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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936

DON’T SACRIFICE THE SCHOOLS! HE State Tax Board meets Friday to consider the school city and other local budgets. Advance reports indicate some opposition to the $875,000 school building program. The School Board voted this program and the County Tax Adjustment Board approved it because of the dangerously crowded condition of Indianapolis schools. Despite the general need for tax reduction, continued ~skimping on essential school items is shortsighted economy. Public education is the largest single item of governRoughly, it ahsorbs about one-fourth of

all state and local revenues. It employs teachers by the

thousands.

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Because of this very bigness, schools were vulnerable

L.when economy axes began to cut budgets in the early

thirties. Schools—building facilities and teachers’ salaries, especially—suffered more drastic reductions than most other governmental units. The depression attitude toward schools is summed up by Charles E. Merriam, the social scientist: “You can save more money on schools quickly, without any one discovering that you have injured the body politic, than in any other branch of government. It is almost like

cutting down a tree to get the fruit.

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“What happens in the reduction of salaries and the

Sshortening of terms and the weakening of the whole system R2does not appear within one year or two years or five years,

but within a reasonable period of time after that you begin

>to discover that what you have saved on schools you have

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"lost on civilization.”

back to pre-depression levels.

Slowly, teachers’ salaries in many cities are climbing The present Indianapolis

{school budget provides a salary restoration of about 5 per

cent, If it is approved, our teachers still will be getting between 6 and 9.9 per cent less than before the cuts.

But building has lagged until there is an estimated

pverload of 5300 pupils in our high schools.

The long-range effect on public education, as well as the immediate problem of housing, emphasizes the wisdom of going ahead with the building program.

WRECKS—AND RAILROADS’ COMEBACK ESTERDAY’S wreck of a Big Four passenger train 15 miles southeast of Indianapolis, killing two persons and

5 injuring 23 others, was the more shocking because of the

“rarity of such accidents.

Fatal train accidents occur so seldom that we have come to believe—and rightly—that we are about as safe aboard a passenger train as in our: own homes. The railroads boasted a full year’s operation in 1935

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Cause of the Big Four derailment is not yet definitely The recent Princeton wreck of the Pennsylvania's and several minor accidents this year, appar-

~ “ently were due to faulty equipment—this despite many

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__ improvements. The railroads are five years béhind on their usual upkeep and expansion program. In the five years 1926-30 they spent more than four billion dollars in capital improvements—passenger and freight cars, locomotives, construction, maintenance, etc. In the last five years they have spent only one billion dollars. They didn’t have more to spend. But this year, with revenues higher, the carriers will report a profit once more. For the first time since 1931 the railroads are out of the red. They are replacing and modernizing their huge plant. But a big job lies ahead. In 1920 the railroads spent $1,032,000,000 for maintenance; in 1935 they spent only $394,000,000 on this item. Railroad modernization means a comeback for heavy industries generally as well as better business for railroads. And it means greater safety.

THE BIGGEST BRIDGE

IXTY years of dreaming, 20 years of planning, four years of actual building have gone into the San Francisco Bay bridge which today, completed, is opened to public use, Much more has gone into that mighty structure—77 millions of dollars, 300,000 tons of steel, 70,000 ‘miles of cable wire. But that story, of how science and skill have spanned four and a half miles of tidewater from peninsula to mainland, has been told. Today America does honor fo the spirit of San Francisco, which has built this bridge, which is building the other equally spectacular bridge across the nearby Golden Gate. Where for so many years hoarse-voiced ferry boats provided the only means of travel between the separated cities of the bay region, aerial highways are linking nearly two million people into one vast community at the conti-

nent’s Western portal.

BOOK BURNING CONTINUED TE how! which went up from the world three years ago when the Nazis staged their great burning of books | may find an echo now at the announcement. that “loving force” is to compel the German people to read only approved propaganda writings. Book burning was a negative gesture. Reading by

i force—however loving—is positive.

It is all very well to quote the proverb that one con-

3? vinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The

jdea of the Nazis seems to be that no one ever is to be al-

§ lowed to suspect that a conflicting opinion exists.

