But they discovered that a little gambling in a town is the same as a few rats in a corn-crib and they were over-run not only with professional dealers and operators, who are not entirely offensive, but with all the varieties of swindler, black-mailer and jewel-thief who follow the trade. ” ” ” HEN, too, a race-track always attracts a criminal : element whose members do not have to stoop to common working-class jobs but live in considerable splendor, and. Miami has two race tracks. In fact, the community. which will now impose on ordinary working people the humiliating process of finger-printing and mugging did not hesitate to welcome one group of race-track operators who were known the country over as the bootleggers and whose

“horse-park was known as the racketeers’ track.

I am not certain that all this is anybody's business outside the two Miamis, but it does seem to concern the rest of the country and working people in general that men and women fall under suspicion and have to report to the police anywhere in the U. S. A. merely because they display a willingness to work while notorious criminals are deemed to be desirable only because they are in the money.

Pretty Mad

Broad-gauge view of things,

The Hoosier Forum

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

LEGIONNAIRE PRAISES NATIONAL COMMANDER

By Legionnaire It begins to look as if the American Legion got a first-rate national commander for itself when it elected Harry W. Colmery to that office. Commander Colmery’s recent remarks about free speech and the essence of Americanism were statesmanlike in the best sense of the word. The campaign for Americanism, he points out, is a worthy endeavor and deserves the best efforts of the

men who wore their country’s uni--form into battle; but to try to ad-

vance ‘it by denying free utterance

‘to individuals or groups is to go | directly against its best traditions.

. Under a leader who takes Suc) 2 the Legion niay be expected to make its Americanism campaigh"- mor e genuinely effective than ever before. Without implying the slightest criticism of any past commanders, it may be said that the Legion today has a leader worthy of its own ideals.

: ” » 2 LET'S HAVE MORE CAPERS BY ROGUES! By D. F. Clancy, Logansport

Now that. the campaign is over, the masses of sovereign voters who were aroused from their usual silence by an attack of politicalitis will withdraw—dragging their complaints, opinions and theories behind them—from the newspaper vox populis, leaving the good—nay grand and glorious!—work of heckling our self-appointed masters, our mental inferiors (I ‘hope we have them!), creators and disciples of other philosophies and: such to.the never-thinking, ever-wounded, yeararound literary booers of Hoosierdom. Today, though, I for one can’t find anything. particular to complain about! You newspaper chappies must be keeping about ninetenths of the daily happenings to yourselves (the nine out of 10 things that are stupid, which occur traditionally 365 days’ per year in the republic). I used to enjoy news sheets egregiously. Starting with the first page, I would be consecutively offended and outraged all the way through to and including the last. Ah, those were the days! Not once in a month was one compelled to lay his favorite daily down without the pleasure of turning red in the face, saying “Egad!” and—like the retired English colonel — muttering indignantly, “I shall jolly well write a letter to The Times and tick those bally blighters off!” Let’s hear more of the current capers of those thousands of rogues, quacks, miscreants, flag -wavers, rustic poets, Babbits, society matrons and pseudo-intellectuals with

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Revival of Anti-Chiseling Provision of NRA Would Necessitate a Return to Chief Justice Marshall's Broad Definition of Interstate Commerce.

ULSA, Okla. Nov. 11 ~—In its two most recent issues this column discussed the constitutional and practical difficulties in the way of a revival of the principles of NRA and: one method of overcoming them in respect to hours and wages. But how about fair trade practices?