The president of the Reich Chamber of Literature, out to “eliminate the lukewarm among the bookers,” promises that “resistance will be broken with mite.” “Our people,” he declared, “want to be and ll be convinced and led.” Forcible feeding it looks like for every mind. We

¥ how Wang Study, Soindepenjont. Jubule there will be

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By Westbrook Pegler Mr. Pegler Collects His Election Bets and Takes a Slight Gloat; He Had to Return One Check Though.

EW YORK, Nov. 12.—These dispatches desire to report the receipt of a check for $25 from Mr. Freddie Lieb, the oldfashioned ear-to-the-grounder who picked many winners of pennants and World Series

during his quarter century as a leading baseball journalist in New York. Mr. Lieb picked Mr. Landon to win the recent solemn referendum, using the ear-to-the-ground method of selection, which was an unfortunate departure from the sound, if somewhat obscure, statistics in which he placed his trust when he was writing baseball. He gave even money and your correspondent tried earnestly to shoo him into the vicinity of the gentlemen on the copy desk of the Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va., when he was driving from New York to St. Petersburg, Fla., to cast his ballot. ..#% : § ... Mr. Jack Randolph, of: the copy. desk of the Richmond: TimesDispatch, seems slightly embittered by your correspondent’s failure to deliver Mr. Lieb. Your correspondent had promised that “old-fashioned ear-to-the-grounder would appear on the: Courthouse steps in Richmond and publicly defy the Democrats to cover his wagers at even money. es “I questioned all the gentlemen whose business it is to hang out on the Courthouse steps,” Mr. Randolph writes, “and they report that the crowd was so large, waiting for Mr. Lieb to appear, that he may have been unable to get within three blocks of the place. “So we did not have a very good season down here, and I am inclined to blame you for giving too much publicity to Mr. Lieb’s trip through Richmond.” ” tJ f J

E barely missed a very fine prize. One of our men was very anxious to cut up his father, broker, and had needled him into a few angry wagers. He remarked that the Landon people apparently weren't backing their man, and said this timidity reacted against the candidate. He had his father all ready when he made a clumsy slip. He said Wall Street didn’t seem to like Landon’s chances, and at that the old gentleman jumped out of the car in the middle of traffic and wasn't seen until the morning of the fourth. “In the end, the office boys took the most money. They collected every pool on the electoral vote, all guessing over 500.”

Mr. Pegler

R. LIEB'S covering letter is encouraging, for it bespeaks that optimism which mus be encouraging in Republicans if there is to be any sport needling them next time.. He points out that Mr. Landon did carry his, Mr. Lieb’s district in St. Petersburg, 144 to 104, and perhaps it would be contrary to the best interests of the sport of needling Republicans, to point out that the party’s total in the state was so small that it lost its major league franchise. Your correspondent has just had the tragic experience of returning to Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. a check for $50. On the train bound for the Republican convention in Cleveland, the Republicans were very aggressive, and your. correspondent plucked several tufts of fuzz. But some one else must have plucked Col. Roosevelt, for he was not in your correspondent’s book, more’s the pity. Oh, well, into each life some rain must fall.

The Hoosier Forum

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

OFFICE EMPLOYES’ UNION ADVOCATED By a Stenographer We hear much about union labor nowadays, and it is only right that we should. It is the only thing that gives the working man the heart to go ahead. It keeps him from being hired at “cut-throat” wages. If everything were unionized, perhaps the employer who takes all but gives nothing in return would divide his earnings and help the man underneath. But why not a union for stenographers, secretaries, etc? Must they go on working for from five to 10 dollars a week? Have they not taken training that cost them time, money, work and uncounted hardships? Are they not important to their employers? This is ho question box, but merely rearranged facts to which nearly everyone knows the answer, except why there is no union for us. '

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CHARGES REPUBLICANS HINDERED RECOVERY By L. L. Sullins Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a donkey was serving his master faithfully. The times were hard and his burdens were great. At times he was discouraged, but

with that patience which charac-

terizes the animal he kept right on and was succeeding admirably when an old elephant that had tried to do the same job and failed began pestering and trying to hinder the donkey’s work. This continued for some months, and even the patience of a donkey ceases to be a virtue after a time. Finally the elephant parked himself directly in the donkey’s way and things happened furiously, after the manner of a cyclone in a “typical prairie state.” The elephant came out of the combat in a rather sad condition. His legs, ribs and back were broken, his ears slif, his trunk crushed, his eyes kicked out and his hide full of punctures. In fact, the only part of him not seriously injured was his tail. To it was attached a tag with the initials V. M. These could stand for several things, like Very Mortified, Very Miserable, Very Melancholy, or even Vermont and Maine. Now, my children, the moral of the story is this: Don’t annoy or try to hinder some one who is doing a job you can’t do yourself. Don't criticise the bandmaster if you don’t understand music and don’t play around the bandwagon if you can't play an instrument.

“® 2 2 GREAT AMERICAN IN ROLE

OF PEACEMAKER; WRITER SAYS.

By Jimmy Cafouros

As long as the war psychology |’

hovers over Europe, it is only a question of time until the major portion of that continent will’ be in the same condition as the Span-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Congress Could Deny Appellate Power to Supreme Court or Regulate Its Exercise by, Requiring a Two-Thirds Vote to Declare Law Invalid. |

LMOST exclusively, cases in which laws have been declared unconstitutional, have been in

ULSA, Okla., Nov. 12,—Does the Constitution have to be amended to make way for the essential principles of the New Deal? * “The Constitution” said the Chief Justice, “is what the judges say it is.” It is possible then to amend the Constitution if the judges amend what they have said—which they constantly and repeatedly do. It is frequently urged that the Constitution gave

but it has been for so long conceded that it did do so |

implicitly that no one seriously contests it. #® ® ”

BUS; #iuiiting"the Couls-may do that, does the

Constitution say how they Way do 1 —uy Talos vote—or how

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“the local history of the

(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.)

ish capital today. Some wounds need but time to mend. But they also need to be cleansed. Unclean wounds need but time to kill the entire organism. For quite some e now, Europe has been ‘armed to the teeth. Now they're filing down their teeth.

At this point a great man has

emerged on the scene. One day he slide.

will be known as the Great Peacemaker—an Allayer of Fear — the Saviour of Democracy, Today the principles of democracy have just been rescued by this, man and some day he will occupy a niche not in United States—but in the history of all nations.

Today he is the strong man of the world. He depends for his position on the people. But he is mightier than any dictator—than any king on earth. Let me predict that he will charm the world—not into an armed peace but into the peace that comes of mutual confidence and respect and good will and good neighbors. Many have heard him. Many have seen him. Some day they will be telling their descendants of that great American. How he sounded, How he looked. What he said. His smile. His terrific memory.

“ 8 8 EUROPE FAILS TO UNDERSTAND U. S. POLITICS, BELIEF By N. E.

American politics is a queer thing, in some ways, and it is hardly sur-

“SONG FOR A HEARTH

BY HARFIETT SCOTT OLINICK Oh blue dusk is the witching hour To sit before a living fire; To watch the flames ‘leap into flower, And ease the frets of my desire,

For beauty centers on the stones That hold the warmth of flame . and spark.

My personal gi rest their. tired |

* bones, While beauty pushes back the dark!

DAILY THOUGHT

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide; keep the doors of thy mouth from her Jai lieth in thy bosom.—Micah

COULD never pour out my inmost soul without reserve to any human being, without danger of one day repenting my confidence.— Burns.

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

‘By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Some strange fish were caught in the net of the Securities and Exchange

Commission the other day when it refused to register a stock issue of the National Invested Savings Corp.

prising that some. Europeans are utterly unable to understand it. For example: We find the controlled press of Germany suggesting that the overwhelmling Roosevelt landslide is “an eruption of the fuehrer (leader) idea within the democratic system”; and a similarly controlled Italian paper remarks that the election approves a tendency “to concentrate political, economic, and directive powers in a form which a European democracy would call dictatorial.” To all. of which I can only say that landslides are nothing new in America. Every - President since Wilson was put in office by a land-

In each presidential election since 1916 the losing party has been crushed so hopelessly that timid souls have suggested that it would go out of existence. But each time it has bounced ‘back a little later, full of health and vitality.

s 2 ” STRAW VOTES BROUGHT POSTAL REVENUE By B. C. One thing can be said for the straw polls. They brought quite a bit of revenue to the: United States postal service.

And it is for that very reason that Postmaster Jim Farley ought to be more careful. !