The methods that have made it hard for little

fellows to stay in business are largely local in their application. In merchandising, a great chain or department store selling a ‘wide variety of products, takes a single line—like cigarets or books which it sells in competition with tobacconists or and cuts the retail ‘price to a point below where the Nile Jsow can live, and then advertises this price It can afford to do this because it makes up on . This is called the “loss leader.” The object is said to be to attract customers who will buy other things.

is oly one illustrative example of a long |

| list of practices which, in post-war years, resulted in the wiping out of a considerable proportion of small indpendent business concerns and which accelerated the seemingly concentration of nearly

all American business in this g ‘this country in a very few |. powerful hands. - 3 FR iF .

express their views in these col-

|are the very ones that become too

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which this “Grand and glorious land of ours” is crammed. 2 x 2 READER DEFENDS POLITICAL ENTHUSIASM By Reader In the Nov. 3 issue of The Times, Mrs. M. G. I. criticised Heywood Broun for booing Landon. I want to assure Mrs. M. G. I. that she has the wrong impression of Broun. After all, associating with politicians out on the political field is a great deal like associating with football players on the football field. One can’t help absorbing some of the enthusiasm, and one enjoys getting a little of the dirt on himself. That's what makes football and politics great sports. In fact, without enthusiastic partisanship, we couldn’t have parties. Without parties -we couldn’t: have our form of government. It is my observation that our best citizens

“THE HONOR ROLL” BY DR. ROBERT O. LEVELL.

O! The sound of marching feet Where the loud drums used to beat; For the music of the time ‘ While the footsteps marched in line.

Shoulders erect, heads up high, Keen lookout and steady eye; Over land and on the sea Paid the price for you and. me,

Sacrificing, day by day, Where danger lured all the way; - Lives of honest, faithful men Having proved our greatest friend.

Answering our country’s call In defense for one and all; Where the brave and noble man Entered service for his land.

Determined he’d stay and win Whatéver the costs for him; Where men suffered for so long, When they served to right a wrong.

DAILY THOUGHT

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That we shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be ‘turned into joy. —St. John 16:20.

HE path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown; no traveier ever reached that blessed abode who found not thorns and briers in

his road Cowper.

- ® enthusiastic during the heat of the campaign. Just notice the apologies appearing .in the newspapers. And by the way, Mrs. M. G. I, don’t you feel now that you were a little too enthusiastic in your criticism of Broun? sa = HOPES VOTERS DID NOT MISPLACE THEIR FAITH By Paul Masters, Anderson The people of the United States have placed their faith in Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal for another four years. They have given to him the tremendous task of bringing order out of chaos. It is to be hoped that their faith has

been well placed and that the future will bring about a hetter America.

Those of us who opposed the reten-’

tion of the New Deal will not hamper their forward strides, but we shall insist that these strides lead us in the paths of true American democracy. The overwhelming majority of the new Congress will not be easy to handle. It will call for a great

deal of strength and courage to keep:

s0 one-sided a group in the lines of the true American ways of government. ' It may even bring about bitter interparty strife. But the American people, both: Democrats and Republicans, ‘must not lose sight of the fact that ‘America is today the greatest: nation in the

world and has become so through |

the American system. True patriots will not relinquish that system.

We of both parties must be ever |

on our guard agai the ‘advances of communism, fasciSm and socialism that are running so rampant in the nations of Europe. We must

check every act of our legislative:

bodies to see that they do not unthinkingly ‘fall into the pitfalls of some alien ism. I do not say this disrespectfully, but I know there is a vast army of alien agitators who will try every way to get their frantic theories of dictatorial government into the United States in the place of our democratic government. Now that the fight is over and the people have made their choice, I am willing to abide by the: wishes of the majority. However, I shall not lose sight, of the American way of

‘life that I fought for and I shall

continue to battle for American

ideals and American principles.

2 2 = GOVERNOR-ELECT STANDS “TEST,” WRITER REPORTS By Mrs. F. M. "I have to say a little about our new Governor-elect.- : I had one of his pictures on a button on my dress when I washed that dress. I ran “him” through the wringer four times. He came out still Smiing. So he is going to keep on smiling. .

“front of your face.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Steel Towns of Pennsylvania Are Touched by Hope of New Dispensation, Columnist Reports

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11.—I am a member of the C. I. O. committee of which John L. Lewis is the chairman. Probably I am the smallest minnow in the group. And yet yesterday I had my brief moment of triumph,

The conference had just adjourned and when I came out from behind the closed doors a fellow newspaper man hailed me and said, “Well, what went on, Heywood? What did you do?”

I drew myself up, cleared my throat, coughed in the manner of a member of the high Bench, and replied, “We have been conferring for some time.” + Then" ;after another pause I added, “Beyond that I have no

further statement to make to the

press at the present time.” But even now it is not the time for me to write about the ‘Committee for Industrial Organization. It will be better just te talk about Pittsburgh. The City of - Pitts-

burgh lies in a narrow valley, and

for two days: it .has been almost impossible to see your hand in It was my notion. to compliment the natives by assuming that the thickness of the atmosphere was an indication of the return of prosperity. They scoffed at the suggestion and informed me that the Pittsburgh fog was wholly of nature's making, Still T think I smell smoke and, in any case, there is some fire in the town. More than in any other city of America, Pittshurgh has been touched by the flaming hope of a’ new dispensation.

Quite obviously the election has, for the moment at least, altered the psychology of this community,

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HESE are towns where babies are delivered into - the world by the company doctor. They play in company streets and are chased by company cops. Andr after a few terms in the company school they go to work in the plant.

But now a tremor seems to run along the battle ments of Weirton and of Homestead. In spite of barricades and spies, barbed wire and private police, forces from the outside have swept into the cities which a few great industrialists once carried aroynd in their pockets. You may be sure that before election the workers in all these company towns were warned how to vote and. why. But they refused to yield to pressure. » OU may say, with copies accuracy that, gene erally speaking, this is a good deal less than revo lutionary. In the case of the walled cities of the steel empire you would be wrong. Oliver Twist walks high= ways and byways where he was never. seen before, He is asking for more, and already he has it. The steel magnates are raiS§ing wages all along the line, The theory may be that this is an act of simple generosity and good will upon the part of employers who have suddenly not only geen the light, but takén on Swesiupss as well. This theory seems to me une ely. When a whole group of industrial leaders is observed moving rapidly in one direction it is a good idea to look down the road and see just who or what is chasing.

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[The Washingioh Merry- GoRound

Roosevelt Was Bad Guesser on Election Total, but Herbert Hoover Called the Turn Exactly; He Gave Landon Two States—Maine and Vermont,

abuses? These are very real questions about which there seems to be no general agreement. Buf one

- thing is certain, the anti-trust acts can not effectively

regulate them. The rule of unlimited competition is simply a rule of freedom for the unlimited and unregulated growth of these great corporations, and a rule of continuous “open season” on small independents. The theory of NRA was that nearly every industry recognizes that opportunist and cut-throat methods of competition are not, m the long run, ‘healthy. = » # >

NRA proved anything it proved the correctness

8 J I of that theory. The trouble is in applying it in

disciplining chiselers.

| Modification of the anti-trust acts to permit in-

and provide action in Federal

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The President was a bad guesser on his own electoral total. He reckoned on 360, got 523. But his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, hit the nail squarely on the head. It is rio secret that Hoover and Landon were completely on the outs during the campaign. But how bitter the ex-leader of the Republican Party felt toward his successor did not leak outside the inner circle. After their meeting in Topeka, Hoover complained that all Landon talked to him about was whether he

could carry California. Later, it became obvious that Landon and his

CENE: Washington Union Station during Presie dent Roosevelt’s triumphant re-election arrival Right up in front, and first to welcome him was Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Woodring, and Secretary of Labor Perkins—all of them most likely to lose their jobs. Loitering carelessly in the background was Secree tary of Agriculture Wallace—sure to keep his.

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.PTER this greeting, the Little Cabinet members (assistant secretaries) stepped up, one by one held out their hands, beamed. wi omgligally Roosevelt shook hands, obviously Then he 10 a group of little girls, aged “8 to 10, a little shy and holding big bunches of flowers, For the time the President looked really pleased, gave them a genuine reception. : 4 » »

HE Justice Department is buzzing with a report that J. Edgar Hoover may soon leave the Bureau of Investigation. Insiders say that the G-Boss has been offered

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large Sompany police Loree, and that he is seri. Oa oasidering the le tempting offer. :