Before it began, he predicted that |.

this would be a vicious campaign. And so it proved: And some time ago he stated that Roosevelt would carry every state but Maine and Vermont. In the previous campaign, he had been wrong only in claiming Pennsylvania,

A little more of this sort of thing,

and there might be a movement to |:

substitute Smiling Jim for straw vote polls. That might be nice for Mr. Farley, but his postal service would be out of pocket.

® a = BASEBALL FAN SCORES

By W. C. L., Bloomington From a baseball standpoint, this is about the way the “late disaster” looks to us: R H E Roosevelt ........ 523 523 0 Landon ..:¢¢..... 8, 2 100 Batteries—For Roosevelt, Farley and Wallace; for London, A. Smith, J. Davis, B. Colby, H. Hoover and J. Reed. Hitd—Off Farley, 2: off A. Smith, 200; oft Davis, 100; off Colby, 100; off Hoover, 123. Home runs—Roosevelt, 523; Landon, 2. Umpires—Coughlin and Ickes. Attendance—40,000,000, Winner's shares—25,000,000. - Loser’s share—10,000,000. Time’ of game—10 hours and 15 minutes.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Supreme Court Should Render Its Decisions in Simple Language So Common Man Can Understand.

EW YORK, Nov. 12.—I have .a friend who has read history, and he tells me that Chief Justice Marshall once stumped the country in defense of a decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court. That is

a practice which is not likely to be restored. But some part of the tradition might well be preserved. It seems to me that the more articulate members of the High Bench should sense their obligation to state opinions in plain and simple language. ~The average citizen has a right to know why NRA is dead or triple A ceases to function. ° I think it is agreed that the judgments of the nine men are supposed to preserve equity as well as law. It is assumed that no

. great gap exists between the pyres

ly legal reasons for the invalidation of a law .and the cause of human betterment. I have in mind the statement which has been frequently uttered -of “late that the Supreme Court brought about recovery by killing the NRA, and I have a vague recollection that a Republican named Knox, who was running for something or other, made a speech in which he said that the Supreme Court was the working man’s best friend. I am inclined to take a dissent. It seems to me that upon occasion the court has decided for dry-as-' dust reasons without much thought of human welfare. Now, of course, I could be wrong, and in respect of that possibility I: will go along with the prevailing tradition and base my arguments upon it. All right, then, the Supreme Court is all-wise, and its members act without regard to their prejudices and the influence of that estate to which it has pleased God to call them. ”» ” » EVERTHELESS, I do not think that they should mumble in their beards. In school they told me that the juaiflary was one of the three branches of our government, which exists and prospers upon g§ system of checks and balances. Whenever Congress passes any contentious act the supporters and the opponents talk at great length for the record as to why each one is on the majority or the minority side. The Executive is one of the checks, and when the President vetoes a bill he sends a mes= sage to Congress. He appeals from the legislative branch to the people and explains why he is in dis agreement with their action. \ oo 2 =» : OT all the Presidents of the United States have been stylists, but when any one of them has vetoed a bill “for real” it has been his endeavor to get from the country a resounding response of ‘“’at a boy!” Likewise, I think the Supreme Court has a right to say, “The Senate and the House are wrong—to hell with them!” It even is within its function to add more politely, “The President errs, and we will put the big stiff in his place.” But it has no right to “snoot the people of the United States. We are the baby to which the Sus, preme Court veto should properly address its remarks. It is not enough to speak of Section 999 and Clause 2B, If a law which seems to offer some betterment to the mass of us is thrown out we want to know why. We demand to know why. And we also insist, “Keep it simple.”

Mr. Broun

The Washington Meriy-Go-Round

SEC Bagged Some Strange Fish When It Refused to Register Stock lisue of National Invested Savings Corp.; Firecracker Scares G-Boss Hoover

Lean-jawed Republican National Chairman John Hamilton encountered a friend several days after the election, who solicitously inquired: “How are vou feeling, John?” “Never. felt better,” was the cheerful reply. ~ “That’s the spirit,” said the friend. “Don’t forget, life begins after 1%"

OF hetide. h.otrlain mischiovous Justive. Depart ment clerk if J. Edgar Hoover discovers his

identity. The prankster nearly scared the mighty G-hoss out. of his wits, and Hoover has heen moving heaven

UDDENLY, in 2 the midst of “the lecture, there + was ( explosion aly behind Hoover—who